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Maximize Benefits with an Article Directory
September 12th, 2009
An article directory is defined as an online site wherein you can aquire, at no cost, tons of articles on many topics. Most of these sites are arranged by subject matter, which allows users to find exactly what they are looking for. For example, if you are looking for articles about health and fitness, you need only click on the subject “health and fitness” or “exercise.” From there the article directory will often display a number of sub-subjects where you will likely find the specific article you are looking for.
Businesses
Article directories have become an effective and inexpensive way for businesses to promote their products. Most article directories will allow writers to have a link to that product.Companies will ask writers to place the link of their company product on that article. {This gives users of the article directory the ability to click on these links if they want more information about the product discussed in the article.} As article directories continue to grow in popularity, more and more companies are hiring writers to submit articles for them.
Writers
For writers, article directories can provide a steady stream of income and the satisfaction of knowing that you are helping people with the information you provide. You can work from home and set your own schedule. Each piece that your submit to an article directory should be professionally written and well-researched. So not only will you make some extra money, you will also end up learning something useful in the process.
If you think you’d be interested in writing for an article directory, first, you must check out a few websites and select the best one for what you require. The key is to find a company that wants you to author the articles they need. These businesses look for quality article writers from freelance writing places. The companies will ask the writers to write about the benefits of the products they sell.They will also ask to place a link of that product on the article. But many of them will stress that fact that they do not want these articles to sound like advertisements. These articles will be submitted to an article directory and these directories are providing their users with information not a commercial. Therefore, it is always a wise move to stay away from catchy slogans or marketing jargon and just explain the benefits of the product and in positive, not glowing terms in your web content.
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Article Directories Can Be Great For Link Building
September 8th, 2009
Using an article directory to market your articles is a great way to get backlinks and additionally market your brand and image. One thing you do not want to do is to spam a bunch of poorly written articles all over the net, or articles that make no sense but have backlinks to your site. This usually backfires in the long run, and makes anyone reading it far far less likely to ever click on the link and visit your site.No clickthu leads to no conversions for anything you might be trying to accomplish.
Make sure you write and submit a quality article, because most article directories have manual screening methods to filter out junk that is not up to speed.This results in a ton of spam and junk getting rejected - and your article too, if you do not take care when writing it. Keep in mind the target audience for your article for each article directory and it will help you write it in the best manner.
You should have a list of five to seven article directories to submit to for each article you write. In addition, if you get some software to assist you, you can spin each article into maybe 10 individual articles that are uniquely different and get more mileage out of each article. Basically “spinning” allows a computer to substitute sentences on output so it might have an A, a B and a C choice for each sentence. It mixes and matches randomly.
The more articles you write, the more backlinks you will get to your site. In addition, the quality article directories will have decent page rankings which is always a big help in and of itself.Some article directories have become a hub for other sites looking for content - this is an added bonus to using them.
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Article Directories Help To Get Backlinks
June 27th, 2009
Any website owner who starts down the path of internet marketing will soon discover how many "guru's" are out there all claiming some secret trick to boost your search engine rankings. The reality is there are a few things to really pay attention to, but most of it really comes down to hard work. Depending on what keywords you want to rank for, you can achieve success in a week or 2 or it may take months of hard work to get any results.
Asisde from basic webpage SEO stuff to make sure everything is done correctly, the biggest single factor still in your rankings is the number of links and where they come from. The PR(page rank) of the site linking to you is important, as is the content on that site. Recipricol links used to work really well (you link me, I link you) but now its really downplayed by Google as a valid method of links.
The easiest way to get links is through article marketing.This is not the path of the least work, it is the best path to get good, long term results. The setup is simple:
- Do some keyword research on your topic. Pick 2-4 keywords you will focus on. Make sure they get decent search volume but do not go after stuff that is too generic (meaning it will have unusually large seached volume) - those will be way too hard to rank on in a reasonable time.
- Plan on writing 10 - 12 articles of 300-400 words each, using 2 of the keywords with links to your site in each article, with no more than 3 links per article total. Use the keyword as your link, not http:// type.
- Publish 4 of the articles on a major article directory that has good ranking such as Ezine Articles or ArticlesBase. These have human reviewers so it will take a bit of time to get your article published.Luckily they do not require unique posts that are exclusive, so while you are waiting for their approval you can get it posted elsewhere as well.
- Make sure you get some software that helps to spin the article content and links. Basically spinning allows you to subsitute words and sentences for one another so that you can get a different article from the same basic article. DO NOT try to use rewriting software - I have seen none that do a decent job - usually it reads like garbage and that will not help your rankings. If you spin an article right, you can easilly get 10-20 different reading articles from a single article, enough to not worry about duplicate content out there (and possible penalties).
- The next step is to mass distribute your articles to sites looking for great content. You can do this manually for free, or find some tools to purchase that can greatly speed this up. I usually choose to pay some money in the savings of time. There are so many things to do, you have to trade off somewhere. You want to make sure you spread out the distribution - its unnatural for any site to go from no links to 500 links in 1 day - what is more natural is 0 to 10 to 18 to 25 to 40 … over many weeks build the level up.
- You should start tracking where you rank on the few keywords you have chosen. After you have about 300 or so links you should start to get decent ranking. Some keywords that are not as competitive, much less, and of course, some it might take thousands.Your goal on most keywords should be to get into the top 10-15 in ranking, number 1 is nice but sometimes the effort needed to keep and hold it is not worth it.
- In addition to the article work, you can also use social media accounts to link to each of the articles you publish AND also to your main web site.You will also want to make at least one squidoo lens about your site and then use it to link to your site.
Sites all want fresh content on them to improve their quality score. Most look to articles about their niche topic to keep the viewer on the site and get better ranking. This is exactly why article marketing works - you get links on disribution sites, webmasters get to search for content to add to their site from what is published.
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