Article Marketing Tips For 2009

Article Marketing can be a very handy SEO tool if utilized properly. A well written, well organized article will get your website traffic and popularity. Some of the benefits of having a wining article published include generating a quality back link from the resource box or “author box”, some article directories allow in-content links (link within the content). Content links are good because you can use whatever anchor text you want. Anchor text means linking your website to a specific keyword or phrase within your article.

A good article should have a great keyword rich title that is relevant to your content. When making a title try using a phrase that makes sense, grabs attention, and contains keyword. Just be creative and you will come up with something within a few minutes.

Also, your description should be creative and contain keywords as well. A title should not be too long or too short. Just about 20-25 words or so will do (basically 1-2 sentences).

Your article itself should be written well. Have a friend or family member proof read it and make sure everything makes sense. If you don’t have a proof reader, give yourself a 20-30 minute break after writing the article then proof read it yourself.

Your article should not be too long. Short and sweet will attract more readers. A 500 word article that is packed with valuable information is better than a 1500 word article filled with useless info.

Promote your article: This is one of the biggest challenges that everyone will face. Promote your article everywhere you possibly can. Use forums, link from your social networks, blog about your article, link to your article from your forum signatures, try to get others to link to your article, add a link to it from your websites, use social bookmarking sites like Digg, and submit your article to multiple article directories.

Tip: Do not forget to use the resource box. This is where you will add a link to your website and tell everyone about you or your company.

Below is a list of article directories and their PageRank. You can submit articles to these directories for SEO purposes.

Tip: Some offer paid upgraded accounts. Paying extra may get you more exposure and faster approvals.
EzineArticles.com  PR 6
GoArticles.com  PR 4
ArticleDashboard.com  PR 6
SearchWarp.com  PR 5
ArticlesBase.com  PR 4
iSnare.com  PR 6
SelfGrowth.com  PR 6
Buzzle.com  PR 6
ArticleCity.com  PR 6
IdeaMarketers.com  PR 5
ArticleAlley.com  PR 5
Web-Source.net  PR 5
SelfSEO.com  PR 5
Amazines.com  PR 5
ArticleTrader.com  PR 5
SearchGuild.com  PR 6
WebWorldIndex.com  PR 5
ArticleSphere.com  PR 4
BusinessKnowHow.com  PR 6
PromotionWorld.com  PR 6
ArticlesFactory.com  PR 7
ExcellentGuide.com/article  PR 6
ContentDesk.com  PR 4
ArticleCube.com  PR 5
AfroArticles.com  PR 4
ArticleBiz.com  PR 6

Do you have an article directory to share? Comment and let us know.