subject: Beginners Guide to Article Submission [print this page] Beginners Guide to Article Submission Beginners Guide to Article Submission
Nowadays, many webmasters use article submission to promote their websites. If your website is new, you can get it indexed by submitting to the article directories. Most article directories are do follow. Since they are do follow, the link will be crawled and indexed by the search engine. The more backlinks you have, the more chances you have in ranking for the targeted keywords.
The article which you submitted must not be self promotional. If the article is self promotional, the editor will decline it. Press release cannot be submitted to the article directories. The press release which you submitted to the press release directory cannot be used to submit to the article directories. Sales page are also not allowed in the article directories. Your article must be informational and provide content that can help the readers. For example, if you are a florist, you can write about "How to Buy Wedding Flowers?" and etc. The article which you write must be related to the industry which you are involved. If the article is not related to your industry, people will probably not visit the link in the resource box.
You can include up to two links in the resource box. Instead of presenting the URL in full format, you can use anchor text. You should use the main keywords in the anchor text. By using the main keyword in the anchor text, your site will be able to rank for the keyword.
The title should not be represented in all uppercase. You only have to capitalize the first letter in the word in the title. You should include a full author name in the article. The full author name consists of the first name and last name. The article directories accept First Name and Last Initial or Last Name and First Initial as author name in the articles. Company names should not be used as author name. The email address and URLs of your website cannot be used as author name. If you have a doctorate or master degree, you can include the title before your name, for example PhD, MD and etc.
You should write the article in proper English. If the article has a lot of grammar mistakes, you must proofread it. If you have a grammar checker software, you can use it to check the grammar of your article. Grammar checker cannot guarantee that your article is 100% free from error therefore it is best that you proofread the article yourself.
If you have a lousy writing skill, you can hire a SEO Company to write the article for you. The SEO Company can also help to submit your artcils to the directories. The SEO Company have a team of professional copywriter. The article written by their copywriter are free from error and have good grammar. You can request for an article sample before purchasing the article directory submission service from the SEO Company. The SEO Company should have many years of experience in the article writing and article submission field.
