Syndicating articles to web 2.0s

We have one higher ranking squidoo lens.

It comes down to longer articles 1100+ words, and very high QUALITY content. We outsource these articles and pay a pretty penny for them. But it outranks the stuff I write by a country mile. LOL.

There is that word again HIGH QUALITY...

In fact the highest ranked lenses and web 2.0 sites are not normally filled with crappy content and or images. They are top notch for a reason. The "Q" word!

Or you could do all that on another site which you own yourself, rather than on a Web 2.0 one which someone else owns, so that you build up your own business rather than someone else's, and so that you always own and control the web pages on which your business depends for its income.


Some people "just get it", and others - it seems - "just don't".


It's really difficult for the people who "get it" to understand what's so difficult about it, and why so many others "just don't". I suspect some of the latter group are people who promote "squidoo services"/"blogspot services" in their sig-files or in WSO's, some are just graduates of the Urban Myth School of Internet Marketing, and others have just bought into that kind of "information" (or bought WSO's about it, or something?) without ever examining it logically, themselves.

But if anyone wants to try to understand it, the information's all listed and referred to in this thread from the weekend: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...en-locked.html

It works for me.

I used to use plenty of them. I've given them all up and do much better without them, honestly.

It doesn't work that way.

The fact that they have a million viewers doesn't in itself bring "your" pages there any traffic. The only beneficial traffic you can get from those pages is traffic that you (directly or indirectly) have sent there instead of to your own site in the first place. And you'd have to write fresh content specially for them, and that just makes no sense at all!

I understand. And rightly. But Web 2.0 sites are not the way to do it. If you can get some of your content syndicated to relevant sites/ezines/magazines in your niche, places where there are already targeted visitors/readers/subscribers who you'd like to become your visitors, that's another matter altogether.

Please, please don't churn out these nonsensical urban myths here. This is all completely wrong. :p

Nobody's suggesting that you should post articles to your site and a directory at the same time. You should always publish your articles on your own site first and not submit them anywhere else until they've been indexed on your own site. This is absolutely fundamental to any model of article marketing.

The idea of rewriting and spinning articles before putting them in a directory is totally misguided. This is exactly what all the people who have started off all the threads here with titles like "Article Marketing Is Dead" have been doing. And that's why article marketing is dead for them!! :rolleyes: :p

First, it makes no sense at all to give an article directory the initial indexation-rights to content that you could have had indexed on your own site first, and article directories don't require previously unpublished content. It's all explained in this little thread: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...marketing.html

Secondly, "spinning" can do your business enormous damage, but won't help you. Everyone who actually makes a living from article marketing (rather than from supplying spinning software or services) says the same things about spinning. And there are reasons for that.

For people open-minded enough to read them, these six items explain much more, at greater length and in greater detail.

• this post explains the benefits of spinning
• the first half (or so) of this thread contains a good discussion of what you can gain from spinning articles
• the advice on this subject given by so many people throughout most of this thread has been really helpful to many people here
• 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!)
• this little article is also a very useful and accurate explanation of the subject
• this post, and its links, explain in detail the closely related subject of how article directories really work and why they exist

Nothing to do with me, I'm sure ...

Do you find you actually get much traffic from doc sharing sites? I think there would be less for weight loss than make money online.

It's REALLY hard when it comes to IM with so many conflicting opinions. Someone else said press releases are like farting in the wind.

I guess I'll just take the advice of well known warriors.