Thursday, January 8, 2009

How to market for free to millions: Article Submission

By Brent Sweet

I talk about this all the time, but I really wanted to outline the benefits of article submission. I think it may be the best way in the world right now to market businesses. If you think about it I almost guarantee you could not get the following for free:

- Articles are viral marketing. Webmasters are all over the internet looking for articles to add to their website as content. Each time they do this they have to link back to you.

- The links they add are counted as votes for your website being relative to the keywords you choose in your anchor text.

- You move up in the search engine for each vote you get from websites using your article.

- 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 fantastic part of article submission and marketing is that it doesn't cost a thing to do. You can hit the largest market of consumers for nothing. Most people when they are looking for something go where first? The search engines, I venture to say they go there before going to the store. Is there really a better place to be marketing?

So how can you submit articles free?

- First off you yourself write articles. You have to know a little bit about your topic, but if you are in business surely you know about the topic.

- There are tons of blogs, directories, ezines and more that you can submit your article to and get it published. If they publish, free link!

- After you have written some articles, you go to each directory, ezine, blog and submit your article for publication. Hey its going to take some time, but remember this is free.

Sounds like a lot of work! Let me tell you what I do. I use a service that will submit articles for you, and it is better than any submission software.

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.

- Has a unique method to make sure the search engines give me the most for my article submission. I hate wasting time, so this is important to me.

- Most of all I save all that time submitting, this is automatic. The only steps for me is write and submit.

In conclusion the best way to market a business right now is with article submission. If you want to invest in marketing the best invesment you can make is about 30 bucks a month and some time to distribute articles the most effecive way possible. - 16651

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