Bookmarking your Marketing Articles

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Really simple question - do you recommend bookmarking the articles you put up on ezine and other top article directores?

My instict would be not to bother doing this because the high authority status of these directories means that indexing the submitted articles will not be a problem and also no significant link juice boost is gained anyway (by bookmarking) from the resource box link that goes to your site.

Im only starting out in article marketing and think this is a worthwhile point to bring up

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  • Profile picture of the author Mangozoom
    I do it with some of my articles and the results have been amazing.

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  • Profile picture of the author Marc Meole
    I do...it's really not that much extra work and you can use all the backlinks you can get.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by pupkevicius@aol.com View Post

    Really simple question - do you recommend bookmarking the articles you put up on ezine and other top article directores?
    No, I recommend not doing that at all. I used to do it at one time but have now learned better, and bookmark only the ones on my own sites.

    Not because it's "unnecessary", but because in spite of the potential shorter-term traffic gain, it can really limit and possibly even damage your business in the longer term.

    It's a way of generating traffic from backlinking work and sending it to someone else's site. I want to deveop my sites, not other people's.

    It's easy to imagine, if you build backlinks to copies of your articles at Ezine Articles, for instance, that you're "getting a lot of traffic from EZA". But in the long run, you're really not: what you're actually doing is sending a lot of traffic there, which you could have sent to your own site instead, and getting only some of it back - losing a good proportion of it to EZA's AdSense (which is of course how they make a living and what they're there for).

    It's really about "how you use article directories". You might be well advised make sure you use to them to get traffic to your site from them, and not to send traffic that you yourself are generating with your backlinking efforts to them. In the long run, every backlink you create to an article directory actually makes it potentially harder and less likely for your own site to be built up into an authority site, because you'll gradually be ensuring that article directories (who may have some "SEO start" over your site anyway?) will always outrank your own site for your own keywords.

    It's one of those questions in internet marketing (there are others!) about which, if you ask two different groups of people, namely "people trying article marketing" and "people making a good living from article marketing", you'll typically find two very different consensuses of opinion.

    There is a short-term benefit to doing this, of course, which is why it leads so many people astray. The further you fall into the trap of the short-term benefit, the more you potentially damage your own site's long-term, future SEO prospects. And you end up with one of those "rinse and repeat" businesses instead of one based on gradually increasing residual income.

    Originally Posted by pupkevicius@aol.com View Post

    Im only starting out in article marketing and think this is a worthwhile point to bring up
    It's enormously worthwhile. But bear in mind that in a field of endeavour with quite a high fail-rate, sometimes the "consensus view" may not be too reliable.

    When you have time for a long, informative, educational read, you'll find a lot of the incidental conversation in this fine thread really helpful. Good luck!
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    • Profile picture of the author adionline
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      No, I recommend not doing that at all. I used to do it at one time but have now learned better, and bookmark only the ones on my own sites.

      Not because it's "unnecessary", but because in spite of the potential shorter-term traffic gain, it can really limit and possibly even damage your business in the longer term.

      It's a way of generating traffic from backlinking work and sending it to someone else's site. I want to deveop my sites, not other people's.

      It's easy to imagine, if you build backlinks to copies of your articles at Ezine Articles, for instance, that you're "getting a lot of traffic from EZA". But in the long run, you're really not: what you're actually doing is sending a lot of traffic there, which you could have sent to your own site instead, and getting only some of it back - losing a good proportion of it to EZA's AdSense (which is of course how they make a living and what they're there for).

      It's really about "how you use article directories". You might be well advised make sure you use to them to get traffic to your site from them, and not to send traffic that you yourself are generating with your backlinking efforts to them. In the long run, every backlink you create to an article directory actually makes it potentially harder and less likely for your own site to be built up into an authority site, because you'll gradually be ensuring that article directories (who may have some "SEO start" over your site anyway?) will always outrank your own site for your own keywords.

      It's one of those questions in internet marketing (there are others!) about which, if you ask two different groups of people, namely "people trying article marketing" and "people making a good living from article marketing", you'll typically find two very different consensuses of opinion.

      There is a short-term benefit to doing this, of course, which is why it leads so many people astray. The further you fall into the trap of the short-term benefit, the more you potentially damage your own site's long-term, future SEO prospects. And you end up with one of those "rinse and repeat" businesses instead of one based on gradually increasing residual income.



      It's enormously worthwhile. But bear in mind that in a field of endeavour with quite a high fail-rate, sometimes the "consensus view" may not be too reliable.

      When you have time for a long, informative, educational read, you'll find a lot of the incidental conversation in this fine thread really helpful. Good luck!
      I guess I'll be the first to say that you have an irrational fear of article directories almost to the point of misguided hatred (I can pull like 400 posts of you bashing article sites). Promoting your articles on article directories is NOT a bad idea, you still reap benefits. It is NOT going to destroy your online presence or business. The article directories WON'T always outrank your site, and even if they do in the short term (only when your authority site is brand new) they will be providing you a backlink and traffic via your author box until your site gains enough traction to (EASILY) overtake your article on a directory site (which will mean you have additional presence in the serps).

      Of course if you have an established site and you just wrote the best piece of content then you want to make sure it goes up on your blog and not on a directory site, this is a no-brainer, but if you don't have that presence and your not even sure if your niche has potential then directories are an excellent way to see how competitive and profitable a niche is, and there is no reason why you can't do both to dominate the serps(build a site/blog and do article directories to gain additional rankings) in the same space.

      Article directories are also quick and painless. No domain required, no hosting costs, not easy to get penalized, no early handicaps (like with new sites).

      I honestly think you're taking it a bit far and actually hurting your own growth by removing article directories from your marketing efforts.

      To answer the original question: Yes, bookmark your articles, it's easy and gives you a boost. Just because your article is ranking well doesn't mean your own site/business is doomed.
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by adionline View Post

        I guess I'll be the first to say that you have an irrational fear of article directories almost to the point of misguided hatred (I can pull like 400 posts of you bashing article sites).
        I guess you'll be not only the first but the last and the only, too. "Bashing"? "Misguided hatred"?! I'm an article marketer. I submit to article directories every day of my life. That's part of how I make a living. I do hope that's ok with you.
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        • Profile picture of the author adionline
          All I am saying is every time I read something about article directories I find a dooms-day scenario post from you about why you shouldn't be promoting anything on a directory site, which I personally think (no offense) is a bit misleading. Don't get me wrong some points you make are valid (to a degree) but sometimes it just comes across a bit one sided.
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          • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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            Originally Posted by adionline View Post

            All I am saying is ...
            One could be forgiven, I think, for imagining that you were actually saying considerably more than that, because I could have sworn I saw the words "bashing" and "misguided hatred" in there somewhere? Oh well, maybe I was just hallucinating. :rolleyes:

            Originally Posted by adionline View Post

            Don't get me wrong some points you make are valid (to a degree) but sometimes it just comes across a bit one sided.
            Don't worry: I won't get you wrong.
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  • Profile picture of the author DNChamp
    simple answer...yes....each will have a diffrent view of course.
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