When submitting articles, you should look for two criteria. First, you should seek out sites related to your niche. This is vitally important. Most of the viewers on these specialized niche sites are interested in the topic that you are writing about. As such, they are much more inclined to want to read your articles and click on your links. If your niche is about Eskimo life, those who frequent the site might be very interested in an article on using whale blubber. However, the sun and fun niche would have no interest at all. Choosing a targeted niche site can make all the difference to your article success.
The second most important criteria is the size and popularity of the site where you submit your articles. If you submit an article to a site that is frequented by very few people, then very few people will see your article. By submitting to larger, more important sites, your article has an opportunity to be viewed by many more readers. I use Google’s PageRank and Alexa to rank my submission sites.
Google’s PageRank measures the relative importance of a site on a scale from 0 – 10. Ten is the most important site and zero is the least important. When seeking out submission sites, look for those with the highest Google PageRank.
Alexa measures the relative size of a site. If a site has an Alexa rating of 10,000, that means that there are 10,000 larger sites on the Internet. (Keep in mind that there are over 2 billion sites on the Internet now.) The lower the Alexa rating, the bigger the site. Seek out those sites with relatively low Alexa ratings.
Following is a list of sites along with their Google PageRank and Alexa ratings. Please keep in mind that these ratings change regularly. FYI- I submit each of my articles to about 60 sites.
