Article Submission Sites

Lately I’ve been submitting some of my articles to EzineArticles, in other words, sharing blog content I’ve written with the world of blog writers. The benefits of doing this for any blogger are that, this is a legitimate method to get a few backlinks for your sites. The good news is that I was just awarded “Expert Author” status after I had submitted the first ten articles to Ezine. So I thought I’d post my Expert Author banner on this site. One small step forward in my blogging journey with the result being I can now post an unlimited number of articles at Ezine.

If you sign up for Ezine Articles, you can do the same thing. You are allowed a couple of links back to your site in the author’s box. Be sure to use your keyword anchor text to link back to your site. However, don’t submit an exact copy of your article otherwise, there is going to be a lot of duplicate content in the Google search engines. Once you have written an article for your own site, go and re-write your article and submit that article that is slightly different from your own article for your own blog.

Why would you do this? Article submission is one way to get legitimate back links to your site. Google seems to like Ezine. This makes it worth the extra effort. I also use a couple of other article submission sites, one of them being Go Articles and the other being ArticlesBase and ArticlesDashboard. GoArticles allows you to give yourself a backlink in the first paragraph which is great because if a site uses your article, they may only use the first paragraph with a “read the rest of the article by clicking here” just linking back to the article submission site which kind of cheats you out of a back link.

If you haven’t already, look into the article submission sites for your own articles for your own blog and watch your links grow. It’s a time consuming process to do it by hand and there is software available for automated article submission to the sites, but I haven’t yet got to that stage, but something tells me that my blogging journey is eventually going to have to include this on my path to making money online.