Article Submission with Blog Posts, rewrite or carbon copy?

Are you looking for traffic or SEO for your site when you submit an article?

I'm looking mostly for traffic but don't want to hurt my SEO.

The anchor text bit makes some sense, thanks!

PassiveIncomeTeacher has the right idea here, but refer to this thread here to learn more about what you should do with your blog post. There's a lot of great threads on the matter, but this is a concise one I believe you'll find helpful.

It's fairly okay to post your articles as is. However, I suggest you read first the guidelines of the article directories you plan to submit to. There are some that are very strict with the content of each article submitted to them. Some don't accept articles that have been published elsewhere. There are also others that easily accepts any article submitted to them.

Hope this helps.

Its better to write some spun articles for your original article and post on those websites where they can't accept duplicate contents on internet. Its a good idea to use different Anchor text for it. Don't do fast SEO its blackhat. Increase link building manually slowly but accurate. And always know that Google always update with new Updates. So Whitehat still working after SEO for my many clients even Google published Penguin and no effect on my SEO clients websites.

Well, you might as well try to spin them.. And resubmit them as well. Have you heard of spinning articles? That's cool.

I would suggest rewriting them. Get an idea from the article and rewrite that way you won't feel guilty about it when submitting them.

Rewriting them would be my choice. By rewriting I didn't mean any automation tools.

I am not an expert on this topic but the site Internet Marketing and Publishing Blog is by an expert. You will learn a lot there and I expect that some people commenting on this string will find it very educational as well.

It isn't cool - it's pointless nonsense which can have only a negative impact on the benefits of submitting them. It's based on a fundamental misunderstanding, and is entirely unnecessary, because article directories don't require previously unpublished content. If you think spinning is "cool", these six posts will help you: (i) This post explains the benefits of spinning; (ii) The first half (or so) of this thread contains a good discussion of what you can gain from spinning articles; (iii) The advice on this subject given by so many people throughout most of this thread has been really helpful to many people here; (iv) On the meaning and significance of "duplicate content", in this context, this little post from expert article marketer Anne Pottinger includes direct quotations from Google's WebMaster Central Blog on the subject (not easy to find a more authoritative source than that!); (v) This little article is also a very useful and accurate explanation of the subject; (vi) This post, and its links, explain how article directories really work and why they exist.

No point in rewriting them other than in any cases where you have to make changes in order to comply with the article directory's editorial guidelines/submission policies.

Don't expect huge benefits just from this, though, Mike. It's only "passive syndication". It helps you only when publishers/webmasters syndicate the articles from article directories, and the reality is that submitting to large numbers of article directories don't significantly increase the chances of that happening, once they're in "Ezine Articles".

The "huge benefits" come from active syndication, described here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794

I think this post (and its links, and maybe post #6 of the same thread) will tell you most or almost all of what you need to know about submitting to article directories: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

PS - Sorry, have only just seen: the thread to which TheRealDudeman just referred you will also be pretty helpful, I think.

Alexa --

Very, very informative, and I thank you for all the reference links on top of it!

So let me clear up really quick though, in terms of active syndication you are referring to using the articles to build up a list and bet on them re-using your content?

I guess I'm a little confused on where the line is drawn. If I'm submitting to article directories, is that not accomplishing passive and active syndication? (in the hopes that they are re-publishing my content off of the directory)

Or do you actively promote to your list and say "Here is my article, post it to your site too!" (over-simplified of course, but I think you can see my point)

Your post was already very informative, I'm not trying to say that I didn't understand it, I just got my mind a little twisted there.

Thanks,
-Mike

Once again, thanks Alexa.

Article Marketing is actually without a doubt my greatest pitfall thus far, so it's great to get some direction from someone that makes it their priority.

Looks like I've got some homework tonight,

Best,
-Mike

Really not - this simply isn't so at all. Neither the approval rate nor the linkjuice would be affected by doing that.

Article directories don't require previously unpublished content and from the marketer's perspective it would make little sense to submit it.

The linkjuice arising from a backlink on a given page of the web is not somehow, magically, going to be varied according to whether or not the content to which it's attached has previously been published - that would be pretty strange.

When you have time to read this thread, aca2k2, it may help you a lot: in it you'll find a whole succession of professional, successful article marketers explaining in great detail and at great length all their shared reasons for consistently doing exactly the opposite of what you advocate above: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...eza-first.html