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Can I Post Articles to Numerous Sites ?

by PCH
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Hey Guys,

I sure hope this doesn't sound like a stoopid question. That isn't my intention. Anyway, this is it ....

Setting the scene first .....

You'll know that people are free to submit an article manually to multiple article directories, if they wish. It can also be done on auto using UAW, for example. But whether it's done manually or on auto, there's one thing I'm totally not sure about.

And that is, even with my limited experience of manual article submission to ezinearticles and streetarticles, their mega strict guidelines about article submission means that an article that gets accepted by one site, may not necessarily be accepted by the next.

So that being the case, - just how do people submit the same article to numerous sites without modification? And how do auto submission methods like UAW get round the strict criteria set by the article directories?

If anyone can help, I'd be uber grateful.

Thanks !
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  • Profile picture of the author Prashant_W
    They don't use directories. They syndicate content.
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  • Profile picture of the author AmandaT
    Article directories do not require unique articles. They require it to be your own article, yes, but you can post it up on your site and on other sites beforehand. It just needs to have your name on it in every instance.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by PCH View Post

    Can I Post Articles to Numerous Sites ?
    You can if they're article directories.

    As Amanda mentions above, article directories don't require previously unpublished content. Some other article submission sites which are not articles directories do, though (which many of us think is a pretty good reason for not using them), and if a site isn't an article directory, then you need to check its terms of service carefully, in this regard.

    Originally Posted by PCH View Post

    even with my limited experience of manual article submission to ezinearticles and streetarticles, their mega strict guidelines about article submission means that an article that gets accepted by one site, may not necessarily be accepted by the next.
    Ezine Articles is an article directory. Street Articles isn't (it just looks to the uninitiated as if it might be one!).

    Originally Posted by PCH View Post

    So that being the case, - just how do people submit the same article to numerous sites without modification?
    There's very widespread misunderstanding about this subject. You're far from alone in finding it a bit confusing.

    Some people imagine (completely wrongly!) that they're somehow going to get "a better backlink" if the content to which the backlink is attached hasn't previously been published.

    The reason some people imagine that is that there are people selling "spinning software/services" who want them to imagine that they "need to make the content unique, for SEO purposes", and they keep repeating it. It's all nonsense. This little article (well worth reading!) neatly explains the whole thing: Article Marketers – Lay the Duplicate Content Myth To Rest Once and For All - Internet Marketing and Publishing Blog

    Originally Posted by PCH View Post

    And how do auto submission methods like UAW get round the strict criteria set by the article directories?
    Article directories don't have such "strict criteria" at all. But the reality is that the answer to this question doesn't and shouldn't matter to you at all, because you have absolutely nothing to gain from "submission methods like UAW" anyway.

    I think this thread will clarify the entire subject for you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

    (Afterthought only: if it helps you to see what "article marketing" is (as opposed to "article directory marketing" - a misguided attempt to use article directories for their own backlinks and/or their own traffic, exactly the nonsense that software like UAW is alleged to facilitate), this post describes it: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794 )
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  • Profile picture of the author PCH
    @Prashant, AmamdaT - thank you for replying. Clearly there is some learning I need to do.

    @Alexa Smith - Alexa, thank you so much for this detailed reply. Clearly, I am lacking a whole load of knowledge in this area. I'll take the time to read the links you've supplied Alexa, and hopefully gain some insight. I really need to clarify some of these issues.

    If I could send you a bunch of flowers - you'd have them

    My best wishes to you,
    Paul
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    • Profile picture of the author PCH
      @Alexa - I'm busy reading through the assorted threads you sent me. And I'm learning heaps so many thanks for that.

      I have a question which I haven't seen answered yet, that's bugging me now that I'm aware of some of the things I've read. Perhaps you could clear this up for me please.

      You say to post an article to your own blog first, get it indexed then put it out to EZA. OK I understand that in concept.

      However, I've already submitted articles taken from my site, to post on EZA (or similar), but have found that the number of keywords in titles, subtitles and content in the article on my blog, were unacceptable to EZA. Whereas they were fine, even somewhat under stuffed, on my blog post.

