Writing and submitting articles is a great resource for increasing traffic to your website and also getting one way links back to your site.
There are a thousands of article directories on the internet that will accept your article. Each article directory is split into categories and it is important that the category that you pick is relevant to the content of your site.
Article Submissions are not only a great way of providing back links for your site, but also for creating click through traffic aswell.
There are hundreds of thousands of articles posted on the internet each and every day – so what can you do to help yours stand out from the crowd?
- Firstly, make sure that you are providing unique and valuable content. Make your article interesting and engaging. Give people a reason to click through to your web site.
- Keep the article relatively short. Between 350 and 500 words should suffice, although some article directories will request that you use more words.
- Make sure that the article fulfills the promise of the article title. Dont promise one thing and then write about another!
- Include your keywords! To get the maximum benefit out of your article, both in terms of click throughs and search engines make sure that you use your targetted keywords in your article.
- Make sure you read the guidelines of each directory that you submit to. Some directories only allow you to put URL links in your resource of signature area of the article. If you don’t adhere to the guidelines your article will be rejected!
So why will submitting articles help my Search Engine Optimisation campaign?
- Articles provide a great source of one way links to your web site and you can target deep links aswell as the home page.
- You can generate human click throughs by writing engaging content.
- Submitting articles is a white hat SEO approach.
- Some article directories allow members to replicate your article on their web sites or other directories and blogs. What can be better than free marketing and backlinks!
If you follow these basic guidelines when submitting your articles you will start to see your SEO campaign move in the right direction.
For more information on Article Submissions, or if you would like to talk to us about an article submission project then please email info@esoftware-solutions.com
