What are the Most Effective Article Directories to Submit my Articles to?

There are two primary strategies involved with article marketing and article submission.

The first is that of submitting to a small number of high-traffic article directories and focusing on the direct traffic that comes from the article directories when people read your articles and click through to your web site.

The second strategy is that of submitting your articles to as many article directories as possible for the long-term purpose of increasing pagerank and search engine rankings, which will lead to long term traffic from the search engines.

The first strategy will get you immediate traffic, and will help your web site eventually get higher search engine rankings, and the second strategy will help you more quickly get high search engine rankings so that you can get web traffic from the search engines themselves.

Which strategy is better?

In the short term the direct traffic method is probably better, but in the long run, submitting to as many article directories as possible is probably a better approach.

The way I do it is a mix of both strategies.

I regularly submit to a short list of article directories, the ones that have higher traffic themselves, and I also submit, perhaps monthly, to a full list of article directories.

One of the things to remember about article marketing is that you are building a long-term business - not a short term flash of traffic. You see, you will be hard pressed to find anyone successful online that relies on short term flashes of traffic, unless they have found a way to guarantee they get those flashes regularly - and then of course they are not really short term. With article marketing, you must focus on the long term.

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Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 1500 articles in print and 11 published ebooks.