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Automatic directory submission not too good

by incomeguru
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I was told using automatic software to submit article to article directory and to blog directory can harm ones site, simply because search engines will see your site as spamming. Any way out of this than manual submission, as it takes time to submit to all relevant directories.
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  • Profile picture of the author petevamp
    Originally Posted by incomeguru View Post

    I was told using automatic software to submit article to article directory and to blog directory can harm ones site, simply because search engines will see your site as spamming. Any way out of this than manual submission, as it takes time to submit to all relevant directories.
    The reason you get penalized is because when ever you make a post through automatic submissions there is a timestamp as to when the article was submitted. However if you are using the correct article submitter you can stagger your postings. This eliminate the penalization you will receive from google. You need to think of it this way even though it really isn't spam. When ever you post the same piece of content to 100 plus sites in a single day. It now becomes spam and unnatural linking.
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  • Profile picture of the author warriorkay
    It's nothing but a myth, like many of the myths
    floating around today.

    Consider this... if your website suddenly
    gets a mention on Oprah and lots of other
    blogs start talking about it and linking to it
    and others start writing articles and linking
    to it, will this hurt your site? Obviously not,

    And yes, I have loads of experience to back
    this up!

    Kingsley
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    • Profile picture of the author TristanPerry
      Originally Posted by warriorkay View Post

      It's nothing but a myth, like many of the myths
      floating around today.

      Consider this... if your website suddenly
      gets a mention on Oprah and lots of other
      blogs start talking about it and linking to it
      and others start writing articles and linking
      to it, will this hurt your site? Obviously not,

      And yes, I have loads of experience to back
      this up!

      Kingsley
      I'd agree with this.

      Google won't mind if you starting getting loads of backlinks and your content is found on multiple sites.

      Heck, this can happen naturally by submitting an article to (say) EZA, and then it becoming popular and being syndicated by EZA publishers. (Or as Kingsley says, if your content is mentioned by a popular site or person)

      Plus remember that article marketing isn't always about getting backlinks. It can be about getting traffic (through natural clicks on your author links). Hence I doubt that Google would ever say/think "They're submitting to directories. Lets penalize them for link spam" since:

      1) It might not be about getting backlinks. It might be about traffic generation.
      2) As the SEO/backlinking adage goes, if you could get a site penalized using this method, everyone would just backlink their competitors using an automated tool

      In short, I strongly doubt Google would or could ever penalize a site for submitting én massé to article directories.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by warriorkay View Post

      It's nothing but a myth, like many of the myths floating around today.
      Clearly.

      But thanks for injecting a note of much-needed common sense into some of these nonsensical discussions, Kingsley: it's really appreciated.

      Originally Posted by TristanPerry View Post

      In short, I strongly doubt Google would or could ever penalize a site for submitting én massé to article directories.
      Agreed. They certainly wouldn't want to, if you think about it. If this could harm you, it would be the easiest thing in the world to abuse it to disable all your competitors' websites, wouldn't it? That would make a bit of a mockery of Google's search results, which is why common sense predicates that this nonsensical belief is simply part of the "urban myths of internet marketing".
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      • Profile picture of the author warriorkay
        Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

        Clearly.

        But thanks for injecting a note of much-needed common sense into some of these nonsensical discussions, Kingsley: it's really appreciated.
        Thanks Alexa.

        You will be shocked to find that lots of such
        "nonsensical" stuff is what they learned from
        some self-professed gurus,

        So, I don't blame such people. That's why I
        would say kudos to the OP for asking, rather
        than just swallow it in as fact. Many do!


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  • Profile picture of the author Loren Woirhaye
    I agree that it's probably a myth that you will get penalized
    for auto-submits.

    That said, any directory submitter that submits with 1 button
    is submitting to a lot of directories that have a lot of links in
    them.

    The better directories to submit to tend to use Captcha forms and
    other methods to weed-out the spam. So the more you have to
    do to get the submission through, the more likely the directory
    backlink is going to have a higher value in getting you some traffic.

    You still have to do a lot more stuff to get traffic though - you have
    to promote your site in venues real people read... and, usually,
    do it a lot.
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  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    Some other studies have shown that many of the directories on these lists:
    1. Are on the same IP
    2. Accept large numbers of spam listings.

    I think manual submission is always the best way to go.
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  • Profile picture of the author ProvenViral
    Submitting my sites to article directories actually helped my rankings rather than hurt them ... I rather submit to directories than to blog comments - in terms of SEO and traffic article directories work very well if you know how to use them correctly.
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