Submitting Blog Posts As Articles?

Lots of people have trouble being informal and conversational. You're stuff is good, though, so you're way ahead of the people who have trouble being informal and interesting

Just took a look at it... It's certainly informative and interesting. However, there are 2 things that, in my mind, keep it from being a good article:

- It's only 337 words. EzineArticles (the biggest article directory) has a minimum word limit of 400 words, so right off the bat, you wouldn't be able to submit it there. There are other article directories that don't have that minimum word count, so you could still submit it to them.

- However, the bigger problem is that it's not "evergreen". Good articles (the ones that get syndicated and bring you steady traffic) are relevant today, tomorrow, a month from now, and a year from now. Unfortunately, you use words like "new research findings" and "newly published". Again, it's an interesting development that definitely merits a spot in your blog, but probably not so much in an article directory. In a month, the content isn't so "new" anymore. If someone were to stumble on it 6 months from now, they would get to the 2nd paragraph and realize that it's "old" information - and, unfortunately, probably stop reading.

Hope that helps

Your blog posts do actually read more like articles I guess that's a good thing if you do want to reuse them on directories. Considering the nature of your blog I wouldn't necessarily say that's a bad thing since it helps to make you sound like you know what you're talking about.

If you do want to sound more informal, try writing as if you're talking to a friend who's sitting across from you. If you've got the money you can invest in a dictation device, that may help.

As Nicole said the length is a problem but there is an easy work around for that: combining blog posts. The three blog posts on your main page seem to be of a similar topic, why not merge two of them? This technique can be used for all your blog posts as long as the topics are similar enough, just make sure the flow of the newly created article is acceptable.

I read a couple of your blog posts, and what I read was a cut above what I usually find in the directories.

As long as you meet the mechanical requirements of a directory (word count, link placement and number, etc.), you should have no problem getting your stuff accepted.

Given the authoritative nature of your writing, I'd guess that getting syndicated won't be a problem either...

When I first started reading SEO textbooks, a couple of years ago, the general consensus of "authority opinions" (which was, as ever, radically different from that among "forum opinions") seemed to be about "50,000+". I remember from my (early) days of doing this, with spinning and mass-submissions, having a lot more than that without it apparently being of any measurable benefit to me. Since then, of course, there's been the Panda update, which has dramatically devalued article directories still further (exactly as their owners have been so publicly commenting).

Here you illustrate a very good point, I think: it's all in inverse proportion to the competitiveness and "tail-length" of the keywords you select (by definition in direct opposition, unfortunately, to the organic traffic volumes, overall). I remember the last time this point was discussed here, by way of demonstration I top-ranked a keyword in under 24 hours (I suspect actually in under 24 minutes, but it was 24 hours before we checked it) simply by mentioning it in this forum - there were very few other listings for it, of course.

My own keywords tend to be kind of "moderately competitive ones" ones for which no amount of mass submission to article directories seems, typically, even to make a dent in the "first-page competition", but syndication of the articles to which they're attached to some quality, relevant niche sites can top-rank them quite a bit more easily than one might imagine. If you can identify keywords for which the top-ranked sites have almost entirely article directory backlinks, almost regardless of their number, in my experience those usually make very easy targets for article syndication: one is experiencing the enormous benefits of quality (defined - as per Google - by contextual relevance) over quantity, of course.