We’ll talk about article marketing techniques, but we’ll go beyond article directories and use this technique on web2.0 sites like Squidoo and also Hubpages. These sites have the same high authority status like certain article directories.

Unlike article directories, you don’t have to wait for approval from the editors to get your article published. And even better, you can link directly to your affliate link without getting your article rejected.

If your article is interesting enough, you might even get a backlink to your article pages. And that will definitely increase the search engine ranking for your article pages. Leveraging your viral marketing efforts on article writing can be rewarding, if done right. In the real sense, you are actually proving your worth and demonstrating your expertise about your business through the articles you write.

So, how can this method in effect build your mailing list?

For article directories, it would have been your resouce box, where you can include a brief detail about yourself and your business site URL. But for sites like HubPages and Squidoo, you can just embed the link anywhere that you find relevant, provided you didn’t overdo it.

And to get the maximum amount of exposure to your article, get someone to stumble your article and there is a high chance that you will get a sudden surge of traffic to your article page. And, if your articles are found worth sharing, there will always going to be someone that will link to it. That’s a huge bonus! ;)