Articles Directories worth sending content?

11 years ago

I suggest posting the article to your blog first. Then submitting same to article directories. Yes you can submit the same article to as many article directories that you want.

He you write good articles, i also recommend guest blogging.

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mbacchi

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Gary Ning Lo

I suggest posting the article to your blog first. Then submitting same to article directories. Yes you can submit the same article to as many article directories that you want.

He you write good articles, i also recommend guest blogging.

Cheers,

Gary

Hey Gary,

Thanks for your reply. I have already posted the articles in my blog. I am now looking for article directories apart from Ezine and SelfGrowth to post too.

Thanks for your reply!

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Marty S 11 years ago

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- Alexa Smith Banned 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Marty S
  
  I feel this is absolutely terrible service for what could be a long term account that adds valuable information to their directory.
  
  That does sound particularly slow. They don't know, though, that it might be a long-term account which adds value to their directory (and to be fair, the overwhelming majority aren't), and established authors in good standing there do get a very much faster and better service.
  
  Originally Posted by Marty S
  
  I also feel somewhat used, since I do know that my client's article is going to be surrounded with advertisements that EA makes money from.
  
  This is also true. Well, this is the price one pays for using an article directory, and is of course part of the reason why it's so essential, over the long term, to publish all the articles on your own site (or your client's, if he has one) first, and have them indexed there, before letting EZA publish them. However you look at it, article directories are pretty clearly no way at all of trying to generate potential customer traffic (though of course that isn't what they're there for, anyway).
  
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- mbacchi 11 years ago
  
  I have submitted an article to EzineArticle and still waiting the article to be published. Very slow service.
  
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Matt Morgan

11 years ago

Originally Posted by mbacchi

Hi all,

Just a quick two questions. Which article directories worth sending articles to? I am sending my articles to Ezine Articles and SelfGrowth.com but I would like to get more exposure to my articles.

1.Which article directory works for you?

2. Can I send the same article to more than one article directory?

Many thanks in advance!

You can submit to 800 article directories if you wish, which can bring a slow stream of steady long term traffic, but submit them slowly and not all at once, so it will seem more natural.

Ezine works well.

As said, place the article on your blogs aswell.

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dvduval

11 years ago

I think this is a great way to get your site flagged for having an unnatural linking pattern, and is not a good idea. If you were selectively submitting content to very awesome sources that are widely read, great. But "article directories" tend to denote mass submission in an unnatural way.

I'll say the same thing about link directories. There are some good ones out there that do a great job with editing. They don't always advertise that they are accepting submissions, but if you know where to look, you can get a few good links rather than hundreds or thousands of bad ones that can cause you problems.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by mbacchi

1.Which article directory works for you?

Ezine Articles.

It's the one to which publishers seeking content to syndicate instinctively go, because it's the one everyone's heard of.

Originally Posted by mbacchi

Can I send the same article to more than one article directory?

Yes, with no problem at all.

But it's questionable whether there's any additional benefit to using others (apart from Ezine Articles, I mean).

For all the reasons explained in this post, no article marketer wants to get potential customer traffic going to their site via an article directory, so it's inappropriate to try to use an article directory as a "traffic puller": that's more likely in the long run to damage your business than to help it.

This little thread explains in some detail why it would be potentially such a big mistake to submit to an article directory any content that hasn't originally been published and indexed in exactly the same form on your own site.

And on the general subject of "article directory benefits", I expect this post will tell you what you need to know: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

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goldbear

11 years ago

Hi Lexy,
I've been careening around internet marketing for 2 years now. I thought I'd ask for some advice. I do enjoy writing. I do have to create some income. But, I run into so many scams that I feel like I'm surrounded. Do you have any direction for this confused Doc? Thanks for any help you can be.
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Alexa Smith

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by goldbear

Hi Lexy,
I've been careening around internet marketing for 2 years now. I thought I'd ask for some advice. I do enjoy writing. I do have to create some income. But, I run into so many scams that I feel like I'm surrounded. Do you have any direction for this confused Doc?

I do, Doc ... but I'm honestly not sure you're going to like/appreciate it.

Two main things.

