Is it not a good idea to copy articles from your blog to article directories? If so, why is it a bad idea. I have been doing it this way for 6 months with very poor results, most my articles are buried 20 + in google. Any better suggestions.
Doing that isn't the greatest idea. Here's what I do: - write my blog post - re-write the blog post and submit that to article directories. Make sure you make it worth reading and give enough reasons to anyone to click your links. Do it 2 times a week and you'll get a bunch of traffic by the end of your second month.
That's what I do as well, but aim for one article a day. The blog should have original content, and that's one reason why I'm not a big fan of auto blogs.
I write an article of about 500 words or so. Post it to my website, then rewrite and post it to either EZA or Buzzle. Once accepted and published there, I take the same article and post it to several other websites. When I post to EZA or Buzzle, I link back to my main url of my website and one to the original article on my site. After, I post to all the other directories, I link back to the EZA or Buzzle article and back to my original article on my website. Sounds like a lot, but once you do it several times, you will really get the hang of it and do about 2 or 3 a day. I'm currently doing one a day. Neither EZA or Buzzle accept articles that are on other sites or attributed to other authors. And the reason for both is that I find I get more traffic from one than the other, depending on what I'm writing about.
There are so much more things to do beside writing articles, plus, why put all your eggs into one basket?
LOL... I agree... Now, with regards to the question about the article. Before anyone pulls out the OLD "duplicate content" fallacy, let me explain something. First of all, there is NO duplicate content penalty, yet it will not help much to distribute duplicate content. Especially if the search engine is Google. What Google does is take in the FIRST submitted content, crawl it and index it. Whatever content arrives afterward that is exactly the same gets filtered out. This means that it does not get indexed and if it does it will be at the very end of the SERPs. It is this process that many people have considered as a penalty. This is why it is most recommended that you change your article a little bit. The more you change it, the more it looks as original to Google and the better chances it has at being indexed. You can not forget however to make it of superior content.
Are you writing your one article a day on sites like Triond, Bukisa and Info Barrel? You might as well get some kind of residual payment for the content. Another recommendation would be to submit a guest blog. That might be more effective in getting people to your site. I just found a site like that last night. It's called quickonlinetips.com. Check it out. Although I have to admit that the expertise of the guest bloggers is pretty high. We're talking SEO specialists, etc. Another site that allows guest blogging is Alan Liew's moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com. He's pretty cool. Very accomodating.
But what if you copy and paste orginal content from your blog to article directories. Your not looking for it to be indexed but just trying to get backlinks. Please set me straight, feel like a mouse spinning on a wheel , doing alot of work but not getting anywhere.
I think the point is that you can get more value out of rewriting your articles than you can by simply submitting the same article everywhere, plus the fact that EZA/Buzzle won't take an article that is already published somewhere else (I am assuming this includes your own blog). From what I have read, having a lot of duplicate link text is also a bad idea (reminiscent of lazy linkfarms/link spamming) so rewriting will help there too. I am interested to know: what degree of rewriting is necessary? Do you just switch words/structure around, or does it need to be substantially different?
The another idea of content re-writing is that you can have 2-3 selection of articles in which you are interested... You can use the themes of selection articles and decompose in your words!! That can work you better both in Google and EZA
So are you saying that it's worth the time/effort to write a completely new article on the same theme, or by 'decompose in your own words' do you mean that it's fine to just rework/rephrase the text while retaining the general structure?
I personally wouldn't look at it as a huge problem if you are posting to your blog then waiting for a week or two until it is indexed and then post it to an article directory. I don't see much value in that though and here is why. Google is going to give priority and place much more value in whichever place that content gets indexed first. So if you post an article to your site, then go straight to ezinearticles and post it there within 5 minutes, chances are Google looks at ezinearticles more frequently than your average blog. Google puts value on the content at ezinearticels and your site is looked like duplicate content and doesn't rank well in the search engines. My recommendation would be to write an article for your website, if you want to use that same topic in an article directory with a different title, rewrite the content manually and then post it to ezinearticles.com. It's more work, but just about the only way to do this. My question is, if you truly own a blog, what would be the benefit to post the content that you consider valuable to other places? Besides the backlinks, it seems a little unnecessary. What I would do is stick to posting the best possible articles to your blog. From there, build backlinks in other ways and don't give the article directories part of your loyal readers.
The point about where your content gets indexed first is salient and well taken. I would guess then that the best thing to do as far as posting to EZA would be to get your A-quality article posted to your own site, then rewrite it and get it on the directories where you will get backlinks which will be seen by people who are interested in your (better, hopefully) article which you have linked to. Does this make sense?