The sequence of submission to article directories matters. In what sequence should you submit your articles to them? Let’s formulate a strategy.
Ezine Article Submission Strategy #1: Post In Your Own Blog/ Site, First.
This is a no-brainer, as everyone with experience knows. Since content is King, why lose it? By posting in your own blog/ site first, and making sure it’s indexed before posting elsewhere, you’re making sure the content in your blog/ site is not reckoned wrongly as duplicate and ignored/ penalized.
Ezine Article Submission Strategy #2: Submit To The Best (One) Article Directory, Next.
The one I recommend based on my own experience, which is also the ‘near unanimous’ choice of many other experienced article marketers is ezineArticles.com . This has a high PR rank (PR6, at the time of writing). Though there are a few with PR7, ezineArticles has the best standing with the whole industry, including Google. You’ll get the maximum traffic from this one posting. And if you’ve handled all other issues (like anchor text) well, you’ll get back-links that count a lot, too.
Ezine Article Submission Strategy #3: Drip-Submit To Relevant Article Directories, Next.
After making sure that your article has, in deed, been approved and posted in ezineArticles, post in as many of the relevant article directories as you can. Only you will know which ones are relevant to your site, based on your own knowledge and experience. This is likely to be a very small number, unless you’re in a big market, not just a small niche.
Don’t mass-submit. Submit in trickles. I prefer to submit around 20 to 25 per day.
Ezine Article Submission Strategy #4: Finally, Drip-Submit To 100’s Of Article Directories, Sequentially, Based On Their Relative Importance.
Leaving out article directories with specific focus outside your niche, and the ones that are mere link farms or are non-functional, submit to as many directories as you possibly can. How do you rank the article directories in terms of their relative importance? I use a combination of two parameters. One is, of course, the PR rank. (You can use Alexa ranking instead, if you like.) The second is the list of the article directories that gurus recommend (please see ‘Warrior Forum’). You may alternatively create such a list from the ones that major article submission software submit to. I have my own formula to rank the article directories.
Again drip-submit; don’t mass-submit.
Ezine Article Submission Strategy #5: Use High Quality Unique Versions Of Your Article For All These Submissions.
Don’t submit the same one version all around. And don’t use article spinners to spin; they will kill the spirit of your articles. In case you have a ‘blog post’/ ’site page’ with similar content, perhaps you may avoid posting it also as an article in your blog/ site (that is, you may skip strategy #1), as it may become over-kill.