| You will have heard this before, and I'll make no | | | | and ezine publishers use the articles in these |
| apologies for saying it again. Content is king when it | | | | directories as content for their visitors. However, as |
| comes to the Internet. Fresh and relevant content | | | | they do so they are required to preserve the link |
| both on your site, and in article directories feeding | | | | back to your site, with obvious good effects on site |
| backlinks and page rank into your site, is the key to | | | | management. |
| success. It is the lifeblood by which websites gain | | | | Internet marketing is so simple. Sometimes I think |
| new audiences, keep existing ones, and continually | | | | people over complicate it. Internet savvy people |
| improve their page ranking in search engines. | | | | know about affiliate marketing and most of the time |
| It is a common misconception that submitting your | | | | will strip your affiliate URL if they decide to buy the |
| website to search engines will lift your site up in the | | | | product. |
| rankings. But the truth is that despite what the SEO | | | | Signing up for a free article account in each of the |
| companies say, this does not get your web page | | | | directories is simple. Go to the sign-up page. Click on |
| better ranking unless there is almost no competition. | | | | the button next to the package you want. Then |
| That is a misconception about Search Engine | | | | simply visit their articles homepage to learn more |
| Optimization that has been going around for quite | | | | about the various packages on offer for article |
| sometime. | | | | directory submission. Plus, we recommend that you |
| Submitting your articles to article directories is the | | | | only need to submit to article directories that of a |
| best way to promote your web site. If you think | | | | Google PR of 2 or more. |
| that you have no skills in writing just search for | | | | Google and the rest of the search engines frequently |
| “Content Writers”, or “Article | | | | visit the higher ranked article directories and will pick |
| Writers” and you will see a long list of sites that | | | | up on the link to your website in your 'author's |
| offer these services. You will find that article writing | | | | resource', or bio. When they find your site, you get |
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| unique and therefore much more effective than PLR | | | | Google is most likely to notice and index the types |
| article content. | | | | of links which are to and from related sites though. |
| Submit you articles to Ezinearticles dot com first | | | | For example, if your website is about cars and you |
| because this is the best article site, and all articles are | | | | trade links with a site about flowers, it probably |
| read by a human before they are accepted. Rewrite | | | | won’t help your site very much at all. I have |
| the article by at least one third, and then submit it to | | | | found that I is not necessary to submit your articles |
| the other top article directories. | | | | to a very large number of article directories, but you |
| The top article directories (e.g. Ezinearticles) produce | | | | do need to send them to between 15 and 20 of the |
| statistics that show up in your member area, with | | | | top Directories. There are a number of Article |
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| within your area of expertise and increasing your | | | | you to post to each Article Directory, by pasting in |
| submission frequency. | | | | the article as you arrive on the site. However, these |
| Many of the top article directories will allow you to | | | | applications don't usually log you in beforehand, or |
| use html in your resource box. This means that you | | | | select categories or pen name, and logging in |
| can hyperlink your keywords and everywhere your | | | | manually to do this each time rapidly becomes a time |
| article, and hence your resource box with the | | | | consuming and tedious chore. |
| hyperlinked keywords, are posted there is a | | | | However, article directory submission provides free |
| keyword that links directly to your site. | | | | advertising and links, and it is a well established and |
| Internet browsers go from the search engines to | | | | dependable source of targeted traffic, which simply |
| your article and onto your niche store which you will | | | | cannot be ignored. So, we recommend that all those |
| have linked to in the author bio box at the bottom | | | | serious in marketing their web sites do at least invest |
| of your article. Secondly, other webmaster, bloggers | | | | in article submission software, if nothing else. |