I have started promoting two ClickBank products through article marketing since the beginning of the new year. After reading some ebooks and tutorials I decided to register with EzineArticles and start submitting a few articles (10 so far, as I am new to Ezine). When I got my first 2 articles approved, I checked with Google to see what the results were for a certain keyword I used: one article was the 5th or 6th result from over 13,000,000. Wow! Then, as the tutorials I've read advise, I went to GoArticles and submitted those two articles. Now, those articles are not even indexed by Google, while the other articles I wrote are very well ranked (because they are not published with both Ezine and GoArticles) So, don't make the same mistake I did! There are people saying it's nothing wrong in submitting the same articles with more than one publisher, but that is not true! Always publish original content!
Dirty, This can be true, but nobody but Google knows for sure the EXACT effect on duplicate content. I have had the same thing happen to some of my articles, but it also happens to some I ONLY submit to EZA. You have to remember that a lot of times, Google will rank new content high, just because it's new. After a few days, the ranking will jump around a bit, before possibly falling out of Google completely. Here's a tip: If an EZA article gets ranked and brings you GOOD, CONVERTING traffic, and you want to keep it ranked - bookmark it. Submit it to one or two Social bookmarking sites per day. This will help keep it's ranking. In addition, link to that article from your blog, other articles, etc. Jim
Yup! It's always best to submit your articles to only ezinearticles as that way it maintains it's ranking.
I don't think this has anything to do with the way Google sees new pages... My article was published on the 5th of January, I was on Google's first page on the 6th, I published my articles with GoArticles the same day and on the 7th my articles were completely removed from Google. In just 3 days those articles went from the first page to being removed by Google, while the articles that were approved on the 6th are still on the first result page (and they are not submitted to GoArticles). As I see it, there is certainly a connection.
As Ezine is the original auhtority anyway thats gotta to be the first place to submit it! If you are then submitting it elsewhere completely re-write from top to bottom and change title and even alter the keywords slightly. To be fair you are never going to know about duplicate content as people have already mentioned its only the powers that be actually know! But speaking generally my experience is that duplicate content does more harm than good. For best results I agree that you gotta get some social media involved to keep it pumping & keep it unique!
also then you should not submit it to ezinearticles because people can easily just re-publish the article on their site and you will go down the rankings again.
That's half the reason you submit to ezinearticles so that others can republish your article around the net, this does not mean that your rankings go down at all. There are people that earn 6 figures from article marketing alone and at the top of their lists is ezinearticles bar none!
I do use ISnare for submitting the same article to lots of article sites but for EZA articles I use an original.
I don't agree with this but I suppose it depends on the reason you use Article marketing, primarily for traffic or for backlinks? I use article marketing mainly for backlinks because I would rather my site rank 1st for a keyword instead of an article of mine in eZine where I am not certain and probably never going to get 100% click rate conversion.
I don't know about this, but if your Ezine article is completely gone from Google's index, will the backlink to your site still count?
I am guessing so. The backlink will only not count if it turns into a no follow link and you can check this by viewing source in your article. Will.
I have heard so many different opinions on this, thanks for your experience. This is actually my gut feeling, if you can I think it is always better to publish fresh articles on different directories. If an article is ranking well, there is no reason to mess with it - you are already getting views for that keyword anyway.
Thank you for touching on this topic Dirty Butch. I have had many discussions with DP members on this same topic and even started my own thread called Article Directories - Dispelling the Myth. Unfortunately not everybody will see the light. Article directories require unique articles. I would say that you start off by writing 10 UNIQUE articles. Submit to 10 different databases and wait for it to be indexed by Google. this will give you your PR juice. After these original articles have been submitted, you cross post to the other directories. So article 1 which was originally posted on directory 1 will now be posted on directories 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Essentially this will lead to 10 unique posts and 90 cross posts. Cross posts will not get you page rank but it will get you traffic. I used to do this for years for health product companies as part of their internet marketing campaign. Once they seed the internet, they then release their radio, TV, magazine and newspaper campaign. Even if their site does not rank high in the SERPs for given terms, the articles may do so and it all leads back to their website. In fact, now that I have left my work as a consultant to the corporate health sector, I do it for many clients in many different niches and it assists greatly with traffic. My article often beats the client's website in SERPs with good research and keyword choices if the client is not within the first 25 results on the SERPs. I am not saying this to market my services but I am highlighting to DP members that article marketing can greatly improve your traffic. But the article needs to be properly constructed in that it cannot directly discuss your product or service. The article has to appeal to the reader and tackle an interesting angle related to your product. This will drive traffic to your website to read more. However keywords and phrases are also essential for SEO purposes. I hope this information proves useful to DP members.
The best thing you can do with article marketing is to understand what you are doing and why. EZA is basically a place to host your content because it WILL rank better than your own site can probably accomplish. Other article directories don't have that same effect. What other directories WILL get you is links. EZA is about traffic, not links. The traffic from EZA is meant to be sent to a landing page for an offer or AdSense site or opt-in or whatever. Thus, it's all about the clickthrough rate on EZA, much like PPC marketing in a sense. Other article syndication is just about building link equity and shaping your link keyword text. So, use them as such. Get on an article marketing service like unique article wizard, article marketer, etc. Then, use those to BLAST a rewritten PLR article or something like that to build your links. It doens't matter how good it is cuz it will be duped across many sites/domains. In short: EZA is for traffic acquisition and should be treated more like PPC. Other article directories are about link building and should be treated with SEO in mind.
If you're going to syndicate the same articles, you should have the articles rewritten before syndicating across multiple directories. The traffic that you can get from well-optimized articles is significantly underrated.
I have also noticed that my articles at Ezinearticles.com rank pretty high when new, even in high competition niches, but with time if let alone the articles will go down in the rankings. I'm not sure how much the original content factor has to do with this, but it's true that you have to get links to your article in order for it to keep up in the rankings....
Regards duplicate item...does Google knows which article published first, which one received the credit ranking or both get drop in ranks..?