At the beginning of September 2008 Free Traffic System team has started the testing cycle of its new SEO strategy of getting 1st page in major search engines for the niche keywords.

For the testing purposes a group of volunteers - owners of web sites in different niches - was gathered to test the new strategy offered by Free Traffic System team. This testing team was built of people without search engine optimization experience who had web sites in the niches of: health, business management, investments, car loans, travelling, vacations, self development, computer games, gambling, arts, etc.

The aim of the testing was to show how people without SEO knowledge, by doing simple procedures offered my Free Traffic System, can get 1st page in Google and other search engines.

With the terms of 2-9 weeks these web sites have got to the 1st page in Google which is interpreted by Free Traffic System team as a serious unbiased proof of the effect from its strategy. The screenshots from Google that show the testing sites on the 1st page are published on the official web site of Free Traffic System project.

Having checked the effect from its strategy on the testing team, Free Traffic System has officially announced the launch of its free service.

Anyone can claim the free membership which gives site owner access to the unlimited amount of quality one way links. These one way links help site owners to improve SEO value of their sites and get good positions in search engines.

For more details about the system, success stories and how to join please visit the Free Traffic System home page.

A lot of marketers will tell you that in order to succeed with article marketing you need to submit articles to as many directories as possible. The only problem with that is it's a very time consuming process and you will need to write multiple unique articles right off the bat. On top of that, many article directories will not publish your content if it has already been published in another directory. This means that you will have to write a brand new article for each of those directories.

I have learned that it can be just as effective to submit a new article every couple of days to 4 or 5 of the top directories. This way you are still creating a good amount of backlinks, but you are giving yourself more time to write quality articles. Plus, you are able to build a reputation within these directories and eventually establish yourself as an expert in your niche. This means that subscribers of that directory will actually start to look for new articles from you because they know that they can trust the information you are providing.

All of that leads to more views of your articles, which leads to more clicks through to your website, which obviously means more traffic. Remember, sometimes quality can take you much farther than quantity.

I like using Ezinearticles.com (the #1 article directory on Alexa), Articlepool.com, Goarticles.com, Affsphere.com, Rysite.com (automatically tweets your article on their Twitter page), Articlealley.com, and Infobarrel.com.

Check out this website. http://www.bookmarket.com/onlinearticles.htm. It lists all of the free article directories and their Alexa page ranks; plus a lot of great information about writing and promoting articles.