I tried to keep it in simple language and not get to deep into it, but here is a post I created for you users considering taking on article writing and submission http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/...arey/310/show/

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So I pretty much understand the theory, the reason why, behind writing articles and submitting them to article directories as a real estate agent.

As it stands, I've written my first article this morning, and submitted it to eZine. Now, what should I do from here on out? Is there a list of directories that I should submit my article to as a real estate agent? Should I wait a week or so between directories or blast them all today with the article?

I shouldn't post the article I wrote on my website; don't want duplicate content, right? One last thing: How many articles should I aim to write each month?

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IMO - blast them out to as many article submission sites as possible. As far as articles/month - think quality over quantity. The goal is for others to like your articles & repost them on their websites, thereby creating natural one-way backlinks. Make sure & submit your articles to authority sites - you won't always get accepted, but when you do, you get awesome results.

As far as posting the articles on your own website - I post mine, and it doesn't hurt me, IMO. With Google, think more about what helps than what hurts. Posting the dupe content shouldn't hurt you, but it probably won't help you much. However, if someone finds your website, reads your articles, & thinks that you're an authority on the subject, they will contact you. People contact me due to the articles posted on my blog occasionally.

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This is great advice

Google, think more about what helps than what hurts.

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Cool, thanks guys. Here's the plan - start with writing one quality article once a week, post on my site where appropriate, and submit to eZine. I'll work on creating a list today of where I will post the articles besides eZine (will refer to other threads)

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Pay for isnare.com - it's very inexpensive & worth it. Use articlesender.com - the free service is sufficient there. Make sure & submit to authority sites that aren't simply "article directories."

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You could always just use this list to start. It's list from that article submission service you signed up for, Eric. Since there are no URLS... you could probably just google the site names.

http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/...2836&postcount

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That's actually a list of the sites that articlesender.com submits to for free. IMO, if you submit to articlesender (free) & isnare (paid) you'll get a lot of views.

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I might try giving article writing a go, there is no harm in trying and seeing what the results are like - providing you can monitor it.

The only thing is for me, people taking your signature out and claiming the work was their own, does this happen alot ?

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Lets make a list of Authority (None) article sites that we could send articles to. I think the previous posts more then cover the mass distribution so I think you do that then you also try to get some serious quality 1 ways. Anyways lets name a couple of these? Also do you think this is AWG material?