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What do you do with your article.

by goodmast3r
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Just wondering, what do you do with your articles. If you have 10 unique articles, will you:
A. Post all of it in your own blog. The idea is to fill your blog with good unique content.
B. Submit all of it to article directory to gain backlink.
C. Submit 5 to your own blog, and 5 to article directory

Which one is you?
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  • Profile picture of the author myob
    Limited to those choices, there is no one scenario that fits for truly effective use of articles, IMO.

    1. What I do is first post the articles on my webstites until they get indexed.
    2. Send some to my own lists of subscribers.
    3. Send them to hundreds of targeted ezine publishers.
    4. Submit them to a few article directories.
    5. Publish in offline magazines, newspapers and trade journals.

    All of these methods work best in that order.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      I'd start by posting all 10 on my own site and getting them indexed there first.

      Then I'd add a backlink or two - often two - and send the relevant ones by email to all the people with whom I'm in contact because they've previously syndicated my articles from article directories, so they can publish them on their sites (context-relevant backlinks and pre-targeted traffic). These are all people with subject-relevant sites, of course (they're not all marketers, though).

      Then I'd add a "resource-box" (with the same backlinks, usually) and submit them all (with no changes at all) to a few article directories, hoping that they'll get picked up from there and syndicated some more ... that especially tends to happen with the EZA copy, in my case.

      Then I'd quickly make PDF versions and submit them to some PDF directories, too.

      And that's just what I'd do with them "in original form" i.e. without needing to edit/change anything much.

      I can also often use part(s) of them in my outgoing autoresponder series. And if I'm amending/re-arranging them in order to do that, I might be able to use that as content on some other sites ("web 2.0 sites" and so on) that I use just as part of my backlinking structure.
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  • Profile picture of the author goodmast3r
    I think I say it in the wrong way. What if your blog is one year old, and you have only 10 unique articles. Is it better to focus on your blog or focus on building backlink?
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    • Profile picture of the author Lumpy Rutherford
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      Originally Posted by goodmast3r View Post

      I think I say it in the wrong way. What if your blog is one year old, and you have only 10 unique articles. Is it better to focus on your blog or focus on building backlink?
      Why not both?

      I'll tell you this - I have a website I grew thoroughly fed up with and just let it sit for about 5 months. I updated the site recently, and have since seen traffic rise exponentially. My PR was recently raised and any new article I post gets a large volume of traffic for plenty of related keywords.
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    • Profile picture of the author myob
      @goodmast3r

      Although your clarification does not affect best practices as already posted here, only you can make that choice. A one year old blog should not be static with only 10 articles. All recommendations are that your first step is to get articles posted on your blog. You may even consider outsourcing your articles perhaps as much as 2-3 per day. Then submit them to article directories. And finally, build relationships with some ezine publishers in your niche and send them regular contributions with your resource box for high quality backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Benjamin Ehinger
    Originally Posted by goodmast3r View Post

    Just wondering, what do you do with your articles. If you have 10 unique articles, will you:
    A. Post all of it in your own blog. The idea is to fill your blog with good unique content.
    B. Submit all of it to article directory to gain backlink.
    C. Submit 5 to your own blog, and 5 to article directory

    Which one is you?
    I start by submitting them to my blog. Once they have been there for 24 hours I submit them to EZA. Then, once they have been approved by EZA I change the titles and submit them to goarticles, articlesbase, and articledashboard linking back to both my site and my EZA article.

    That is it for me, then I move on to the next one.

    Benjamin Ehinger
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