Posting articles onsite vs off

[minion]

I have a few quick questions, hopefully somebody has a few quick answers.

I regularly post articles on my Wordpress site, and then bookmark them at a few social sites. How effective is this vs offsite article submission?

I would much rather someone came to my site to view the article, so what's the advantage of posting an off-site article (besides SEO)?

With the huge number of article directories around, should I be trying to submit to all of them, or focus on a few? (I do not want to spin)

[Joe Robinson]

You have your mindset completely correct. You want those people coming to your site, and possible navigating to other pages on your site. On an article directory they will probably just click off onto some other random person's article. At least on your own page you give yourself the best shot of retaining them for a while.

[minion]

Thanks for that - it's good to know I'm not heading down the wrong path here. What's the best way to expose articles? I've tried social bookmarking, and it's worked a little (ie: 1 or 2 visitors) but they usually bounce.

I guess I just need to keep posting, and hope something I write will be good enough to go viral.

Thanks

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by minion

With the huge number of article directories around, should I be trying to submit to all of them, or focus on a few? (I do not want to spin)

No, certainly not spinning.

One or two article directories, really. (I always use Ezine Articles, and then either GoArticles or ArticlesBase as an addition, according to the niche. You could use all three, if you want, of course. I always submit last to Ezine Articles, nowadays, but you can do them in any order you like).

As this little thread will confirm to you (I hope!), you're looking at this exactly correctly.

[minion]

Thanks for the replies - Definitely very helpful.
I guess I should have done a little more searching before posting this thread

[Leslyaviel]

From a 2% Earner To You!

Do not and I repeat, Do not just write random articles hoping to bring traffic to your site. The Key is in Keyword Research. Once you have mastered this skill, you want to post on the best article marketing site. Don't overwhelm yourself in submitting articles to all of them. I use Ezine Articles and it works. Alexa Smith above has the right idea. Do not spin your articles. It is better to outsource them if you have to. Create valuable content in your articles that draw people to clicking on your resource box. This will generate traffic for you for many years to come.

This does take patients but imagine if you wrote 1000 articles using "golden nugget keywords"; you would be earning from things you did 5+ years later.

[Mike Anderson]

I use articles + social bookmarking and always receive a lot of traffic, mainly from Facebook.

[Ruby Tyagi]

I am also working as a Content Writer for past few years and submit my articles usually to the following directories:

free-online-articles
articlesnatch
goarticles
ezinearticles
articleblast
and, articlerich

[RachellGrace]

I only use ezinearticles, because of its high PR

[dows]

Originally Posted by Mike Anderson

I use articles + social bookmarking and always receive a lot of traffic, mainly from Facebook.

dude,whats the connection to facebook ? soc.bookmarking? ololo

place your articles on relative blogs with good pr.do you have partners among bloggers ? if no - find them,cooperate

[paulgl]

Originally Posted by dows

dude,whats the connection to facebook ? soc.bookmarking? ololo

place your articles on relative blogs with good pr.do you have partners among bloggers ? if no - find them,cooperate

You're right. The comment makes absolutely no sense.

No reason to give your best stuff away to article sites. If anything,
send them a bare-bones summary like most of the drivel on a
lot of those "article" sites.

I remember way back I was looking for free content, not knowing any
better. Tried to find anything worth a dang on EZA. Just sifted through
the rot and decided I could do better. I even sent my articles
to EZA., stayed around, got the coffee mug, then realized I'm
wasting my time on them. I'm sure some people still get some rise
out of EZA, but I'm done with my article submission days. Now I
either do more blog posts or create a squidoo lens. Completely
ditched article marketing. Oh sure, if I have exhausted every
other thing I could be doing....who knows? But I have yet to
be at a point in the day where I can't think of something better...

Paul