OK, so I have written the world's greatest series of articles (well I like them anyway!). 30 in total with 1 summary linking the lot together via relevant text. My goal is to increase links and traffic to site rather than to initially increase my "stickyness". The options I am considering are (i) Submit summary article as article to various sites. Does this really work? After 6 months does anyone still have the links up? Are the pages ever indexed or more normally denied by robots.txt? Downside is I only get 1 link at bottom of article or am I missing something? (ii) Turn the summary into a news item and submit to PR agencies. Can be done due to nature of articles. And for $200 some seem to allow keyword links. My previous experience seems to imply that after 6 months few if any links remain, even if $200 spent and it is rare that the remaining have any PR or are recognised by Google. (iii) Give up on this as a means to generate traffic, look elsewhere, and just use to improve content. Any other options and practical experience of the above? Thanks in advance
Well, I'm new to trying to get sites listed based on keyword density and applying SEO techniques, but when I wrote some summary articles and released them, they were picked up relatively quickly by search bots, getting those few pages listed relatively quickly. I include a link in my sig to the main site and in the article to more detailed information on my site. Also, I've created ATOM and RSS feeds for the site and ping the ping services when I get around to putting up new articles. Finally, there's posting on the forums ;-) Good luck.
I would submit the article(s) to places like ezinearticles. Those articles get a TON of circulation. So you'll definitely receive some nice traffic. If your article topics are more on the B2B side of things, I would recommend submiting them to new wires. You would probably have a better respose from them.