Hello i'm new to the articles subject. I'm thinking to start writing articles and submitting it to the popular websites, but would like to hear some advice from you guys who have had experience with this. My purpose is to promote a website i'm working on, to drive traffic to it. Any guidelines available or any thread, that shows best practices before submitting? One more thing, if i write an article, is it better to keep it on my blog/website (this way it will stay unique), or submitting to directories (will end up be a duplicate, but will have my links that will drive traffic) thank you all
Yes, make sure the article in unique is the very important thing to consider. Guideline is everywhere, try Google it. Yeah, if you write an article make sure the article is unique and submitting to the directory is possible. How about shuffling the article a bit to make it unique
Copyright your work. Allow it to be reused with your authorization but be sure to have your name written all over it. Also try and seed it with some key phrases. Copy & Paste guys rarely change around the words or get through it all. SO right smack in the middle of your article put some obscure phrases that only you would use. Then later on, scripted or manually, you can search out these phrases for unauthorized usage.
Run your articles through CopyScape so that you are sure that there are no phrases that someone can claim as theirs and blame you for copyright infringement. Will save you a lot of embarrassment and also a possible "duplicate content penalty" from the search engines!
First make sure your grammar and spelling is correct! Second, get othes to critique your first few articles. If you have a writing style they like, and the subjects you have chosen to write about, only then should you start submitting. It is better to send your articles to as many sites as you can. Article directories, Yahoo, MSN, content sites like online magazines.... This "duplicate content" is one of the biggest pieces of horseshit I have heard of so far. The more people who read your articles, the more who go to your site. The more who go to your site, the more money you make. That's just common sense. If submitting to a slew of other sites, like Askmen, About, DavesDaily, or whatever, make sure the articles are keyword enriched. Also, in your first article you submit to them for approval, mention their name. This will increase your odds in getting webmasters to accept it. For example: "Today in your favorite site, About.com, you will learn how...." Good luck with it.
Here is a list I found using a tool called google, it took me 12.7 seconds! google.com/search?q=%22submit+your+article
lol people are so fucking lazy. Or stupid. I don't know which. Probably both. I wouldn't have even given him that one. And start your own thread, instead of using other's, there, Pee Wee.
Write some good keyword rich articles of at least 500 words. If you are writing some good content over time you may even get an email from a webmaster asking you to write an original article either for a back link or money. Too much emphasis is put on dup content it is a load of horse apples.
I think a good practice is to put an article on your site, and the submit it to other sites with a link to the original article on your site. This way, every one who want to place you article on his site will have to link to your site.
Article marketing remains a reliable way of getting targeted traffic to your sites, credibility for your brand name and backlinks all in one swoop. I still get traffic and sales from articles I wrote back in 2003 - done right it's a very potent tactic, and top marketers like Willie Crawford have made no secret of the fact that they use articles a lot for marketing. One other tip, make sure you focus on submitting to the more high traffic article directories...there are hundreds out there and you can spend a day submitting to them all...but only the top ones will yield any serious traffic.