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One of the best ways to get inbound links to your website is through article marketing. You can submit articles to websites, ezines, and article directories, and by including a link to your website in the resource box of the article you will open up the potential for many inbound links to your website. You can have the most informative, helpful, interesting website out there but what good is it if it can’t be found?

Search engines like articles and many people will read and link to articles that are interesting and informative for subjects that they are interested in. Articles are a low cost way to generate links, boost your search engine rankings, locate new prospects and open up a flood of targeted traffic to your web site.

Recently many people have realized that Google and other search engines have started to crack down on reciprocal linking. So more website owners are realizing that articles provide people on the Internet with a new way to get useful information and in turn, provide more links for their websites.

Writing a content rich article takes time and comes easily for some people but can be very difficult for others. Many people are writing articles that have no useful content and are using the same articles that others have already submitted. This is not a good idea since the articles have already been listed on the search engines and article directories and could be linked to other web sites.

Most importantly, you can not expect people to want to read, link-to and circulate an article that is poorly written, full of mistakes, lacking content and does not provide any new or useful information.

Articles can be used for marketing your website in many different ways, here are a couple.

* Ezines - You can use ezines to brand yourself fast without spending a penny. Get your articles featured in multple ezines every week and your name will be remembered. You will not have trouble finding ezines to publish your articles, and they are always looking for new content. There are over 100,000 ezines on the Internet.

* Newsgroups - Do a search relating to your specific topic. You can either search the newsgroups through a search box, or manually scroll through them. Select some related to your articles and monitor these groups. Once you feel comfortable with a group, post a message offering one of your free articles and make sure to include a link back to your website in the resource box.

The resource box is very important and should always be included with your articles. It’s possible that millions of people could see your resource box. This is free advertising for your website.

The resource box should be about 5 lines and should contain at least one keyword or keyword phrase that is also contained in your website and your website’s keyword meta tag. This will help to increase your search engine optimization. But, do not over do it! It’s amazing how sophisticated todays search engines are.

Included in your resource box are your name, your website address, 1 to 3 sentences that describes your USP or Unique Selling Proposition and a call to action. Use only one call to action which gives them a reason to visit your website.

Article marketing gives others more exposure to your valuable content while also increasing your websites visibility and online exposure. You are doing good for others while also receiving it back many times.

Many thousands of people are looking for specific information on a specific topic. You can save them countless hours of fruitless searches by writing good content articles with useful information written in an interesting and thought provoking way, on the topics that interest them.

Through years of research Joe Rispoli has put together the most relevant of free advertising resources to get you started on the right path to accomplishing your online marketing goals!

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