Article submission is very important for your off-page optimization. It creates a good relationship between you and your users/readers. It also sends good traffic to your website because if you offer good articles with good content, people will keep on coming to read your articles. Article submission is one of the cheapest and most effective way to advertise your website. Make sure to always add links back to your website, as it serves as link building as well.

The Advantages:

  • Quality Links: In your article, you will integrate your main keywords. Those main keywords should also be in your links anchor texts. Adding keywords as anchor texts is very important because it helps for your overall ranking in SERPs for that keyword. The article directories in which you will submit your article usually are high PR websites. Since those directories are high in PR, your links get lots of weight and value.

  • Increase Targeted Traffic: By including links in your article either with anchor texts or just URL links, you will be increasing your targeted traffic to your website. How? you may ask yourself. Well simply because when people will search for an article in a specific category, they will start reading a bit of your article and if written properly and of value, they will probably visit your website for more information. Because those readers looked for a specific category and landed on you, there are big chances that those are the readers that you would want to target. This is also why including links back to your website in your article is very important.
  • Increase Overall Page Rank: By getting quality links from these directories, your page rank gets better chances of increasing. It increases your site authority for the major search engines.

Article Submission Tips:

  • Which Directory to Submit: Not all article directories have what it takes to give your article maximum visibility to the public. You should carefully choose which directory you’re going to use. Don’t waste your time with small directories because they probably won’t be able to help you in any way. Focus on those that have good PRs, that are popular amongst online users, and that appear in top rankings of SERPs. You obviously would want to target websites that are visited daily by thousands of people and not those small unknown websites.
  • Duplicate Articles: ALWAYS and I repeat always use your own unique articles. Never get caught submitting another person’s article or copy pasting an article that already exists. Having trouble with the duplicate content and the copyright matter is no joke. This might create you a bad name on the net. This will be like a message to the readers saying that you have no originality and no good material to bring to the table. Another thing that might happen is that you might get banned from all major article directories.
  • Unique Articles: Writing good and unique articles is very important. I’d say even the most important because if you don’t offer unique and interesting content, the readers won’t even read your article meaning they probably won’t click on your links. That said, you should always deliver high quality and unique articles for your readers. Why? Well because that is the type of content online readers are looking for. They must be well-written with no grammatical errors, loaded with useful info and amazing content. Basically, your reader must be excited when you submit a new article and he must enjoy reading them.
  • Keep Them Hungry: If you want to attract a lot of traffic and be very successful in promoting your website through article submission, you will have to write and submit a lot of articles. I’d say 3 – 4 articles per week is a good start. Always offer new and fresh articles for your readers because it will increase your inbound links, your page rank, and eventually your traffic and sales.

Top 5 Article Directories

  1. GoArticles.com: This directory has a PR 6 , you need to register to it before submitting articles. Registration and submission is free.
  2. ArticlesBase.com: ArticlesBase is known for its fast article approval. It has a PR 5. They have good features which allows you to manage statistics and submissions.
  3. EzineArticles.com: This is probably the best article directory. It gets huge amounts of traffic daily and it has a PR 6. You will need to register before being able to submit articles
  4. ArticleCity.com: Directory with a PR 5. It is also free and also need registration before being able to submit.
  5. ArticleDashboard.com: ArticleDashboard has a wide range of categories and has been around for a while. It has a PR 5 and registration is free.

There are many other good article directories out there. You can conduct a research on the net for article directories and targeted directories as well.

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