Its my 1st time creating an article directory and need some ideas on where do you market your sites to get more submissions and fills-in the category in a short period of time. ideas are much appreciated.
An article directory site is the same as for any other site. Signatures, forums that relate to the site, submit the site to as many directories as possible, spend some bucks for an adwords campaign, ezine advertising, getting links on other relevant sites. Good luck on your article directory! I have one that I am slowly promoting (do not, and I don't think you would either, want to get swamped with tons of articles). Hope this helps you out. Oh, helps to let everyone know the url of your new site.
I agree, there seems no short cut here. you have to work and market your site using all these tools. and not much fun;(. that is called work.
As far I see it, an article directory is no different from any other directory. Just do regular marketing activites and optimizations.
Contact various article submission services and tell them to add your site to your list. You can also use adwords if you have extra cash to directly target other article sites and bring authors to your site.
but good thing for article directories is your pages increases if you also received good article contents. the more pages, the higher possibility to get a good rankings on SE. thanks for all the suggestions.
If you are looking to market yourself, one idea is to write articles... Submit them to http://www.ezinearticles.com among others. Joseph Ratliff JMR CopyWriting Services http://www.perfectwebcopy.com
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bentong, a good idea will be to start a thread for article submission related to your website niche like here http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=84279 . I'm sure you will get a steady stream of article submissions like this. Also, try posting in other forums which are specific to your theme.
Directory submission+Relevant link exchanging is the best! Forums you can't expect 1000 visitors a day from it, but with a good PR you can get good link exchanges, Google bot visiting more your website... Then you can be sure that you will have sucess... Want a tip? Get a free directory list, create a new email and stay like 6h joining directories
Contact software providers who sell semi-automatic article submissions software and tell them to add your article site in their list. So that when their huge numbers of customers updates their software, your in the list. This is one of the fastest way to gain traffic for your article site.
Go to submission services and ask them to put you in their rotation. Maybe ask for a linkback from each submitter.