Article Marketing Strategy for 2010
Recently here at StartRankingNow we have been running a test to see what exactly are the best article directories to submit articles to. There are many sites that will provide a list of the top 10 article directories to submit articles to based on Page Rank, but just because a site has a PR of 4 on their home page, does not mean that it will be valuable or profitable for you to submit your articles there. As we literally submit hundreds of articles per month to the article directories, we have run a test to find out which article directories get indexed by Google the fastest without having to do any external link building.
What we did:
We submitted 100 articles to each of the article directories over a 3 month period. Within 30 days of submitting the articles and the articles being published, we checked all of the submissions to determine if the urls generated by the article submissions were indexed in Google. We gathered the data and determined what percentage of the urls were indexed.
Here are the results:
- Ezinearticles.com 100%
- Buzzle.com 100%
- Goarticles.com 89%
- Articlebase.com 91%
- A1articles.com 100%
- Articleblast.com 90%
- Articlefeeder.com 96%
- Articlerich.com 83%
- Thefreelibrary.com 89%
- Amazines.com 32%
- Articlemonkey.com 30%
- Articlecube.com 35%
- Articlesfreedirectory.com 5%
- Articlesnatch.com 35%
- Articlepool.com 0%
- Ideamarketers 22%
- Ehow.com 40%
- Associatedcontent.com 40%
- Helium.com 40%
- Isnare.com 21%
Always remember to TEST your SEO activities and be sure it works. If your SEO company is submitting to hundreds of article directories but your articles are not getting indexed, then those links don’t count!
Do you know of another article directory we can test? Please let us know!
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A Well Written Article Can Increase Web Traffic
As a busy entrepreneur in ecommerce, there are so many things to be tackled! There’s building relationships with vendors, webmasters and clients. There’s the task of hiring employees to provide customer support. There’s getting a product up and running and maintaining inventory control or coordinating drop shipping. The list goes on and on. But here’s the thing; nothing happens without web traffic.
So priority #1 is finding the best and most efficient way to create and increase web traffic. How to do it? Easy. Write compelling articles for online submissions. This is how you drive traffic to your site. Writing articles and publishing those articles online creates a face for your site. This is where you sell yourself. Demonstrate your knowledge of your industry, product or service, and you will be viewed as an expert. Be viewed as an expert and you will be trusted. People do business with People they trust.
Knowing that you have most likely spent a great deal of time preparing your ecommerce site for business, I’m guessing you probably have the best content throughout its pages. While you get an “E” for Effort here, to really win big you’ve got to make sure that the public sees that content. Without that, there are no sales. Well written articles produced by our team contain prime SEO content coupled with a few backlinks to your site. Backlinks are the very life of an ecommerce site, as they carry web traffic like your veins carry blood.
There’s another reason why links are important; they make your site more popular. The most popular sites are the ones who show up first when a consumer performs a google search. So, you could pay loads of money and spend hours upon hours managing pay per click campaigns; or you could incorporate a great article writing campaign as part of your internet marketing strategy and see higher rankings and increase web traffic organically.
In order for articles to benefit you, they need to be placed on sites that get attention. There are many, and our team knows which to use and which to pass by. Because online directories for article submissions all have varying requirements, we take the pressure off of the business owner by taking on the time consuming task of writing, linking, and article submissions with a great amount of creativity and professionalism.
The articles we write are optimized for readers and for search engines. That means we research the topics we write about, assess the personality of the company issuing the article, and do some digging to find out about topics readers find interesting. We blend all components together in order to gain the benefits of ranking for the article, which will gain visibility. A visible article with an informative voice and links to your site WILL generate web traffic. I want to restate the principle mentioned above. People do business with people they know. Through online article submissions, you can become that person everyone knows. Let us take care of the busy work while you carry on the important task of operating a booming business.
