Articles - quantity or quality?

[korzon]

So far I've written two for my site, submitted them four days ago and got three visitors.

Is it about the quantity or the quality when it comes to writing articles?

[sachin410]

I think if you are writing articles for links, then go for quantity over quality.

Most of the sites that take articles from article sites are Made-For-Adsense type and dont really care about quality of articles. They will take almost all articles.

On the other hand , if you are going to use the same content on your site, then you need to concentrate on quality too.

[kashem]

i will go for quality. it will help to get repeated visitors

[mdvaden]

Toss-up, but if you make one article that nobody has, word gets around. And text is very copyright-worthy.

Our number one traffic page - the virtually self-propogating page for links - has nothing to do with my actual services of arborist or landscape design work.

It's our safe woods for birds page: via the menu.

We have parrots. All safe / toxic wood web sources were fragemented - even from toxicologists or parrot societies.

So I accumulated all the facts I could find, called 3 avian vets in OR and CA, and incorportated my pesticide consultant background into the page (which not bird site has ever done) and uploaded the page.

Now it's reputed to be the best page of it's kind from the USA to the UK to Australia.

That page adds a bit of boost to our website's overall rating, because I ask some sources to link in through our main URL rather than just the bird page.

It's the quality of that article that does the job. We have other industry topics and articles. But the one's with dedicated pages exceed similar pages of competitors for being comprehensive or original.

[nile1483]

quality is more useful then quantity

[mdvaden]

By the way, some quantity is fine if you will add to the articles.

For example, suppose you write and introductory paragraph and then "10 steps" to, say, flossing your teeth.

Then over the next month or two, you might find 2, 10 or 20 more steps to flossing your teeth. Great, add on the extra bulleted or numbered steps and build onto the article.

So if the topics are good, add a few "so-so" articles if you plan to add. But maybe put the premier or feature "heavy-weights" up at the top of the list.

[macdocXT]

both are needed -

quantity = more visibility
quality= repeat visitors

[mad4]

You need both quality and quantity.

Write a few good articles and then spend time listing them on as many sites as possible.

Article directories don't give much traffic so you need to submit to quite a few to get a return on the time invested in writing your quality article.

[tabithanaylor]

Has anyone heard of or used Artemis Pro for their article submissions? I am using article marketer right now, but the owner of Artemis Pro seems to be popping up everywhere. Seems like a good piece of software, but I am pretty happy with using article marketer....

For me personally, I am focusing moreso on quality of articles. Quality articles have more of a chance of being published in ezines, on blogs, etc (thats my opinion, anyways). The quantity part will come in due time......

[VISTREL]

Unique copyrighted articles = win. Big chance of getting tons of valuable links.

[comp71]

I agree both quanity and quality.
Besides article distribution sites, I have been posting on high traffic blogs ;)

[clancey]

You might consider writing different versions of your articles. Publish the best and most complete version on your website. You can then create smaller versions for article submission sites. You may even find a single article can be broken up into pieces and submitted as distinct units.

This way your own material is not being duplicated elsewhere -- avoiding the duplicate content penalty problem reported by some webmasters. It saves the best for your visitors, making your site like better. And it will give you quantity you desire to generate back links and draw in visitors.

[Mr Crow]

First of all you wont see full results from your article for a few more days - people will pick your article up

As the owner of many article directories it is both quantity and quality quantity because you want the numbers out there but if the numbers are high and the quality is to low people website publishers wont look for articles by you and when they do see your name and pass you up.

My wife writes about 50-80 articles a week and submits them and I am shocked how many times her name pulls up on other peoples sites not to mention all the directories.

It is important to get them from the directory to the other websites where people who have established a good repore with their visitors.
The reason they have that repore (sp) is because they make sure the articles on their sites and sent to their lists are of high quality.

Dont use plr they will get you black listed quick

If you need an awesome place to submit your articles to and get them delivered out to hundreds of sites we provide a free article submission service and we are giving a free bonus to DP members .. we dont charge DP members here is a thread about it hope it helps (if this offends anyone please pm me I will remove it)
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=71976&highlight=submitcontent.com

[iowadawg]

Your wife for say, 3 weeks?
Will keep her fed, plenty of paper, even let her use my computer.
LOL

I really, been saying this since last December, should buckle down and start writing articles.

[Mr Crow]

Ha Ha , I am concerned ... My wife left me for the computer........

[Copywriter]

Both, if you can manage it.

