Web Site Promotion: Getting Exposure For Your Promotional
Articles
by Ken Leonard Jr
Published on this site: September 20th, 2005 - See
more articles from this month
Hopefully you have followed all of the advice found online
over the last couple of years about writing articles as part
of your overall web site promotion plan. Since you have been
spending valuable time writing articles, don't let your hard
work go to waste. Give your articles the exposure they deserve
so you can get all of the rewards that you deserve.
Writing a useful, targeted promotional article is the important
first step. But getting your articles published by as many
webmasters and ezine/newsletter owners as you can is just
as important to get good results from your efforts. The wider
your exposure, the larger the amount of targeted traffic that
will flow to your web site. It is your job to make sure that
your articles are widely distributed on a regular basis, if
you want the same results the experts get.
It is true that you can carry on a promotional article campaign
with no out of pocket expense. But manually submitting your
articles to individual announcement lists and dozens of free
content web sites can get very time consuming. After you do
this a few times, you will see how much time it really takes.
And that's after spending a substantial amount of time brainstorming,
writing and editing your article first! If you are able to
judge the value of your time, it will be obvious that it is
costing you some serious cash doing all of your own article
submissions.
Here are two inexpensive suggestions that you can use to
give your articles a healthy boost of exposure, while giving
you a lot more time to concentrate on activities that directly
produce revenue for your home business.
First, consider hiring an article distribution service that
will submit your articles to the major lists, groups and online
directories for you. Adopting this practice will give you
more extra time than you ever imagined. Just write your article,
email it to your distributor and that's it!
Do this on a regular basis and you will see a steady rise
in your web site traffic. Your site's listings in the major
search engines will also improve in rank over time, if you
are consistent with your web site promotion efforts.
Paying someone to distribute your promotional articles every
month is a smart approach to using articles for web site promotion.
I have used just such a service for close to two years now
and suggest that you do the same, if you want big results
from your article promotions. Bill Platt, owner of http://www.thePhantomWriters.com
does a good job of distributing my articles. His rates are
very reasonable and he's a good guy, too. (I am not affiliated
with Bill Platt in any way I'm just a satisfied customer
Another good way to spend a few dollars and get some big
exposure is to open a free writer's account at www.IdeaMarketers.com
.After you submit an article to their free content directory
(yes,you have to manually submit to this one site, but it's
worth it...), you can bid on your listing's placement on the
main page and subject specific index pages. For a $5-$15 bid,
you can have an ad for your article (including a photo of
YOU) listed prominently on this site for an entire week. Your
writer's account will even show you how many hits your article
has received so you can compare how one of your articles does
versus another. (BTW, I am not affiliated with http://www.IdeaMarketers.com,
either
You will often see articles that I've written listed at the
top of the main IdeaMarketers.com home page, along with other
notable online marketers and writers. You will enjoy the results
you get from making a small bid on your article listing, as
I do.
It is possible to write and submit articles for web site
promotion and not spend any cash. Hopefully you now see that
by spending a small amount each month to support your article
promotion efforts, you can enjoy much better results than
many other article writers are getting.
Ken Leonard Jr Internet Home Business Coaching Get advice
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