The guide I wrote on Ranking in Google Places received/receives quite a bit of traffic. Obviously, this is a big deal to small businesses; what with Google Pages listings showing among organic search results. I’ve been tracking the types of search terms that come through to the article, and wanted to answer some of […]
October 9, 2006 I have posted a couple of times on articles/press releases and their seemingly unknown importance. Now I want to discuss optimizing your article/press release, and give you a great deal of resources for submitting your them. Optimization. First, we want to make sure our articles are indeed optimized. By this I mean, make sure they discuss the appropriate subject matter at hand. Make good use of your target search terms, without stuffing or spamming. Most distributor sites will allow you to place links in the article. Make use of that if at all possible. Some won’t allow that, but give you a section that you can. Use that as well. And make the article worthy. If you want to spread the word on your business, and can offer something good, write an article or press release. If you want rankings or hits, look elsewhere. the online community isn’t as naive as it used to be. They are cunning and educated. Don’t make use of this marketing solely for search engines. Writing a good article or press release will bring links and traffic inadvertently if done correctly. Submission. So, now you have an article written. Where to put it. Well, here is a nice list that should help you out a bit.
Article Science
Articles.pn
Article City
Isnare
The Web Llama
Buzzle
Article Dashboard
Easy Articles
Free Sticky
Go Articles
Article99
Alumbo
Article Alley
Article Sphere
Article Fusion
Articles Submit
Articles Base
Super Archives
eArticles Online
Articles Exchange
Article Finders
Author Connection
Article Point
Publish 101
Article Home So that should get you a little more than started.
Don’t want to write your own articles? Don’t feel like submitting to all of these? There are plenty of services out there that will do either and/or both for you. Or you can e-mail me, I know a guy. Everyone have a good weekend.
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