Articles?

[gemd89]

Best 3 article sites to submit to?

I have several articles all on party supplies and fancy dress and would like to submit these to article directories in order to boost my site in google.

Also is there a way of getting rid of all hyperlinks in one document? Like copy and paste and the hyperlinks are gone? - without having to go through manually!

Thanks
Gemma

 

[RedEvo]

Try this list.

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[Matt1959]

Try this list.

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does any article you submit to these sites get published or are they heavily screened? If they are screened, what is the criteria for your articles to be accepted?

not including the obvious no no's...

 

[MASSEY]

What i hate about article writing is the fact people rip your articles from ezine and place them on their own site and remove your backlink making it pointless.

 

[helpmyseo]

Copying something into notpade will remove all the links

P.S My website has a free automated article directory submitter to 96 websites, could be of some use to you...

Links in the sig

 

[WHUK]

Try Ezine Articles, Articles Base, Rectonet. There are many others too.

 

[FunkyBears]

Copying something into notpade will remove all the links

P.S My website has a free automated article directory submitter to 96 websites, could be of some use to you...

Links in the sig

Does your free submission service allow links in the body of the text?

 

[gemd89]

Thanks guys, will check out the automated service.

Have also submitted to quite a few on that lists, thanks redevo.

Gemma

 

[JMRidley]

Sometimes I wonder how may millions of hours are spent by website owners across the world producing articles they don't really want to write for people who will probably never read them just in order to satisfy a search engines weird algorithm. Just think if all of those hours of time were spent doing something socially useful - Google has a lot to answer for I think!

 

[FunkyBears]

Sometimes I wonder how may millions of hours are spent by website owners across the world producing articles they don't really want to write for people who will probably never read them just in order to satisfy a search engines weird algorithm. Just think if all of those hours of time were spent doing something socially useful - Google has a lot to answer for I think!

Yes and how many people 'Work' for Google (indirectly) I bet there are many on this forum that do. My wife often asks 'Are you working for Google today?'

 

[OldWelshGuy]

Google is a ridiculous beast who have created the very thing they most despise. Link spam.

 

[RedEvo]

Sometimes I wonder how may millions of hours are spent by website owners across the world producing articles they don't really want to write for people who will probably never read them just in order to satisfy a search engines weird algorithm. Just think if all of those hours of time were spent doing something socially useful - Google has a lot to answer for I think!

Then don't Write stuff people want to read. A good article will send targeted traffic, not just give you a link or two.

Google's algo is only let down by cheats, in it's purest form is the way the wheat has always been sorted from the chaff.

IMHO of course

d

 

[merky587]

Ezine, Article Base, Go Articles. There are plenty more.

 

[JMRidley]

When I walk into my local high street toy store to buy toys for my kids there are a few things I'm hoping to experience. I'd like them to sell good quality toys, I'd like them to have passed all relevant safety standards, I'd like to be served curteously and promptly and I'd appreciate it if the shop owner could answer my queries about what he/she sells. If they don't have it in stock and they need to order it in for me, I'd like it to arrive when they say it will and be in first class condition. Strangely, the literary skills of the shop owner will be fairly low down on my priority list. I'm not sure why, if the shop owner decides to sell on line, he/she suddenly needs to become an article writer.

If I'm searching for toys on-line, I'd like the first results to be from toys shops that sell what I'm looking for and that can provide me with a great service. I don't want a page full of search results from businesses that are good at writing articles and keeping their blogs up to date.

Maybe it's just me.

 

[gemd89]

Im the same - but surely google is a robot and doesnt have time to sort good results from the bad!

Gemma

 

[JMRidley]

Hi Gemma, I agree completely, however, I'm really hoping that someone comes up with a search algorithm that makes more sense than thousands of hours being spent on pointless article writing!

 

[gemd89]

Id just like my site in google for the keyword fancy dress but my god its difficult!

Gemma

 

[Alby10]

Then don't Write stuff people want to read. A good article will send targeted traffic, not just give you a link or two.

