How to submit articles for free

Article marketing is one of the solutions for webmasters that want to increase traffic to their sites. You write an article regarding the niche your website is in, and you have an easy way of getting some backlinks and eventually some traffic (depends how well the article is written). If you don't have time (or ideas) to write excellent articles, focus on quantity. This means you write every week 4-5 articles all in the niche your website is in, and promote those. Once you have the articles written, you'll need to submit them to article directories, so that they will be published along with an author box that mentions you are the one that wrote it and have a backlink to your site.

A couple of suggestions on writing the articles:

*focus on a keyword/phrase from the niche you are targeting. Not only that the keywords/phrases need to be related to your niche, but they also need to be searched for. You can find keywords related to your business that are searched for by using the excellent tool Google offers: Google AdWords keyword tool ; say I want to write articles to promote the website http://www.cheap-mp3-players.com a website that focuses on selling cheap mp3 players, well it's kind of obvious what a title for a first article would sound like "How to find cheap mp3 players". Of course, since the target is cheap mp3 players, I could change the title to be more appealing to readers (but still keep its relevance) to "Five cheap mp3 players better than an iPod" - the new title is more appealing because it's intriguing, since an iPod is cool but rather pricey. Anyway, you get the idea, make the title appealing but still keep the focus on the main keyword
*don't write lengthy articles, but have them contain at least 400 words. Ideally an article to be submitted to article directories would be around 500-600 words, but if you think you have what it takes and want to submit your article to magazines for being published as a hard copy, you would need to write around 1200-1500 words, and not in a sloppy manner. When writing the article always remember your main keyword/phrase focus. Because it's not enough to have that in the title of the article, it needs to be in its body too. Pointing to my example above, if the main targeted phrase was "cheap mp3 players", I would make it in such a manner that this phrase is found in the body of my article at least 5 times (and not all in one place, at least one at the top, one at the bottom and one in the middle). If you're not writing it for the article directories but want to write it for magazine publications, then you can forget this rule and only focus on having it written in a professional manner with at least 1200 words. Since some of the article directories publish the articles in an html format and allow html tags within the body of the article, I would make one instance of the targeted keyword a link back to the website I'm promoting (e.g. "... bla bla bla... cheap mp3 players ... bla bla bla..."). This way if the article gets published in an html format, the hyperlink back to your website would be loved by Google and you'd get a bit more relevance for that specific phrase
*at the end of the article write something about you, in a manner that says you are the author of the article. In 4-5 rows I would start with an "About the author" title and continue with a small bio/description of me and my current/recent/past work, like "Claudiu Gherasim has been an Internet marketer (with a goal of self-employment) for the past five years, and beside his main work on promoting the X and Y (now popular) products, he focused on developing other informational websites such as: http://www.cheap-mp3-players.com, an online Amazon-based store focusing on cheap mp3 players, http://www.forex-affiliate-program.com, a guide on choosing the best Forex affiliate program, and http://www.publish-articles.com, an article directory with Digg-style voting." Of course that you would limit the number of websites mentioned to just one (or maximum 5 of them if you have lots).
*your article has now a targeted title, a content of about 500 words with your main keyword found at least 5 times (and one of its instances in html format), and an About the author resource box. What next? Well, assuming you have a website or blog (it being the reason you wrote the article) you would first publish the article on your site until Google/Yahoo/Live find that article and index it attributing the written content to your website first. If you would submit the article to article directories first, they would publish your content and if Google would find the content first on their pages they would consider the same article published on your site/blog as duplicate content penalizing it. By publishing it first on your site, you would get the "Google credit" for writing it. You can see when your content has been indexed and attributed to your site by selecting an entire sentence from your article and searching for it on Google - normally the first result (if the long sentence is unique to your article) would point to the article stored on your site. Only after that you have to consider the next step, submitting your article to article directories
last step would be to submit your article to article directories, that normally accept them for free since it's free content for them. Not only this, but you can use social networking websites to bookmark your article and eventually get lot of traffic if it's an article that catches (e.g. submitting to Digg, Stumbleupon, Delicious, Twitter, Reddit, ...).

