You’ve heard this before, and I won’t apologize for saying it again. Content is king when it comes to the internet. New and relevant content both on your site and in article directories that fuel backlinks and page rank on your site is the key to success. It is the vital element by which websites gain new audiences, maintain existing ones, and continually improve their page ranking in search engines.
It’s a common misconception that submitting your website to search engines will lift your site up the rankings. But the truth is that despite what SEO companies say, this does not make your website rank better unless there is almost no competition. That is a misconception about search engine optimization that has been around for quite some time.
Submitting your articles to article directories is the best way to promote your website. If you think you don’t have writing skills, just search for “Content Writers” or “Article Writers” and you’ll see a long list of sites that offer these services. You will find that article writing rates are not high and the articles you receive will be unique and therefore much more effective than PLR article content.
Submit your articles to EzineArticles dot com first because this is the best article site, and all articles are read by a human before they are accepted. Rewrite the article by at least one third and then submit it to the other major article directories.
The major article directories (eg Ezinearticles) produce statistics that appear in their members area, detailing how many people read their articles. As you develop your portfolio strategy and become effective, you can increase your results by writing within your area of expertise and increasing your sending frequency.
Many of the major article directories will allow you to use html in your resource box. This means that you can link to your keywords and anywhere your article is published and therefore your resource box with the keywords linked to, there is a keyword that links directly to your site.
Internet browsers go from search engines to your article and to your niche store which you will have a link to in the author bio box at the bottom of your article. Second, other webmasters, bloggers, and ezine publishers use the articles from these directories as content for their visitors. However, when they do, they are required to retain the link back to your site, with obvious good effects on site administration.
Internet marketing is so simple. Sometimes I think people make it too complicated. Internet savvy people are aware of affiliate marketing and will most of the time remove your affiliate URL if they decide to purchase the product.
Signing up for a free article account on each of the directories is simple. Go to the registration page. Click the button next to the package you want. Then simply visit your articles home page to learn more about the various packages offered for article directory submission. Also, we recommend that you only have to submit to article directories the one with a Google PR of 2 or more.
Google and the rest of the search engines frequently visit the top ranked article directories and they will find the link to your website in your ‘author resource’ or bio. When they find your site, it gets listed, and that can happen in less than 24 hours. However, Google is more likely to notice and index the types of links that are to and from related sites. For example, if your website is about cars and you exchange links with a site about flowers, it probably won’t help your site much. I found that you don’t need to submit your articles to a large number of article directories, but you do need to submit to 15-20 of the top article directories. There are several article directory submission programs available, but I’ve only found three that do this with one click once they’ve been set up. The others simply help you post to each article directory, pasting the article as you enter the site. However, these apps usually do not sign in beforehand, or select categories or pseudonyms, and manually signing in to do this each time quickly becomes a tedious and time-consuming task.
However, article directory submission provides free advertising and links, and is a well-established and reliant source of targeted traffic, which simply cannot be ignored. Therefore, we recommend that all those who are serious about marketing their websites should at least invest in article submission software, at the very least.