How to get best results from article marketing?

Article directory is a SEO website that allow authors to publish their articles. Main purpose of publishing article is to offer people with useful and interesting information. One can easily improve his website ranking, increase traffic, multiply his content popularity and build reputation on various topics, improves position in search results, rise product sales, increase revenues and many other benefits that are hidden in using article marketing. But most of the webmasters suppose article marketing method as a best white-hat method to get backlinks to their websites (results in increase in alexa as well as page rank). This search engine optimization method is unique from other methods because it allow authors to add unique and SEO friendly content while most methods only use url's and keywords. Many people just published their articles on internet without carefully analyzing article directories which yield bad results. This article will surely help you if you are new to article marketing. There are many article websites out there but one must carefully analyze below mentioned factors while publishing articles:- 1- Directories must have high page rank because low page rank do not give high quality backlink, also alexa rank of the directory should low. 2- Directory must allow do-follow backlinks(Do-follow links are that links that are visible to search engines) 3- There are several article directories that allow authors to put articles on their website but their articles will disappear after an update on the website (like ideamarketers, articlefactory and many others). People loss their valuable links in just couple of days result in decrease in SEO ranking. 4- Directory must allow a link in the article body (Difference between 2 anchor links should be at least 100 words(early definition of quality backlink and keywords separation)). This is only possible if the article directory allow the writer to put urls in the article body. 5- There are some sites that shows your 'author box' at the bottom of the web page. One avoid this type of article sit es because readers do not scroll article page to just see your bio. In general, the 'author box' is placed after the article body, but some sites have their advertising banners after body of the article. So one must take care of the fact of place of author information. 6- Get rid of websites that have a lot of ad's or affiliate link on its pages, that will only yield you a low quality link. 7- Unfortunately many directories offer better exposure to their premium members(bitter truth), you can use this way as a quick marketing option. 8- At last randomize yourself with the collection of article directories list and update your lists regularly. All of these mentioned points will optimize the usage of article marketing method,which definitely results in achieving goals that authors have specified while publishing articles on article directory sites. High quality links means that if the webpage have high page rank and low number of outgoing links then your link will have some quality otherwise it will be just look like junk among the others. Hope all the tricks helps you to gain good results while posting articles.