6 Reasons Why You Should Submit Articles To Article Directories As Well As Write Posts On Your Blog.

By Barry J McDonald

1 - The most obvious reasons most people use articles is to help build links from high page rank article directories back to their site. So, by submitting articles you help to increase your blog’s page rank and become more search engine friendly for your chosen keywords.

2 - While you may think that because you blog on a regular basis you’re automatically going to be found by your chosen audience, but this isn’t so. Not everyone may read blog’s for various reasons like they haven’t the time or they may just not know how to sign up for your RSS feed.

3 - Like point number 2 there may be other bloggers in your niche who never heard of you. But because of your articles there is a better chance that they’ll come across some of your content and either talk about your article in their blog or link to it for their readers to read.

4 - Generally, blog posts are shorter than articles in length (blog posts can be about 200 words long) but by writing an article you now have more room to further expand on some of the points you’ve made in your blog.

5 - Articles are very easy to share with others. By having your content in article directories you could find your articles being used by other webmasters as content in their sites. Not everyone webmaster uses or like using blogs on their site and they may rather use your full article on a webpage instead.

6 - As we know article marketing is a great way of producing free traffic. So by writing and submitting articles, you now have a two prong approach to building traffic. For example if your blog fell out of favor with the search engines your source of traffic wouldn’t dry up as you now have another source.

You may think that you don’t have the time to do article marketing because you’re too busy writing content for your blog but you why not package some of your blog posts into articles and submit them to the big article directories.

You may be worried about falling foul of Google duplicate content rules but if you make your articles 20% different than your blog posts and you should have no problems. This could be as simple as just changing the first paragraph and adding a resource box to your article.

Generally, the more content you have out there on the internet, the more traffic you’re going to receive so why not try to get your content in front of as many peoples eyes as possible whether that’s in a blog post or an article.

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