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SEO Tips: How Can Article Marketing Help With SEO?
December 4th, 2009 | by BillEgan |Previous seo tips dealt with how social media marketing can give an overall boost to your keyword rankings, here we specifically deal with Article Marketing in this context.
If you have completed your keyword research and are clear on what keywords you want to optimise your website for 
you need to develop a strategy for getting better rankings for these keywords.
To get the most from article marketing you need to have a blog, otherwise the effort is unlikely to give a good return.
Here is a suggested approach:
Write a blog article using the following seo methodology:
- Place your keyword in the title (ideally in the first 4 words)
- Place the keyword in the description tag
- Post the blog and use it in the blog search tags
- Write a supporting article using the following techniques:
- Keyword at the front of the title
- Keyword in the body text (in Bold or Header text)
- Keyword in anchor text pointing back to your original blog post
Providing the article site has a high page rank you will get a significant boost in the authority of your blog page and the keyword should rank higher.
Also if there is a lot of traffic to the article site you may get some additional traffic (But do not expect to see a rapid increase in traffic, regard that as a bonus).
So What Are The Best Article Directory Sites?
This is in order of importance and based on a combination of Alexa rank, page rank and number of backlinks:
Alexa rank = 7, Google page rank = 8, Back-links = 34m
This is run by a small team in Google focusing on helping people have their own voice on the web and organizing the world’s information from the personal perspective.
Alexa rank = 130, Google page rank = 6, Back-links = 2.33m
EzineArticles serves millions of unique visitors monthly, has over
100,000+ RSS feeds plus 600+ email alert lists designed to announce every new article posted to over 100,000 permission-based members/publishers. The most relevant category is :
- Internet & Business online
Alexa rank = 1,703, Google page rank = 6, Back-links = 196,000
Free directory. Contains 1.7m articles and 150,000 authors. Relevant categories include:
- Internet
- Audio
- Domain Names
- Forums
- Free
- Newsletters
- Scams
- Spam
- Video
- Web Hosting
Alexa rank = 373, Google page rank = 5, Back-links = 3.3m
Article Dashboard is an online article directory for both publishers and authors. Formed in August of 2005, ArticleDashboard.com strives to become a leader in the world of online publishing by providing syndication services to website owners, ezine publishers, and more. Internet Business. Relevant categories include:
- Internet Business
- Affiliate Programs
- Auctions
- Audio-Video Streaming
- Blogging
- Domains
- Ebooks
- Ecommerce
- Email Marketing
- Ezine Marketing
- Ezine Publishing
- Forums
- Internet Marketing
- Podcasts
- PPC Advertising
- RSS
- Security
- SEO
- Site Promotion
- Spam
- Traffic Generation
- Web Design
- Web Hosting
Alexa rank = 493, Google page rank = 5, Back-links = 1.2m
A free article directory. Relevant categories include:
- Affiliate Programs
- Audio
- Blogging
- Domain Names
- ECommerce
- Forums
- Internet Marketing
- Link Popularity
- Newsletters
- RSS
- SEM
- SEO
- SMO
- Spam
- Video
- Web Design
- Web Hosting
Alexa rank = 1,386, Google page rank = 5, Back-links = 386,000
Buzzle.com is comprised of a dynamic network of authors and content contributors for finding information about everything from animals to tourism. Relevant categories include:
- Google Adwords and AdSense
- Internet Advertising
- MLM (Multi Level Marketing)
- Newsletters
- Online Affiliate Marketing
- Online Advertising and Online Marketing
- PPC Advertising
- Press Release
- Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
- Video Advertising and Marketing
- Viral Advertising and Marketing
- Website Promotion
Alexa rank = 3,149, Google page rank = 5, Back-links = 1m
Article Alley is a free article directory that was built in 2004. The main aim that surrounds the site Article Alley is to help authors promote and syndicate their content. author base of over 90,000 active authors and more than half a million pages of content. Relevant categories include:
- Blogs
- Domain Names
- E-Marketing
- Ezines
- Forums
- Internet
- Sales and Marketing
- Search Engines
- Site Promotion
- Web Design
- Web Hosting
- Webmasters
Alexa rank = 7,764, Google page rank = 5, Back-links = 361,000
Internet article directory service. Relevant categories include:
- Blogs
- Domain Names
- Sales and Marketing
- E-Marketing
- Forums
- Pay Per Click
- Search Engines
- Site Promotion
- Web Design
- Directories
- Web Hosting
- Internet
- SEO
Alexa rank = 8,523, Google page rank = 6, Back-links = 220,000
Isnare.com Articles is an article directory search engine and at the same time an article distribution service provider offering a very affordable marketing service online without sacrificing quality. All articles we host are exposed to our very high search traffic, direct traffic and organic traffic. Relevant categories include:
- Business
- Internet
- Marketing
10. Search Warp
Alexa rank = 5,915, Google page rank = 5, Back-links = 4,985
Free article directory. Internet categories including:
- Internet Help
- Chat
- Internet Security
- VoIP
- Internet Fraud
- Connectivity
- Social Networking
- Other Internet
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6 Responses to “SEO Tips: How Can Article Marketing Help With SEO?”
By Axel Culver on Dec 5, 2009 | Reply
Hello Dear,
Thank you very much for providing this information. I wish to know more about article marketing. Actually I am doing article bookmarking also so plz tell is it beneficial or not?. Although i have posted that article on my site’s blog. Please tell is it beneficial to bookmark from article site like Ezinearticle.com or site’s blog page?
Waiting for your reply..
With Thanks & Regards
AXEL CULVER
axel.culver@googlemail.com
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By stoica on Jan 10, 2010 | Reply
EzineArticles is bringing the best traffic(visitators that stay more then 1 minute on the site) the other Article Directory Sites are not working that good for me
By Mark Clayson on Feb 5, 2010 | Reply
This is my first time i visit here. I found so many entertaining stuff in your blog, especially its discussion. From the tons of comments on your articles, I guess I am not the only one having all the enjoyment here! Keep up the excellent work.
By Joel Owen on May 7, 2010 | Reply
my PPC advertising on Google Adwords is really effective in promoting my affiliate links. my Adbrite PPC advertising cost seems to be higher than Adwords.;-.