How valuable is it to submit articles to other sites? I just submitted and got posted an article that i wrote to a PR 5 site. I figured Monday would be the best day to submit it since the weekends bring in less traffic? Good plan?
For the most part, the day of the week doesn't really matter with articles (Unlike Press Releases where it can be crucial) Most people not only use the search option but tend to look deep in the site for quality. Write a really good article and it can generate links for months (and visitors)
That's the truth. I have six year old articles that are still generating substantial hits from and to quality sites.
i can submit whenever i want as of now. I was going to try to submit at least once a week. I got to concentrate on writing content for my site first.
Two good points. I write unique content for my sites that is only used there (and once). In addition to that I write articles for distribution. I find keeping them seperate is the best approach. Set yourself a schedule...Write 3 articles every Wednesday and submit them every Thursday. Sticke to that schedule and you will be amazed a the results after a few months. I always advise quality over quantity for distribution though. Take your time to create 3 good article then to rush and creat 12 bad articles. Its much more time efficient and you will make up for the other 9 because more people will pick up the 3.
I have always submitted to goarticles.com, ezinearticles.com, isnare.com, articledepot.co.uk (I also happen to own part of it) which have the biggest distribution. If you want to submit to more article sites, I would reccomend the distribution tool at www.isnare.com although it isn't neccesary
I would aim for much wider distribution these days. There are 100s of article sites springing up, and most will eventually gain a good rating. I opt for Article Marketer. Currently they have wider distribution than Isnare, and every article is submitted in my own name. They have a free service you can try out too.
Andy, How does Article Marketer submit to the newsgroups in your own name? That would mean that you are supplying them with your e-mail and you are already a member of the group. Is that correct? I operate a busy article submission group and I don't have any submission services using the client's name to submit. I'm curious as to how this could be done... Bonnie
When you join them you fill in one set of details This includes a username and passowrd to use for the directory sites for the account they will create for you. For the newsgroups such as Yahoo, when you send your first article, you do get a flood of email asking you to subscribe. You click on each one, subscribe (I suggest to only recieve admin messages, although I receive digests). Article Marketer allow you 1 day from when you first submitted an article and it was processed, until they actually send it. This give you time to handle 30 or 40 newsgroups. One annoying thing is Topica don't seem to have a way of turning off the emails or selecting a digest. The good news is the volume from them is low, and ends up in my bulk folder anyway. I use Gmail, and 90% of the artcile digests and email end up there anyway. Obviously if I had opted to receive no email on all those groups, I would receive that one initial burst for confirmations, and the a rare admin email, or rejected submission (this sometimes happens on moderated groups that have been deserted - AM put those on hold until the moderator comes back to life). But every single submission is always with my reply address, with my name, even though it originated at Article Marketer. I suppose it is just like an autoresponder setup. With some directory sites they must have some kind of API submission. Articles have appeared in my profile on some directories even though I had an existing account with a password Article Marketer didn't have the details of. I expect them to support every single major directory soon. There are some technical hurdles such as content duplication of existing articles, but I have seen some of the testing going on by accident They really are worth giving a try, and this little birdie strongly suggests the free trial.
Whats the average number of links to expect per article? I know it might vary somewhat but is it like 5 or 6 or like 50+ per article?
This is where it gets vague As an example I have an article called "Keywords, Ranking & Search Engine Optimization Fun" If you do an exact phrase search on MSN, it shows 392 - if you click to the 2nd page of results, it shows 19! Lots of those results are multiple inclusions on one site in the form of snippets and archives. I am sure some are not shown, because I know loads of high PR sites on google that have that article, and MSN doesn't show it. Yahoo shows 150, on 31 sites, but it changes to 161 pages when you include duplicate results. Now I still get Google alerts for the article Google shows 456 results, though only about 40 are non duplicate. Google blog search only shows 8 sites. The article wasn't optimized for distribution, and I know appears in a lot more locations, a lot depends on how the search engines filter out results. The results vary between search engines - they don't pick up and show the same sites. These are however references to titles, which could just be taken from feeds from various article sites that don't even have the body of the article, and all links point back to the article site. Now this all seems negative, but I can directly relate article traffic to sales, and I am sure I will get some SEO benefit.
I would think that sooner or later G will figure out that links in the last paragraph a BS and devalue them. I would really like to get my hands on a list that allow in body a-text.
the link I mean live-link which is clickable. you can always add link text, which maybe unclickable, but readers can still read it and copy/paste. many sites will automatically get rid of live-link.