If the article is of high enough quality, it has a better chance of being picked up by high traffic sites (which can afford to be a little more discerning about the kind of content they use), and that, in turn, can bring you traffic. Of course, the more of those kind of articles you have out there, the better that effect will be :)

[dojo]

I am only intersted in quality, I love UNIQUE exclusive articles and well written ones. This is why I have an almost organic hate for the bulk article sites. I see a decrese in the quality there since many people just write something to have a link to their site.

I have few articles on my site (60), but they are all unique and I tried to make them interesting and fresh as ideas are concerned. I preffer this rather than having 1000 articles that are also on all article sites.

For me: quality over quantity at any time.

[Lpspider]

My philosophy - short term: quantity. Long term: quality.

[Jenstar]

I am another who thinks both are important. If your main goal is to get em in and get em out through an AdSense link, quality probably isn't as big of a focus as quantity. But if you want site stickiness with repeat visitors, as well as those happy visitors telling others - quality is the more important. And unique content is *much* better than getting freebie articles from sites when you know those articles will be on hundreds of other websites as well.

That said, if you are the one submitting your articles to freebie sites in hopes of getting the backlinks, quality and uniqueness as well as an unusual spin on the topic will probably get more people reprinting your articles.

[kkibak]

in my opinion, each option has advantages:

benefit of quantity: you have more material to get crawled and you'll usually get some hits (even w/out links) from obscure or specific search terms.

benefit of quality: it has a higher potential for acquiring natural links, which are the best kind.

but like someone said above, the two aren't mutually exclusive, and the ideal situation is alot of good quality :) that can sometimes get expensive, though.

[neoms]

I think both quality and quanity are needed. But preference must be given for quality.

[Mr Crow]

I think both quality and quanity are needed. But preference must be given for quality.

I totally agree - with out establish oneself its just fluff that blows in the wind... the quality takes root and establishes you as an expert in this area

[merryjazz]

Quality first. then aim for quantity to attract more.

[Mr Crow]

Buying Private Lable articles and changing them is not an effective way to do this either.
The amount you of time spent modifying enough you would be better of writing an original article of your own.

Plus many directories ahave begun scanning for articles that have 20-30 percent same content and deleting them from their db

[EGS]

Here is how Google ranks them, if you are thinking in terms of traffic:
- Unique articles will get you higher rankings and better keyword results in their search engine (quality).
- Duplicate articles will have your site ranked lower (quantity).

[leysmom]

I too have been faced with the same dilema. I don't really know how to write trash. The thought of putting something sub-par out there appealed at first because I really need the links.

Truthfully I'm an English Major that takes about 2-3 days to write an article. Even once it is written I'm constantly revising. I have only ONE article up on my site and am currently writing numbers 2 and 3. I like taking my time and knowing that what I'm writing is readable and informative.

I've seen people on forums offering to write for others and I have not liked the quality in general once I've seen examples of others' work. You get what you pay for. $5 for an article is not much. I understand for the writers to make a decent living they have to churn out quite a bit meaning the quality suffers.

To solve my links problem I have decided to post in forums where I can post with my signature and a link to my website. I'm on forums usually looking for business advice and for leisure anyway, at this point it should benefit my business. 5 posts to boards a day, equals 35 per week and 140 per month.

I've also decided to put the best quality articles on my site and rework them slightly for the submission services. My site will have the longer, extended versions and be different from the other sites carrying another version so that duplicate content doesn't become a huge issue.

[mddv]

well it would be quality but it doesnt stop you from producing a large quantity of quality articles.

[timecoderror]

Toss-up, but if you make one article that nobody has, word gets around. And text is very copyright-worthy.

Our number one traffic page - the virtually self-propogating page for links - has nothing to do with my actual services of arborist or landscape design work.

It's our safe woods for birds page: via the menu.



Wow that is an amazing website! So much content, you could read for hours and I bet bird and landscape enthusiats do just that.
May I ask how long it took to develop all that content? And also why don't you have ads on your site?
It's an excellent site if didn't already convey that.

[Japes]

I have to come down on the quality side. When I'm writing content, I always try to ask myself, "Is this the type of article that "I" would actually want to read if I needed this information?" If it isn't, why would anyone bother staying at the site?

[Mr Crow]

My wife is currently writing these real cool "how to" type articles for customers that make it seem like your teaching them something about the subject ..

