Hey there my friends, I am confused about article web directories. There are sites like ezinearticles that allow authors to link back to their homepage using an anchor text like "best cell phones" or something in the bottom of the article. This seems unnatural and like tricking Google's methods. However Google has shown much love to ezinearticles and now its one of the top websites in the world. Why??? Google says paid text links are not okay, or "unnatural" type of linkings is bad for their system. There are huge article sites like SubmitYourArticle that seem punished by Google for same things: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...us&q=site:submityourarticle.com&aq=f&oq=&aqi= You can see Google don't index many pages from their website. And Google will punish many sites that have unnatural anchor text links or paid text links or irrelevant links. But somehow Google decides ezinearticles and some other article sites are great reputation and giving much traffic rank??? Also, many articles in ezinearticles are dupe content, but Google don't care, always giving ezinearticles priority seems..... Some expert please explain this to me. Seem not fair here. Thanks.
This is a pretty silly question, and if you're asking it, then you're probably looking for the easy way out (buying links). When you write an article, it needs to be informative, useful, and in many cases (Ezine has been especially cracking down lately), non-sales pitch orientated. You create something that will hopefully help somebody, and in return, you get a link back to your site. Ezine gets ad revenue. It's a win-win-win situation. With paid links, you're just handing someone money to link back to your site, usually from a useless page or link farm. Even though the link might be from a revelent page, you still offered nothing of value to the internet or the viewer of that page. This type of shortcut, if left unchecked, would eventually ruin google's search results. The higher-ranking results would always be paid links that might be on pages that had little to do with the user's initial search criteria. I suggest reading some of the better articles out there and formulating a plan to incorporate article-building into your link/traffic campaigns. Article marketing is a great tool all around.
It's not trickery to link back to your own site with anchor text that is related to the content of your website. It's just basic SEO. You mention paid links, but I'm not sure what this has to do with article marketing I clicked on your link which shows the Google results for SYA and they have loads of pages indexed so not sure where the penalty is here If you want to tell google that your site is relevant for keyword x then unless you use keyword x as anchor text for at least some of your backlinks, you're going to struggle to rank for keyword x. Unnatural link building means getting lots of links from non-relevant sites, getting links from link farms and keeping the anchor text the same 100% of the time. There is nothing wrong with using optimised anchor text as long as you vary your anchor text and it bears a strong relation to the content on your site.
Hmm okay that kind of makes sense but then why is Google obviously punishing some article directories that follow the same exact thing as ezinearticles? I'm talking about like my example which is SubmitYourArticle. Thanks for your thoughts friends.
Google isn't punishing SYA. The site command for this site returns this: Results 1 - 10 of about 505,000 from submityourarticle.com
Its all part of life and business models. Google can always secretly just dismiss them from the algro. Giving the websites a penalty could be a message from Google, in which, I believe its just not worth it.