Article Marketing Warning (possibly)

[David]

I've been getting into article submission in a big way.

learned quite a bit, found some really Great Articles on IdeaMarketers Article Bank - Promote your articles, find free news articles, article promotion - Idea Marketers

Went there looking to pitch my wares and found quality stuff, stuff I want to use (for my self, not just for blog post fodder)

Got a question though...

Some of the article directories take a longer time to approve than others.
That's probably a good sign, weed out the junk and all.

Of the ones that sent me 'your article is approved' emails, I do NOT see them
when I search for them. Am searching from the search box on the article directory itself.

If I can't find it, where can an ezine publisher hungry for content find it?
where can Googlebot find it?

Is there perhaps a day to wait for my 'approved article' to actually go live?

Call me paranoid if you want, sign up for 60 article directories and you'll very quickly see who is shooting for quality and who is cashing adsense checks with my content.

[jbode]

Most articles appear on the site instantly after approval, the search engines will take at least a few hours to find your article (if they find it at all) use the top article directories and you will have more search engine exposure

http://www.jackhumphrey.com/fridaytr...irectory-list/

[Eric Lorence]

Some directory scripts will send a confirmation email upon submission, whether accepted or not.

If you can't see the article publicly, neither can anyone else, so there will be no one clicking Adsense ads on those.

If you submit to a distribution site like Article Marketer, there will be many directories receiving the articles, they may be new and unheard of.

If you send emails trying to rush the process, that may get the account deleted entirely.

Most directories are small businesses, and run at their own pace.

Hope that explains it.

[derrickp]

Some of the search features on the article directory scripts have a lot to be desired.

Derrick

Hi David,
First it depends upon what article directories you are submitting to. You do not need to submit to hundreds or thousands as some may claim. You should be very careful on what you are using to submit the articles also. There is many software and submission services that will hurt you more than you know.

You should keep focus on the top directories but many others are just a waste of time to submit your articles to.

James

[Ben Roy]

The search feature on a website is usually based on an index. Those indexes are only created at certain intervals, sometimes as long as a whole day (24 hours). Until the index is re-created, you won't be able to find your article in the results.

[onera]

Submit only to the top 5-7 article directories and you will find your articles posted in hundreds of small directories. The small directories just copy the articles from large directories and publish them.

[David]

Originally Posted by TheRichJerksNet

Hi David,
First it depends upon what article directories you are submitting to. You do not need to submit to hundreds or thousands as some may claim. You should be very careful on what you are using to submit the articles also. There is many software and submission services that will hurt you more than you know.

You should keep focus on the top directories but many others are just a waste of time to submit your articles to.

James

Thanks James

I was doing it the hard way, by hand

no submitter
no software
no outsourcing

just elbow grease

I went into social bookmarking the same way... socialmarker leaves some stuff out!

like for instance: not all keywords scripts appreciate commas
aol's propeller insists on underscore
propeller hates advertisments and will remove posts
technorati requires a plus sign to connect keyword phrases

Lots more subtle nuances that you'd miss if you used an automated service.

I like the results I got:

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Originally Posted by David

Thanks James

I was doing it the hard way, by hand

no submitter
no software
no outsourcing

just elbow grease

I went into social bookmarking the same way... socialmarker leaves some stuff out!

like for instance: not all keywords scripts appreciate commas
aol's propeller insists on underscore
propeller hates advertisments and will remove posts
technorati requires a plus sign to connect keyword phrases

Lots more subtle nuances that you'd miss if you used an automated service.

I like the results I got:

ImageShack(TM) slideshow

I will agree about social bookmarking because software just can not do what you can as a human. No system to date exist that will do proper social bookmarking.

As for article submission, there are several problems using submission software but that does not mean a proper built submission service does not exist. Although I have a system that does proper submission, I do submit several of mine by hand also because some article directories do not like auto submission and I respect that.

List Of Top 50 Article Directories By Traffic, PageRank

Above is a link to some very good article directories, I will not say all of them on that list are great but many of the top ones are the ones you need to deal with. At the same time be sure to be working your seo in those articles as this is important also for your listings.

Congrats on your ability to manually work on those bookmarkings and get great results.....

James

[David]

So YOU wrote the list I was using LOL

I started with the outdated list from the old WF (I've been a Warrior since 2000, back when we were hosted on unisol.com)
half those were no longer there, but I did get my first article submitted to a few directories.

Came back the this new WF, did a search for 'article marketing' and found YOUR list

kudos btw
great list
great learning experience
and Thanks Jack for his list too
I remember Jack from the link farm days, I think I even got a free link farm script from him to run on a IM site me and my Dad had many moons ago

(feeling like an aged Warrior...)

Originally Posted by David

So YOU wrote the list I was using LOL

I started with the outdated list from the old WF (I've been a Warrior since 2000, back when we were hosted on unisol.com)
half those were no longer there, but I did get my first article submitted to a few directories.

Came back the this new WF, did a search for 'article marketing' and found YOUR list

kudos btw
great list
great learning experience
and Thanks Jack for his list too
I remember Jack from the link farm days, I think I even got a free link farm script from him to run on a IM site me and my Dad had many moons ago

(feeling like an aged Warrior...)

Hi David,
Oh thats not my list there but it is a very good list to go by ..lol Found it a while back someplace...

Aged .... Well I am 40 years old and not getting any younger..lol Been online for over half my life and spend way too much time on this computer.

James

[David]

Originally Posted by TheRichJerksNet

Hi David,
Oh thats not my list there but it is a very good list to go by ..lol Found it a while back someplace...

Aged .... Well I am 40 years old and not getting any younger..lol Been online for over half my life and spend way too much time on this computer.

James

For the life of me I can't see where on webpronews.com we can submit an article.

I've been a subscriber since dirt was young... great newsletter from them.
I remember jayde.com from the heady FFA days.

Does anyone know where they accept article submissions?

Is it something they no longer do?

David,
Yeah it takes a bit of searching ..lol

Submit an Article to WebProNews | WebProNews

James

[ideamarketers]

Hi David... glad you were able to find some good articles on IdeaMarketers. Where many sites have an approval process to make sure they have quality articles, we have instant posting and have a bidding system that helps pull the better articles to the forefront. People can set their own prices on what they're willing to pay to be on our home page (which is very popular with search engines). Generally, speaking the people who are willing to put their money where their mouth is, tend to be ones who really have something to say. At least that's my theory.

As for finding your articles, I know our search mechanism isn't as "smart" as something like Google would be. If you were to put "the cow jumped over the moon" into the search box, that EXACT phrase would have to exist in either the title, body or keywords (and you can select which you want to search). If you put in "the cow likes to jump over the moon" instead, it would never find that article unless that exact phrase is somewhere in it. So in this case, you'd be better off searching for something simple like "cow" or "moon."

Hope that helps!

Marnie Pehrson
IdeaMarketers.com

[Eric Lorence]

Originally Posted by TheRichJerksNet

Hi David,
First it depends upon what article directories you are submitting to. You do not need to submit to hundreds or thousands as some may claim. You should be very careful on what you are using to submit the articles also. There is many software and submission services that will hurt you more than you know.

You should keep focus on the top directories but many others are just a waste of time to submit your articles to.

James

Unless it's your product of course...

Funny how often you shill your service of submitting to multiple directories in other threads...