I am thinking of submitting an article of about 2000 words. ezinearticles.com suggests an ideal size of 250-700 words. Do publishers prefer smaller articles? Should I break it up into 2 or 3 separate articles?
Why yes I do! I have written Article Distributor, which submits to approximately 240 article directories (full list available at http://www.after5webdesign.com/directory/index.php?c=473 ). The list is constantly growing. The software download page can be found at http://www.after5webdesign.com/software.html . Version 2.0 is in beta testing right now. I'm not entirely pleased with it myself, but it is better than 1.2 IMO. At the very least, it will give me something for version 3.
An other free article distribution service and one at low cost. Has any one tried any of them ? (Have not used any of them) http://www.articlesender.com/ free http://www.isnare.com 2$ per article
From articlesender.com: And for their 700000000 webmasters? Here's their entire submission list. Their free submission list is like 29 sites. To get the other 100+ sites you must make a donation. (Thus the contributor account above) GENERAL SUBMISSION SITES Article City Business Toolchest Killer Marketing Arsenal Link Snoop Main Street Mom Website Promotion Ranking Services Articles 4 Content The Ezine How To Advice Blog Widow Article Point Add Me Reprint Articles Free Ezine Site Free Ezine Articles T and I Grafix Digital Women Certificate Netter Web UniTerra Article Depot All Freelance Work BPubs ZoneBot E-Books Deal Article-Dir Article Finders GoArticles Webs Best Directories GOOGLE GROUPS SUBMISSIONS [Donation Upgrade] Google Group: Free Content Google Group: free-article-content Google Group: Reprint Articles for Ezines and Websites Google Group: Free-Reprint-Articles Google Group: Content Discussion Group & Webmaster Rescources Google Group: Content For Blogs Google Group: Traffic and Subscribers Articles Google Group: Submit Your Articles Here Google Group: Spider Search Articles Google Group: Free Online Reprint Articles Google Group: Free Articles Google Group: Articles4Free.Com - Free Articles Online Google Group: Just Articles Google Group: 1st-article-group Google Group: Quality_Content Google Group: Article_Marketer Google Group: SpiderSuccess Google Group: Article-Marketing Google Group: reprintedarticles Google Group: freereprintarticles Google Group: webmasterinfoandcontent Google Group: newwebmasterstools Google Group: Article Distribution Google Group: FreeEzineContent Google Group: SEO Professor Google Group: googledotnet Google Group: QC Reprint Articles Google Group: Article Publication Google Group: Articles Google Group: Submit Your Articles Google Group: Articles Galore Google Group: Just Articles Google Group: Wide WebWorld Google Group: Learn To Write YAHOO GROUPS SUBMISSIONS [Donation Upgrade] Yahoo Group: Free-Content Yahoo Group: Free eContent Yahoo Group: I_Need_Content Yahoo Group: Articles Archives Yahoo Group: ArticleSubmission Yahoo Group: ArticlePublish Yahoo Group: EzineZone Yahoo Group: Free Reprint Articles Yahoo Group: FreeWrites Yahoo Group: QC_Reprint_Articles Yahoo Group: ReprintArticles-Paradise Yahoo Group: TheWriteArticles Yahoo Group: Article Announce Business Yahoo Group: Article Announce General Yahoo Group: Article Announce Internet Yahoo Group: articles4you2use4promotion Yahoo Group: ePublish Yahoo Group: Free eZine Articles Yahoo Group: Freelance Promotion Yahoo Group: Free Zine Content Yahoo Group: Netwrite Publish Announce Yahoo Group: Publisher Network Yahoo Group: ArticleDistribution Yahoo Group: ReadMyArticles Yahoo Group: ReprintedArticles Yahoo Group: Announce It Write Yahoo Group: Article Announce Home Yahoo Group: Article Announce Yahoo Group: PublishInYours Yahoo Group: PromoteYourArticle Yahoo Group: AP Shorts Yahoo Group: Article Announce Health ARTICLE DASHBOARD SUBMISSIONS [Donation Upgrade] 101Articles.com 1st4words.com 1stoparticles.com 3:16 Designs ArticleJoe.com Code (markup): The horrible truth is that all the free autosubmission services only submit to a handful of sites. Anything that submits to more than 100 or so sites will cost something. Sure, they'll hype their ability to smack 2 katrillion-zillion webmasters in the face with your article, but 50% of the article marketing crowd seems to love hype. Its enough to drive me nuts. Take my own software. I say that it will submit to over 200 sites. It will. In fact the last as of this morning is 248 general and niche sites. But they are all sites that use the Article Dashboard script. This makes my software better suited for someone looking to generate backlinks and not so much for generating traffic. Also, I say the software is free, which is true from a monetary standpoint. My "payment" is that I include a link to the software download page in the author resource box for each article you submit. As a new site, the backlink is worth far more to me than the $20-$350 I could charge for the software. I am working on a much more advanced version of the software that will submit to thousands of sites, not just the ones running the article dashboard script. And it will be much more automated (but never completely automated - Authors have a responsibility to select the category). However, it will not be free. So, that's the dirt.
