Article marketing is a type of advertising in which bloggers write articles related to their blogging topic. These articles are made available for distribution and publication in the article directories. Each article contains a biography box and byline which include contact information and references for the author’s business. High quality, well-written, and unique content articles released for free distribution have the potential of increasing the bloggers’ credibility within its blogging topic as well as attracting new readers and RSS subscribers.

There are hundreds of article directories available. However many of them are not worth spending your time. I have listed the most useful ones based on the popularity and traffic driving capabilities. You should submit your articles to these directories when you have time to do:

• http://www.ezinearticles.com/
• http://www.helium.com/
• http://www.articlecity.com/
• http://www.goarticles.com/
• http://www.bpubs.com/
• http://www.ideamarketers.com/
• http://www.constant-content.com/
• http://www.isnare.com/
• http://www.articledashboard.com/
• http://www.articleclick.com/

As i mentioned before, article marketing has always been one of my favorites when it comes to online marketing and promotion. Every now and then we see new article marketing submission directories.

how to is a new free article submission service and portal. You are free to submit your articles and tutorials at HowTo.fm directory if they are unique-content and not published elsewhere on the Internet yet. They also provide fresh free content for your website.

You don’t need to sign up in order to submit your articles or tutorials. It is one of the easiest submission directories i have ever seen.  You better check their submission guidelines before you take any action.

I must warn you;  you should never ever use duplicate content for your article directory submissions. Otherwise you will be pinged by the search engines for ‘duplicate content’. You can copy a good proportion of an existing article, yet revise it so that it looks like an unique content.