What's the ideal number of article directories to submit a new article to ?

[noddy10]

Hi,

I'm about to submit some new articles to article directories to get some more good backlinks. I'll be using the well known high-PR directories that are often mentioned here.

I'm aware that google picks up on duplicate content and the value of links diminishes if the same content is on many sites. So what's the right number of article directories to submit to ? Should I post my articles (with 3 backlinks) to the three best directories, for example, or is there value in posting to 10 or 20 article directories or more ? If so, why ?

Also, I've seen suggestions that it's a good idea to modify some text in your article when submitting to multiple directories. Is this right, or if you're posting 98% identical copy does google just see the article as still being a duplicate and start to dilute the value of multiple backlinks accordingly ? Thanks !

[tihan]

I think you have to modify larger parts of the text or google will see the duplications.

[vansterdam]

I submit the exact same article to many article directories with no problems. I'm sure the duplicate content means that probably only one of those links will be picked up by Google. The other search engines have no problem crediting links in duplicate content though. So it definitely helps your Yahoo & MSN rankings to submit to many article directories.

You could mess around with article spinning, but in my opinion that is border line black hat. I would rather just pay a freelance writer to keep making completely unique articles instead of trying to rewrite the same content over and over.

[ssteve]

It is so easy to spin good articles, but I agree that this may be getting into blackhat, and maybe get some penalty upon a manual review. In this case, I would only drip sparingly.

But one can create squidoo and hubpages and then spin and point articles to them... and ton of social bookmarks. That should work ok. This would increase the juice from those pages.

Good point about dupe content and msn/yahoo. I get a fair bit of traffic from them, so that would help.

[net-point]

Forget about put same article to more than several article directories, cos google mark them as duplicate content and the strenght of them will be very poor.

Try to find solution (I have one but not for sale), wich can put some phrases synonyms randomly ,for example if you have sentence

"The best solution to gain big traffic" it randmlyu change for example on
"Good solution to get a lot of traffic"

etc.

I have that kind of solution it don`t change the meaning of the sentence, works as I showed above, one thing i should do is defined that sentence like this

"{Good|Very Good|The best} solution to {get|gain} {a lot of|big} traffic"

And the script automaticly and fully randomly insert the proper word in a sentence.

I buinding up in that way even 1000 words articles and every time when my bookmarking deamon submit them they looks completely different. Therefore I avoiding risk of marking them as duplicate content by google

[Earnest01]

Some people believe you need to save the really good stuff for your site, or at least submit the quality articles to just a couple of article directories with good page ranks.

[net-point]

That is true when you gaining backlinks for realy valuable sites , but if you doing this only for your sites which lives only for AdSense purposes or other related to Link Exchange purposes, it is not worth of your time to write every time unique article. Because way I described above works fine for that kind of websites. I never get banned doing this and my serps positions increasing all the time.

Of course if the article is more unique is better, but th thruth is anyone can copy and past your "unique" article and make them duplicate content, therefore I think its not worth of my time.

[Earnest01]

Well, writing hundreds of unique articles within, say, a week, is not something one can strive for. And another thing: it seems to me you still get yet another link to your web site in case your article gets copied and published elsewhere, don't you?

[Daedric]

Submit to as many article directories as possible!

Make the links from these directories more valuable by spinning the article. Spinning will generate a few hundred versions of the same article and then submit a version to each directory. DO not use automated spinning though as you will get unreadable articles. Article writing, spinning and submission is hard work, so outsource your article spinning and also article submission.

[jpearce]

I would only do the top three or four ad's, optimize them and change them up for each directory.

[enote]

It is best to submit a totally unique article to an article directory linking to your site rather than posting the same one on your site and then submitting it to the directory due to duplicate content.

Would you agree?

[mehtaamit12]

if its true then why there are so many good article sites;
as there is only buzzle which ask to submit any article first in Internet in their data base;
other wise sites like ezine also accpet this;

[Journey]

IMO, there's no specific limit of article directories to submit your articles. Better to choose those article directories that will benefit your site in terms of traffic or backlinks. Also make sure that your article will be reviewed and approved by admin.. If not, don't waste your time and effort submitting your article...

[danzig]

You could do a bit of research first.

Check out the best performing sites in your field then look in the article directories to see what articles relate to that subject - reverse engineering to copy success.

[danzig]

Tips for article writing:

Submit to the top directories:

ezinearticles.com
goarticles.com
submityourarticle.com
idealmarketers.com

Try to make the article between 400-900 words long.

Make it as original as possible but you can do reasearch on the web etc and just re-write information, add bits and take bits off to make a unique article.

The article contain some good info but not the whole story to make the reader click your sig link to find out more.

Consider submitting your articles to isnare who will do the submission work for you for a fee.

[zaidis]

optimize them and change them up for each directory.