Submitting Articles To Article Directories
If you’re trying to make money online by getting organic traffic to monetized websites, you’ll need to optimize your sites for the search engines. One thing that you need to do to succeed at search engine optimization is to get incoming links to your websites, preferably one way links. How do you get one way links to your sites for free? Fortunately, there is a simple answer to this question - by submitting articles to article directories.
For a while website owners could simply submit their websites URL to directories to get a one-way link. Of course, most of these directories were nothing more than a huge list of websites with no real content. The major search engines don’t give much credit to links from these kind of directories anymore because they lack content.
Over the last few years article directories have become the preferred source for many webmasters to get one-way links to their websites due to the fact that they contain a lot of great content. The search engines love content, and submitting articles to article directories not only adds more content to them, but allows you to put links to your web site in the body or resource box of your article. As long as the articles you submit to article directories are rich in quality content and get approved, you’ll get some one way links to your site.
Because of the amount of great content on them, most of the major article directories have a high PageRank. Submitting articles to article directories with a high PageRank will possibly get a website indexed in Google and Yahoo within weeks or even days. There are hundreds of article directories you can find with a high PageRank. EzineArticles and GoArticles are among the best article directories to submit articles to for one way links to your websites.
It’s free and easy to join and submit articles to article directories. Make sure to sure to submit articles that contain high quality content so your article will get approved. You also must check the article submission guidelines of every directory you submit to. Most allow 2 or 3 links to a website you own (not affiliate links). Some article directories allow you to add links to the body of your articles, some only allow links in the resource box. If you have an article that doesn’t get approved it could be because of where you placed your links or the amount of links you put in. You can fix this by simply editing your article.
Another great thing about article directories is that you can also use the articles found at them for content in your websites. If you use articles from article directories for website content you can’t modify them, so you will have some duplicate content. This also means that when you’re submitting articles to article directories there’s the possibility that somebody else may use your articles for content on their websites, which will get you even more one way links since they can’t modify the content.
You can also submit articles to many article directories at the same time by using submission software. The search engines may frown on this if you’re submitting the exact same article to many different directories. It may not look good if you all of the sudden get over one hundred one way links to your website overnight. The major search engines look for patterns like this and may penalize your website in their rankings if you submit duplicate articles to a lot of different directories. Still, you may want to try using article submission software as long as you don’t submit the exact same article to hundreds of directories.
You can also create your own article directory and get content from webmasters who submit their articles to it. This is a great way to get a lot of traffic and potentially build a nice Adsense income.
For high quality one-way links to your website you should start submitting articles to article directories today.
