Believe me. This is what some of the pros have been keeping it to themselves. Now that I’m letting the gems out, you can steal their secrets and take advantage of this opportunity.

As of today, there are probably more than 500 article directories on the Internet and the number is still counting.

This is good news.

This is also bad news.

The good news is that you can have your articles deposited into hundreds of article directories and build a lot of backlinks to your website easily. Your website hit counter will spin. Your revenue will increase.

The bad news is that it can take a few days just to finish submitting one article to those directories. What if you have 10 more articles to be submitted?

Remember that we’re not talking about submitting to only 10 or 20 directories. We’re talking about submitting to hundreds of them.

By the time you’re done submitting your articles, you’d swear not to do article marketing anymore. The huge amount of time it takes to submit your articles to those numerous directories is killing you.

If I were you, I’d give up too.

Fortunately, for every problem there’s a brilliant solution.

Quietly, a few net entrepreneurs are creating tools and services to automatically submit articles to hundreds of article directories. With a few simple cut-and-pastes and a click of a button, you can have your articles submitted to hundreds of article directories and thousands of online publishers.

All these article directory submissions can be done even while you sleep. Isn’t it nice?

All right, I hear you loud. Where can I find these tools and services?

Before I tell you more, let me say that most of these resources are not free. They can cost you from ten to over one hundred dollars, but if you’re serious about marketing your articles, in the long run, you’ll definitely get back your investments many folds.

Of course, there are other free tools and services too. I will let you know them as well.

Here they are.

Free and Free with Paid Options

Search Warp – publish your articles on Search Warp directory and, at the same time, submit them to search engines, such as Google, ExactSeek and Alexa. Search Warp is a directory and also a search engine. It is a free service.

Article Marketer – An article submission service from FREE to $119.95, depending on the Low, Medium and High Volume Plans.

Paid Services and Tools

Article Announcer – An article submission software for the price of $379 plus shipping. It comes with a complete set of Article Marketing audio CDs. Lots of information from this package.

Article Submitter Pro – An article submission software for the price of $167, with bonus ebooks on article writing, press release and more.

The Phantom Writers – An article submission service with the price range of $35 to $200, depending on the number of articles submitted. They also provide ghostwriting service.

iSnare – An article submission service with the price range of $10 to $719.40, depending on the number of articles submitted. Current distribution is over 20,000 publishers.

Submit Your Article – You can submit up to 4 articles a month for the current low price of $37.00 per month.

As you can see above, different parties charge different rates and prices. This does not mean that you should go for the lowest price or immediately assume that the highest charge will provide better results.

You have to carefully analyze the data above and ask yourself – which one has the right budget for you and the right audience you want to reach. Then decide.

It’s obvious that the benefits of submitting your own articles to various different article directories are simply amazing.

You get free publicity.
You don’t pay for advertising.
You can have your own articles as a viral marketing tool.

And, much much more.

But, wait a minute.

“I can’t write. How can I submit my articles if I don’t even have one written?”

If this does not describe you and you’re already writing good articles on your own, then what are you waiting for?

Start publishing your own articles now.

If you belong to this “can’t write a single word” category, then stay with me here.

I don’t blame you for it but I believe this is a problem that can be fixed. I used to have no idea to write at all, but I knew my problem was because I was trying to write about something I didn’t know.

It’s a bit confusing but let me rephrase. Find something that you know a great deal about and if you are passionate enough about the topic, your juice will flow like water. Your head will generate more ideas than your writing speed can catch up.

For further help on writing an article, here are a few tips.

1. Enumerate your points, like what I’m doing now. A 500-word article can have 7 or 10 short points in it.

2. Look at some other articles of the same interest. Model (not copy) the writing skills of others.

3. Write your articles like writing stories. Writing your own experience sometimes help.

4. Write like you talk. Forget about grammar in your first round of writing. Go back to the article and fix your mistakes once the article is finished.

5. Write, write and write. Nothing helps more than practice. Your first article won’t be good, but the second one will be better. The hundredth article will be much better than the 50th. So, write more.

Still stuck with writer’s block? Then, I suggest two ways to get around.

1. Hire ghostwriters to write exclusively for you.

Ghostwriters are authors who will write on your behalf on any topics that you assign them. They’ll charge you for their service.

When the articles are complete, they are yours to keep. You can claim the authorship of the articles, put your name on these articles and often, claim the copyrights of the articles too.

