Can I submit one article to Free article directories?

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by northeast

Hello everyone!
Could you please suggest if I can submit the same article with links to my site in many free article directories? I mean if I have to write a unique article for each directory or not?
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You can submit same article to many free auto approve article directories.
You can submit your articles here.
Large Article is a dofollow seo friendly auto approve article directory

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corsleymaxwell

13 years ago

Yes, you really ca submit 1 article to many article directory sites like go articles, amazines, article factory, articleclick, easy article and many more....

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Ruth P

13 years ago

Yes you can definitely submit the exact same one to more than one directory. Most don't require the articles to be unique to them, as long as you submit under the same pen name in each one. But you'll need to check each directory's rules to be sure before you post.
~Ruth

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northeast 13 years ago

And wont Google ban my site for many duplicate articles on other resources?
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- DireStraits 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by northeast
  
  Could you please suggest if I can submit the same article with links to my site in many free article directories?
  
  Yes, in most cases (with only one well-known exception: Buzzle).
  
  Originally Posted by northeast
  
  I mean if I have to write a unique article for each directory or not?
  
  No, not usually. You should check their Terms of Service / Editorial Guidelines to make sure, though.
  
  Originally Posted by northeast
  
  And wont Google ban my site for many duplicate articles on other resources?
  
  By ban you must mean de-index your site. But the answer is no.
  
  Respectfully, this stuff is discussed on a daily basis, here. There exists countless in-depth threads on this topic, as you'll see if you'd like to use the search function. In some of them there is a lot of useful supplementary conversation that will answer other questions you might have about article marketing, backlink-building and/or general SEO, too.
  
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- Drez 13 years ago
  
  I'm not an SEO expert ...
  
  Bu my experience has been when I submit the EXACT same article to many sites it does NOT rank well in search results.
  
  Some sites seem to do better than others: Ezinearticles.com for example.
  
  You may be better served by "tweaking" your articles and submitting modified versions to several (not all) of the article directory sites.
  
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lowkey786

13 years ago

I think its better to submit the one unique article to a directory like ezines as this is a high quality backlink and can rank well

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Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by lowkey786

I think its better to submit the one unique article to a directory like ezines as this is a high quality backlink and can rank well

It isn't a "high quality backlink", by any stretch of the imagination.

Like all article directory backlinks (unless you find an appropriate, niche-specific one) it's a non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlink.

Thankfully, it's very easy indeed to ensure that one's own site outranks article directories.

I submit my work to EZA nearly every day (after first publishing it and having it indexed on my own sites, obviously), but certainly not for any "benefit" from their backlinks!

As Mike mentions above, these matters are discussed and explained here on a daily basis.

There's absolutely no need for anyone who wants to inform him/herself to be led astray by some of the misguided advice above.
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cjfuss23

13 years ago

I would say it all depends on what your goal is for the article submission. If you are looking to improve the SEO of a site that you are linking to from your article then yes you definitely need to submit a unique article to each directory, otherwise Google will penalize the duplicate content. You can either reword the article yourself or have someone rewrite it for you. This can be done very inexpensively if you don't have the time or patience.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by cjfuss23

If you are looking to improve the SEO of a site that you are linking to from your article then yes you definitely need to submit a unique article to each directory, otherwise Google will penalize the duplicate content.

With apologies for such a forthright tone, just for the sake of clarity and unambiguity, this is completely wrong.

You have misunderstood (or are perhaps unaware of) the hugely significant difference between duplicate content and syndicated content.

What you describe above (as "otherwise") would not be "duplicate content".

The backlink is no different (and not treated any differently by Google) according to whether the content to which it's attached is "unique". :rolleyes:

As Mike mentions above, these matters are discussed and explained here on a daily basis, and there's absolutely no need for anyone who wants to inform him/herself to be led astray by some of the misguided advice, factual errors and misunderstandings above.

