small bussiness and internet marketing

In continuing my series on internet marketing, I want to share with you some of the best places to submit your articles to get results.

1. Lists.
There are three sites that currently have lists that are very popular, and will get you included in these highly popular sites:

Yahoo Groups
MSN Groups
Google Groups

To find groups to list your articles, I recommend that you do a keyword search on each one using the keyword of your topic plus “article lists”. This should yield you good results as this is what I do.

You can also browse the categories.

I’ve had the best luck with Yahoo Groups, so here are some groups that I recommend:

The Write Articles - This is a group that I own that I am the moderator for. A top ranked site recently contacted me, and our RSS feed will be featured on their site, and this will give the writers on this list a lot of free publicity. This group accepts small business, internet marketing, copywriting, website building, computer, and writing articles.

These highly popular groups belong to Shelley Lowery. They get a lot of traffic, and she focuses on different topics. Please make sure you read the guidelines. Otherwise, Shelley will reject your articles.

Article Announce - Writer & Publisher Exchange is the first and ORIGINAL article announcement list. This announcement list includes all article submissions.

Article Announce Home - Home and Family oriented articles.

Article Announce Health - Health and Fitness oriented articles.

Article Announce General - General Interest oriented articles.

Article Announce Internet - Internet oriented articles.

There are many others. These will get you started and put your articles in front of thousands of publishers.

2. Article Directories
With article directories, it’s as simple as doing a search in your favorite search engine to find these directories. Here are some of my favorites, and they’re all highly ranked:

Article City
Go Articles
Click for Content
Ezine Articles
Idea Marketers

Many of these sites require an account, but it’s free.

3. Forums
Forums are often overlooked as a place to promote your articles, but they can be very effective. Like article directories, all you have to do is a search in your category combined with the search term “forums”, to help you find what you are looking for.

Here are a couple of forums I recommend that deal with internet marketing, and they accept articles:

Warrrior’s Forum
Profits.cc

Forums normally require that you sign up for an account, but it’s free.

4. Individual Sites
Finally, if you surf as much as I do, you’ll find a ton of sites out there that accept articles. The important thing here is to do your research, keep a bookmark file, and every time you find a site that you can submit articles to, bookmark it.

Read the publisher’s guidelines. You are more likely to get your article accepted if you study the guidelines before posting.

Remember, this technique will not only help you with the search engines, but it will brand you as an expert in your field, and it will drive traffic to your site, as well as building relationships, which will make you sales.