Many Internet marketers are doing it simply because they don’t have time to write or they don’t have any expertise on the topics that they want to write.

2. Join private label article membership clubs.

For less than thirty dollars a month, you can get tons of contents which you can private label them with your own name.

But, be very careful because article directory owners don’t like duplicate contents in their databases. Make sure you modify the content of each article before you submit them to any article directory. You don’t want your name to get banned by these article directories.

On a special note, majority of private label rights operators put a cap on their membership sites. As soon as they have enough members, you won’t be allowed to join them until the existing members cancel their membership.

The two methods of creating your own articles above are definitely meant to help you get going. After having your articles in your hand, like most people say, the world is your oyster.

Since the beginning, you’ve been told that “Content Is King” but there are so many website owners – who have been trying to win the search engine battles – ignore the rules and try to be ‘smart’. They used software and tools to trick the search engines to get their websites indexed highly but only to find out that their websites were banned a month later.

Don’t get me wrong! There are actually some legitimate tools that can help you get your websites ranked higher. People pay a hundred dollars or more just to own them. That is fine as long as it works and does not violate the criteria search engines are looking for on a website.

But why are they doing it?

For an obvious reason, I guess – to get as much traffic possible to their websites, which in turn produces more revenue to the website owners.

And then, there are really smart marketers who go by the “Content Is King” rules and are really winning the search engine games day by day. These marketers use words to turn into traffic. With a single 500-word article, within time, they can create hundreds of backlinks to their websites – resulting in more web traffic, more sales, and more profits. Then, they write one more article, and some more.

That’s right – we call them article marketers. You can see their names when you search a keyword and their articles appear on the main page of the search engine. You click on the links and their articles come up.

Now let me tell you a little secret. These marketers don’t write these articles and post them only on their websites.

First, they write these articles and at the same time allow others to reprint them for free. That makes you able to forward these articles to other people and these other people can also forward to more people provided the content of the articles are not changed or modified. In short, these articles are viral.

Second, they submit these articles to various article directories and online publishers to get maximum exposure. The more publishers they can find, the more audience they can reach. Thus, the more sales they can make.

Think about it. If the pros are doing it and they are getting tons of traffic and sales, then you too can have the same privilege – only if you follow their steps.

Wouldn’t you want to generate sales without having to pay a single red cent?

If the answer is a resounding ‘yes’, then consider article marketing seriously.

It is an established fact that Article Marketing works by a large number of Internet Marketers in wide variety of niches. This has been repeatedly proven.  However, those who have not ever attempted article marketing tend to think that it is harder or more time consuming than it actually is.

Starts by writing an article. This can be done by yourself or you can hire a ghost writer. The cost of  ghost written articles is usually less than $10.00 for a 300 to 500 word article. It is important that the article be informative and related to your niche. The article should not sound like a sales letter.

At the end of the article, you include your ‘resource box.’ A resource box is simply information about the author, and it usually includes a link to the authors related website, a link to subscribe to a newsletter, and possibly even an email address to contact the author. If your article is ghost written, you are still the author.

Underneath the resource box, you type a statement giving others the right to reprint the article for free, as long as they don’t change it and keep your resource box attached.  This allows others to help make your article viral.

Once the article is written, you should distribute it to as many article directories as you can find. It helps to also send the article to ezine publishers within your niche for consideration. You can find lists of ezines in the various ezine directories that are available on the Internet.

There is article-submission software that can be used to speed up submitting your article in. One example of this type of software is Instant Article Submitter at www.instantarticlesubmitter.com . There are also services that will manually submit your article to directories. This is highly recommended because many article directories do not allow and will not accept articles submitted with software. One such recommended article submission service is We Submit Articles at:
www.wesubmitarticles.com .

Submitting the articles yourself is a time consuming task. If you can hire someone else to do that work, you will have more time overall to concentrate your efforts on other marketing tasks, including  producing more articles.

Here are five fantastic expert article marketing tips that can help you maximize the exposure that your articles get and that will also help convert more of your article readers into website visitors because they clicked on the link located within the resource box of your article.

1) Create A Compelling Title That Will Draw Your Readers In

You need to create an article title that will capture the attention of a potential reader and pull them in to the article content itself. This is an incredibly important step because it will set the expectations for what the individual who chooses to read your article will be expecting. Don’t promise too much, and instead create intrigue and curiosity. These are very effective emotional triggers that will pull your reader into your content.

