Traffic is the number one concern of most webmasters, and getting backlinks to your website is a good way to help increase the amount of traffic. One way to do this is by submitting well-written articles to directories and including links to your site. Here are some article marketing tips to help you do this correctly.

The number one article directory you will want to submit your articles to is Ezine Articles. This is the best directory site, but in order to have your articles accepted you will have to be sure to write great articles and follow their guidelines carefully. It is usually easier to get your articles accepted if they are significantly longer than the minimum.

Out of the thousands of other article directories on the Internet, you only need to select ten or twenty to submit articles to. Make sure these are good ones though. Check the PageRank of each directory you are thinking about using. By placing your articles with high PR websites, you will get the best possible results from your article marketing efforts.

Make sure you don’t use the same keyword phrase as the link text in every single article you write. You should try to come up with alternate phrases that people might search for to find the information you are providing. By using more than one keyword phrase, you will help your website move higher in the search engine results for each keyword phrase that you use.

Go slow when building backlinks. If you go too quickly, it will raise red flags with the search engines and they will drop your website from the search engine rankings until they are sure that your site is legitimate. Search engines don’t like spammy sites, and when you get too many links at once it looks like you are spamming your link everywhere.

If you follow the article marketing tips in this article, you will find that after some time has passed your site will begin to get more traffic from the search engines than from the actual articles. That is the result of the power of backlinks to get you ranked in the search engines so you can get the traffic you need and hopefully make some sales.

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