Your Marketing Assistant

• It can take up to three months for your article to hit critical mass.  Some sites will publish it immediately.
• Some sites will give you a text link embedded with your site URL in your byline.  These links are important to your search engine optimization and Google loves them.
• Other sites will give you a plain link to your site.
• All of these one way links to your site will increase your search engine position and PageRank.  Purchasing links like these is forbidden by Google.
• Many sites not included in the submission will pick up your article from the directories and reprint it.
• In return for all of these benefits you should expect that every site that carries your articles will include advertising around the article and sometimes within the article to sites that may be your competition.
• Occasionally sites will publish your article without providing the live link to your site.  It is your responsibility to contact the owners of this site and ask them to add the link or remove the article.

Article submission includes:

• Proofreading and editing of the article. Punctuation and spelling will be corrected automatically. More extensive editing will be sent to the Client for approval.
• Formatting of the article as per publisher guidelines.
• Individual submission of each article to the maximum number of topic appropriate sites on my list. Actual number of submissions depends upon the topic.
• Creation of accounts at article directory sites (about 15) where required with a report of login and passwords created.
• Completion of the author profile when offered with your picture, biography and a link to your site.
• Processing of confirmation e-mail.
• A report at the end of the project that includes the name of the submission sites and a copy of login and password report.

What I need from you:

• An original article never distributed on-line or in print with a word count between 500 and 1,000 characters.
• Your physical address, telephone number and public e-mail address. You must be comfortable with having this information distributed on the internet.
• A digital photograph that includes you.  You cannot use a logo or anything other than your headshot.
• A by-line for your article of less than 450 characters and a general biography for your article accounts.
• An e-mail address created for article submission.  This e-mail should be “articles@yourwebsitehere.com.  Forward that e-mail to my e-mail address so I can handle confirmations.  You will receive e-mail to this address from time to time from article directories.  Optionally you can create a Gmail account and give me access to it.
• No promotion of your business or website anywhere except by-line.

• Your first submission includes everything listed above and costs $300.00. You get a list of the submission sites and login/passwords for the accounts. This list will be updated as article sites are added or removed rom the list.
• Your second and subsequent submissions are $250.00.