I have been submitting my articles to different article directories and have since heard that it is spamming. I didn't know I could be hurting my rankings by doing this. Is article submission really a bad SEO strategy?
If it really was why a lot of people are doing it then. But if you submit a lot of articles whith the same content then I consider that as spamming. If google sees the same text over and over again I don't think your ranking will improve as much as it would be if it was unique content.
Article submission is another important way to get backlinks . But repeated content submission is not recommended !
Well I have submitted my article to like 15 different places. Is this going to hurt me? Should I just focus on 1 article directory?
It is not bad. It is a good way to get some exposure and some inbound links. Having said that, I don't submit to hundreds of article sites. I just go for a few that I know are good. I have also used isnare's distribution service.
If you are going to just submit to one submit to Ezinearticles. I am using Isnare distribution service right now because of lack of time and quality/price point of view. If you don't over do it you will have no problems.
Here's my feeling on it: Submit one article everyday to a mix of sites. Maybe do one article to two different sites, wait till tomorrow, and submit a new article to two more websits. Duplication is bad. And if you don't have that many articles to submit, chances are you are a new website and should be taking links slowly anyway. If you are not a new website, and you don't have that many articles... you should get writing so you have something for your visitors to read zerk
Article submission is next to useless, however submitting the one unique article to a well selected source has value. But so does putting that unique article on your own site and reaping the benefits of multiple backlinks to it and search engine traffic instead of a single backlink from a lousy PR0 article directory.
article submission is still effective. however, it is better to submit different versions of the original article to different sites. Check http://www.articlepostrobot.com . It is being used by many members on Warrir Forum, Keyword Avalanche Forum, MetaWebs.com, Digital Forum, and StomperNet too! You can post articles to >>500 sites by clicking ONE button ONCE. You don't have to click 'submit' button on each article site one by one which takes a long time. The site list is at http://www.articlepostrobot.com/sitelists.htm which covers most high page rank article sites: Page Rank # of Sites 7 2 6 9 5 29 4 81 3 120 2 100 1 48 0 118 In the latest version, users can add their own sites to the list too. Users can also rotate unlimited Title/Summary/Sentence/words/Paragraphs/Articles in the post process. So, each article on different article sites could be unique. Users don't need worry about the 'Duplication Penalty' from search engine any more. The version history is at http://www.articlepostrobot.com/history/versions.htm . The manual can be downloaded from http://www.articlepostrobot.com/download/manual.zip . Anyone can request a 7-day demo by sending an email to help(at)articlepostrobot dot com Thanks, temp
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it is not a service, it is a software. many article submission services are using this software, check the service subforum on digital point forum, you will see this. it is not spam, it is a tool help users to distribute their articles. each article sites are welcome authors to add more content. if the software is spam, then should we call article marketer & isnare 's distrition service are spam? as for the 'alert', it is all about your article's quality. poor articles do not perform well, but good articles do. temp
Those spinners don't work. Not long term. Go back and look for the articles after 2 months. Most of the articles will have been thrown into the supplementary index. They work great for a month or so, and then google sees all the simularities and the footprints are all over the web so it throws them all out. Find me a few example articles that have been spun and have survived the purge after 2 months. M
If you have only an usual content, submit it to article directories. If you have a good one, then submit it to your own website. I think in the near future we could see no more backlinks from directories and article directories. Links from relevant website is much more important.