Submitting articles to directories is a commonly used technique for getting traffic. It has been used since the beginning of Internet marketing and even now is an valuable traffic generation tactic.

Marketers are always thinking about the simplest method of submitting articles for the quickest results. Which are the most effective strategies?

Initially, you can submit your articles to the biggest article directory, Ezine Articles. It has set itself up as being the greatest article directory in town. Both Google and marketers love it because of this.

It is a source of frustration to many people who find it hard to meet the submission guidelines or deal with the approval timescales.

You can easily get your articles accepted by sticking to their guidelines.

When they are accepted by Ezine Articles you instantly obtain benefits from it. Articles submitted to Ezine Articles usually rank highly in Google, even without backlinks to them.

Throw in a few back links and you will find your articles ranking well for keywords. Frequently your articles will rank well just for being on Ezine Articles.

When your article has been published you can do some straightforward back linking to it to give it a boost up the search engines.

To begin with, take your Ezine Article author RSS feed and submit it to RSS directories. You can do it manually or purchase a tool to do it for you. Just pick the top ten directories in Google for now if you are doing it by hand. You can always submit to more later on, so make sure you keep track of which ones you have added your feed to.

You can ping your article at one of the many ping sites. This gives Ezine Articles itself a lift as well as getting your article noticed.

Finally, social bookmark your article. Again, you can either use a tool or do it yourself. A well written article could be submitted to Digg or Stumble upon to get further links and traffic.

There are scores of other article directories you possibly will use, but none of them are are as authoritative as Ezine Articles. Google Knoll is currently very popular with marketers. So far, these don’t appear to be ranking as well as Ezine Articles, but it is a excellent manner to get the Google to take note of your sites.

You should probably only submit manually to ther other few or so major article directories. Many of the rest get very little traffic and are only worth it for the backlink. So you should outsource or automate these submissions.

If you are using articles then you need to make sure they are on Ezine Articles for maximum visitors. With a little bit of back linking to your article and you you will get traffic as your article ranks in the search engines.

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