I hope you have enjoy this series on article marketing and I wish you the best of luck as you put these tips and techniques into practice. This will be the final entry in this article series, but there will be lots more marketing information to come in the future.

Once you have written your article and done all the necessary optimisation, it becomes time for the most important part of article marketing…getting your article posted. No matter how good your article is, if you aren’t able to get it posted on many directory sites, you won’t see much benefit from your efforts. As you remember, our goal in article marketing is to generate quality backlinks, and the best way to do that is to get your article listed in as many places as possible.

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With the growing importance of backlinks in today’s search engine rankings, article marketing has become a very popular method of web marketing. There are thousands of websites out there that are willing to publish quality articles for free, but submitting your articles to each website is a very long and tedious process. That’s where services like Article Marketer come in.

Article Marketer boast a large and diverse list of clients ranging from large PR firms down to small home based businesses. The service has the largest distribution list (~6,000 sites) of any of the automated submission services I have come across. Each client provides Article Marketer specific guidelines for the type of articles they are looking for and the service matches submitted articles with these guidelines.

Having used the service for several months myself, I have to admit that getting articles approved and through the process is difficult and time consuming at first. When you submit an article to the site, it is first reviewed by an automated review process that will find any issues with formatting or article links. Once you correct any issues found by the automated process, your article will be scheduled for human review within 1 business day. At first, my articles were getting flagged several times by both reviews and I was forced to make many revisions. After a while though, you start to learn the keys to getting your articles approved and things move faster.

While the difficulty of the review process was a pain, it is actually one of the best and most unique features of Article Marketer. A lot of time is spent reviewing each article to ensure that its format and content is optimized to get published by the maximum number of publications. Once you get your article approved by Article Marketer, you are almost guaranteed to get published on A LOT of websites.

So what’s the downside? Price. The service is pretty expensive and ranges from $20-$30 a month depending on how long you subscribe. There is also a lifetime subscription for $499 if you have a large enough marketing budget. There is a free version of the service, but I found it to be pretty ineffective.

So, is Article Marketer worth the money? That depends. If you plan to use article marketing as part of your strategy to get more visibility for your website, then absolutely. You will be amazed at how quickly you will see your backlinks grow in the search engines. Article Marketer even stores your articles and continues to distribute them to new sites as long as you are a member. If you do not enjoy writing fresh content and are not able or willing to pay others to write for you, this isn’t the service for you. If you are on the fence about it, I suggest trying out the 3-month subscription service first and seeing if you like it. I think you will be impressed with the results.

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