Article distribution and submission confusion, Where do I start?

[affiliaterookie2009]

Hello,

I have attempted to search the forums as much as I could to gather as much information on the topic as I could before posting this. Just when I thought I was close to beginning my article marketing I ran into so many options that I don't know where to begin. To my understanding it's a good idea to start with ezine and isnare. These two supposedly distribute articles to thousands of other article directories. I have also read about submityourarticle .com in one of the forums which submits to ezine, etc. This makes it pointless to submit to ezine manually. This is confusing me.

With that said, how do I know which article directories that the top distributors (such as ezine) do not distribute too so that I can manually submit to them for more traffic without submitting duplicates?

Whats the point of article submitting software? is there an advantage over the prior?

How many freshly written articles should I be submitting daily to obtain good traffic results?

If I submit over 5 articles daily to one article directory, do they have to be different each day? or can I submit the same ones on different days?

Do I write the same articles and reword them?

Why exactly do articles have to be submitted daily, are the previous days articles not gaining much traffic anymore the next day?

Thanks again for your timely responses, hope these questions can clear up alot of confusion and prevent further procrastionation for other newbies as well!

[Blackpool]

Have you tried submitting articles to ezine? I would start there first then work through the others.

[affiliaterookie2009]

Thanks Blackpool, this has been boggling me for days. So many options that I end up taking no action.

[Sweetestmiracle]

Ezine is a great submission site and is one of googles favorites. I also tend to write all my articles with unique content each time. I seem to get a better PR this way.

Good luck

[Linda Buquet]

I don't deal with article marketing at all, so don't have a direct answer
but here are some of our best threads about article marketing.

[affiliaterookie2009]

Awesome, I greatly appreciate you guys info. Next stop, free keyword research, lol. I'll read as much on it as possible from the forums before I post. I'm trying to find a way to easily sort low competition, popular search terms with a free keyword search tool so that I can paste my choices into a spreadsheet. I've been using the free Google Adwords tool which shows these categories but I have to manually go down the list to copy and past the info after sorting the best I can. If anyone has any idea please let me know. If I need to I will start a new thread though after I research

Thanks again, I'm almost there!

[Linda Buquet]

Please start a new thread about KW research in the SEO forum and I'll help you there. I moved this thread to the article marketing forum instead of newbie forum.

[affiliaterookie2009]

Thanks Linda, will do.

[jcorkern]

The first thing you have to do is figure out what you are going to do with the articles. Are you looking for direct clicks from the articles? Are you using them for link building, what are your demographics? These and many other questions need to be addressed before you can set up a good article marketing plan.

If you are writing for links for seo purposes, then you need to blast them to as many directories as you can, if you are writing for direct traiif, you need a lot of factors in the articles and only posted to about 3 directories.

You have to consider that articles are the vehicle that you use to get a specific job done. Let me explain, a truck and a dragster are both vehicles, but each has its specific uses. They have the same basic componets, but modifications to the internal and external parts has a major effect on how well each performs under certain situations.


Now, if you will tell me what you want to do with them, I can tell you more about what, when, where and how to make the next steps.

[affiliaterookie2009]

Thanks jcorkern!

My 1st niche is fitness, which has many sub-niches. I will break that sub-niche down as far as I can go to start. I will work on the one sub-niche while focusing on selling 5 products. I think that a blog or site would be most effective for me as I have lots and lots of free information to give, and this information would most likely be more effective at directing traffic to sales. eventually I want articles to lead to a page with an email opt-in list that then leads them to the free information, but I will have to master this major step first. I don't wanna get ahead of myself.

Now I'm wondering, if Im submitting articles daily which lead to my blog or site, whats the most effective way of doing this with my model above?

Do I dish out for example 5 articles daily leading to the blog or site? are these articles typically the same articles over and over again? are they gonna be different each day? or reworded?

Do I have to update my site or blog every day with new information as well? if Im dishing out this many articles and they are different daily, wont they all end up containing all of my blog or page content at some point?

I notice alot of ezines are repetitive. The same articles posted over and over again. Is that what they mean by "I post about 5 articles per day". Are they posting the same 5 articles daily?

Whichever I choose I need this to be for the longterm success of my business

Thanks for listening!