Articles Create Backlinks
Submitting articles is Important for search engine optimization and targeted traffic. Articles create backlinks!
Backlinks create traffic, help out SERPs (Search Engine Ranking Placements), and improve Page Rank (also known as PR). Anyone should be able to write 250 words on a subject they're familiar with--even you!
It doesn’t really matter what your article is about, as long as it isn't about illegal activity, hate literature, pornography, or any of the other usual suspects. Use common sense.
Write your article in a word processing program so that you can easily edit, spell check and format it. Don’t worry about font sizes, bold text, italics or the like, because most submission services won’t keep the original formatting.
Copy your article into a text file for easy submission.
A short author’s biography section for each article is available from article submission services. The bio section lets you insert a hyperlink. Write one or two sentences referencing your web site in your bio, and include your name. Make sure to check that you've linked to your site URL properly.
It's very important to make a proper HTML hyperlink in the bio section of your article, otherwise the article will be republished without a live link to your web site. Copy and paste your link from your text file, pop it in a browser and make sure it goes to your site before you submit your article.
HTML codes:
<a href="http://www.yourwebsitename.com/"> Your Targeted Keyword Phrase</a>
This will show the words "Your Target Keyword Phrase", and anyone who clicks on the phrase will be taken to www.yourwebsitename.com
Submit your article to several article submission sites.
Here's a list of a few good places:
http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://webpronews.com
http://www.ideamarketers.com
http://www.certificate.net
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.articlecentral.com
http://www.articlefinders.com
Most article submission sites have RSS feed capability. This allows your article
to be shown on multiple web sites that use RSS feeds. In addition,
many webmasters and bloggers retrieve articles from submission sites
to add
content to their own sites. Each time your article is “re-published” on
a website, it creates a free one-way backlink to your site.
As time goes by your articles will be republished on mutiple sites. Even an article on an off-beat topic can be republished on 75 or more sites. Articles that talk about more popular subjects will be published on hundreds, or even thousands of web sites. Every republished article creates a backlink to your site--provided that the hyperlinked URL was correctly inserted in the bio section of the original article.
As your articles age on republishings sites, and the republishers work on their own SEO and Page Rank, your articles on their site increases your web site's Page Rank as well.
Here's a tip for checking your backlinks:
Do a Google, Yahoo, or MSN search using quotations marks around the name of your article. Do a search for “ Your Article Title Here ”, and you'll find all the results for that phrase--most of them linking to the article you wrote.
Using web searches you can easily see the number of backlinks you're gaining through the simple republishing of your article. You should check to make sure that the backlink is live on the sites republishing your article. Also check the Page Rank of the pages those backlinks are on.
Most sites that contain collections of articles allow people to comment on them. You can then make a comment on your article and tell people they can find more information by going to the same site referenced in the bio--while including another backlink to your site in your comment. If you do make a comment, make sure to let people know you're the author, and include a link to a different page on your site.
In a few months when the next Google Page Rank update occurs, all your articles should have Page Rank of their own, adding Page Rank to your main site.
You should also notice a pick-up in click-through traffic from writing good articles and letting other people republish them.