• Increase your Reputation and Web Presence - Getting published in article directories will boost your credibility. The more informative articles you write, the better you are at positioning yourself as an expert in the field that you write about.
  
  
• Increase your Traffic- Your articles will be viewed by millions of visitors who come to the directories and if your article is picked up by a webmaster who has a large opt in newsletter subscriber list your article will be mailed out to all the subscribers as well as being featured on the site.
  
  
• Increase Link Popularity- The better quality your article is the better chances that it will be republished on other sites, therefore increasing your exposure and link popularity.
  
  
• Free Advertisement- Nothing beats free advertisement and the resource box that you include in each of your articles delivers that. Your article also might also be placed on the publisher's home page giving you even more exposure.
  
  
• Increase your Backlinks and Pr- Many of these sites reprinting your articles have a high Pr and Google spider bots tend to frequent the websites more often, therefore getting you indexed more quickly. Many of the article directories also have a high page rank.
  
  
• Increase your Income- You might gain extra income from people wanting to hire you to write for them.
  
  
• Build a Portfolio of your Writing- Article directories provide you with an ability to keep your articles in the directory for an extended period of time, therefore you are able to build a portfolio of your writing.

Copyright 2007 Rose DesRochers

About the Author: Rose DesRochers is a published poet and freelance writer. Rose has been writing poetry for more than 20 years. She is also the founder of http://www.todays-woman.net , a supportive online writing community for men and women over 18 and http://www.bloggertalk.net a community where bloggers connect.

Visit her blog at http://rosedesrochers.todays-woman.net