Generating website traffic is a time-consuming job. One of the cost-effective and proven ways to increase website traffic is through articles. And this is possible through article writing and submission.

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Article writing and article submission can greatly help your site build more web traffic.

One great tip to create an effective article is to write a phrase in a funny and unique way. This can make website visitors gain more interest on the details of your article.

Unique, quality and informative articles can help bring you more frequent and long term web visitors. Websites or blogs having variety of topics have a bigger chance to attract frequent visitors

Articles should properly optimized and follows the recommended keyword density. Keyword density is the number of targeted keyword divide the number of words in an article. The acceptable keyword density by Google is 5%.

The formula for keyword density can be computed as number of times that a targeted keyword appear / number of words in an article. Let us have the keyword “IPod” as an example. If  the keyword “IPod” appears 5 times in a 100 word article, then the keyword density is 5%

Take note that articles with keyword density of more than 5%  will have a lower visibility to search engine results as search engines may consider your activity as spamming.

After creating and optimizing your article, you are now ready for article submission. There are many article directories that allow you to insert your website link in your article.

Through article writing and submitting to article directories will enable your site to gain more back links for every articles published. A back link will serve as a vote  for your website in search engine rankings. Let’s go deeper. Let’s say that you have 100 articles successfully published on article directories with your two back links per article. Article directories are great venues where webmaster can republished your article together with your website URL and of course with your permission. So, if it is very possible that your one article can be then republished to more than 700 pages or more. See, there are lots of back links you can gain in just 30 minutes of typing.

Having a properly optimized content of your article can help your site generate targeted traffic from search engines and eventually increase your page rank.