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Hi everybody, I am concerned if manual ranking for my keywords is going to take too much time, especially when most of people use software. I found here on the forum only 1 thread about article blasting from 2010 and since then i can not find info, also in Google there is not much on this topic. Is this method dated or harmful for the domain or it is efficient? Thank you
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  • Profile picture of the author Miguelito203
    Originally Posted by letstalkaboutlove View Post

    Hi everybody, I m doing link building for a week now but i am concerned if this is going to take too much time to rank for my keywords / medium competition/. I found here on the forum only 1 thread about article blasting from 2010 and since then i can not find info, also in Google there is not much on this topic. Is this method dated or harmful for the domain or it is efficient? Thank you
    What do you mean by "article blasting"? Do you mean writing articles and publishing on article directories with links back to your blog? If so, it still works. You just need to watch which ones you publish on because a lot of them get hit with the Google updates due to duplicate content and what not. Make sure to write unique, quality content that provides value to the end user.

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  • Profile picture of the author letstalkaboutlove
    Yes, publishing articles to article directories, but in many, not just in a few of them. I am told to do article blasting in social networks as well as in article directories. How many sites is safe to publish on - the domain is almost 1 year old?
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by letstalkaboutlove View Post

      Yes, publishing articles to article directories, but in many, not just in a few of them.
      It's without any real benefits.

      The backlinks are close-to-worthless (and contrary to what many people say, they were even for a year or two before all the Panda updates of 2011 destroyed the SEO potential of article directories).

      Their backlinks are non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlinks. As the saying goes, "100,000 of those backlinks and $3.50 will buy you a cappuccino at Starbucks" (and maybe get your site penalized too, these days).

      And since the Penguin update, earlier this year, Google has now said openly that if you mass submit to article directories, they regard that as "spammy, non-relevant backlinks" and they may penalize your site for it (there are links in other threads to Google sites in which this is expressly spelled out).

      Also, for all the reasons explained in this post, no article marketer who understands how article directories work would want to be getting potential customer traffic coming to their site via an article directory, anyway. The article directories are making their living from all the traffic that never reaches the marketer's own site.

      This just isn't how article directories work at all.

      This is how they work: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

      When I first started, I used to mass submit to many hundreds of article directories, briefly, until I learned how they work and why it was a waste of time.

      Then, after that, for about a year I submitted to about 8 of what I considered "the best article directories", which also got me nowhere, until I learned why even that was a waste of time and without any real benefits.

      For the last 2+ years I've submitted all my articles (eventually, after everything else I do with them) to Ezine Articles - and sometimes to one other directory, too - and that's the only article directory submission I do. This is much better for my business and is what I continue to do.

      I think it's a reasonable rule of thumb, in anything to do with internet marketing, and especially in anything to do with SEO, that something described by the word "blasting" is far more likely to do harm than good, in a number of ways. It speaks of a "quantitative approach". And just about the only people making a living who are likely to recommend those are the people selling services aimed at them.
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  • Profile picture of the author letstalkaboutlove
    Yes, i've read all the threads that you recommend, but i was not sure what exactly is done in this method. BUT then what about social network article blasting ? Same case? There are about 30-50 links done per day from pure link building, apart from the few links in my yet few articles. So i don't know really is it enough doing manual building only and when is it going to show its results. I know link building is not exactly for traffic purposes but for ranking.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by letstalkaboutlove View Post

      YBUT then what about social network article blasting ? Same case?
      Sorry, I don't know enough about that to offer advice. I was talking, above, only about article directories. I have strong suspicions about social network links, but no "objective, factual information" to comment on at all. Others who know more about social networks than I do will doubtless comment.
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  • Profile picture of the author dadhere
    If you can rotate the achor text with rotating affiliate links it helps. There is software on the forum that does it but I forgot what it's called
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt Bard
    It's not how many articles you have out there but more about where they are. You can get more traffic from one guest blog post on a high authority site than from 100 crappy article directories.

    You will also get some of that authority to rub off on you giving you better conversions and more trust from your readers.

    If you take the price of the software to "blast" content and put that money into the writing of decent, higher quality content, then you get a better return on your investment.

    You also don't run the risk of having your site dropped by Google because of your methods.

    Sometimes, the lower priced software that automates content marketing is more costly in the long run.
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  • Profile picture of the author letstalkaboutlove
    Thank you, Alexa, much appreciated your help.
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  • Profile picture of the author letstalkaboutlove
    Then no blasting and massive submission etc, only 30-50 links per day is this enough for medium competitive words with 27000 -30000 exact searches per month?
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    Article blasting is ineffective. EzineArticles would get you more results from the other 201 article directories on the internet combined. I wouldn't do it. Pick a different more effective strategy.
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