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Article Marketing Warriors - Do You Create Links To Your Articles?

by Allen Graves
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Please be honest, I am trying to get an idea of how many of you actually do create links to your articles.

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  • Profile picture of the author getsmartt
    I link to articles mainly from other articles, Squidoo, or Hub pages. Occasionally using social bookmark links.
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    • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
      I voted for 'rarely'. I focus most of my backlinking efforts on my own sites BUT if an article was ranked on page 2 (or low on page 1) of Google, and it was for a phrase that I knew would get me alot of traffic then I would do some backlinking. Generally I would just social bookmark the article and maybe link to it from some of my own sites and lenses.
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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    Hamida,

    I chose "Almost Always" because that's what I do now. But I used to do the exact same thing you said above...it surely doesn't hurt!

    Thanks,
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  • Profile picture of the author Louis Raven
    NEVER!

    Why link to an article that will "hopefully send a visitor" to your site when you can just link straight to your site?

    It doesn't hurt but if you've got 1 stumble left (not that they limit) I'd use it on my site

    Louis
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
      The only time I will do it is if I am sending somebody to an article from a
      video. I'll never do it from one of my "final" destinations because that's where
      I want the person to end up. I don't want him going away from the site.

      Yes, there are exceptions, but they are rare.
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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    Why not both? What if that article can rank higher than your website does? Happens a lot. I'd rather my site AND one of my articles (maybe multiple articles) on the first page of Google rather than just my site alone.

    Of course, I get all whacked out and crazy about it and don't stop until I get those kind of results. The average AMer may not be as persistent.

    AL
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    • Profile picture of the author Angela V. Edwards
      Originally Posted by Allen Graves View Post

      Why not both? What if that article can rank higher than your website does? Happens a lot. I'd rather my site AND one of my articles (maybe multiple articles) on the first page of Google rather than just my site alone.

      Of course, I get all whacked out and crazy about it and don't stop until I get those kind of results. The average AMer may not be as persistent.

      AL
      Exactly. Articles from High PR article directories often can rank MUCH better than your site can. After all, these article directories have THOUSANDS of backlinks already; it would take us years to get our sites the same amount of backlinks. My own article is number 20 out of 11.1 MILLION; my site is way too new to compete in an arena like that. But the article directories with the right backlinks to your articles sure can.

      Besides, your article can "pre-sell" for your site; it can warm up your readers to buy what you are selling. There are many great reasons to do a backlink campaign to your article. If people buy what you are selling, who cares if they came through your article first?
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    • Profile picture of the author Louis Raven
      Originally Posted by Allen Graves View Post

      Why not both? What if that article can rank higher than your website does? Happens a lot. I'd rather my site AND one of my articles (maybe multiple articles) on the first page of Google rather than just my site alone.

      Of course, I get all whacked out and crazy about it and don't stop until I get those kind of results. The average AMer may not be as persistent.

      AL
      Exactly, the directories don't need that link love.

      Plus articles are temporary but your site is for life. It's like affiliate products.. You can only build someones business for them for so long until you decide you want people doing it for YOU.

      As I said doing both causes no harm but if I had to make a choice it would be my site.

      How are you Allen anyway?

      Louis
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      • Profile picture of the author Jeremy Kelsall
        Louis, that is where you are wrong, in my opinion anyway

        Building links to your articles can ensure that you not only hold one position on the front page of Google, but several, which brings you even more traffic. More importantly, it brings you the visitor that went to one of your pages, hit backspace, and then lands on your article as well.

        It's all about giving the search engines what they want. If you have your own site that is on the 50th page of google for your keywords, but an article that is on page 3, why wouldn't you give it a little love and get yourself on the first page?

        Originally Posted by Louis Raven View Post

        Exactly, the directories don't need that link love.

        Plus articles are temporary but your site is for life. It's like affiliate products.. You can only build someones business for them for so long until you decide you want people doing it for YOU.

        As I said doing both causes no harm but if I had to make a choice it would be my site.

        How are you Allen anyway?

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  • Profile picture of the author maverick8
    i do, but only to a select few. like articles that are converting way above average. and for keywords that are highly searched for and are competitive. it works for me i have many articles that have 1000's of views each and will continue to get views because of the linking power going towards them.
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  • Profile picture of the author trippmarxx
    I almost always build links to my articles. It doesn't take up too much time to do it with the methods that I use. In the end, it's definitely worth it, and does make a difference in the search engines.
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    • Profile picture of the author zerofill
      Jeremy will tell you that from testing we have done you should be building backlinks to your articles...

      You at first sit there and go yeah...why should I give EZA or any other directory for that matter all that traffic.

      The reason why is because you can literally build a large chunk of income from one article. If you haven't researched the number of backlinks into top viewed articles...you may want to hehe...

      I've literally sat here and watched 1 article produce over 25k views within 2 weeks... Jeremy knows which one...because we have scoped it out looking to make a kill LOL...

      But I can guarantee you that the niche this article is in that guy is producing MASSIVE revenue from that article.

      I hate article marketing I will be the first to say it...I didn't even care about it until about 3 months ago...now I am studying it to death because of all the things it gives me to test...

      So I let Jeremy do the writing and I do the traffic testing and different types of strategies we are testing...

