This is a guest post by Indupriya, who writes at blog.theideashome.com. If you like to write for Shoutmeloud do read Shoutmeloud revenue sharing program.
Article marketing is the most common way to drive highly-targeted traffic to your website. However, if you focus your efforts on high profile article marketing you can generate 10 times more traffic.
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If you’re not submitting exclusive and great content to high profile content websites, you’re missing out a lot of traffic and exposure.
You not only get high valued backlinks directly to your site, but also can promote your expertise and brand across thousands of potential customers.
Here is the list of 5 websites I submit my articles to which can generate a lot of traffic, provided you submit exclusive and valuable content to these sites.
A PR6 blog with around 22,000 RSS subscribers with an Alexa rank of 7021. This blog accepts guest posts in the area of SEO, Social media and anything related to Internet marketing niche.
After you submit your article, within a day they will let you know if your article is accepted or rejected. If you submit a great article, they will feature it at the top of the home page which can send you 100′s of visitors.
I receive a minimum of 70 visitors for every article I submit. If you submit a great valued content, you can expect much more traffic.
This is a Ning community having 13,974 members. A great place to market anything related to “make money from home”. If you submit a great valued content, they will feature the article on the home page which is then exposed to of 1000′s of readers.
Netprofitstoday.com
A PR4 blog that has 38,000 RSS subscribers. Accepts guest posts anything related to affiliate marketing, article marketing, adsense, SEO, social media, blogging, computer tips etc.
I received around 100 visitors from just one article I submitted. Very powerful!
site-reference.com
A PR5 site with Alexa rank of 10,463. Accepts articles related to Internet marketing, designing, SEO and programming. If you offer exclusive articles, they will be featured on the home page. To submit exclusive articles, you first need to become an author by registering here http://www.site-reference.com/submit.php
It takes a long time to publish your articles (a week or two). But sends great traffic every time. Traffic guaranteed!
The best thing about this site is that they appear in Google news and their articles appear in headlines. You have to become an author before you submit your articles. Once accepted, you will be given a login to submit your articles.
Do let us know what’s your technique to drive traffic to your blog and create free backlink. ?
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Great list of site You have come up with, I am actually member of the NING site already as a client of mines.. I will view the others and join them too.
Thank You for sharing,
Norman Flecha
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http://www.straightalk.biz
Whatever you said is truth. I am planning to article marketing for my blog. So, that i can increase my traffic to at least 10 times. How to target in focused niche….
I got more traffic from Ezinearticles.com when compared with traffic from Americanchronicle. But the best thing about Americanchronicle is that its articles get published in Google news and and 7-8 its sister websites instantly. So we can get our content published on 7-8 websites by submitting it on Americanchronicle. But when it comes about traffic, I think ezinearticles.com is best.
Great list of sites
Will definitely make use of them in the near future for my blog !
i have already written for QOT . I will check out the other blogs
I’ve submitted to eZineArticles. It works for me in terms of strong backlink & traffic. But traffic is no where in the range of my expectations. Daily 5 or 6 visits from 4 articles.
great list indu thank you
I submitted one post on QOT but I haven’t heard about the others
Great list. Thank you
i have just started using article sites for promotion of my blog and it looks good
is this legal?
It is legal every successful blogger do..
Article marketing is one of the best method for SEO as well as for getting traffic. Thanks for sharing such good sites. I will try them up
Article marketing is a good source of traffic. But you can also get targeted traffic from Forums and Guest Blogging.
If combined with article marketing you receive double the traffic;)
I was unaware of these sites
have bookmarked all these sites
will surely try these all sites
ATUL
A Worthy list and must to check … Bookmarked.
Thanks a TON !
Thank a lot!
Really good authority sites, enough to increase traffic instantly.
Really, the sites helped to gain the traffic. Further, visitors need more such sites.
I was looking for the list since then. I used ezine to submit my articles. It works but when it comes to traffic, i only got 5 out of 100 visitors. I badly need these sites. Thanks For sharing
Article Marketing has long been a favorite method of attracting free traffic for those promoting eCommerce websites, however this approach has been largely overlooked by bloggers. Your excellent article and list will be of great help to those seeking to drive more traffic to their blogs but let’s not forget their are many quality directories and the ambitious webmaster need not limit themselves to a few.
Thanks for providing this list. I have only written guest post for quickonlinetips.com i will try the other sites given in the list.
thank you for the list I will try it now…
Looking forward to give them a try. Thanks
Great list of sites….Will consider them for article marketing
Nice Post Indu. I will start taking Article Submission Seriously.
Really nice post indu, But i think instead of publishing such a unique article on other site, I would prefer to publish on my own site, sooner or later my site will get better Ranking in alexa and a better Page Rank in google
I’ve submitted to eZineArticles. It works for me in terms of strong backlink & traffic. But traffic is no where in the range of my expectations. Daily 5 or 6 visits from 4 articles.