Doing a bit of research and would like to pose some questions to writers here if you have time, 1. Do you submit any articles to Article Directories? 2. If YES , are these Articles the same,uniquely written, rewritten, spun, etc for different directories? ...or do you only submit to one (which one if appropriate)? 3. Why do you submit to article directories? (back links, money?) 4. What is your main complaint of the article directories you are using? 5. How long does it take to research/write one of these articles and around what length in words? Thanks alot....
Yes, but just few. Most article directories kick off non-original articles. So I'd rather rewrite than spin them. Backlinks and how can anyone differ with that The directories I chose take a little long time for approval. Article writing for directory submission shouldnt eat away your time. At the most it should not take more than an hour and half to research and generate the content. And, 400-500 words is usually good; but the longer the better they say though.
I DO NOT KNOW IF YOU WANT SINCERE REPLIES BECAUSE OF PREVIOUS POSTS I can give you a ton of knowledge on article directories, but I will give only give a touch that should help some others. ArticlesBase is the best place for quality articles. Most people do not realize that they also slide your article over to two other top rated article sites. Average issue time on weekdays is six hours, and they do a fair job of picking up bad errors or major mistakes. This is key, they let you name the business and put a link right in the center of the article. In turn major blogs are notified when new articles appear, so you might see your article in top Google results along with two other blogs also showcasing in. In my studying, they are the fastest growing major article directory. The demographics of the readers are very favorable, compared to the one best known by name. I have just started my only article directory, and my rules are stricter but tend to be similar to other article directories that many to focus on quality over revenue by ads. Attempted rules: No articles under 450 words, no cheap PLR spun articles or lifetime banning, no spamming - article in wrong category intentionally, all articles are accepted immediately or deleted, articles may have a link in content (up to 4 links), may also have a video inserted, automated comments with repeated same comments for a group of articles are considered spam - either warned or banned. Now this is not self promotion, this is the growing trend among smaller article directories. WARNING: BEWARE OF ARTICLE SUBMITTING SOFTWARE ---they have been know to hyperlink one of your words to a product they are selling. This in turn gets a Google frown for an irrelevant link.(you lose a little power). If an article is researched for synonyms before hand, and is quality written, always 2 copies should be rewritten. If you had 4 keywords, and each had 2 strong synonyms for both it is easy, replace all instances of the keywords with the synonyms and rewrite. Now there is no reason why you cannot do it if you wrote your client a top grade article. There is nothing illegal for adding one to your website of favorite articles, and putting the other in another article directory to it and collecting adsense income. Or keep the other two to sell. They use different keywords, so they are true originals.
L2W, Thanks and your comment 'Backlinks and how can anyone differ with that' is interesting and reflects many IM's view of Article Directories. In my opinion the link power you get from ADs are usually very limited, often undeserving of the time you spend on them. What if an article directory can provide more than weak backlinks, maybe oppourtunities, traffic, income? DY, I wouldnt post if I didnt want sincere replies and as you may say, ' My recent previous posts are all knowledgable and provide truth and great insight. ' Not sure which part of your wall of text is actually relevant to my questions so I will refrain from commenting so I do not derail. Omarbid, Noted but interested in your opinions on why they are useless though. I assume its because you think the link power you get from them are worthless? What in your opinion is a more worthwhile pursuit of off-site SEO?
I agree/disagree with your statement, because it depends on the quality/PR of directories you have chosen to get your articles published. Convince me if I am not thinking right Good ADs will give as good BLs and will eventually improve PR of your blog/site. Yes Opps/traffic/income too- If your article published interest other same-niche webmasters or related websites and/or they will love to publish again on their blogs with link backs of course - This makes your blog/site reach other blog readers too which is a big bonus in itself - and there is a good possibility of the other blog readers visiting your blog and subscribe back to you if its subscribeworthy. They will not be adsense friendly, but they might well like to advertize about them on your blog, and so the opportunity for income growth as well as network building here. Yowza, call it coincidence; I read this blog at forums immediately after posting my reply here: http://blogs.digitalpoint.com/entry.php?b=180
You need quality back links. Quantity can beat quality, but you might be penalized by Google. Google stuff try ranking websites that got natural back links. Since article directory is a well-known strategy, Google will penalize pages that has hundred of inbound links from article directories. Just my opinion. Stay away from Crap!
Omarabid You make a good statement. After watching an hour long video conference from Google , here is my opinion: 1. Google is aggressively going after the purchasers buying a certain pattern of links, and it was unclear about the sellers. They compared it to the linkfarms from a few years back. 2. They are closely looking at the relevancy of a link. Does a higher Pr link from an unrelated source, hurt the website? 3. A Big emphasis was put on the relativity of the link being closely matched to the website. 4. And as expected getting links from authority sources, seems fine. Hint - go to Google news and punch in a related comment. Be one of the first, hot off the press, it will get you name attention, but not necessarily a link. On the matter of directories, what does work is first having your article accepted on any directory. Then to raise the article status the article power, use a mass submission linking to that article. The truth of Omar said is often true for established websites who have a Page Rank especially. For a new site a couple runs can establish a 50/50 value between links and additional article exposure.
Am I reading you correctly? What I make from that is: 1. Create article, submit to Article Directory 2. Promote the article, once listed 3. Link it to whatever site you want to improve with quality back links? I found the last part a little confusing, so please correct me if I got you wrong