Article Marketing Part II: Submit Your Articles
This is part of the series An Online MLM Marketing Roadmap.
In Article Marketing Part I, we talked about how to write your articles for online MLM marketing and promotion. Now that you have some articles written, it’s time to submit them to media outposts around the web. Having your expert MLM articles posted around the web will give you a strong online presence. This also helps you easily attract prospects.
First, you have to find the right article directories, the ones with the most traffic so that you can reach the greatest number of prospects. Most successful MLM article marketers agree that submitting each article to 5 or 10 directories is sufficient to get good traffic. To find listings of the best article directories, just Google “top 10 article directories.” This will pull up listings that give you the article directories with the highest traffic or rankings. Once you narrow the list down to the top 5 or 10 best suited for your articles, go to each one and sign up for an author account. Some of the best article directories include EzineArticles, SelfGrowth, and GoArticles.You’ll be required to create a profile for each so set aside a little extra time for this step.
Four Tips for Article Submission
Once you’ve created all your accounts in your targeted article directories, all you have to do is submit your articles on a regular basis. Here are a few tips that MLM article marketers use to help make the process easier and help their articles turn out better.
1) Preparation
Gather up 3 or 4 articles to submit at once. This will save you time. Before you begin the submission process, make sure you have a keyword-dense title, list of keywords, short description, and resource box (a short blurb about you and your contact information, including your website address) written for each article ahead of time. Most article marketers have these in a spreadsheet or text document from which they can easily copy and paste. This will save you a lot of time.
2) Resource Boxes
The resource box is a text field where you can tell people who you are and what you do. Be sure to include your web address and/or your blog address (if applicable). Brag a little in your resource box and show off your expertise. Some article directories will have a separate field for your resource box and others will not. For the directories that do not offer a resource box, be sure to include your resource box information at the end of your article, separated by some spaces or some characters, like a bunch of plus signs in a row.
3) Links
Many article directories will not accept affiliate links (that is, links that have anything after the main domain name). If you want to direct prospects to an affiliate link, do what top article marketers do. Go to a domain name service like GoDaddy and buy a relevant domain name, such as health4you, and have it forwarded to your affiliate link. Then just list the domain name you bought from GoDaddy in your resource box instead of your affiliate link.
4) Text Cleaning Software
If you use a word processing program to write you articles chances are that the text of your article will contain special characters, like smart quotes (the quotes that curve inward rather than being perfectly vertical) or em dashes (the super long dashes). The bad news is that these will show up as funny characters on the internet and nothing makes you look like less of a pro article marketer than having that kind of junk in your article. To avoid this problem download any free text cleaning software. We use one called textsoap. Clean your article of smart quotes and em dashes, then save the article in text format. When you go to submit your article, make sure you submit the “cleaned” version of it. To double check your work, preview your article before submitting it. Most article directories give you this option during the submission process.
Follow these simple tips developed by the best MLM article marketers in the world and you’ll do just great submitting your articles. If you develop a regular schedule for writing and submitting your articles the process will be even easier. You’ll be a pro before you know it!
Have any article submission tips that work well for you?
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