Article marketing is one of the easiest ways to promote your website in order to generate traffic and increase your earnings. By writing and submitting articles you are letting the public know that you know what you are talking about. Establish yourself as an expert and people will flock to you for more information and recommendations.

Writing articles related to your website and submitting them to “free content” submission sites is easy to do, takes little time, and can increase your website traffic. Of course more traffic should mean more sales. The more articles you write and submit the more people will see them and take action.

Article Submission

You will need to register at these article submission sites and some of them will require you to confirm your email account. That’s O.K., if they are asking it just means that they are actually verifying information to ensure accuracy. Most of the GOOD submission sites will require that your article be approved by a human editor before it is accepted. I personally prefer these article submission sites as I believe they have more original content.

My top pick of all time for article submission is EzineArticles.I always submit to them FIRST then after they accept the article I will submit the same article to other directories. I like these guys so much because they are all over google and very professional. You will find them at http://www.ezinearticles.com . A simple google search will lead you to all the article submission sites you will ever need.

Use Articles to increase Pagerank

The article on the free content site contains a link to your own website. Readers, after reading your articles, may choose to click on the link and pay you an unexpected visit. Having them on the free content sites is also making these articles available to other webmasters who may wish to publish that article on their site.

If they do, your article will include a link back to your site. And anyone who reads the article on that site can still click on the link to visit your site.

As the list of your published articles grow larger, and more and more of them are appearing on different websites, the total number of links to your site increases also. Major search engines are placing a lot of significance on incoming links to websites so they can determine the importance of a certain site.

The more incoming links the website has, the more importance search engines attaches to it. This will then increase your website’s placement in the search results.

Your Signature/Resource box

Here is your space. You most assuredly want to include your name, your url, and your short sales pitch with a call to action. 5 to 6 sentences should be enough to cover the basics while getting your point across. When putting in your url you should use the basic format as this will always show up on websites that re-publish your article. If you use anchor text (a href=) it will most likely just show up as plain text. You can include both types on most article submission sites.

Article submission sites are all a little different in the way they handle your article so you will want the ability to exclude a sentence here and there in your summary and resource box. This will depend on allowable space and their own requirements.

That is the overall basic format for most article submission sites. Of course you will need to check the guidelines of each site that you are submitting to. Article marketing is very effective and will give you long term benefits but you need to be consistent. Try to submit 1 to 3 articles a week.

By following these tips you will increase your site’s presence on the net while etablishing your expertise in your niche. This is a win/win situation for everyone involved. You get your unique content published on the net for public use and other webmasters get to choose quality content for their readers. Good luck!!!

Thanx and remember…Always strive to improve and success will follow
David Knops Jr
DKWebsites LLC

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