Article directories are websites that publish free articles. These articles are usually put there
by whoever owns the copyright to them as a method of promoting their online business.
Each published article has the owner's byline placed under it so that those who
eventually read the article will know who wrote it (or at least who
owns it) and will be able to get in contact with or visit their website
for further information.
Article directories are a
great place to put your articles so that they will help make you money.
When you choose to use this method, people who are interested in your product or service
will see your article, view you as an expert in the subject, and, as a result, will
visit your website. Even if you cannot write or do not have any
knowledge on the subject on which you are promoting (for example for
you run an affiliate website), you can always hire a writer to do the
work for you. Getting quality articles written will be expensive up
front, but they will pay for themselves in no time, either through
affiliate sales or selling your own services, and everything from then
on is pure profit.
Let's take a
real life example. Imagine that you are an accountant working from
home. You write an article on an accounting topic and place it on
various article directories. Those who are looking for the subject you
wrote about will read your article, see that you have the knowledge and
skill that is needed to do a job for them, and visit your website or
contact you via e-mail.
Your article has just gained you a new client who
may use your services regularly, but will definitely give you a nice
profit at least once.
Furthermore, since you
have posted it on a free article directory, others who have affiliate
websites about accounting will inevitably use your article for their
website. Since they must attach your byline to it, this will bring you
even more exposure for every website that re-posts your article. This
because you could be benefiting from the traffic that they get to their website.
There are a slew of article directories out there for you to use. Your best bet is to put a slightly different copy of each article on as many as possible for maximum exposure. This can eventually help to bring more traffic and customers to your website, which will lead to new orders and more profit. However, make sure that each article is unique and somewhat different from all the others as Google, and other search engines, tend to ignore duplicate copy....often including the original!
Of course, this can be quite time consuming. That is why I like SubmitYourArticle.com. Not only do they submit your article to multiple websites, but they have software which allows you to create alternate insertions so that a wide variety of unique articles can be "spun" out of one.
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