I'm thinking about doing some article and PR submission to help with my sites SERP, but i was wondering how many sites i should submit each article and PR to. I know having dupe content is not good but its probably also not a good idea to simply submit the article/PR to just one site. so how many sites do you guys recommend i submit each article/PR to? Thanks
Articles can be rewritten, some minor changes can make it 'unique' About your question, depends on your competition but personally I dont spend much time on articles and directories.
As many times as you wish. There are lots of options, but the key thing is to submit different versions of your article, and NOT something "spun" by one of those automatic spinners (Would you place your head in an automatic shaving machine? - not a pretty site).
I think you should avoid duplicate content, submit different articles to different directories. It's not about the duplicate penalty thing but I think Google will only recognize one backlink going to your site even if you submit the same article to hundreds of article directories.
If you don't rewrite them only 1 or 2 will get indexed by Google, so if you submit more than 2 you're wasting your time. If they're not indexed you don't get your backlink. 2 rewritten articles submitted to 2 sites each would be better than 1 article submitted to 1000 websites.
Ok so articles have to be unique, what about Press Releases can i submit these to more than one site?
Press releases are usually unique to all sites... it's the "quick and dirty" way of informing the world about new products and services. My recommendation: Make it interesting and write it in such a way that it can be picked by journalists, news bureaus and magazines as an article with minimum changes. A good press release will perhaps not get much search engine traffic, but might get a lot of attention in other media and drive direct traffic... which is much better.
So its a bad idea to use services that will submit my PR to 10 sites or more? I dont understand why ppl would do that then. Thanks for the help so far btw.
No, you misunderstood it. It is BAD to submit the same article to many article sites, not only because it may be against the terms of the article sites but also because the duplicate content will be filtered out by the search engines. On the other hand there is NO problem in sending the same press release (PR) to hundreds of organizations, because there you are not targeting really the search engines but rather the human visitors, and you want it to spread everywhere, and hopefully be picked up by newspapers, radio stations, etc. Heck, I know a guy that sent out press releases by EMAIL to hundreds of newspapers, magazines and radio and television stations. His PRs were awesome, you wouldn't believe it, and got picked up quite often by news organizations as a filler on a slow news day. Result? A lot of DIRECT traffic! Funny thing is that because he wrote this incredible copy, was always original and did not abuse the number of submissions (only two or three a year) he was not considered a spammer but rather a news source. A pity I do not have his writing skills!
So that means the people that submit Article to thousands of site it's useless thus if one or two get indexed but search engine .
you can submit to various sites.. there are lots of article sites to submit to.. rewrite and do some minor changes and submit them.. each article submitted should be a little different from the others..
Absolutely! you can submit to many directories as possible if you target those directories which give you Do-Follow Links then it can boost your Site Visibility related to Search Engines and Backlinks Worth!
- I hear what you say - "not targeting the search engines but rather the human visitors" => but how would search engines be able to differentiate between an article and a press release? Both can be shared | copied | reprinted elsewhere and if it the content is good, then your chances of it getting distributed much wider is good. Imho they are the same ito i) you can distribute it as wide as you like, BUT, if you copy is identical you will only get juice from the highest page on which it appeared. All other copies are still normal links.
Lately I've found that duplicate content is not as big of an issue as it once was. The thought on this is that there are so many news articles, and content in general, being produced and generated each and every day that it is becoming harder for search engines to differentiate between what is, and what is not duplicate content.