Article directories are great places for promoting your website or product through publishing articles elating to your niche or product. This method puts your article in front of many people who are interested in your product or service.  People who read your article will view you as an expert in the subject and are very likely to visit your site for more information.  Article directories are websites that house large selection of free articles in various subjects. The articles are put there by publishers who own copyrights to those articles. Each article has the publisher’s byline placed somewhere on the page,   either before or after the article, so that readers will know who wrote or owns the rights to the article. It can also give readers the ability to get in contact with the author.

How does it work?

Let’s assume that you are an affiliate for health and beauty product distributer. You write an article about the benefits and advantages of the product and how it can make a difference in people’s life and post that article in multiple directories. People who are looking for the topic you wrote about will read your article, see that you have good knowledge about the subject matter, and visit your website for more in-depth information about the product or service. They might even subscribe to your news letter, if, you are promoting one, or decide to buy from your website.  Your article has just brought you a new customer or a potential customer who is looking for your product.

It doesn’t end there, however. Assuming that you have posted your article to many directories, others who have similar products or services might want to use your article in their website. Since they have to include your byline with the article, it will mean more exposure for your website which will translate into more traffic and potential buyers at your site.

There are many article directories that you can utilize. You will want to put a copy of your articles on every one for maximum exposure. This should eventually bring more traffic and customers to your website, which will lead to new sales and more profit.

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The Wayback Machine at Archive.org allows you to view old versions of your favorite websites. This can be especially useful if you want to see what changes your competitors have made over the last few months or even years. Who knows, it may give you some ideas for things that you might need to change on your own website.

It will give you a list of the changes and the dates the site was changed. You can go through them one at a time or, if you just want to see the start and finish, just find the first date on the far left panel and the latest at the very bottom of the last panel.

I do hope you enjoy this nifty tool. Websites Archive

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