Article & Blog Submission Sites

[LA Grouch]

An integral part of your SEO plan must include social newsmarking (aka social bookmarking). Don’t wait for the search engines to find you… advertise your blog!

Sign up with sites like Digg, Reddit, Delicious, Blinklist, Technorati, and StumbleUpon, then submit your posts as soon as they are published.
The search engines will pick up on this and as long as you have good content, others will as well. This is some of the best free PR there is.


Choose the right sites.
Focus on the social news sites where you will have the most success. There are many and you should select only the ones that will serve you best and provide the biggest payoff.

The sites listed above should be routine, along with Twitter and Facebook. Directoryroll has an extensive list that you can investigate to see what other sites fit your blog style.

Most social sites allow you to categorize and tag your submission which provides viewers a multitude of ways to find your post.
Use your keywords wisely.

Benefits
Submitting your content to popular social newsmarking sites will get your blog indexed much quicker.

Keyword tagging your post will bring about more awareness of your site and result in an increase in traffic.

The majority of social sites will allow you to create a profile, or personal page, where you can list your blog (s), links to posts, and in some instances, publish content.

This not only creates one-way links to your site but enables you to brand yourself as an expert in your field.

The search engine robots will also frequent any new content in your profile/page and follow the links back to your site, thus creating increased page rank.

Social newsmarking may take a little time to set up initially but the rewards will be fantastic.

[DianneM]

Thanks for the list. More directories are always good. The tips on checking out the directories are great too.
Dianne

[qcahz]

Thank provide

[Eric Olsen]

Great post! Thanks for the list.

I'll be using it shortly

[waynearln]

What a great list of all the major article directories, it is helping me so much, Thanks!

[bryansmith1]

Thanks for sharing the list.Do you have any list for creating free blogs.

[workhomebasedonline]

Thanks so much for the list. Good timing..my blog is super brand new and i'm still working hard to increase traffic..this list sure is big help..