How to Submit Articles
Lesson 12 from You Can Make Money Writing
It is time to look at the mechanics of how to submit articles
to directories. It is generally easy, but you have to be sure
you understand the rules of each directory. Some take submissions
with HTML tags, while others don't. Some won't allow HTML in
the article, but will allow it in the author's resource box.
Others automatically make a link out of anything that starts
with "http://". Some require an article description,
and some don't. A few even require a subtitle of some sort, but
they are rare enough that I suggest just quickly making one up
on the spot.
When you open an account with the article directories, you
may want to use the same email address, "user name"
and password for all of them. Some may assign you a password,
but they usually let you change it once the account is open.
Having the same login information for all your accounts will
make things go faster. If you are worried about security, have
the same word in each password, with different numbers for each
directory.
Keep a List of Directories
I strongly suggest that you make the whole process as systematic
as you can. Start by making a list of directories to submit your
articles to. I keep my own list in a Note-book file labeled "Article
Directories."
Below are the ones I was submitting when I wrote the first
version of this e-book a while ago. This was actually copied
directly from my file, so you can see my notes and I can explain
a few points.
Note: The information on some of these may have changed, and
some may even be closed down by the time you read this. The list
below is just meant to show you how to organize the article submission
process.
1. http://www.ezinearticles.com/members/ (PR 6, The best,
PR on articles)
2. http://www.goarticles.com/ulogin.html (PR 6 and easy)
4. http://www.ideamarketers.com/login.cfm (PR 5 and some traffic)
7. http://www.buzzle.com/admin/login.asp (PR 6, the second
best)
15. http://www.amazines.com/member_login.cfm (PR 5, easy,
used by other directories)
20. http://www.easyarticles.com/account.php (PR 6, easy)
21. http://www.articledashboard.com/submitarticles.php (PR
6, PR on articles)
26. http://www.articlealley.com/author_login.php (PR 5, PR
on articles)
- 12. http://www.articlecity.com/article_submission.shtml
(PR 5, PR on articles)
- 24. http://searchwarp.com/CP.asp (PR 5, gets traffic)
- 27. http://www.articlesfactory.com/login/ (PR 5, PR on articles)
First of all, you'll notice that they are numbered, but there
are numbers missing. Number your directories. As you submit an
article, jot that number down - preferably in the same file as
the article - so you'll know which directories you have submitted
it to. In this way, as you find other directories, you can go
back and submit old articles to them without any confusion over
which were submitted where.
The missing numbers are directories that I don't use any longer.
They went out of business, or I didn't get good results and so
dropped them, or they started charging a fee, or they changed
their system and made it too much work, etc. The remaining ones
need to keep the same numbers, so I know where I have submitted
my articles.
You'll also notice that the URLs are not to the homepages
of these sites. This is to save time. I keep the URL of the submission
page or login page on the list, and I copy and paste this into
my browser to go straight there. You could also put a list in
a file in your "favorites" on your browser. These little
efficiencies help. I used to submit an article to these eleven
directories in about 15 minutes, sometimes less (now my wife
Ana does the submissions).
The last three on the list (the ones with dashes) are separate
because they don't take HTML. It is more efficient to submit
to all the directories that accept HTML first, and then the others.
It just speeds things up.
The notes are to remind me why I am using each directory.
This keeps me from making bad decisions. For example, I almost
stopped using Amazines.com because I saw no traffic in website
reports, but then I remembered that several other article directories
take most of the articles found there, so I added a note about
that advantage.
The "PR" number refers to the Google PageRank of
the homepage of the directory. There will be more on what that
means in lesson fourteen. Bottom line: higher is better, because
the links you are creating there will considered more important
by search engines. "PR on articles refers tot the fact that
the actual pages my articles are on are regularly developing
PageRank beyond "0." This is good.
(The list above will likely be out of date by the time
you read this, and will not be regularly updated. However, I
will note good directories as I discover them, in my newsletter.
The subscription form is on the homepage and to the right.)
Next we look at how to submit articles more efficiently with
a six-step routine I have used.
Continues here... Article
Submission Guidelines
Note: This is part of the book, You Can Make Money
Writing. There are links to all the all the lessons/chapters
on the home page.
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