How To Get Most Out Of Your Published Articles

Submitting the articles that you wrote to article directories can be a really powerful marketing method to generate interest and traffic toward your website, your project or product.
However, your job doesn't end with successful submission of an article.
You will still have to perform those extra steps to ensure that the article successfully fulfills its marketing purpose once it gets accepted to an article directory.
To achieve that, you will have to devote the same care to your submitted articles as you would to a planted seed.
You cannot expect to see a plant sprouting from the seed if you just put it into the soil and completely forget about it.
Once your article gets published in an article directory, you will need to make several steps that will ensure it produces desired marketing results.
• First of all, you need to start promoting your article.
Most article directories offer set of tools designed to help you in the process and will actually require a minimal effort from your part.
Bookmarking tools will enable you to easily share those article on social bookmarking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Stumbleupon and others.
• If you have a website or a blog of your own, the best practice would be if you also published your articles there as well.
• Some article directories have detailed statistics, informing you how many people viewed your articles and how many clicked on the links provided in your resource box.
Articles that are more popular among the readers than the others can serve as a good example for analysis that will determine how you can make your future articles perform better.
Additional promotion of such articles can yield outstanding marketing results and significantly increase your traffic and reputation as an author.
• Take your time to evaluate again the articles that are not performing well and determine the reason for their under-performance.
Could it be because the topic you wrote about is no longer relevant, or because your title and content need some restyling in order to attract more audience.
Such articles can help you write new, fresh and improved content that will leave better impact on your readers.
• Collect your old articles and repurpose them by putting them into use in some new marketing strategies, such as video logs, or fresh tweets that are delivering useful information.
• When writing new articles, try to mix the styles you are using.
That will strengthen your position and authority as an author, because writing constantly the same type of articles in the same manner might bore your readers.
These simple tips will help you nourish the articles you have already published and get the most out of them.