I was thinking about this on my way into work ... I am going to write about 5 articles for one keyword (with variations of this one keyword). Basically the articles are going to be almost the same, but with enough wording changed to make it unique. Should I submit these all at the same time to article directories, or space them out? I was thinking if I get the same person to proofread all of them in a row, they are going to accept one, then throw out the next 4. I probably would if I was an editor. (Just thought about this ... I could submit them to different directories. But other than Buzzle, won't I just be wasting my time with other directories.)
Wish I knew the answer to your first question. But if you're planning to submit the 5 similar articles to EzineArticles, they're so tough they just may reject 4 of them. I don't know their policy on this, but they sure have kick-back-itis over there. Personally, I would either: -- space out the timing or -- write to a slightly different set of keywords in each of the next 4 articles -- circle back in a few weeks with original keywords in a fresh article As for other directories being a waste of time... GoArticles also has a strong PR ranking. AssociatedContent.com also could be worth your time. And what about making these Squidoo lenses with a slight variation? Let us know what you decide.
Ezine won't reject unless they are too similar in content, they have pretty good dupe content filters, so if you just do a crappy rewrite it won't work. Also its important to adhere to their other guidelines, such as making the title relevant to the actual article, etc... other than that it should be fine
There is nothing wrong with rewriting articles, but obviously try to make them quite different. If you just change few words around, then yeah, of course, you will be rejected. In regards of article directories, contentrate on the best. Have a look here > http://www.vretoolbar.com/articles/directories.php
Just curious... Does "Article Spinning" software work well enough to make articles unique? This thread reminds me: I have EZA articles I need to rewrite and resubmit today.
Completely off subject, kind of ... but how do I get my squidoo pages indexed? I have a squidoo page, that is why I am writing these articles, to point to my squidoo page. I pinged the page, waited two days, pinged again .. nothing. I also dugg it, delicioused it, google bookmarked it, and a few other social bookmarks. What should I try next? Creating a blogger blog and linking to it? I will try that.
Yeah, it sometimes takes Google more days to get around to a new Squidoo lens than you'd like. Sounds like you did good pinging for it, so maybe just give it another 3 or 4 days and check again.
I have one article done, sent it to buzzle, tweaked it, and sent it to Ezine. I am working on another right now. (With links to my squidoo page). I also add my squidoo lens to about 10 squidoo related directories and social bookmarking sites. Hopefully that will help. I know it has only been a few days, but when you read someone's training guide and they say their lens got indexed in 2 days, and they made a sale within three, and they got to google #2 for their keyword in 3 days, it is sort of discouraging that after 5 days, I am seeing no results.
Don't worry about this. Squidoo pages got indexed easily. Some lenses got indexed in 2 days while some takes 6-7 days also. You should keep working on other stuffs like article submission, bookmarking etc.
I would say you can submit one article to ezine and the submit the others to the other top directories with a link back to your ezine article as well as to your squidoo landing page
Just an update ... I did get indexed (my guess is thanks to LensRoll.com). I am #3 for my keywords, which isn't bad, but 0 traffic so far. 2 articles waiting to be approved at Buzzle, 2 more at Ezine. Currently making my 3rd lens right now ...