There are hundreds and thousands of ways to get traffic to your adsense websites or your blogs but one of the best ways to get traffic is to use articles which is also a free method, when writing an article on your chosen topic you get to leave a by-line at the bottom with a link back to your chosen website.

The by-line is also known as a signature or sig-line, when writing out your by-line you need to make sure that it has a catchy headline and a good description as once people have finished reading your article they will see the sig-line at the bottom and then read your headline & description and then possibly click through to your website this is known as targeted traffic.

Once you have written your article on your chosen topic you will then need to distribute the article by submitting the article to directories, there are dozens and dozens of article directories out there some of the popular ones are:

EzineArticles.com
ArticleCity.com
Isnear.com

There are hundreds more but the top three above are the most popular ones. If you need to find more then go to your favourite search engine, just type in article directories and it will bring up a list of thousands.

When submitting your articles to the directories a few things happen; the first thing is that the articles will bring you targeted traffic as long as you have a by-line, when you leave your by-line attached to the articles then other websites take your articles and add them to their own website leaving your by-line in tact.

Now when this happens the by-line link in your article becomes what is known to the search engines as a