Article Marketing & Document Sharing?

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by itsliz

If I want to take blog posts that are already on my site (and have been for several years), can I now take those and distribute them to:

a) Article Marketing sites

What do you mean by "article marketing sites"?

If you're referring to "article directories", once your article is in the one called Ezine Articles, there's no additional gain from being in any other article directories as well (and there can be some disadvantages).

For all the reasons explained in this post, no article marketer would want to get potential customer traffic coming to their own site via an article directory. That's traffic you want coming to your site, not swanning off to a directory where you'll lose most of it. Article directories don't have "their own traffic". Nobody (apart from publishers seeking content to re-publish) "goes to an article directory to see what there is to read about XYZ" and you certainly wouldn't want anyone putting "XYZ" into a search engine to find your article in a directory rather than the copy on your own site. If you want publishers to be able to find your article and re-publish it, with your link, that's a different matter, and in that case put it in Ezine Articles by all means (they all look there first).

This thread will help you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

Originally Posted by itsliz

b) Document Sharing sites

That's another matter.

Yes, you can perhaps get some traffic that way. A little. (I used to do this and did sometimes get a little bit of traffic from it, though I think it doesn't work as well now. To be honest, I don't bother with it any more because I'm far from convinced that it's worth even the very low-cost time of my VA to do it.)

Originally Posted by itsliz

How effective are these two methods nowadays for getting some traffic?

Article directories have never been a sensible way to try to get traffic. That isn't what they're for at all.

Originally Posted by itsliz

Will they accept content that's already been published to my site?

Yes. (And I advise you strongly not to give them any content that hasn't already been published and indexed on your own site.)

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abundantlife085

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

What do you mean by "article marketing sites"?

If you're referring to "article directories", once your article is in the one called Ezine Articles, there's no additional gain from being in any other article directories as well (and there can be some disadvantages).

For all the reasons explained in this post, no article marketer would want to get potential customer traffic coming to their own site via an article directory. That's traffic you want coming to your site, not swanning off to a directory where you'll lose most of it.

This thread will help you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

That's another matter.

Yes, you can perhaps get some traffic that way. A little. (I used to do this. To be honest, I don't bother with it any more because I'm far from convinced that it's worth even the very low-cost time of my VA to do it.)

Article directories have never been a sensible way to try to get traffic. That isn't what they're for at all.

Yes.

Thank you Alexa. What would you recommend as a good use of time for an overseas VA to work on? (assuming I already have customer support and accounting stuff taken care of)

Any free traffic methods actually still working in 2014?

I used to do a ton of article marketing back in the day, for SEO purposes, and had great results, but I've been out of the SEO game for quite a while now. I'm feeling like a noob when it comes to free traffic.

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Alexa Smith Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by stevenjacobs

yeah you can but make sure it points back to the main article so you still make money

This is nonsense. That would be a good way to lose traffic. On no account link from a copy of an article in a directory to another copy of the same article!
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Alexa Smith

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by itsliz

What would you recommend as a good use of time for an overseas VA to work on? (assuming I already have customer support and accounting stuff taken care of)

Gosh, I'm sorry, I'd need to know all about your business to try to answer that (and it sounds like you're a vendor, anyway, so I'm not a good person to ask - I'm an affiliate marketer

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Originally Posted by itsliz

Any free traffic methods actually still working in 2014?

Article marketing is working better in 2014 than it was in recent years. It's my own major traffic-source. But not via article directories - that isn't "article marketing"; it's only "article directory marketing" which is a hopeless way to try to drive traffic (and was only ever based on a misunderstanding about how article directories work, anyway).

This is how article marketing works.

(It's a very big and time-consuming job, and probably not one to outsource!).

But there are also loads of other free traffic methods: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ffic-tips.html

Originally Posted by itsliz

I used to do a ton of article marketing back in the day, for SEO purposes

I think you mean "article directory marketing"? Article marketing has nothing to do with SEO. Article directory marketing did have some SEO benefits, but long ago - no more! Quite the opposite, if anything.

Originally Posted by itsliz

Yes, that's what I was referring to. Taking an existing blog post, submitting it to Ezine Articles with a link back to my squeeze page, in order to drive traffic from Ezine Articles, into my funnel.

No. Don't do it "to drive traffic". You won't gain anything from that, as explained in posts #2 and #6 of the thread I linked to above. That isn't how article directories work.

Do it only if you want publishers (seeking content to re-publish) to find the article and to know that it's freely available for syndication. And even then only in Ezine Articles, not in others as well.