First, I would strongly advise you to get completely out of the "make money online" niche, yourself, as a marketer. For all the reasons explained in these posts ...
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7755115
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post8031183
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7950572
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7881396
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7903842

Secondly, I'd suggest that you might be very well placed to copy more or less what I've done in some specific, suitable "healthcare" niche for which you could have a small (at first) website designed specifically to build a niche list to whom you can then market two or maybe three (but first one) informational products, drawing your targeted traffic to the site by articles you're very well placed to write, compared with many people (and you wouldn't even need a lot of articles to do so). There are plenty of potentially suitable products available, of very high standards (I know this from having asked the MD's in my family to look through several of them for me). If it helps, here's the starting-point for an overview of what I do mysef, and how I do it: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5721774

Another possible suggestion would be for you to set up a specialist "medical/healthcare articles" service for marketers promoting niches like those and wanting articles for syndication. There are writers here selling articles for $200 each to regularly returning customers who know how to use them for successful article marketing. "Paradoxically" (to some - it isn't really paradoxical at all!), there's often more stable demand (from "better customers") at this end of the market than there is in the $10/$15 article-writing "market" in which so many of the customers tend not to survive/return (mostly because they're unaware of the difference between "article marketing" and "article directory marketing" even while trying to use one of them, and their own businesses therefore tend not to last very long). There are many threads on this subject to which I can refer you, if it's an idea that potentially interests you.

It would doubtless take you some time, learning and skills to get started with either, though: I don't suggest that either proposition is necessarily a path to overnight success. But both can clearly build solid, successful businesses, and have done so for many others.

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Cobaki

11 years ago

Why not add more value to your blog by concentrating all your articles there? I think this is more efficient. I also agree on guest blogging to give your articles more exposure and acknowledgement.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Cobaki

Why not add more value to your blog by concentrating all your articles there?

Nobody's suggesting that anyone should submit anything to an article directory without first publishing it on their own site. This is something additional that we're discussing, not an alternative.

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Rob Maggs

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Nobody's suggesting that anyone should submit anything to an article directory without first publishing it on their own site. This is something additional that we're discussing, not an alternative.

Jeeze, are we not concerned about the Panda update at all? Why do some people continually promote duplicate content...and I'm sorry Alexa, but Google has come down on duplicate content like the "Sword of Damocles" with Panda and yet you still promote it?

I really don't understand the logic, I can see that you are a very intelligent individual...but this information is iniquitous.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Rob Maggs

Jeeze, are we not concerned about the Panda update at all? Why do some people continually promote duplicate content...and I'm sorry Alexa, but Google has come down on duplicate content like the "Sword of Damocles" with Panda and yet you still promote it?

Not at all, Rob. You're a little confused between "duplicate content" and "syndicated content", here; that's all.

The differences between the two are briefly but pretty clearly explained in this little article. And/or in this post .

Originally Posted by Rob Maggs

I really don't understand the logic

Undoubtedly there would be absolutely no logic at all in "promoting duplicate content".

When you have time for a longer read, Rob, if you ever want to work your way through this thread, in it you'll find a very large number of experienced, successful, professional article marketers explaining fairly clearly all their shared reasons for never submitting any article to Ezine Articles (or to any other article directory, either) until after it's been published and indexed on their own sites. This is absolutely fundamental to any model of "article marketing" at all. http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...eza-first.html

That's a very long thread, albeit full of relevant information on this subject. If you have time only for a much shorter read, there are a couple of hundred other threads here in which countless people explain exactly the same. This recent one's all on one page, as I remember: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...marketing.html

Originally Posted by NataliaF

Street Articles - Where Writers Become Authors is a good directory

Street Articles isn't actually an article directory, Natalia. It does look at first glance as if it might be one, but actually it isn't at all (also discussed in several threads here).

Originally Posted by NataliaF

Please be advised that some directories do not allow duplicated content.

Again, respectfully, "duplicate content" refers to multiple copies of the same text-file within one domain. What we're discussing here is actually "syndicated content" (content re-published from one domain to another). Not only do article directories accept that, but facilitating it and making it available to publishers is actually the reason for their existence.

Misunderstandings on this subject are widespread.

The reality is right here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

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Cobaki

11 years ago

Oopps, sorry. I read the thread again and I missed the part about having the articles contained in the blog already. My bad. Well, to make up for that, article directories can help increase your presence and showcase your skills so to find out which website is giving you more traffic, submit to several websites and check your website report for a few weeks and see which of these sites show up as referrer.

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AndyCole1971 11 years ago

I started off using Ezine but then got p***** off with the way they get all snotty and uptight about 'over-selling' etc.

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dbrwn

11 years ago

I would suggest that you use the article directory that best suits your individual needs. Although many people use Ezine Articles, another great directory is Go Articles.

However, like was mentioned by several individuals here, it is in your best interest to first publish the articles on your own blog. That way the blog will take precedence over any other place that you publish the article to. You want to do that because you want your blog to be ranked more, not the article directory, so place the article onto the blog and then place it in the article directories.

