Articles from my newsletter.

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Hi all.

I want to submit some articles to directories for increase traffic to my squeeze page. I have no money to write new articles now (I can't do it myself because I'm not native speaker).

But I have some good original articles in my newsletter (I hired copywriter from there). Can I change it a little bit and submit to directories?

How does it works? Is it drive visitors for my squeeze page to subscribe (and then they will read the same articles) or it's just for search engines?

I hope you understand my question
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by Souldja View Post

    Can I change it a little bit and submit to directories?
    Yes; no problem. As long as what you submit is the right length and quality, and complies with their "editorial guidelines" and so on, naturally.

    You can do that without changing it a little bit, too.

    Originally Posted by Souldja View Post

    Is it drive visitors for my squeeze page to subscribe (and then they will read the same articles) or it's just for search engines?
    It's difficult to get traffic from article directories, but possibly, some, yes. And some backlinks (but don't expect too much from them: they're non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlinks, so you need tens of thousands of them to benefit much in SEO terms).

    Am I right in guessing from what you say that you have a "squeeze-page only" site, through which people opt in for the newsletter, and you do email marketing ... but you don't have another website per se, and these articles aren't posted on your site?

    Some directories (like EZA) may not let you link to a squeeze-page, because a squeeze-page doesn't have "informational content"; but others will.
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    • Profile picture of the author Souldja
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      Yes; no problem. As long as what you submit is the right length and quality, and complies with their "editorial guidelines" and so on, naturally.

      You can do that without changing it a little bit, too.



      It's difficult to get traffic from article directories, but possibly, some, yes. And some backlinks (but don't expect too much from them: they're non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlinks, so you need tens of thousands of them to benefit much in SEO terms).

      Am I right in guessing from what you say that you have a "squeeze-page only" site, through which people opt in for the newsletter, and you do email marketing ... but you don't have another website per se, and these articles aren't posted on your site?

      Some directories (like EZA) may not let you link to a squeeze-page, because a squeeze-page doesn't have "informational content"; but others will.
      Thank you Alexa. I will make a navigation on my squeeze page to put some articles. (Two or three). It will be a squeeze page with content What do you think?
      I will I'm asking about creating articles from newsletter content just for saving some money..
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      • Profile picture of the author Ian Kelley
        Hey Alexa,
        When you say you don't get a lot of traffic from article directories do you mean all article directories like ezine and such, or just the mass article directory submitters? I thought this was supposed to be a good way to generate traffic by writing good content articles, posting them to your blog and then submitting them to ezine, etc. Am I way off? I have seen some of your other comments on here and know you are pretty informed on this subject.

        thanks,
        Ian
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  • Profile picture of the author ProfessorSeo
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    Yes you can use them sometime ezine article can be pretty picky with their article picks but I would submit them any way. You can get an article directory submitter like this Brad Callen’s Free Article Submitter its free and works great.

    Aim the articles to your squeeze page is not aloud on Ezine article, nor articlebase. You can create a blog page that points to your squeeze page.
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  • Profile picture of the author gtlovesellipsis
    I think the best strategy should be to write one great article on your site and then write another one on say ezine and have back links to each other... This way the content remains unique and you will be able to market two blogs by sort of "piggy backing" on each other.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by Souldja View Post

      I will make a navigation on my squeeze page to put some articles. (Two or three). It will be a squeeze page with content What do you think?
      Yes, it's an option, certainly. I don't know that it's essential, but there might be SEO benefits if you do, and with a squeeze-page, SEO benefits are always good, because squeeze pages (with their "low content") aren't always so easy to rank?

      If you're going to do that anyway, then it might pay you - in the long run - to publish the articles on your own site first, before submitting them to any article directories. For all these reasons, and so on.

      I don't think that having some navigational links to articles on your squeeze-page will detract measurably from its "squeeze-pageness".

      But if you do change your mind about building more of a site at some future point, it won't do any harm to have indexed those articles on your own site first, maybe?

      Originally Posted by Souldja View Post

      I will I'm asking about creating articles from newsletter content just for saving some money..
      Yes, understood. I can't see any great problem with it. Certainly nothing to lose by trying it, anyway?

      Originally Posted by Ian Kelley View Post

      Hey Alexa,
      When you say you don't get a lot of traffic from article directories do you mean all article directories like ezine and such, or just the mass article directory submitters?
      Hi Ian, I don't want potential customer traffic from article directories. I want that traffic coming to my own site, naturally. From EZA (for example) if I have a 25% click-through rate, that means I lose 75% of that traffic, doesn't it? Clearly I want people who find one of my articles by putting one of its keywords into a search engine to find the copy on my site, not the copy on someone else's site.

      Originally Posted by Ian Kelley View Post

      I thought this was supposed to be a good way to generate traffic by writing good content articles, posting them to your blog and then submitting them to ezine, etc. Am I way off?
      Nooooo ... you're quite right. But the copy you want ranking in Google (and other search engines) is the one on your own site, not the one(s) in article directories. You'll never have a 100% click-through rate from an article directory (or anything like it!) so you'll always lose a proportion of your traffic if it goes off to someone else's site.