There are several ways to submit your article for publication in article directories:

*Manually submitting articles. If you chose to do so, you have to focus on at most 10-15 top article directories, that really have some traffic and that really is worth actually going in, creating an account (most of them require this), adding your article, previewing it and finally send it for approval. Here are some article directories that you should consider in doing so:
ezinearticles.com
articlefactory.com
isnare.com
webpronews.com
goarticles.com
articlesbase.com
articlealley.com
articlecity.com
articledashboard.com
buzzle.com
searchwarp.com
http://www.publish-articles.com

*Semi-automatic article submission. If manually submitting the articles to the top article directories (almost all of the above are) is a good strategy, you can go further and have your articles submitted semi-automatically to several hundred of other article directories of less importance. What this means is that you'll have to use an article submission software, that already has a list of hundred of article directories ranked by their Alexa Rank or Google PR, and that can take care of the tasks that could take a lot of your time: registering for an account with that particular article directory, clicking on the "confirm your email" link that you'll receive via email when registering, logging in and eventually submitting the article. There are quite a few article submitters, but what I tested and was quite happy with are: Submiteaze, which is both a directory submitter and an article submitter, Article Submitter and the last tested one is digiXMAS Article Submitter (tested these tools for their directory submission capabilities a while ago). They aren't free, and you won't find a good one that is free for this purpose. But if you write a lot of articles and want to submit them semi-automatically, they are a good investment (you can focus only on one, in this case I would recommend Article submitter or Submiteaze).
*Article submission service. Which means you actually pay someone to do this for you. Since I haven't tested any of them, I don't know which are the recommended ones but you can search on big G for this and after you gather 3-4 names you can search for reviews about them on Google Groups (or ask on forums such as Digitalpoint) to know which one to go with. Prices are as low as $10 to as high as ... well high.

After a week or so, when most of the article directories you submitted your article to now posted it, you can measure if it was worth or not to do so. If you used a manual submission, use the search-for-a-sentence suggestion to see on how many sites your article was actually published. If you use a software to submit your article, normally the mentioned ones would also create a report on which article directory accepted and published your articles. The final measurement solution is, however, the increase in traffic. If you do this with 3-4 articles per week for a couple of months, you can compare how your traffic grew.

The Business Guides of Internet Marketing?

Remember him as the motivational speaker to kids while playing baseball in European countries he went to. His negotiating abilities has worked for him before, now being a business consultant on the net has gained him more customers with his winning ways. He can convince as he can be truthful.

Alexander Gittens while trying to buffer the rigors of writing a doctoral thesis makes use of time by being a strategy consultant for online ventures and micro-firms. The consciousness of time can be traced from his other articles like the purchasing of devices. The devices were purchased to make up for lost time and to multitask. This has saved him a lot of time so as not to postpone anymore task that has to be done at the moment.

His endeavors are somewhat connected with each other. He has always been consistent with what he is saying and doing. As a business consultant clients will find it easy to follow his leads because of the simplicity of how things should be done. He doesn’t come out as confusing because of his being constant.

The article “1000 Things Done 1% Better” is a perfect example for strategic planning. The insights being imparted for online ventures and micro-firms can mean the difference in strategy and planning. Start ups are better off well planned and following certain directions than jumping off to capturing markets right away.

He expounded well on the hedgehog concept in lines that can be fully understood. Micro-firms should at least know what and where to focus on their time and energy. Once again time according to Alexander Gittens is of the essence. Time is a commodity that should not be left wasted. At times time can be your nemesis. Being conscious of time can propel your business to your desired goals and objectives.

The “1000 Things Done 1% Better” article is about doing things slowly but surely. Alexander Gittens made a sound advice on regarding doing things unhurriedly. It is going about your business forearmed and forewarned. Equipped with enough provisions and topped it with a solid game plan advice can only come from Alexander Gittens.

His articles are solid advices in themselves. The reader, as the author suggested, should read the lines twice and reread it again. Digesting what he has to say can make the great difference. Meaning understanding the context and making up the nuances his articles are trying to say would to grasp the whole meaning.

The sound advice of “By Profitably Doing What You Do Best Better than Anyone Else” smacks dab of his younger days’ business. He knows where speaks of. He has been walking his talk. Clients if they need more money they have to get on with it. Follow his talk and sooner than you think you are right on top of the world.

Alexander Gittens through yet another article “Why Go Green” gives out advices that if you read in between the lines can mean good business sense. The environment today is practically a main concern. It is the issue people should focused into. There is in the environment that can profit any person with the right sense of business.

