Article submission

[Kerrib4]

Just wondering what your opinions are on article marketing. I've heard some people like to submit articles to as many different article sites as possible for building links, while others like to submit only to a select few well known article sites so that there is more chance of the articles showing in Google's search results.

Which method do you prefer?

 

[kulture]

The idea is to build up a set of natural looking links. So if you put up lots at once it may appear artificial and damage your rankings. I would personally want to have a few articles on popular sites.

 

[Clarkjackson]

Did you head about Google Panda ??

Most of articles sites have slapped by this Google update and if you are getting backlinks from them it can be with you too.

So, lean about Google panda and then think about submitting one contents in many places

 

[StokedSEO]

Article marketing has really been done to death and as above panda slapped these sites pretty hard. Have you considered guest blogging as an alternative? essentially you a still writting content as you would with articles but your are having them published on blogs related to your industry. It's harder work because you've got to find the blogs offering opportunities and also the content has got to be of a better standard, the rewards however are far greater.

 

[C.Rebecca]

I am pretty dismissive of this strategy...I think that if the articles are verbatim same, Google will show the one that got indexed first and label the rest as duplicate...No big idea in rolling the same content and boring the search engines and your users to sleep!

I would rather lean towards unique blogging and guest blogging...

 

[gauravmultiplex]

Just wondering what your opinions are on article marketing. I've heard some people like to submit articles to as many different article sites as possible for building links, while others like to submit only to a select few well known article sites so that there is more chance of the articles showing in Google's search results.

Which method do you prefer?

Personally I would like to submit article on few popular articles sites.

 

[fisicx]

Articles can be brilliant for pulling in traffic. Write stuff that people want to read and publish on your own site. I get all sort of visitors who do a google search, find my blog posts and arrive to later become clients.

 

[fisicx]

There is no doubt that article submissions is very effective and important method to get do-follow and high page rank backlinks, there you should always keep in mind that your content should be unique and fresh and never spin an article more then three times.

That's just regurgitated tripe.

 

[ITsoldUK]

As above, yes do submit your articles.............


............onto your site.

I have found traffic has zoomed up and remember to think outside the box.

You can micro niche almost ANY business to the enth degree and add valuable content that can boost traffic.

A farmer does more than just farm don't you know

JMTC

 

[webgeek]

Think content publication, not article marketing via mass post sites.

Register 10 or 20 domains, post 10 or 20 articles on each one, interlink them carefully and occasionally link back to your money site.

Then linkbuild like a demon to that those 100 to 400 articles.

Your money site will be safe and rock the rankings and you will have just built a substantial web property portfolio which can be monetized in many other ways

 

[advanceddml]

I just want to ask the question that what is the proper way to submit an article in Seo?

 

[Kerrib4]

Thanks for all the advice, very helpful! I will keep posting on my own websites blog, as well as the 2.0 blog sites that I have set up instead of article marketing. I wouldn't want to chance spending my time writing articles and submitting to article directories if I'm not going to get any benefit out of it.

 

[fisicx]

Thanks for all the advice, very helpful! I will keep posting on my own websites blog, as well as the 2.0 blog sites that I have set up instead of article marketing. I wouldn't want to chance spending my time writing articles and submitting to article directories if I'm not going to get any benefit out of it.

How are you measuring this benefit?

Are you getting any traffic? Ignore any ranking benefit as there is almost none.

Not sure whay you mean by 2.0 blog sites. Just about any article writing you do away from you main site is less effective than publishing on your own site.

 

[Kerrib4]

How are you measuring this benefit?

Are you getting any traffic? Ignore any ranking benefit as there is almost none.

Not sure whay you mean by 2.0 blog sites. Just about any article writing you do away from you main site is less effective than publishing on your own site.

Link building and traffic are the main reasons I would submit to article submission sites, but if there is no gain from submitting to these sites, then it would basically be wasting my time.

What I meant by 2.0 blog sites is wordpress, blogspot, tumblr etc.

 

[fisicx]

You are pretty much wasting your time. Put all your efforts into your own site. Spreading your knowledge around all these other blogs only helps them not you.

How much traffic do these article site actually bring? Would it not be better if the visitor landed on your site rather than somebody else's?

 

[webgeek]

You are pretty much wasting your time. Put all your efforts into your own site. Spreading your knowledge around all these other blogs only helps them not you.

How much traffic do these article site actually bring? Would it not be better if the visitor landed on your site rather than somebody else's?

Ever see how the fishing industry works vs sport fishermen?

The sports fisherman gets a little boat and a single chair, puts one line in the water and hopes to catch a single fish at one time.

The industry boats put huge nets in the water, massive trawlers, long driftlines, and other mass catch techniques (some of which may not be appealing to PETA fans, but they do work).

Inbound marketing is not about just baiting one hook with the biggest juiciest bit of bait you can come up with. It's about building a huge number of entry points back to your site. People need to find you via images, shopping, press releases, social bookmarks, social news, blogs, blogs, blogs, blogs and more blogs.

