Freelance Articles, along with other news article directories, provides an ideal way of getting the message out about your product. With the growing emphasis placed on backlinks and search engine optimisation, this is an ideal method of marketing.

By writing about your product and placing links to your site in the resources box, you are effectively creating backlinks to your website. This effect increases as webmasters, ezine and newsletter publishers download and publish your material on their own site.

This creates a win/win situation for writer and publisher, one gets free backlinks, and the other gains free content. Publishers need to be aware that the main conditions of downloading articles from this site are a) that you include the writers details and links, and b) that you do not alter the article in any way.

When writing articles, authors need to be aware that constant repetition of keywords defeats the purpose of gaining rankings on search engines. This is known as keyword stuffing, or spamming the search engines, and you can be penalised for it.

Freelance writing is an interesting and challenging career with great rewards!
While writing to promote your own website or product can be rewarding, writing articles for others can be a lucrative sideline as well. Confidence in your ability, combined with the appropriate research can help you write on a freelance basis on almost any topic.

This directory offers publishers the opportunity to receive articles via RSS feed.
Many browsers, including Internet Explorer 7, Firefox and Opera now have the capability to read and subscribe to RSS feeds. Desk top readers/aggregators are also handy if you don't wish to use your browser. You can get one here for free.

Allan Cockerill

ABC News, Australia.

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