The articles of Alexander Gittens are where you can gleaned the business advices he is trying to impart to online businesses and micro-firms.

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SEO’s Perception Gap

Search engine optimization is a newly emerging industry that is still growing everyday. Its close ties to the Internet and Google allows the service to ride the coat-tails of search into an ever-changing upward spiral of relevance and necessity. More and more businesses that have at least realized SEO’s importance in being found online have come to embrace the ‘nerd-meets-geek’ world of online marketing. However, in a recent closed study on SEO, the perception gap between what SEO actually is and what people think happens in a campaign is wider than expected, and hoped for by SEO specialists.

In this very basic survey, 33 respondents were questioned to provide a snapshot of the general public’s understanding of search engine optimization. The participants were tertiary qualified professionals who were asked not to conduct any research before the survey. Quite a few people (30 percent) considered SEO to be performed by the search engines themselves, such as algorithm changes and delivering improve performance and more relevant results. The perception gap here is between the cause and the effect. Google’s change in the algorithm is causing changes in SEO that will effect the rankings of a site. On a lighter note, 42 percent of respondents understood the basic idea of SEO, citing that it involves changes to a website to improve its rankings in the SERPs.

There was also a very large perception gap in the pricing expectations of SEO services. 46 percent of respondents had ‘no idea’ how much SEO costs, where 21 percent expected it to either free (9 percent) or less than $1,000 (12 percent). Others proposed a performance fee structure based on bottom line generated through SEO. The takeaway here is that no one really understood the pricing expectations for SEO services. For SEO to be considered a legitimate and mature professional field, the industry must consider delivering its services as close to a standard as it can. This is to ensure that SEO services will have increasingly added value to the public, and close the perception gap that exists.

The study of discussion was small and statistically insignificant, but presented some perspective for those SEO experts whose oxygen is written in code. It is obvious that a standard definition of SEO needs to be implemented and marketed heavily that would help the general public understand what not only to expect in a SEO campaign, but what will fit their budget as well. SEO standards would help set a minimum standard SEO delivery, which increase the client value perception. Closing the perception gap is a large and looming step in SEO’s future, and those who have legitimate, white hat SEO and SEM firms will be the ones that make the leap and keep on striding.

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Reusing Content As An Effective Way For Duplicate Content Filter Avoidance

Being a writer engaged in article distribution, it is difficult to come up with novel and significantly unique material constantly. The demands for articles especially when dealing with the internet are large. And one of the best ways to reuse content is to rewrite them. An original piece, say for example, an article about losing weight, can be written in many different ways. It can be spun into a material that is notably different from the original yet still containing the same idea. The process, however, may need to consume time because of reading, rewriting, paraphrasing, and checking the new piece for portions that may be identical to the original.

The internet is such a large virtual world to be working in. The amounts of information stored in its database can be considered as infinite. With more and more additions being made every day, I can say that there are a lot of competitions regarding articles. If not careful, many articles can be considered as duplicates with yours and that is not a good sign when it comes to catering to the clients' needs. Writers must be good in spinning their written work as ways to reuse content because in this way, it can be difficult for search engines to detect. The internet database or search engines have a way of sorting published articles. If they locate an article with the same phrases or sentences as your articles then it will be spam and will not be available to target users.

Duplicate content filters are the tools that search engines use to sift out identical content. Duplicates, a term used to call materials that are identical, will be considered as spam and will not appear in the results when a user enters what he is looking for. Clients are careful about this because if this happens, they will not receive traffic. Their website will not be visited and the products and services that they offer will be less known. Traffic is basically users visiting the site. The more traffic they are receiving, the greater chance of selling their products and services. So, authors in article distribution should always take into consideration duplicate content filter avoidance when writing articles. If this is taken for granted, then they will not be able to make good business and good relations with their clients.

Reworking and reprocessing articles can help in bringing in good business. It can give equally good quality as the original one and can go through filters easily because they do not carry the same sentences or phrases. Authors must have a knack in ensuring spun articles are effective.

To save time and energy from reading, looking for portions that can be similar to the original, checking and rechecking, writers can use computer programs that can do all of these in just minutes. They are reliable and can really be of help to those in article distribution. Ensuring spun articles are effective is the main goal of these programs.

