reading your articles, may choose to click on the link and pay you an unexpected visit.
Having them on the free content sites is also making these articles available to other
webmasters who may wish to publish that article on their site.
If they do, your article will include a link back to your site. And anyone who reads the
article on that site can still click on the link to visit your site.
As the list of your published articles grow larger, and more and more of them are
appearing on different websites, the total number of links to your site increases also.
Major search engines are placing a lot of significance on incoming links to websites so
they can determine the importance of a certain site.
The more incoming links the website has, the more importance search engines attaches
to it. This will then increase your website’s placement in the search results.
If you site is into promoting a product or service, the links that your articles have
achieved will mean more potential customers for you. Even if visitors only browse
through, you never know if they might be in need of what you are offering in the future.
There are also those who already have specific things they need on their mind but
cannot decide yet between the many choices online. Chances are, they may stumble
upon one of your articles, gets interested by the contents you wrote, go to your site and
became enticed by your promotions.