Information for Effectively Using Article Submission Directories

Written by Victor Krumm Monday, 01 August 2011 09:56

Article submission directories are an important part of any traffic and backlink building technique. Articles provide an efficient way for web masters to promote their web sites. Visitors to article directories are free to use articles on their own internet sites and, in return, the use of those articles results in more traffic and backlinks to net pages belonging to the articles ' writers.

Article submission directories are an important part of any traffic and backlink building technique. Articles provide an efficient way for web masters to promote their web sites. Visitors to article directories are free to use articles on their own internet sites and, in return, the use of those articles results in more traffic and backlinks to net pages belonging to the articles ' writers.

Back-links are the heart and soul of ranking high in a search engine for they're viewed like recommendations. Think about a net page as a restaurant. If a thousand different consumers endorse it, it'll potentially get loads more traffic than if no-one or just a couple of people suggest it. The same is true for back-links, more is better particularly when the suggestions are diverse or from high quality internet sites.

Article writing and web page promotion are key to getting a website to rank more highly in search engine results. Search engine spidersview backlinks from article directories as highly important sources for one way back links because directories are edited by humans and so are less subject to spam.

Submission requirements are unique for each article submission directory and understanding what those pre-requisites are is necessary to optimizing the number of back links and traffic into each directory.

Essentially, every article has the same structural components: a title, a body, and an author resources box at the end of the article body . For most satisfactory results, there should be at least 300 to 400 words in the body of the article and the writer resource box should have 2 links back to the internet site to be promoted. One link must be to the home page and another to an interior page of the website and each link should include the particular keyword as anchor text.

Keyword research is very critical in article promotion but is commonly overlooked by article writers. Consequently, they never get as much traffic or as many back links as they could have gotten if they'd simply done their homework.

There are many hundreds of article submission directories and, for the most satisfactory results, the more submissions there are to a substantial number of article directory sites, the greater the traffic and number of backlinks.

Nevertheless it is better to submit unique versions of articles to each article directory instead of the identical version to dozens or even more directories. The reason behind this is that Google may filter non-original content so that these matching articles will not provide as much traffic or backlinks as it would for unique versions.

Luckily , there are many programs available to immediately "spin" different variants of articles and easy-to-use article marketing services that will create fresh articles and distribute them to hundreds of article directory websites.

Submitting lots of the very best quality, unique versions of articles can produce thousands of valuable back-links within months but for most impressive results, here are 6 things that are recommended:

1. Create at least 5 different variations of the title

2. Write at least 300 words in each article, separated into 5 or more paragraphs

3. Create an author resources area with 2 backlinks, one to the home page and another to an interior page.

Each link ought to include anchor text for the keyword on the destination net page.

4. The spinning process should guarantee that there is at least a 30% difference in the body of each article.

5. After writing an article and "spinning" it, do not publish it until you know that each version is going to read correctly. Review one spun version, then a second, and another until all of the kinks are worked out.

6. After you know that every spun version is intelligible and prime quality, you will need to choose the category into which it is to be placed. Most article directories have dozens, even hundreds, of categories, so take a little time to get your article into the right spot. If your article is about a beauty tip, don't put it into a travel category, for example.