Traffic Methods Part 4

Article Submissions

Submitting articles for traffic generation is a method that has been around since the
beginning of the concept of Internet marketing and it is still going great guns. The
fact that websites like Google rank content-rich websites better is what consolidates
its position. Article submission is definitely one of the best methods of SEO available
in today’s times.


The concept is simple – you write a keyword rich article and then you submit it on
various article directories. You are given a bio box at the bottom of the article where
you can put in your and your business’ name, with the link of the website that you
want to promote. You can also put in a brief description about yourself in this box.
When a person stumbles upon on your website – the chances of which are high
because you will be keyword optimizing your article – there is a likelihood that they
will like your article and will then click on the link to get more information. This is
how you get your traffic through article marketing.
Marketers use various article directories, most of which are free. The following is a
list of some very good article marketing directories:-


Ezine Articles (http://www.ezinearticles.com/)
iSnare (http://www.isnare.com/)
Go Articles (http://www.goarticles.com/)
Articles Base (http://www.articlesbase.com/)
Article City (http://www.articlecity.com/)
Article Alley (http://www.articlealley.com/)
Buzzle (http://www.buzzle.com/)


By saying good we mean article directories that are ranked well by the search
engines. You can even submit the same article on several of these directories, which
is what many marketers do. However, you must make sure that you keep the same
author name, or it could count as plagiarism. The best way, of course, is to make a
little variation in the articles when submitting to each directory so that it looks
different. You could even do that with software known as content spinning software.
This software can produce variations of an article so that they are not rapped on the
knuckles by search engines for duplication. However, since the quality of spun
articles is not good, you will need to do some manual editing once they are spun.
The following are two popular content spinning software applications that some top
Internet marketers use:-

Content Spinner (http://www.contentspinner.com/)
Content Spooler (http://www.contentspooler.com/)