Obviously you would like to increase the amount of your website visitors, otherwise you wouldn't be here reading this information. But you are here reading, so I take it to mean that you want your site to get more exposure online and you want to drive additional traffic to it. Article writing is a proven strategy to increase website traffic, and a keystone to any traffic campaign. Best of all, it's virtually free. Submitting articles for publication definitely helps your site to get both a better ranking and better placement in the major search engine results.

Article writing is also an excellent way to establish credibility online. Writing interesting articles for content websites is very much different than writing say, magazines articles: it is much easier to both do and get results. In fact, there isn’t an easier way to obtain a one way link and produce a constant stream of traffic to your site.

The simplest way to get started is to take a look at published articles of a similar subject that you would like to write about. As with any topic now, there is plenty of sound advice on article writing available, you just have to do a simple search for it. Article writing is entirely enjoyable for some, while others find it difficult and draining.

Nearly every article directory online will allow you to include a resource box which you put at the end of your article. It should include a short author bio and absolutely must also include your website url, because this is the link through which you can generate traffic from your articles. This cause of this increased traffic is two-fold: you'll get direct visitors who read the article and click the link in the resource box at the end. And since one of the important factors that Google uses in its determination of where to rank a website is backlinks, you'll get more traffic from Google because of the link in the resource box.

The good news is that there many hundreds of article directory websites on the internet. By submitting your well-written, interesting articles to these sites, you are almost certain to gain some traffic for your site.

However, submitting your article to each site one at a time would be incredibly time consuming as well as counterproductive. There are article submission services that will handle the process for you. To find these, simply search for article submission service. If you steadily submit one or two quality articles per week, your site will get more backlinks, more exposure, a higher standing in Google, and all of these will bring increased website traffic.