Google's algo is only let down by cheats, in it's purest form is the way the wheat has always been sorted from the chaff.

IMHO of course

d

Agree with RedEvo,

As with anything, quality is better than quantity. A well written article/PR will generate traffic and create exposure, whilst also providing the added benefits, of anchor text back links, which will improve serps positions.

The problem, however is the fact that many articles are written for the sole purpose of trying to manipulate the Google algorithm, which can cause problems, for those who are looking for useful and relevant information.

Ultimately, if you are able to provide a good quality professional article, which is both SEO optimised and is interesting and informative, and submitted to good quality article directories, you will get the results you looking for.

 

[newsvend]

Bear in mind when looking at a list like the one referred to earlier on this thread, that the PR numbers quoted are for their respective home pages.

The actual page your article ends up on will in all likelihood have a PR of 0, unless you do some link-building yourself which begs the question of why you didn't put it on your site and build links to it in the first place.

 

[gemd89]

Thanks for that newvend! I will take a look at your homepage - thinking the best way forward is actually content for my site - why are we making the article sites and links better when we should be concentrating on making our websites better - with more content and information and things that people want to bookmark? Surely the only people using article directories and people trying to gain links back to their site and google to give them an increase in the SERPS.

I think ill work on improving my site and content now - see if the change in google works with that

Gemma

 

[dagaul101]

Ezine, Goarticles and Articlebase are well recommended

 

[eventdomain]

The only reason article databases are still around, is the owners cannot see sense and let them go. And you can bet while they remain, people will spam them to death, and they think the link they get is worth something

Worse still, the article banks think their doing some incredible, unique service by accepting this crap and infecting the web with it.

People waste time discussing this and even more doing it.

 

[InternetMarketingPlatinum]

The only reason article databases are still around, is the owners cannot see sense and let them go. And you can bet while they remain, people will spam them to death, and they think the link they get is worth something

Worse still, the article banks think their doing some incredible, unique service by accepting this crap and infecting the web with it.

People waste time discussing this and even more doing it.

Dunno Ezinearticles has some strict guidelines...

 

[sigurog]

What i hate about article writing is the fact people rip your articles from ezine and place them on their own site and remove your backlink making it pointless.

Yes that is annoying however if your article gets indexed with your backlink in first which it will, then if anyone else rips it off - it will show up a duplicate content and to Google will become irrelivant as your article is the original and so it will count it.

This point will be up for debate but it is quite clear that Google disregards who they think is they 'copycat' and give authority to the originator.

 

[Vacman2000]

ezine.com
articlebase.com
articlealley.com
three main ones

 

[InternetMarketingPlatinum]

If we get back to the basics and consider Article Marketing as a valuable part of Internet Marketing ten we'll start to see the bigger picture. If you've got good content then get it out their in various forms whether it's text, video, audio, etc. Also we should test, test, test. So if you have just uploaded your brand new YouTube video then why not write a few articles about it, blog about it, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

If, however, you just do the on page SEO then start writing lots of articles then you are unlikely to get as far. But that's where the Internet Marketing plan comes in right? We must utilise a well thought out strategy rather than simply firing from the hip.

Rant over.

 

[Vacman2000]

Id just like my site in google for the keyword fancy dress but my god its difficult!

Gemma

It cannot be that hard, you need to talk to my seo guy, only charges on the results he achives for you

 

[shpangle]

Yes that is annoying however if your article gets indexed with your backlink in first which it will, then if anyone else rips it off - it will show up a duplicate content and to Google will become irrelivant as your article is the original and so it will count it.

This point will be up for debate but it is quite clear that Google disregards who they think is they 'copycat' and give authority to the originator.

Possibly true, but there are many people out there who are copying articles from Ezine etc, altering them to such an extent that the article becomes un-readable (however no longer duplicate content) and then re-using them as their own. I have even seen some that have been ranked higher than the original article by Google.

In my opinion, keep a good article to yourself (on your own website or blog), that way you get all the traffic, opposed to only a small percentage of traffic from an article website.

