Critical Steps To Online Success--submit Your 5 Articles To 5 Or 6 Article Directories.
Let me tell you…submitting your articles to article directories can be quite the time consuming experience. But it has to be done because that's how you get your exposure to the readers.
After all...no readers, no list!
It probably takes 5 to 10 minutes per article, but after a while you develop an assembly line mind set and you just roll through it. You quickly learn the quirks of each of the directories you are listing with.
Ezine Articles has the most stringent requirements but gives you better reader response, by far, than any of the other directories and very detailed article performance stats.
http://ezinearticles.com is the URL.
If you are strapped for time you could choose to just list with this one directory. I estimate you get 5 to 10 times the readership from Ezine Articles than from any of the others. But you can double your exposure by submitting to another 5 directories and it takes less time and mental output to submit an article than it does to write one.
A few of the bigger directories are:
Ezine Articles
Go Articles
Article Dashboard
Article Alley Article Base
Easy Articles
Typically all of the directories want you to submit articles between approximately 250 words and 1250 to 1500 words in length. Your text should be created in a text editor, not in MS word because the Word formatting and quotation marks can destroy your articles appearance on download.
Most want you to wrap your text at around 65 characters per line but Article Dashboard does not accept articles with hard line breaks.
A good text editor can help immensely here-you'll need something more powerful that MS Notepad if you don't want to be counting each line. Lots of the directories won't accept hard returns at the end of lines anyway.
You need to supply a personal profile or a "resource box" as it is called which is appended at the end of the article. This should contain your contact information (email and website) a brief sentence about who you are if you like and a link to your opt-in box with the offer of a free gift.
You can do something like mine (see below) or you can just search through some of the articles on this site and you'll get the idea.
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