Learn About the Many Benefits of Using ArticleYard.com Directory!

Welcome to Article Yard. At ArticleYard.com, you're not only provided with a central location for submitting and promoting all of your articles, you also have the key to a powerful resource for website owners and ezine/newsletter publishers who are searching for excellent content to share with others!

When you set up your ArticleYard account, you can immediately begin submitting your articles. Writing and submitting articles is an extremely powerful method for promoting your websites, products, and services. Here are just a few of the benefits you'll receive by submitting articles to ArticleYard:

# Skyrocket the incoming links pointing to your website - Search engines love links. They use links as a guage for determining how "important" your website is. Search engines view each link pointing to your site as a "vote" and the more votes your website receives, the higher the rankings!

# Dramatically boost your website traffic, sales, and newsletter optins - When you submit articles to ArticleSnatch, your articles are picked up by other websites, featured in newsletters, and sent out in ezines. This will create additional traffic and result in more exposure!

# Gain "expert" status and become recognized as an authority in your field - By publishing information packed articles, you'll soon enjoy the status of being seen as an authority on your topic. This can lead to joint ventures and many other exciting opportunities that you would have never enjoyed otherwise!

# Enjoy a flood of 100% free, targeted traffic for years to come - Once you submit your articles and others begin using them, you'll enjoy a flood of free traffic that will come rolling in and it won't cost you a dime. You'll never have to rely on search engines for this free traffic and you won't be able to stop it even if you try!

# SEO Friendly URLs - the links to your articles on ArticleSnatch are search engine friendly to help indexing on your chosen keywords.

# Google Sitemap Integration. Our Google Sitemaps are updated daily and google is notified as well when they are updated. All approved articles are added to the sitemaps the day they are approved. This helps ensure that google is aware of the new articles you submit.

# RSS Syndication - Our RSS feeds - over 300 of them - are updated hourly - this keeps things fresh for readers as well as other search engines and directories. All articles that are approved are automatically included in these RSS feeds. For a full list of feeds, please visit our RSS Feed List.

# Social Bookmarking Links - All articles have links on the side and at the bottom of the article to allow readers to easily bookmark your article at any of over 40 of the best social bookmarking sites.

# Meta Tags Included - All articles show the keywords you put into the keyword box when you submit the article into the meta tags automatically - this helps the search engines and our internal search engine to find what visitors are looking for.

If you are a website owner or a newsletter/ezine publisher, ArticleYard provides you with a dynamic resource of relevant, on topic content that you can use free of charge. Just grab the articles you want to use, leave them in their original state complete with the resource box providing credit to the author, and use as you wish!

ArticleYard has many different categories of content just waiting for you to uncover! Here are some ideas for using the content in our directory to benefit you:

# Use the articles in our directory on your website to provide your visitors with more useful content and keep them coming back for more.

# Use our articles on your blog to keep it fresh and updated daily with great information.

# Send our articles out to your newsletter or ezine subscribers and provide them with fresh insights on the most popular of today's topics.

No matter how you end up using ArticleYard, we're sure that you'll benefit greatly and we hope that you continue using our directory for years and years to come as we continue to grow. We're always looking for ways to improve so if you have a suggestion, don't hesitate to let us know!