How to Submit Articles the Right Way
by Cherie Stirewalt

With search engine optimization becoming increasingly difficult as more and more websites emerge, you must have quality one-way links pointing to your website. These types of links are mandatory in ranking well with the search engines. Now, you can try all kinds of crazy schemes to get your website to rank well. Most of them are a waste of time, and lots of them are shady. One way that is above-board and works well is to submit articles to article directories. The more quality links you can get pointing to your website, without you linking back to them, the higher you will rank, period. Here are some tactics to submit your articles the right way.

Pay attention to traffic stats and page rank.
The higher the page rank of the article directory, the more traffic you will see from the article directory to your site. You can see a listing of Article Directories with page rank here. Some of the top-notch article directories include ezinearticles.com, goarticles.com and ideamarketers.com. When you submit to these particular article directories, you will see your article accepted, picked up as RSS feeds and posted on other websites way quicker than some of the other directories. Within days, you will see your articles from these directories in the top 10 search for your keywords.

Format your article correctly.
Have you ever looked at an article that was missing all its formatting? No bolds, no line breaks, etc. If the author didn't take the time to format it correctly, doesn't it distract from the message just a little? So, even if you think your article is amazing, take the time to make sure your article previews well.

Leave the promotional and affiliate links out of the body of your article.
Most article directories will not accept your article when you leave these links in. So, after you've spent precious time submitting your article, you will have to spend even MORE time to edit it and apply for resubmission. Promotional and affiliate links belong in your author or resource box only.

Rotate different titles and resource box information.
Search engines like to see a variety of different text linking to a site. If the titles and resource box info all have the same text, it puts up an alert to the search engine that it could be spam, and your site may be penalized. By rotating different titles and resource box info, you are mixing it up.

Find an easier way to submit articles.
Now, you can totally choose to logon to every article directory and submit your article manually. But it is extremely tedious and does not maximize your time properly. You could be writing more content for your website in the time it takes to submit to all these sites.

Using Article Submitter Software eliminates the long-drawn-out process of manual submissions to article directories.  

Learn more about Brad Callen Article Submitter Software here.