I'm using article diretories for backlinking purposes only. Essentially, I am running other niche sites but writing quality articles not even related to my niche on Ezine. My question lies herein. I also use go-articles and currently, I rewrite my articles for each directory. Am I wasting my time? Would it effect anything if I go ahead and post the same article at both Ezine and GoArticles?
You are not at all wasting your time -- this is the right way to do it. Google doesn't like duplicate content and just ignores it, so if your article is the same across multiple sites, Google will count just one copy and one backlink. Always rewrite them, although it's a pain. Unique articles have a good chance of ranking in and of themselves and bringing relevant traffic (hence the importance of relevance). But even purely for SEO purposes, I don't recommend straying too far away from your niche. For example, if your site is about computers, any computer-related niches might be fine, but if you are writing articles about lipstick they will not help you all that much.
That is great info, thanks. The reason I do not write articles that are closely related to my niche site is because I do not want to sabotage my ranking for my niche site. So I really do use the article directories for backlinks only. Glad to hear that I'm not wasting my time. In fact, I have one site that I backlinked to using duplicate articles on different sites. Did not perform so well either. I will go back and rewrite those articles sometime soon.
This may not be the smartest way to go. An article on the theme of your site is likely to help you more, certainly not less. Your fear is that the article in the article directory could rank higher than your site. That is possible if you have negligible link-building for your site. But unlikely all the same. Write articles on your niche.
Should I write and modify my articles so they are in the same category as my niche sites but make sure that I do not use the keywords that I am trying to gain page rank for?
Use the same keywords too. Make the article as tightly themed to your site as possible. It is unlikely that you will have to worry about having created more competition.
Excellent post! I am not a big fan of mass submissions. IMO, the best way to use an article directory is to write a quality article, something that is informative and useful and ORIGINAL. Upload it to your directory of choice and in time, Google will index it, people will link to it, and that link muscle will translate to your website through the keyword link you place at the bottom. Just because an article directory has high PR doesn't mean you will benefit from it. The PR of the page that contains your link is what counts. Your link could be on a website with a homepage PR-10, but if the page in that website that contains your link is 0, then the link is just a little better than useless. The key is QUALITY CONTENT. Your article should be counted as an "authoritative document" by humans. A search engine algorithm is built around that and incoming links are what Google and others use as a voting system to tap human opinion. There is no fast method to building quality article links, but incoming links will follow a quality article. Sometimes it takes years, but IMO, it is a very effective way to build links. Articles are excellent link baiters.
In that case, you might as well spend your time manually spin the articles. If you can get 10 unique articles out of one original, you have 11 links from 11 high-ranking directories.
Yes, it's usually easier to spin an article you've already written (and less time-consuming) than to write a new one. But I'd still only do this on a limited basis.
What is the difference between a syndication and duplicate content? Even in Ezine Articles, they will accept your articles which already posted in other places:whether your site or other article directories as long it belongs to you. Most important of all, you can just do your own testing and get the results for yourself. What matters most is the quality content unless you decide to spin it for the purpose of backlinks.
The more articles you post your articles the bestter. Any backlink will be taken into account. I submit one and the same articles to different article directories and it works!
I would not recommend spinning the articles as it can get you banned from lot of article directories. We are running an article directory and spun articles are a big nuisance.
Stick with Ezine Articles and write unique quality articles and then spend your time elsewhere. Rehashing the same article over and over is not worth the effort. Google is smarter than you think.
Multiple, similar themed blogs with back-linking is better than multiple articles. As we all know, Lady Google loves her blogs!
I don’t think that sticking with ezinearticles only is a good idea as you would eliminate lot of good link building opportunities. It is perfectly alright to submit the same article to as many article directories as you can find and it is perfectly alright by Google. What I do not recommend is submitting low quality spinned articles to the same article directory and present them as they are new unique articles. If you want to rewrite the original article before submitting it to another article directories that is ok, just do it yourself or let a professional writer to do it but not the spinning software as these software’s give out really low quality articles which often times do not make any sense at all.
What Google means by bad or unacceptable duplicate content is if there is the same or very similar content within a same website. Article syndication is perfectly fine.