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It is a marketing truth that "Content Is King". Good, keyword rich, content is what drives online traffic through search engines and gives the visitor a reason to keep coming back to a website. This is often referred to as "sticky content". As a traffic-generation tool it is unsurpassed.
Webmasters and publication editors have an insatiable appetite for tightly written "niched" articles that are relevant to their web sites or publications themes.
This need is your opportunity...
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"An editor of an ezine, newsletter or magazine has a never-ending need for good content.
By regularly supplying the media with well written articles Gelson Fernandes Switzerland Jersey , you build a never-ending supply of links and traffic to your own websites.
How?... Well, the secret is in the bio. Each article you submit for publication has your own "authors bio" that gives full attribution and links to your site. This is the payment you receive for having supplied the articles... it is a payment which gives you long-term dividends!
Not only will your article be presented to many thousands of subscribers initially... but those same articles (with your bio and links) will be archived on the publications websites. Those archived articles become fodder for search engines which not only provide on-going traffic to the publishing site... but to YOU as well. It is truly a WinWin proposition.
NOT A WRITER?... NO PROBLEM...
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OK... YOU HAVE AN ARTICLE... NOW WHAT?
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ARTICLE DIRECTORIES...
Article directories are websites which categorize and archive your articles... and promote them to editors and publishers. Most are free... but some are fee based. They all provide a submission system for you to provide your articles to them. In addition, most have their own internal list of editors and publishers that they announce your new article to.
TIP: The simple act of listing your articles in the directory archives will provide you instant incoming links to your website which could increase your site traffic and page ranks.
Here is a partial list of article directories. (Please note that companies go out of business occasionally and you may run into a link which no longer works.)
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You might want to consider doing a "mail merge" to this list and personalize your submission to the specific editor by name.