Getting “top rankings” with Article Marketing

Issue 01 in our – Getting “top rankings” Series

If I were to recommend just one traffic generation strategy, it would be a toss up between video and article marketing. But for now I am going to go with article marketing because it is easier to get started with. There is a reason why article marketing is so popular – it actually works!  It is also a very “low cost seo” tactic – in fact it shouldn’t cost you a dime.

Article marketing is where you write articles about your niche or topic and you then submit them to article directories.  At the bottom of each article (usually in the Resource or Author box) you write, you are allowed to insert a link or two that links back to your website.

There are thousands of article directories that have “top rankings” with the search engines and by you having your articles and links on them gives your site some huge advantages.

And, once your article is published in these high ranking directories, other bloggers, etc. will see your article and may publish it on their site or blog.  This creates even more back links to your site.

Thus, it is quite common for just one of your articles to get you several high quality backlinks.

There are many ways to publish articles.  You can post them one at a time to the directories with “top rankings” or you can use automated tools that will publish to dozens, even hundreds of directories.

To start with, I do not suggest that you submit your article to every article directory you can find – instead just stick with the top few.  Hold off on submitting to more than five to 10 directories until we teach you about how to spin articles, how to avoid duplicate content penalties, and some of the article submitting tools available.

Here are some for you to consider.  Or, you can go here for a list of the top 50 article directories.

  • http://ezinearticles.com
  • http://goarticles.com
  • http://searchwarp.com
  • http://articlecity.com
  • http://isnare.com
  • http://buzzle.com
  • http://goarticles.com
  • http://helium.com
  • http://articledashboard.com
  • http://ideamarketers.com
  • http://amazines.com

For those of you that are ready to use an automated Article Submitter, I use and recommend Magic Article Submitter. It is very inexpensive, easy to use, and comes with a 90 day guarantee.

Okay, that’s it for today.  Now go write an article of at least 500 words and submit it to five or so article directories.  Change your titles for each site and make sure you use your keywords in the title of your article.  It is also a good idea to try and make each article somewhat unique so they each appear as original content.

Please read the Article Submission guidelines for each of the directories because they will not publish your article unless you follow them.

Next up we will be discussing Social Bookmarking.

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