Need Advice on Article Marketing

by maksym
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Hi to all,
would like to get some advice with article marketing from SEO warriors.
So... I have original articles on my blog. And I wanted to post those articles to big articles directories like ezarticle, etc.
And yes, google already indexed my articles at my blog.
But I am worrying about new algorithm in google - 'panda', when you can't
use duplicated content.
So... can I still post my original articles to those big article directories after google indexation? Thanks
#advice #article #marketing
  • Profile picture of the author NicoleBeckett
    There is nothing to stop you from publishing content from your own website to the article directories (as long as it's been indexed on your site first). Contrary to popular belief, publishing your article on a bunch of different directories is not "duplicate content"; instead, it's "syndicated content".

    Think about it... a major reason for submitting your articles to directories is so that other website owners will like it and publish it on their sites (complete with all of your links). If that were considered "duplicate content", the article directories wouldn't serve much of a purpose

    Duplicate content actually refers to content that's duplicated on your *own* site - like if you had several pages with the same content on them. There is no harm in submitting the same article to a bunch of different websites.

    However, from reading your post, there is one concern that I have. If you've written the content for your blog, I would imagine that your blog posts are a lot less informal (and maybe even much shorter) than traditional articles. If I were you, I'd take a close look at my content and see if it will work as articles.
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    • Profile picture of the author Rollmodl
      Originally Posted by NicoleBeckett View Post

      There is nothing to stop you from publishing content from your own website to the article directories (as long as it's been indexed on your site first). Contrary to popular belief, publishing your article on a bunch of different directories is not "duplicate content"; instead, it's "syndicated content".

      Think about it... a major reason for submitting your articles to directories is so that other website owners will like it and publish it on their sites (complete with all of your links). If that were considered "duplicate content", the article directories wouldn't serve much of a purpose

      Duplicate content actually refers to content that's duplicated on your *own* site - like if you had several pages with the same content on them. There is no harm in submitting the same article to a bunch of different websites.

      However, from reading your post, there is one concern that I have. If you've written the content for your blog, I would imagine that your blog posts are a lot less informal (and maybe even much shorter) than traditional articles. If I were you, I'd take a close look at my content and see if it will work as articles.
      Excellent information .
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    • Profile picture of the author maksym
      2NicoleBeckett
      Thanks a lot for your great explanation. May be I will try with some articles
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  • Profile picture of the author alex jones
    The best way is to post some articles and then find out if there is some problem or not, i my self dont see any problems.
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  • When you stop thinking about Article Directories as "Link Dumps" which most unskilled IM'rs do and start thinking about them as Presell Tools you can make money. Create content that people will want to scrape and include in their own blogs. Make sure you embed links to your offers in a way that allows you to change the offer from your end should a program go south. Most AD's have very limited opportunities to leverage links within articles.

    But better than Article Directories is Social Bookmarking. Where you link back to your own content. But not as a link dump. You have to be able to produce popular content that people will vote up and distribute. That's the real crux of online marketing, most people can not create content that matches the desires of what people really want. And people don't read as much as they scan, so you should spend a disproportionate amount of time learning how to structure Titles.

    Think about Clickbank for a moment. Go there and look at all the many offers they have for you to promote. Look at the landing pages of those with high gravity and popularity vs those on the other end. And what you will find is COMPELLING CONTENT. Most of the top sellers higher professional copywriters to craft their message.

    Being able to write this type of content is the real key.

    I've purchased books on copy writing, and I study online materials. The better the copywriter the better your opportunity to earn a real income.

    Marketing is always about your audience, so many people are ego centric that they can't make money. That's just what I see over and over online.
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  • Profile picture of the author imdomination
    I would personally spin your article and then submit it to the big article directories. If you spin it by hand it should still be 100% readable, and you can submit multiple copies to all of the different article directories without have any duplicate content at all.
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  • Profile picture of the author banucci
    I would use best article spinner that way you can make say about ten unique articles from the one you have made, and start adding them to the article sites, dont think it will matters as long as you have indexed it on your own first own site,

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  • Profile picture of the author Stuart william
    hi you can publish your web content on article directories its not duplicate content that's called syndicate content, you can use syndicate content pointing to your sites but cant use duplicate content from others website.
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  • Profile picture of the author markowe
    I tend to wait until the articles are indexed on my site and then "syndicate them out" (if you can call using AMR syndicating ) to article directories with a backlink to the original content.

    As Nicole pointed out, this is a perfectly natural phenomenon on the Internet, and I have got a pretty good indexing rate with this without ANY spinning at all (though I guess I might get a better approval rate if I did spin, but I just HATE spinning so it's too bad).

    For low-competition keywords I have seen this boost my ranking nicely. Personally I think spinning was something Google invented to keep SEO people busy
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    • Profile picture of the author NicoleBeckett
      Originally Posted by markowe View Post

      (though I guess I might get a better approval rate if I did spin
      Actually, you would probably wind up with a *lower* approval rate. Virtually all of the article directories (except, I believe, Buzzle) will accept previously-published content, as long as you are the author of it (meaning that you can submit the same article to a variety of directories). By spinning, you're just creating a lower-quality version of your article (and, in many cases, a completely unreadable version). After Panda, many of the article directories have gotten much more picky about what they publish. If they see spun gibberish, there's a good chance your article will be rejected.

      And, remember, you're not just trying to impress the editors at an article directory. You're also trying to impress your readers (for obvious reasons ) and other site owners, in hopes that they will syndicate your article - thus giving you more exposure and a higher-quality link.


      Originally Posted by markowe View Post

      but I just HATE spinning so it's too bad).
      Me too It's unbelievable to me that people think they can actually make money off of the spun content they publish.
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  • Profile picture of the author markowe
    Nicole, I should say that when I use the term "spinning", I mean manual spinning to perfection - so that every "spun" version can stand alone as a quality article. Anything less is a rapid descent into, as you say, gibberish, and I don't do that latter kind. As for the former kind, it is EXTREMELY time-consuming and regardless of what some would have us believe, next to impossible. I believe there are only actually a limited number of ways of putting across a particular point well, not an infinity! Otherwise published authors might consider "spinning" their work for extra exposure So I tend not to do the former either.

    Of course, it has to be emphasised that this kind of "article marketing" that makes heavy use of spinning is not done in order to impress readers or article directory editors but purely for SEO reasons, in the hope of fooling Google into thinking that a lot of different people are linking back to the same site from different articles that are loosely on the same subject area.

    This assumes that: a) Google can't distinguish most spun content, b) that those kinds of article directory are not devalued in and of themselves in SEO terms and c) that Google DOES in fact devalue links from syndicated content (i.e. lots of copies of the same article!)

    I have to say that NONE of the above has been proven to my satisfaction. So although I also largely use "article marketing" for SEO purposes too, I do not use spinning, but would be interested to see if my acceptance rate is lower for it in those lower-quality directories with no human editors or where they just don't care.
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