All, I have recently begun my first article submission campaign. Several articles have been submitted and I can see that they are now available on hundreds of sites. However, I don't yet see increased traffic. In your experience, how long does it take for a campaign like this to take effect? Or am I just too blue-eyed and am expecting too much from this? Thanks!
I am not sure, but I do think that submitting articles will definitely help you out in the long-run. Where have you submitted to? I am working w/ article submission as well and am interested in the details. Let me know when you get that traffic boost, Andrew
I use http://www.articlemarketer.com. It's an online service and they submitted my articles to about 1,200 resources across the net. What I like about them is that they review your articles before accepting them. This assures at least a certain standard of everything that they post. For me, this meant that I had to fix certain editorial problems with my articles before they were accepted and submitted. Of course, if you are really just looking for the backlinks, then you don't care about this. I, however, have my own name under the articles, so I appreciate an editorial review that ensures that the article comes up to their standard.
are you sure people like to read your article? I running my own article directory, and most of the article I get is promoting them self. people wont read article that look like advertisement. its really wasting time reading those article.
My target market is in project management - in particular about how to pass a project management certification. I have two podcasts on the topic of PM as well, so my name is quite well known in the field. Do they read my articles? I hope so, because my articles are not focusing on "self promotion". Instead my articles give valuable information about how to prepare for, apply for, study for and take this exam. I have a relevant subject line and the body contains actual information that you can use if you are preparing to take the exam. The only promotion is the footer, where I have a short blurb & link to my website. My expectation is that the a) the information is valuable enough for the reader to then jump over to my site and b) that search engines will begin boosting my sites rankings because the words / links used in my articles are actually relevant and topical. Or am I overanalyzing this?
My target market is in project management - in particular about how to pass a project management certification. I have two podcasts on the topic of PM as well, so my name is quite well known in the field. Do they read my articles? I hope so, because my articles are not focusing on "self promotion". Instead my articles give valuable information about how to prepare for, apply for, study for and take this exam. I have a relevant subject line and the body contains actual information that you can use if you are preparing to take the exam. The only promotion is the footer, where I have a short blurb & link to my website. My expectation is that the a) the information is valuable enough for the reader to then jump over to my site and b) that search engines will begin boosting my sites rankings because the words / links used in my articles are actually relevant and topical. Or am I overanalyzing this?
just a few article directory sites will send any direct trafic.. and your article must remain in the main index of Google to pass any "link juice" in the long term...which is damn hard on a directory with 100-500k indexed pages. So submitting to all the article directories out there is a waste of time in my opinion..not to mention all the sites removing your resource box links
Petyard, I get your point about staying on top of the index. Makes sense. However at the end you say "not to mention all the sites removing your resource box links". I don't get this one... could you explain a bit further please? Thanks!
Gotcha! Yes, I noticed that but out of the 1,200 sites that my articles were submitted to a substantial number still points to me. So I am happy.
1200 sites? LOL..anyway I was talking about the sites that use the articles, not the article directories.. where did you find 1200 articles directories? how did you do it?
There are some software programs that will submit to the article directories for you. But I don't recommend that as they are getting wise about that sort of thing, and may not allow it. Instead hire a freelancer at getafreelancer.com to write you some articles and submit them. It's cost effective, and you can focus on other things.
After i submit my articles, within a week I usually see thousands of results posted in google out of which hundreds of actuall HTML links pointing back to my site.
For traffic its usually within a few days that i see a little bit of traffic coming from the article.. but most important is the backlinks that you get from them
I have used article marketer in the past and won't use them again. If you have a program like article submitter you can do the exact same thing they are doing but it won't cost you a penny. Get yourself an automated article submitter and set it up to submit the articles for you, at least that way you will know where exactly your articles are ending up. Also, not every article directory has the same categories and sub categories. So out of those 1200 directories how many of them are rejecting your article. Also, every directory has different terms and submission requirements, some of them will not accept articles that have been submitted by software. So again your article will not be submitted to those. So when you think about the difference of all the directories how many do you think your article is ending up on. Probably not many. If you want to do automated submission then use article submitter and do it yourself. If you really want to know where your articles are going, then the best course of action is to submit them manually. Time consuming yes, but way better in the long run. If you don't want to do it manually, then look into paying someone to do it for you.