The subject of article submission has become very important to me. I have been posting articles to various websites for my clients for some time now.

There are many article websites as well…thousands of them in fact. How to know where to post your articles, that is the $60,000 question.

Dan Janal of PR Leads says that you really only need to publish your articles to about 10 of them. As long as they are pertaining to your subject matter. He even has a list of all the websites for article submission that you can purchase. He will even customize it for you. It is really a cost effective way to submit your articles as that frees up the time needed to research the websites.

Another criteria is to only post your articles to high ranking websites. I use Google page ranking as the standard. I would only post articles to website with a Google page ranking of 3 or more. If there isn’t any traffic on the website then why bother to post there.

At one point I was using a software program called ArticleSubmitterPro, but I found it slow and confusing. The program didn’t have many of the websites that I post to. Now I manually post the articles. I also make sure that there is always a link back to the home website in the author’s bio area.

The time consuming part of the whole project is to register each client with the submission website. After you have registered, then you need to confirm the email address. I set up a dummy email address at the free email sites then I use that email address at the article submission websites. It makes it easier for me and the client.

Keyword rich articles are also a great way to get traffic back to your website. I conduct the research using Overture.com

This is one of many ways to market yourself and your website.