Article marketing is a type of advertising in which you write short articles for distribution with the intent of increasing your credibility and attracting new customers.

Tips:

• Be a guest writer for another blog.
• Participate in a Blog carnival – submit an article.
• Submit articles for trade related web sites and publications.
• Submit to article directories. Include blurb and link to your site in the “resource box”.

Resources: Article Directories

• ExpertArticles.com – ExpertArticles.com is an online article directory for both publishers and authors. Our primary goal is to serve as a trusted source of content for all of the stakeholders engaged with our site. Expert authors and writers are able to post their articles to be featured within the site. If you are an author, this is a great way for your work to be seen and get published in an unlimited assortment of works. Just register (for free) to set up your account – then start submitting your articles.
• Article Dashboard – At Article Dashboard.com, you’re not only provided with a central location for submitting and promoting all of your articles, you also have the key to a powerful resource for website owners and ezine/newsletter publishers who are searching for excellent content to share with others!
• GoArticles.com – GoArticles is a free content article directory. This means that any webmaster, publisher, or editor may re-print your article(s) subject to the basic terms and conditions outlined on this site. This means that any article you submit will be searchable by, and available to, visitors the day after it is submitted.
• Article Alley – Articlealley is a free article directory, built in 2004 to help authors promote and syndicate their content we have grown hugely. We now have a loyal author base of over 60,000 active authors and more than half a million pages of content.
• ABC Article Directory – ABC Article Directory is an online article directory/article search engine for people that need relative, specific information. The ABC Article Directory constantly strives to remain a leader in the world of online publishing by providing syndication services to website owners, ezine publishers, writers (authors) and more.
• ArticlesBase – At ArticlesBase.com you can submit an article and have literally thousands of readers worldwide as your article is syndicated around the globe. Many people visit ArticlesBase.com to gather free articles and display them on their websites (with your author information attached.
• isnare.com – Isnare.com is an article directory where anyone can register and submit their own original articles. Extending that service, Isnare.com also offers a way to expand an article’s presence on the web by submitting it to other sites and publishers.
• EzineArticles – We are an article marketing, publicity generating, pre-qualified traffic building, and article exposure service designed to get your expert articles in front of our content-hungry ezine publisher audience. Previously fee-based, we are testing a new ad-supported model. That means there is no charge to use our service during this test period and all new accounts get (10) article submissions to prove to us your level of article quality.

Tip: Syndication

• Syndicate your Articles to these sites:

Resources: Article Syndication

• BiblioScribe — New and experienced authors and publishers can take advantage of BiblioScribe’s free press release and article submission service to publicize their works.
• Content 4 Reprint – Free article directory – your knowledge encyclopedia. Welcome to our free article library. Here you can find all fresh quality content you need for your website or blog.
• Content Syndication – Content-Syndication.org is a new way to find and publish free content on the web. This site is intended to be a tool for web publishers and authors. We offer a high quality content directory so that both authors and publishers can feel secure in using our site. We are dedicated to having a spam free site.

Article marketing can be highly effective form of free marketing but it does take time to amass traffic from the articles.

What is your favorite place to post your articles? Which is the most effective giving you the best traffic?

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