There are a number of different ways that you can effectively market your article.
The first way is to do it manually, which involves searching for websites such as http://www.goarticles.com that allow you to post your articles for webmasters to use, once you have registered with them.
Most free submission sites are now requiring users to register and create a user account before they can use their article submission service.
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Yes, marketing your article this way can be extremely tedious and time consuming, but it doesn't cost you any money upfront.
The second way is to go to www.automaticarticlemarketer.com and sign up for an account, where you can submit an unlimited number of articles to more than 30,000 people among different article announcement groups, targeted content sites and article directories.
This way does cost you a few dollars, but it will save you countless hours that could be better spent on things such as search engine optimization or writing more articles.
Another way to submit your article is to contact a webmaster who has an email list that may be interested in your article. You could offer him or her the chance to use your article as part of their regular newsletter, or you could break your article up into a few sections, giving a series of email messages instead.
This benefits the webmaster, as he or she doesn't have to come up with any content for the mail out, and it benefits you, as your website will be getting exposed to all of the people on the webmaster's email list.
You could also use the information in your article to answer a question in a forum, or post a link to your article on a forum telling the person with the question exactly how your article will answer their question. Just be sure to obey all forum posting rules.
Regardless of where you post your article, make sure that the site you submit your article to is related to what your article is on.
Don't submit your article on "How to Grow Sunflowers" to an internet marketing article forum.
Along that same idea, be sure to post your article under the proper topic and section that relates specifically to your article.
Posting your article to unrelated websites or under unrelated topics won't increase the number of webmasters who pick up and publish your article on their site.
Most often submitting your article to the wrong site or under the wrong topic will result in webmasters just skipping over it (as it isn't what they are looking for), but it may also result in your article getting dropped completely from the website.
However, if you submit your articles properly, and to the right websites, directories and forums, you will notice an amazing increase in the amount of sites linking back to your website, as well as an increase in the amount of traffic coming to your website.
And I'm sure you could always use a little more traffic or a few more backlinks to help your website move up in its search engine rankings.
