SEO and link building are almost synonymous and one of the easiest and most affordable ways to get those all important links is with article marketing. I know what some of you are thinking: I hate to write articles! If that’s you then outsource them, it can be as little as $5. Articles are good for some things (like SEO) but not for others and that’s what you are going learn in this article.You can also learn seo here.

First let’s look at what article marketing is not good for. You may have read that articles submited to directories will bring you plenty of traffic on thier own. This might happen once in a while but as a general rule and from my own experience this is not the case.

I have submitted many articles on many different subjects to the top directories and havn’t seen any decent traffic from those efforts. You may also have heard that people will use your articles on thier site and you will get visitors from there. I have not found this to be a significant source of traffic either.

Maybe in the past these things may have been true but not in the present. All the best directories have an abundace of great articles on just about every subject so your article being found and used is about like the chances of finding a needle in a hay stack.

But don’t let this stop you from using articles because you can still get great SEO benefit from them. With the current state of affairs online your best bet is to use article marketing for back-links. You can use the authors resource box to give your web site anchor text links from these authority sites which is the best way to get ranked high in the SERPs.

Getting back-links to your web site can take a lot of time, money or both. But with article marketing you can get an unlimited number of these links to you site for little or no money and, if you do it the right way, for very little investment of your time as well.

For this to work you are going to need to get a lot of articles out there though. In order to get a lot of articles out there without spending too much time you will need to use either a web based or desktop program. There are many options here that will submit your articles for you. Some will submit them to the top article directories while other will post them to blogs.

The best of these applications will even give you many variations of your article through a process called spinning which will make your links even more valuable. If you have the money and feel your time is your most valuable asset you can also use a service to manually submit your articles for you.

If on the other hand you have more time than money then one of the programs mentioned above will be your best bet since it will be a one time cost or a low monthly fee.

In closing article marketing is great for SEO but you will not get much traffic from the articles themselves. But by using one of the progams mentioned above or a submission service you can give your web site hundereds of quality one way anchor text links each and every month.

Follow this course of action and you will soon see your site at the top of the SERPs even if you are targeting a competitive keyword.If you need more seo help check out that link.

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