Article Submissions for SEO Purposes?

roadwarriorhawk · 11-25-2010, 07:54 PM

Does submitting your articles to tens, or even hundreds of article directories really improve your SERPs rankings?

Any tips and advice on the best way to achieve this through article marketing/submissions, or is this a waste of time and am I better off using article directories as a potential source of direct traffic?

Any non-speculative thoughts would be appreciated! Thanks!

alchemyquiz · 11-25-2010, 08:34 PM

it really depends on every article that is being submitted.. Or by the readers that will be interested on reading your article...

Defunct · 11-25-2010, 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by roadwarriorhawk

Does submitting your articles to tens, or even hundreds of article directories really improve your SERPs rankings?

Any tips and advice on the best way to achieve this through article marketing/submissions, or is this a waste of time and am I better off using article directories as a potential source of direct traffic?

Any non-speculative thoughts would be appreciated! Thanks!

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Generally if you submit to 1000s of articles directories, they may never get indexed or be around in a year.

If they accept duplicate content then they will be low quality and if they don't you will have a lot of your spun content rejected anyway.

pethanks · 11-25-2010, 08:47 PM

There is actually a possibility that it will improve the ranking. Many internet marketers also used that technique.

dadamson · 11-25-2010, 09:04 PM

It definitely works, but it must be done right.

Check out the blog Defunct mentions above.

MartinMc · 11-25-2010, 10:54 PM

Article submission is also one of the most effective way to get instant web traffic and you can also get successful on it if you have good list of article sites like ezinearticle.

SGdarling · 11-26-2010, 05:33 AM

Article marketing is widely used for link building.

Shirlyn · 11-26-2010, 06:24 AM

hi, Artical writing is not a waste of time in SEO efforts becasue Google love fresh content if your are able to write. Just wrote a single article per day and post it over every possible article submission site you know by following all their defined protocols. Target one or two keyword in your article related to your website's product or services. Just do a experiment for One month and check it will help you to improve keyword status.

socialbookmark · 11-26-2010, 08:15 AM

I suggest you submit your articles to some ( about 15 ) quality article directories instead of submitting them to hundreds. It helps you more. In my opinion when you submit one article to a lot of directories, Google marks many of them as duplicate copies and they can't help you as much as you expect. So its better to submit them to only quality directories and instead of wasting time for submitting them to hundreds, you consume your time for writing better ones.

DNChamp · 11-26-2010, 08:26 AM

I do it daily for myself and clients. Depending on your niche and also your resource box it can do wonders. many however think the success is overnight and sometimes in a few hours but its not the case. It works over the long haul

theseoguys · 11-26-2010, 11:04 AM

It wouldn't hurt to promote and bookmark your articles too. I assume the articles are linking back to your website?

roadwarriorhawk · 11-27-2010, 10:03 AM

Thanks for all the responses guys.

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Originally Posted by socialbookmark

I suggest you submit your articles to some ( about 15 ) quality article directories instead of submitting them to hundreds. It helps you more. In my opinion when you submit one article to a lot of directories, Google marks many of them as duplicate copies and they can't help you as much as you expect. So its better to submit them to only quality directories and instead of wasting time for submitting them to hundreds, you consume your time for writing better ones.

So there's pretty much no point submitting the same article to hundreds of directories? I think you're right and its probably best to just submit to the higher quality directories. Initially, at least.

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Originally Posted by theseoguys

It wouldn't hurt to promote and bookmark your articles too. I assume the articles are linking back to your website?

Correct, a niche/keyword specific article directly pointing back to my site. Under what circumstances would I not link back to my website, if any?

tdd1984 · 11-27-2010, 10:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by roadwarriorhawk

Does submitting your articles to tens, or even hundreds of article directories really improve your SERPs rankings?

Any tips and advice on the best way to achieve this through article marketing/submissions, or is this a waste of time and am I better off using article directories as a potential source of direct traffic?

Any non-speculative thoughts would be appreciated! Thanks!

Not like it use to, it's basically pointless. Focus on high quality press releases that will create link bait.

thecableguy · 11-27-2010, 11:59 AM

Yeah it does help but it's not going to do magic. If you're doing it by hand you're probably not going to see significant results unless you plan to spend countless hours on it.

I'm using Article Marketing Robot and submitting the same article gets you backlinks, but spinning the articles on the sentence level first the links seem to stick better. If you do decide to go that route you might want to consider writing your article in popular niches (may or may not be related) as you get a better distribution if your niche is small (submit to ezinearticles by hand or you'll probably get automatically rejected).

I use AMR because it's cost effective, it could get your site to the first page, but mostly to see if I can get the site into striking range and see if it'll be worthwhile to pursue paying for backlinking. Seems to be more effective on Yahoo than Google.

BTW I wouldn't bother submitting to more than a few of the top article directories, you won't see any significant TRAFFIC from the lesser directories. Even with the top directories you probably won't see to much traffic directly from the directory itself for any individual article. However the article could get syndicated (I usually hand submit to ezinearticles, articlesbase and goarticles if I don't receive immediate email confirmation from them)

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