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Am I overdoing it?

by Motiv8td
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I've got an offline business in Real Estate.

I've recently decided to dominate the local market on the web to drive more traffic to my business.

I've set up a website(currently still being built) and have hired some guns here on WF to write web content for me.

I've also got about 6 others(hopefully 8 by the end of this day) to write articles for me that are all going to be posted on EZA. I think having so many different writing styles and writers all writing about the same offline niche will be a great tool for driving traffic(or at least I hope)

My question is, am I doing to much? by the time I get all these articles back to submit to EZA I'll be close to 150 articles just for EZA.

Should I break up a few and submit them to say, Squidoo, GoArticles, Hubpages etc... or if I was willing could I benefit for doing the same thing(having so many articles written) for just Squidoo, GoArticles and Hubpages and creating a huge linking wheel among all of them and my site?

I'd be interested in Hubpages just because of the Adsense possibilities but at what point am I really overly doing it?


Thanks in advance
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  • Profile picture of the author Peter Adamson
    Make it look natural. It would probably be better to spread your 150 articles over the leading article sites rather than all on EZA. You could perhaps post shorter articles as blog/content posts on squidoo, hubpages, blogger, wordpress etc. These should be drip-fed one a day. The only overdoing I can see is to have absolutely no visibility one day, 150 articles and loads of other stuff the next day, and then no new stuff at all for a month. Make your content appear progressively as you would normally expect to happen.

    My 2c worth... ;^)
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  • Profile picture of the author Motiv8td
    Thanks Peter for your input.

    I do agree and plan on submitting articles progressively.

    I was also considering having the articles rewritten in short terms and link to the longer ones as well progressively.

    again, thanks for your input!
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  • Profile picture of the author megaresp
    Originally Posted by Motiv8td View Post

    I'll be close to 150 articles just for EZA. Should I break up a few and submit them to say, Squidoo, GoArticles, Hubpages etc...
    Yes, you definitely should.

    It's not that you're over doing it (virtually impossible on the web), just not following the best strategy.

    As a general rule of thumb, go wide and deep. Get unique content onto lots of sites, then more unique content onto those same sites.

    Thank about how to build PageRank for at least some of this external content.

    Resources such as Squidoo make it possible to have a page external to your site that coordinates a series of related content. You can work on building it's popularity, and then allow the link juice to flow out to the content it links to. I like to think of it as a virtuous SEO circle. Add in contextual links and content sharing - and somebody with your resources really could dominate a local sector.
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  • Profile picture of the author SMS
    Hi Motiv8td,

    I would submit your articles to EZA first... not all at the same time. Maybe 10-20 a week. When they are approved, submit to HubPages who are also quite strict. 2 days after submitting to HubPages, I would then send the article out to other places.

    For maximum link juice, try creating a kinda link wheel ala lemonarian. You can also bookmark each article.

    I would also spin the articles slightly after submitting to EZA, but you don't have to go overboard. With spinning, you can easily turn 150 articles into 1,500 (albeit not 100% unique) articles.

    Basically, there's no purrfick answer, although some people will tell you their way is the best (or even only) way.

    Good luck.

    Originally Posted by Motiv8td View Post

    I've got an offline business in Real Estate.

    I've recently decided to dominate the local market on the web to drive more traffic to my business.

    I've set up a website(currently still being built) and have hired some guns here on WF to write web content for me.

    I've also got about 6 others(hopefully 8 by the end of this day) to write articles for me that are all going to be posted on EZA. I think having so many different writing styles and writers all writing about the same offline niche will be a great tool for driving traffic(or at least I hope)

    My question is, am I doing to much? by the time I get all these articles back to submit to EZA I'll be close to 150 articles just for EZA.

    Should I break up a few and submit them to say, Squidoo, GoArticles, Hubpages etc... or if I was willing could I benefit for doing the same thing(having so many articles written) for just Squidoo, GoArticles and Hubpages and creating a huge linking wheel among all of them and my site?

    I'd be interested in Hubpages just because of the Adsense possibilities but at what point am I really overly doing it?


    Thanks in advance
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    • Profile picture of the author Motiv8td
      Originally Posted by SMS View Post

      Hi Motiv8td,

      I would submit your articles to EZA first... not all at the same time. Maybe 10-20 a week. When they are approved, submit to HubPages who are also quite strict. 2 days after submitting to HubPages, I would then send the article out to other places.

      For maximum link juice, try creating a kinda link wheel ala lemonarian. You can also bookmark each article.

      I would also spin the articles slightly after submitting to EZA, but you don't have to go overboard. With spinning, you can easily turn 150 articles into 1,500 (albeit not 100% unique) articles.

      Basically, there's no purrfick answer, although some people will tell you their way is the best (or even only) way.

      Good luck.
      Are you suggesting submitting the same articles? is it ok to submit the same articles to multiple directories?

      I was under the assumption that you don't want duplicate content even with articles on the web. So I was not wanting to post the same article to EZA that I posted to Hubpages or vice versa.
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      • Profile picture of the author SMS
        Great Question...

        If you read my report about Duplicate Content (in my signature), you'll be able to draw your own conclusion and not go by what some 'expert' tells you.

        In any case, spinning the articles will also help.

        Originally Posted by Motiv8td View Post

        Are you suggesting submitting the same articles? is it ok to submit the same articles to multiple directories?

        I was under the assumption that you don't want duplicate content even with articles on the web. So I was not wanting to post the same article to EZA that I posted to Hubpages or vice versa.
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  • Profile picture of the author MeCanX
    Yeah, don't scatter gun blast all them articles...get them up slowly and consistently on average what works for me is at most 9 - 1 a day...
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  • Profile picture of the author santhana
    MecanX you are right. I used to throw 50 or 100 a time to EZ, and it ended up all those article doesn't get much views, if comparing to slowly submit
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  • Profile picture of the author Motiv8td
    I think I'll spin the articles. I personally wouldn't feel comfortable throwing up exact duplicate all over the web.
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    • Profile picture of the author SMS
      I think that's a very sensible approach. The great thing is that you came to that decision all by yourself.

      Originally Posted by Motiv8td View Post

      I think I'll spin the articles. I personally wouldn't feel comfortable throwing up exact duplicate all over the web.
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  • Profile picture of the author MeCanX
    Spinning always helps for sure...If in doubt...Spin! LOL
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