Articles create Backlinks
Submitting Articles are Important for SEO and Traffic. Articles Create Backlinks!
Backlink creates traffic, help out SERPs, and improve Page Rank.
Anyone should be able to write 250 words on a subject in which they are familiar.
It doesn't really matter on what the topic or subject, as long as the
article is not about illegal activity, is harmful or profane.
Create your article in a word processing program so that you can easily edit, spell check and format. Don't worry about font sizes, bold, italics etc., because most submission services won't keep that original formatting.
Copy your article into a text file for easy copy and paste when it is time to submit.
An author's bio section for each article is available on each article submission service. The bio section allows you to insert an html hyperlink. Write one or two sentences referencing your website and include your name. Make sure you use proper hyper linking for your URL.
It is of utmost importance that you do create the proper true HTML hyperlink in the bio section of your article, otherwise the article will be re-published without a true live link to your main site.
Proper codes:
<a href="http://www.yourwebsitename"> Your Target Keyword Phrase - www.yoursitename</a>
This will show the words, Your Target Keyword Phrase - www.yoursitename.com with the entire line a live hyperlink.
Submit your Article to several article submission websites.
Here is a List of a few good ones:
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 websites that utilize the RSS feeds. In addition
many webmasters and blogs retrieve articles from article submission sites
to add content article to their own sites. Every occurrence of your article "re-published" on
a website, creats a free one-way back link to your site.
As time goes by, your articles will be re-published on mutiple sites. An article even on a non-popular topic can still be re-published on 75 or more sites. Popular category topical articles will be published on 100 to 1000's of websites. Every instance of an republished article creates a backlink if the hyperlinked URL was correctly inserted in the original bio section area of the individual article.
As your articles age on the re-published sites, and the re-publisher work on their own SEO and Page Rank, your article on their site increases in Page Rank as well.
Additional tip for checking your back links.
Do a Google, Yahoo, or MSN search using quotations marks around the name of the article, For example search for "My article title", you will find all the results for that name that will consist of mainly the article that you have submitted. Daily you can easily see with a simple search the amount of back links you are gaining through the simple re-publishing of your article. You should check to make sure that the backlink is Live on the new site republishing your article. Also check over time the Page Rank of those new backlinks.
Most sites that house articles allow the option to make comments. You can then make a comment on your article and include a simple phrase to seek more information by going to the same site referenced in the bio while including another hyperlink. If you do make a comment, make sure you reference by name you are the author and don't attempt to include a hyperlink not already in your article.
In a few months when the next Google Page Rank update occurs, all your articles should have page rank of their own, all passing Page rank back to your main site.
You should also notice some click through traffic in reference to your well written and informative on the article topic.