Article submission: to which directory?

One of the important parts of marketing of articles is the article submission to various article directories after writing articles. These are the place from where you will get the traffic to your web site. Also the one way links you have made with these directories will increase your search engine rankings as a result, your article will get more considerations in SEO. That’s why after writing articles the second step is submit articles to appropriate directory. Here I used the word ‘appropriate’ because there are several thousands of article directories in the internet. So when you are going to submit your articles then how will you make sure that which article directory will be the best for you? And in this article I am going to write about this topic.

The first thing is the answer of this question is mostly lies in your target of article writing. That means why are you writing? If you are writing for article marketing then the directory selection would be based on popularity. Because in this case you need to reach to the highest amount of viewer or people. And so the traffic achievement would be your first priority. Another point is that as you need to drive traffic so a particular site selection is not the answer for you. Because the users are also there in other less popular or small article directories. And you don’t know from where you can get the traffic. Anyone can be interested about your website. So for those who are looking for article marketing, article directory is not specific for them. The best for them is to write as many as articles possible and submit them to the directories. The more directory will accept and publish the article about their business related articles; there will be more possibility to get traffic to their business web page.
And in addition it also needs to be mentioned that, for the search engine optimization it is also important to build as many links as possible. This will increase the search ranking of the web site as a result you can hope that your website will be shown at top when anyone searches about similar topics. And the when your article will be published on other web site, then it will be a one way back link to your web site which has more weight in case of SEO/SEM. There is also another term related to this that is known as syndicated articles. This means a multiple link will be created with your website from other article directories, when you will publish the same article or article about the same topics on other article directories.

So for those people who are going for article marketing, my suggestion will be: firstly, select the largest and popular article directories and submit your article to them at first. And secondly, use the article submitters to submit your articles automatically to as much article directories you can.

Now the question is if you are not after the article marketing then what should you do? In this case the situation is little different. In this case your target is not business or selling products. Here you want to earn money from your articles. That is commonly known as article sales. For this you need to get traffic to your web page, but you also don’t need to submit articles to the hundreds of other article directories. But for advertisement, creating readers and increasing your ranking as a writer and getting the popularity you need to submit some articles to article directories also. On the other hand, there are some webzines where you can sell your articles. And this is often giving you good return. So, in this case you have to select the popular directories which are known for their quality articles. And submit few of your articles there, with little note in the resource box that if readers are interested and wants to know more then they can contact you or visit the following address, which is your article home page where you have put all your articles. Thus you have to use other directories to establish yourself. Once you have done it, you will get continuous response from the readers also from the online magazines and news papers. And the affiliates in your website are also a source for you.

At last there are some general considerations related to the article directories. That is every articles directories have specific conditions and formats of writing. When you are going to submit your article then you have to confirm that you fulfil all the requirements. Otherwise your article will be rejected. So, during article submission you have to make sure about this.