When you’re posting articles, some should go on your website to help attract search engine traffic and others should go on a variety of article directories to get you extra inbound links.

Some people will make articles do “double duty” by posting them on their own website as well as article directories. I tend not to do that but, if that’s a route you want to go down, make sure that your site includes the various tags so that Google knows you’re the author. If you’ve got a picture in your Google+ profile there’s even a chance that will show up in the search results next to the result, which is useful for drawing attention to you in the results.

When looking at article directories, there’s always a debate about whether to use one, a handful, or lots of article directories to submit your off-site articles.

As ever, there’s no single “correct” answer.

Even after the various Google slaps, EzineArticles is still the biggest and actually sends traffic.

Not much traffic, unless you’ve written a really compelling article and resource box, but traffic nonetheless.

Of the rest, ArticlesBase sends the occasional visitor. But not enough to justify their recent change to insisting on unique articles.

If you do decide to use them, it’s worth remembering that they allow the content to be published elsewhere and there are a lot of programs out there which literally scrape the content from ArticlesBase and reprint it on another website.

Not all of those programs are ethical – some will remove your resource box. Don’t sweat that – it’s just a fact of life that’s not worth worrying about. Karma will take care of them eventually!

But do include a link inside the main body of any article you send to ArticlesBase – most of the unethical scraper programs are too lazy to remove that as well.

If you’ve not got an account with EzineArticles yet, it’s free to sign up but until they’ve approved 10 of your articles it takes what seems like forever to get them through their system.

Stay with it – and make sure your writing quality is good as they pay special attention to new authors.

And instead of continually pressing refresh, hoping your article will move up the queue, do something else like write for your blog or make a video.

Anything other than just staring at a screen!

Currently, I submit to EzineArticles. Then, when it’s approved, I submit the exact same article to GoArticles and, sometimes, to SooperArticles.

That’s it.

I type my articles so it takes me about 20 minutes to produce one.

Then I move on to the next and let each one sink or swim in the search results. I don’t tend to do any other promotion of my articles.

Not all articles will work – that’s the nature of the trade – but enough will and they’ll count as backlinks anyway.

There’s always a debate about whether to use one, a handful, or lots of article directories to submit your off-site articles.

As ever, there’s no single “correct” answer.

Even after the various Google slaps, EzineArticles is still the biggest and actually sends traffic.

Not much traffic unless you’ve written a really compelling article and resource box, but traffic nonetheless.

Of the rest, ArticlesBase sends the occasional visitor. But not enough to justify their recent change to insisting on unique articles.

If you’ve not got an account with EzineArticles yet, it’s free to sign up but until they’ve approved 10 of your articles it takes what seems like forever to get them through their system.

Stay with it – and make sure your writing quality is good as they pay special attention to new authors.

And instead of continually pressing refresh, hoping your article will move up the queue, do something else like write for your blog or make a video.

Anything other than just staring at a screen!

Currently, I submit to EzineArticles. Then, when it’s approved, I submit the exact same article to GoArticles.

That’s it.

I type my articles so it takes me about 20 minutes to produce one.

Then I move on to the next and let each one sink or swim in the search results.

Not all will work – that’s the nature of the trade – but enough will and they’ll count as backlinks anyway.

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