I have a knowledge base on my site that helps customers to find out more about that they're buying. It is useful and original content. Ideal for an article. If I submit this information as an article would it be bad since the content would be the same as on my site? I know Google hates duplicate content in various forms I just wonder if this would cause problems.
You got it, Jack. Google won't pick up the article on your site if there's other domains that - you submitted to - that have over-all higher SERP. Spin your stuff!
Should also change my articles every time i submit to a different article directory or can they be the same? It would be a nightmare to re-write a 2000 word article every time.
Article submission with same article is a right method or not ? Writing article every time to each of the article submit website is not practical. You can have page created in your site itself.
I really don't advice posting the same content to other article directories. I would rather advice you to spin-in(churning the article) your article that would make an other article with almost of the same meaning.
I won't recommend posting your content to the other sites. It's much better to change it a little bit at least, then to post the same text that is on your site.
Though its a bit difficult, you have to follow that rule. Else all the work you have done may go waste. And to rewrite the article there are many software available on internet. You just check it out.
The article I wrote was about 2500 words long. I should probably break it down into 4 articles maybe.
If you have 10,000 articles all exactly the same, Google will only rank one of them. So, you should always put unique, possibly spun articles on your websites. If you send the other 9,999 to article directories you will still get bank-links for doing this. That's all you really want from them. Right? Even one of those will get ranked. Probably the one you send to Ezine Articles. So, you may even get direct traffic from that one but it is not the main objective. What you’re really going after is back-links from solid websites and article directories fairly often are just that. You don't need a highly ranked (Google or anybody else article) to give you bank-links. It took me a long time to figure this out!
It's a good question, one that bothered me too for a while. What I've settled on is writing completely new and unique articles for the directories. It means more work but it seems to work well for me.
You only need to submit your articles to about 5 of the top directories, but rewrite them for your own site. You can do another rewrite for some slight changes and submit them to another 20 directories. Google only penalizes dup content on your own site, but it probably will not show up on the searches. Good for back links though.
So is there a anywhere i can find out what the TOP directories are ?? I find this all a bit complicated.. as to what is the best practice