Speed up Article Submissions

In order to keep on schedule with "The Plan" it will become necessary to use tools that will help you in speeding up the submission of your articles to the directories.

You will also want to use tools that will help you to speed up the process of spinning new articles out of your existing ones for submission to the directories.

Before we get into all of that lets go over some popular strategies for gaining traffic and backlinks from submitting your freshly created articles:

Submit to Article Directories

Article Directories contain detailed descriptions of numerous articles in a variety of different categories. For example, if you've written an article about starting a flower delivery service, you
could probably submit your article to dozens of Article Directories under categories such as Small Business … Home Business … Business Start-Up … etc.

After you’ve written an article, it’s in your best interest to submit the article to as many relevant Article Directories as possible so your article will gain maximum exposure on the Internet.

Remember, there are literally hundreds of Article Directories (and sub-directories) on the Internet! Many article writers submit their articles to Article Announcement Lists, which is an excellent idea,
but it’s even more important to submit your articles to as many Article Directories as possible.

This is because of the fact that although Article Announcement Lists give you exposure on the Internet, it’s only temporary. After you submit your article to an Article Announcement list, that same article cannot be submitted again.

However, Article Directories have the ability to give your articles permanent exposure on the Internet. Publishers can come across your article a long time after you first submitted it.

Unfortunately, submitting articles to these Article Directories can be quite an arduous task. They each have different forms to fill out, with different fields and different submission standards. That’s
where automation becomes essential. There are powerful software application that take most of the effort out of submitting your articles to many different Article Directories. You can submit your article to many Article Directories with just a few clicks.

Just remember that with any tool you must use it wisely and don't try to do too much too fast.

Submit to Article Announcement Lists

Article Announcement Lists are e-mail based groups that send weekly (or daily) article announcements to all subscribed members. There are also Article Announcement Lists that announce new articles that are available for reprint.

Article Announcement Lists can deliver your article to a very large audience. Subscribers to Article Announcement Lists are usually publishers, ezine editors and web-based magazines who are actively looking for articles to publish. Sending your announcement to various Article Announcement Lists will instantly get your article in front of many potential subscribers.

Typically, Article Announcement Lists allow authors to retain copyright for their work. Publishers will usually print your entire article and will also include an author’s resource box at the bottom of your article.

The majority of Article Announcement Lists have the following submission guidelines:

• Before you can submit an article, you must be subscribed to that list
• The title of the article should be included in the subject line of your message
• Articles can only be submitted to an Article Announcement List once
• Articles should have an Author’s Resource Box at the bottom of the article
• Each article should be formatted between 55 and 65 characters per line

When submitting to Article Announcement List, it is recommended that you use a standard message at the beginning of your article which states that your article is available for reprint and includes details about your article for the publisher. Some things you might want to include in your message include a word count, e-mail contact, characters per line, URL autoresponder etc.

Submit to Ezine Publishers

There’s no mystery to marketing on the Internet. It’s simple. If you don’t get website traffic, you don’t boost your subscribers or your sales. However, it has to be relevant, targeted traffic. The more
targeted the traffic, the more you are likely to succeed in reaching the right people. Getting your article published in ezine newsletters is one of the best ways of getting targeted traffic to your website.

Ezine Publishers know their audience very well and will only publish articles that they think their audience is genuinely interested in reading. Having your article published with the most popular ezines is a sure-fire way to gain exposure on the Internet. Not to mention, improve your credibility and establish you as an expert in your target market.

Submitting articles to Ezine Publishers is usually an extremely tedious and time consuming process but there is powerful software on the market that can submit your articles to Ezine publishers with just a few clicks.

Link Strategy

Below your article, in the author's resource box, you need to use good anchor text pointing back to your website. From Article directory to article directory you will want to vary your anchor text and also vary the link to which your submitted article points. You do not always want to have a link pointing to the main index page of your website. You want to gain links to other deeper pages of your site. This looks much more natural from a search engine perspective and will boost your rankings in the SERPs.

Article Submission Automation

In keeping with the concept of The Plan it becomes important to consider tools and resources that will aid you in saving time. As you know, time is money, especially when you have a clear schedule that must be met.

Submitting your articles to directories, article announcement lists and Ezine publishers

There are several tools on the market for automating submission of your articles to article directories. I will cover the ones that I have personally reviewed. There are many more to go through but at the time of this writing there are some that have clear advantage over others and I list them here in order of usefulness.

Please Note: You do not need these tools to submit your articles. They are listed here to help you automate your business. We are a firm believer in free information and if you follow the tutorials you can absolutely do all of this for free.

Article Announcer by Jason Potash

Jason Potash has put together an excellent piece of software called Article Announcer.

If you have not read Jason's Shocking Report then I highly suggest you download and read it now.

Here are the main benefits of Article Announcer:

• Allows you to manage an unlimited number of articles
• Allows you to automatically submit articles to hundreds of article directories at a pace that meets with natural backlink growth
• Allows you to submit your articles to article announcement lists
• Allows you to submit your articles to Ezine publishers for inclusion in Ezines.
• Maintains a list of hundreds of article directories for automatic submission. You can also add your own article directories that are not included.
• Simply load your article, enter your author information (with link and anchor text), choose the directories you want to submit to and watch Article Announcer go to work
• Sit back and watch as webmasters from all over the net begin to grab your article and place it on their site or in their ezine.
• Watch your backlink count grow as indicated in this video.

After careful review of Article Announcer it does indeed do what is claimed in the videos to a lesser or greater degree. It all depends on the quality of your article.

Read the Article Announcer Sales Letter.

Go to the Article Announcer Order Page.

Conclusion

Article submissions are a vital step in a solid backlink building strategy. You do not "need" the automation and management tools above but they will save you hundreds of hours of time.

If you choose not to purchase a time saving tool like Article Announcer or Article Submitter Pro, then please take the time to do your article submissions manually by following the article submission tutorial.