Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:57 pm Post subject: Quick question about article submission for SEO
Hey,
I was just wondering if I should just submit the articles with backlinks to my site or if I should first write the article as a new page on my actual website then submit it to an article site later so my website would get credit for original article?
I'm confused as to the actual method of article marketing and how I should do it to achieve the maximum SEO benefits. If someone could help me out, maybe a step by step process I'd sure appreciate it
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 5:00 am Post subject: Article Submission
Hi,
Article writing is supposed to be one of the best and quickest ways of driving traffic to the site. You write the article stating the essence of your site or some stuff which relates to your article, and then submit the article into various article directories. There by you get the back-links to your site and ultimately the desired traffic.
You should definitely submit articles that are NOT listed on your site to avoid duplicate content penalties. Even if you firts publish on your website and later on directories, there is no guarantee that the article on your site will rank better than the same one in the directory (in fact it's usually is the opposite). Besides that, people who come from the links in your article would be disappointed to see the same thing on your website. _________________ Ultralight Airplane | Risk Investing | Calendar Script | smart personal finance |
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so my website would get credit for original article?
The site with the highest Authority in the eyes of the Search Engines get the "Credit".
So you are worrying for no reason. Submit to the Article Directories that make sense. You do not have to submit a Full article. The Article on your website could be a completion of the Original smaller article. In this way you bring additional value to the reader.
To view Articles as just a way to get back links is missing the point. Sure they can contribute to your Ranking. But don't miss the opportunity to gain customers and sales.
If my website is a lead capture page, which one
is more important? The quality of the article or
the quantity I should submit?
Because I'm using articles to build my list.
And I'm still figuring how to improve it.
Did you guys here have any nice free report or
any e-books in article marketing? _________________ The #1 Success and Wealth Creation Blog:
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Who bothers to click on links from crappy articles?
Why would anyone want a flood of poorly written articles linking to their site?
Think of it this way. If everyone in your high school thinks you are a scumbag because of the way you dress, the way you talk, and the way you treated them. You don't just show up to school the next day and expect everyone to respect you and like you.
I must say this thread has got to have the soundest advice I've seen in a long time!
Article Marketing is about branding, or becoming an expert in your field. If you submit an article to the article directories, you will get back links for sure. But the idea behind articles, as opposed to say, classified ads or website submission is to gain readers. A following if you will.
So like someone said, if your name is going on an article, make it good and informative. Spend a little extra time on it to bring out points not commonly known. Be the expert!
Never submit an article to the directories that you have on your own site. It will not get you ranking, but more importantly it'll make people think you have nothing left to offer. If you read an article on a directory then click on the link to see the exact same article with no further info in it, what would you think? Beside being annoyed that you wasted your time clicking the link, you'd conclude this guy is only interested in the back link, right?
A good practice would be to "whet the whistle" of your reader by giving an intro type article to them through the directories, then elaborate in much more detail with a second article on your site. This will train them to go to your site for the clearest explanation on topics they want to read about.
One more misconception is this idea of only submitting to the top directories. Virtually every article directory has its "groupies" or people who frequent the site looking for articles. So if your goal is to gain readers, you have a much better chance of getting a lot of them by submitting to as many directories as possible. Besides, the directories with the highest rank are usually the ones that take the longest to post. So you could wait weeks and months before anyone sees your article with them.
And even if a directory doesn't have a huge ranking, your article will still be counted as a back link. It may not show up in a search listing, but it'll still add clout to the ones that do. This is called link popularity!
Ok, that's it for my time on the soap box
But I just wish more people would look at this thread. There are so many myths floating around about article marketing and the duplication issue, but this thread is spot on for the most part.
I must say this thread has got to have the soundest advice I've seen in a long time!
Article Marketing is about branding, or becoming an expert in your field. If you submit an article to the article directories, you will get back links for sure. But the idea behind articles, as opposed to say, classified ads or website submission is to gain readers. A following if you will.
So like someone said, if your name is going on an article, make it good and informative. Spend a little extra time on it to bring out points not commonly known. Be the expert!
Never submit an article to the directories that you have on your own site. It will not get you ranking, but more importantly it'll make people think you have nothing left to offer. If you read an article on a directory then click on the link to see the exact same article with no further info in it, what would you think? Beside being annoyed that you wasted your time clicking the link, you'd conclude this guy is only interested in the back link, right?
A good practice would be to "whet the whistle" of your reader by giving an intro type article to them through the directories, then elaborate in much more detail with a second article on your site. This will train them to go to your site for the clearest explanation on topics they want to read about.
One more misconception is this idea of only submitting to the top directories. Virtually every article directory has its "groupies" or people who frequent the site looking for articles. So if your goal is to gain readers, you have a much better chance of getting a lot of them by submitting to as many directories as possible. Besides, the directories with the highest rank are usually the ones that take the longest to post. So you could wait weeks and months before anyone sees your article with them.
And even if a directory doesn't have a huge ranking, your article will still be counted as a back link. It may not show up in a search listing, but it'll still add clout to the ones that do. This is called link popularity!
Ok, that's it for my time on the soap box
But I just wish more people would look at this thread. There are so many myths floating around about article marketing and the duplication issue, but this thread is spot on for the most part.
Wow, very sound advice indeed.
I never really know that lower ranking article
directories are important as well, because they
have their own 'groupies'.
Thank you so much for your information.
However, if we need to submit to so many directories,
won't it be a tedious work? Did you use article
submitter to do this? _________________ The #1 Success and Wealth Creation Blog:
http://www.themillionairesecrets.net/
Well obviously I recommend using an article submission software
There are over 1,400 article directories floating around, so you could imagine how long it would take to hunt them down, then submit to all or most of them manually.
However, keeping to the "expert" notion, you'd want to use one that kept you in control of your submissions so you could be sure your articles are going in right and into the very best possible category, but at the same time gave you some ease of submission so the whole process goes quickly.
Now mind you there are directories that are fairly new, so they won't have that many visitors. But article directories, by their nature are among the fastest growing web sites on the Internet. So if you have the means, and a little extra time, submitting to even these relative newbies will help build them along with their credibility.
Besides, people in a big hurry to get any old "crap" article out there won't take the time to submit to these smaller sites, so your articles post to these will be amongst other quality submissions. My guess is, eventually, people will look more to the smaller sites for the quality over the sheer quantity of the bigger sites struggling to filter themselves.
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