Important Questions About Article Writing and Article Submission Please!

I just bought Magic Article Rewriter and Magic Article Submitter but am unclear about some of the tactics used for article writing and submission, so I would really appreciate your input to these questions please...

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1) What percentage of your traffic is from people clicking a link in your articles resource box as opposed to organic search engine traffic gained from having back links as a result of the articles you submitted to directories?

Depends what you want. You can accomplish both, but I generally use spinable articles solely for backlinks from article directories and 3rd party sites. These get some traffic, but that's not really their purpose. I outsource these.

The other type of article I will personally write (not my freelancers) and then promote aggressively for the purpose of clickthroughs/traffic for a fairly competitive term.

You can't gauge traffic from backlinks, it depends on the search traffic of the term(s) you're targeting and your position in the serps.

2) Is the subject matter of the articles you submit to article directories ALWAYS related to the subject matter of the site you are linking back to in your resource box? For example: If you have a site about womens shoes, would the articles you submit to the article directories ALWAYS be on the subject of womens shoes? Or do you submit easy to write articles about subjects totally unrelated to the subject matter of your site because your only interest is to get the back link and to hell with trying to get click-throughs from your article resource box?

My articles are always on topic.

3) There is a Warrior that teaches you to ONLY write about subjects you are interested in because its far easier to write articles about subjects you are interested in than writing about boring topics that you have no interest in (like womens shoes for example). So what do you think about the concept of writing articles that are totally UNRELATED to the subject matter of the site you are linking to?

Xfactor? Yeah, if I had to write my articles myself for backlinks I might go that route, too. But I don't, so mine are on topic

4) If you were going to submit your article to 500 article directories, do you take one article and spin it in MAR to pop out 500 versions and then submit each spun version to each of the 500 directories? Or do you do anything different for the articles you submit to the top 10 directories like these:
1. ezinearticles.com
2. ArticlesBase.com
3. goarticles.com
4. articlecity.com
5. searchwarp.com
6. articlealley.com
7. buzzle.com
8. articleset.com
9. articlesnatch.com
10. articledashboard.com

If you're using the Magic Submitter you just copy and paste the spun version in there and it will take care of it for you.

You can then use a tool like AAS to submit to the more major article directories as you've listed above (Automatic Article Submitter) and copy in your seed article as you did for MAS.

If you had to choose between the two for some reason, AAS has a far better list of article directories.

5) And IF you do something different with the articles you submit to those top 10, then what is it that you do differently than the other 490 article directories?

Nothing different, but I REALLY REWRITE my articles, phrases, sentences, everything, not just the synonym deal.

6) Are you concerned about getting sandboxed by Google for gaining back links too quickly? If so; what is the maximum amount of articles and directories you will submit to per day?

For a New Site 10 - 20 a day works well for me. They don't all get accepted/posted at the same time, nor indexed. Just don't post 50 a day for 8 days and stop... that'll throw up some flags.

Also, when a site of mine gets sandboxed I will continue to nail it with backlinks, even more aggressively b/c when it comes out of the box BOOM, NICE LISTING!!!

7) Do you ALWAYS change the keywords and anchor text in your resource box for each directory you submit to?

Depends what you're doing. I usually put two links in there and rotate them for my hompage and sub pages. Sometimes I promote two different sites with one article.

8) If you know of a source (a site or ebook?) where I can find up-to-date answers to these questions then I would appreciate you letting me know.

Hopefully, I answered them as well as the young lady above. Don't stress so much. Just take action everyday and questions like these will fade away and you'll be confident in your day-2-day.

Thank you very much.
Steve

Best of luck, bud

I think the best thing you can do is just get out there and start promoting. You've already got the software so you can get your stuff out there. I would suggest trying things a few different ways, and studying the results.

Sometimes people say one thing, and the opposite is true for your experience in your niche. The real secret is finding what works and then building on that.

Matt