How To Submit Articles for Backlinks and Traffic

Writing articles and submitting them to article submission sites doesn't just give you a link on that site, but on many, many others through geometric progression. Let me illustrate.

When you submit an article to an article site, say ezinearticles.com, you are opening your article to other sites, like industry-related sites, blogs and directories that want content for their sites. They search their favorite article sites and collect articles that are of interest to them, and put them on their websites.

The better your article is on a topic, the more likely it will be collected for another site. These sites get content collected from them, and so on down the line, until your single submission is being shown on hundreds of sites.

Lets say you submit to one site. This site gets 5 other sites interested in collecting your article and do so. Those 5 sites have 5 sites each who swipe from them, and those 25 sites have 5 sites each that glean the same article. You now have your humble article on 156 sites, each one (hopefully) with your link to your website, sending you all that delicious link juice.

The better your articles are perceived, the more sites will borrow the article from each site above it, and the more levels it will be borrowed through as it progresses through the food chain of info dissemination. Over time, a really good article can be on thousands of sites from one submission.

To hedge your bets, you should submit your articles to multiples submission sites, each one giving you hundreds of links as it goes through the chain.

In this way, you can get thousands of links from 5-10 site submissions.

Right, enough delay. You want to know where you can submit your articles. Here are some of my favorites.

Buzzle - Buzzle requires not only registration, but also approval to write for them, but it's worth it! Buzzle is very highly ranked and getting approved by them gives you some credit.

Netscape - Netscape is great. It has a 9 PR, Google loves it and will get your article indexed with high priority fast, which will give you more connections and higher grade link juice. Free - Registration required.

Ezinearticles - They have a high Alexa ranking and seem to be the first place people go to submit articles. They do their homework to see if the article you are submitting is unique, so you may want to modify your article if it is on your website, or be able to prove its yours. Free - Registration required.

SubmitYourArticle.com - Free - Registration Required.

Article Base - Free - Registration Required.

ArticleSubmission.org - Provides article and press release submission, is free and requires no registration.

GoArticles - They allow links on your article which is great, their submission engine is very easy to use, and they have a high Alexa rank to boot. It's worth the 3 minutes it will take you. Free, requires registration.

Article Alley - Another good one that has brought me links quickly. They have a network of sites that work together to disseminate articles quickly and garner you more links. Free, requires registration.

Amazines.com - Amazines is neat because you can submit articles in bulk. Makes short work of a big pile of articles. Good coverage, free to use, but requires quick registration.

Idea Marketers Article Bank - They give you good links for both articles AND press releases. Good site, quick registration and free to use, although they also have some bells and whistles you can pay for if you are so inclined.

Article Slide - Recently discovered to find that it already has a great selection of articles, including some very specific categories I wouldn't have imagined - Thanks MoneyMan17.

Once you've written many articles, you can bundle them together in an RSS feed and get even more attention.

An RSS feed is a convenient collection of web pages that can be accessed and subscribed to, as well as submitted for others to find. You can place an RSS feed on your website, submit it to RSS feed sites, and even place it on your Squidoo pages using the RSS feed module.

To create an RSS feed, all you need are your articles on your website, each with a URL so it can be found. Enter the information for each article into the RSS feed code and you're done.

Here is a tutorial on how to create am RSS feed from scratch.

Once you're finished creating the RSS feed, be sure to check it using the RSS validator at the end of the tutorial.

To submit your RSS feeds to RSS feed sites, check out RSS Specifications. They have a huge list of sites where you can submit RSS feeds and blogs.

More RSS Feed Magic

Each of your lenses on Squidoo has its own RSS feed already developed. If you view your lens, you will see the RSS feed icon and link. Click the link to go to the RSS Feed for that lens.

What's cool is, you can submit that URL to RSS Feed collectors, just like you would any other feed.

Copy the url and go to any feed submitter and submit.

You can also go to a feed pinger to update faster. I like to use Ping-O-Matic or Pingoat. Just enter your page name, lens/feed/url and select the sites to ping (check em all). Click the send pings button and you will get a confirmation page of what pings went through. You've now told a variety of powerful sites that your content is updated and ready to view. These sites include Technorati, Yahoo, Newsgator and many other top notch sites.

Also, since your lens url and lens RSS url are different, you can submit them both in one submission, and it will update all sites that are interested in both.

You will probably have to chop up your article content to make it fit, but you can get more legs with your article by making an authoritative entry of it for Wikipedia and Google Knol.

Particularly if your website is a good source of information to back up your entry, Wikipedia is a good opportunity to enter content on a topic and link to your source as required.

Also, Google has created its Knol project, which allows users to create small focused pages on particular topics, much like Squidoo Lenses. Linking for sources is also expected here and permits you to be authoritative on a subject and to gather valuable backlinks.

I don't even have to bring up how powerful Wikipedia and Google are when it comes to link juice.

When you've created a good knol, you can use similar content for your Squid Knol, Squidoo's answer to Google's answer to Squidoo!

These are just 3 more places where you can submit article content.

(A tip of the hat to Lensmaster Webcodes for the idea)