Articles for directories or own website - which is better

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I have used article marketing exclusively to drive traffic to my sites by submitting to directories. I have just come to understand that if I can get direct traffic, my visitor numbers increase dramatically. (I'm a newbie obviously.) I get 100 visitors to a site through article marketing. If I have a 10% CTR, I have 1,000 people who are clicking on my articles. I want those to click on my webpage directly.

I have found 40 keywords for a subniche with an average of 150 searches a day and under 10,000 competing pages (about half of those under 5,000). The first thing I think about is writing articles to submit to directories. Now I'm thinking why not write for my own site.

It seems to me that with some of the lower competing keywords (under 1,000 - no authority sites) my site should be able to rank high with basic SEO. Am I thinking correctly? When I search in quotes, what comes up is trash. When I search without quotes, I then see some websites that I would have a hard time beating (I think).

I know ultimately I need a lot more than 40 articles to dominate but I want to squeeze the most out of every article I can. I think I might split them in half and see what results I get.
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  • Profile picture of the author DigiTips
    I find that posting the article to your site first, and then submitting to article directories afterwards aswell helps a lot
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    • Profile picture of the author MichaelHiles
      Originally Posted by DigiTips View Post

      I find that posting the article to your site first, and then submitting to article directories afterwards aswell helps a lot

      Yep... get both!

      And social bookmark the entire kit and kaboodle while you're at it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      EZA will accept your articles if they are already indexed on your site - it's your article and your can't plagiarize yourself.

      It's what I've done for years - put the article on my site and submit to EZA. It was questioned once - and when I explained the article was accepted.

      It takes time and effort to write good, readable articles - so using them more than one way just makes sense.

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  • Profile picture of the author BigHef
    You have total control over your own site - I say concentrate on it.

    Suggestions to put your article on your site first are spot on IMO

    Use Ezinearticles to compliment your site - not the other way round
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  • Profile picture of the author Sam Rodrigo
    Hi,

    I've found that you can post an article to your own site. In my case my blog. Then make improvements, changes and updates. Then post to a select list of article sites --manually. Each time you submit, try to change/upgrade your article and as much as you can the resource box.

    Success,
    Sam
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    • Profile picture of the author anth.elias
      For best results never post the same article on your site as you submit EZA.
      For the last 9 months now I have been submitting articles to EZA and not posting the same articles on my site. My site ranking for certain keywords has sky rocked and my site is slowly becoming an authority site for my niche. I really belive that if you are in it for the long hal you really have to saturate the internet with your backlinks and content poinitng back to your site.
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      • Profile picture of the author LadyL08
        Lately people have been posting how they were #1 on Google overnight by doing very little other than posting to their blog or site. Some responses have been, that with less than 700 (or 200) competing pages any optimized site should hit number 1. Why then do some people talk about taking months for their sites to show up?
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        • Profile picture of the author Zeus66
          LadyL08, always be suspicious when you read about new sites ranking on Page 1 at Google. This is an old phenomenon. Some new sites will get ranked highly for a short time, then disappear for a lot longer. The other thing to consider is what a site is ranking for, in terms of search terms. I can put some silly phrase on any new site and as long as Google finds the page, it'll probably show up on Page 1 for that phrase right away. Try it yourself. If you have a site, throw up a page and call it... oh, I don't know.... Pig pencil sock helmet. Use that phrase in the title and in the page content a couple times. Wait for Google to index the page, then I can virtually guarantee you it will be #1 next time you search Google. Or, at least right up there close.

          The point is, whenever someone gets excited about their site being ranked #1, always question what the search term was. I'll never forget getting a call from a client a few years ago, all excited that his site was #1 in Google. When I finally got him settled down, turns out it was for a search using his URL. LOL! I hated raining on his parade, but somebody had to tell him.

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          • Profile picture of the author Zeus66
            Ha, I didn't think about this when I wrote the post above, but I'll bet in a few days if you search Google for 'pig pencil sock helmet' this page will show up #1 at Google. Somebody do it and report back. Hilarious.

            John
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            • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
              Originally Posted by Zeus66 View Post

              Ha, I didn't think about this when I wrote the post above, but I'll bet in a few days if you search Google for 'pig pencil sock helmet' this page will show up #1 at Google. Somebody do it and report back. Hilarious.

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  • Profile picture of the author Samuel Lee
    Would agree that posting articles on several directories will make you more money than positing to your own site or own blogs because there is typically a delay of roughly six months to fully index and profit from your articles. This is great as a short term solution but in the long run its better to put all your content on your own site. Ideally you would want to submit to your own site and article directories to cover all of your bases, for a better long and short term solution. Hope this assists!
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