One way of promoting your web store and products can be achieved for free. As an additional bonus, this “free” marketing method can boost your store’s backlinks too.

Article marketing is one of the easiest ways to promote your website in order to generate traffic and increase your earnings.

How does article marketing work?

Write articles relating to your shop and products and submit them to “free content” submission sites. This is easy to do, takes little time and can increase your website traffic, sales and of course, your income.

How can article writing boost traffic and income?

The article on the free content site contains a link to your own website. Readers, after reading your articles, may choose to click on the link and pay you an unexpected visit. Having them on the free content sites is also making these articles available to other webmasters who may wish to publish that article on their site.

If they do pick up your article, your article will include a link back to your online store. And anyone who reads the article on that site can still click on the link to visit your site.

As the list of your published articles grow larger, and more and more of them are appearing on different websites, the total number of links to your site increases also. Major search engines are placing a lot of significance on incoming links to your website so they can determine the importance and popularity of your website.

The more incoming links your store has, the more importance search engines attaches to it. This will then increase your store’s placement in the organic search results.

Promoting a products or services, the links that your articles have achieved will mean more potential and targeted customers for you. Even if visitors who only browse through, you never know if they might be in need of what you are offering in the future.

Search engines do not just index the websites, they also index quality content published articles. They also index any article that is written about your own website’s topic. So once someone searches for that same topic, the list of results will have your site or may even show the articles that you have written.

And to think, no effort on your part aside from writing a decent article was used to bring them to your site. Just your published articles and the search engines.

It is no wonder why many shop owners are suddenly reviving their old writing styles and taking time to write more articles about their site than doing other means of promotion.

Getting their website known is easier if they have articles increasing their links and traffic and making it accessible for visitors searching the internet. Since many people are now taking their buying needs online, having your site on the search engines through your articles is one way of letting them know about you and your business.

The good thing with article marketing is that you can write about things that people would want to know about. This can be achieved in the lightest mood but professional manner, with a little not-so-obvious sales pitch added.

If you think about it, only a few minutes of your time is spent on writing one article and submitting to free content websites. In the shortest span of time also, those are distributed to more sites than you can think of. Even before you know what is happening, you are getting more visitors than you previously had.

If you think you are wasting your time writing these content articles, fast forward to the time when you will see them printed and wide-spread on the internet. Not to mention the sudden attention and interest that people are giving your shop and your products or services.

Try writing some niche related articles and you will be assured of the sudden surge in site traffic, link popularity and interest. Before you know it, you will be doubling and even tripling your sales.

Nothing like getting sales for something you got for free.