The Most Efficient Way to Market With Articles
Article marketing is a successful and cost-effective way to promote your business online. Articles will give you a lot of links, including links from article databases with a high PR. They will also give you targeted traffic.
You can expect to have your articles showing up on article sites within a few weeks but the backlinks may take longer.
Google, Yahoo and MSN consider inbound links to a web site to be a primary consideration in their search ranking algorithms. So, each incoming link increases your likelihood of gaining higher placement in the search engine results.
You usually see a big spike in links from articles, then they start to drop off as the months go by and the search engines recognize duplicate content. I suggest a consistent approach. If you have a lot of articles, schedule one a week at first to get fast exposure, then submit every 2 weeks or every month to get consistent links and organic (free) search engines listings.
Save time and/or money
There are hundreds of article directories and they constantly change. You have to sign up and log into each one. They have different rules you have to read and follow. That makes it very time consuming to manually submit your articles and keep updating your list of active article databases.
Article submission services can save you a lot of time. Some are good and others are bad or average.
I find an article distribution service like Distribute Your Articles (previously Article Marketer) to be the easiest, fastest and most-cost effective way to promote your web sites with articles.
Distribute Your Articles is one of the many article distribution services. It distributes your articles to a large list of article directories. This makes it more than just an article directory--it's actually an online article distribution web site. They have paid services and a free service that allows you to use a limited version of their distribution network.
You submit your article only to one place Distribute Your Articles instead of having to submit it to 100+ web sites. And articlemarketer distributes your article(s).
I have been using Distribute Your Articles for 5 years. It has giving me a lot of links and traffic without spendng a lot of time (other than the writing part).. It can work for you too!
Go to Google and search for “qualityebookcovers.com” and “qualityheadertemplates.com” and you’ll see how many links and search engine listings I’ve received for those web sites just by submitting articles to Distribute Your Articles. I submitted 2 articles/week for 2-3 months over a year ago. Then, I didn’t submit any for over a year. A month ago I submitted another 6-7 articles. I am still getting sales from the articles I submitted over a year ago.
You can schedule the articles. I you have articles ready, you can submit them all at once and indicate in articlemarketer when you want them to go out. That way, you put your article marketing on autopilot.
Distribute Your Articles offers the best deal available for article distribution and they do a great job. They claim to have the widest distribution list in the industry
This will give your article exposure to many web sites. Your articles could be in hundreds + web sites depending on the topic, title and quality of your article, and other factors.
You'll have several sign-up options: Distribute Your Articles
Some people have trouble with providing the HTML version of their article signature (resource box). If that's the case, there are three options. 1. This is optional - you can skip the HTML version and only give them the plain text version. 2. Put your signature in a web editor and copy the code. 3. Ask your web designer for help.
If you have a small amount of articles, there are other places offering article submission at a fixed cost per article. This service is the best for someone who will have a good amount of articles (or several web sites) and wants to submit articles on a regular basis. You should submit articles on a regular basis to get ongoing links and traffic.
Article submission services use automated software. Automated software won't hurt your site. The only drawback is if you don't submit correctly being that it is automated and your articles are not accepted. Manual submission is always better but it doesn’t justify the difference in the time it takes and the fee I have to charge because I do it manually.
The one complaint I've been getting from clients is that at first they may have to make some changes. This is a good thing because Distribute Your Articles tells you what you need to do to be accepted by the article databases. Somethimes it's as simple as providing a minumum lenght of 400 words for your articles. They do this because most article databases require this minimum lenght.
Using an article distribution service saves you a lot of time and it doesn't cost much if you consider how long it would take if you had to do it all yourself, or how much you woulld be someone to submit your articles for you manually.
I’ve researched isnare and people who have used Isnare have had good results as well.
I personally use Distribute Your Articles. I like the way they create accounts in my own name for submissions, which s important for branding.
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| TIP: When signing up – use the author name (your name or pen name) you want to show up in your articles and NOT the name of your web site. That way you can submit articles for multiple web sites and topics. You can NOT change the author name after signing up. |
How it works
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The first thing you'll need to do is set up an account. Go to the Distribute Your Articles Web site and click on "Create Account" on the top left of the screen. Click on "Create One Now."
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Fill out the author application form and select a level of service.
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Read the article submission guidelines.
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Input your article information, including the title, description of the article and the article itself.
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Type in your author biography, also called About the Author Resource Box.
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Select the article categories in which you want your article to be placed. You have up to three selections.
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Type in your keywords related to the article you're submitting and the date you want your article distributed.
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Go through the payment process following the prompts.
There are a couple of other article submissions services that have a good reputation but I've only used Distribute Your Articles |
