Tuesday, January 20, 2009

How to market for free to millions: Article Submission

By Brent Sweet

Every day I talk about article submission and how it has astronomical benefits. I can't think of a better way that you can market your business in todays economy. I would go out on a limb and say there is no way you could get all of this for free:

- Just the pure viral nature of articles. There are people all over the internet looking to add content to their sites, and if they use your aritlce they have to link to you.

- The links they add are counted as votes for your website being relative to the keywords you choose in your anchor text.

- The anchor text and vote count towards moving your site up in the search engines.

- When your website reaches the number one position for a keyword that is searched frequently you get to display an ad to those people. The volume of people seeing that ad is greater than you could hit with any single advertisement unless you are advertising in the Superbowl.

The fantastic part of article submission and marketing is that it doesn't cost a thing to do. You can hit the largest market of consumers for nothing. Most people when they are looking for something go where first? The search engines, I venture to say they go there before going to the store. Is there really a better place to be marketing?

How do you do it free?

- Start by writing articles. If you are in business this should not be too hard, hopefully you know something about your business.

- There are thousands of article directories, blogs, and other places that are hungry for the content and will give you a link for letting them use it.

- Go to each directory that you can find and submit the article, it is time consuming but if you want to do this for free this is the way.

It's a ton of work, I won't mess around. Want to know a secret? It can be a lot easier. I use a service that submits the articles for you. It is better than any submission software you can buy.

Some services are scams, but the one I use does this:

- Submits my article to thousands of directories, blogs and ezines. As long as it is on topic for that specific directory it is submitted.

- Each version of my article that is sent out is unique. The way this is done is I reword each paragraph 3 times. Then they take that and mix them up more so I have more unique versions. Since each site can get their own unique version it gets published more.

- The site I use also has a special tested method that makes the search engines pick up and count my articles more effectively. I hate to waste any time, especially my own, so this is a huge benefit.

- Saves me a ton of time, it does all this on auto pilot, all I do is write articles!

To sum it up article submission can be free, and it is the best way to market your business. If you do have some money to invest in marketing spend about thirty bucks a month and use a service that does the hard part for you. Then all you have to do is write like me.

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