Article Marketing Using Article Directories By Trina L.C. Sonnenberg These days, article marketing is in the lime-light as the new way to promote everything from home business opportunities to wheelchairs. There are even software programs to help individuals write and submit articles to ezines. Article marketing is an extremely effective method for promotion. The reason for this is that an article provides the reader with information, not just a sales pitch. That's what people use the Internet for, finding information. TLC Promotions has long been associated with article marketing through their ezine, The Trii-Zine, as a trusted source for Internet business and marketing information. Now, TLC Promotions has extended their article marketing reach to include a brand new article directory, the TLC Pro Article Depot. The TLC Pro Article Depot is a free directory where writers can submit their work, and others may come to find content for their own web sites, ezines and newsletters. All article submissions must be the submitter's original work, or work they have rights to reprint on behalf of the author. Everything posted to the directory is available for others to reprint as well. Article directories are in abundance on the net, but the TLC Pro Article Depot is a directory that offers a little twist. It has been integrated with an RSS feed, which syndicates the content of the directory itself. That is to say, that not only are the articles available directly from the web site, but they are also available for syndication. Any web site owner can easily add a few lines of code to their web page and syndicate the most recent additions to the directory, right on their pages, without ever having to alter their page again. The feed automatically updates itself on every web page it is added to. In addition to the syndication feature, each time an article is posted to the RSS feed (the directory), the search engines are pinged to come have a look. This helps authors in getting their copy indexed. Normally, when an article is posted to a directory, the search engines only become aware of it when they perform their next scheduled crawl of that site. That can take up to 30 days, in most cases. With an RSS feed, the search engines are prompted to crawl within hours of posting. The TLC Pro Article Depot also utilizes its own RSS feed reader, available to subscribers, to provide instant desktop notification when new articles have been added to the directory. This is very beneficial to those who are looking for new content for reprint. The reader also has features installed such as: a contact manager, private messaging system, reminder service, HTML editor, private chat system, conferencing system, and more. Clearly, The TLC Pro Article Depot has taken article marketing and its resources to a new level. Trina L.C. Sonnenberg Owner - TLC Promotions Providing Internet Marketing and Home Based Business Resources Since 2000 http://www.tlcpromotions.net/article_depot/index.php