      But (as long as you publish first, and so on) it's easy to outrank article directories, anyway.

      After the latest Google algorithm change, the problem some article marketers had (of EZA articles outranking their own sites), although there were solutions to it anyway, is more or less a thing of the past, now. Thankfully. And that'll be the increasing trend, too.

      (Souldja, above, is in a different position, as he's promoting a squeeze-page for his niche, and doing mostly email marketing, rather than website-marketing).

      Originally Posted by gtlovesellipsis View Post

      I think the best strategy should be to write one great article on your site and then write another one on say ezine and have back links to each other.
      Please excuse the observation that in my opinion, there's so much wrong with this idea that I hardly know where to start.

      So I'll limit myself to four little comments ...

      (i) If you're going to produce two "great articles", then why not publish them both on your own site first, have them indexed there, and then submit them both to the article directory, rather than just doing some of that?!

      (ii) What would be the point of linking directly from one article to another one?! What kind of a "call to action" is that?

      (iii) Why would it ever be a good thing to give someone else's site (EZA or whatever) the initial indexation rights to any of your work?!

      (iv) The idea of building backlinks from your site to EZA is ... well, I'm struggling for words, here: let's be ultra-understated and just say that it's a "distinctly second-best" plan, for so many different reasons, several of them mentioned here.

      Originally Posted by gtlovesellipsis View Post

      This way the content remains unique
      You say that as if it's a good thing?! If you're trying to use your "great articles" to attract targeted traffic, surely you want every article to be in as many different relevant places, in front of targeted traffic, as possible? Exclusivity sounds very nice, perhaps, in one sense, but isn't the idea to attract as many customers as possible?

      Originally Posted by gtlovesellipsis View Post

      you will be able to market two blogs by sort of "piggy backing" on each other.
      Why would you need to? Why not just publish them both in both places (taking the initial indexing for your own site, naturally) and have twice as much "out there"?!
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      • Profile picture of the author Ian Kelley
        Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post


        Hi Ian, I don't want potential customer traffic from article directories. I want that traffic coming to my own site, naturally. From EZA (for example) if I have a 25% click-through rate, that means I lose 75% of that traffic, doesn't it? Clearly I want people who find one of my articles by putting one of its keywords into a search engine to find the copy on my site, not the copy on someone else's site.
        Definitely makes sense. Sometimes someone just has to point it out to ya. Thanks for the insight.

        Also, from looking on the WF and other places I think I am convinced duplicate content shouldn't be that big of a deal. It just doesn't make sense to punish it. If a story, article, etc. is really good why wouldn't it go viral? To me it seems that it would be natural.
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  • Profile picture of the author Souldja
    I found very interesting SEO method.
    7 SEO Methods That Actually Work!
    But it will cost near 400$ to buy 25 articles.. What do you think about this method?
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by Souldja View Post

      What do you think abou this method?
      I don't know that site ... but I see "linkwheels" appear to feature prominently. That's something I wouldn't use, myself. They have very recognisable "footprints" and it's so easy for search engines to see them for they are, and discount the backlinks. The Warriors who have previously worked on search engine algorithms certainly seem to think this, too, when they post on the subject. And so do the authors of the standard SEO textbooks.

      Call me a skepchick: I have no experience of that particular service, but it isn't something on which I'd spend any of my own money.
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Originally Posted by Souldja View Post

      What do you think about this method?
      I'm not going to comment on that method in particular. This is kind of a generic comment about one-size-fits-all methods in general.

      There are a lot of methods for sale that used to work well. They worked because there weren't a lot of people using them. Once they become very popular, two things tend to kick in...

      One, the shortcut artists jump in with both feet. They say things like, "if building 100 links over a couple of weeks works well, building 100,000 in a day by spamming links all over the net should be even better."

      This gets the attention of the owners of the resources being abused. They see that not only are a bunch of people using their resource for their own gain, a visible percentage of them are doing so in a way that is detrimental to their (and similar) resources.

      Two, the owners of the abused resources look for ways to fight back. It isn't hard for them to track down the promoters selling how-to products. Once they have the blueprint, they can do a sort of profiling, looking for the footprints Alexa mentioned. They then start banning/deleting/blocking the people following the method.

      The result is wailing and gnashing of teeth on forums like this one, as the abusers and the poor souls whose only crime is arriving late to the party rant about whatever resource 'not being fair'.

      The theory behind linkwheels is fairly sound. In practice, though, benefitting from them will likely take a level of sophistication in building them that most won't have. Even vendors with big promises and their own one-size-fits-all solution.

      I'll climb down off my sopbox now...
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  • Profile picture of the author Souldja
    Ok. I understood.. Imagine, I will have near 10 articles on my squeeze page (on separate pages). And what should I do next? On page SEO of course (I will follow Profit Tornado guide I've bought). But what to do next? Submit or not submit?
    What would you do if you were me to get targeted traffic?
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