You must have come across an article often that leaves you high and dry and make you think later that the reading wasted your time. I bet you would have come across many. It is not unusual to find good articles but more often you come across this kind of below average stuff that leave you wondering why this article was written at all.

I agree that not all of us are equally endowed and skilled when it comes to writing. But that is just one aspect of writing. Providing good information in the article is another. [Read more...]

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After you have written an article, you need to submit it to various article directories. Article directories would review your article and publish if they find it suitable.

There are thousands of article directories where you can submit your articles. We already discussed the top ones.

Manual submission: The good old manual submission! That is how everything began. It is still done by a lot of marketers. However, manual submission becomes quite a chore and takes up a lot of time.

The best part about it is that it is absolutely free.

It does not cost anything as for as money is concerned. But it demands time. If you think you can devote time, go for it. [Read more...]

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It is important that you do a good amount of searching on the topic you would write. An article written after researching is a always a better article.

You must have come across half baked articles which seem as if author is not fully able to express himself. Such articles occupy unnecessary digital space and do not serve any purpose.

How to make sure your is not such an article?

The only answer is to gain a complete knowledge about the topic you write beforehand. If you do not know it from previous learning or experience, then you must search for the material you need to before you write.

There is ample material that you can use to enhance your subject knowledge. Not a long time back it was just books, newspapers, folklore, teachers, radio and tv.

Then came Internet. [Read more...]

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For a marketer using article marketing as a traffic and link generation tool, resource box is the most important part of the submitted article.

A resource box is a short paragraph or description at the end of an article containing brief information about the author and a link to website.

The only reason that so many articles exist is this resource box. Apart from providing free information, an author is promoting himself or his business too. That happens at this place called resource box or about the author or author bio.

A good resource box will build up links to your website, which increases your search engine ranking. Secondly, people will click on those links and visit your site, thus serving as source of web traffic.If properly done, a resource box also builds a brand name for you.

When you are submitting an article you are doing a classic give and take. You provide information in article body and you take visitors, links in resource box.

Your article should provide the necessary information so that it gets many readers and your resource box should be enticing enough so that people would want to click the link to your website.

Remember! Your resource box would get only a cursory look by the reader and click would result only if it is well crafted.

Here is little help to construct a good article resource box. [Read more...]

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Are you an article marketer? Whether you are a veteran or new in the field of article marketing, you must possess a knowledge of top guns in the subject.We recently discussed Top 213 article directories. But when you prioritize your article submissions, you need to put the better one at top.

I today list for you the top 20 article directories on the web. Make sure that your articles are submitted to these. These would bring best reaps for your labour.

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There was a time on www when there were few authors and fewer article directories. Every body used to submit to same directories. With every now and then an article directory becoming live on the web, a crowd of article directories has added only chaos and confusion to the authors, especially a new one.

The list of article directories today runs in thousands, not hundreds. But a lesser proportion is actually worth submitting. In my recent post I published a list of 213 article directories where you can consider your article to publish.

But still, you need to do your own evaluation for each article directory. It depends on your niche and your personal preference. That thing apart here are the few things that you must look for in an article directory, before you commit yourself to it. [Read more...]

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There is plethora of [tag-tec]article directories[/tag-tec] on the net where you can submit your articles for publication. Some are top notch and others vary in their efficiency. If you choose to perform manual submissions, you would have to make your own list of the desired article directories.

For this post I am publishing a comprehensive list of article directories. This list also includes niche based article directories dedicated to specific niche. You may ignore the ones not belonging to your niche. I might have omitted a few. If you happen to know a good one, please do leave the name in comment to this post. Here we go. [Read more...]

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