Basics Of Article Writing Please

Hi Tommy,

Your title's asking a slightly different question from your post. I'll try to answer both.

There are some suggestions about article-writing in this post (the things that increase the likelihood of getting articles widely published are the same things that make them successful, too): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post3188316

No.

The only traffic that can ever bring you is a little bit of gradual, eventual, search engine traffic, which isn't going to be much use to you anyway.

Publishing articles just on your own site isn't really a traffic-generating plan at all.

No.

The last thing you want is potential customer traffic coming to your site from an article directory (we all lose most of that traffic, and would have been better off with it coming directly to our site instead. It's easy to imagine that you're getting traffic from an article directory, whereas in reality what's happening is that traffic is going to an article directory and we end up only with the minority of it that gets from there to our site. This post explains: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5075780 ).

(There's an argument for submitting an additional copy of each article, after everything else you do with it, to "Ezine Articles". Discussed below. It's only an afterthought, though.)

Yes.

Always on your own site first!

No.

Don't even think about trying that. Those wouldn't be places that have the already-targeted traffic you want. Never use "automated submission".

Here you go ...

For publishing articles, the first and foremost place, of course, should always be your own site (and nowhere else until they've been published and indexed there).

After that, anywhere that's specifically relevant to the subject of your niche, so that you can attract targeted traffic from the readers/visitors of those sites.

Suggestions on "how to find those sites" are here.

And some suggestions on "how to ask them to publish your article/post" are here.

(It's very much less important, of course, but even the backlinks from those context-relevant sites are also worth something to your site, just because of their relevance - Google values that. But of course all you can ever get from Google is "search engine traffic", which tends to be of limited value and is often temporary, too).

Don't forget ezines, as well as websites. Their traffic can often be highly targeted and responsive, and their subscribers pretty attentive.

(No - "ezines" are not the same thing as "article directories"!).

Also, offline sources (magazines, even newspapers) commonly re-publish articles, and these can produce real floods of traffic (acceptance is generally more difficult, and there's more work involved and a bigger learning-curve, but the benefits can really be dramatic!).

After that, it's also worth mentioning Ezine Articles. That isn't an ezine: it's the web's best-known article directory, and can be used as a way of achieving some additional, "passive syndication", i.e. when publishers look there for content to re-publish (that being the purpose of article directories). It's only a minor afterthought, compared with everything mentioned above, but it can sometimes be a good and helpful afterthought. (I submit all my articles there - after they've been extensively published elsewhere, of course - and I do sometimes benefit from it, a little. It's free, anyway. But don't imagine that publishing articles yourself and then putting the additional copy in Ezine Articles is "doing article marketing": it isn't, at all).

In contrast, it's not worth mentioning any other article directories, and for all the reasons explained in this post, no article marketer would want their potential customer traffic coming to their sites via an article directory anyway: that isn't how article directories work, isn't what they're intended for, and isn't a benefit they can provide, either. This thread explains how to use them: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

Very last on the list, and the "lowest of the low" are probably "Web 2.0 sites", which tend to come with all sorts of problems and disadvantages for article marketers, and very few (if any) additional benefits, for all the kinds of reasons explained here.

The rule of thumb (and it's a pretty good and valid one) is that anywhere where you can just "submit your own content" without any sort of editiorial approval/acceptance process probably isn't going to be of any real benefit to you.

Here are a few other threads (some of them quite helpful) which include a big mixture of comments on the subject of "where to submit articles" ...

Best way to submit articles?

What is the Best site for Posting Articles

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-articles.html

Article Writing & Syndication Explained?

Really dumb article SYNDICATION question

Last point coming up(!): if you see people telling you that "article marketing isn't as good as it used to be", those are people who are confusing "article marketing" with "article directory marketing". Some of what they say is true, but it isn't actually about article marketing at all and they've totally missed the point: it's just about "using article directories as a way of getting traffic" (that isn't what article directories are for, anyway, of course!). In other words, I'd give their posts a miss, if I were you - but it's a widespread misunderstanding, so there may be a few posts like that, before this thread's done.

because you would like to build a reputation you can also use the social media traffic. This will be by you joining facebook and Linkedin groups that are in your niche and posting these article there.

Those that will be attractive to you article will follow you to your site. With this method you will not have to worry about seo.

Thanks very much for the input guys.

So if I build up a collection of unique articles, 30 or so. Should I upload them to my site at once? I heard google likes a steady stream of uploads. But likewise no point someone coming to my site, seeing there is only one or two articles, it will look pretty amateurish.

Once they are all on my site, shall I then start putting them in high profile places on the net linking back to my homepage?

Thanks

Thanks Alexa. You are very helpful

Hello Mate ,

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