Two important factors that play a part in the rankings algorithm of leading search engines are content and link popularity. It can be expensive to make changes to your website, particularly if you have used a web designer to create your website, a cheap and effective way to boast your traffic is to write and distribute internet Articles.

Internet Articles are a good way to combine content and links, if you write a focused interesting article using compelling copy, then there is a good chance that its readers will follow a link within the article or biography to your site.

Incoming links from web pages of a similar theme to your own help to boost your rankings, particularly if you include your keywords within a working hyperlink to your site. If your articles are of similar content to your site then there will be a benefit.

There are lots of good quality article publishing sites around, and whilst it can be time consuming to register and post your articles the math is very compelling. Consider the following: 10 articles submitted to 10 article sites means 100 links. 100 articles submitted to 100 sites means 10,000 links, and that is before the articles are republished.

Not only can you benefit from the link popularity but a well written article will bring direct visitors. The more articles submitted the more direct traffic you will get its that simple.

Fresh content seems to do well on search engines particularly Google, so it always worth writing articles on a regular basis and distributing them as part of a monthly routine.

Make sure each article is checked for spelling and grammar; poor presentation will loose you visitors and undermine your credibility.

Each article should include a short biography with a working hyperlink, ideally giving permission to visitors to use the article on their own site, provided the article and link remain intact. Remember pyramid selling, this is the same concept but put to legitimate use.

Remember that the better the article the more widely and regularly it will be republished. A single well crafted article can produce more of a boost to your site, than many weaker ones.

There are countless web site owners looking for good content to boost their own sites, reputable webmasters will be more than happy to offer a link to your site in return for the use of your articles.

We run our own article submission sites and you are welcome to submit your articles to them:-

A1Articles is a publishing site covering a wide range of topics from Art to Webmaster issue. Authors can publish their work once approved by human editors, every author gets their own home page. Many of the articles are free to republish

We also run Article Alley which is well establised.

There are hundreds more out there, just do a search for "Internet Articles", or "Article Submission"

I wish you success with your article submissions.

Clare Lawrence is the owner of A1Articles a leading article publishing site. Please feel free to re-publish this article provided this reference box remains together with a hyperlink to http://www.a1articles.com Clare can also be contacted on clare@a1articles.com.