Here are some simple things you can do to make your articles seen all over the web.
The best way to promote your articles is to make sure you use lots of keyword density. Much of the traffic your articles will get will come from search engines, so make sure your articles get good ranks in Google and all the other major search engines. Do some reading about SEO and about how search engines work. This will get you pointed in the right direction.
Social networking sites are a great place to get people to read your articles. Get a Myspace account and use the content widget from the “community resources” area to add a feed of your latest article to your profile. Then just add friends left and right. It does not cost anything and it is a easy way to promote your content. Since there is no limit to how many friends you can have you get up to 5,000 friends in a few months. Every time you have new articles put out a bulletin alerting your friends with a link to the new articles. If 1% of the friends you have follow the link then you just got 50 free page views.
Social Bookmarking sites like Digg are a great way to promote your articles. Digg allows you to submit articles that you enjoy. People read the articles that you have submitted and then vote them up or down. If you get enough votes your article could be promoted to the front page of the Digg website. There are several other Social Bookmarking websites out there and they all have their own little differences. Here is a list of a few different sites.
Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.
Feedmarker Afree based RSS/ATOM aggregator and Bookmarks manager
Jumptags.com is a revolutionary Web 2.0 social bookmarking web service for collecting, storing, sharing and distributing web bookmarks, notes, RSS feeds, contacts, and much more. Based on AJAX and other next generation web development techniques, Jumptags.com offers the easiest, fastest, most intuitive and productive way of maintaining and collaborating bookmarks and other internet resources online.
Social bookmarking with slick interface and new ways for organizing tags.
Bookmarking, social networking, friends-network, random browsing within interest-groups.
Social bookmarking with tags, comments and ratings. Shadows' toolbar puts users one click away from a discussion forum for any page on the web.
You have email addresses in your mailbox. Send the links to your articles to every contact in your list. Relatives, friends, co-workers and even your neighbors. If they like what they read then they will keep coming back to see what you have written next.
Forums and blogs has readership of their own, if you can post to forums and blogs, insert a link to your article. This is one way to invite people to see what you have written for them. Even if the person in the forum or blog community does not need your article at that moment, another probably within his contact may be in need of your how to article. You promote your ability to write and you promote your article at the same time.
You should submit your articles to as many article directories as possible. You can easily find article directories by searching for article directories in all major search engines.
Here are a couple of directories you can try:
http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.articlecity.com
http://www.isnare.com
