How to use Article Directories for link Building

We use lots of link building techniques for promoting our website in search engine and for achieving better page rank. Till date, article submissions is one of the very few techniques that really helps a website perform better on search engines. Till the start of 2011, lots of Internet marketers and seo’s used to submit their single article into hundreds of article directories. But since Panda update from Google in February 2011, that trend has changed a lot. Now, to get the most of article marketing, we should limit our article distribution to very few article directories only like top 5 or 6 article publishing websites with highest page rank and authority. In today’s article, I’m going to share how to make maximum off article directories for maximum and search engine benefits:

Targeted Contextual Links

Each article website allows some links to the submitted website in the article body or in the resource section. Every ezine publishing website has it’s own rules and regulations regarding the use of links like these days ezinearticles does not allow links in the article body and one can expect maximum 2 links in their resource section on this website. But the good thing about all articles accepting websites is that, they all provide us contextual backlinks, which is good for higher search engine rankings and page rank.

Top Article Websites

If you start searching for article directories on Internet, you will end up with thousands of websites. But we should not be submitting our articles in such a huge list of article websites otherwise; we will end up with some form of penalty from search engines. So the ideal approach will be submitting your content on 5-6 big ezine submission websites only. I would suggest submitting your articles into Ezinearticles.com, Goarticles.com, Articlesbase.com, Americanchronicle.com, Articletarder.com and Amazines.com article directories only.

Targeted Traffic

We can expect good amount of targeted traffic to our website from article publishing websites. So with article sharing, we are getting lots of benefits like higher search engines rankings, higher page rank, good amount of targeted traffic and brand building for our website products and services. One can expect from 5-10 clicks to thousands of clicks for a single article depending upon your article quality and it’s popularity. After initial stream of traffic, we used to get some gradual traffic to our website from article distributing websites.

Improved Writing Skills

Our writing skills keep on improving with every article that we submit to article submission websites. We are competing with best authors in our industry via ezinaarticles.com kind of article directories. We as an author learn a lot by reading their writing styles.