Article syndication is of paramount importance for the success of any article marketing campaign.

Do this right and you've pretty much secured the ingredients for having a profitable online business. Bold statement? Not at all! Smart article syndication will provide you a consistent amount of referral and direct traffic plus improve your niche penetration power with a more potent online activity in the area of content production.

How to harness and concentrate the distribution power of Article Directories:

1, Keep a keen sense of content usefulness. Even though cheap articles are a dime a dozen they are useless in terms of viral expansion. No one is paying attention to mediocre writing.

Just be sure all article versions are unique and of high perceived value.

2. The most effective way of producing unique versions of the same article is to rewrite it by sentence and not replace each word with synonyms.

If you rewrite every sentence you'll end up with a much more unique article, as opposed to a word by word change that could create awkward sentences and still be very similar in structure and content to the original.

Rewrite article manually and never resort to automated article spinners.

3. Perform article syndication manually for the highest quality directories to ensure you get the best results from them, including referral traffic.

For not so notorious ADs article syndication can be conducted with the help of an automated submission software.

4. To be successful in article marketing you need large amounts of people reading your articles. To make this happen choose article directories that have good Alexa ranking. As far as PR is concerned it matters but in a limited extent.

PageRank is a ranking metric for individual pages and for entire websites.

On the other hand the Alexa Ranking provides you with pretty accurate information regarding the amount of traffic the website receives.

Article directories with Alexa rankings under 100,000 should be targeted first and foremost.

5. Articles that will be syndicated must have between five hundred and five hundred and fifty words.

Today's article directories require articles that have at least 500 words. Pass this limit with an extra 50 words just to make sure the distribution process goes smooth.

Distributing article through other CMS types

1. If your partner webmasters don't have any problems with republishing some of your website content on their own, be sure you have it indexed by the search engines before you grant permission for republish.

2. Although you won't suffer any SEO damage the smart thing to do is to have all republished articles accompanied by a backlink referencing the original article page.

As far as the anchor text is concerned, the best case scenario is to have the article title as the anchor text but it can still be effective with the targeted keyword only.

3. An even more efficient tactic for attracting targeted visitors is to use link baits on other highly trafficked websites in your market. The way it works is that you publish just a short intriguing paragraph of the original article followed by a link pointing to the full article page.

This way both sides win; you enjoy more traffic from the referencing website while the other webmasters has new content added to his website on a regular basis.

4. You can produce a high quality link wheel for yourself with article syndication to other platforms that you manage.

5. Get the word out about your content with article syndication and RSS through social networking sites as well.