One technique that has recently become popular is writing high quality articles and submitting them to article directories. Unlike link exchanges and other directories, article directories allow you to post a high quality article with a back link to your website attached. The PageRank of article directories is usually higher and will allow you to easily rank highly in the search engines in a shorter period of time.

You need to monetize your articles. If you can embed affiliate links within your copy, you can generate easy money just by incorporating other products. At the very bottom of the article, you should include your name and website via an HTML anchor tag. Adding the following to the bottom of your article is sufficient enough for a back link:

Written by: Andrew J. McClary
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Design Secrets – Web Design and Internet Marketing Course</a>

I recommend using Article Submitter Gold to submit your articles to article directories. Although this application requires manual submission, it speeds up the submission process by automatically creating accounts and it also pre-fills the submission forms on your behalf for over 660 high quality directories.

HTML Tables vs. CSS Layouts

By Andrew J. McClary

I’ve decided to make HTML vs. CSS my first article because I believe that CSS is growing at such a rapid pace that any web designer who is not familiar with designing CSS layouts (rather than HTML tables) will eventually render their skills obsolete. Take this website for example, AmazingDesignSecrets.com, we are devoted to teaching those who want to learn html, graphic design, and web design. If you take a look at any of the code throughout the entire website, you’ll notice that no tables exist on any page—yet you still see centered page with unique alignments and structured shapes and colors…….[rest of article]

Andrew J. McClary is the author of “Amazing Design Secrets”, which teaches you how to design high quality websites and how to
<a href=”http://www.amazingdesignsecrets.com” target=”_blank”>learn web design, html, and internet marketing concepts</a>.

One thing that I would like to mention to watch out for is to be very careful when submitting these to the article directories. I say this because, in my experience, many webmasters are lazy and neglect o put their About the Author section to their site which results in a missing back link. Be careful and don’t work to fast—take your time.

Another thing to look out for is to remember to NOT post the same content in the article directories as you do within your own website. The information that you put on your website (via a blog, news section, article section, etc.) should be completely unique content to the search engines. It is okay to have duplicate article spanned over hundreds of websites, but it is not okay to include those same articles on your own—this will decrease your quality score.

Of course, there is much more involved than simply getting back-links to your website to ensure that you get high amounts of relevant traffic. If it were that easy, everyone would do it.The Internet would be filled with traded links and spiderwebs of useless information and nobody would every find what they’re looking for. You have to provide high quality information to get yourself noticed these days. So what most Internet Marketers do is write a high quality article and distribute to hundreds of article websites across the globe. At the very bottom of the article features an “About the Author” section with a short biography of the writer and a back-link to his or her website.

“Bingo!”, says Jeff, the uneducated Internet Marketer. “Now I have hundreds of back-links, I’m gonna get a ton of traffic now!”

And for a few weeks, the excitement was justified–until the worst thing you could imagine happened. When Jeff realized that his traffic was cut by 90%, he decided to do a Google search to see how many back-links existed. He went from hundreds of back-links to about 12 in only 3 weeks.

“What happened?”, Jeff screamed!

What do you think happened? Jeff got hit with Google’s new duplicate content algorithm! Nowadays, it is extremely difficult to beat Google because they are constantly updating their algorithm to beat the cheaters–and it’s not technically cheating!–or is it? Google rewards people for originality. They don’t want their searchers to type in a phrase and get 600 pages of the same exact article in their search results, so they omit the unnecessary ones and bring out other results so that the searcher doesn’t waste their time.

The new rule of thumb for 2008 is BE ORIGINAL in all of the content you write for your website, be thorough, and be of high quality!

So that said, I’d like to recommend a free service for you that is pioneering the way of taking your articles and generating hundreds of original articles using an amazing AJAX thesaurus and giving maximum back-link exposure. This service is absolutely amazing! I just started using it last week and it has really helped me already. Its simple, you just paste your article in, follow the instructions, and in no time at all you have hundreds of variations of your article. The best part is that once you’ve finished, you have the option to submit every single variation of your article at random to hundreds of article directories. I’ve been so impressed, I had to share it with you!

The name of this service is JetSpinner. Here is the link: http://www.jetsubmitter.com/