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Article Marketing, article variations?

by Kevin Thomas Marketing
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How important is it to vary my articles when submiting to different article sites, and If I am using a different keyword title for each do I need to vary them at all?
#article #marketing #variations
  • Profile picture of the author Will_Surren
    Kevin, From everything I can see from my tests, changing your articles is important. I don't know what the % change should be but I shoot for 60%
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  • Profile picture of the author artwebster
    Woah!

    You are NOT changing your articles - you are re-writing them - a very different matter all together.

    Using a thesaurus and rearranging the word/phrase/sentence order does not constitute "change" it only represents "fiddling under the bonnet" and causes enormous problems for people who want to learn about a subject but have to wade through piles of reconstituted crap to discover a 'new' or 'different' perspective.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jeremy Kelsall
      I guess it just depends on what the purpose of the content is...

      Is it just for backlinks? Don't change a thing and blast away

      Are you trying to rank them all? If this is the case, you will want to alter the content until it is at least 30% uniqe and change the title of the article. It would also be a good idea to post your content on directories that stand a good chance of ranking like:

      www.goarticles.com
      www.ezinearticles.com
      www.buzzle.com
      www.website-articles.net
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      • Profile picture of the author Will_Surren
        Originally Posted by Jeremy Kelsall View Post


        Are you trying to rank them all? If this is the case, you will want to alter the content until it is at least 30% uniqe and change the title of the article. It would also be a good idea to post your content on directories that stand a good chance of ranking like:

        www.goarticles.com
        www.ezinearticles.com
        www.buzzle.com
        www.website-articles.net

        Jeremy, Is 30% a number you have found to work well? I have heard numbers all the way up to 80%. If I can get the same results with 30% I could reduce my outsource cost a great deal.
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        • Profile picture of the author Jeremy Kelsall
          Yup,

          Originally Posted by Will_Surren View Post

          Jeremy, Is 30% a number you have found to work well? I have heard numbers all the way up to 80%. If I can get the same results with 30% I could reduce my outsource cost a great deal.
          30% usually works ok for me. If someone is telling you that you need to change them by 80% it is because they are trying to sell you a service or software to do it
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    • Profile picture of the author monopuff
      Originally Posted by artwebster View Post

      Woah!

      You are NOT changing your articles - you are re-writing them - a very different matter all together.

      Using a thesaurus and rearranging the word/phrase/sentence order does not constitute "change" it only represents "fiddling under the bonnet" and causes enormous problems for people who want to learn about a subject but have to wade through piles of reconstituted crap to discover a 'new' or 'different' perspective.
      That's basically what it comes down to. If you want to get the most out of your articles you should rewrite them. Line by line go through and rephrase, there are a lot of different ways to say the same thing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Christa_Regalado
    There's a software I know that does just that. However you still have to do the rewrite manually. The software merely picks a sentence at random then lets you rewrite it.

    It has helped me in a way. The software computes how much of the article has been rewritten. So I rewrite until I reach my goal, say 40-50%, then click publish.
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    • Profile picture of the author kamilrazak
      I just use Unique Article Wizard. Rewrite it. And let the software do its job. It creates articles unique enough for submissions. Even if the articles not unique enough, I don't care. I use it for the links they can bring me. I'm not trying to make it rank well in the search engine anyway.
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  • Profile picture of the author XRay
    Do a good job on article research and you should be able to create several unique variations of the same article. And I'm not talking about going over to EZA to research a topic or reading something another marketer wrote either. Depending on the niche, you should spend time reading posts/threads in niche forums that answers those important questions that people are looking for answers to. Read offline content at the newstand or in the library. Even CNN or MSNBC can be useful :-).
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