Get Ads And Traffic Free HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR ARTICLES
Using common sense and following the specific guidelines at each article community helps. But here are a few more suggestions:
-Be sure to read and follow the guidelines set forth by the site to which you are submitting.
-Make your article(s) interesting, informative, and helpful. Tell a story to introduce your topic, explain your topic, and provide numerous examples and/or tips. Make all content in your article relevant! If your business is selling Viagra (ugh), an article on admissions essays for college will be inappropriate, won't it?
-Avoid overuse of ALL CAPS, which will NOT set your article apart from the others but WILL make you appear to be YELLING, and will give you an image of being unprofessional, of not knowing what the article-writing protocol is.
-Most (if not all) sites where you will submit your article prohibit linking and the use of URLs within the body of your text (though you are, of course, encouraged to use your URLs in your bio/source box). Avoid, then, the content article that has no content but is instead just a list of links—which will only result in what appears as an unimpressive article written by a lazy businessperson, at best.
-Do not poach, lift, copy, or steal any written matter from the internet. Besides the existence of intellectual property and copyright laws, and besides the handy copy-check engines that will red-flag you and your work for eternity, copying and pasting text and attempting to pass it off as your own is a cyber-sin—unethical, immoral, and, in many (or most) instances, illegal.
-Since you likely want to submit your article to article resource sites for the purpose of generating traffic, be sure, then, to include keywords that speak for your site/business. As Chris Knight of ezinearticles.com notes, such a strategy will help “…bring more traffic to your site.”
-Be sure to include a bio, which is written in the third person, kept brief, and includes contact info.
-Proofread and edit before you submit your article. Nothing will do the opposite of generating interest in you and your company better than screwing up your grammar, punctuation, spelling, syntax, and overall coherence of a piece.
SUMBIT only after PROOFING
-Format your article: if the site does not provide a formatting tool, format your article to 60 to 65 characters per line of text.
One look at the books on the market today will tell you that something is wrong. Most people assume that the quality of the book is the determining factor in what gets published and what does not, but in fact nothing can be further from the truth. Don't get me wrong – being at least an average writer will make it more likely for you to get published, but most of all publishing is an industry. Writing and publishing a book is much less about whether it is good than whether you can market it to a publisher who thinks it can sell. Literary success demands not only good writing, but also good self-marketing. Most of all, however, it requires finding the right publishing house.
Nowadays, of course, there are thousands of publishing houses out there. It might seem to casual eyes as if the publishing industry is less tightly controlled than before, but in fact this is an illusion. In reality, publishing a book is harder than ever. Slush piles have grown tremendously as more and more people have decided to write and publish a book. Without the right literary agent, you can never get in contact with a good publishing house. There are publishing houses out there who claim that they can sell any book for a profit, but they are mostly scams meant to trick naïve writers. They are called vanity publishing houses.
I actually fell for a couple vanity publishing houses before I successfully marketed my first book. I wanted, of course, to apply to Random House publishing, but I knew they would never accept me. I went to one of these publishing houses that claims, for a reasonable fee, to be able to publish your book and give you as many copies as you want. Basically, all you are doing is paying them to print out copies of the book that you already own!
These publishing houses are alright if all you want to do is give your friends copies of your books, but they will never make you famous. They will convince you that you can make a profit by using their services, but in fact no one ever buys from these publishing houses. As long as you know what you're getting into, they can be useful for some projects. Nevertheless, you have to be careful to never think that they will help you publish books. That is how writers get ripped off.
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