Your article’s title is vital to distribution of your article. Who would want to read something that sounds like its going to be boring or lacking facts? So to avoid this, use some fresh and flashy words in your title like: end-all be-all, free, secrets, reference. The list goes on but it’s your job to be original and think of your own. Though I should tell you now that key to a good title is writing it after you finished writing your article.

Now onto final piece of your article and most important, your author box, aka your bio. Your bio should include only a few elements: Your name, a small description of you, and a link to your website (typically main page). I suggest you speak in third person, that way when article is reprinted on another website text flows better. Also try to make your bio sound as intriguing as possible.

Now that you have completed all necessary elements of your article its time to distribute it. There would be no point in writing it if know one read it or distributed it. There are many places you can go to submit your articles for reprints, finding them is difficult part. So I being great person I am, compiled all these resources into one list that can be found at: http://www.webmastershed.com/articles/resources

Submit to all resources in link above and your inbound links will increase while also helping you build PageRank and traffic. Remember, articles take time to write and distribute, but they ultimately prove to be one of most effective marketing tools out there that haven’t been oversaturated.

Written by: Michael McLaughlin at http://www.webmastershed.com – webmaster forum, for more articles by this author please visit: http://www.webmastershed.com/articles

Formatting your article is very important. If you are posting your article to an email distribution list you should hard wrap your article at 65 words or less per line. Try to avoid posting articles with spelling or grammatical errors. The higher quality of content you provide, more people will publish it. Each new publisher that picks up your article could represent thousands of impressions of your byline. I have one article that has been published more than 100 times over last 4 years.

Submitting Your Articles - Where to Start

The best and most gratifying result of writing a free reprint article is seeing it published in an Ezine or on a website that has readership that is likely to be enticed by your byline. Submitting your articles directly to editors of Ezines or websites that you know publish quality information related to your topic is first thing you should do. Many sites have publishing guidelines and encourage content submissions. Submit your article according to their guidelines with a personal message to increase likelihood of it being published. Keep track of publishers that use your articles and submit your new articles to those publishers first.

Article Depots - Let The World Know

I have found that submitting articles to depots isn't quite as effective as contacting publishers directly but still WELL worth time. Most of depots are well indexed by Google which provides a valuable link back to your site and increases your link ranking with search engines. Here are some free reprint article depots (there are many more):

Cumuli Content - Community of Ezine Publishers http://www.cumulicontent.com

Article Hub - Content Directory http://articlehub.com/

Go Articles - Article Search Engine and Directory http://goarticles.com/

Yahoo Groups The best Yahoo Groups to post your free reprint articles can be found at: http://www.All-In-One-Business.com/groups/

EzineArticles.com EzineArticles appears to charge for submissions now but does offer 10 free submissions. http://ezinearticles.com/

Protect Your Reprint Rights

Just because you are giving your content away for free doesn't mean you shouldn't expect something in return. Make sure to have clear terms of use at top of your article. Here are Terms of Use that I use:

"You are free to publish this article online or in print as long as byline is included and url in byline is hyper-linked wherever possible. This article should not be used in anything that could be considered spam. If you are using this article, please send a brief message to fisherswanson@gmail.com stating where it was published."

Happy publishing!

Copyright 2005 Fisher Swanson