Many beginning article marketers submit their articles to every site they can find.
Unfortunately, most of this is simply wasted effort, because the lower ranking directories will not be listed in the search engines, will not count toward link popularity, and are not visited often enough to be a traffic generation source.
Submitting your articles to the top article submission sites is the only way to achieve true article marketing success.
Of course, when submitting to the top article submission sites there is a lot more to consider during the preparation of your articles for submission.
You must review the submission guidelines and adhere to them completely.
The top article directories have human editors to handle all submissions.
This will require you to write creative, interesting, and informative articles that are grammatically correct.
You will have to keep all links out of the article itself, and save them for the author resource box or author bio.
You will also have to be careful about overusing capital letters and exclamation points.
There are several other guidelines that must be followed as well, but these are the most basic and universal.
In addition to your article, you will need to write a one to five sentence summary of the article, as well as a short list of keywords relating to your article.
These must match your article perfectly.
You will also be able to write an author resource box that allows you to introduce yourself, your company, your product or service, and one to three links to your website, based on the directory.