Monday, April 9, 2007

Selling Yourself with Your Article Promotion

When it comes to promoting yourself, there is no better way to pull it off than writing articles. By submitting well-written, informative articles to online publishers, you will become an authority figure in the industry and be regarded as the one to go to. When you submit articles to online publishers, most will offer you the chance to include a short bio, as well as a link to your website. Article promotion is free advertising for you and is a great way to promote your website.

The term “free” is not often used in the advertising world of today. Many individuals and companies spend thousands of dollars each year to get their name out and try, with all their spent dollars, to bring in new clients and new visitors to their site. The fact is you don’t have to spend a penny when you submit your articles to online publishers and your website and your name will be available for all visitors to see.

The wonderful thing about article promotion is that some of the publishers allow their visitors to copy the articles and place them on other websites. They do, however, have to leave the article as is, as well as make sure the author’s name and information is attached. A way to make sure that your website is attached to the article is to include a resource box along with it and make sure your link is part of it whenever you partake of article promotion opportunities. What this means is that your article with all your information can spread all over the internet, that is if you make sure your link is used when use article promotion opportunities.

For example, if you submit 10 articles to 10 different sites, it gives you the opportunity for 100 links back to your site. But what happens when a quarter of those articles are put on 10 more sites? That’s right. You’ve more than doubled the links back to your site. Before you even realize it, you could have as many as a thousand or more links to your site.

What happens when someone is looking up information on a subject and they keep coming across information that is written by you? Instantly, you are regarded as an authority on the subject at hand. This is a major benefit derived from article promotion. The one thing that will most likely happen is that you will get a visitor to your website as they browse for more information. The fact is, by submitting informative articles that are well written and give the reader something they need; you will become an individual well-known in your particular subject. By submitting your articles to online publishers, you will find yourself in the spotlight from time to time.

To get your articles noticed on the web, you can also make sure you use keyword optimization in your articles whenever you partake in article promotion opportunities. This is great for the search engines, allowing your articles to be found quicker, therefore, bringing in more visitors to your site.

Syndicating your articles is another way to get your articles to as many sites as possible. This simply makes it much easier for website owners to put content on their websites. Because it is very easy to do, it will save a lot of time for the site owner and it’s a great situation for you as you no longer have to worry about marketing each of your articles individually.

When you get started, you’ll simply include a link on your article to allow them to publish this, as well as any other articles you currently have available for syndication. Within days, your article can be viewed on hundreds of websites and you didn’t really have to do anything but add the link to your content. Again, free advertising at its best!

If you would like to get your name and website advertised and bring in new visitors to your site, take advantage of the opportunity for free advertising by submitting well-written, informative articles. You’ll be surprised by the amount of visitors you will get to your site!

Adrian Lawrence is the webmaster of Article Alley a popular
free content directory web
sites. Please feel free to republish this article providing this resource box
remains intact with a working hyperlink to our site.

This article is free for republishing

Article Source: http://www.articlealley.com

About the Author

Adrian Lawrence is the webmaster for Discount Domains one of the UK's leading Domain Name Registration companies. His articles can be freely produced provided this bio is included together with a working hyperlink.

One way to get content for your website

You can find couple ways to get content for your website but in this article I'm only going to talk about one way to get content for your website.

Free Articles is one way to get content for your website. You can find some websites where people submit their articles and you can download them for content for your site. One thing that you need to know it's that the article is free to download and you can use it for content but you can't change or modify the article when you add the article to your site. Also you need to give credit to the author of the article.

With this method of getting content for you website you can have a lot of content on your site in just couple minutes and Good Content means better ranking on the search engines for you site. Don't just go and download any articles to your site just to have content because if you download articles that don't have anything to do with your site you won't get the benefit of having better ranking. Search Engines look for Content, Inbound Links, Links Exchange and some other factors to give your website good rankings, but if you don't have good content on your website then you won't be able to reach the top on search engines as fast as you want.

In this article, I want you to see and learn how easy is to get content for your website. This is just one step to get better rankings but if you combine this with other methods you'll be able to be ranking good in the search engines.

About the Author

You can find more articles or more information about Cheap Web Hosting, Web Design, Webmaster and more at http://www.cheap-web-hosting-information.com/

Should An Article Directory's Page Rank Concern You?

