Article Marketing

Writing articles is one of the best ways to promote your website and best of all it is free! You don't need to be an expert on the topic you are writing about - just pick an area that is related to the theme of your website, do a bit of research using a search engine and before you know it you will have more knowledge on that subject than most.

Submitting your Article to Directories

Once you've written your article, you can submit it to article directories for free. There are hundreds of article directories on the web and If you are a foward thinker, I am sure you are starting to compute the big numbers in your head.

1,000 article sites X 1 link to my site X 15 articles submitted = 15,000 links to my site

Moreover, article submission tools make article marketing extremely easy. But, this is actually the wrong way to go about it. Submitting your article to hundreds or thousands of article sites can actually hurt you, since Google spiders are finely tuned to spot spam and duplicate content. You are much better off submitting your article to five of your favorite article sites and a couple of niche sites, and resist the temptation to blast your article to every site on the web.

To help you see which sites you might consider submitting to, below are the 25 article directories in order of their Alexa traffic rank (1 being high).

Top Article Sites

Here are some of the top places to submit your articles. You should always make sure to submit your article to htese sites to get the best exposure and traffic.