subject: How To Perform Manual Article Submission Effectively [print this page] Manual article submission involves submitting to each of the article directory one by one. It is the most effective way of submitting to the article directories. Though manual article submission is a tedious process, it provides quality backlinks to your site. Before you can submit your article, you need to find a list of article directories. To find a list of article directories, you have to enter the keyword free article directories or list of article directories into the search engine. After you hit enter, you will see a list of websites that offer a list of article directories. Every year, new article directories are being setup. Hence, there should be a lot of article directories where you can submit your articles. The lists on the websites are not perfect and will contain invalid URL. You have to go through the list and remove the invalid URLs before you submit to the article directories.
Most of the article directories will require you to register for an account before you can perform the submission. Some article directories allow you to submit through a form on the website so you dont have to register for an article. After you have registered for an account, you must update your profile including the profile picture and biography. The profile picture should be the most current picture. It should not be a picture when you are in your childhood times. It should show you wearing a professional suit. You must look neat in the picture. The biography can include a few sentences about the profession you are involved in. If you are promoting a product or services, you should include a brief introduction about it. You should not include too many words in the biography. After you have updated the profile, you can submit the articles. You should fill in all the required fields in the article submission forms including title, article body, keyword tags, and summary.
The article you use for submission must be interesting. If the article is not interesting, no one will want to read it. You should not use promotional keywords in the article. You must never encourage people to buy your products in the article. If you want to sell your product, you can create a top list of the related products. In the list, you can include your product along with other products. In this way, people will not recognize that you are trying to promote your product. It also look as if you care for the welfare of the readers by providing a recommendation of the best products.
Most article directories allow you to tag the article with keywords. Tagging the article with keywords ensure that it will be found by other visitors in the article directory. The keyword tags are used to rank an article in the search result in the article directory. If you did not tag the article, the article wont rank in the search result in the article directory. The ranking of the search result can depend on the keyword tags, title, and content. Most article directories rely on the title and keyword tags to rank an article. Therefore, you must optimize the article with a lot of keywords.
