Tracking and Managing Article Submissions

 Article submissions have numerous benefits and can be an extremely effective way of boosting the popularity of your website by creating numerous backlinks to it from every website that chooses to use your articles. These backlinks are an excellent way to boost your site’s popularity among the various search engines and should increase your exposure.

Basically, you write articles on certain topics and submit them to article submission sites, or use an article submission service. These articles are available free to whoever wants to use them on the condition that the page where it is published contains your details and a link back to your site.

Needless to say, the better the article, the more likely it will be used. This is widely known as article PR, with PR in this case standing for page rank. If successful, you will create numerous backlinks and drive significant traffic to your site.

However, creating articles that will be successful in this regard requires thought and skill. Firstly you will have to be able to write an informative article that reads well enough to catch the reader’s attention.

In addition, the topics of your articles will need to be of interest to a wide range of readers and website owners. When your articles are chosen, it is a win, win situation – you get increased exposure, while the publisher gets free content.

Of course, you do not necessarily have to write your own articles. You can commission ghost-writers to do it for you. Of course this will be an added expense, so if you have time you will probably want to do it yourself.

Before you put pen to paper, you should sit down and think about what you want to write about, who will read it and where you want to publish it. Try also to stick to specific topics. If you wish, say, to write a personal finance article, pick a particular area such as fixed-rate mortgages or credit cards. Research the subject well, read some other articles on the subject and set about the task.

Keep your writing style simple with short sentences, maintain a friendly tone and be as helpful as possible, and you will catch the attention of readers and prospective publishers.

Once you have your article, or articles, written you should start submitting them to article submission sites. There are loads of them out there, as a quick web search will reveal. There are also plenty of submission services that will do the job for you. As you submit more and more articles to various sites, and you receive more backlinks to your site or sites, you should track where these links are coming from. Look at which articles and which subjects are the most popular and write more articles in these areas.

Also track which article submission sites are yielding the most backlinks and concentrate on these. With a bit of effort and a bit of luck you should be able to boost your page ranking.