Why would i submit articles to article directories?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by surfbear, Mar 3, 2010.

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    Why would i submit articles to article directories if i can use the content for my website instead? I know i can get a backlink, but i'm practically loosing one page of my website?

    What do you think?
     
    surfbear, Mar 3, 2010 IP
  2. mhovingh

    mhovingh Well-Known Member

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    Article directories not only allow you to get a backlink, but many allow others to publish your article to their own site provided your link is left so a single article can produce more than just one backlink. With articles, you also get the benefit of having your backlink placed on a page with content that you custom tailor to your targeted keyword(s), producing a highly relevant backlink. You can also re-write the content on your site and use that as your article, keeping your workload down and making related articles for article sites easier to produce. Whenever you write a new article, post it to your site, then change some wording so you have a unique article for the article site.
     
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  3. SEO Blakbelt

    SEO Blakbelt Active Member

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    You will also get human traffic from these article directories.
    Backlinks are also very very very important for your website, though you are loosing your website page you are getting double benefit.
     
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  4. clemiatguava

    clemiatguava Guest

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    Article syndication can be a great link building exercise and you can write articles specifically for this that may not be suitable for your website anyway
     
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  5. JenniferXT

    JenniferXT Member

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    So, you are clashing between content on your site and submitting content to article directories. No harm if you have rich content on your own site and not submitting to article directory. As everybody said it is for backlink and traffic. BUT
    think this way - to have double benefit! - Put the content on your site and social bookmark it - here both the purposes served.
     
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  6. 1SEONewby

    1SEONewby Peon

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    I have had luck with aritcle spinners too. Write one unique article put it in a spinner and get many versions ready for submission. Some programs also will submit your article to worthy publishers...
     
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  7. Get Inspired

    Get Inspired Peon

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    Well, obviously it would be best if everyone read YOUR article on YOUR site. But the fact is not everybody gets to your site.

    So, even if you have to "give up" some content to another site, it's still a win-win because they give traffic to your site in return. Win-win.
     
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  8. rockjone

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    i think you can also post your article on you web site it & also post your artical in dir
     
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  9. adrianaconstantin

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    The fact is that as Get Inspired said, you will have to get people to get to your site for reading what you put on it. Article submissions are done for many reasons. The most important one is that it does offer you backlinks. If you use one article and spin that article you will get a big number of back links to your site. Think of it this way! You have 10 articles. You put 8 on your web site and you use the other 2 on article submissions. You gain both content and possibly hundreds of back links towards your site. It is a win win situation. I usually use this basic: I publish 8 articles on my site and then 2 I send for article submissions. Keep in mind that article submissions can also be bad if you submit too much. I think that 2 articles per week is more than enough in the beginning. Then you can go for more advanced link building and not submit anything to article directories anymore.
     
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  10. seo555

    seo555 Peon

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    like if you have website and you promote that website in directory, bookmarking etc.. so same way we promote our article on Article directory
     
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  11. ContentCrooner

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    Because you can you can submit articles and still use them on your site. At Content Crooner, where we take articles and automate their submission to the biggest list of directories on the Internet, plenty of our content creator use parts of their sites or blogs as articles.

    In fact, a comprehensive site or a regularly updated blog is a wonderful source of materials for article marketing. At Content Crooner we love to emphasize that real, substantial articles are always the most effective ones, and the ones that build a dedicated audience up. In fact, we've designed it so that as you write a blog or assemble a website, you can post each article you write. Not only will it show up in article directories, but we have tied it to Twitter and RSS as well, so the wider audience of readers you build up can follow developments.

    Article marketing and a blog or site really go hand in hand. When an article is used for both, they feed off each other for maximum exposure and impact.
     
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  12. eric_wahlberg

    eric_wahlberg Well-Known Member

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    Not only you will get backlinks, but also increase your marketing value. Quality Articles are always social bookmarked and published in twitter, it establishes the brand value of a company. It helps people in convincing that you are a genuine and knowledgeable person, and will definitely provide quality service.
     
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    Article Marketing is something to do online advertising and branding of your website and on the other hand, adding more pages in business site is for making the site more strengthen in view of search engines. Both aspects are important and different so we should not compare that. We can have both onsite and offsite article section, it means we should place few articles on site to make the site healthly something like www.abc.com/articles/.....html and also should use article directories with unique content like www.ezinearticles.com/xyz.html
    Article marketing through various syndicators and feedburner helps a lot for my and my client business.
     
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    You can write a shorter version for article directories. Keep the longer one in your blog.
     
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    i think before you submit you're article, better you must know do follow or no follow ...
    it's very important things to help increase traffic and PR for you're website ..

    Thanks
     
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  16. David Peters

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    Article directories helps a lot to get high rankings. When you post an article,you get a backlink, ya of course you are loosing one page of your website but your article is also being posted on the other website. So its beneficial to post articles.
     
    David Peters, Mar 4, 2010 IP
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    digitalforum@gmail.com Peon

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    write best articles for your site ,the user will attract for your site to visit.in order to get traffic article writing is important.
     
    digitalforum@gmail.com, Mar 4, 2010 IP
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    Article submission sites are meant not just to get backlinks but to drive unique visitors to your site. They are not total waste of time. A lot are earning a good amount of money from their article marketing practices. Steps are make unique articles or simply spin your articles for instant uniqueness. You can use free spinners from easyarticlespinner.net or jetspinner. Then submit to any article sites as you can can.
     
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  19. companyofindia

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    No, It will be spamming work from Google method. You can not use same article in your site and article directory.
     
    companyofindia, Apr 7, 2010 IP