Free Articles Pay Authors and Users

Free articles are given away free because the author knows that there are always many web site owners looking for good content to put on their web sites and blogs, and that he or she will get backlinks from the articles. Some top articles in the most popular subjects may be posted on thousands of websites. Just imagine how much traffic that would bring the site of the author!

Duplicate content is a concern for the person that uses free articles, although personally I do not think it is as big a concern as many SEO experts would suggest. But, the worry does exist whether these duplicate article pages are being filtered out as spam. Nevertheless, this consideration is only for the user of the articles and does not concern the article author. At the very least the author of the article will get additional visitors from his many pages, even if the 'link love' wanes with overuse of the article, he will still get a great deal of traffic.

As the user of free articles let us make no mistake: Free articles are a great way for a publisher that doesn't have the inclination or time to write articles for his/her site. This person can browse the categories listed on the directory and then the articles within that category to find an article that suits his/her needs, and then just cut and paste the articles he needs straight in to his web site editor program.

I have used many free articles and am not convinced that I have seen any problem at all. In any event it is easy to provide added value on your articles pages with snippets, feedback scripts, commenting and voting, rss feeds etc. which will make your page unique. Most of us would be doing that anyway - so why worry.

When you are seeking good articles, just search for information that applies to your audience in your market. If you can provide well focused and useful information, and do it on a consistent basis you will build visitors and they in turn will link to your site. Information empowers your customer and brings them back for more.

There are many great ways to give information to current and potential customers, which will instill confidence in your business, but both authoring and using free articles is consistently listed as a top ten traffic earner by experienced Internet marketers.

Publishers select articles to publish not only on their websites, but also in newsletters (also called ezines). Nearly all of the article services on the web are completely free to authors and publishers.

So, do write articles about your subject, and submit them to websites who take article submissions and be sure to include:-

1)Your byline;
2)and, put your profile anywhere you can.

Submitting articles has become one of the most popular means of generating quality backlinks and targeted traffic to your website.

Join us and submit your articles.

We'll do the rest for you and promote your free articles to all our visiting publishers and webmasters.

Content is SO important. Honestly, if you don't have time to write your own content free articles are a great way to start.

Some free content articles can also be created using public domain information. However, unless you know positively that any particular piece of content is copyright free for the purpose of using in free article directories, you must always be cautious and not use that content just to be sure that you won't later be pulled up for copyright law contravention.

Content comes into the Public Domain for a number of reasons. In some cases, the original copyright has expired, and in others the author created the work with the intent that it would be part of the Public Domain. Again, only use Public Domain material if you have really positive reasons for being sure it is OK.

Well that is it for article users.

To authors I would say:-

Search engine rankings are the bread and butter of every webmaster in the world. Unless we are found in search engines, most likely our traffic is non-existent. Search engines will ignore your finished article unless they see backlinks, so write articles regularly and submit them to Free Article Directories like ours.