Good Reasons to Submit Articles to Promote Your Blog
Writing and submitting articles is an extremely powerful method for promoting your WordPress blog or website, products, and services. Here are just a few of the benefits you’ll receive by submitting articles to directories and social media sites:
1. Multiply the incoming links pointing to your Website. Search engines love links. They use links as a gauge for determining how “important” your Website is. Some sites like Squidoo, MySpace, and Blogger (Which, by the way is owned by Google!) are “spidered” and indexed several times a day. Search engines view each link pointing to your site as a “vote” and the more votes your Website receives, the higher it is in the rankings!
2. Dramatically boost your Website traffic, sales, and newsletter opt-ins. When you submit articles to directories, your articles are picked up by other Website, featured in newsletters, and sent out in ezines. This will create additional traffic and result in more exposure for you and your business–especially if you write them yourself. If you write your own articles, you can include a “Resource Box” at the end which briefly explains your “expert” status and links to your Website.
3. Gain “expert” status and become recognized as an authority in your field. Since you are publishing information packed articles, you’ll soon enjoy the status of being seen as an authority on your topic. This fact alone can lead to joint ventures and many other exciting opportunities that you would have never enjoyed otherwise.
4. Soon you will enjoy a flood of 100% free, targeted traffic for years to come. By you submitting your articles (especially ones that you write yourself), others will begin using them. Then you will enjoy a flood of free traffic that will come rolling in, increasing more and more everyday. Best of all, it won’t cost you a dime. You’ll never have to rely on the search engines for this free traffic again and you probably won’t be able to stop it even if you try!
Website owners or newsletter/ezine publishers like yourself are provided with a dynamic resource of relevant, on topic content that you can use free of charge from the article directories that can be found all over the Internet. Just grab the articles you want to use, leave them in their original state complete with the author’s resource box providing credit to the author, and use those articles as you wish!
In addition to posting to article directories, can post your articles on your blogs (e.g. Blogger), Squidoo pages, and other sites like MySpace. Then you can link to them from social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace with catchy headlines and snippets that lure eager readers and potential customers to your squeeze pages and other moneymaking sites. This is a monetizing trick that even some experienced marketers are just beginning to realize!
You should definitely use the articles from directories on your Website to provide your visitors with more useful content and keep them coming back for more. You should use articles on your blog to keep it fresh and updated daily with great information. You should send articles out to your newsletter or ezine subscribers and provide them with fresh insights on the most popular of today’s topics.
No matter how you end up using articles; either the ones you gather from article directories or the ones you write yourself, you’ll benefit greatly if you use them wisely and post them to sites and areas heavily trafficked by people like you as well as the major search engine spiders. You definitely can’t go wrong and will reap great rewards with increased traffic, higher search engine rankings, and more money in your pocket!
