Article writing: SEO Benefits

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Writing articles for free article directories can not only show your expertise on a subject it can have a fairly huge impact on SEO. Most free article sources allow the author to create customized resource box that stands below the main article body allowing do follow links to your websites provided that they are related to the content in the article. Links within the article themselves can range from two to even five links depending on the specifications on the article directories.

By submitting articles to these directories you are submitting highly relevant content that will link to the website you are promoting with the anchor text you chose. The real SEO power of submitting articles to these directories relies on two important factors:

You can submit the same article to a ton of article directories this way you end up with many backlinks from different domains.

Articles submitted to these directories can be used by webmasters in their sites provided that they do not alter the contents of the article’s resource box ( where most of your links reside including an invitation to enter your website or should I say call to action), which means more one way links from different domains and traffic.

Only one article can get your website quite a lot of backlinks once it is approved by these directories. Most of these directories have a nice Page Rank and are crawled regularly by search engines so your links may be read by crawlers sooner than expected.

A word of caution: Write new fresh, good and original articles for these free article sources do not submit your website’s contents to article directories, you don’t want your website contents everywhere on the internet you want it on your site where it is unique and SEO friendly not labeled by search engines as duplicate content. By the way if people are reading your website’s content in another site the why would they enter to read the same article? Just write new articles related to the niche you are promoting then link them to your site and you will be alright.

Never underestimate the power of writing articles for free article directories in you SEO campaigns.

Have you tried submitting to free article directories?

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