Search Engines love article directories due to their contents and, often, established directories receive massive hits from Google and Yahoo. You could piggyback the traffic received by these directories by depositing your articles on their databases. Those who visit these article directory websites will potentially read your submitted articles.

Just make sure you have a website to promote and you've already placed a link back to your website in your signature file at the end of all your articles.

You can generate sales even if you don't have a website.

If you are an expert in your area, people will read your articles and listen to you. Now, if you refer your readers to any product you recommend, your recommendation won't look like a sales pitch to them anymore. It simply is a solution to their problems, but be very careful with the way you recommend products in your articles. Most article directory owners don't like blatant advertisements in the articles.

Here's the best part. If you don't have a website, guess what? The article directories will be your websites. Your articles will be hosted on these article directory webservers for free.

To get website visitors to contact you, leave your phone number, email address or any special instructions to contact you in your signature file.

HI,

I am agree with you. This type of advertising can be very powerful indeed. Once the business is evaluated, then a decision can be made as to whether or not an article submission service is relevant.

Article submission is always a strong step towards getting traffic. But to get massive traffic, you have to really work hard. Only article submission will not work to get massive traffic. You have use other tactics of SEO like web directory submission, blog comment, forum comment etc.

Joye is right from my point of view. Article directories are very useful but they are not enough.