Can someone clear my doubts?

[sulmaanaslam]

I hear from people who are doing article marketing that they submit their articles to low tier directories after they've submitted their articles to the top 3-5 article directories

But one thing always confuses my what is the theory behind it? Because i'd rather write one seo optimized reader friendly article and build links on it instead of submitting 20-30 articles which wont rank higher.


Lets say even if i submit my article to all other low tier directories will it do any good to me in terms of traffic?

[bfas]

Depending on your focus, people tend to use article marketing either to generate backlinks, or to generate click-throughs.

Those who are looking primarily for backlinks tend to favor quantity over quality, and as such tend to product lower-grade articles and submit them to as many places as possible.

Those who look primarily for click-throughs tend to focus more on quality, readibility, and optimization, and generally submit to one or a select few directories.

The purpose of generating backlinks is to boost the SERPs ranking of their target site. For that purpose, the more backlinks the better. For that purpose, readibility and quality aren't that important.

bfas

[sulmaanaslam]

Thanks for the reply

But my newly accepted articles will have 0 PR what good will it do to my SERP's?

[paulgl]

Originally Posted by sulmaanaslam

Thanks for the reply

But my newly accepted articles will have 0 PR what good will it do to my SERP's?

Actually, it probably will be PR n/a.

Instead of article marketing, create an authority site with your own articles.

Paul

[Shaunman]

But my newly accepted articles will have 0 PR what good will it do to my SERP's?

PR 0 sites will still count in SE. Haven't you heard? the internet is more complicated then what PR a site/page has.

There are three problems with just submiting to the top 10 directories. The first is that your links are always on the same sites, so you don't get any diversity from different sites.

The second is that backlinks from the same site starts to lose their influence after a while. Link #1 will be really strong link #99 will be really weak and so on.

Third what happens if Ezinearticles shuts down or removes all of your links? I hear that if you have a broken link they will contact you and tell you about it, if you don't respond they will delete your articles/links thinking that your site is dead. That is just a rumor that I heard though, but it makes sense.

Submiting to a bunch of sites solves all of these problems.

[sambakker]

Originally Posted by Shaunman

PR 0 sites will still count in SE. Haven't you heard? the internet is more complicated then what PR a site/page has.

There are three problems with just submiting to the top 10 directories. The first is that your links are always on the same sites, so you don't get any diversity from different sites.

The second is that backlinks from the same site starts to lose their influence after a while. Link #1 will be really strong link #99 will be really weak and so on.

Third what happens if Ezinearticles shuts down or removes all of your links? I hear that if you have a broken link they will contact you and tell you about it, if you don't respond they will delete your articles/links thinking that your site is dead. That is just a rumor that I heard though, but it makes sense.

Submiting to a bunch of sites solves all of these problems.

Ezine has done this with me before. My account got disabled and I had to claim it back off them. Was quite a process, would not recommend leaving articles with dead links on ezine articles...