Article marketing has its own charm, which has been proven beyond doubt by all the top marketers. We will provide a few reasons for which you should want to use article marketing in the growth of your online business.

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Article marketing done the right way can help you increase your website’s page rank. By publishing your articles on some article directories, you can begin to collect backlinks to your site. The best thing to do is find the article directories that have the highest page rank and then focus on submitting your articles to those sites. All internet marketers should pay attention to page rank, since it will assist with getting a prominent position within Google. It’s also possible to get your article put up on blogs or other websites with high page ranks. There are tons of ways to actually leverage articles for this purpose. When you submit your articles to many high page ranking sites, you’ll see that your own site’s ranking goes up with them. This is a great way to get great results, provided you can write articles that will be published on these sites with high PRs.

The entire reason you started writing high quality articles and putting them online is to get the traffic you’re looking for, is that right? You are also providing them with information they can use and it’s absolutely free. They will begin to see you in a new light as someone who can give such great information for free, so there must be something to your products. If you can create an image like this in their minds, they will come to you as their source for information and any time you promote anything to them, they’ll snatch it up quickly. Plus, all the information you’ve given, again and again, was given without charging them a thing. Your prospects will gladly repay you, on the other hand, with their hard earned money.

It’s also possible to take your articles and make a PDF out of them and then offer them for free to people who subscribe to you, or just to people in general. Most people can’t resist downloading a free report and when you create one it will become obvious why they’re so valuable when you see that they’re passed around getting you even more traffic. One of the best parts of a report like this is that your articles are used in a manner you can live with and it will give you loads of traffic with absolutely no investment. Make sure you mention that people can distribute your report as they see fit so that they’ll be more likely to pass it around. Just make it easy for this report to spread and soon you’ll find your articles working for you in a different way. Therefore, it is clear that one of the most effective ways to drive traffic is through article marketing. But keep in mind that it’s not easy, since it does require you to put in the effort to see results.

I wrote previously about using article submissions to increase the number of backlinks & traffic to your website.

I’ve been submitting my articles manually, to the top 10 article directories, but this process is very drawn out & complicated by the slightly different layouts & entry requirements of each directory. With thousands of directories out there, although submitting to the top 10, 20 or 30 will achieve results, it will be impossible to do many more manual submissions, which will mean you have to write significantly more articles to get more links.

I’ve been looking at the different article submission websites & software for some time & decided now was the time to take the plunge!

I’ve used Submit2Please’s Article Submission Service in the past, but the charges could be considerable if you have a number of articles to publish:

• $49.95 for 100 PR 3 and above Directories (35+ PR 4 & above Directories & 65 PR 3 Directories)
• $74.95 for 200 PR 2 and above Directories(35+ PR 4 & above Directories, 65 PR 3 Directories & 100+ PR 2 Directories)
• $99.95 for 300 Various PR Directories (35+ PR 4 & above Directories, 65 PR 3 Directories, 100+ PR 2 Directories & 100+ PR 1 & 0 Directories)
• $124.95 for 400 Various PR Directories (35+ PR 4 & above Directories, 65 PR 3 Directories, 100+ PR 2 Directories & 200+ PR 1 & 0 Directories)

Bearing in mind I currently have 7 articles to submit, this is a bit too much to pay!

So, I started to look around for services or software that promise to submit to a large number of sites at a reasonable cost, whilst making sure that the submissions are valid & not classed as spam by either the directories, or Google.

Apart from the dodgy looking article submission software packages for $37, there seems to be a consensus of opinion around the following:

• iSnare
• Article Marketing Automation
• Article Marketer
• Ultimate Article Wizard
• The Phantom Writers
  

I was drawn to Article Marketers & Ultimate Article Wizard out of these, mainly because The Phantom Writers is another pay per article plan, iSnare seems a bit too cheap (my opinion on cheap services has been clouded by my recent experiences with 1and1 & Tiscali!) & other users have suggested that AMA only gets your articles out to about 30 sites.

I was originally put off UAW as it costs $67 per month & it seems that you have to spend time using it to rewrite your articles using what is known as “spinning”. Content (article) spinning involves taking an original article and using it to generate 10′s or 100′s of new unique versions of the text & these “spun” versions of your article are submitted instead. Each of these new articles presents the same ideas and concepts as the original, but expressed in different ways. Whilst all are readable and grammatically correct, each is different from the others in terms of the words on the page and therefore unique in Google’s eyes.

The importance of “spinning” your articles will depend on whether you believe that the backlinks from duplicate articles are being disregarded by Google, when Google’s duplicate content filter is treating the article submissions as duplicate content! If this is the case, then it seems pointless to submit your articles to any more than one site for link purposes, but of course, there is the side issue 0f site traffic that your article could generate. There seems to be some debate as to whether this is the case or not, with some people saying it does & others saying it doesn’t! Here’s the part of Google’s duplicate content policy that seems to say it does!

If you believe that each time you submit your article you need to use a different title, different summary, different resource box, and different article body, then perhaps the extra cost of UAW is worth it. However, I’ve also found a free spinner system called Jetspinner that I’m signing up to, which will hopefully allow me to carry out this process for nothing. Then I can create dozens of versions of my articles & submit them to all the directories instead!

Jetspinner also advertises its own article submission service called Jet Submitter (which also costs $67 per month), but as I’ve already signed up with Article Marketer for 3 months use (cost $79.95), I’m going to have to use it for now. If I’m not happy with it, I may switch to Jet Submitter & use their combined tools, but I’ll use this time to submit as many articles as possible, on all of the topics covered by my affiliate websites & see if it makes any difference to their links & rankings!