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Article submission to publicise your website

Since the search engines have moved away from meta tags and keywords as the most important factors in rankings and moved more towards links back to a website as ”votes” for which are the best websites everyone has been scrambling for links back to their websites.

One of the easiest ways to get links back to your website is by writing articles in a relevant area, and getting them published in appropriate web article directores. The articles, of course, include a resource box as the author with the all important link back information.

The main reason that this has grown so fast as a means of getting publicity and link backs to your website is that special article submission agencies have also developed, to take all of the pain out of submitting your articles manually to each and every directory that you are interested in getting it published in.

One of the best known of thes is SubmitYOURArticle.com which I joined about a month ago and I have been very impressed with how effective it is. This is a relatively low cost subscription service and the way that it works is that once you have written your article you submit it to them with the resource box included. They then manually review it and then forward it on to a vast number of relevant article directories on your behalf. You can choose to submit one “plain” article or to spend about 20 minutes giving variations and they will generate numerous other “original” articles out of it, “leveraging” the article, and submit all of them.

Within days of using this service some of my new websites have gone from having only a handful of links back, to having over 30, and as time goes on this should continue to grow.

Some people worry about duplicate content by doing article submissions if one article gets published in over 30 article directories. This is a worry, but for the article directories…. not you! As they are not sitting on your site, they are on the article directories site. You are still getting all of the links back, but no duplicate content penalty. Which I think is great value for about $30 per month.

John

www.TheGardenLovers.com

http://exback.johnmcguireonline.com/

2 comments September 29th, 2007

Shopping carts

As well as an auotoresponder, a survey tool, an article submitter service and some keyword research tools, sooner or later you are going to need a shopping cart. Hopefully this will be sooner, rather than later, as if you need a shopping cart then that means you are about to start selling stuff!

The commonly recommended shopping carts such as 1shoppingcart cost a fair amount of money, from around $400 per year to over $1000. This, of course, depends on what functions you need.

The fully featured shopping carts include a whole range of additional features, such as autoresponders, stock control, secure downloads, adtrackers, etc. So although they can seem a bit pricey they may save you on some fees that you are paying for these other services elsewhere.

Alternatives do exist and Paypal for example can provide basic transaction capabilities. These include receiving credit card payments without the need to have a merchant account, but there are some limitations compared with a fully fledged shopping cart. To begin with, though, this can be an easy and inexpensive way to get started in online trading.

I’ve decided to stick with Paypal for now although, I will probably opt for 1shoppingcart in the very near future, once it becomes clearer which of their packages would best suite my needs, as they vary enormously in price.

John McGuire

www.ObtainSolutionsLtd.com

www.TheGardenLovers.com

http://exback.johnmcguireonline.com/