Ok, I understand writing the articles, but how do you get links back to your site? Is this part of the submission process? Do you link back to the home page or a landing page or the page that has a copy of the article on it? Do you put links in the article or is it text only? Thanks for any advice
You get backlinks because at the bottom of the article is a resource box "About the Author" In it you get a few lines to talk about yourself and your sites. So you could say something like "Tim Smith has been active in the Cod Fishing industry for 23 years, and offers {link}Great Cod Cooking Recipes{/link} at his website {link}title/url{/url}." Now you have a deeplink pointing to cod recipes on your site with nice keyword anchor text, and you have a link to your main index page. I recommend putting your url in the resource box too because not all webmasters who reprint the article are nice enough to make sure the links to your site remain active. Many article directories are starting to disallow articles with links in the article body itself, but most still allow it. While this is an annoying trend, I understand they do it to keep out the people who put a ton of affiliate links in their articles. E.g. "If you go {link to my camping affiliate store}camping{/link}, make sure to take {link to a product in my camping affiliate store}Bug-B-Gone{/link}. Also bring a {link to another product in my camping store}Birds of the Yukon{/link} so you can know what birds you're seeing." The big thing is don't be too spammy. Articles should be informative. If it sounds like an infomercial script, it will likely get rejected even if there's no links. As for differences between manual and autosubmissions in terms of search engines... Good question. I had this same discussion with Dan at info.vilesilencer.com and he feels that articles can't be submitted to article directories too quickly like links to link directories can. I guess I share that opinion. It might be seen as unnatural link growth, and thus the links get watered down or discounted, but I think the long term benefits out weigh the short term loss. Getting your article read will lead to more traffic in the short term than a SE would give you anyhow, plus the more you put your article out there, the more likely another webmaster will republish it which IS natural linking. But, that's just my $.02
That is a very interesting article. I guess my big questions are: How do they suggest preventing garbage sites from linking to you? Why is it a terrible thing to let garbage sites like to you? If you actually write something good (unlike the article referenced in the blog), and it drives traffic to your site but doesn't give you any PR, is that bad? What's so terrible about Google only reporting 12 backlinks, Yahoo reporting 59, and MSN reporting 173 to the site referenced in the crappy article? It's been nearly a year. What sites was this article submitted to? All I could see in the video was a bunch of his affiliate websites. Don't get me wrong, I think Jason's about as full of hot air and hoopla as they come, nor do I sell Amway, Shaklee, or whatever the current MLM fad is. But, look at the results with a different spin: The article was submitted to sites that regularly list articles not only in their specific category, but also on a recently submitted articles page. As more articles are submitted, of course the number of results will decrease. Second, many sites do go under. Even in my tiny list, I see at least one site go down each week. Third, a lot of these articles do get picked up in an rss feed. Show me one rss feed that still has last years content on it, and I'll show you a dead feed. Fourth, If I submit a link to 200 link directories and an article to 200 article directories, which one do you figure will drive more traffic to my site? I do not frequently write articles, but check out the alexa traffic ranks for www.byrequest.dj and www.after5webdesign.com and I'll bet you can pinpoint dates that I wrote and published an article. Not suprisingly, you can see correlations between article publishing dates and my adsense earnings too. I'm not disagreeing with every point in the blog post, and I'm not agreeing with anything Jason Potash claims (simply because he claimed it), but article writing is one of the best "wastes of time" I've discovered yet. At this point, my newest website (after5webdesign.com) shows 47 backlinks in Google. I'm waiting to see what happens in the next update because almost all of my link building has been through articles. If I only have 50 links after the next update, I will eat my hat.
The effect that articles have on creating your brand and overall the attention articles bring to your website is so valuable. Articles create the expert label to your products and service. Ezinearticles have a great FREE set up for posting articles.
I exclusively use isnare and then I manually submit to ezinearticles.com. Every time I write and submit a new article, I pick up a new client. I have only done this with my service business; I have not used it for my content or product websites
Hi When writing articles should you submit the same one to multiple directories. Also should you use content from your own site as articles? If you have duplicated content linking back to you from all over the place, does this not look like link spamming? Sooner or later SE's will disregard these types of link surely. Maybe better to write a quality keyword focussed article and submitting it to one directory would be a better way to build IBL's? Just a thought...