Benefits of Writing Articles

You’ve heard it time and time again: if you want to get your name out there you should be writing articles and allow them to be freely reproduced (with a resource box pointing back to you, of course). Largely, that is true. A well-written article can:

* Help you build your profile as an expert
* Drive traffic to your site
* Help you build a database of potential clients through related e-courses or a newsletter

So far you probably haven’t heard anything you didn’t already know. What you are likely to be struggling with is the process of actually writing articles. Sure, you can come up with the content – but how do you really grab those readers? How do you keep their attention all the way through? And most importantly, how do you make them want to come back for more?
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You main keyword should be in your title. And your other keywords should be in the sub-titles.

Here are a few article directories to get you started submitting your articles. There will be more added, along with software and other resources to automate some of the work for you.

Article Directories

EzineArticles

GoArticles

Isnare Free Articles

ArticleWarehouse

ArticleCity

ArticleDashboard

ArticleAlley

ArticleGeek

ArticleWise

ArticleHut

ArticleHub

When you hear that article marketing isn’t free you have to stop and think for a minute, lots of internet marketing experts and gurus say that article marketing in one of the best free methods of getting targeted traffic to your websites, blogs or whatever you are promoting. And now someone is telling you it’s not free!

Article marketing has become one of the top ways to increase the popularity of websites and gain higher search engine rankings. Having articles you have written posted in reputable article directories allows you the publicity you are looking for as well as gaining necessary backlinks that count as a vote for your site – a necessity if you want a good page rank in Google.

Keep in mind that while posting articles to article directories can help to improve your search engine rankings and increase the visitors to your sites, all the work you spend writing and posting will be in vain if article directory owners choose to not post your article.

Let’s take a look at how you can stay on the good side of article directory owners and increase your chance of getting your articles posted: (more…)