An Effective Article Directory And A Great Article Marketing Guide

I recently tried out an up and coming article directory operated by article marketing expert Allen Graves that is producing amazing results. For more information, you can go here.

Of course, I'll never stop using EzineArticles.com as the "go to" place to submit articles, but this new resource shows a great deal of promise along with the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a new model of article marketing. A model that seems to be exactly the kind of thing Google is trying to encourage and is therefore rewarding with good search ranking results.

Google is strongly emphasizing the user experience these days when giving advice on how to get your site ranked at the top. Here are some of the ways this article directory goes overboard to create a great user experience and make you look better as an author.

• There are no adsense or any other type of ad on the page with your article to draw clicks away from your intended target.
• You can embed images into your article.
• You can embed video into your article.
• Your resource box is effectively placed on the page 3 different ways to make sure it is easy for the reader to find more information.

My personal experience is that the lack of ads and the resource box placement alone are greatly increasing my click through rates. Even better, I'm seeing more actual views of the exact same article I had submitted elsewhere. Higher click through and more views.

On the author side of things, the article pages look great and really help make your information look impressive. Here is an example of one of my articles on FHA loan officer training. Every article is reviewed within 24 hours during the business week. If your article needs changes you receive a personal detailed email telling you what the problem is. No need to guess or have to resubmit the article several times with minor changes hoping you got it right this time.

Of course there is a price to pay for not having ads plastered all over your articles and guaranteed review times. There is no such thing as a free lunch. This article directory is a monthly membership site with a small $10/month membership fee. This fee is easily offset by two benefits of membership. First, Allen Graves has an article marketing guide that he has easily been selling at $50. This is hands down one of the best article marketing guides that I have ever read. For a limited time, you get a copy of this article marketing guide when you sign up. Second, the greater click through rates bring you scores of highly targeted potential customers. I've already made 2 years worth of fees directly from the articles I've posted.

I know what you're thinking. "How in the hell does he know how much he's made from those articles?" Here is how. One of the best things about this article directory is that you can install tracking right into your article so you know exactly how many article views you've had, where every reader came from, where they went to when they left, and even which resource box they clicked on when they left. I do that with Google Analytics, but you can also use Addfreestats, Statcounter or Woopra.

I think this article directory is the wave of the future.

You can find out more about it at http://carlpruitt.com/go/submitarticles2.

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