Do you own a website or a blog? Do you want to promote your website or a blog free of cost. If yes then keep on reading this article.

I am sure that you can write short articles. Writing short articles and submitting them to various directories is a great way of promoting online business.

What you have to do is to write a persuasive article about your product or services. At the end of the article you add your short biography with a url of of your website or a blog.

There are many ways of submitting articles to the directories. You can submit your articles manually. Many people are using article submission software.

You can also look for a SEO firm which is offering an article submission service at reasonable prices.

There are several websites which are offering their services on the internet but your job is to choose the best one among them.

You don`t have to submit your article to hundreds of directories. It is a good idea to prepare a list of quality high traffic directory. The traffic rankings of the websites can be seen at Alexa.com.

Article submission to high quality directories will give you quality one way links as well as targeted traffic.