Article Distribution

Last month, I started posting articles to article directories in order to build backlinks and drive traffic to my website. Some of my articles have hit page 1 of Google.

Right now, I'm posting articles Ezine Articles, Go Articles, Article Alley, Article Dashboard and Amazines. I post the same article on all 5 sites. Because the articles are not published on my website, I am not worried about being penalized for duplicate content.

The secret to writing high quality articles rather quickly is summarizing good content from your site. I write all of my articles using the same simple format.

An informative article like this one on Homeschooling Methods, is set up as follows:
Intro
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 3
Link to More Info
My Bio

This article was based on a T2 page on my website about Homeschooling Methods. The intro consists of 2 sentences summarizing that page. The remaining paragraphs consist of 2-3 sentences summarizing the T3 pages beneath that T2 page.

Some articles are simply condensed, rewritten pages from my website. This article on Discount Homeschool Books is based upon my website page Discount Homeschool Books.

I also format articles in the form of lists like this one on Homeschooling Preschool. I opened with a 2-3 sentence summary of my page Homeschooling Preschool, and made 5 points beneath it containing 2-3 sentences each.

I tried writing original content for article directories, but it took too much of my time and I want to save my best content for my website.

I don't run my articles through SBI's Analyze It!, but I set them up so they would pass Analyze It! if I used it. If the directory asks for a summary, I use the first two sentences from my article.

When I first published this article on Affordable Homeschooling, it appeared on page one of Google and boosted my website page to page one as well. This month Ezine Articles, was the 5th source of traffic to my site. Numbers 1-4 were:

1. Yahoo Answers
2. Google
3. Bella Online, and
4. Baby Center

Bella Online and Baby Center are forums, and the homeschooling section of Bella Online is NOT active. Stay tuned for my tips on building traffic through forum participation. You can subscribe to this blog using the orange RSS button to your right.