This is a half design and half technical question. First, where do you all put the articles on your site? For example, I have a single one page site dedicated to comparison reviewing a few products in one specific niche. I plan on at some point expanding on the site to include other products, digital and otherwise. But for now since I don't have a menu bar at the top or anything, should I just put a ton of links to the articles beneath the last review which redirect to the articles elsewhere on my site? Second half of the question, where do you all link to in the articles on your site, straight to the publisher with your hoplink, OR do you send them back to your review portion of your site? Because they'll get to the articles on your site from search engines, correct? I'm a bit hazy on all of this.
Hi Rbf738, My personal thoughts are this ... You probably want to sent up an "article" page that links to all the articles ... and you then want to put a link to this at the bottom of your "main page" ... why? because you want people who have already found your main page to go to the publisher, not to get distracted by articles ... you are correct that you want the articles to be the juice that helps pull in more people from the search engines ... as to where to send them ... you probably have more control if you send them to your page first, but obviously that's one extra step ... these are just my thoughts ... no doubts others will have different thoughts
Reprint articles placed on your website should have links to the author of the article, on the same page as the article. As far as yourself is concerned, all of those articles on your website should provide a link back to your main page - why else put the content on your site if you are not going to use them to push visitors to your sales pages. As far as telling the search engines to spider the articles on your website, may I suggest one link on your main page (perhaps at the bottom of the page) pointing to an internal index page of your website that links to all of the articles you are making available to your visitors.