Putting up tons of external content, when done smartly, is like building a giant vaccuum that sucks visitors toward that content and then funnels them toward your money site.

Read, "Inbound Marketing" by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah (think founders of Hubspot). It will revolutionize the way you think about content and the marketing funnel.

 

[fisicx]

Putting up tons of external content, when done smartly, is like building a giant vaccuum that sucks visitors toward that content and then funnels them toward your money site.

That's one opinion.

I'd much rather have all the fish land directly on my boat.

 

[ITsoldUK]

OK

I hear what is being said so, just to seek clarification from some of the more SEO savy out there....

Lets just say I build 10 sites on my mega fantastic resellers hosting package, all with the same IP and owner profile and link them all together with 10 articles on each (100 articles in total)

2 questions...

1. Would it not be more beneficial to the 'money site' to have these on that site?

2. Is Google really so naive that it won't spot that the value in the links is manufactured as I own ALL the sites???

Clarity please guys

Regards
Daren

 

[RevaxMedia]

Just wondering what your opinions are on article marketing. I've heard some people like to submit articles to as many different article sites as possible for building links, while others like to submit only to a select few well known article sites so that there is more chance of the articles showing in Google's search results.

Which method do you prefer?

There are several techniques you can use when article marketing, Some people use article marketing in order to rank highly with it and generate referral traffic and some use it to pass over link juice.

Article marketing works if you do it for the right reasons, you can spill your knowledge onto another website in order to become an authority within your field however the time and effort you put into article marketing you may as well add the content to your own website and generate the benefit yourself.

The only article marketing I find to be worthwhile is the guest blogging as that captures the best of both worlds.

 

[pandorak7]

we do articles submission because under articles we are come up with new thinks and under this we can use selected keyword and hyperlink it. so that we can increase over back link of the site and increase the traffic also and through articles submission we are promoting our brand online.

 

[RevaxMedia]

Press Releases is also a good marketing strategy if done correctly.

 

[finejewellerys]

I think submitting quality and unique content to a few top ranking article directories.Submiting same content to many directories will damage site SERP due to bad effect of duplicated content.

 

[RevaxMedia]

I think submitting quality and unique content to a few top ranking article directories.Submiting same content to many directories will damage site SERP due to bad effect of duplicated content.

But surely the Quality and unique content would be best off on your own website?

 

[webgeek]

OK

I hear what is being said so, just to seek clarification from some of the more SEO savy out there....

Lets just say I build 10 sites on my mega fantastic resellers hosting package, all with the same IP and owner profile and link them all together with 10 articles on each (100 articles in total)

2 questions...

1. Would it not be more beneficial to the 'money site' to have these on that site?

2. Is Google really so naive that it won't spot that the value in the links is manufactured as I own ALL the sites???

Clarity please guys

Regards
Daren

1) No one said 'smartly' included building a linkwheel all on the same IP address. I'd instead recommend SEO hosting where each domain is on a different class-C.

2) Anonymous whois, links pointed to sites other than just your own (high authority sites), different wordpress themes and plugins, etc, etc. The idea is not to blatantly appear to be building a funnel.

Links from 10 highly relevant, keyword rich, .com domains which are filled with content, actively having inbound links being built, and backlinking to your money site... There's a ton of love in that equation.

You show me a site with a ton of content and no inbound links and I can show you a competitor with less content who outperforms them in the search rankings, traffic and conversions.

Linkbuilding + content wins hands down.

Linkbuilding > content if you have to choose between the two.

I've put 5 page sites to the top of page 1 search results just with aggressive link building, beating aged domains with hundreds, and sometimes thousands of pages. It's the rule, not the exception.

 

[MargaretEvans]

Article submission is a great help to increase traffic for your site and to build backlinks as well. Just make sure that you are submitting your own unique and fresh content. That is the secret I think to make it powerful and worth reading for.

 

[Hajikajo22]

I think some high page rank article sites are very effective for Google ranking,most of low rank article sites have bad impact in your Google ranking.better option is high page rank article sites.

 

[accounting-help]

I've heard that its good to put a steady stream of articles up over a period of time rather than just a whole punch over a short people and then stop positing.

 

[Hajikajo22]

yes I agree with you,It means don't post articles on auto approved article directories.Am i right?

 

[catsandcanines]

This is an interesting thread because this is what I'm currently working on. I've put a few articles on my own blog and website with a link back to my site and a couple on pet related article sites.

However, one topic about waterproof dog beds I really wanted to write about but it had 100s of articles about it. All basically saying the same but just re-worded.

I had to think differently and found an alternative angle for the article.

 

[BOBBYDEMAN]

A lot of the Article directory sites have been slapped and there links don't hold as much value anymore but i still do get links this way. I have been seeing great results with press releases. I use PR Web witch I love but they are kind of expensive but the results make it all worth it to me