Article Marketing Strategy: How To Submit Your Articles For Maximum Traffic

Once you have written your article, you want to distribute your article to as many places as possible. Article distribution is an important part of your overall article marketing strategy. Without a good strategy, writing articles is simply a waste of time.

Your first step here needs to be finding an article submission site that meets your budget and helps you distribute your articles as widely as possible. If you don't have a few dollars set aside for this task, then you may want to reconsider whether or not you should use article marketing as your marketing strategy.

Although article marketing is basically free to do, it's still a good idea to invest some money in tools. An article submission site is the most important tool you will use. Finding the right submission service will help you get your articles distributed in all of the right places and also save you a lot of time.

When looking for an article submission site, here are a few things you need to consider:

1. Does the article submission service submit widely?

A wide submission service will submit your articles to top article directories, as well as lots of small directories. Some of these directories will be general directories while others will be topical. You want a wide variety of both topical and general directories. The important thing here is that the directories need to be of quality. You don't want to submit to article directories that accept anything and everything.

At the same time, you want your articles to go to as many article directories as possible. Readers have their favorite directories so you want to make sure your articles are available at as many as possible.

There's also the issue of backlinks. Backlinks are links pointing from other sites to your site. They are like an endorsement of your site, and the more links you have pointing back to your web site, the better off you are. Backlinks will raise your rankings in the search engines as well as offer "mini ads" on other sites. These "mini ads" will advertise your business automatically, around the clock.

2. Are you automating as much of your submission as possible?

It is impossible to fully automate your article submission, regardless of what solution you choose. However, you do want to use a service that will help you automate as much of your submissions as possible.

Here's what you want to consider here, and this is what's most important: can you choose when your articles will be submitted? This is very important, especially if the article you are writing is tied to a specific event or holiday. If you're not available to submit the article when the time is right, you want to make sure that your article still goes out when you want it to.

3. Have you considered other forms of marketing or other marketing resources, like ezines?

Although it's time consuming to submit your articles to ezines, you may want to consider this. After all, there may be some large, and highly targeted ezines out there that accept articles on your topic. It may be worth it for you to submit to these directories.

Bookmark your articles and share them with your readers on social networking sites. Turn your articles into ebooks to give away and submit them to ebook directories.

Combine these techniques into one cohesive strategy. It will allow you to get more from your article marketing.