The result of submitting an article often means hundreds or even thousands of backlinks as the article gets posted on a bunch of low quality sites. Will this new found link popularity throw up a red flag on Google? Then again, backlinks is probably the preminent factor in ranking a site, even though these links should be naturally received and from good sites.
It shouldn't get red flagged mate. Article marketing is huge and Google knows all about it and what is happening.
I think where Google might start to penalize when there is too much duplicate content. I get really good results submitting to just a few of the big article directories like ezinearticles.com if I submit to multiple directories, I use this article "spinning" tool to, in essence, un-duplicate my content: JetSubmitter. I would post the links but evidently I can't yet... Articles are one of the best ways to leverage what you know and position yourself as an expert in your niche. SEO helps getting visitors to your site, but if your message/content sucks, guess what, they aren't going to buy...
Duplicate content penalty does`nt exist it says so on Googles own blog. What happens is the article will not rank as high in the search engines on other websites that duplicate it. They do not penalise a website for duplicate content. but the links will still count as backlinks
Kinda feel like you made my case... If they are not penalizing duplicate content, why does it tend to rank lower? I don't care what the Google blog says, I will not use the same content on MY site that I am using to feed article directories... Absolutely the backlinks are good, but if you don't think that somewhere in their algorithm Google doesn't notice duplication, I think you are dreaming... Google certainly tracks relevancy, that's why everyone here uses keyword rich links to their sites. The object is to create relevancy, not just content. Original content will ALWAYS out perform old recycled content any day.
I'm not a big fan of article marketing. I only submit a couple of unique articles to a few directories right when I launch the site for some immediate backlinks, and then I build backlinks using social bookmarking, forum posting, blog posting, and other methods. If you build thousands of backlinks in a short period of time that's the perfect way to get your site in the Sandbox. I rarely build more than 100 backlinks in the first few months, and I focus on really building high quality links. Either I'm commenting on highly relevant blogs or forums, or I'm posting on extremely high page rank blogs or forums or edu sites (not spamming - participating in the discussion in a logical way.) If you do this correctly you never have to think about article submissions again. And as you collect those high quality backlinks, your site's page rank goes up, and everything you're doing on your site as far as posting new, unique content will get you more results. You'll be able to dominate rankings for your keywords and so forth. The only third party site I still like these days is squidoo - I will often build a few keyword based lenses there right at the start of my site, just to get some initial traffic and placement in the serps. After that I focus on building content on my site and building quality backlinks to EVERY page of my site - not just the home page. Anyway, that's what I do. I think article marketing is tremendously over estimated as a tool to help your site. You can build traffic and ranking many other ways. Dan
You should only have to worry about getting penalized by Google if your site was gaining ridiculous amounts of backlinks in a short amount of time. That's not going to happen from your article being syndicated from an article directory.
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