We all know article submission is a great way of getting backlinks, right? And submitting unique articles mean a greater chance of approval in the article directories and therefore increase the possibility of any backlinks to our own sites. But why should we give away our unique articles to these leechers? It would be more reasonable to have it on our own site, wouldn't it? Think about the amount of time you spend writing a unique article, come up with a decent summary and some keywords and phrase a unique & attracting title and for what? For somebody else to use on THEIR sites and make money on top of your head? You give Google another reason to love these article directories more than your own site by giving away FRESH & UNIQUE content. Why should you? Am i the only feeling this way ....?
First to say that i do not use article directories because it is for me too much effort. But normaly you structure these articles that they match your website. You would not post them there, because you already wrote about that theme. It is just to have a relevant content to go with the link.
It's an excellent point you make and when I first set out I didn't releaise the importance. I created new articles for Squiddo, Helium and Article sites, when I should have been promoting these on my own site. But it's a learning process and now all new content goes on my site and re worked articles on other sites that I use to promote my own website.
That is the role of your website. Making new role as an article and submitting them to directories. Consider your website is an actor/actress or any musician who are selling things arts or whatever, directories are like directors of a movie. Some are good and some are bad. You submit to them, you get publicized, if you don't you are stranded.. Its all about publicity, its all about advertisement and its all about showing off.... every thing sells, you must do everything that you can to do it. hmmm... I think i made my point thanks matsuri
For a blog or something, I would say it is a great waste My suggestion would be to put it on ur site/blog and then heavily rewrite it and submit that new heavily rewritten article
Most of the article directories have good PR. So I manage to write good 3-4 articles with my website links on it, I would think it will not be waste of time.
Consider writing an article, but only placing a snippet on that page, and providing a link to the full content on your page, that way you can place in such a way to monetise it if desired, and you'll increase visitors by getting people excited about reading the full article on your page. It's a crazy idea, but it may just work
Excatly right. you are first feeling this way. But how to get one way links? How to promote our product? I think first we should publish our site and after google chached our articles than we should spread another articles directories. we should make a site blog for article publish. Really good idea!!!
@lightlysalted : This is what i've noticed too, sites like squidoo, hubpages, ezines, all of them want your unique content which takes time and effort. @Matsuri: I agree that you need some kind of publicity/marketing to get people to know your website. However you can market your website without giving away your unique articles. I'm beginning to think that if your homepage has a large number of links from different sources with different anchors, Google will give articles you host on your website good credit even if you do not have any backlinks to it. Eg most pages (lens) on squidoo do not have backlinks to them as such but they get the link juice of the homepage, right? What i'm saying is long term wise, you will have built an authority site with you unique content in your niche. But submitting to article directories give you a nice boost initially when the article you've submitted is on the top page but eventually fades away to the burial ground when you start noticing that your backlinks are decreasing.
why not hire article writers spitting the articles out? by putting articles out in directories , you are actually letting people to grab your articles using software rewriter make money online == Links + content
@DrAnujGupta : If you wanted just the backlink, then yeah, have another site/blog where you publish that article which you would have otherwise given away to article directories. Provided the site/blog is cached, you would get a backlink from it and be happier knowing you've got every right on the article (which you don't have when you submit to ezines, etc) Some people will argue about the traffic. I believe traffic comes and stays with the quality of your website. The authority sites became authority by providing a good service to its visitors and so can you if you do that - like anything worth keeping, it takes time though!
May be you are right, but I think this is the best way to get quality links. Whats wrong if a blog owner is earning some cash, at least we are getting some support. And who will give you till you do not pay.
Put it this way: You'd benefit more from: 80% of your unique content on your own site, and 20 quality article backlinks. Rather than 100% of your unique content on your own site, with 0 backlinks. Obviously you get links from elsewhere as well, but it's just a way to see it. Personally, I save the best content for my own site while submitting sub-par or crappier quality to directories.
Of course you want to save the best for your own. Anyway, I only use some articles which are more general or less important for these article directories. What matters is the url inserted for backlinks and traffic purpose.
I prefer having it on my own website. If required, I would then go ahead and syndicate snippets of the main article and link back to the original content.