To all writers and non-writers out there, now is the time to start digging up those creative writing skills back. With modern communication technology comes the popularity of information-based marketing, which is one of the oldest and most effective techniques in getting targeted prospects to sites and converting them into buyers. This is why article writing, submissions and publications are also getting popular.
There are already many tools that people can use to make the process of distributing their articles more easily. Though this is invaluable in getting the contents more exposure, which is only half of the story.

Let us take a look first at the common mistakes that some people make before submitting their contents to article directories:

1. Confusing the reason to promote the articles with the reason to write them.
In article writing, there are three key benefits why you are promoting them; branding, lead generation and promotion, which are all part of your optimization efforts.
But there is only one reason why you write an article, and that is to inform your audience. If the article is not focused on this primary and most important purpose, it will fail to achieve the three promotion benefits because no one will be interested in reading them.
You need to figure out first how to get people to read what is in your article, then make them click on your resource box. You can achieve this by producing better contents.

2. Failing to maximize the promotional opportunities of article marketing.
You may know already that your articles can help you generate additional links back to your site. But do you know that you can get more visitors and better search engine results from that same articles?

Mention keywords at strategic places. Just be sure not to overdo them. Some are even using anchor texts which is also an effective method. But it is important to know that majority of the directories are not able to support this.

Remember that is not only about the links back to your site. Part of doing well in your article marketing is getting picked up by publishers with a large number of audiences and gaining the ability of leveraging other brands because of the quality of your work. Better search engine results also are great benefits.

But these things do not put much money in your pocket. There are other factors that can turn your article marketing efforts into an opportunity that can boost your earnings. Not just increase the number of visitors to your site.
Start out with a plan and see to it that your article will serve the function that you intended it to have.

3. Publishing content that does not help your readers.
Maybe in the process of writing articles, you are thinking that all that is you wanted is links back to your site. And any visitors it can generate are fine.

Guess what? Not all article banks and directories are going to accept your content automatically. Oftentimes, they have some guidelines and specifications on the articles that they are accepting.
You can double the number of sites you can submit to by writing articles that the directories want to share with other people. All it takes is one publisher with a hundred thousand readers to increase your potential audience overnight.

Write the articles that publishers want in their publications if you want your article marketing to work the most effective way for you. This also means you have to obey the standard guidelines, spell checks, researching on a good topic and even hiring a writer to produce a good content on your behalf.

In the end, it is all really a matter of choice on your part. You can start getting a little exposure from increased links back but on a very basic level. Or enjoy massive exposure from a little extra time making quality contents.

It will be your choice. You may not be aware of the fact that an article submitted on directories is not meant to have the same level of exposure as highly-targeted content ones geared on a narrow group of people.

Learn the difference between these two and it will surely help you know what kinds of articles to write and to submit.

To your continual success in your marketing efforts!

Andy Huang

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Affiliate programs are one of the most effective ways to recruit active
affiliates. They’re free to get listed in and packed with traffic because
they get top positions in the search engines.

Moreover, the reason they’re so important to get listed in is that when
affiliates go to directories, they’re usually looking for a program to begin
promoting right away. This means the affiliates you get from directories
are likely to quickly generate sales for you.

This is opposed to most affiliates you get that produce little or nothing.

The problem with affiliate directories is that submitting your listings to
them takes forever. You have to literally copy and paste hundreds of lines
of information when you submit to only a dozen of them.

And this is where Instant Affiliate Submitter comes in to save the day.

Instant Affiliate Submitter is a click-button submission tool that quickly
lists your affiliate programs in all of the major directories with ease!

It has two submission settings, automatic and semi-automatic. The
automatic submission allows you to simply fill-in your information and
click a button to get listed in a set of top directories.

The semi-automatic mode fills in your information into the forms (no
more copying and pasting) and you just click the submission buttons.

So, how well does Instant Affiliate Submitter work?

Well, I put it to the test and was immediately thrilled with results.

With the automatic mode, I just clicked start and was done in less than 10
minutes! Work that would have taken hours to do manually was
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Then, I moved onto the directories in the semi-automatic mode and
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Simply put, if you have an affiliate program or are always developing new
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It transforms a tedious and time-consuming effort into a point and click
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Other useful features included the ability to schedule future submissions
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These features are huge time-savers when you have more than one
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And this relates to what I like best about Instant Affiliate Submitter.
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Even today, many people are still unaware of the term ‘web directory’. In this article, I will briefly discuss what web directories are and what they are capable of.

Basically, a web directory is series of web pages, categorizing links to other web pages.
One might associate a web directory with his local yellow pages. Another common definition is that web directory is a directory on the World Wide Web which specializes in linking to other websites and categorizing their links. Web directories often permit site owners to submit their website for inclusion, and have human editors review submissions.

Some people think a web directory as a search engine. Actually, it is not. In addition, it does not display web pages based on keywords, instead listing web pages in convenient categories/subcategories. The categorization is generally based on not a set of keywords, but the whole website and there is often a limit of one or two categories for site inclusion.

There are numerous directories on the internet, the most well known ones being provided by Lycos, Yahoo, LookSmart, Google and ODP (Open Directory Project). The latter is a powerful player in the directory market because of its open content approach to editorial review and its use by Zeal and Google. Looksmart’s voluntary run directory closed in the first quarter of 2006, much to the dismay of the users.

Experts still refute the statement which says web directories have superior quality. Furthermore, web directory development is still said to be a relatively hard task. Hopefully, there have been many attempts in recent times to make directory development easier by using a ‘links for all’ kind of link submission site using a script, or any number of available PHP portals/programs. As an icing on the cake, social software techniques have spawned new efforts of categorization, with major websites like AMAZON adding tagging to their product pages.

In a nutshell, A web directory is a listing of websites organized in a hierarchy of categories. Hope you find this information useful.

To your success!

Andy

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