Monday, January 26, 2009

How to market for free to millions: Article Submission

By Brent Sweet

Every day I talk about article submission and how it has astronomical benefits. I can't think of a better way that you can market your business in todays economy. I would go out on a limb and say there is no way you could get all of this for free:

- Articles become viral several webmasters use them to add content to their site and each time they do it they link to you.

- When the webmasters use your article they are really telling the search engines they vote for your site as a relevant site for the text that you use in your link.

- The anchor text and vote count towards moving your site up in the search engines.

- When your website reaches the number one position for a keyword that is searched frequently you get to display an ad to those people. The volume of people seeing that ad is greater than you could hit with any single advertisement unless you are advertising in the Superbowl.

The best part of article submission is that it can be done for free. I mean quite literally you could advertise to the largest market of consumers on earth, and do it 100% free. What better way to market a business.

So if you submit articles how do you do it free?

- Just start writing. You are in business and have to have some knowledge about your field. Write up an article or two or ten about your field.

- You can submit your article all over the internet to directories, blogs, ezines and more. If the directory publishes your article (which they usually do) you get a free one way link!

- Go to each directory that you can find and submit the article, it is time consuming but if you want to do this for free this is the way.

There are some submission softwares out there that might speed up the process, but doing this for free is a lot of work. I personally, use a service that does the submissions for me, it is so much better than the software you find.

The service I use does the following:

- Submits my article to thousands of directories, blogs and ezines. As long as it is on topic for that specific directory it is submitted.

- Each version of my article that is sent out is unique. The way this is done is I reword each paragraph 3 times. Then they take that and mix them up more so I have more unique versions. Since each site can get their own unique version it gets published more.

- They also have a tested strategic method of submitting articles so that the search engines give them more value. I hate wasting any time so this is just what I need.

- Saves me a ton of time, it does all this on auto pilot, all I do is write articles!

To conclude, if you are looking for a great way to market your business, article submission is the way to go. If you have a little money to invest, your best investment would be the thirty bucks a month it costs to have professionals submit them like I do.

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