You Will Submit... Articles That is

You Will Submit... Articles That is
By Neil Morrical

Submitting Your Articles

Youve written your article. Congratulations! Now what? Well, you have to hang it out there and see what happens. Submitting your article to as many effective directories as possible is the only way your work can have a chance of driving you good targeted traffic. Each directory has its own rules when it comes to submission. Some of them will charge you and some of them will let you submit as many articles as you wish.

Follow the Rules

Dont think of the rules of an article directory as impossible to follow. If that were so they would never publish anyones content. Do; however, follow their guidelines as well as possible. If your articles do not meet their requirements then they can simply choose not to accept your work.

Sign-up to as Many Directories as You can Find

This one is a no-brainer Right? Well, some people write impressive articles, but only focus on one site for submission of their work. These people seem to believe that by gaining the most focus by that particular directory they will earn platinum status. This is something which can be achieved by submitting to numerous other sites at the same time. Use your articles wisely and submit them to as many resources as you can find. This way you will reach as many areas of your market as possible.

Keep Articles in Text Format

When you send a file in an MS Word or other word processor format it is highly likely that once it is submitted it could end up with some strange characters in it. This is due to incompatibility between programs. Before you send or submit any articles save them into text format. This will ensure that your article will be readable when the time comes.

Keep Two Versions of Your Articles

If you are submitting your articles directly to as many resources as you can find, instead of paying for a distribution service you will have to make things adaptable. First off, have two copies of each article; one with HTML and one without. Some services allow coding within an article and some do not. Usually, the only HTML coding allowed within an article is bold, italics, ect.

Vary Your Anchor Text

Between submissions and offering your articles up for anyone who is interested in their content, remember to use various links to your site. You do not want to use the same phrase time and time again in your links. If all of your link phrases are the same you may run the risk of being penalized by the over-optimization penalty. Change your linking phrase between articles and you will gain optimized links. (You can use the same link phrase for an articles various submissions, but do not use the same phrase for every article you write.)

Personalize Your Communications

Write a simple note to the person who owns the site to which you are submitting your work. Im not saying to take up loads of their time, but a simple, Nick, heres an article you may wish to use. -will do the trick. This will show to the site owner that you are not just sending out the same article to as many site-owners as possible.

Tip: By offering unique articles (articles which are not used anywhere else on the web- have not been submitted to any directory or even used on your site.) to site owners for use on their websites, you can gain links which would normally have been difficult to get.

Log Your Submissions

More about this will be mentioned later, but you must track where you have submitted your various articles to prevent covering the same ground more than once. This will increase your efficiency and reduce the likelihood of contacting someone twice for the same issue.

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