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Selasa, 24 Mei 2011

How to Choose the Best Directories - Article Marketing Secrets for Coaches

Article marketing sites or directories are the most commonly used websites by article marketers. These websites will publish your articles and in exchange, you'll get to build inbound links for your website through your resource box. Right now, there are hundreds of directories in the online arena. The question I usually get from new article marketers is: do I need to use all of them? Well, the answer to this question is no. This is because not all directories are created equal; some do not have what it takes to really help you realize your internet marketing goals.
Here's a guide on choosing the best directories to use:
1. Check out the page ranking. Get the list of article marketing sites and check out their page ranking. You would want to use those that are obviously preferred by Google and other major directories. These websites can help you get your articles on top of relevant listings each time the keywords that you're targeting are searched for by your target audience.
2. Know their guidelines. Check out the rules of the directories that you would like to use when it comes to the quality of the articles that they accept and publish. If they don't have human beings who check the articles that they receive, they're no good. This means that they'll accept anything and that they don't really care about giving their visitors great reading experience. You don't want to be associated with this kind of directories, right?
3. Go with directories that have faster review and posting time. You would want to get your articles published as soon as possible. So, choose those directories that have faster review and posting time. Highly recommended directories' posting time is usually 5-10 days depending on the type of your membership. Others will take more than 30 days to publish your articles. Believe me, you don't want to waste your time on these.
4. Choose directories that offer support and guidance. There are very few directories that offer assistance to their contributors. From time to time, they send out informative newsletters with the aim to help article marketers to improve the quality of their articles or to help them become more productive. They also offer tips and advice as to how their contributors can energize their article marketing campaign.
5. Do not use those directories that allow blatant ads on article body. Directories that allow their contributors to insert sales pitches, self-serving links, and blatant ads on article body are no good for giant search engines. Obviously, these directories do not care if their visitors will get useful information or not.
6. Use directories that are being used by successful article marketers. Successful marketers have been doing the process for several years. I am confident that with their experience and exposure, they know which directories are really helping them realize their goals.
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