1. Proofread your article before you submit it. This is a key aspect of article marketing. While occasional mistakes will slip through the proverbial crack, no one wants to read articles by a writer who consistently makes grammar, punctuation, spelling or content errors.

2. Submit your article only to directories and publishers who want the kind of content you have to offer. If you write Internet marketing articles, don’t submit them to a crafts publisher. Not only will they be rejected, but you can create a bad name for yourself in the publishing world. That crafts publisher may know Internet marketers who would use your content – until she tells them how you keep submitting inappropriate articles to her site and they no longer want to deal with you.

3. Keep your resource box short. Five to six lines is adequate. Anything more becomes obnoxious to readers who are looking for content and will diminish your response and click-through rates, which is the last thing you want to do. After all, the purpose in writing articles is to get people to visit your website. Entice them with your article. Sell them at your site.

We’ll continue to cover additional tips for helping you to market your website with free articles for reprint. Following these three simple tips, however, will improve your article marketing success immediately.

I can’t believe I did this… my face is really red from embarrasment!… but my twitter friend ArticlesBin didn’t make it to the list of 75 Places to Submit Your Articles. How could I have missed that? (I think what really happened is that I gave you Article Bin and it should have had an ‘s’ after Article. Oh, well. I do make these mistakes. }

SO… want another GREAT site to submit your articles to? Try Articles Bin. And tell them Dee Bishop sent you!

One huge aspect of article marketing is finding ezines, websites and article directories where you can submit your articles for free reprint to be picked up by online publishers.

While some Internet marketers say that submitting to the top 10 sites based on search engine or traffic ranking is the best option, others say that the more sites you submit your article to, the better. Though I’m far from an expert, based on personal experience, I tend to follow the second school of thought.

Over the years, I’ve submitted articles to only a few directories, and I’ve submitted them to many. And as far as harming my search engine ranking or being penalized for duplicate content goes, it’s never happened. But the more sites I submit to, the more often my articles are published online which is the result I’m after.

Whichever philosophy you choose to follow, here are several article directories you might try as a place to submit your articles.

1. http://amazines.com
2. http://article-dir.com
3. http://article-directory.net
4. http://article-emporium.com
5. http://www.articlebin.com
6. http://articlecity.com
7. http://articledashboard.com
8. http://www.articledirectory.com
9. http://articlegarden.com
10. http://articleinn.com
11. http://articlelists.com
12. http://articlemarketer.com
13. http://articlepoint.com
14. http://www.articlepros.com
15. http://articles911.com
16. http://articlesbase.com
17. http://articleshaven.com
18. http://www.articleshowroom.com
19. http://articlesyndicators.com
20. http://articlewarehouse.com
21. http://articlewiz.com
22. http://articleworld.net
23. http://authorconnection.com
24. http://biz-ewomen.com
25. http://boconline.com
26. http://business-dynamics.com/resource_library
27. http://businesstoolchest.com/articles
28. http://cerebuswebmaster.com
29. http://certificate.net/wwio
30. http://clickz.com
31. http://connectionteam.com
32. http://digital-women.com
33. http://dime-co.com
34. http://ezinearticles.com
35. http://ezinepublisher.org – this domain is parked now
36. http://ezine-writer.com.au
37. http://family-content.com
38. http://freesticky.com
39. http://freewebarticles.com
40. http://goarticles.com
41. http://howtoadvice.com
42. http://ideamarketers.com
43. http://internetbasedmoms.com
44. http://jogena.com
45. http://www.labusinessjournal.org
46. http://ladypens.com
47. http://mainstreetmom.com
48. http://makingprofit.com
49. http://marcommwise.com
50. http://marketing-of-training.com
51. http://mastersyndicator.com
52. http://momsnetwork.com
53. http://my-biz.net
54. http://netterweb.com
55. http://opportunityupdate.com
56. http://parentclicks.com
57. http://powerhomebiz.com
58. http://profitinfo.com
59. http://selfgrowth.com
60. http://simplysearch4it.com
61. http://www.site-reference.com
62. http://smallbusinesshowto.com
63. http://submit-article.net
64. http://submit-your-articles.com
65. http://top7business.com
66. http://uniterra.com
67. http://upromote.com
68. http://vectorcentral.com – no longer accepting articles
69. http://wahm-articles.com
70. http://webmasterarticles.net
71. http://webpronews.com
72. http://web-source.net
73. http://womans-net.com
74. http://zineadz.com
75. http://zinos.com

Know of another site that accepts free article submissions? Leave a comment and let us know!