How Often To Write Articles And Where To Submit Them

August 5, 2008

Article marketing is one of the more effective forms of website traffic generation. It is certainly one of the best free methods of generating traffic to your websites, but how often should you write articles and where should you submit them?

Some marketers recon that when it comes to articles, there can never be too many. Their advice is you should write as many as you have time for. Or alternatively, outsource as many articles as you can afford. You don’t have to write every article yourself as there are many professional content writers who write well thought out and researched articles for under $10 each.

I don’t believe these marketers are telling you the whole story because poorly researched and badly optimized articles have a very short shelf life. You get an immediate rush of traffic when the article is first published but this soon dies away to nothing. The best strategy is to target one or more long tail keywords in each of your articles. Your goal is to get the articles top search engine listings for as many keywords you can.

Article directories such as EzineArticles.com are seen as authority sites by the search engines, so their pages will tend to rank better than your new website’s pages. In effect your articles piggyback on their success…

In terms of the quantity, you should aim to write at least one article per day, and have submitted all of them by the end of the week.

Where To Submit Articles

There are many article directory websites, with more coming online everyday. Rather than mass submitting to all directories (which you can do with mass submission software), it may be wiser to choose a handful of the top article directories. By choosing only the highest quality websites you are not wasting time with directories that will give you no direct benefit.

Here are some article directories you should consider submitting your articles to:
http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.articlecity.com
http://www.isnare.com
http://www.articlesbase.com
http://www.articledashboard.com
http://www.articlefever.com
http://www.article99.com
http://www.buzzle.com

The above article directories are well respected by Google and often have articles showing on the first page of Google results. That means even if you can’t manage to get your website on the first page of search engine results, your article at Ezinearticles or another directory may make the first page, resulting in visitors to your website.

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