Article Marketing Is A Means To Getting Traffic

Article Marketing is a simple and great means of generating traffic from the backlinks in your resource box. The Resource Box is where you can advertise your affiliate programs from which you will make a commission on every sale.

Apart from using the resource box you should aim to write high quality content articles and distribute them amongst the popular article databases such as
Ezinearticles
GoArticles
ArticleCity
ArticleSnatch
Amazines
ArticlesBase
ArticleDashboard
ArticleGarden
Buzzle
WebProNews
ArticleAlley
IdeaMarketers

When distributing your articles amongst the article databases, you should also consider your chosen niche, and target your article so that it speaks directly to your market; carry out research so that your keywords are relevant, and integrate them into the title, main body and summary of your articles, submit and obtain a new source of traffic.

 

Thanks for the research Captain Obvious

 

Do you send the same article to each directory or do you use a spinner or does it not matter?

 

Article marketing is indeed a great way to build targeted traffic. Unfortunately I did not understand this when I first started, but now I am utilizing this method. As for sending the same article to each directory? I usually submit to ezine first since in my experience they have been the most finicky about content existing elsewhere.

 

Article Marketing is a great way to increase SE ranking and visitor amounts.
In fact, I started an Article directory 4 days ago and I alread have 130+ articles and 9 members.
(FullArticles.tk)
If you want, you can publish your articles here aswell, though it does not have any PR yet. It's only 4 days old as I said before.

@ Battyb: Some directories does not allow you to send the article to other directories after you have published it at their.
Though most directories does not care if you do.

 

Article Marketing means generate traffic and increase online business. If you publish your article on good article sites with resource box. You will get one way link and increase visibility in search engine also.

 

Article marketing is great - but i ding it even better if you are linking to a website that is also ranking.
2 birds with one stone

 

Article marketing is the best thing to improve our traffic ranking.

 

You will have to reword your articles in some way because some directories will not accept an identical article which has already been published even though you are the author. But as mainstreetcm said, send your article to 'ezine articles' first.

 

There was a wf post where someone tested on submitting the same article to multiple directories and each one ranked in google, no duplicate content penalty, it it is your article you can submit it wherever you want.

 

That's interesting and good to know, because I've always believed if I'm the author why should I be penalised for publishing my article wherever I want to. However, having said that I do know that there are certain ezines that do not like the fact that your article has been published somewhere else before them, so to avoid any hassle, I publish with them first.

 

Sure, you can publish your articles anywhere you want...as long as you don't mind your links being removed from the index because of duplicate content.

If you have article topics that you really like, your best bet is to rewrite them, so that they are about 50% different (this will keep them from being pegged as duplicate content). If you're going to put in the work of submitting articles, you might as well submit content that is unique and going to provide you with the best results possible.

And don't use a spinner to rewrite articles. It makes your content come out reading like Klingon!

 

From my experience, duplicate content is largely a myth, Nicole.

If you could be penalized for duplicate content, you could crush your competitors by simply rehashing their articles to thousands of directories. That wouldn't be fair, and I'm pretty sure Google has even admitted this somewhere.

I could, of course, be wrong. But I believe that Google just disregards duplicate content, to an extent, rather than penalizing it.

Mike

 

You're right, a "duplicate content punishment" is largely a myth - unless you're trying to manipulate the search engine rankings. Then, you can get busted big time for it. Here's what Google has to say about it.

At the very least, you're going to have your stuff removed from the index. It's not a punishment, per se, but you could still feel some negative effects from it.

Would I associate my site with duplicate content? Not a chance. In my opinion, there's far too much to lose, when it takes me 10 minutes to rewrite an article and make it unique.

 

Duplicate content seems to be a neutral "effect" (not really a penalty) because the duplicated content is simply discounted by SEs -- as.. uhm.. duplicate.! Only the original (or what SEs think is the original, i.e. First indexed) counts as original content and therefore will have any backlink or PR power. This is actually quite obvious and logical since if this was not so, a lot of regular search results would be total duplicated garbage (like it used to be... remember??). Also, do people really thing Google is that stupid that they would allow people to re-publish the same article over and over and get massive backlink juice? Duh.

Syndicating (well written and informative) articles serves to draw attention to your linked site so that real people click the link and go there. They do not generate quality backlinks or PR if they are just duplicated publications. This not a bad thing, its just often misunderstood and misused. It just makes sense when you think about it.

SEO is not rocket science, and its not finger-painting either. Just takes a little logic and thinking.

Peace.

 

Thanks Derek88 for clearing up the misconception about duplicate content. I suppose many of us read and believe what the pseudo Gurus promote and do not research any further.

You're right SEO is not rocket science or finger-painting, but if you're not a logical thinker your screwed!

 

Not bad stuff man. I'll research on what a backlink is later. And some of those article directories are new to me, never seen them to be the "big" ones before. Also I've been around eZine, that place is damn near impossible to submit a 'correctly' written article. It really annoys me to death so I won't be using them for a while.

I'm assuming niche=product until someone tells me otherwise but shouldn't that go in the opposite order. Like 1) Pick Niche 2) Write high quality article(s) 3) Distribute them amongst the article database's. You said "When distributing your articles amongst the article databases, you should also consider your chosen niche, and target your article so that it speaks directly to your market" As if we had to distribute non-existing articles first LOL

As for keyword research, what a pain in the ass but it does help. Got me plenty of clicks before.

 

Another small article marketing trick is self syndication. Self syndicating articles is as easy as setting up your articles on a feed - and allowing people to use the feeds to post your content on their sites. But you need a high amount of traffic to make it worth your while.

One of the easiest ways of syndicating your articles is to use Wordpress and Feedburner - with them both you can offer your own mini syndication site, and control what articles people get.

 

Dear, search engine only banned the content which is duplicate. The original one will not be effected or have a bad impression. Suppose if you use a duplicate content of competitor in other sites then only those sites and content would be banned which you have used. It means a waste of time for u....

In case of article, You can use the same article 30-40 article directories. Search engine don't count it as duplicate content. But those article directories should be of high PR and popular.

 

I am not a very good writer, and the articles I have commissioned from Elance are very poor quality, any suggestions?