How many article directories should I submit each article.

There are two school of thought on this. One is going the route you already pointed out and just go with Ezine and some of the other "high-level' directories. Be sure to spin the article each time.

The other school of thought is to submit it to as many directories as possible. The more backlinks the better. However, if you do this manually, it can eat up a lot of time. Time you could be spending writing other articles or focusing on your product.

Hey Derek!

This question really depends completely on the competition you are targeting.

It is always better to go for as many as you can do because more links = more rankings.

However, if you only have the time/resources to do about 4/5, go for the high-PR ones (I would suggest Ezine Articles, Articles Base, Go Articles, Article Dashboard, Articles Factory, etc)

I would include 2 backlinks back to 2 different URLs using your anchor text. I would then spend my time backlinking these articles to create strong linking funnels.

You can do this by either using one resource link to your website and one to an article in your next set of 5 articles or you can use any other backlinking method such as high PR blog comments, profile links, etc.

A lot of articles out there have little to no backlinks to them because people just use them for backlinking purposes to their own sites, which is why backlinking your backlinks can really rise your article rankings, therefore increasing your own rankings, direct traffic, and over time your page rank.

-Dave

I wouldn't even recommend submitting it to any more than one article directory. It's not very effective for SEO purposes.

Instead, spin it and submit it to a blog network. It takes a bit of time to spin an article, but the sweat equity is justified by having tons of contextually diverse backlinks from a broad range of IP's pointing to your money site. Much more effective for SEO than just submitting to a bunch of different directories.

And if you're trying to pull traffic from the articles themselves, only submit to one. You will only show up one time if the content is duplicate, so submit an article and backlink the crap out of it.

Good argument Eric, I understand where you are coming from with blog networks, I understand they ARE good for getting backlinks and giving you SEO benefits, but if you can only get 100 backlinks indexed from article marketing you aren't doing it right.

I (with my team) create thousands of backlinks that get indexed each month through article marketing alone, and it's not hard.

When article marketing is done correctly there is no duplicate content, therefore none of the duplicate content issues you mentioned below should occur.

I have been doing a lot of split testing and can rank a webpage using article marketing alone, this (to me) shows that article marketing does have SEO benefits. - I'm not saying submitting to blog farms has not benefit but article marketing is the main reason I am able to rank my clients sites highly in the SERPs.

A tip for getting your articles indexed quicker is to use an RSS aggregator. This might allow you to get more than about 100 articles indexed.

EZine articles submissions is a hard job because it requires different kind of formatting.

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Quality matters instead of quantity. Just you have to keep in mind that submitting your article at fast approval article directories with high PR will be more beneficial for you.

Yes, you should submit it to as many directories as possible. Of course, there are services for a small fee that will submit articles to directories for you so it doesn't have to be so incredibly time consuming.

There are thousands of them, but I prefer a few quality article directories instead. I think it would be better to keep all items in their uniqueness, as far as possible.

Providing the article in question is well written, relevant to the products or services offered on your website, and incorporates good SEO, you can rest assured that it will attract traffic from various sources. Therefore I would recommend placing each of your articles with one ezine only and then linking to your article from other locations using relevant links. This is a lot more effective and a better strategy than attempting to place the same article in every corner of the internet.

Submit to as much as you can and also bookmark them and place them on your own site aswell

if possible, submit the same article to only 4 or max 5 directories.

I didn't think that's how it worked. Is it possible to do this with Leadbolt? I know it can be done with CPAlead but I prefer Leadbolt over them.

Please how can article be spun for a learning purpose. thanks :confused:

I hear that spinning is a real waste of time and that you can get the same number of backlinks if you just submit the same article to multiple directories

So don’t limit yourself when it comes to using Article Directories. You may take different approaches as well to avoid the duplicate content filter with some of your articles but go for quantity and quality.

If you are submitting articles manually then there may be a limit to the number you can submit to in the space of a couple of hours. But if you get a program that takes a lot of the hard work out of submitting to these sites then you can cover a lot more ground in a much shorter amount of time.

I just want to add my two cents and that is none of you actually know how google operates so how do you know for certain what is effective and what is not when it comes to article submission. For every person who sais this way is better there is another saying that the other way is better.
My take on it is from the google guidelines. When i apply them too article submission i think that
1. every article you submit should be diffferent ie spun.
2. don't submit same article twice to same directory.
3. submit as many different articles to as many different diretories as possible.
4. High PR article sites are better than low PR article sites

Only one person in this thread seems to have a basic understanding of what duplicate content actually is and how it works from Google's perspective. Obviously none of you have heard of syndication before, but according to your logic I suppose ALL news sites, aggregators, blog feeds, every syndicated piece of work EVER and every article directory in the world is only pumping out duplicate content.

Right?

Because that's what you're saying, even though it's total ignorant bull@#$% not based in fact whatsoever.

To the original OP:

1.) Post your best extremely high quality work EXCLUSIVELY on your own website

2.) Write a 100% unique "mirror" of this article and post to as many article directories as you like, filtering for PR1 and above and a good mix of DoFollow and NoFollow. Use software if you wish- just learn how to use it RIGHT.

3.) Juice those article links with HIGH QUALITY social bookmarking and blog commenting.

3.) DON'T EVER SPIN ANYTHING EVER. Unless of course, you don't mind putting garbage out there. Think about it- these people are telling you that submitting one high quality article to many directories where the sole purpose is SYNDICATION is BAD, but spinning an article (anything but 100% original work is RUBBISH) and submitting that to just a few directories is GOOD.

RIDICULOUS

And to those of you saying you're successful even with your lack of correct understanding, I challenge you to research more thoroughly with credible resources and you'll see that you could be substantially more successful if you get the facts straight and take appropriate action.

Definitely submit it to as many as possible, the more links the merrier. If you get Article Marketing Robot for the one-time fee then it will submit it to heaps on autopilot for you.

Please,don't limit yourself in submitting your articles.
Make sure the content of your articles is unique.