By far one of the most effective ways of improving your search engine rankings is through writing and submitting articles. If you ran a website about sporting collectables you could write an article about how others could become collectors, or how to value items – basically anything you want to so long as it relates to your website topic. Somewhere in the article you include a link to your website, and you then submit your article to ‘article directories’ on the Internet. An article directory is a repository of lots of articles that people have submitted.
Why are they so effective?
For every article directory that publishes your article you’ll get a link to your website (the link you included in your article), and also other websites might ‘pick-up’ your article to publish on their own website – meaning you get even more links. So the more places you can publish your article, the more links you’ll get. Of course, you need to write a good quality article so that your article is published.
The reason article submissions are so effective is because each article is published on its own unique webpage, meaning your link might be the only external link on that page, which gives your link full ‘strength’. Also, because the article is based on the theme of your website your link is given even more strength. It really is a great way of building powerful links to your website.
Distributing Your Article
So now you’ve written your article, you need to distribute it to article directories. The more article directories you can submit to the better because it mean more links. A good place to start is with the three biggest article directories:
Ezine Article – www.ezinearticles.com
GoArticles – www.goarticles.com
Articles Base – www.articlesbase.com
If you search for ‘article directory list’ then you will quickly find a list of other article directories you can submit to. However you’ll probably, like me, find the process of submitting your article can be very tedious – it can be difficult to find an up-to-date list of directories, and also it takes time to type your details over and over again.
