Article Marketing For Success - Part 2

Now that we have covered the basics of creating your articles, you may be asking: Now What?

The reason I am very confident of the above statement is that I remember asking that very question. What I discovered is that there are a number of different approaches that you can take and as you can imagine there are pros and cons to each of these.

You can pay to have your articles published to 100s even 1000s of article directories, you can publish you articles to any number of article directories you wish, but most importantly you need to get your articles on the Internet where they can be found.

While publishing them to 100s or even 1000s may sound like a great idea, in truth you will get the maximum benefit by finding the top ranked article directories and publishing your articles to those directories.

There are a couple of things that you will want to look at when looking for the top ranked article directories as a new home for your articles.

The two most important factors to consider are:

1) The amount of traffic an article directory receives
2) The page rank assigned to an article directory by that all important search engine Google

Great, now how do we determine these things? Well as luck would have it I will list the top twenty sites below based on both traffic and Google page ranking. As with everything on the Internet things change and in many cases change very rapidly. Needless to say 6 months from now this list may look very different for any number of reasons. With that in mind the website Alexa is a great place to check from time to time to see how your favorite article directories are ranking.

While we know about these two all important factors I will include a few more details that you may be interested in. Website traffic is obvious when looking at your article directories. Publishing your articles to a website that has no or limited visitors will get you minimal to no results. On the opposite end of that scale sites with the largest amounts of traffic will get you the maximum benefit. Pretty straight-forward, right?

As for the Google page ranking, you want websites that have high Google page rankings linked back to your site to help boost your placement in the search engine. Typically, I try to get as many sites that have a page ranking of 5 or better to link back to my website, but there are a lot of great quality sites with page ranks of 3 or 4.
................................Alexa..........Google
Rank...URL......................Rating.........Page Rank
1.....ezinearticles.com.........224............6
2.....ArticlesBase.com..........1,100..........5
3.....buzzle.com................2,218..........6
4.....pubs.acs.org/hotartcl.....7,538..........7
5.....searchwarp.com............7,579..........4
6.....goarticles.com............16,491.........6
7.....articlealley.com..........17,021.........5
8.....articledashboard.com......21,055.........6
9.....articlesnatch.com.........23,860.........2
10....ideamarketers.com.........24,158.........3
11....webpronews.com............26,955.........6
12....amazines.com..............30,044.........3
13....isnare.com................30,549.........4
14....upublish.info.............32,125.........4
15....articlegarden.com.........32,529.........4
16....365articles.com...........34,692.........0
17....articlemaniac.com.........36,539.........4
18....articlesfactory.com.......37,000.........5
19....article-buzz.com..........37,057.........3
20....articlecodex.com..........37,223.........3

Now that you know how to get your articles written and where to publish them add article marketing to your overall marketing plan and start publishing those articles several times per week. Ideally you will want to publish at least five articles per week, but if you find this to be a bit daunting start with one or two per week. Once you find that it is not nearly has challenging as you may have first thought you will be publishing 5 or more articles per week in no time.