2) Provide Genuinely Useful Content That Is Incomplete

Make sure that your article content is genuinely useful. However, make it incomplete so that the reader will subconsciously be persuaded to click on the link that you have located within the resource box at the end of the article. It’s important that you not overtly tease the reader. Instead, provide good information that is simply lacking all of the necessary details.

3) Craft An Effective Resource Box That Converts Readers Into Link Clickers

You typically only have a limited amount of space in which to compel your visitors to click on a link. The best approach is to simply encourage the reader to click on the link to continue learning more information about the topic you were discussing in the article itself. The idea here is to basically create an environment in which they feel compelled to click on the link to find out more. Don’t be too pushy.

4) Submit Your Completed Article(s) To These Article Directories

Once you have created your article, consider submitting it to the following article directories (listed in the order in which you should make the submission):

• EzineArticles.com
• GoArticles.com
• ArticleCity.com
• Amazines.com
• ArticleBase.com

5) Build Backlinks To Your Articles To Enhance Their Search Engine Ranking

In short, backlinks are essentially web links that point to your article from websites that search engines consider to be important. This helps persuade search engines to view your article as being both relevant and worthy of being prominently featured in the search results. If you are targeting a particular keyword, make sure that the so-called “anchor text” of your backlink includes that keyword.

Following these tips will help you maximize the exposure that your articles get and will also help convert more of your article readers into website visitors!

Here’s exactly what you need to do if you want to position an article that you have written to rise to the top of the search engine results page for particular keyword. This process is typically referred to as search engine optimization. Our goal is to essentially create an article that is optimized to rank well within the search engines and to do a variety of other things that we will talk about in a moment that will help persuade the search engines to realize that your article “should” be prominently featured at the top of the results for whatever keywords you happen to be targeting.

The very first step is to pick a keyword. It’s beyond the scope of what we are talking about to go into the process of keyword research, but make sure that you pick a keyword that does not have a gazillion competitors all vying for top listing in the search engines. The next step is to create an article that includes the keywords you’re targeting within the title as well as numerous times within the article itself. Don’t overdo this, and make sure that you create an article that would be appealing to human reader.

Next, submit this article to a high-ranking article directory such as EzineArticles.com or GoArticles.com. After your article is submitted and accepted by the article directory, you will receive a direct link to the article you have just submitted. So far so good? You may have to read all of this a few times for it to fully make sense. The next step will be to create backlinks that point to the link you were given by the article directory after you submitted your article. Backlinks are essentially regular web links, except that they come from websites that are held in high regard by the search engines. It is very important that the anchor text of these backlinks contain the keyword you are targeting.

Following this process will enable you to create article content that has a very high likelihood of reaching the very top of the search engine results page for the keyword that you happen to be targeting. If you don’t notice that you are at the very top, keep working on building those backlinks. That’s the big “secret” to helping persuade the search engines to feature your article near the top of the results page.

If you’re an article marketer who has traditionally created article content to be posted on your own website, you may want to consider expanding your horizons and posting your articles on popular article directories as well. Let’s talk about why you would want to do this, and whether or not it makes sense for you and your business.

Let’s first begin with a basic understanding of what we are trying to accomplish as article marketers. Generally speaking, we are attempting to generate traffic to our website. Once somebody is on our website, they can do a variety of different things which we can dramatically influence based on the way we design and organize our website. But that’s not our concern right now. The initial focus is to get them to your website. What you do with them once they are they are is something to be discussed another time.

We will assume that you understand the importance of creating article content that is useful but incomplete, and the importance of subconsciously persuading your reader to click on the link that you have placed in the resource box at the end of the article. With that in mind, ask yourself a question. What is stopping you from getting more people to visit your website based on the articles you are already creating? When you think about it, it probably has to do with the fact that there are a limited number of people who are discovering your article content when you have it placed on your own website. How can you get more people to potentially see your article?

Article directories were created many years ago to serve as content repositories for articles from a wide range of topic categories. Over time, search engines began to give these article directories increased importance and relevance in search listings. As a result, an article that is posted to an article directory can be prominently featured in search engine results pages when somebody does a search for a particular topic that you may have written about. Keep in mind, we are not talking about a uniquely created article that is being exclusively submitted to the article directory — we are talking about the same article content that you are already posting to your website.

You can essentially get more traffic to your website by submitting your article content to popular article directories. It’s quick, it’s easy, and you have nothing to lose and potentially a lot of traffic to gain!