Any virtual assistant that pursues the art of article writing and article marketing knows the importance of getting good backlinks to their website or their blog. There’s an easy way to do it without doing the laborious, time-consuming effort of submitting articles to many, many article submission sites manually.

Oftentimes success with article writing is as simple as choosing the best article distribution service to blast your articles out to hungry publishers and content site owners globally. Let’s see what you should look for in choosing a good service.

Choose a well-known article distribution service.

Your articles are a critical piece of your marketing campaigns. It’s up to you to promote them in the best light so they receive the recognition they deserve. There are many article distribution services out there. You will want to check Alexa and Google page rank and choose one that is most talked about on the Web and maintains high rankings.

Ideally, you want to be comfortable with the content distribution service that you choose. Research thoroughly and don’t make hasty decisions.

Choose a service that has an up-to-date distribution list.

There’s nothing more frustrating than to sign up with a marketing service that claims to have lots and lots (and lots) of publishers on their distribution list and the links don’t work or there’s no such publisher.

Check out multiple places on the list to ensure the service you’re considering is keeping their list current.

Check to see if they offer review services.

Even the best of writers needs a fresh set of eyes to go over their articles to make sure that their articles will pass the rigorous requirements that publishers and content site owners have in place. When submitting manually to sites, it’s next to impossible to keep all the guidelines straight. A good service that serves as those extra pair of eyes will prove to be invaluable.

I, for one, appreciate the extra help from a reviewer that lets me know that I’m doing too much advertising in my article or I’m using a particular word(s) too many times.

Can you distribute your articles on your own schedule to coincide with your article marketing campaigns?

A good service is going to provide you with options that fit your needs — not their needs. The ideal service will let you set a schedule in advance, in some cases even up to a year.

Sounds good, doesn’t it?

Is the service you’re looking at affordable and offer a variety of different price plans?

With the economy the way it is, everyone tends to watch their expenses a lot more closely. Having different price plans that can be monthly, quarterly, annually, or even lifetime is important. Your potential candidate needs to offer variety.

While there may be free services out there, I guarantee your articles probably won’t receive the recognition they deserve.

What type of article syndication plans does your potential service have for the future?

While it’s important to get your article out to article directories, you will want to consider going with a business that will take it one step further and send out your article to sites owned and managed by internet marketers. Why? They take great care to bring new visitors to their sites in order to create profits. Going with an article marketing service can open new opportunities for you that maybe you haven’t even dreamt of yet.

There are many more features that one company might offer over another. It’s up to you to do the legwork and find the very best article marketing distribution service that will meet YOUR needs. Choose wisely so that your articles will receive the recognition they deserve. Now, get out there and start researching.

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Pam Lokker is a skillful writer and proficient virtual assistant. She is co-owner of Borlok Virtual Assistants,  the place to get global expert VA services with quality and on-time delivery.

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