Holy cow … I just got off a 3 day marathon looking for articles on the big articles sites. I’ve got to say that there are some goods articles out there and then some …well … pretty bad ones. Now what really surprised me was, I would run across a killer article and get my hopes up, then when I checked out the “BY†line and clicked on the site – whaaamoooo – adsense site. Some of these site were pretty horrendous, I mean like every on the site was adsense, they didn’t even have their own article posted on the site - very little content. In total, I found six useful articles that linked to useful sites and about 20 or 30 that were well written but linked to a purely adsense site. What are your thoughts and experiences? Is this just me and my industry or is everyone finding the same? I would think the article sites would vent some of these submissions, but I guess with the volumes it would be tough. Anyways I was thinking that I could have written some decent original content, half a dozen articles, for the amount of time I spent. Cheers Frank
Yes. I have seen article sites that will accept anything. Searchwarp, my personal favorite, has accepted some very questionable articles (IMHO), but as a whole, it seems to be the best at weeding out the spam. constant-content, where I buy content sometimes, has had some questionable articles there too, and I actually pointed out some articles that were linking to a scraper site and tried to explain to them why that's (possibly) a bad thing - but they didn't seem to care too much.
People submit articles for link-backs. Why else? You'd just keep the article at your own site if all you wanted was to get your word out. With that said, the way the article site should be run is very much the same as a web links directory. It is enormously time consuming job to sift through all the submissions manually and check appropriateness of the links, and no article site owner will do that, ever. As long as the article itself is fine, the system should be considered working well. You cannot really edit the articles 'cause the authors would not permit that, and so you cannot control where they are linking to. So, I think we'll have to take these article sites the way they are. They are not going to change. If you are concerned about having your link close to a link to a made-for-AdSense site, just don't submit your articles. I personally don't think it's an issue though. As long as your site is linked to from within your own article, you are fine.
searchwarp brings me more traffic than: comcast netscape ask aol myway and a few other places as well. So, its not simply for backlinks, it does bring traffic as well. If you aren't getting traffic from your articles, you are doing something wrong. My concern isn't that the site is MFA. My concern is that too many article sites accept everything that is submitted, and end up linking to spam sites, inevitably - which diminishes the value of articles submitted. So, yeah, article sites being responsible is important to both sides.
lorien1973: Thanks for Searchwarp and constant-content tips, I wasn't aware of those resources! 1-script: Thanks for your feedback ... my issue is not so much content because as I explained some articles were fabulous. My concern isn't that the article sites have adsense. The concern is that the author links to an all adsense site with not original content or value. cheers fb
I agree searchwarp is a good source for traffic - the articles are much better. It was like when directory scripts appeared people jumped on the bandwagon, some were good directories, many were crap. Unfortunately, the same is happening with article submission sites. I read all of the articles submitted to my site, and if I don't think that they will be of value to my visitors then they don't get listed. I do though have alot less submissions that sites like article depot, etc.
yes they should have stricter guidelines .. we are implementing bots to check our databases for dupe content and for plr articles and deleting them plus we also are checking to see if the articles are modified by someone else and ripped off from other authors