Many internet marketers have heard about the traffic that article marketing can bring to a website. Yet, when they try it themselves, they find the results less than rewarding. With article marketing becoming more and more well-known as a FREE (or very cheap) way to quickly gain lots of inbound links to a website, the value of it cannot be over-emphasized.

One of the most important search engine optimization strategies that you can implement is writing articles and submitting them to the thousands of article directories for people to use on their websites. If you have not tried already, submitting to thousands of article directories can be a long and painful experience. One of the tools that is most useful in helping you get your articles out is Article Submission Software but be warned not all Article Submission Software is the same.

Article submission is one of the most popular ways of website promotion today. In essence Article Submission is the only FREE way to promote your website and link that produces real results almost immediately.Thankfully Article Submission is still a white-hat, ethical technique used by webmasters to gain new one way links and help promote their website or specific link URLs. As I have certainly found Article submission is an excellent way to brand yourself and your website with very little if any cost involved.

The first step will be to submit your articles to the article directories. There are hundreds of general and niche article directories which are ready to publish your quality articles with back links to your website(s). The question is how you are going to do the submissions and which directories are you going to submit in? Certainly you don’t want to see your article on "robotics" on a porn article directory or a sports article wrongly placed in the business category on an article directory.

You should avoid using any kind of promotional language. Rather your article ought to be informative and should be of some value to the reader and not just to your business! Many a times, I have come across an article where some company is telling me they will offer this and that. I wonder how can any one term those as articles but they rather look like ad campaigns to me! You can be rest assured that your article will be plainly rejected by most of the article directories and syndicates.

When selecting keywords to use in your article submission you want to select keywords that are relevant, searched for, and do not have a lot of competition. There are several keyword tools available that you can use to help select the best keywords to use in your article submission. You want to achieve a keyword density of 4 to 7% and have the keywords spread throughout your article submission.

Your article must have proper English including grammar, spelling, punctuation, and correct sentence composition. Make it a point to double check your article to avoid unwanted errors for its accurateness. Your article should not contain information to support terrorism, radicalism, religious passion, drugs or drug paraphernalia, bombs, firearms, ammunition, knives, etc. Your article must not contain any adult material or does not talk about pornography, violence, excess blasphemy and racial prejudice.