Article Submission
Having researched, created and possibly spun (created several versions) our article content, as disccused on the Article Marketing Strategy page, the next step is Article Submission.
First a some basic principles:
- quality is more important than quantity - the quality sites, with human editors, are exponentially more valuable; many submissions to smaller directories are a waste of time - they don't get indexed and nobody uses the sites as resources
- your articles will not get indexed by Google if they are similar and, if the article sites suspect that their rules are being broken, all your articles may be deleted
- too many submissions with the same backlinks will suggest spamming and will harm your rankings
Article Submission Strategy
My suggested approach is to adopt both a highly-targeted and broad approach:
research your article
write your article
submit and get your primary article approved by one or two of the top article sites
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spin it
drip submit to other sites over a several week period (so that there is not a sudden explosion in backlinks, suggesting spamming)
By following this article marketing strategy, you will:
- gain credibility from the high traffic quality sites - and so more traffic to your site
- generate quality backlinks
- build additional backlinks at a reasonable pace
- not have to work too hard creating content!
Automating Article Submission
All submission is tedious. If you are only submitting to 1 or 2 sites, then perhaps it is bearable. Beyond that and you read my overview of Article Submission Software. You can still remain white hat and greatly increase your marketing effectiveness. or services.