Mick

 

[gemd89]

Well im doing link building, article writing, content for the site, product descriptions, sorting out the metatags - im unsure what else i can do?

Gemma

 

[MASSEY]

I have to agree that articles on your own site are powerful for getting your site found a lot lot more.

I wrote loads of articles to boost my internal linking and create sematic relationships with the pages (or thats what i was trying to do) and they rank very well bringing me hits.

Due to the authority the domain has gathered from so many pages , age and links the article (on my own site) actually out-ranks a house hold name (british gas) for a service they offer and i recieved a customer from doing so.

So im going to come to the conclusion - More pages on your own site the better (as long as they have purpose and are not similar to other pages)

Article sites / spinning - waste of time

In addition you create all this useful content in the hope to attract customers and links - why do you want to attract links to an article page, the link juice will flow better going direct to your own domain.

 

[Alex Brooks]

Best 3 article sites to submit to?

I have several articles all on party supplies and fancy dress and would like to submit these to article directories in order to boost my site in google.

Also is there a way of getting rid of all hyperlinks in one document? Like copy and paste and the hyperlinks are gone? - without having to go through manually!

Thanks
Gemma

Paste the text into notepad, then copy the text from the notepad, back to the previous application (Firefox, word, whatever) and the links will be gone. Articlebase, goarticles, ezinearticles are the 3 "big names" IMO.

 

[Birmingham]

Best 3 article sites to submit to?

i don't know about 2 and 3, but in the uk (and especially, but not exclusively, in birmingham)...

1) Charityzine

I have several articles all on party supplies and fancy dress

could you rewrite one to give it a charity theme and also a birmingham theme in any way? if you can find a way to get a charity angle and a birmingham angle on one of your articles, and if it's uniquely written for charityzine, then this could be the best site you ever submit an article to (time will tell) because it's not just a spammy database full of random submitted articles like most of the sites you submit to probably will be

Also is there a way of getting rid of all hyperlinks in one document? Like copy and paste and the hyperlinks are gone? - without having to go through manually!

1) Edit > Select All
2) Edit > Copy
3) Delete
4) Edit > Paste Special > Unformatted Text

 

[Birmingham]

I have to agree that articles on your own site are powerful for getting your site found a lot lot more.

i think i remember when you were best describable as an electrician looking for seo advice, and now you're probably better describable as an seo expert with an electrician's website on the side

 

[MASSEY]

i think i remember when you were best describable as an electrician looking for seo advice, and now you're probably better describable as an seo expert with an electrician's website on the side

Haha, i have developed a big interest but im no seo expert lol.

 

[Vacman2000]

Paste the text into notepad, then copy the text from the notepad, back to the previous application (Firefox, word, whatever) and the links will be gone. Articlebase, goarticles, ezinearticles are the 3 "big names" IMO.

Article base gives nofollow links

 

[gemd89]

Thanks All, especially massey! I think its about time google changed its tactics, i think if i try and cover every base with regards to articles spinning, own website, backlinks, forum posts, blog comments, paid backlinks, link wheels etc etc then maybe i will get into google.

Gemma

 

[Birmingham]

I think its about time google changed its tactics

in what ways?

 

[lulu1979]

It was discussed here so many times. Everyone says not worth it. Massey did you try it?
Well you sort of have to before you say its not worth it. It takes time and effort, but article distribution can help. Write 100 crap ones. Spin 5 times, that gives you 500x2 links with your anchor text! If you have access to Wordpress based directories then your anchor text will be in the body. Otherwise in the the auther field on the bottom.
So 1000 links over a few weeks time, ok lets be realistic it will be about 500 links. But with anchor text, it will help, that is my experience. But you will need much more than that for 'party supplies'

 

[eventdomain]

Write 100 crap ones. Spin 5 times, that gives you 500x2 links with your anchor text!

Why do people not recognise this link desperation for what it is

 

[rajajang]

there is so many but i cant post them all here
ezinearticles
articlesbase
goarticles
selfgrowth
hubpages
buzzle
prlog