Article Submitter can bring insane Traffic

Until very recently I was guilty of blindly following the advice of so-called professionals who seemed to know how to make the big money that I was missing out on.

I read all of their books and I even spent good money attending some of their seminars. I do not say they've been bad all of them. But for most of them - well you know...! I didn't see it at first, but after I began to realize that I was bleeding so much red ink thanks to bad advertising advice that didn't work as promised, I saw what was really happening...

... many of these so-called "Gurus" actually were making all of the money that they claimed, but they weren't making it selling products.

They were getting rich by convincing everyday people like you and me to click on their affiliate links and waste our money buying advertising that we really didn't need.

They were getting fat off of our money and, honestly, there weren't too many who really cared if what they recommended worked or not. They only cared about their mega affiliate income.

So the day came that I decided I was going to stop making other people rich and start investing in myself. I went to Google and typed in the phrase "free Internet marketing advice"...

and boy, did I hit the jackpot!

I found hundreds of articles about Internet marketing tips, trick and tactics and it didn't cost me a penny to buy any one of them. They were FREE. And that's what got me thinking...

"Why in the world would so many people spend so much time writing free articles and getting them distributed all over the Internet?"

I began to examine the articles more closely as I read them and a few interesting patterns emerged. Of course, the first pattern I noticed was that I had found all of these articles by simply searching for a specific key phrase in Google. Easy that was!

So I went back to Google and tried other key phrases.

I didn't just concentrate on marketing phrases either. I love to enjoy and work on my backyard pond, so I searched on the phrase "water gardens" and hundreds of articles came up. I then searched on the phrase "restoring classic cars" and thousands more articles came up.

No matter what phrase I searched for in Google or Yahoo I found hundreds or even thousands of FREE articles written by people who actually knew what they were talking about!

That was interesting, but...

I still didn't have the answer I was looking for...

What was in it for the authors of these articles? Why were they spending their time writing free articles for you and me to read and enjoy? What was the benefit they were taking from this?

As I looked deeper, I realized that many of these articles were posted on article repository web sites. These were huge and mostly free article directories that held thousands of articles on nearly any topic you could imagine. The articles were fed into the article directories by hundreds or thousands of authors that could submit their articles to these directories for free.

I noticed that each of the articles in these article directories pulled up Google AdWords or better said Google AdSense Ads when you read them. "Ah ha!", I thought. "The article site owners are making their money from displaying the Google ads. O.K. but that's helping the owner of the article directory. But still this was no answer to the question, what was the benefit for the actual article authors...?

I kept digging...

It wasn't until I reached the part of the article known as the "Author's Resource Box" at the bottom of every article that the "Aha Ha" light really went on and it hit me smack between the eyes!

These authors were using their articles to establish themselves as experts in their particular subject matter!

Because the articles weren't actually paid ads, people were reading them from top to bottom and then going to the Author's Resource Box to click on the link to the Author's web site.

Once they reached the Author's web site they invariably clicked on some ads there, signed up for a newsletter or found something for sale! more here

Since the person reading the article was already convinced of the Author's expertise in the particular subject, the chances were better that a sale would take place!

But making sales and profits this way was just one of the benefits of distributing free articles. There were others as well!

• The more article directories that a particular article was posted to, the more "back links" there were to the Author's main web site. Since Google sees back links as an indication of an "important" site, the Author's Google ranking was benefiting. And all these links were established as valuable one way links from many different topic related sites or directories, not worthless reciprocal links only.
  
  
• The more people who read the Author's article and clicked back to the author's main web site, the more traffic the site received. Alexa ranks sites based upon traffic, so the Author benefited that way as well.
  
  
• And finally, many of the authors had Google AdWords respectively Google AdSense Ads displayed on their main site, so they were earning revenue whenever a visitor from one of the article sites came and clicked onto one of the ads.

By doing this simple research I had accidentally stumbled on the mother of all sales and one of the best kept traffic-generating "secrets" of the Internet and it didn't cost me a penny!