She is a writer and offers her service on DP - its the only place she looks for work and stays very busy - so if you beed help writing contact her!

Her user name is Mrs. Crow

[iowadawg]

Mrs Crow is doing several articles for me.
The first one was a humdinger!
Submitted to a bunch of sites and it is already getting me hits and good exposure for the site it was written for.
Next two, I am sure that once they are finished out (minor changes made) and submitted, the next two sites these were written for will get a nice bump up in traffic.
And we all know traffic coming into a site via a good article is targetted traffic! And traffic that will make money...very important!

Now she just sent me the draft copy of another article for another of my sites and I was blown away! I have never seen this subject written in such a clear way that even a pure noob on the net could understand at once.
That article will do nothing but good for me and my site!

So, am I happy she is writing these article for me?
Heck no!!!
I am ECSTATIC!!!

I have had others do articles for me, and they pale in comparison to what she has done, and is doing, for me.

Recommend her highly if you want the best articles....

Aside to Mrs Crow....do I get a discount for the next batch?
LOL

[Mrs.Crow]

Mrs Crow is doing several articles for me.
The first one was a humdinger!
Submitted to a bunch of sites and it is already getting me hits and good exposure for the site it was written for.
Next two, I am sure that once they are finished out (minor changes made) and submitted, the next two sites these were written for will get a nice bump up in traffic.
And we all know traffic coming into a site via a good article is targetted traffic! And traffic that will make money...very important!

Now she just sent me the draft copy of another article for another of my sites and I was blown away! I have never seen this subject written in such a clear way that even a pure noob on the net could understand at once.
That article will do nothing but good for me and my site!

So, am I happy she is writing these article for me?
Heck no!!!
I am ECSTATIC!!!

I have had others do articles for me, and they pale in comparison to what she has done, and is doing, for me.

Recommend her highly if you want the best articles....

Aside to Mrs Crow....do I get a discount for the next batch?
LOL

Well thank you very much for the compliment iowadawg because the one I just sent you gave me a run for my money, so glad you liked it. By the way I Googled the word humdinger to find out if it was good or bad, never heard it before:D

[iowadawg]

There you go...google whatever I say!

[Mr Crow]

There you go...google whatever I say!

I wonder if I can get a programmer to make a script to google everything you say and sell it?


I have to agree I saw and read the articles she wrote and they were very good, I know she really wants to build a great reputation on DP as a writer and the only way to do that is to produce high quality stuff!

I am really happy you like them - and by the way I checked the stats and your article was downloaded 18 times by other sites to use in their ezines.

I would say thats really good and your traffic must go up alot with those numbers - please let me know how it does!

[visioninfotech]

i would go for a mix of both, quality and quantity. but one thing is most important, the content should be unique and keyword targetted

[Mr Crow]

i would go for a mix of both, quality and quantity. but one thing is most important, the content should be unique and keyword targetted

This all really depends what the product is a how well you wnat to be the source people come to for info ... when you use quantity you loose your reputation with the people with the really high traffic sites.

People with high traffic sites will snatch up your articles and use them on their sites and in their ezines when they see just quality articles from you ... the first time they start seeing lesser faster written articles , they will remove the request for notifacation of when you post a new article to the directories!

[ConstantContent]

quality - every time!

[webmasterlabor.com]

It depends on whether you're looking for direct traffic or SE traffic. If you're looking for direct targeted traffic, it's best to focus on quality. Produce a lot of unique articles and submit them if you're looking for a lot of links.

[Mr Crow]

It depends on whether you're looking for direct traffic or SE traffic. If you're looking for direct targeted traffic, it's best to focus on quality. Produce a lot of unique articles and submit them if you're looking for a lot of links.

Ok so what happens when you are considered by a webmaster to be given a linkback or inluded in a directory ... and they google and read the fast written articles or poorly written due to the lack of time used

[demonsnakeyes]

quality and quantity are both important as it will both get a lot of people visit your website or may even return numerous times if it really interest the visitors and quantity as it will get the visibility and it also determines the wealth of knowledge you gain from reading it.

[old_expat]

1 - Does the Mrs Crow site feature Mrs Crow exclusively? If I want a Mrs Crow article, can I be assured that she/you will create it?

2 - I have quite a number of articles on a particular site and struggle to come up with ideas for more article. Can Mrs Crow provide a "Recommend 'n Write" service?

3 - Do I get exclusive rights to the articles (anything else is a deal breaker as far as I am concerned)