Friday, September 12, 2008

Using My Articles- Article Directories

By M Romeo


When you create an article to promote your website, one of the first places you should look at is article directories. The website repositories house thousands of articles for free. And in exchange the author is allowed to promote their website at the bottom of the article, where any interested reader can visit for more information.

When you create a solid, interesting, unique and relevant article in an article directory, you are really cementing your status as an expert in the subject and allowing interested potential customers to visit your website. These article directories provide you plenty of exposure you might not otherwise get.

While the best option is usually to create an article based upon your own experience and information. It's possible to outsource article creation to many writing services. The upfront cost for article creation can be expensive, but the increased sales and profits should be enough to more than cover the costs of the article creation.

For example if you were a tax preparer working for home and created a series of articles about tax planning and tax preparation. If you placed your articles across multiple article directories. Potential clients looking for information on the subject that you wrote your article on, will quickly see that you have the experience and knowledge to handle the job. Many will visit your website and try to contact you by phone or email. This one little article provided access to a new client you might not otherwise have gotten.

A secondary avenue that you might not think about is other website owners who use the article directories to get content for their website. There are probably hundreds of website owners who might take a look at your article, and find it relevant to their website and incorporate it into their website. Because they must keep the entire article including the author's byline which has a link to your website now you have a secondary avenue of traffic that can come from other people's websites and traffic.

The blog world is one of the main consumers of information from article directories. Many blog owners are always on the hunt for relevant, useful articles. And you can find your article get picked up by multiple blogs. Some of these blogs have extremely high traffic. This high traffic count can end up bringing tons of potential clients to your websites.

There are hundreds of article directories out there to get started with. Try to find the most popular ones, that will work with you and approve your articles in the shortest period of time. By submitting your articles to multiple sites you give your articles multiple opportunities to create traffic and generate sales for you.

For the time or money invested, article marketing is a very effective means of getting visitors and business for you online.

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