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Here are some websites to submit your articles for free

1. Ezinearticles PR: 6 / Alexa: 255
2. Buzzle PR: 6 / Alexa: 2,599
3. GoArticles PR: 6 / Alexa: 22,529
4. ArticleBase PR: 5 / Alexa: 1,826
5. ArticleDashboard PR: 5 / Alexa: 29,138
6. ArticleClick PR: 5 / Alexa: 32,451
7. Web-Source PR: 5 / Alexa: 36,492
8. Isnare PR: 5 / Alexa: 39,948
9. Site-Reference PR: 5 / Alexa: 81,497
10. SearchWarp PR: 4 / Alexa: 8,148
11. Amazines PR: 4 / Alexa: 35,964
12. ArticlesFactory PR: 4 / Alexa: 39,955
13. ArticlesFactory PR: 4 / Alexa: 43,735
14. ArticlePool PR: 4 / Alexa: 60,289
15. Article-Buzz PR: 3 / Alexa: 40,193

Article sites that don’t need sign-up

http://www.webpronews.com/, Page Rank: 7, Alexa Rank: 14,536
http://www.qarchive.org/, Page Rank: 6, Alexa Rank: 1,786
http://www.articlecity.com/, Page Rank: 5, Alexa Rank: 41,377
http://www.articlebiz.com/, Page Rank: 3, Alexa Rank: 92,151
http://www.selfseo.com/, Page Rank: 3, Alexa Rank: 49,086

Register and submit article sites

http://www.ezinearticles.com/, Page Rank: 6, Alexa Rank: 333
http://www.articledashboard.com/, Page Rank: 6, Alexa Rank: 42,902
http://www.articleclick.com/, Page Rank: 4, Alexa Rank: 42,147
http://www.articlemarketer.com/, Page Rank: 4, Alexa Rank: 41,411
http://www.goarticles.com/, Page Rank: 3, Alexa Rank: 18,786

If you know of other high PR article submission websites that are not listed here, let us know!

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Off Page SEO is the process of optimizing your site by influencing external factors such as link building, search engine marketing (sem) and pay per click (ppc).

Off Page SEO can be broken down into parts.

Metrics That Matter

1. Indexed Pages.
2. Google PageRank.
3. Links to URL.
4. Links to domain.
5. Domain age, address and info.
6. Last crawl date.
7. Alexa Traffic Rank.

Reports and Goals

1. Record your site’s current position and set goals.
2. Keep reports of all your activities so you’ll know which ones are effective and which are not worth the effort.

Link Building

1. Submit your URL and xml sitemap to Google, Yahoo! Search, Bing, Ask.com.
2. Submit your URL to top tier web directories such as Yahoo! Directory, DMOZ, Librarian’s Internet Index, IllumiRate, MavicaNET, Jayde.
3. Submit your URL to second tier SEO friendly directories.
4. Submit your well written articles to High PR Article Websites.
5. Add sites similar to yours and let them know that you linked to them. Ask nicely but don’t force them to link back.
6. Employ link baiting techniques.
7. Make use of link trojans. Examples of link trojans are free giveaway wordpress, joomla or other css themes, plugins, forum icons and avatars.
8. Submit your site to social media sites. Always remember to present VALUE so people will have a motivation to link back.

Indirect Link Building

1. Comment on on-topic blog posts and forums and let them know about your articles. This technique should go together with well written articles.
2. Answer questions on Yahoo! Answers.

On Page SEO is the process of optimizing your HTML pages for the search engines’ perusal. It is by no means an exact science, but Google and all the other search engines have published guidelines for us to follow to better rankings.

Server and File Settings

1. Make sure that there is only one version of your site – 301 redirect all non www. URLs to the www. ones or vice versa.
2. Serve up easy to read and understand canonical URLs.
3. Name your files such that they are easy to read. “moonwalk-photo.jpg” as opposed to “moon734.jpg”.
4. Make an XML sitemap and upload it to the search engines.
5. Make effective use of robots.txt. Do not allow search result-like pages and a large number of auto-generated pages with the same or only slightly
   different content to be crawled.

HTML Title and Head

1. Use targeted keyword in the <title> but keep in mind what visitors would see. Your page title should be less than 68 characters long to be fully visible in the SERPs.
2. Limit meta-description to 150 characters.
3. Interior pages should have distinct meta data.

Your Content

1. Use only one <h1> tag per page.
2. Use alt tags in images, links, etc. A picture is worth a thousand words, but search engines cannot understand pictures; so they will refer to alt tags to understand what you are trying to say.
3. Use alt and longdesc in <img>.
4. Make sure that your code is valid, in some instances bad code can lead to search engines not being able to properly read a page. Use the W3C validator to check your markup.
5. Follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2 (WCAG 2.0) (Note: this is a very looong read). Highlights can be read at a WCAG discussion at WebmasterWorld and a similar onpage seo checklist here. Google has also published their SEO Starter Guide (pdf).
6. Provide a useful 404 File Not Found page.

Linking

1. Implement “rel=nofollow” links to unimportant pages within your site. Focus your link juice on the most important pages, don’t splatter it all over your site.
2. More importantly, use “rel=nofollow” links to bad links or bad neighborhoods. Otherwise, you may get penalized for linking to them.
3. Make sure there are no orphaned pages. Everybody wants to be loved, including web pages.
4. Use absolute URLs. Read why…
5. Make good use of anchor text in linking to your pages. Avoid writing generic anchor text like “page”, “article”, or “click here”.
6. Use breadcrumbs.
7. Provide an HTML sitemap for the site.

Below is a compilation of the most frequently used SEO Research and Planning tools.

Google Adwords Traffic Estimator

Semrush

Website Grader

SEOmoz Linkscape

SEOmoz Trifecta

SEOmoz Term Target

Multi-Rank Checker – Google PageRank and Alexa Ranking checker

Keyword Density Analyzer

A comprehensive list of 136 SEO tools that you can get lost in.