How to submit articles with mailing lists

Leva Duell

If you publish a newsletter then you know it can be a challenge to generate new articles for your newsletters every week or month. Emails lists or email groups solve this problem by providing free articles for your newsletter or Web site.

And if you are writing articles and want to get exposure to your articles, mailing lists gives you access to many ezine owners who are looking for articles for their ezines.

Here's how to submit articles to mailing lists.

1. Sign up for a Yahoo account (if you don't have one). There are other places you can submit articles to but Yahoo is a good place to start.

2. Subscribe to some of the Yahoo groups by sending an email to the subscription addresses below. Make sure you send the email from the email address you are going to submit articles from. Create a new email address. Articles announcement groups will send all their articles to the email address you use to submit your articles to to them. Expect a lot of email.

3. You'll get an email back from each group you subscribed to asking you to confirm your subscription. Confirm your subscription by replying to the email message.

4. Format your articles following their instructions. (My article template below will work for most of them)

5. Create email groups, combining related email addresses so you don't have to send your article to each one separately. I usually combine 4 to 5 articles.

6. Send out your articles from the email address you used to subscribe.

IMPORTANT

• Create an email address specifically for your subsciptions. You will be bombarded with emails so you don't want to clutter up your main email address.

• Use this special email address to subscribe to the mailing lists.

• Send out your articles from the email address you used to subscribe.

What you should know

Subscription Addresses
Send an email to those addresses to subscribe

Submission Addresses
Submit your articles to those addresses after subscribing and confirming

aabusiness@yahoogroups.com
aainet@yahoogroups.com
aahome@yahoogroups.com
aageneral@yahoogroups.com
allthingspondered@yahoogroups.com
ap-shorts@yahoogroups.com
article_announce@yahoogroups.com
articles_archives@yahoogroups.com
articles4you2use4promotion@yahoogroups.com
ArticlePublish@yahoogroups.com
Article_Depot@topica.com
articlesubmission@yahoogroups.com
Free-Content@yahoogroups.com
freezinecontent@yahoogroups.com
Free-Reprint-Articles@yahoogroups.com
I_Need_Content@yahoogroups.com
netwrite-publish-announce@yahoogroups.com
PromoteYourArticle@yahoogroups.com
publisher_network@yahoogroups.com
PublishInYours@yahoogroups.com
QC_Reprint_Articles@yahoogroups.com
ReadMyArticles@yahoogroups.com
ReprintArticles-Paradise@yahoogroups.com
reprintedarticles@yahoogroups.com
subportal@yahoogroups.com
TheWriteArticles@yahoogroups.com
writers_n_publishers@yahoogroups.com

You can get more information about mailing lists at these web sites:

My Article Submission Template

Publishing Guidelines: You may reprint this article in its entirety as long as you include the full byline and hyperlinked URL. You are not allowed to change the context of the article or our recommendations. A courtesy copy to mailto:youremail@yourprovider.com would be appreciated.
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Article Title:
Author:
Contact Email:
Copyright Date:
URL of Article:
Article Autoresponder:

Formatted to 60 Characters per Line
Word Count:
Categories:
Description/Summary:
title/headline
by (author name)
Copyright © (year)

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Paste article here
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Resource Box:

How to link your url and email address in article submission (and any email message).

To link your URL in a plain text email, all you need to do is have http:// in front of the web address. For example, http://www.qualityebookcovers.com will appear as a hyperlink in an email.

To hyperlink your email, put mailto: in front of your email address.

Article Submission Services Will Save You Time!

You can send out your articles yourself but it's time-consuming to keep track of the ever-changing mailing lists. You also have to read their rules and regulations and find out what topics they accept.

I'd rather spend my time marketing and promoting my existing Web sites and creating new Web sites.

An article submission site does all the work for you. Article Marketer is the submission service I use myself. Their services are very reasonable. I find it very convenient and get great results. GO to http://www.qualityebookcovers.com/article-marketer.html for more information.

Useful Resources for Article Submissions:

To format articles to 60 char: http://www.web-source.net/format_text.htm or www.formatit.com
How to create links in articles: http://thephantomwriters.com/link-builder.pl

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