I have just included some of the few advantages of articles submissions.

1. Free to submit. Most of the article directories allow you to submit articles for free charge. This means you can submit your article for free. All you need to do is register an account and submit your article using their online forms. Its that simple. All you need is qualified article submitter (Man hours) besides an article writer time.

2. Fresh Content, update your website with quality articles and search robots love your website as they like fresh content. Besides SEM/SEO advantage, customer/visitors like when they see new information on websites they visit. So it helps your website in both aspects.

3. Free one-way links, this is one of the most encouraging feature in articles that a webmaster/sem/seo loves to do. You can easily get one way back-links to your website without much hassle.

4. Most of the articles directories never remove the articles that are submitted unless removed by the submitter. This gives an added advantage of permanent incoming links as well as one-way back-links ;-).

5. There are many users who uses others' article in their website, blogs, e-zine or newsletters, so writing up a quality article and submitting it to good article directories help you in getting traffic to your website from those who uses your articles on their website/blogs/e-zine or newsletters.

6. When you get Expert ratings or stature in articles directories, you can make that extra income by writing for other websites and submitting them under your (author) account. This will gives you an extra income and also helps you in building your own portfolio.

7. You can create email newsletters using the articles that you submit to article directories. You can even come up with e-books to publish which can be either sold or give away from your website which can create that extra traffic or money.

8. Apart from all the above, there are people who reads these published articles before investing/buying in a product or service. It is always said that a common man always expect good service or product in which he/she invest. So its obvious that everyone of us do some research before we invest in buying/investing.