The best part about these types of subscribers is that they already trust you because THEY FOUND YOU! You have now just provided a warm market for yourself. You now have people open to listening to you about whatever product or service that you're excited about.

The reason why this method is so successful is because it costs nothing to do this. All you have to do is invest a little time and write an article and then submit it to article directories. VIOLA! You now have thousands and thousands of people seeing link to your website, and your only investment was a little bit of time.

In conclusion, by taking a little time and writing a free article once or twice a month, you can drastically improve traffic to your website without costing yourself a penny!

About tags. Some question 'revisit-after' tag as being useful, I always put it in, just in case. Remember they go between tags BEFORE tag.

Second: If searcher likes what you have written, then they WILL click on link you have chosen in your 'About author' area to find out more.

People will and do spend HOURS at a time researching, or as current 'catch phrase' says, ' Surfing Internet'.

What do you in addition that may help?

You will have to spend some time doing some research on your own.

Find places that are looking for articles. They know that many of those reading articles will also look at their ads that are on sides, top and bottom to page ( in other words, all around YOUR article ) as they read your article.

Remember Newsletters you subscribe to?

Well, ALL of us publishers are always looking for articles, start with contacting those, or checking for a link for submitting articles.

The bottom line is to get people to purchase your product or service, if 'hard sale' or direct approach is not producing for you as you would like, then you have to also consider your 'indirect sales' approach.

The hard sell is like when you go to a convention where ALL of your competitors are also.

The indirect sale is where you hand someone your business card at lunch or a social gathering. At this level, people remember you first, then look at what you do second, BUT will always associate YOU with what you do !!

In conclusion: Is research time worth effort? This is for you to determine and it depends upon who is doing it. You want to be on result end, with others looking for you, NOT you looking for them.

Robert Nixon