I searched the forum and didn't find an answer... I just started article marketing on Ezine. I also need to get more content on my website. I know that you should not submit the same article to different directories because google doesn't like it and penalizes you for duplication. But is it alright to submit an article, then place the exact same article on my website? Does google frown on that practice as well? Thanks, Doug
You did not search the forums lol. This question has been asked a gazillion times. I'm not sure if google penalises or anything. But I know that EzineArticles will outrank you and block your article on your own website from coming through to the top or vice versa. It's just better to rewrite it so that there are slightly different keywords and so that 1 article doesn't mask the other.
Thank you I did search - maybe not very well. I got tons of posts with people looking to sell article writing. How much do you need to change the article? (stupid question) I do appreciate your response.
Here is an example of a snippet of an article I have rewritten. EzineArticles.com Article: If you're a poker player you will know by now that your bankroll is your poker bible. If you have no bankroll you can't play poker! This article will give you some valuable information about how to manage your bankroll and how to never go broke! Importance Of A Bankroll Even if you're the best poker player in the world, you need to have good bankroll management! Going bust is not the poker gods punishing you, its variance and variance is FACT. If you want to start earning a decent amount playing poker, then follow the advice in this thread. This is step one to becoming a WSOP bracelet winner. Pokerisrigged.com Article: All good poker players know that bankrolls are important. If you don't have one then you shouldn't be playing poker seriously! You're about to learn exactly what bankroll you need to stop yourself going bust! Bankrolls are important So you're the best poker player in the world? Well you still need to have good bankroll management! Going bust isn't always due to bad play, it can be down to variance. If you to take up poker professionally or semi-professionally, then read this article carefully. This is your first step to becoming a WSOP bracelet winner.
Thank you very much - that is exactly what I was looking for and a huge help. I'm glad I asked what I thought was a stupid question. Now I have to get to work. Thanks again!!!
For example: the same article is on hundreds of article directories. Article #1 Article #2 Article #3 This way can be used for linking purposes. Make sure to have unique and original articles that written by you!
Dougn57, your goal is to bring in as many visitors as you can. You may get a couple of hundred, if that, from search engines, while you will be getting a couple of thousand, if not more, by submitting your same articles to dozens of sites, including article directories. Which do you want? On top of that, you first have to be lucky enough to even land high on a search. Everybody and their brother who knows about seo are vying for spot on those first few pages. Not everyone can fit there, so....
Keep in mind that just because your article is on an ezine site doesn't mean the reader will click through to your site. I have my articles read hundreds of times on ezine sites but a fraction of that clicks through to my site. I publish to my site first. Then, a couple of days later, I rewrite it and submit to ezine sites.
If you think that you can't rank high on searches then you should try bum marketing your articles. Essentially you are writing articles with the title and keywords set to long tailed uncompetetive key phrases in google. If you write enough of these articles around the subject of your niche then you will see tonnes of traffic. I am going to start a campaign myself in the next few weeks. I have a Poker Forum, a few articles I am going to write about are: Las Vegas Poker Casinos Poker on Holiday Poker Drinking Games UK Student Poker etc etc.. Hopefully using EzineArticles I will rank highly for each of these fairly uncompetetive terms and I will generate quite a high net-traffic from SEs.
I was giving him the realities of it. I don't put an importance on search engines, so this isn't about me. And "bum marketing" is article marketing that some schmuck put his term, "bum marketing" on to sell his stuff. It's article marketing. Period. Sorry, that's a pet peeve of mine. I will agree that one can increse his odds in getting ranked high with articles, though. Tons of traffic? It's according to what your definition of that means.
Perry Rose: Completely agree with your comment on "bum marketing" Someone has done very well off the rebranding of "article marketing" It's like the term " I will google it" even if they're not going to use Google.
I do 2 very simple thing here I write a post to my wordpress site I then write a different but related article and submit it to the article directories. The resource box liks to the related page I try to do this 5 times per week for each site. It is a lot of work but I do get good traffic from it
There is no punishment for duplicate content, google and other search engines just don't rank highly the content that's available on more than one place, but having said that search engines dose value the article where it sees first! So, if you place the article on your website first and then promote it to various article websites, then you will have the original content at your site and duplicate content with backlinks on other websites! this won't hurt you anyway! also since some of these article directories have a better authority in the search engines, so in most cases the article on the top article directories will beat the article on your website on the serps! The benefits: 1) There are some search terms that are competitive and hard to achieve for a new website, so you can do article submission and beat your competitors as the article on the top article directories will rank better than your competitors websites! 2) Direct backlinks from the article! 3) backlinks created because of the duplication of the article in a lot of article directories, also some high quality niche blogs copies the articles from these article directories along with your links cheers!
i highly doubt that dulpicated content over 3/4 domains is going to cause you any problems. it's only when you go posting it all over to get loads of backlinks that makes it look dodgy. always remember to re-write if you intend on posting to a multitude of websites.