What you must do before you submit to Article Directories.

The benefit of article marketing might have ceased to exist as for as link building is concerned but it would certainly enhance one’s writing skills enormously. I would urge you to write articles and submit o top article directories but before you submit, you should note down the following 6 points.

1. Have a clear understanding of what you are going to conclude in your article. Please remember that there is only one reason why you write an article, and that is to give quality information to your readers.. If the article is not focused on this primary and most important purpose, it will fail to reach the minds of the article reader.

2. Think hard to come up with the most attractive headline. It is the only way to get people to read what is in your article. If you fail to compose ‘click worthy’ subject line, your effort will go in vain.

3. Start by writing a summary of your article which should tell the reader what is in it for them, it can be written in 4 sentences that are meaningful and make the reader to browse further down your article. While composing the summary of your article, ensure to mention the keyword(s) you are focusing.

4. Proof read your article twice. Do not publish it on the day you wrote your article. Think about it when you are in bed. Invariably, you will realize your mistakes or get ideas to polish your article. Publish it after reading it again the next day.

5. Do not overdo your submission. I would say you submit to only one high quality article directory which in my mind is Ezinearticles.com Nothing can beat it. They will keep rejecting your article till it meets their standard. That site will make you a top notch content writer.

6. Finally, you introduce yourself clearly in the author bio. If you have a website, link to it with proper anchor text. Initially, if you think your website is not popular, mention just the URL of your site without using anchor text.

You might have read these points before several times which is a proof that these are important.

Cannot write a single word but still want to eat the fruits of article writing?

Don't write articles!

If you linger too much in the blogosphere, you will soon find yourself hating the word, 'article marketing'. I know it gave me that feeling when I came across at last 15 times a day in the internet marketing related forums, blogs and social media discussions.

Those who scream at you to try article marketing to increase backlinks and targeted visitors don't ever teach you how to articles because most of them just rewrite existing articles and use automatic article submission software to propagate their junk in 100 or so article directories where they get buried quickly that even search engines are afraid to enter.

So what is the point of advising you to write articles? Why they are shouting at the top of their voice that article marketing is the order of the day?

It is just to show they too joined the bandwagon and they have claimed naturally a right to brag.

After 5 years of blogging and after 6500 posts, let me tell you one thing:
Blogs are more avidly read than articles. Every article directory is visited only by those who want to rewrite them. Information seekers treat article directories as junk with the exception of a few sites.

Blogs posts that are less than 250 words serve the purpose. They are frequented by human beings.