This is actually a SEO thing, and it works well. If you publish the article first on your blog, then Google will take note of that.

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GlenH 11 years ago

Let's talk content syndication because publishing your content to article directories is a form of 'passive' content syndication. But in my opinion that's just about the worst kind you can have

From my perspective it goes like this

Step 1: I post my content onto my own blog first.

Step 2: I wait until Google indexes the page/s, then I'll start to actively seek out content syndication partners who have similar sites in the same niche as I'm in, and who might be receptive to receiving my content and allowing it to be posted on his/her site.

When I look for content syndication partners, as a general rule I like to look for sites in my niche that have a PR 3 or more. But that's just me.

Then when I find a number of likely sites, I'm make contact with the site owners or webmaster and hopefully negotiate to provide them with my content.

Step 3: The very last step I 'may' take is to post my content to the top three article directories.

I all honesty though, I don't do this process all the time because this 'passive' type of content syndication, is nowhere near as effective as it used to be, and for me, it's really a waste of time.

You can't expect to just dump your content onto an article directory site, and then expect others to come an eagerly take your content. It's just doesn't happen that way anymore.

Without doubt, once you perfect a strategy for finding the 'right' content syndication partners, you won't believe much targeted traffic you'll be able to bring in.

This is the best kept traffic generation secret out there.

For some unknown reason though, most marketers today totally overlook this effective long term traffic generation strategy.

Maybe all they want to know about is what the next 'big shiny object' is going to be.

But old school smart marketers know better!
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roblawrence

11 years ago

I wouldn't recommend article directories anymore. Too much low-grade content on there to associate with. Plus, you dilute the power of your blog and brand. Keep the value on your site.

Your articles will show up in the search engines better than on someone else's. Plus article directories are just using you for adsense income.

I have TONS of free articles on my website I give away to visitors and that's been the best advertising that MONEY CAN'T BUY.

Provide value. Help people. Make them successful and you'll be too!

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TeriWhiteheads

11 years ago

2013 - I would stay away from the article directories and I mean ALL of them

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katherineolga 11 years ago

Originally Posted by TeriWhiteheads

2013 - I would stay away from the article directories and I mean ALL of them

Why should we stay away? I am not challenging you - I am just curious. I am still trying to learn the ins and outs of the new way to backlink.
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Ged3

11 years ago

I have used Isnare.com in the past, they will send each of your articles to other directories for a small monthly fee.

This helped me get a lot of traffic and took most of the work out of it, so I would have a look at what they can offer you.

Hope this helps.

Ged

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enrikm

11 years ago

A quick google actually gets you this:

1. ehow.com
2. squidoo.com
3. hubpages.com
4. ezinearticles.com
5. examiner.com
6. seekingalpha.com
7. technorati.com
8. buzzle.com
9. articlesbase.com
10. goarticles.com

There are a lot more article directories that you can submit to to get more exposure. But personally I have used ezine and they produced good results over the years.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by enrikm

A quick google actually gets you this:

1. ehow.com
2. squidoo.com
3. hubpages.com
4. ezinearticles.com
5. examiner.com
6. seekingalpha.com
7. technorati.com
8. buzzle.com
9. articlesbase.com
10. goarticles.com

There are a lot more article directories that you can submit to to get more exposure.

Most of those are not article directories at all.

3 or 4 are (depending on whether or not you include the dreaded "Buzzle", but since it allows no external linking at all, not even in a resource-box, it's a slightly academic question.)

Originally Posted by enrikm

But personally I have used ezine and they produced good results over the years.

Agreed - and Ezine Articles can still produce some good results now, as long as one uses it for the purpose for which it's always existed, and avoids the mistake of trying to generate potential customer traffic from it to one's own site.

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AndyCole1971

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Agreed - and Ezine Articles can still produce some good results now, as long as one uses it for the purpose for which it's always existed, and avoids the mistake of trying to generate potential customer traffic from it to one's own site.

Would you say my site is suffering from not sharing my blogs with Ezine? My traffic is lower than what I expect considering my site is almost 3 years old. :confused:

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Alexa Smith Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by mbacchi

Very slow service.

They're slow for "new people". They're fast for established authors in good standing who submit regularly. I know it's frustrating, but in the long run it doesn't matter - be pleased that they have some quality control and editorial approval processes, because indirectly your aim is to be the beneficiary of those, and attract to your article future publishers who know that EZA is the place to look for content to syndicate. That's one of the things that makes them slow.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...val-times.html

Originally Posted by AndyCole1971

Would you say my site is suffering from not sharing my blogs with Ezine?

