Yes, I'm serious. You can get free search engine traffic by utilizing a method that has withstood the test of time. It's called Article Marketing and it's one of the best website promotion methods I have ever used.

Writing articles will establish yourself in the eyes of the search engines as an "expert " in your field, create tons of high quality back links, increasing your link popularity, and force your websites up to the top of the search engines.

First, let me state that this is not for affiliate websites. You must have your own website. For some reason, the search engines rarely index and rank an affiliate website, most likely because they are "mirrored" websites, copies of the original, the only thing being different is the affiliate url.. When they do, it's usually an oversight. So for that reason, the article directories won't accept your articles if it points back to an affiliate website. They simply won't waste their time and efforts promoting a site that won't be acceptable to the search engines. However, you can create a one page website that redirects to your affiliate products and that is OK. As an example, let's say you sell vitamins as an affiliate. Create a website that has information on it about vitamins, with links to the affiliate products that you are selling. Or you can create a product review website and your products will of course be #1. Perhaps all the products on it could be yours. For example a spyware removal review site. On it you have the "Top 5" Spyware removers. Rate them honestly, people can sense a scam. All 5 of these products could be products that you are an affiliate of.

Anyway, you will need your own website. Now, how do we get free traffic to it?

There are literally hundreds of Article Directories out there. Simply sign up as an author; it's free, and then begin submitting articles to them.

These articles won't be ads for your products, but rather informational articles, meant to inform the reader on a particular subject.

One of the reasons article directories exist is for authors to submit articles, get them published, then distributed throughout the internet. In the author’s resource box, you are allowed to put a link to your website. When the search engines spider the article directory website, they will pick up your article and url and index your website into the search engines. Get enough of these back links pointing back to your site will cause your site to shoot up to the top of the search engines. That's called link popularity, and along with quality content, is critical to your success.

How powerful can article writing and article marketing be? As an extraordinary example, I once created a website, and didn't even bother to list it with the search engines. I simple wrote an article and submitted it to about 150 article directories. After one week, I did a Google search on the title of my article by putting the title in quotation marks. The results after 1 week was my article had 913 results. A few weeks later, it was around 10,000. A couple months went by and there were over 109,000 search engines results. All my articles don't necessarily perform that well, as that was my best effort so far, but every single article I have written has resulted in hundreds, if not thousands of search engine results. This is without a doubt the best site promotion technique I know of!

What happened was that webmasters, publishers of ezines and newsletters, online classified sites, and internet blogs had picked up my article and put it on their sites, as they are always looking for fresh content to keep the search engines coming back again and again. My article was also syndicated, as they all are, through the article directories. Basically, that means my articles go out on what is called a RSS feed. A lot of websites have gotten smart and put RSS feed readers on their sites. That enables them to receive fresh article content on a daily basis directly from the directories automatically. Why would they want that? It's basically a SEO tactic as the search engines just love fresh content and your site will get extra credit if you have fresh content on a continual basis. Through the RSS feeds, I have even had my own articles come back to me and get posted onto my websites and I didn't even lift a finger.

This is a long term strategy. It won't happen overnight. Nothing will. But if you take this idea seriously, in a years time you will have your websites ranked on the first page on all of your keywords. In fact, I had one website that shot up to the first page within 1 week after creating it, uploading it to my sever, then writing an article about it.

It can happen that fast if it is a niche market. If it's a popular market, it will take longer, but eventually, you will be on the first page if you work at it every day.

Most of the article directories usually have some adverts for article submission software. Be careful which one you decide to buy if you want some degree of automation with submitting articles. There are a few out there that are getting a bad rep by not following the rules and are basically spamming the directories. The software that I use is called Article Submitter Pro. This is one of the best tools I have come across and all the directories approve of this software.

Want to dominate the search engines and receive free traffic? This is the way the pros do it. This isn't a scam. It's not a stupid ad blaster. This is legitimate and it works. So give it a try. What have you got to lose? Certainly not money, as I haven’t asked you to buy anything. Writing articles and submitting them are free. Sure, you can buy all kinds of software that will assist you in writing and submitting articles, but the actual directories are free to join.