      I'm telling you that what I have looked at over the last 3 months there is no doubt what-so-ever you should be building backlinks to your best articles.

      Some of what you have to think about is a very good seo tactic for linking strategies on a website...

      When you use a good strategy you link related content on your site to other related content....

      EZA and other article directories use this same technique. You will notice under your article there are links to most published, most viewed, etc...

      This is an SEO tactic they are using to link related content...

      Because of the age of the domain, the trust it has with search engines, and because of the linking strategy used...YOu will often find you can rank that article on the first page of google faster then you can your own site and it will stay there...

      This is an awesome topic Allen glad you brought it up...we have been studying and testing this stuff to DEATH! hehe...
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  • Profile picture of the author Debhsmomof4
    I always post links to my articles. The more views my article has, the higher up it gets pushed. A good article with a good bio box = high click-thru rate. I think it's just one more way to get more traffic.

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  • Profile picture of the author cclou
    When I first started out, never. Now, almost always. So, an average would be rarely, but I voted for my current strategy in the poll.
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  • Profile picture of the author melanied
    I have to say, even as a marketer and someone that knows the tricks, if I see an article, a video, and page from someone's site all on the first page, there is something inside of me that says, "Wow, they really know what they're talking about." And I have this reaction despite the fact that I know how to get those listings, too! Imagine the impact on the casual information hunter.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jeremy Kelsall
      You are exactly right....

      When I am targeting a keyword that is attainable because it is only moderately competitive, you better believe I'm trying to rank my site along with the following all on the first page.

      ezinearticles
      goarticles
      squidoo
      hubpages
      blogger

      The average Joe that is looking for a solution to his acne problem sees your name on everything he clicks on...who else is he going to buy from?

      Some people might think that it takes a ton of time to build links to articles, but in reality it really doesn't. Here are a couple of things that don't take much time and can really give your articles a kick in the ass fairly quickly.

      1. Social Bookmarking
      2. Rss Feeds
      3. Create Squidoo and other pages as shells for your article links

      The key for me really is to not build links to every single article, but to keep an eye on how my articles are doing in the serps. If my article hits page 5 or better, that article is definitely getting a little bit of TLC.

      As marketers, we need to take every ethical advantage that we can get and this is one that is easily accomplished with very little technical knowledge.



      Originally Posted by melanied View Post

      I have to say, even as a marketer and someone that knows the tricks, if I see an article, a video, and page from someone's site all on the first page, there is something inside of me that says, "Wow, they really know what they're talking about." And I have this reaction despite the fact that I know how to get those listings, too! Imagine the impact on the casual information hunter.
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  • Profile picture of the author angela99
    I've never thought about it, but I voted Rarely... There wasn't an "it depends" option.

    I've linked to articles which others were already linking to, because they found the article useful for whatever reason. Linking to it myself gives the article an extra boost.

    Usually however for products I'll just write another article, unless I'm trying to boost a site's rankings.

    So... it depends. :-)

    Cheers

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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    I'm good Louis, hope you are doing well too.

    Thanks for all the comments. As Zerofill said, this is an interesting topic...one that some can take and run with, while most others will let fade away.

    I am actually surprised at the poll results so far. I was expecting more to be on the side of "never" - but, of course, there are many AMers here and only a few votes.

    Keep the comments coming, I love getting everyones ideas (no matter which side you're on) about this topic.

    AL
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  • Profile picture of the author Mary Gallivan
    Hi

    I always link to related articles.

    I'm still a bit confused about backlinks - for each article I submit to EA I link back to 2 related articles on my blog. Do each of these links count as backlinks and are they the same as external links for Google webmaster tools?

    Mary
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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    Mary, yes. They are considered backlinks and they do help you in regards to SEO. They should also show in Google's Tools.

    But in this thread I am referring to creating links to articles ON THE ARTICLE DIRECTORY...not to your own site.

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  • Profile picture of the author Mary Gallivan
    Hi Allen

    In that case then no I don't link to articles on article directories although I've read that it's good to do so.

    Re what I asked about backlinks, in Google webmaster tools it shows me as having only 2 external links yet I have a number of articles submitted to article directories and I comment on other blogs, use twitter, stumble etc so shouldn't I have more backlinks showing to my blog?

    Mary
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    • Profile picture of the author redrossero
      I've started to build backlinks to my articles onemounth ago and it really have had a benefic effect on my total number of views. However, I don't know how to check the backlinks of other articles...
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    • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
      Mary,

      You should, yes. Unless those other websites are placing <nofollow> tags on your links. In which case, it is useless for you to be doing so.

      Give it some more time and see if they show up. In the mean time you can go and take a look at the source code of the page your link is on...if you see rel="nofollow" in your link, then SE's are not counting it.

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  • Profile picture of the author Shannon Herod
    I unfortunately do not see the point in building back links for another site. I do write articles and put my articles on those sites, but I build back links to my sites.

    I understand that there may be short-term gains in building back links to an article on a popular article site, but I am more interested in the long-term profits of building an authority site of my own.

    So, if I am going to invest the time into building additional content that is going to link to a site, I'm going to link it to my site.

    So, as I said I see that there are short-term benefits, but I am looking for the long-term benefit.

    Regards,

    Shannon Herod
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