subject: Maximizing Your Website Traffic With Article Submissions [print this page] Article marketing is a very popular tactic forimproving traffic. It has been popular since the early days of the Internet and is still an effective traffic generation method even in our high tech times.
There are often questions over the best technique of submitting articles for maximum traffic and effectiveness. What are the quickest methods and which are the most effective?
To begin with, you can submit your articles to the biggest article directory, EzineArticles. This site has got a reputation of being the greatest article directory in town. For this very reason, marketers and Google love it.
It is a source of irritation to many people who find it tough to meet the submission guidelines or manage the approval timescales.
It's not a problem.
As soon as your articles are listed in EzineArticles you immediately get benefits from it. Articles accepted by EzineArticles frequently rank high in Google, even without any backlinks pointing to them.
Create a few backlinks and suddenly you find your articles are listed in the top ten for chosen keywords. Often you don't even need any backlinks for your articles to rank well.
Once your article has been published you should do some simple backlinking to it to aid it up the search engines.
To begin with, take your EzineArticle author RSS feed and submit it to RSS directories. You can either use a tool or do it by hand. If you are doing it manually, just select the top ten directories in a Google search and that will be good enough for now. You can always submit to other directories later on.
You can notify many sites about your new article using one of the many available ping services. You will give EzineArticles some benefit, but it will also benefit your article.
You can also social bookmark your article. This can also be done by hand or with a tool. A well written article could be submitted to Digg or Stumbleupon to get additional links and traffic.
There are many other article directories you possibly will use, but none of them are carry as much weight as EzineArticles. Google Knoll is currently very popular with marketers. At present, these don't seem to be ranking as well as Ezinearticles, but it is a fine technique to get the Big G to take note of your sites.
It is not really worth submitting articles by hand to any more directories except the top half a dozen big ones. Many of the rest get minimal traffic and are only worth it for the backlink. For that reason you should make sure these submissions are outsourced or automated.
If you are submitting articles then you need to ensure they are on Ezinearticles for the best traffic. Add in some backlinking to your article and you will be ranking well and getting traffic.