Everybody knows that Page Rank is important. It indicates the content volume of a site, and it also proves the site's popularity, or how many external links it has pointing to it.

We all strive for the highest Page Rank we can muster for good reason. Having a high ranking means traffic, and traffic means more sales potential.

Which is why we write and submit articles. Placing articles on your site increases its relative content volume, and submitting the articles with a bio box creates external links pointing to your site.

It's all about exposure! The more we have the more profit we make.

Simple!

But then the plot thickens . . .

Site Popularity doesn't come from having your links just anywhere. You see, there's a method to the madness that brings it all full circle.

To achieve a higher Page Rank through external links, you need to put your articles on sites that have an equal or higher Page Rank than yours does.

But does this apply to Article Directories?

If you're one who submits articles manually and are under time constraints, the quick answer would be yes, it does apply.

You have only so much time to get your articles into sites that will bring you the quickest exposure you can get.

However, when we look at Page Rank for Article Directories in these times of rapid fire article submission software, services and scripts it becomes hard to judge the validity of the every day statisics.

Some Article Directories of late have appeared out of nowhere one week, and the next have well over 1,000 articles already submitted to them. After a month's time, some have even reached the 5 to 10 thousand article mark.

Now considering that Google adjusts a site's Page Rank every three months, an Article Directory could show a big fat "0" Page Rank one day, and after Google makes their adjustments, could climb to a PR4 or PR5 the next.

So, thinking logically, the only time an Article Directory's Page Rank should concern you is the day after Google makes its adjustments.

And even then, that would still only matter if you're in a time rush to get quality links to your site and manually submit to 5 to 10 of the best known sites to do it.

So the answer is twofold . . .

For those who submit their articles manually, yes, current page Rank for Article Directories should concern you.

But for the rest of us, what should matter most is that, when you submit to every possible site you can, you're helping to establish more Article Directories with a higher Page Rank than ever before!

This can only bode well for everybody.

About the Author

Ken Nadreau and Hubert Daul are emerging experts in the field of Article Marketing. Their software program "Article Submitter Pro" has help many marketers achieve higher Page Rank, and has contributed to the Article Marketing explosion.

To find out more about Writing Articles and Article Marketing, get their free publication, "A Logical Approach to Writing Articles"
http://alogicalapproach.com/ala_article.html

10 Good Reasons To Submit Your Article To Ezines

10 Good Reasons To Submit Your Article To Ezines
By Jeff D. Schuman
http://www.Team-Schuman.com

When I started Ezine-In-A-Box I wanted to help people
publish their own email newsletter without writing a single
word. However, there are many benefits to writing articles
ansd submitting them to other ezines. Below is 10 good
reasons you should be writing and submitting articles to
ezines.

1. You'll brand your web site, business and yourself by
submitting articles to e-zines. You could include your
name, business name, your credentials, web site address and
e-mail address in your resource box.

2. You will become known as an expert on the topics you
write about. This will give you and your business extra
credibility which will help you compete against your
competition.

3. Your article might also be placed on the publisher's
home page. If they publish each issue on their home page
this will give you some extra exposure.

4. You might get extra exposure if the e-zine publisher
archives their e-zine on their site. People might want to
read the back issues before they make the decision to
subscribe.

5. You will get free advertising. This will allow you to
spend your profits on other forms of advertising. You could
buy advertisements in other e-zines that don't publish your
articles.

6. You might get extra income from people wanting to hire
you to write other articles, books, or even ask to speak at
seminars. This is a great way to multiply your income.

7. You could allow e-zine publishers to publish your
articles in their free e-books. Since people give them
away, your advertising could multiply all over the
internet.

8. You will get your article published all over the web
when you submit it to an e-zine publisher that has a free
content directory on their web site. They'll allow their
visitors to republish your article.

9. You'll gain people's trust. If they read your article
and like it, they won't be as hesitant to buy your product
or service. You will then be able to increase your profits.

10. You could get your article guaranteed to run in an
e-zine. You could agree to run one of their articles in
your e-zine if, in exchange, they run yours in their
e-zine. It's a win/win situation.

About the Author

Jeff Schuman's Ezine-In-A-Box helps people publish their own ezine without writing a single word. This is your own email promotion and internet marketing program set-up for free for 365 days. Start your own email marketing campaign today. http://www.ezine-in-a-box.com