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Submitting articles to major directories or to everywhere?

by frankl
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Hi,

What do you think is the best method?

To submit your articles to only the major article directories or to a lot of others as well? So quality or quantity?

Thanks
#articles #directories #major #submitting
  • Profile picture of the author Mark72
    Stick to just the top few. The rest are all full of spun garbage and Google gives very little value to links from these places now.
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  • Profile picture of the author Avy Smith
    Originally Posted by frankl View Post

    Hi,

    What do you think is the best method?

    To submit your articles to only the major article directories or to a lot of others as well? So quality or quantity?

    Thanks
    It depends upon you what type of traffic sources you want to be part of your article marketing campaign either Quality or Quantity.
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  • Profile picture of the author mgreener
    Hi,

    It also depends on whether or not you are creating unique articles for each directory or trying to post the same article across several sites. The top directories will many times reject a duplicate article.
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    • Profile picture of the author AnniePot
      Originally Posted by mgreener View Post

      Hi,

      It also depends on whether or not you are creating unique articles for each directory or trying to post the same article across several sites. The top directories will many times reject a duplicate article.
      I submit all my written work to Ezine Articles, but only after I have first posted it on my own website or blog and circulated it among my own list of webmasters who accept my content for republication.

      I believe you would count Ezine Articles as a top directory; despite many erroneous posts here to the contrary, they have no perceived issues with "duplicate" content, other than duplicating content already published in the Ezine Articles directory. In fact, they encourage writers to submit content they have written and previously published - they even provide a Wordpress plugin to facilitate this.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by mgreener View Post

    The top directories will many times reject a duplicate article.
    This is completely wrong: that is just not so. (They might reject it for various other reasons, depending on their own terms of service, but they do not reject it for having been previously published elsewhere, and that's the correct way to use article directories: never with unique content!).

    Article directories do not require previously unpublished content. That would be a contradiction in terms: they wouldn't be article directories, if they did.

    I think you may even, possibly, be confusing "duplicate content" with "syndicated content": Article Marketers - Lay the Duplicate Content Myth To Rest Once and For All | Internet Marketing and Publishing

    Originally Posted by frankl View Post

    What do you think is the best method?
    It depends on what your objective is, and on why you're using article directories in the first place. Many people who use them are making the mistake of trying to use them for their own backlinks and/or traffic.

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ries-work.html

    Originally Posted by frankl View Post

    So quality or quantity?
    To someone who understand the purpose and function of article directories, they're not really alternatives, because quality breeds quantity. That's why article directories exist. Quantity alone breeds nothing.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kierkegaard
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      Quantity alone breeds nothing.
      This is true.

      People think 1000 directories = 1000 backlinks (and even if only 1 visitor from each directory clicks on the link in my resource box that's 1000 visitors per article). Unfortunately, it doesn't work like this.
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  • Profile picture of the author danr62
    A good idea is to post it on your site first and then submit to a few article directories, then convert it to PDF, Word, and PowerPoint and updload those to various document sharing sites. Then, you can convert it to a video and upload it to video sites. Then convert it to audio and post it at podcast sites.

    Oh, and of course you should be sharing your article with webmasters and ezine editors who like to publish useful content in your market.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ord Allenbea
    Submit it to your own site first and forget about content farms. Those top article directories as people call them are devalued by Google. You are best to syndicate your articles to other places and not those so called top article directories.

    Always focus on "Quality" and then quantity last, the quality of the site as well as the quality of your article matters.

    Originally Posted by frankl View Post

    Hi,

    What do you think is the best method?

    To submit your articles to only the major article directories or to a lot of others as well? So quality or quantity?

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author DoriFriend2
    Also, there are peeps on fiverr.com that will do it for $5 bucks! :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author myob
    The only article directory I even bother with is EZA. It seems to be the top destination for publishers within my niches who use it for sourcing syndicated content. In addition, articles are distributed to relevant ezines, websites/blogs, and even offline outlets such as magazines, trade journals, professional newsletters, newspapers, etc. Traffic is generated to my websites nearly exclusively through such private syndicated networks; completely bypassing the search engines. Often the real potential of article directories for exponential leveraging and targeted exposure is widely underused.
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  • Profile picture of the author tharith
    It depends on you to choose top directories to submit. Please think of quality content too.
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  • Profile picture of the author NicoleBeckett
    Frank, listen to the experts in here who are focusing on syndication because they're giving you some great advice!

    The goal of article marketing is simple - to get your content in places where targeted eyeballs are going to see them. Yes, you'll get backlinks in the process, but the links are secondary to the exposure and the expertise you're building by focusing on the right websites, rather than "blasting" your articles to a bunch of low-level directories that never get any traffic and can even take weeks/months to get spidered by the search engines!
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  • Profile picture of the author planetlubs
    It depends on what your final goal is.

    If you are interested in getting back-links to your website, then those back-links must be of value. The search engines should be able to see that the link is cumming from unique content.

    So to get the best results, you should concentrate of so major directories where you submit only unique articles.

    Others may recommend that you can mass submit to many directories by spinning your articles, but the search engines are becoming more advanced now that they completely ignore the span content.

    Spinning is only good if you want exposure at the ability to siphon traffic from other website.

    So you chose based on what your end game is.
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  • Profile picture of the author planetlubs
    But if you can be able to submit unique articles to so many article directories, then there is no problem. Actually it is the best.

    But as I have said, it is about the time and effort required to do that.

    The spinning software we have cannot spin to 100% uniqueness, but if you can find one that gives a higher percentage of uniqueness, then go for mass submission. Otherwise, focus your efforts where they will yield best results.
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  • Profile picture of the author zonkow
    Ok. I see that the primary goal of article syndication is not getting backlinks to your website but reaching webmasters who are searching content to publish on their own sites.
    1.Suppose that a webmaster likes one of my articles and wants to publish it on his own website, What must he do ?
    2. If he publishs my article, how cain it help my business
    3. It's possible to copy and paste the articles on Ezine Articles. What if he steals my article without permission
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by zonkow View Post

      Ok. I see that the primary goal of article syndication is not getting backlinks to your website but reaching webmasters who are searching content to publish on their own sites.
      Webmasters and ezine publishers, yes.

      This post describes briefly the basics of article syndication: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794

      Originally Posted by zonkow View Post

      1.Suppose that a webmaster likes one of my articles and wants to publish it on his own website, What must he do ?
      If it's somewhere like "Ezine Articles" (and that's where he'll look, if he wants content for his site or his ezine) he can take it and re-publish it as long as he takes your resource-box with it and publishes that, too.

      Originally Posted by zonkow View Post

      2. If he publishs my article, how cain it help my business
      He has targeted traffic. (Clearly - without having that he wouldn't need the articles, would he?). So his readers will read your article. Some of them will click on the link in your resource-box, at the end of the article, and arrive at your site.

      Originally Posted by zonkow View Post

      3. It's possible to copy and paste the articles on Ezine Articles. What if he steals my article without permission
      You're giving permission, by putting it in an article directory.

      That's what article directories are for.

      http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

      But even if he takes it without your resource-box (and that is "stealing" it), there's nothing lost, anyway. It doesn't normally harm you.

      If you want to, you can get it removed from his site by notifying his hosting company and serving a "DMCA notice email" on them. But it's better to email him first and just ask him to put your link back on the end of the article.

      All of this will arise only if your articles are written for syndication in the first place.
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