There have been a lot of controversies over the first place to submit your article. Read the rest of my post for more information. Submit to your Site first.. I'm almost bored of stressing this point, it was one of the big eye openers recently for customers of my own products... I helped a few people get around this issue and they now happily (and successfully) publish content to their own site first and then EZA... Why o WHY would you give your content to a glorified made for adsense site before your own property?????.. (sorry Chris, I love EZA.. but I'm just bein' sincere) Here’s what I do with each and every article I create: Step 1: Publish it on my own website/property first <– this is essential, the content is YOURS.. do NOT give it to a directory first. Putting your content first on a glorified made for adsense site like a directory is marketing suicide, put it on your website first. Step 2: Tweak it a little and publish it to Ezine Articles. I honestly don’t tweak it that much but I like to anyway just so that it has some added flavour for distribution. Your goal with ezine is to get other directories to re-publish it too. Step 3: Tweak and expand, using each of the main points for a squidoo module on a lens and build a squidoo lens around it. (hence my hundreds of lenses that turn profit for me). Squidoo lenses can be quick and highly profitable, once you get into the swing of creating them. Step 4: Mass publish it wherever you like, use iSnare if you wish.. it’s a good service... get that content spread around!!!! This has served me now for years, and I can’t even write articles that well. Anything you hear about “duplicate content†rules is complete crap in most cases. The ONLY time duplicate content is an issue is when you have duplicates on the same domain.. like two pages that are mirroring each other on one domain. You can find up to date clarification of this fact on the official google blog. Enjoy yourself. John
What is the purpose of this technique? Getting backlinks or getting traffic from the sites you post the articles on? Of course backlinks (when you have enough of'em) give traffic, but lets say why do you upload them to article directories?