Building good quality backlinks is essential if you want to push your website higher in the search engine results.

A backlink is a link to your website and counts as a “vote” of confidence towards your site. The more important the site that is linking to you, the higher the weight of your backlink.

One of the best and easiest ways to get backlinks is by writing articles for SEO.

If you are not a writer, don’t panic… you don’t have to be a professional writer to benefit from this technique. You just need to be able to write 400-500 words on the topic of the website that you are promoting. If you can’t do this, then you can easily get some articles written for you for around $10 an article.

The main benefit of writing articles for SEO is that you can add an author resource box to the end of your article and include 2-3 links back to your website. Some article directories also support HTML and allow you to include your keywords in the link text (anchor text) as well. There are thousands of article directories on the internet but from my experience the best ones are:

• http://www.ezinearticles.com
• http://www.goarticles.com
• http://www.articledashboard.com
• http://www.ideamarketers.com
• http://www.searchwarp.com

If you don’t have much time available just submit your article to the above 5 directories and you will benefit from good backlinks and visitors.

If you want to speed up your article submission and submit your article to a wide range of article directories and ezine owners, you may want to consider using an article submission service or software.

If you write articles for SEO on a regular basis you will see a noticable difference in your search engine rank and you will also get the benefit of branding your own name, company name and website.