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Using My Own Articles On My Site - Advisable?

by TBInternetMarketing
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Like most things in IM, I've always seen mixed opinions on this one.

You write up a great article to submit to thousands of article sites with a link back to your site.

Should you also add this article to your site as a form of new content/a new page?

Many will be up in arms about the duplication of content etc etc, but on the other hand if you write 10 articles a month that is 10 new pages a month for Google to crawl and index, which will build up over time.
These articles could all be placed on their own page, with a main 'Aritcles' page on the menu leading to a type of Article homepage which has excerpts to each article.

Thoughts welcome
#advisable #articles #site
  • Profile picture of the author Marx Vergel Melencio
    You own full rights to your original content...
    Here are my recommendations:

    •Publish that content on your site first because you would want to fill up
    your website with updated, original content relevant to whatever your
    target audience needs...

    •Have them indexed by Google --- Updating your sitemap.xml and
    submitting it to Google then promoting your content pages on other sites
    frequently crawled by Google bots will have your content pages indexed...

    •Using it for syndication, resyndication, republication and repurposing on
    other websites for your content marketing and traffic funneling
    campaigns...

    Though before you do this: I advise you to ---

    •Check your industry, business, economic, socio political and market
    research and analysis...

    •Use that data to formulate test campaigns...

    •Monitor your test campaigns and results...

    •Use your results and comparative analytical findings to improve your
    campaigns...

    •Implement your growth and expansion plans...
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  • Profile picture of the author venturer
    Recently Ezine release their plugin for wordpress where you can submit your article to ezine directly from your blog/website...

    Previously I heard that we have to submit new and unique content to ezine first and then once it is approved and published we can post it at our blog.. however the release of their plug in seems to show that it is perfectly okay to do so.

    thoughts?
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    • Profile picture of the author sanssecret
      You absolutely should be putting your articles on your own site before putting them anywhere else.

      Do a quick search and you'll find some very detailed threads explaining the reason(s) why.
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  • Profile picture of the author grannywriteswell
    Your content should always go on your site first - that way your content is kept freshly updated; then you can use it elsewhere. The duplicate content issue doesn't apply here because you are not using your content twice (or more) on your own site.

    Best of luck
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  • Profile picture of the author imagene
    I love this forum..picking up little nuggets of gold all over the place
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    • Profile picture of the author Richard Van
      Absolutely get it on your own site first, every time without question.

      Although you may want to send the article to thousands of directories to get lots of PR0 context irrelevant backlinks, ultimately you want them all pointing at your site and you want your site to get the credit from Google, not the directories.

      I don't submit to thousands of directories, it's un-natural linking and looks like it's being done to fool Google.

      As Marx has pointed out so well, syndication is far more lucrative and far more natural.

      For me, if I was in the dog training niche, it would be far more beneficial to have my article syndicated on the PR7 home page of the best authority dog training site than the thousands of PR0 backlinks you'll get from mass submission to directories. My article will also be read by people specifically interested in dog training.

      Remember, PR means page rank, not site rank. EZA's home page is PR6, the page your article will me on will be 0. This is a common mistake people make thinking that by having a backlink from there article on a directory that's instantly a high PR back link, sadly however, that is very untrue.
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  • Profile picture of the author Richard Van
    Originally Posted by samstephan9 View Post

    you can use your article if it's relevant or your content is good but always remember that should not be duplicate.
    Hi Sam,

    That's not true I'm afraid.

    If you can submit the same article to lots of directories, why would it be duplicate being on your blog?

    If what you believe in exists as duplicate content, why do EZA specifically advise people and even have a nice little plugin for it, to submit to your own site first then give them the article?

    Duplicate content is the same article, on the same site, more than once.

    Not the same article on multiple sites.

    What you belive in I'm afraid, is a myth and it's been discussed here a huge amount of times.

    You don't have to create a new article for each new directory, that's just what the owners of spinning software would like you to believe.
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    • Profile picture of the author muxin
      ofcourse you should put the articles first on ur blog than somewhere else , it will help u drive some good traffic
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