Many marketers know that writing articles are great and powerful methods to marketing online. The true power in article promotion is to get as many articles published on other websites as possible and to get read of course. If your articles don't get read, this means chances that your website link will be clicked at the end of your article in your author bio are practically none. Well this article won't show you how to get your articles read and your website link clicked but will focus on how your articles can be used as a search engine spider bait. Search engine robots like Googlebot(Google), Inktomi Slurp(Yahoo) and MSNBot(MSN) crawl the web on a regular basis to fetch new pages and old pages as well so as to index them or to update their databases with any changes you've made to your existing pages.

So these search engine robots also known as spiders or crawlers visit websites to perform their activities. If you imagine the above scenario and you have your website link on one of these sites that these robots crawl regularly, chances are high that your link will get noticed and will be picked up through the spidering process. This is already a good news because this means your website will get indexed in the search engine databases in the near future. Usually the more frequent the robots' activities are done, your website and pages will be indexed much more faster. It also depends on the quality of the site from which you have your link on. If it's a good site that has several quality inbound links to it, it will be visited often by the spiders and your site can only benefit.