Top 5 Tips to Get the Best results with Article Writing and Distribution

If you think this is going to be another one of those articles promoting article submissions to spam directories, think again. The game has changed, and not surprisingly it was Google that changed it, yet again. February’s Panda announcement made it very clear that the quality of your content and the links you build for your website are under a microscope. Mass submissions of the same article and software that scrambles your articles are no longer effective tools for SEO. In order to be successful, you’ll actually need to use manual article writing and distribution.

Have you encountered those software programs that ask you to write one version of an article and then two copies of the same article in the same format? The idea is to take a certain number of paragraphs and make them interchangeable, so a five paragraph article written three times gives you a number of combinations you can use to distribute to article directories. Sound like a good idea? Someone at some point in time thought it was pretty clever, and they sold the concept to others as a link building tool.

Here’s the question we have for those of you who have used this type of tool. Have you tracked your links to see how many are actually recognized by Google search spiders? Sure, there are other search engines out there that might not have the technology to recognize spam links, but if you’re not connecting on Google you’re not controlling even a small market share in your industry. Instead of trying to trick your way into high page rank, why not try doing it legitimately? Article marketing is still a good way to improve your page rank. Here are five tips on how to make it work the way it’s supposed to:

1. Write original articles and submit them only once
2. Limit anchor text links to two per 500 word article
3. Publish only with credible article directories that have a PR of 6 or better
4. Don’t promote. Inform when you write.
5. Hire an Organic SEO firm to handle Steps 1 through 4

Admit it. You were lost by the time you read the second suggestion. If you don’t have experience in organic SEO or article marketing, don’t try it yourself. The time you spend trying to figure it out could be spent productively building your business. If you’re not a writer, don’t try to be one. Making sure everything is stated a certain way when you haven’t done the research or had the writing experience to know what works means that you’re putting your ego, not your intellect first. Let the professionals handle it for you. That’s what we’re here for.