When people usually submit their articles to directories do they use articles from their blog? Do they usually have a site that lists all their articles that they wrote?
Yes, I take articles I write on my blog and submit them to a single directory. I only submit them for link-building purposes as only a few percent of people that read your article will ever click on your website's link.
Some don't bother to write their own article for article submissions. They buy articles. If I'm not mistake it is PLR articles.
It can go both ways... Some will post an article on their site and submit it to some directories and others will post an article to their site, and only their site.
I'm not agree with this. If your articles have good information and valuable to them, people definitely will click your link. - Dynashox -
It's his blog post, he can do whatever he wants with it. As long as the name of the author is the same, article directories will not stop you from submitting your own blog posts.
You don't want to have the same content on some article directory as on your blog. Keep the uniqueness of your content on your blog intact. You could always rewrite the content and submit to various avenues online.
I guess this is the right way. Rewrite your blog post and then submit will have no issues of uniqueness, otherwise copying the same post and submitting it will loose the important and Google will not index it. What about the number of submissions of one unique article? I prefer 1 article to be submitted in 10 directories with same author name. What do you suggest?
That seems like something very important that should be discussed lol although I am not sure. But I am assuming submitting the same article to 200 directories cant be good but who knows
hi hitboy its okay submitting same article in 200 directories. Others, they use software to distribute their 1 articlein 1000 plus article directories.
It's always better to make unique articles for directory distribution. If your content is mirror image and is distributed on a lot of websites which get indexed, I heard Big Google penalizes you for it.
I know a blog, that almost always does copy and paste. So far they have 2300 articles and they have been around for 4-5 years. What's their PR? like 0, or 1... Who visits their site ? Rarely anyone, rarely any links from search engines. Yep, 2300 articles, but since they are all copied from other sources ==> worthless site.
Ya just to be VERY clear this thread was never meant to have to do with anything that involves other people's content lol. I am talking about taking my own articles and if it would be ok to still have at a centralized location like a blog
that's not true. Google doesn't penalize you for it. I used to regularly use an automatic article submitter to submit to hundreds of sites and never got penalized. What does happen though is that google only indexes 4 of the articles and the rest get classed as duplicate content and don't get indexed. If a page isn't indexed, the links on it carry no value whatsoever so there's no real point in submitting to loads of directories. You may as well just submit to the four highest pr directories to make sure that the four indexed links that you do get are good ones.
I typically repurpose my content. I think its best to rewrite/spin articles before submitting to the directories.
Even if this is true that they only index 4 do you still get the linking credit? for pages not indexed or not?