Article Directories - Ten Great Reasons To Submit Articles To Them by Keith P. Stieneke
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Internet. Indeed my own name is found several times in Google and a
great deal of this was due to submitting articles to article
directories. I have yet to optimize this method of marketing but will
do more so this year.
Here are ten great reasons you should write and submit articles to
article directories:
1. Publicity - People will know that you write and may even seek out
your expertise on the subject that you write about. This is of course
tied into credibility.
2. Credibility - You will be seen as an expert in your field if your
articles are mainly about a certain field, make sense, and contain
timely and relevant information. As an article writer you may get
special treatment by these new article directory owners and get them to
create a category just for your expertise.
3. Branding - You will brand yourself and your website so that people
looking for information on a certain topic can easily find it on a
publicized article directory. If you have several articles you can
quickly become a top author at the new article sites.
4. Ezine Exposure - Ezine publishers may be looking for an article in
a certain niche and go to these article directories in order to find an
article in that niche. If you've given permission for the article to
be published then it may be publicized before you're even aware of it
being published.
5. Blog Exposure - One of the biggest crazes these days is blogging.
Many people are using blogs to express interest in a certain niche. One
of my own niche interests is alternative health and I have four blogs
each concerned with a different "sub-niche" in this area. Bloggers
can either print your article in full in their blog or link to the
article in the article-directory.
6. RSS - Many article directories today offer RSS feeds for each of
their categories. Someone with a website may need niche content for the
particular area that their website is about and run that feed on their
website. New article database owners are going to be promoting heavily
to get their sites growing so they are going to be taking advantage of
this technology.
7. Mainstream Publishing - Editors of mainstream print publications
such as magazines and tabloids within a certain field of interest may
be impressed by your article and offer you payment to write articles
just for their publication.
8. Archiving - Your article is always in the directory and available
by category or author search. This makes it easy for publishers and
others to find articles that you have written.
9. Website Exposure - When someone chooses to read your article or to
print it on their website your URL is published for anyone reading the
article to see, and of course, the most important reason which is
marketing strategy.
10. Search Engine Marketing Strategy - This is the all-encompassing
reason why you should submit articles that you write to article
directories. If you do not or for some reason cannot write and submit
articles you are a missing out on one great method of building your
business. Submitting to article directories can get you and your
website mentioned in the search engines. Google and other search
engines are always looking for fresh, new content. If you are an
affiliate with a certain company this is a great way to build your
business.
Keith P. Stieneke is the webmaster of Article- Database.com at
http://www.article-database.com and is always ready to help the would
be internet marketer and writer. Keith also publishes several niche
blogs all of which are hand crafted and about a particular interest
that he has.