Whether you're an affiliate marketer, retailer, or host of your own web page, writing and submitting articles to free article directories is a great way to bring traffic and in turn customers or potential newsletter subscribers etc. to your site. By writing and submitting an article relevant to your website or program, then adding the correct link in your resource box (author bio) those readers searching for that topic will then be directed to a link to your site(s).

Articles submitted to free article directories will also not only be picked up by the search engines quicker (which in turn will pick up on your link(s) submitted in the resource box), but other website owners looking for content for their own pages may pick up on your article and add it to their site or newsletter, by keeping all your relevant links in place your site will soon have countless links back to your page.

And don't forget those sites that will pay you for your original story or poem etc.

With the ease of which websites can be created, you can easily set up a site that covers your favourite hobby, monetise that website by adding in some relevant affiliate programs etc. then write a couple of how-to articles, submit them to the free article directories with a link back to your site and before you know it, you have a web page starting to earn you some money.

The bonus of it is that you're only limited by your imagination. Once you get started article writing is a lot easier than you think. All it takes is a little work to research and decide what you want to write about (and all of us have something we can write about: from parenting to your favourite hobby or something you've learnt that you want to share with others etc.) Once you've written it, and it doesn't have to be novel length generally about 500 words is average, give it a once over to check your spelling etc then submit it to the article directories, always remembering to add in your resource box.