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abundantlife085

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

What do you mean by "article marketing sites"?

If you're referring to "article directories", once your article is in the one called Ezine Articles, there's no additional gain from being in any other article directories as well (and there can be some disadvantages).

Yes, that's what I was referring to. Taking an existing blog post, submitting it to Ezine Articles with a link back to my squeeze page, in order to drive traffic from Ezine Articles, into my funnel.

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stevenjacobs

Banned 10 years ago

yeah you can but make sure it points back to the main article so you still make money

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markgaperl

10 years ago

If you are going to publish to multiple article directories, please make sure you have unique article. Point it to different pages on your website with different keywords.

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stevenjacobs

Banned 10 years ago

alexa

What you do is post part of the article and then say to get the rest go here.

Then on the website you need to collect there info, montenize it, and have the full the article

this method works great and is what some of the biggest sites use

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Alexa Smith Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by stevenjacobs

alexa

What you do is post part of the article and then say to get the rest go here.

You're totally missing the point, Steven. That's "in an attempt to drive traffic". That's not what article directories are for.

Originally Posted by stevenjacobs

this method works great and is what some of the biggest sites use

It's what some sites used to use.

Nobody who understands how article directories work, and what purposes they can and can't serve for your business, is trying to do that in 2014.
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abundantlife085

10 years ago

Gotcha. What I'm trying to accomplish is:

1 - Take advantage of my existing content as much as possible, with the end goal of getting new subscribers, followers, customers, etc.
2 - Give my VA something to do

It sounds like a good strategy would be to have my VA republish my blog articles to EZA, with the intention of them being picked up and redistributed elsewhere.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by itsliz

Gotcha. What I'm trying to accomplish is:

1 - Take advantage of my existing content as much as possible, with the end goal of getting new subscribers, followers, customers, etc.

You can do this by article marketing (syndication) but it's a big job with quite some learning-curve.

Originally Posted by itsliz

It sounds like a good strategy would be to have my VA republish my blog articles to EZA, with the intention of them being picked up and redistributed elsewhere.

Absolutely. There's no downside to that. (As long as you don't edit/amend/change it in any way, and as long it's already been indexed on your own site).

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abundantlife085 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Absolutely. There's no downside to that. (As long as you don't edit/amend/change it in any way, and as long it's already been indexed on your own site).

Why would I not want to change anything? Wouldn't I want to add a resource box at the end to lead people back to my site?
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- Alexa Smith Banned 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by itsliz
  
  Why would I not want to change anything?
  
  So as not to risk giving a directory "unique content". (Some people imagine it's a good idea to "re-write it a bit": it isn't!).
  
  Originally Posted by itsliz
  
  Wouldn't I want to add a resource box at the end to lead people back to my site?
  
  Yes, definitely! Add that on (it goes in a separate box, following the article). But not to change the article itself. (Sorry for the ambguity, there!).
  
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WeArticles

10 years ago

Originally Posted by itsliz

If I want to take blog posts that are already on my site (and have been for several years), can I now take those and distribute them to:

a) Article Marketing sites
b) Document Sharing sites

How effective are these two methods nowadays for getting some traffic?

Will they accept content that's already been published to my site?

Hi itsliz,

If you are planning to take out your blog posts and post it elsewhere, I suggest you to wait at least a month before you post your content on any article directory. I think you have published content in your blog a long time ago. Therefore, search engines will take some time to disregard your content. If you post immediately after you remove your content from your blog, Google may consider your content as duplicate and hence your website ranking may decrease.

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Alexa Smith Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by WeArticles

If you post immediately after you remove your content from your blog Google may consider your content as duplicate

This is completely wrong.

Google won't consider it as "duplicate content" because it won't be duplicate content. It will be syndicated content. The difference between the two is well explained in this post, if you want to learn something instead of perpetuating the inaccurate teachings of Urban Myth School of Internet Marketing: Article Marketers – Lay the Duplicate Content Myth To Rest Once and For All - Internet Marketing and Publishing Blog

Liz is (quite rightly) not intending to remove the articles from her blog before submitting them anywhere else!! (That would make no sense at all!).

Originally Posted by WeArticles

hence your website ranking may decrease.

This isn't so. I appreciate that you were trying to be helpful, and really I'm sorry to respond so contradictively to your very first post here, but you've actually confused "duplicate content" with "syndicated content" - as many people do - and you simply have the whole thing wrong, I'm afraid. The little article linked to just above really will help you!

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WeArticles

10 years ago

Hi Alexa,

Thanks for your information and the reference link. I have revised my knowledge and agreed with your consent.

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