ADVERTISE USING ARTICLES

A very efficient method to advertise your professional services, the products you are selling or simply to help you find a better job is writing targeted articles.

These articles that enclose at the end a short presentation of you or your business can be about various solution to actual problems, about everyday life ect. There are many sites to which you can submit these articles to, or if you have a database of your customers’ emails, just drop them an email containing the article and a link to your personal site or professional site.

The articles can generally be copied from one article submission site to the other as long as the content belongs to you and you are not stealing someone else’s work. The only condition is that they must keep their original form, no altering, along with your presentation. This means actually more visibly and it is exactly what you need.

The more interesting the article is, the more people will read and remember it. Even if you don’t have experience with writing, there are some aspects that can make you try it:

• Writing a technical article puts order in your ideas. You will have to coherent and state clear ideas and proper explanations.

• It will make you improve the way you speak.

• It will bring you visibility

• If it’s written well it will surely help someone.

• You can prove your knowledge in your professional areas this way.

Publishing articles means they have to contains mostly useful information and just a little bit of advertising. If they don’t follow this rule, you might end up with an un-publishable article, which you can only put on your homepage.

There are other things you could do with articles if you are willing to spend some money. There are different publicity sites, ranked high in search engines that for a fee will publish your article on their site for a limited period of time. The fee is not high usually, and you get much more visibility this way. But if this choice is the one that appeals to you the most, you must make sure the article is really good, so good that it can compete with all the other articles on that site. The user can see them all at the same time and you must think of ways to make him choose to read yours. If you have tried and you are not confident you can do it on your own, you can always hire a professional.

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Article Marketing and List of Article Directory Sites

Article Marketing is one of the effective ways to build free traffic. If you have the talent in writing, it is highly recommended to make use of it to help you succeed in your online business endeavor. If you really find it hard to write and you take the whole day just to start a sentence, then delegate and let other people do it for you. Hire a ghost writer.

In the Philippines, you can hire one for as low as $3 per article. That's a lot cheaper compared to sparing your precious time to do it yourself.

When you already have these articles, you then need article directory sites where you can submit it. Nowadays with the advancement of technology, there's a lot of software available to make your work easier and faster. Some uses Article Submitter to submit their article to 600 or more sites. Other uses My Article Pro that can easily submit your articles to over 140 article directories with the click of a mouse.

But if you are out of budget or just want to try it for a while. Find below some of the article sites which can help you definitely:

Article Cube
Article Dashboard
SearchWarp
Article Trader
Article Hangout
Easy Article Search
PR Web
Buzzle
Search Guild
Associated Content
Article Alley
Advertising Knowhow
Idea Marketers
Isnare
Article Geek

The reason I'm giving you the list which requires registration is that you can easily manage your articles from their Article Stats if you have account with them. You'll know when they are approved or declined and the reason why if unluckily it's the latter. Other that that, you can see report which will tell you how your articles are doing and you can preliminarily observed the pattern of information most people are searching.

For the benefit of those needing sites with no registration requirement, I will gladly post it next time.

Cheers to Your First Step in Online Success :-)

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