Submitting articles to free online directories can draw a lot of traffic to your sites and blogs. It definitely does that for my sites, so I’m a fan.
To learn more about how it works and how to write good articles, see my post: How to Promote Your Site with Short Articles
And to learn about a great service that helps you distribute your articles to dozens of sites at a time, see: Article Marketing Service Review: A Good One is Worth the Money
The key to getting traffic from articles is the ‘author resource box’ you include at the end of each article. That’s where you put in the links that will inspire people to click to visit your site to learn more or whatever else you want them to do.
In master article marketer Steve Gillman’s book, You Can Make Money Writing, there is good, clear advice about how to inspire huge curiosity in a reader so they won’t be able to resist clicking on your links. This is my favorite book on article marketing, and it’s under $20, so be sure to check it out.
Steve also makes the point that EzineArticles.com is the best training ground for article writing. Their standards are higher than those of other free directories. If your articles are approved for publication by Ezine Articles, chances are high that will be approved by other free article directories as well.
Below is a short video from Ezine.com about creating an author resource box to get your started. But I recommend that you to check out You Can Make Money Writing to get even better advice about how to create simple, intriguing author boxes.
~ Lillea Woodlyns
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thanks for the video, i think it explains it pretty well, good post.
You’re welcome. I hope it clarifies things for others too
Thanks for the video, very helpful
A good simple video makes these kinds of things much clearer, I find, so I’m glad it was helpful to you.
Thanks for the the great post it is very useful I am looking forward for your future posts. benjaminhulme@gmail.com
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Article Marketing is really a good way in promoting your products and also your website. i used to write health articles on a big pharmaceutical company for the purpose of article marketing.
Hi Pammy,
I agree. Article marketing works really well for this site.
Article marketing is a highly effective and usually free way of advertising your website. This is because article marketing gives you back links and the more backlinks you have to your website, the higher your PR will rise in the search engines.
Hello Lillea,
your post is very valuable for me, as I’m just starting my adventure with EzineArticles:)
Thank you for the video, I like the massage and the “give” and “take” part of the article:)
Greetings
Justyna
You’re welcome Justyna. Best wishes for your Ezine adventure!
Great post.
There are many ‘little’ keys that can make your article stand out and ‘pull’ – from the title to the summary – but the absolute BEST and most overlooked is the Resource Box!
Nicely done.