Generating More Traffic - Genuine Ways To Reuse Content

The internet is a good source of written pieces. They can be found anywhere and they can be about anything under the sun. Of course, articles and pages of similar themes or ideas can be found here. One thing about search engines is they filter contents that are identical and they choose the ones that are reliable to the user. They use duplicate content filters to separate unreliable ones and regard them as spam. Authors are challenged in creating unique and original articles because of the filters. In times that they can not generate new and novel ones, writers are compelled to thinking of ways to reuse content. Authors rewrite original articles in an imaginative and creative manner to be able to differentiate it with the original piece.

Writers pay much attention to duplicate content filter avoidance because if their pieces get caught in the filter then they are not able to drive traffic to their clients websites and this is not good business. For authors that are doing article distribution, originality is of great importance. Identical articles are regarded as spam in search engines so writers must think of ways that make their articles innovative.

Spinning original content means much effort because reading and verifying the phrases, paragraphs and the whole idea of the new article would take much of your time and energy. This is essential in making sure that the newly created article is not and will not be subjected to duplicate content filters.

It is also important that writers have a keen awareness on duplicate content filter avoidance because article distribution is not an easy job. It may seem that writing articles for websites is a pleasurable and simple task but having to generate new and original articles every time can be very exhausting. And without these novel pieces, there will be no business for authors in writing for article distribution. If they have produced a piece identical with another found in the Web, then they are not able to drive traffic to clients websites because their articles have been filtered by search engines.

Authors should be able to find other handy ways to reuse content to save resources than doing such laborious steps. Although there are programs that have been made to compare articles and indicate their uniqueness of each other, most of it does not suit the needs of the article distributor. The program can be installed in the desktop and can be used even without an internet connection. When you put articles on the program to be compared, it indicates the percentage of uniqueness and how it is different to each other. It also says when the article is good for publishing. The device highlights portions and is efficient in ensuring spun articles are effective.

Tools and programs have been generated to tell how unique each article is from another but I found a device that caters to my needs as an author that relies on article distribution. This tool can be easily installed in the computer and does not need an internet connection to function. I can use it offline and also check on my work online. It is good at ensuring spun articles are effective. Whenever I put in articles for comparison, it shows the percent on how each is unique to each other. It can also indicate if the rewrite that I have done is enough to be published on the internet. Instead of me doing all the checking and rechecking, the program identifies portions that should be changed in order for it to be different from the other.

Why Article Marketing Is Good For Your Internet Home Business

Article marketing is known as one of the best methods to market your internet home business online. Marketing with articles is very easy to understand and to follow. You search for keywords to focus on, get an idea, write your article or a couple of articles, create a signature file and submit this article to article directories, newsletters and your blog.

Many of the new internet marketer try to avoid using article marketing to promote their new internet home business, one of the reasons is that they find it hard to wrote article on a regular basis, they do not know what to write about or they think they do not have what it takes to become an online writer. However most internet marketer do write article at some point and it will become easier the more they write.

The reasons all internet marketers write article in the long run is because they realized the importance of article marketing and that article marketing is good for their internet home business.

1. When writing articles, you present yourself as an expert in your field. The more articles you write on one subject you will be more familiar with it. If you write good article, informative article, article which answer your readers' problems, and if you do it over an over again, you will build an audience for your article. Your readers will come back for more, and sooner or later not just for your article, but for your opinion too.

2. Writing article and publishing them will build your credibility. Now people know you as an expert in your field and will come to you for advice. It is important to build credibility. Sometimes it is important to market your product but yourself. In article marketing you are first selling yourself and then you are selling a product. A good article with a good resource box will sell you first and only they sell the rest.

3. Marketing with articles is good for building backlinks to your website. When you are using article marketing you can promote your internet business with the resource box. In the resource box you can write a few things about yourself and about your business, and add a couple of links to your website, blog or affiliate programs. (Some article directories do allow affiliate links and some only allow a link to your main website. You will have to read each directory rules before submitting). The links in your resource box will help building your backlinks. More article means more submissions, and more submissions means more backlinks. If you want to generate as many backlinks as possible, one of the best ways is to find an article submission service and submit to multiple directories with one click.

If you combine all these reasons together you will notice that article marketing is good for you internet home business and by using it correctly your efforts are generating more traffic, if it's the backlinks your are building or the expert name you are building for yourself, all ends up to generate more traffic to your website or to your blog. This traffic can be transform now to buying customers, returning visitors, new leads to your internet newsletter, ending up making more sales and earning money online.