Websites + Traffic + Ads/Products = Money. Every veteran internet market and webmaster would agree that this simple equation is all that is there is to internet marketing or making money online.

Now that you have decided to take the challenge of making your presence online felt or that you now decided to join the blogging bandwagon, the problem you have to face now is how to bring the traffic in. There are thousands of ways to do this as there are a thousand ways to kill a cat. Some of them may cost you money, while others are entirely free.

Of course we always want to do bring in traffic without costing us a dime. So what is one way of doing it? One way of doing it is to write valuable articles for free. If you have a blog, you are forced to write articles anyway so why not make your articles valuable and submit your articles to various free articles archiving website? Submitting articles to article hubs lets you spread your message all over the internet. Other webmasters will also use your free article by placing it in their website. With them doing this you get free advertisement since most of these free article sites allow you to post your authors bio and a link to your site. As time passes these backward links will pile up and eventually push your sites rating.

Be wary that not all backward links to your site are valuable. Majority of search engines gives more value to backs links whose content are in some way related to your site. Back link building by writing free valuable articles is much more better in promoting your site than joining random link exchange programs, link farms and other methods. The reason for such is because most bloggers or web masters will only copy articles that you write that they know are related to their own blog or sites.

As of the time of the writing of this article, my blog already has a google page rank of 2 even it is only less than 3 months old. The reason for such is that I have submitted more than a dozen articles already to different article hubs and directories. Unfortunately for some sites or blog who have been there for more than year, they barely made it to P.R - 1. Others are faring far more worse as they are still at P.R - 0 even if their sites or blogs are almost 2 years old.

It is true that you will have to take time and have some patience when submitting your articles to several free article archive websites, but I believe in the end it will truly pay off.