If you are looking for ways to promote your website, then distributing your content to article directories will be crucial. We all know that content is king. Having contents will enable you to get picked up by search engines and come up on top on certain phrases that you aim. If content is king, then distributing your content is gold. After all, initially the goal for our marketing effort is to let everyone knows that we do exists and our products are as good as or better than the status quo. Distributing your content to as much relevant websites possible helps you accomplish your marketing goal.

Where can you go to distribute your content? A few places come to mind.

1. A lot of inconsiderate persons start emailing unsolicited content to millions of email address at one time. You will risk losing your business reputation engaging in this kind of content distribution. Furthermore, with the recent proposed 1 cents per email recipient sent, sending emails to thousands of recipients at one time will be costly in the future. Please don't do this.

2. Some webmasters might go to public forum and start posting their thoughts and write. With a signature pointing to your website at the bottom of the article, eventually search engines will pick this up and you will get one links pointing to your site. This is a more casual way of content distribution. A lot of public forums do not allow even the slightest hint of site promotion. As a result, you need to hang out in the forum a lot for a long time before you start picking up traffic from that site.

3. Another option is to go to widely popular article submission service such as ezinearticles or goarticles and submit your articles to them. Their popularity cause your articles to be viewed to a number of people. The drawback is that since they have too many categories, your audience might come from various backgrounds that might not be interested in what you have to say. Here, you can describe yourself with a link pointing to your website in a resource box.

4. You can also submit your articles to niche article submission services that specializes on specific fields. While these visitors are less than what the big websites can get, they are a more focused visitors, interested on what you have to say. Similarly, you can add a few sentences about yourself and your site and leave a link pointing to your site in a resource box.

5. Automatic article submission service. There are firms that specialize on distributing your content to hundreds of article submission services for you with a fee. With just one article, you will get hundreds of links pointing to your site and your link popularity will shoot up fast. The drawback is that it costs you money. You can do the manual submission yourself, of course, but submitting to hundreds of article submission services takes time.

Each content distribution method has its own advantages and drawbacks. Some costs more than the other. However, if you have money to spend, I would recommend automatic article submission service where you can get hundreds of links with just one article. If money is a concern, then you should spend time submitting your articles manually to both niche and general article submission services.