So you've decided to take the article marketing route to get more traffic and backlinks to your sites. One question remains: where should you submit your articles?

This is always a tricky subject, people have different luck with different article directories, and everyone has their favorites. EzineArticles.com always comes up as a firm favorite, but I also know others who swear GoArticles.com ranks better in the search engines for them.

Buzzle.com is powerful, but they require unique content so you shouldn't submit it anywhere else. SearchWarp.com were quite good, but now they have far too many rules so submitting articles is a nightmare!

What is Your Article Marketing Goal?

It depends on what you want to submit your articles for. Traffic is always the main aim of this course, but submitting articles is also a great way to get links to your site for SEO purposes (we'll discuss links later) in which case it doesn't matter if you get any traffic, as long as you get a link. So, stick to the main article directories for traffic, but don't dismiss the others as in the future they are a convenient place to get links from.

So here are my top 3 choices regarding the traffic they can get you:
EzineArticles.com
GoArticles.com
Buzzle.com (unique articles only)

But for a list of 400+ directories then head over here:
www.latenightim.com/masonworld-article-directory-rank/

Lots of people think that submitting an article to hundreds of article directories will get them a hundred times as much traffic, in my experience that is just not true. There are two ways to get traffic from article directories, getting your article to rank in the search engines, or from the directory themselves or webmasters who pick up your article from the directories.

Problems With Smaller Directories for Article Marketing

The problem with the smaller directories is that most of the traffic they get is from people who want to submit articles, not people actually reading the articles. Plus most people submit to sites like EzineArticles.com first and then submit the same article to the smaller directories. Google filters out duplicate content and should only allow one copy to rank for a search term, usually the page with the most authority (the one with the most links or just authority from being on a powerful site).

Guess what? EzineArticles.com is going to win that battle almost every time, so you can rule out ranking in the search engines with the smaller directories if you also submit to the larger ones. I believe that your time is best served in writing more articles for the top directories and looking after the ones you have already submitted, rather than submitting the same articles all over the place.

But article marketing is a fiercely debated topic; I am sure others will disagree with me! Let's dig deeper into the two ways to get traffic from your articles.

Article Marketing does not have to be hard. Check out the software that I use every day to completely automate my article marketing to hundreds of the top directories.

P.S. Don't forget to check out the special bonus just for MasonWorld.com readers.

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