Writing and Submitting Articles

How to increase blog traffic without financial investments

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You blog promotion through your articles published at other blog sites or article directories is a great way to develop exposure to new readers. It allows you to express yourself on unusual for you promotion channels and to bring in new readers who would not have come to your official blog otherwise.

For the starter, you can base your article on your own blog posts, tweak them a little bit, add eye-catching caption and graphics, and you have your article ready. Or you can write the first article about your blog, its purpose, its milestones, and about yourself as a blog creator. When article is ready, it could be submitted to the bloggers’ communities, article directories, direct publishers, and other blogs. Each of these opportunities can present each own benefits and should be closely evaluated while designing the marketing strategy for your blog promotion.

We will highlight the articles submission to the free articles directories, representing the most popular source for the hosting of article publication. They offer multiple benefits by spreading a word about you and your points, and gaining back links to your blog from outside location. Also, if your article is of high quality, other webmasters might pick it up and run on their sites. As all article directories site require the publishers to retain the original links, planted inside the article, this can create the back links to your blog multiplication from each posted article.
Rated list of the top 40 free Articles Directories is posted on RateItAll. Feel free to raise your voice, rating the listed items and adding new:

http://www.rateitall.com/t-24434-free-articles-directories.aspx

For those, who prefer the automatic way for articles submission, there are multiple free software titles that can do that with minimum user assistance. As in all cases of the automatic submission, the effectiveness of the process is quite questionable. I personally did not test any of these programs, so I will just give you couple of links for software downloads on your own. Please, drop some comments on your impression from the automatic software performance.

Artemis Lite: http://www.artemislite.com/
Free Article Software: http://www.freearticlesoftware.com/
Article Submitter: http://articlesubmitter.imwishlist.com/
Article Manager: http://www.part-time-work-at-home-opportunities.com/downloads/

Additional Reading:
http://blogbusinessworld.blogspot.com/2003/12/blog-promotion-writing-articles.html
http://danemorgan.com/article-marketing-blog-promotion/19/
http://ezinearticles.com/?Free-Article-Submission-Software-For-Free-Traffic&id=597771
http://www.imnewswatch.com/archives/2007/02/free_article_su.html?visitFrom=1