Article Marketing - Managing Mailing Lists

It can be a shock for many when they start publishing articles online, especially when using either an article submission service or article submission software. You submit your article, and suddenly you are flooded with emails, firstly to actually subscribe to the various mailing lists to which your articles are published, and secondly when as often as not, IT Managers Mailing List you start receiving hundreds, if not thousands of emails from other authors on topics you have no interest in. ~ Why submit to mailing lists? ~ Some people do actually read them, others feed the content onto their sites using various automatic methods. I actually opt to receive digests, and sometimes use the search functions in Gmail to find articles on a particular subject.

It can be faster than using a tool or an article directory, especially if you use Gmail as your email client for article submissions. There may even be some search engine benefit, but it is hard to determine the weighting applied. I have however had a "Google Alert" from an article listed in a Yahoo group in the past, so they do look at the content once in a while. ~ Initial Setup ~ I wouldn't think of using a primary email address, but you should use an email address you can check frequently for emails. Quite often you can receive notifications of your articles being used on particular websites. I strongly recommend Gmail for this purpose as it gives a lot of flexibility. ~ Step by Step ~ The following is based upon using the Article Marketer service, but applies to using most submission processes. When you publish your first article using Article Marketer, you will initially receive a flood of emails requesting you to subscribe to mailing lists. These will be from both Yahoo and Topica mailing lists. Article Marketer give you a "window" of 24 hrs to complete this signup process, before they start submitting your articles to these mailing lists. It is in your best interests to join every mailing list. This will maximise your article exposure, and also prevent emails bouncing in the future (Article Marketer will attempt to send your articles to lists you haven't subscribed to). ~ Yahoo Groups ~ It takes around 30 seconds to sign up to each one, thus the whole process can be completed in 20 minutes. Sometimes the mangled word "Captcha" can catch you out, but it is a painless process. You should careful select your mailing options. If you don't want to receive lots of emails, select the appropriate option for every mailing list.