A Newbie Question About Article Submitting

by BinBinWu

Posted: 13 years ago 14 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

I wrote several articles about my site. Before I submit the articles to the directories, should I post on my site first? Or It is better to submit without posting on my site. Thanks!

#article #newbiew #question #submitting

monthlykash 13 years ago

You should have the articles on your site first, but it doesn't really matter that much as long as your articles include links back to your site.
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Bane 13 years ago

Wow does this question come up every 6 hours like clockwork

It's almost always best to submit to your own site first!
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- BinBinWu 13 years ago
  
  haha, ok, thank you guys.
  
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  Rikki_Fawkes 13 years ago
  
  Actually, here's another idea:
  
  Write an original article for your website ONLY.
  
  Rewrite the article (either manually or with due diligence in article spinning software) and submit it to the article directories.
  
  This is what I've done so I don't have "duplicate content" on my site.
  
  Now, I know there's tons of posts here about Google not punishing website owners for what seems to be duplicate content, but I like having unique articles on my website just so I look like an authority and not like I distributed my article with reckless abandon (even if I did). In some ways, I think it shows preference to people visiting your website.
  
  Just another method to think about; there's nothing saying it's perfect.
  
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  Haphiza 13 years ago
  
  It is better to have an original article on your site and then make some changes to the article to prevent you having duplicate articles.
  
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danes1 13 years ago

I recommend that you keep the articles as articles and write different content for your site using the appropriate keywords. You don't want the consumer to read an article that is published on a directory and then click the link to your site and see the same content again. Plus its better to have original work on your site for SEO and how the search engines view your site.
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marcuslim 13 years ago

Some directories like ezine articles will reject the article if they find out that it's already posted elsewhere. So for ezine articles, Ryan Deiss recommends putting the articles on ezine first, then after they have been approved, you can then post them on your own site. Although the ideal is not to have any duplicate content at all by rewriting the articles.
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- Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago
  
  Several of the posts above are pretty ill-informed and misguided. And that's putting it really tactfully.
  
  The original question is answered in great detail and with full explanations in the conversation in this fine thread, really well worth reading slowly and carefully. Rarely, if ever before or since, have so many successful article marketing experts posted here, all together in one thread, all saying the same thing. Take notice. Read, mark, learn and inwardly digest!
  
  Originally Posted by timyang
  
  Some directories like ezine articles will reject the article if they find out that it's already posted elsewhere.
  
  Total nonsense.
  
  Like many other professional article marketers, I have about 1,000 articles on Ezine Articles (and many of them are elsewhere, too). All of them had originally been published in identical form on one of my own sites first and indexed there, prior to EZA submission. EZA welcomes, expressly solicits and specifically invites such content. They even have available a Wordpress plug-in for the benefit of people who want to post their articles on their own blog first and then submit them, in identical form, for later publication at EZA. Now, why would they make that available to their authors if they were going to reject the article for being "already posted elsewhere"? :rolleyes:
  
  Originally Posted by timyang
  
  Ryan Deiss recommends putting the articles on ezine first
  
  If that's true, which I doubt, then he needs to get his act together and read this fine thread, in which a huge number of Warriors who are very successful, full-time, professional article marketers will explain to him in great detail and with examples and evidence how deeply misguided that is.
  
  Originally Posted by timyang
  
  Although the ideal is not to have any duplicate content at all by rewriting the articles.
  
  The ideal, if you'll excuse the observation, is to know, before you post advising others, what the difference is between duplicate content and syndicated content.
  
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Mehak 13 years ago

i dont think it matters, end of the day the more backlinks the better
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RunningBear 13 years ago

Yes, you should post the articles to your site first, wait until they are indexed and then submit them to article directories. This is what I have read over and over again on this forum and what I plan to start tomorrow. I just signed up for my first article directory account yesterday.
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- Linx99 13 years ago
  
  As much as I love Ezine (and other article directories), if I write a great article then I want the (Google) credit for it on my site first before I send it into Ezine.
  
  Publish on your site (which you own, control and earn from) first. Then publish and syndicate.
  
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  aduttonater 13 years ago
  
  As long as fresh content is produced as time goes by and more back links to your site are placed in your article and back links from your articles are placed on your site. The more back links you have the merrier.
  
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  gvncerri 13 years ago
  
  but doeasn't the duplicate content penalty worsen your pagerank if you post the same article both in your site and on a bunch of article sites?
  
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  Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by gvncerri
  
  but doeasn't the duplicate content penalty worsen your pagerank if you post the same article both in your site and on a bunch of article sites?
  
  No - and that isn't "duplicate content", anyway: it's "syndicated content". It will help you a lot to read this thread.
  
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