Promote your New Web Site by Writing Articles
This was written by request…and kudos to Wilson Web for help on the list of article submission sites.
I’m a big fan of using online press releases for building your reputation, to get the word out, and for links and traffic to your web site. However, what do you do when you don’t have newsworthy things happening in your business? You write articles. It’s another way to promote your web site. And it’s free.
Most article submission sites do not let you put links in your article but they do let you create a bio at the bottom of your article with a link. You can get quality links to your web site by getting links on high ranking article submission sites and on sites that pick up your article for reprint on their web site.
But don’t go crazy. If you submit your article to too many article sites it can hurt you. So concentrate on a few of the good sites.
Here are article submission sites with a pagerank of 6 or more
EzineArticles: Alexa score of 499 (lower is better)
ArticleDashboard: Alexa score of 5,255
iSnare: Alexa score of 8,791
SelfGrowth: Alexa score of 9,653
Buzzle: Alexa score of 9,698
ArticleCity: 11,526
ArticlesFactory: (pagerank of 7) Alexa score of 30,664
Here is another article by my friend Mat about article submission sites. Also, one by another friend Nate about “how writing articles sets your web site apart.” For a new web site that is trying to build traffic and trust online, they are a good idea.
Tip: Use keywords you want to be ranked for in the article title and repeated in the article itself. Don’t use general keywords that you have no hope of ranking on search engines for (too much competition). That means using 2-5 word phrases that are more specific.
What has been your experience? Have you had good results from writing articles?
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6 Responses to “Promote your New Web Site by Writing Articles”
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May 8th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
[...] Special thanks to Newspapergrl for the requested post. I did more research on writing articles too and actually made two posts tonight at http://www.ezinearticles.com, which is my favorite article directory so far. I also recommend the following: [...]
May 9th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Hi,
Thanks for sharing this valuable information. I also think ezinearticles.com is by far the best, since it has so many readers and also index well in google.
I also think Squidoo is very powerful and I think it could be mentioned in this list as well.
Thanks,
Lasse
http://www.personalonlinecoach.com
May 12th, 2007 at 8:28 am
[...] Newspapergrl- a blog about affiliate marketing and Internet marketing by Janet Meiners, she just recently wrote nice post about article marketing. I Janet’s blog frequently and highly recommend you do the same. In the past Janet wrote some good articles about PRWeb as well. [...]
June 21st, 2007 at 12:11 am
Thanks for sharing this valuable information on ways to build our reputation on the web by using online press releases. Being new to the business and not having any experience in writing articles makes all your advice and suggestions very valid as to why article submissions are so important. It seems to be an effective method of getting quality links to our web site. The key seems to be to concentrate on a few of the good and popular sites to get the word out and traffic to our site.
July 31st, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Im VERY impressed about your article, I’m a hungry wannabe successful blogger, and BELIEVE ME, I did enjoy your comments. You go to the point directly, simple, I’ve surfing for greaty places to learn from and I liked this a lot.
Also I can develop some good skills in writing, ( I like writing) so again, I appreciate this valuable info, specially coming from a successful person like you, THANK YOU FOR SHARING.
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October 31st, 2007 at 9:42 am
You might want to consider one of the new breeds of viral article marketing directories where your articles are not only shared throughout the article network but the author also shares in the ad revenue.
Mike