Search engines are looking for what is called link popularity and this means people linking back to your website from an authority site. The more people linking back to your site the more popular the search engines think your site is, thus they will move you up or down in ranking for certain keywords based on this link popularity vote.

One of the most powerful ways to build your linkback strategies is to write articles and submit them to article directories. Online marketing through article submissions takes time, granted, there are no real shortcuts that last, but with article submissions you do two things. You add quality content to the web (which the search engines and site visitors love) and you get to put a link back to your site which becomes one of the many you will create in the future.

Over time you will have submitted several articles to submission sites and each new backlink embedded in every new article gains more and more value as it becomes synergised with the rest of them giving search engines a reason to take notice.

One way to profit from online marketing through article submissions is to build an AdSense site or an affiliate site advertising a link to a sales page for a product. Once the page is built and complies with SEO standards you will need to get your traffic flowing. Traffic is the bread and butter. The more people that show up at your page the more likely you will generate revenue and for affiliate sites, sales. You need to submit your article to 1. an authority site and 2. a site that is your sites mirror concept. There is a great site that allows you to submit articles to it specifically to get a powerful back link as well as organic traffic from clicking your backlink.

Article submission sites carry a lot of weight especially when they are submitted to an authority site and link back to your money page. Building your linkbacks is what generates this traffic through the search engines as well as traffic from people who actually read your article and clicked through to your money page or AdSense site. It’s a slow process getting your linkbacks built up but once you get to a point where you have a lot of them you only need to submit 2-4 a month for each site your promoting to keep the rankings up there. You can make a lot of money by doing this for several sites, not just one. You will want to get one up and running and while your submitting a few articles submissions for that you start the next one. Each site only needs about 4 a month but you will start to develop a lot more sites when you see how lucrative it is. At this point you can start to outsource your article writing and it becomes a management game.

John
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