Project Traffic! For Your Niche Site – Efficient Article Writing Process For Article Submission
Part 9 of Project Traffic! discusses the most efficient and time saving process of preparing your articles for using article submitter of your Article Marketing strategy.
Article Marketing is the evergreen strategy to getting quality backlinks to your webstie, driving traffic to your site and getting maximum exposure to your website. You write articles to be submitted to article directories and once approved, the articles to be listed in the article directories for others to use.
Anatomy of an Article
The structure of the article you write for submission includes your title, the introduction, a few paragraphs of content addressing the issue you wish to discuss, and conclusion. This is deemed the "give" section of your article, which you literally give your best perspectives of your topic and most articles should not include links here as most article directories discourage the distraction.
The additional components required for article submission to the directories include a short summary, keywords, and your resource box. where you market your website with links. This is the "take" section of your article which is where you are allowed to market your website and include relevant links. Most article directories allow a maximum of 2 links and anchor texts but some do allow 3.
Critical Functional Coding Required For Article Submission
You would require a very basic but functional understanding of html codes like "bold", "underline" "break" etc and html coding your anchor texts for most of the article directory submission templates. Apart from the above, there is little you need to know about html.
Most Efficient Approach to Writing Articles for Directory Submission Purposes
Everyone has their own writing habits and structures. I have mine too. But here I would like to share a time saving approach to laying out your article as you write.
First stop you will write your article following the basic layout of the "Anatomy of An Article" above. You may use other structures like "list" approach, the glossary approach etc. Simply write what you wish to convey as per normal. Then include a brief summary, keywords, and write your resource box in this order. All this should be included together in one page and this forms your main reference. This approach effectively helps your trend of thought to flow accordingly to the process of your writing.
Next stop, you will create a few versions for your title, summary, and the article. This si important to ensure that you do not submit duplicate of the originals to hundreds of article directories. Cut and paste the articles into notepads and save them for submission.
You have now created a very convenient process to submit your article to article directories.
Key Criteria For Selecting Article Submitters
In selecting a good article submitter, you should evaluate from the perspective of functionality and user-friendliness. I have tried numerous free and paid article submission services and software, been disappointed with the performance of many and finally settled with one which meets the above criteria.
In selecting your article submitter, you must ensure that the service delivers the basic function of submitting your articles, some which claim that they do, do not actually fulfill what their system claim to do. This is particularly true for free article submitters available in the market.
One key mistake most users make is to choose the easy way out by choosing the automatic submission function which some article submitters have and letting the system do most of the work. You might think that this is a great time saver initially, but let me tell you that this lazy approach will eventually yield much less results than you hope to have, the reason being that 50% of the time, the category the system chooses for you may not be the right one, leading to the fact that readers are unable to locate your articles.
In the next part of this Project Traffic! I shall run you through from a hands on perspective on How to Submit your Article hundreds of article directories using Article Post Robot from a user’s perspective.
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Clearly article marketing is the best way to gain relevant back links. Additionally these back links are gained slowly, not explosively; a characteristic search engines look for. In a very short period of time, your site becomes an authority site, and organic listings develop. It is vital to include appropriate anchor text, and links in the author resource box.