As you perhaps already know, article submissions can drive a huge amount of traffic to your web site for months if not years. The first step is obviously to get a good article written, with a suitable resource box at end containing a link to your site to drive traffic to your site. But without submitting your article effectively, all this hard work will be of little benefit.

In this article, you're going to find out exactly how to submit your articles in exactly same way as people like Terry Dean, Joe Vitale, and Jim Edwards have done before you.

And there's no reason why you can't achieve a similar level of success with your own article submissions.

There are three main distribution channels for your articles that you should concentrate on:

1. Ezine Editors

You need to find editors who publish ezines in same 'category' as your article - for example, if your expertise, and your web site, focuses on gardening, you should be submitting your articles to editors of ezines in same genre (of course, only if they accept article submissions).

To build up your list, you need to scour ezine directories (see list at http://www.submityourarticle.com/course/ezinedirectories.php) for ezines within your genre, check each ezine to see if they accept article submissions, and then double check with each editor to confirm that their details are correct, and that they still accept article submissions - you will unfortunately find many of listings are out of date, and some ezines are no longer published at all for whatever reason.

2. Announcement Lists

Another way to contact hundreds, if not thousands, of potential publishers, is through what we call article announcement lists.

For example, when we enter her favorite stores first thing that hits me is music. If it's her kind of music, we're in right place for her. If signs near front of store have sale prices and notices about markdowns, we're in right place for me. Immediately there are two user needs met. Mother's and daughter's.

Next, for me, is how products are displayed. I look for orderliness and logical groupings such as jeans in one place, teeny tiny things she calls shirts in another place, "hoodies" in every possible color in another section. I also look for clean dressing rooms and clues as to how many items she can load up on before she meets their limit. Meanwhile, she's looking at colors, sizes, textures, and styles. She glides along in her beat up sneakers touching items as she passes by. Her hands drift along piles of sweaters as if walking through a field of daisies. A certain texture will stop her dead in her tracks and I'll get that "Mom, look!" expression from her.

It strikes me that some of stores she insists we stop into don't offer much for me to do or look at. The décor is dark, black, and limited to a few racks mixed with hanging things on walls separated by posters of half naked teenagers standing next to cars they can't possibly afford to buy. Clothing prices are hidden inside sleeves. Sale signs are taboo. But music is hip, salespersons are scary-looking and smell of leather mixed with hair gel is making my wallet itch. Their website, I bet, has but one click-path designed for teens and their parents must be blindfolded so as not to read content before handing over their credit card.

Finally in a store where I feel welcome, my daughter is admiring merchandise and starting to find what she likes in her size. I'm avoiding mirrors and marveling at sales personnel with their size 3 bodies, smudged eyeliner and 35 bracelets on each wrist. For my daughter, who looks just like them, this is confirmation she's in right store. I, on other hand, will stop holding in my stomach when we get back out to parking lot, or when we grab our lattés in Starbucks on first floor.