I have been asked many times the following question, what is the single most important factor in web promotion? The simple and truthful answer is patience. I ensure that people who ask me for my advice re web promotion fully comprehend that patience is vitally important.

People say that article marketing is a great way to promote a website, which it most certainly is. Some people then think that if they write four articles with a link to their site included at the bottom of the article, that they will suddenly see a flood of traffic via improved search engine positions in for example google. When this does not happen they can easily lose this most important quality, patience.

Just ask Christopher Knight, the webmaster of EzineArticles about the percentage of authors who have written under ten articles. These authors must know therefore about the benefits of article marketing but do not have the patience to see it through.

There is no doubt that writing articles as a form of link building and web promotion does work but that the results are often slow to come to fruition. You should be aiming to write on average one article per day or perhaps be using a manual article submission service, just wait and see how this will benefit your site after say two years.

If you have a new website about lets say psychic readings you can not in reality expect to be placed ahead of older more established sites who have been working on link building for the last few years. By working hard to write quality content and to attract additional backward links then in time your site could well become the “top dog” of your niche and to gain that all important No1 ranking.

I am fully aware of just how beneficial article marketing can be after having had over one thousand articles published on ezinearticles.