What Is Article Marketing? (Part 2)

Hi Everyone,

Circulating an article can be a very time consuming task. A lot
of people outsource this chore, and pay for someone else to
distribute the article. Other people do it themselves, with software
that automates the process. However, many of the best article
repositories do not approve articles that are auto-submitted. So,
keep this in mind when you decide on how you are going to
submit your articles. In the end, the manual submission of articles
is always the best.

Basically, you visit each article website, either sign up for a new
account or log on, and copy and paste all of the information into
a form that is supplied for article submissions. A lot of article
repositories have a manual approval procedure, so it can take at
least a week before your article appears on the site.

Once you have submitted your article to the article repositories,
you may want to present it to newsletter publishers. I'm referring
to those newsletters and ezines that cover issues within your
niche. You should consider creating your own database of those
publishers. You will find them by frequenting newsletter directories.

Look first for newsletters in your niche, and check out whether
they accept articles. Then, you can load those article submission
email addresses into your autoresponder, and each time you
compose a fresh article, send it off to them, requesting publication.

Another step you can take, is visiting forums that interest your
target market. For example, If your niche is weight loss, you can
visit weight loss forums, and see if they accept articles. If so,
submit your article to those forums. If not, then simply put the
article on your own website or blog. You should still consider
signing up to those forums, because it is perfectly acceptable to
make a post and then mention in your signature, that you have
an article about the subject on your website. Make sure that you
also place a link in your signature, so that people can then go to
your website or blog and read the article.

Oh yes, one more thing, please make certain that your post is
relevant to the topic being discussed, and that it provides useful
information.

Finally, I am not a great fan of forums, myself. I find that they can
become very wasteful of my energy and too time consuming. So,
be careful of them, and always be mindful of your main purpose
and focus.

All the best,
Laurie