Submitting to the article directories
can help to increase backlinks to your site. The more backlinks you
have, the higher your site will rank on the search engine. When
submitting to the article directory, there are certain article
formats which you have to follow.
The title of the article must not be in
all upper case letters. You are only required to make the first
letter in each word to be upper case. You should not capitalize
common words such as “a”, “the” and etc in the title. You can
use quotes in the title but it should not be used around the whole
title. If the title uses smart quotes from Microsoft Word, you must
replace it with the standard quotes. The title should not be ended
with a period. You should not repeat the punctuation in the title for
multiple times. For example, it will be sufficient to use the
exclamation mark “!” once in the title. The title should not have
HTML tags. The author name should not be included in the title. When
creating the title for the article, make sure you include the main
keyword. Using keyword in the title will increase the chance of your
article ranking on top of the search engine.

In the resource box, you can include
the author name. The author name should have a first and last name.
The first letter of each name should be in uppercase letter. The
author name must be a name of a human and not a company name. You
cannot use the email address to substitute as the author name. You
may not include the title in the author name. However, there is
exception to people who hold a master or doctorate degree. If you
possess a master or doctorate degree, you can use Dr., MD, and PHD.
It is recommended that you only use one
account to submit your articles. You should not attempt to create
multiple accounts to manipulate the search engine. Opening multiple
accounts will result in a permanent banned by the editor in the
article directory. If you write the article with another person, you
can list his or her name as Co-author in the account.
The standard word count of the article
is 250 – 750 words. It is best that the article don’t contain
more than 700 words because you will be providing too much
information. If you provide too much information, the visitors will
not be interested in visiting the link in the resource box to find
out more. Instead, you should only provide the basic information. In
this way, interested reader will visit the link in order to learn
more about the products or services which you are offering.
You should only include the links in
the resource box. Most article directories allow you to include 2 –
3 links in the resource box. Instead of inserting the whole URL, you
can use anchor text to optimize the link. To use anchor text, you
simply paste the code <a
href=”http://www.domain.com/page1.html”>Page 1</a> into
the resource box.