There are a number of different ways that you can effectively market your article.
The first way is to do it manually, which involves searching for websites that allow you to post your articles for webmasters to use, once you have registered with them.
Most free submission sites are now requiring users to register and create a user account before they can use their article submission service.
Yes, marketing your article this way can be extremely tedious and time consuming, but it doesnt cost you any money upfront.
The second way is to use an automatic submission service, where you can submit an unlimited number of articles among different article announcement groups, targeted content sites and article directories.
This way does cost you a few dollars, but it will save you countless hours that could be better spent on things such as search engine optimization or writing more articles.
Another way to submit your article is to contact a webmaster who has an email list that may be interested in your article. You could offer him or her the chance to use your article as part of their regular newsletter, or you could break your article up into a few sections, giving a series of email messages instead.
This benefits the webmaster, as he or she doesnt have to come up with any content for the mail out, and it benefits you, as your website will be getting exposed to all of the people on the webmasters email list.
You could also use the information in your article to answer a question in a forum, or post a link to your article on a forum telling the person with the question exactly how your article will answer their question. Just be sure to obey all forum posting rules.
Regardless of where you post your article, make sure that the site you submit your article to is related to what your article is on.
Dont submit your article on How to Grow Sunflowers to an internet marketing article forum.
Along that same idea, be sure to post your article under the proper topic and section that relates specifically to your article.
Posting your article to unrelated websites or under unrelated topics wont increase the number of webmasters who pick up and publish your article on their site.
Most often submitting your article to the wrong site or under the wrong topic will result in webmasters just skipping over it (as it isnt what they are looking for), but it may also result in your article getting dropped completely from the website.
However, if you submit your articles properly, and to the right websites, directories and forums, you will notice an amazing increase in the amount of sites linking back to your website, as well as an increase in the amount of traffic coming to your website.
And Im sure you could always use a little more traffic or a few more backlinks to help your website move up in its search engine rankings.
Tim Wright is an SEO Expert, and has written a book, White Hat SEO Revealed, which contains all of his secrets, tips, tricks and advice - and it is available for free at
Have you had trouble getting started in online marketing Are your websites profitable yet Many beginning internet marketers quickly become frustrated and quit because they do not realize instant profits.
Well, here are two little pieces of advice that seem very simple on the outside but can have a large impact on your business. In fact by following them you can increase your productivity and profits. By the way they were both traps that I feel into myself and that is why I am aware of them.
First, let me ask you a question. Do you ever find yourself checking your website statistic more then once a day Many internet marketers get in the habit of checking two, three, five even ten times a day. It is easy to fool yourself that somehow this is helping! However if you weigh a rock on the scale ten times a day and expect a different result you would be considered crazy. Well, checking your website stats can be much the same. Just because you added a few new links or a new article to your website does not mean your traffic will raise all of a sudden. In fact checking it too many times a day is counter productive. You will not change the traffic at all by checking it constantly. Instead spend the time working on your websites and adding content like articles, or exchange links.
The second trap that to watch out for is bouncing among to many projects. You can probably relate. You get an email newsletter from an internet marketing guru that says this new software is the best thing since sliced bread or it touts some new affiliate program and what do you do Well, if you are like many other people doing business on the internet you jump on the bandwagon and hope for the quick windfall of profits. The problem is that by jumping from one project to the next means nothing is ever finished and nothing ever becomes profitable. So what should you do Pick one or two projects and stick with them. Do not change course on a whim but stay with the good projects at least three to six months. If after six months the project has not become profitable then you might want to regroup and change strategies.
These two techniques alone, while very simple, can significantly improve productivity and in turn your profits online. Hope you find them useful!
Ricardy Banks is a Certified Internet Consultant with WSI and has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry.