Tests Shows Article Marketing As A Promotion Tool Is A Proven Method To Get Targeted Traffic And Backlinks For Any Website

Online, December 16, 2009 (Newswire.com) - One year ago, Fimba Pantlitz was at one of those proverbial crossroads in his life. Finding himself at sea after venturing into article marketing. He face the decision of whether to continue writing and submitting articles to article directories or start his own..

Armed with statistics on article marketing and the benefits of owning an article directory, and with articles on the benefits of using articles as a promotional tool, Fimba started the article directory Article Banker.

His goal was to have one of the best article directory on the internet. He would handle all the marketing, promotion and link building from his home-based office, as he strives to build his article database.

His website's article database is growing at an exceptional rate, with over thirty thousand articles and over thirteen thousand authors. With a growing number of ezines, websites, blogs and newsletter owners visiting the site to get content for reprint. New authors can signup for a free account and start using the site by posting their articles free of charge.

The website opened in early 2008 to the roaring sound of emptiness. In the world of the internet, if you build it they will only come if you tell them you exist. Fortunately he also started to promote his site.

Now, almost one year later, the Article Banker Website receives thousands of unique visitors and new authors daily. Fimba has also added links to other resources to his website for the benefit of contributing article authors and visitors. Over 50% of the websites visitors are unique which is most pleasing to him.

His advice to anyone who is thinking of using article marketing as a promotional tool is, Don't underestimate the benefits that can be derived from using article marketing as a promotional tool for any website, service or product you may have.

Writing articles and submitting them to any article directory, will get any website many backlinks, get any new website out of Google's sandbox faster and establish the author as an expert in his or her particular field, and it is a potent method that can bring in thousands of target customers to any business whether online or offline.

And Article Banker? Is it surviving? "Article submissions is five times ahead of 2008", says Fimba. "If we continue at this pace, 2009 will be a very good year for this article directory."

You can check them out online and signup for a free account at http://www.articlebanker.com/signup.php.