Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Article Submission: The benefits

By Brent Sweet

I talk about this all the time, but I really wanted to outline the benefits of article submission. I think it may be the best way in the world right now to market businesses. If you think about it I almost guarantee you could not get the following for free:

- Articles become viral several webmasters use them to add content to their site and each time they do it they link to you.

- When the webmasters use your article they are really telling the search engines they vote for your site as a relevant site for the text that you use in your link.

- You move up in the search engine for each vote you get from websites using your article.

- When your website reaches the number one position for a keyword that is searched frequently you get to display an ad to those people. The volume of people seeing that ad is greater than you could hit with any single advertisement unless you are advertising in the Superbowl.

The best part of article submission is that it can be done for free. I mean quite literally you could advertise to the largest market of consumers on earth, and do it 100% free. What better way to market a business.

So if you submit articles how do you do it free?

- Just start writing. You are in business and have to have some knowledge about your field. Write up an article or two or ten about your field.

- There are tons of blogs, directories, ezines and more that you can submit your article to and get it published. If they publish, free link!

- After you have written some articles, you go to each directory, ezine, blog and submit your article for publication. Hey its going to take some time, but remember this is free.

There are some submission softwares out there that might speed up the process, but doing this for free is a lot of work. I personally, use a service that does the submissions for me, it is so much better than the software you find.

Here is what it does:

- First of all it submits my article all over the internet to over 1000 sites. If my article is on topic for the site then I will get published and get my free link.

- When this site sends out my article they send out unique versions of it. They do this by having me submit 3 versions of the same article. Then they mix up my versions even more and distribute them. This way each site can have their own version which makes my article more valuable to them, and the links more valuable to me.

- Has a unique method to make sure the search engines give me the most for my article submission. I hate wasting time, so this is important to me.

- Best of all it is automatic. I write the articles, submit once and the site takes care of the rest.

To conclude, if you are looking for a great way to market your business, article submission is the way to go. If you have a little money to invest, your best investment would be the thirty bucks a month it costs to have professionals submit them like I do. - 17944

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