One of the best ways to boost your personal brand and drive traffic to your site is by submitting “expert” articles to certain sites. By establishing yourself as a renowned expert in a certain field, people will start to regard your site as a trusted source for information. In other words, the traffic you drive to your site will actually stick.
Luckily, there are many free article submission sites that will allow you to include a short bio and link back to your site. Below are 10 sites that are known for sending good traffic.
1. Ezine Articles – Regarded as the most popular place to submit articles, building a portfolio of popular content on Ezine Articles will really help your traffic.
2. Buzzle – Buzzle is as popular as Ezine Articles these days and the site will randomly feature authors throughout the site, which is an added bonus for attracting readers.
3. Gather – This is an article submission resource, as well as a social networking site. Here, you will be able to connect with other writers and readers in order to increase your traffic.
4. Associated Content – You can publish for free on this site or promise exclusive rights and get paid for your work. Associated Content is a great tool for boosting your brand, though your articles won’t prominently feature a bio and backlink like some other sites.
5. Articlesbase – This is a fairly new directory of articles that has gained a lot of momentum recently. Use this site properly and you might drum up a lot of viral traffic.
6. ArticleGeek – Another popular article directory, ArticleGeek is designed to garner you some targeted traffic, which is always a good thing.
7. ArticleCity – This is one of the easiest sites to quickly submit an article with a biography and backlink. ArticleCity is quickly becoming one of the most popular places to read and submit free articles.
8. Article Blotter – This site has recently seen a facelift and is attracting a lot of new readers and writers.
9. WebArticles.com – This site is mainly focused on articles about family and parenting. If this is related to your niche, then WebArticles.com is a great place to find some targeted readers.
10. Power Publish Directory – A UK site, this directory focuses on business-related topics and asks that all articles be at least 500 words long.
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This post was contributed by Heather Johnson, who is an industry critic on the subject of Business Cards. She invites your feedback at heatherjohnson2323 at gmail dot com.
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Good & helpful post.
Thanks for sharing.
Oh by the way…nice logo.
Graham
Artical marketing is my favourite method to generate “Free” targeted traffic.
It’s a long term traffic strategy. You can’t receive immediate traffic.
Persistence and consistent to submit articles to article directories is the key factor for you to generate “streams” of traffic to your blog/website.
To Your Success
Bryan Hee
Thanks for sharing this list, I already submit articels to some of them but some of them I wasn’t aware of but will now be using!
gthank you very much for great information,I will start to use your list to supmit my articels.
I think http://www.docstoc.com was shamelessly left out.
A good list. I have used a few of these and they have definitely helped my rankings.
I’d also recommend Article Dashboard and Go Articles.
Thanks for sharing Good list
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