A lot of people use article submission directories but not correctly for maximum SEO benefit. I have produced a post on my site regarding this and thought it worth sharing, I have chopped it down to mention the key points. Stage 1 - The articles should be a description of your relevent post/page you wish to promote. The key to this is writing a good quality article that grab people's attention, infuse them with a desire to read more and thus be interested in your site. A few suggestions are, keeping your articles fairly short, around 400 words will work well (Basically a short teaser about your post to influence them to click your link for the rest of the article). Have your title's in bold to draw interest. Make sure you add your keywords in to the article between 5 to 15 times (especially the title) Stage 2- When posting this article onto the directory we need to embed the sites backlink into the first sentience. It's important to get the right wording in the sentence as it will make this much easier. An example "want to learn how to make money online"? To do this follow the relevant HTML code to create a hyper link for the key words "make money online" in that sentence. (I have used my home page as an example) <*a href="http://makemoneyonline-advice.blogspot.com/">Make Money Online<*/a> For you replace makemoneyonline-advice.blogspot.com with your homepage URL, and take out the two * in the code as I had to put them there so you can actually see it. Once posting that article onto the Article Submission Directory, you have effectively developed yourself a free backlink, well done. It may seem like hard work but trust me, it is a very effective way of driving traffic to your site and getting a high google rank. For A big list of the main Article Submission Directories follow here: Article Submission Directories Hope that helps. Regards Chris
thanks for the advise Chris. In your opinion is it worth to submit to 1-2 sites or as many as I can ? My genre is auto parts.
fed up of these articles, why not search the site before submitting? there are plenty of posts lying around there . please search before posting
IMO Article Submission Directories is one of the best forms of backlink generating if done corrently, I would recommend atleast 5 and try to push for 10 quality big name sites if you can. Remember your artcile (400 word) teaser only needs to be written once, then you can copy and paste it onto as many article directories as possible which dosent take too long. The time consuming bit is the re-write, so once you have done the rest is easy. Hope that helps.
Hi there Writing articles are very effective to better inform everyone. You can submit articles at article directories like ezinearticles, go articles, amazines, etc. The higher the PR the better. These articles with links to your site's pages can also be used at squidoo.com, hubpages.com, mylot.com, etc. Having these articles lying around is what the search engines looked for to give rank to your pages. These are effective forms of SEO and can give you rankings and traffic for a long time.
I use Article Marketer (now split into Content Crooner & Distributeyourarticles) 20-30 bucks a month, unlimited submissions. Articles go out to 300-600 directories, including the major ones. Well worth the cost.
Article marketing is only good if you are good at writing or you get freelancers (what I do) If you submit to many AD you should rewrite the article or it will result in double content pointing to your page and you do not want that..