What is the best way to promote your articles?

What is the best way to promote your articles? Looking for ideas.

 

There are going to be lots of different answers, however you could try this strategy.

1) Social Bookmark your articles.

I have found that digg, delicious and reddit are good ones to start with.

You can also get some good submission sites like onlywire. I like onlywire as there is a plug-in for wordpress which you can install into your blog, and once you have set up your accounts with the bookmarking websites, you can use it to instantly get a few backlinks to any article you post on your blog.

2) Submit your author RSS feed to various RSS sites.

I have found that this can really give your articles a boost in the search engine rankings.

I recently submitted an article to EZA - it had been live for about a day. I did the following search:

site:ezinearticles.com "longtail keyword"

and my article was not even on the first page - so it wasn't even in the top 100. I submitted my RSS EZA author feed to these RSS sites:

http://www.feedplex.com/add-url.php
http://www.feedest.com/feedAdd.cfm
http://www.2rss.com/index.php
http://www.devasp.com/search/AddRSS.asp
http://www.feedage.com/submit.php
http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/myfeeds
http://www.feedcat.net/
http://www.feeds4all.nl/
http://www.feedsee.com/submit.html
http://www.findrss.net/index.html
http://www.leighrss.com/rss-add.html


And then repeated the search. Now my article was ranked at No.3! Some of the above sites didn't take my feed for one reason or another - not sure which ones, so don't worry if this happens to you... but most of them will take it.

You can get software to submit your RSS feed for you. RSS submit is good I have heard and will submit it to 35+ websites.

3) Submit your article to other sites, but in the resource box include a link back to your ranking article. This creates extra backlinks.

4) Set up a few web 2.0 properties and link these to your article.

5) Put a link to the article in any relevant forum signatures you may have.

Hope that helps

Regards


Francis

 

Part 3) above - I meant submit your article to other article directory sites

 

Great information! I'm still pretty new so this helps out a lot. Thanks!

 

Definitely use good keywords to get them showing up in the search engines. Look for low competition keywords with decent traffic. Use them in your articles but before not to over-use them or Google could badlist your articles. Also, you can do a lot of inter-linking with your articles, since backlinks always help. For example, write an article on Squidoo and then write an article on ezine articles that links to your Squidoo article. Hope this helps a bit.

 

Depending on your niche you may want to find some partners with Ezines and have them add your content to a mass emailing of their list. If an Ezine owner has 100,000 subscribers that's a lot of potential eye balls. Also, you can use Article Distribution companies like distributeyourarticles.com which will get your articles out to all the major players in one easy shot. Of course you have to pay for a premium service, but if it gets the results you want and save you precious time than its worth it. The time you save can be used to create more content, which is equivalent to money if it has high value in the marketplace.

 

SEO, (but don't hold your breath on that one), advertising, pay those to read them, and submitting them to large sites that has A LOT of readers.

Those are the only ways.

When you see articles that have thousands of views, the authors have done one of or a combination of them.

 

submityourarticles.com and isnare.com are two good submission services you might want to try.

 

Frankstar what a great post. Social bookmarking works. I love digg and delicious.

 

Starting with submitting your articles to social bookmarking sites is one easy way to start getting enough traffic and Frank's true! And remember to submit your articles on a regular basis so you won't miss any activity. Also, reciprocate those articles through not only EzineArticles but there are also ArticlesBase, GoArticles, ArticleDashboard which are highly recognized by the search engines.

Now, to get more attention, you have to have your keywords highly targeted - use long tail keywords or definition keywords that'll combine with your main keywords. Make sure they're highly relevant with your content as well. Now, to see if there's enough traffic, low competition and good rankings on such keywords, check on Google Adwords Keyword tool here and type in your keywords to test: https://adwords.google.com/o/Target...earch.none!ideaType=KEYWORD&requestType=IDEAS

Continue writing more articles often (2-3 500-word articles a day) and that way, you'll increase your value online. Also, find great and relevant people according to your niche to feature on and have interviews with them. Remember those "gurus" would always add a bonus credit or appeal while they're also willing to help newbies like you. Alternatively, you could be referred by them once they saw your capabilities.

 

Great suggestions Frankstar.

I looked and looked and I can't find my RSS EZA author feed. Where do I find it?

 

If you look at one of your articles, you can see your author bio, in the form.

http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=YOUR_AUTHOR

You can also use the "view public profile" link inside the author dashboard.

From there, you have an RSS option, it will be in the form;
http://feeds.ezinearticles.com/expert/YOUR_AUTHOR.xml

 

Thanks, lukeg32!

It's amazing what you can learn on digitalpoint.com.

 

Depends on where you post the articles, you can try to promote it internally. For examples, if your article is in Hubpages, try to network with other writers, and leave comments on their articles as well.

 

I've done some article marketing and still am able to pick up some pointers here, as well. Thanks to lukeg32 and to scheng1 for your posts. I'm going to try those techniques, as well. Seems very simple and straightforward.

 

Take advantage of the free ebook in my sig for your article promoting.

 

Thanks! I just read it. That's one process I haven't seen before. I've seen the closed link wheel technique, as well as an "open" link wheel, but never this variation. I'm going to try it. What has been your take on it?

 

I've always found Digg to be a good source for promoting articles.

 

I would use social bookmarking and social networking sites to gain backlinks to your articles and increase traffic by getting them more backlinks and rising up in search engines.

 

Does RSS feed linking only need to be done once, or should it be updated after every publish? I assume it auto-updates after the initial link, but just curious.