      And when I submitted that same article to GoArticles, after 7 days, they came back with a list a mile long to correct. Too many keywords, too many bolded characters in the title and subtitles. And these guys told me I had duplicate (stolen) content many times over, because they found I had groups of 'two words' that had been found in the same order elsewhere on the web. For the niche I was in, it couldn't have been any other way. But I had to find other less than ideal ways to say the same thing.

      It took forever to get right, and by the time I'd finished, it didn't resemble the original article hardly at all, other than in the overall theme.

      Is this something you've had experience of Alexa? I must be doing something fundamentally wrong, as I'm sure most experienced writers wouldn't waste their time doing this sort of ridiculous carry on.

      So, am I supposed to write something that's acceptable as a post on my site, AND as an article tofarm out to the EZAs ?

      Please do tell

      Paul
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Hi Paul,

        Originally Posted by PCH View Post

        I've already submitted articles taken from my site, to post on EZA (or similar), but have found that the number of keywords in titles, subtitles and content in the article on my blog, were unacceptable to EZA.
        Ah yes ... this can happen, because if keyword density reaches 2%, EZA will decline them. Well, with those articles you'll need to remove some keywords to get them past EZA's automated keyword-counter.

        I strongly advise you to keep your keyword density well under 2% on your own site, too - but that's a different matter, because on your site, of course, you get to make up the rules.

        Originally Posted by PCH View Post

        when I submitted that same article to GoArticles, after 7 days, they came back with a list a mile long to correct. Too many keywords, too many bolded characters in the title and subtitles.
        Yes, some article directories do have formatting restrictions. You can fairly easily remove that by pasting it into and out of "Notepad", if you want, and then just putting a little bit back in?

        Originally Posted by PCH View Post

        Is this something you've had experience of Alexa? I must be doing something fundamentally wrong, as I'm sure most experienced writers wouldn't waste their time doing this sort of ridiculous carry on.
        I haven't - and when I submit to those directories, my articles have always been published on my own site and already syndicated to other sites, too. But the pen-name in which they appear, everywhere they appear, is always the same as the one under which I submit to EZA/GA, and so on, so they know I'm the author and never imagine it might be "stolen content".

        Originally Posted by PCH View Post

        So, am I supposed to write something that's acceptable as a post on my site, AND as an article tofarm out to the EZAs ?
        Yes, if you want to submit it to EZA as well. I find EZA's editorial guidelines pretty easy and sensible, myself, but I admit that I'm used to them and wouldn't write anything for my own site (or anyone else's) that doesn't comply with them anyway. I do see that it isn't quite as easy when you're starting off with them, and that you have to get used to them.

        You do appreciate that the only purpose of submitting them to EZA/GA is for other publishers/webmasters to re-publish them in their ezines/on their sites? And that for that to happen, they need to be more or less written for syndication anyway?

        Don't imagine that you're going to gain anything by trying to use article directories for their own backlinks. And, for all the reasons explained in this post, you wouldn't want to be trying to use them as a traffic source.

        But I do take your point that you can, of course, have articles already published on your own site which EZA/GA won't accept, for whatever reason. Tiresome, but not worth worrying about, probably? The reason I think it's probably not worth worrying about, in those cases, is that they're maybe articles unlikely to be further syndicated, in which case their appearance in EZA/GA isn't actually going to help you to any degree worth talking about, anyway?

        This syndication method is only "passive syndication", after all (i.e. relying on potential publishers taking it from a directory). It can be very helpful, and it was what got me started, but it's not nearly as reliable or productive (or fast, usually) as active syndication, explained in the threads linked to in my post above ...
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        • Profile picture of the author PCH
          Hi Alexa,

          once again, thanks so much for coming to the party with a full and clear breakdown of where I'm at and what I have to do to move forward.

          That's two bunches of flowers in one day - a record !

          thanks again Alexa.

          Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author Caragui
    Yes you can submit the same article to different article directories. Not many check the uniqueness or require that they be the first to publish it (except EzineArtricles maybe).

    For UAW, they syndicate the article in different blogs in their network and require 3 spin versions of the article.
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  • Profile picture of the author bigjonnyg
    you have to be pretty careful on how you post them and on what sites. as if your posting articles on spam sites it wont have any positive impact to your site
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  • Profile picture of the author Alohatom
    That's right -- article syndication is accepted and gets good results.
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