Article Sites
Once you have completed your first article you will then be looking to post it to one of the many article sites.
There are thousands to choose from but to be honest it is only worth posting on the top 20 article sites. The reason for this is that your article will more than likely be seen on an article site that has a good Google ranking.
The top article site on the Internet is ezine articles. This site is loved by Google and this needs to be the article site that you post on without question, but do not ignore the other article sites.
Once you have posted your article on ezine articles and it has been accepted and gone live, there is nothing stopping you from copying the article and posting it on all the other top 19 article sites.
Doing this will mean that google will not rank the articles on the onther 19 articles sites as Google will see that as being duplicated content, but if the sole purpose of you posting articles is to drive people to your site then google ranking is of no concern to you.
If you want your articles to drive traffic and at the same time create back links for SEO purposes then you will need to post a slightly different article on each of the remaining 20 article sites after posting to ezine articles.
This does not mean you have to write 20 seperate articles, you can write just one article and then use what is known as a spinner to recreate as many as 20 or even 50 rewrites of the same article.
Spinning an article means that from one original article you end up with another 20 articles all slightly different to each other that you can post to different article sites.
I would advise to always use the original article to post to ezine articles and then use the spun versions to post on the other article sites.
How Many Articles?
Article marketing is a numbers game so the more articles you post the more success you will have. You could start with 2 articles per day and then spin each of those and post to the article sites. This will mean that you will have 40 articles each day being posted.
Article writing, spinning and posting is time consuming and there is no getting away from that, but there are ways to speed things up which I will explain to you in the newsletters.
The Top 20
Here is a list of the top 20 article sites based on Google page ranking and alexa ranking. You will need to visit each of the article sites and create an account.
Ezine articles is very careful on what it allows you to do and all the articles are check manually before going live. Once you open an account at ezine articles each of your first 10 articles wil possibly take 7 – 10 days to go live but once you have passed that mark you will find yor artilces being made live within 24 – 48 hours.
Many of the other article sites listed here will make your article live within a few days and on one or two of the sites your article will go live almost straight away.
Here is the list I promised you
1. ezinearticles.com
2. articlesbase.com
3. suite101.com
4. buzzle.com
5. articlesnatch.com
6. helium.com
7. goarticles.com
8. articlealley.com
9. articledashboard.com
10. ideamarketers.com
11. selfgrowth.com/articles.html
12. amazines.com
13. bukisa.com
14. articlerich.com
15. articlecity.com
16. sooperarticles.com
17. searchwarp.com
18. isnare.com
19. a1articles.com
20. articlecube.com