Article Submissions for the Win
Here is a great article on creating articles for high-quality link building. If you are in this for the long-term, then forget submitting your site to free directories and get on creating quality content in the form of articles and submit them to some of the free article submission sites on the web. Again, quality is better than quantity. Take the time to create an article that someone who is interested in your products, services, or market segment would *want* to read.
What to Write About
Most people lose interest or don’t even start on an endeavor like this because they can’t figure out what to write about. Here are a couple of ideas on things you can write about, no matter what the subject is:
- User comments and questions. If you have an existing website/blog, look at what your userbase/visitors have asked you about in the past. Use those questions to create an article answering the most asked question(s) in some detail. If nobody has commented or asked you about anything (
) then look at the pages/posts most frequently viewed to get an idea of what people are looking at when they get there. Use those topics as a starting point. Then think about what your first questions were when you first started learning about that particular subject. - Visit the Overture Search Term Suggestion Tool or Digital Point Keyword Suggestion Tool and type in the main keyword people have used to find your site (or the main keywor(s) for your site). Most of the time, you will see queries that are clearly questions people are looking for with regards to your keyword. Using the methods in Step 1, take these questions and write a quality article answering/addressing this or a combination of this and other questions.
- If all else fails, search for your top terms on Google, Yahoo, and MSN and see what the top-ranking sites write about. This will give you an indication (hopefully) of the major areas of interest for your particular market. Write a well-informed article or resource for people interested in that area.
Do’s and Don’ts
Spend some time researching your topic and resources on the web. It is always a good idea to cite other works on the web that can expand on a particular topic or area of focus. Don’t plan on creating a quality article in 10 minutes, submitting it to 50 article submission sites and expect that the traffic will come-a-runnin’ in a day. You create crap, you get crap. Have someone else read over your article. It is always a good idea to hear other people’s opinion even if they don’t know anything about the subject. Other people’s input is invaluable.
Okay, ready to begin? Check out the article I posted at the beginning. Then get crackin’. Here are some other resources:
- List of free article submission sites
- Search for “article submission” on Google
tags: article submission, link building, seo