How to Write Articles for Article Directories

As you start writing articles for an article submission service,you want to keep in mind certain ideas that will get your article processed quickly by this service. In addition,writing an article with certain techniques can also get you ranked higher in search engine listing.

As search engines look at your article in the article directories,they look for specific formats,keywords,and words that relate to the keywords or subject matter. One of the main ideas is to choose the keyword that you want to rank high on search pages.

Here are some tips and techniques that you should follow to improve your chances of getting on the first page of various search engine pages. Following these tips will also increase the speed at which an article submission service will process your article.

Once you have chosen your niche,and you know what keywords you want to use for your article go to some of the article directories and read some of the article similar to the one you want to write. This will give you an idea of how to write and format your article.



Work on your title. Create a title that will catch attention. Try to put your keyword close the beginning of the title. You want your title to stand out from other titles. If you have another keyword to use,try to include that in your title. Try to make your title as short as possible and something that will make sense.

Put your main keyword in your first paragraph. Spread your keyword into the article 3-5 times and work in some of your secondary keywords. Also,put your keyword in the last paragraph of your article.

Your article should contain words that are related to the keyword or the topic of the article. To find these words,go to your google adsense account and pull up the keyword tool. Put your keyword into the tool and look at the list call other keywords. Use some of these words in your article.

Write short sentences when possible. Limit your paragraphs to 4 lines and maximum of 5 lines. You want to make your articles easy to read. Long sentences and paragraphs are hard to follow.

Remove all html code or links from your article,unless you are submitting to article forms that accept links and html code. Your article will be rejected with code in them. If your article has been rejected for html code,you can correct your article and resubmit it.

Your article should give good,usable content to your reader. Do not sell or promote in your article. Sell and promote in your resource box. Make your resource box short so people can see and understand what you offer,and what they need to do next. It is always best to give away something to the reader,to entice them to come to your site.

In your resource box,give an incentive to go to your website. Give a free report or e-book. Or if you want to collect names for your email list,put up an optin page.

Put only one or two links in your resource box. It is best to use only one link,so that if the reader decides to go to your site,they only have one link to chose. Two links may confuse the reader and they may not know which one to chose.


Writing articles for submission is one of the best ways to bring targeted traffic to your website or blog. If you provide useful,informative,and new information,the reader will be tempted to go to your website for more of the good information you provided.

After you finish with your article and have proofread it,it is ready to send to an article submission service. If you chose to submit to 100 directories then you should have those articles submitted over a 10 per day period. Some directories will accept your article with 3 days others within a month.