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John Romaine

13 years ago

Originally Posted by cjfuss23

If you are looking to improve the SEO of a site that you are linking to from your article then yes you definitely need to submit a unique article to each directory, otherwise Google will penalize the duplicate content.

* yawn .....

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octavyo

13 years ago

In theory yes you can. Google calls this "syndication". However I have seen only a few people which haven`t been penalised by Google by using this technique. To be safe i recommend you to spin your article and submit a unique version to each article directory. I do this each time when i submit to multiple directories (spinning my article) and i`ve never had any problems with duplicate content

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DireStraits

13 years ago

Originally Posted by octavyo

However I have seen only a few people which haven`t been penalised by Google by using this technique.

Sorry mate - I call BS.

I, on the other hand, have never seen a single person be penalised by Google for failing to submit unique articles to article directories. :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by octavyo

To be safe i recommend you to spin your article and submit a unique version to each article directory. I do this each time when i submit to multiple directories (spinning my article) and i`ve never had any problems with duplicate content

Nice bit of "logic", here. So you recommend that everyone spin and submit unique articles just because you've done that and avoided penalisation which would never have occurred anyway? :confused:

Have you actually tried not spinning and submitting? I have this hunch that you might be pleasantly surprised to discover that nothing bad happens at all.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by DireStraits

I, on the other hand, have never seen a single person be penalised by Google for failing to submit unique articles to article directories. :rolleyes:

Indeed.

Neither have I.

And that's because it doesn't happen.

Originally Posted by DireStraits

Have you actually tried not spinning and submitting? I have this hunch that you might be pleasantly surprised to discover that nothing bad happens at all.

Shhhh ... don't give all my secrets away ...

To surmise that there's a problem here which one can avoid by "spinning" is absolutely loopy. "Spinning", in this context, is actually a pseudo-solution to a perceived problem which - for obvious, readily understandable and easily verifiable reasons - simply doesn't exist.

Honestly, if one actually felt like taking it seriously and were not acclimatised to it by seeing it here every day, it would become horrifying to see people with the letters "SEO" in their usernames and/or signature-files "advising" people that it's somehow "better" to spin the articles. :p :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by Brandomatic

There is the debate about unique content and how much is acceptable....

Personally, I actually started making a living through article marketing only when I learned that one side of that "debate" is simply one of the more grotesquely misguided urban myths of internet marketing.

The other side, fortunately, is the simple, factual, understandable and readily verifiable situation explained above (and in a huge number of related threads, by so many successful, professional article marketers).

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DireStraits

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Honestly, if one actually felt like taking it seriously and were not acclimatised to it by seeing it here every day, it would become horrifying to see people with the letters "SEO" in their usernames and/or signature-files "advising" people that it's somehow "better" to spin the articles. :p :rolleyes:

You think that's bad!? The letters "SEO" are one thing; add the phrase "Qualified Professional" to that, and a little bit of "WTF?!?" becomes a whole lot bigger. :rolleyes:

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myob 13 years ago

Being a highly qualified professional myself, this all seems like a big comedy.
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SEOLady

13 years ago

Yes, I think that is allowed but if I were you I better spin the articles...

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Brandomatic

13 years ago

Yes there are numerous free article directories including GoArticles, Article Alley, Ezine, Article Blast, Amazines, Article Dashboard, and The Free Library (just to name a few of the well known ones). But I wouldn't recommend trying to submit the exact same article to everyone of them. There is the debate about unique content and how much is acceptable....

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JamesGw

13 years ago

You can as long as you own the article. You'll still need to check the guidelines for each directory, though.

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Moneyerr

13 years ago

Yes, you can submit 1 articles to many articles sites which are good and have high PR.

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Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Moneyerr

you can submit 1 articles to many articles sites which are good and have high PR.

Article sites don't "have PR" at all. :rolleyes:

Article directories are websites, and websites don't "have PR".

Only pages have page rank.

Whatever the page ranks of the article directories' home pages (which is what you're actually talking about), your articles in them are published on their own PR-0 pages, not on the directories' home pages.
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