Submitting someone else’s articles

Discussion in 'Copywriting' started by swamprat27, Feb 9, 2009.

  1. #1
    Hello all
    Im knew to the website creation, and promotion. I’ve heard a lot about submitting articles to sites, to drive traffic to websites. My question is, how many sites do you normally submit to, and if you could recommend any sites. Another question I have is, can I submit someone elses articles that I have on my site to article sites, giving them full credit of course, and have the article linked back to my site

    Thanks for any insite
     
    swamprat27, Feb 9, 2009 IP
  2. Karen May Jones

    Karen May Jones Prominent Member

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    You want to submit user content from your site to what kind of other sites? Bookmarking? That'd be fine :)

    I use stumble upon for a few different types of things, but mostly for blog contests I find on the internet. You may find a great amount of likable topics at stumbleupon.com.

    Also, there's digg.com, technorati (I like a lot of their content), and recently I've been hearing a lot of talk about SQid :p
     
    Karen May Jones, Feb 10, 2009 IP
  3. mspennylane

    mspennylane Active Member

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    If you are going to submit articles written by other people this all depends on the rights you have to the article. They may have given you the right to do what you want with their work, meaning submitting with credit will be fine. But if they only gave you permission to publish their article on your site then a friendly email to them could be the way forward, just to get their permission.
     
    mspennylane, Feb 11, 2009 IP
  4. sandivalentine

    sandivalentine Member

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    Article submission is generally used to build backlinks or promote affiliate products, depending on the Terms of Service of the directory.

    The most popular site for this is www.ezinearticles.com - it's free to submit, and they rank pretty well in the search engines. Some good keyword research and a narrow niche, and you can get some really decent rankings with this method. However, they don't accept PLR, and you must own the rights to the articles you're submitting.

    HTH
     
    sandivalentine, Feb 11, 2009 IP
  5. Andrew Dupp

    Andrew Dupp Peon

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    Stumble and Digg are great but they don't bring target traffic
     
    Andrew Dupp, Feb 12, 2009 IP
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    I usually use the ff:
    1. EzineArticles
    2. GoArticles
    3. ArticleDashboard

    It's better if the article is yours or if you are given the right to submit it. Hope this helps! :)
     
    blazinrachel, Feb 18, 2009 IP
  7. Joshua Creighton

    Joshua Creighton Peon

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    A problem that you could run into by submitting someone else's article is the duplicate content rule on most article submission sites. I'm pretty sure that places like EzineArticles will only allow articles that have never been posted to be submitted. It would probably be best if you could write some original articles of your own or outsource some topics to an article writer who'll let you have complete rights to them.

    Just make sure that you have the rights to submit whatever you're submitting at all times.
     
    Joshua Creighton, Feb 21, 2009 IP
  8. ladyofthehour

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    For site submission, Ezine Articles is the best.

    As far as submitting other people's articles, generally this is a no-no unless you own exclusive rights. And in that case the article is yours, so you're free to do what you want.

    However, a word of caution. Make sure you buy content off of sites where you know for a fact you have sole rights, (like Daily Article, Constant Content, etc.). Otherwise, you're buying plr content, which gives rights to anyone who buys it. And, if they've already posted the content, you'll lose your SEO advantage. That's why most Internet marketers suggest rewriting PLR articles, if you do decide to buy them.
     
    ladyofthehour, Feb 21, 2009 IP
  9. dietcola

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    Hmmm.. ya. i think sandivalentine hit the nail on the head... it depends on what your really trying to do, but never duplicate content, if your have the article on your site that is good enough... write an article about the article on your site and submit that to enzine or as blazinrachel said

    1.EzineArticles
    2. GoArticles
    3. ArticleDashboard

    with the link to your webiste.... this way -more content with more links in it...

    these kind of distribution sites vary in their benefits - as will your articles... but you see what im saying about duplicate content... dont bother... just doulbe your conetnt

    its tricky at first but easy once u get going...

    peace

    DCx
     
    dietcola, Feb 21, 2009 IP
  10. parsibagan

    parsibagan Active Member

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    I have submitted a few articles on ezine. However, I have not used the benefits of links in the resource box. I guess it's high time that I did so. Any feedback on the same would be appreciated. :)
     
    parsibagan, Feb 21, 2009 IP
  11. DGS

    DGS Banned

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    Original articles work best, and ezines is one of the best article directories available. It is correct that they do not like content which is published elsewhere, so dup content may be an issue for you. Possibly rewrite or amend to make it look different but keep the overall theme.
     
    DGS, Mar 16, 2009 IP
  12. mickn

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    I usually submit to 30 top article directories only. Submitting to more
    is usually not worth the time (even when I use software to automate
    this). Submitting to MUCH MORE directories seems to do more bad than
    good.

    I've spent a lot of time to make a list of top article directories.
    Here it is:
    http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1269570
     
    mickn, Mar 18, 2009 IP
  13. Karen May Jones

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    That's kind of funny because once it is published on their site it has a chance of being duplicated millions of times :p
     
    Karen May Jones, Mar 18, 2009 IP