I'd honestly say not ... because your blog posts are (understandably!) not ones which publishers will re-publish from EZA anyway - and there's certainly no other real benefit from publication there. I wouldn't, if I were you.
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PanteraIM

11 years ago

Article syndication still works very well, just don't sign up to 100 sites at a time.

Another way of getting links and exposure is to syndicate your RSS feed to multiple sites, that way whenever you make a new post it gets sent thru to thousands of sites.

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NataliaF

11 years ago

Street Articles - Where Writers Become Authors is a good directory
however it doesn't allow duplicated content.
Please be advised that some directories do not allow duplicated content.

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Rob Maggs

11 years ago

Hey Alexa,

You are quoting a thread that was written before the Panda update, the last post was in 2010...

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-first-13.html

If I post an article on Ezinearticles...and it is syndicated in its entirety on several blogs...will that not be viewed by Google as duplicate content? Or have I got it totally wrong? Panda totally annihilated my blogs where I used such "syndicated" content?

I'm not out for a fight Alexa, I just find this information very hard to believe.

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Alexa Smith Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Rob Maggs

You are quoting a thread that was written before the Panda update, the last post was in 2010...

Indeed. I also supplied some much more recent references, too, though. And actually the 2011/12 series of Panda updates haven't changed the concepts of what's explained in that earlier thread.

Originally Posted by Rob Maggs

If I post an article on Ezinearticles...and it is syndicated in its entirety on several blogs...will that not be viewed by Google as duplicate content?

No.

It never has been, before, during or after any of the Panda updates at all.

It isn't viewed by Google as duplicate content for the simple reason that it isn't duplicate content. It's syndicated content.

Originally Posted by Rob Maggs

Or have I got it totally wrong?

Totally. (I'd say it far more forcefully, but then you'd think I'm "having a go" at you, which is absolutely not my intention at all!).

Originally Posted by Rob Maggs

Panda totally annihilated my blogs where I used such "syndicated" content?

Nobody's claiming that there's any SEO advantage to syndicating content, Rob. I'm just explaining that there isn't any penalty for it, either. (Would most of the world's leading news and sports websites be syndicating most of their content unchanged from Reuters and Associated Press if there were?).

Originally Posted by Rob Maggs

I'm not out for a fight Alexa, I just find this information very hard to believe.

Respectfully, reading slowly and carefully through the several links I've posted above will help you with that, Rob. I'm also not "out for a fight". But you do rather come across that way when you so flatly (and so incorrectly!) announce that "this information is iniquitous". :rolleyes: You can see that, really, can't you?

Like so many of the professional article marketers here, I sometimes grow weary of correcting all the misinformation about this subject in the forum. There are perhaps 7 or 8 of us here, among the much larger number of Warriors who make our full-time livings from article marketing, who do pretty regularly try to clarify this issue, when we can understand where people have gone wrong with what they believe about this. This instance is actually very simple: you've confused "duplicate content" with "syndicated content". I was not "promoting duplicate content" at all, and obviously wouldn't.

If it helps you any further, Rob, here's a one-post overview of "how article marketing works": http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794
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troy23

11 years ago

None - In fact Google does not recommend using article directories.
These sites are considered low quality.
Do a YouTube search for 'Do you recommend article marketing as an SEO strategy? '

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Alexa Smith Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by troy23

None - In fact Google does not recommend using article directories.

It (wisely!) doesn't recommend using them for SEO, Troy. That's not what we're talking about here. Nobody's suggesting multiple article directory submission for backlinks - that's obviously completely futile! The point of using Ezine Articles is to get your article syndicated from there to relevant sites/ezines in your niche, whose publishers/websmaster want content.
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  There is a huge difference between what Google "recommends" and what actually works when it comes to SEO. Also, if you have a bunch of good syndicated articles out there you won't care what Google does with your site. I have sites that receive perhaps 5% of their traffic from search engines and the rest is from content that I wrote years ago.
  
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CRGreen

11 years ago

Ezine Articles is a good one and one I submit to regularly, which you are already submitting too. Another one I use is Submit Your Article. I like this one because it submits your article to several other directories also and it has what's called article leverage where you can change change some of the content around (sentences, titles, etc) so there is some variation to the article being submitted to directories.

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Moneymaker2012

11 years ago

For me it's Ezine. It is one of the top most popular online article directories. Publishers articles are quickly indexed by Google,

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