I know 95% of directory links are permanent unless the site goes down. Do article links only count in SERPS or PR for a short period of time? or once they are there, they are permanent? Kinda seems crazy I can submit unlimited articles right? Can get a couple hundred anchor texts a night. Any further knowledge you feel like sharing I appreciate.
1) hard to submit 1000 "unique" articles. 2) article links are less "important" to google than links from relevant websites 3) 5-10 articles submitted to 200-500 articles directories will get your site "sandboxed" immidiatelly
Once again, slow steady relevance. One well written Article submitted to one free content site will increase your Site Traffic dramatically! REMEMBER that Search Engines will index a published article, as well!
i agree with you MsTrafficWhiz, but you should not submit tons of poor-quality/poor-content articles to all directories.
thx for responses so far...but are they permanent? or do they fade away in time...any answers on that plz
HI The links are permanent, and over time can become more valuable as the article gets page rank of its own.
in addition, if your articles are of good quality, people might post them on their websites and you will get additional links
They dont count for much, and if you submit the one article to 500 directories after a few months you are lucky to have one still count.
what do you mean exactly by not count for much and it would disappear after a few months? Is this really true about not counting in time...that would be awful and I might have to rethink submitting these
If it's not a decent article it gets buried under the new stuff and might get cleaned out. The article directories want to give exposure to the articles that are most interesting and profitable. I would follow the advice of others on this thread and not mass-submit lots of articles, but focus on writing quality articles and submitting to the best.
What i mean is if you do a search for "My article title" in Google for articles i bulk submitted to 500 article directories 3 months ago, all but 3 or 4 results were in the Supp index (before Google removed the tag). Out of those 3 or 4 left, just 1 will be an article and the others are category pages with just article headings and not my full article and backlink. The 100's in Supp won't send traffic or pass Pagerank, ie useless. The days of pinging off an article to 100's of directories is dead, and your wasting your time if you are still doing this.
They are permanent.. But not much link backs will show up on Google...1 link backs out of 150 articles... BUt there are ways to increase it Thanks
I don't think the links fade away as time goes.. Have a look at this http://ezinearticles.com/?Help-to-Reduce-Belly-Fat&id=6628 . This page has a PR of 4 and the last time I checked it it had about 97,000 views (before 2 months) and now it has crossed the 100,000 mark. This is an evidence that the pages get value as time pass by and so is the links.
The article was submitted 10th Dec 2004, long before Google started culling duplicate content and adding supplemental pages, and long before the millions of articles added since then. Try to achieve this with an article submitted today, it doesn't really work like that anymore. Also the article ranks #1 for "Help to Reduce Belly Fat" which explains the 100k views over the last 3 years. Put a good video up on YouTube, it can get ten times that amount of views in a single week. Ad your URL for a few seconds at the start and end of the clip and it will drive "alot" more traffic in 7 days then she got in 3 years.
im thinking they might not be permanent...I took a severe hit in SERP position for a keyword I only optimized for articles just recently. This hasn't happened for my other keywords for directories....wtf is going on here..are article links permanent even if it's duplicate content? Just like directory submissions
Yes they are "physically" permanent, unless of course the article site shuts down or your article gets deleted for whatever reason. However the benefits of the link authority or weight is honestly so small it's not worthwhile.