You may have spent days or even months to create your website. Now everything looks perfect. And you will need to find some ways to promote it. One of the ways you may consider is to promote it by writing articles. Yes, you can promote your website by writing and submitting articles.

Most probably you will try to create some what is considered informative articles and distribute them. An informative article is an article that its content is related to your niche, and the content is mainly useful or value-added information about the niche. Of course you may choose to write other kind of articles, but the one mentioned here is the most popular.

Distribution is the step after you have written the articles. There are tons of article directories out there and you can submit to them manually. There are some lists of these directories and you can easily find them using the search engines such as Google and Yahoo.

It will take you a lot of time to submit the articles to the directories one by one. Therefore, another way of distribute the articles is to use software to submit them. Usually you can do it a lot quicker with the software than submitting manually. There are also some distribution services you can use.

In the case of manual submission, you will not need to pay any fee unless you hire someone to submit for you. Yet you have to be prepared to pay if you use software or distribution services. However, you can submit the articles to more that 300 directories without a lot of effort if you use the latter. As a result, you may still choose the latter even if you have to pay.

Before you submit your articles, be very sure that you have a good bio box that will allow your readers to click through to your website.

Besides promoting your website, there are some other advantages of article marketing. First of all, you can establish an image of expert in your niche. This is very important because the readers will be very inclined to trust you if they think you are an expert in the field.

Moreover, because you will put the links to your website, this will help to boost the Page Rank of your website. As a matter of fact the Page Rank is an essential factor in determining the ranking of your website in the search engine.

One last thing is that, the articles themselves can help to bring traffic to your site. You need to make the articles as informative as possible. When the web surfers read your articles, they will probably find that very useful. They will be interested to read more or to know more about the topics. They will in turn click on the links and visit your site in order to seek for more information. And as a result you will get more traffic.