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Posting articles onsite vs off

by minion
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I have a few quick questions, hopefully somebody has a few quick answers.

I regularly post articles on my Wordpress site, and then bookmark them at a few social sites. How effective is this vs offsite article submission?

I would much rather someone came to my site to view the article, so what's the advantage of posting an off-site article (besides SEO)?

With the huge number of article directories around, should I be trying to submit to all of them, or focus on a few? (I do not want to spin)
#articles #onsite #posting
  • Profile picture of the author Joseph Robinson
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    You have your mindset completely correct. You want those people coming to your site, and possible navigating to other pages on your site. On an article directory they will probably just click off onto some other random person's article. At least on your own page you give yourself the best shot of retaining them for a while.
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  • Profile picture of the author minion
    Thanks for that - it's good to know I'm not heading down the wrong path here. What's the best way to expose articles? I've tried social bookmarking, and it's worked a little (ie: 1 or 2 visitors) but they usually bounce.

    I guess I just need to keep posting, and hope something I write will be good enough to go viral.

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by minion View Post

    With the huge number of article directories around, should I be trying to submit to all of them, or focus on a few? (I do not want to spin)
    No, certainly not spinning.

    One or two article directories, really. (I always use Ezine Articles, and then either GoArticles or ArticlesBase as an addition, according to the niche. You could use all three, if you want, of course. I always submit last to Ezine Articles, nowadays, but you can do them in any order you like).

    As this little thread will confirm to you (I hope!), you're looking at this exactly correctly.
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  • Profile picture of the author minion
    Thanks for the replies - Definitely very helpful.
    I guess I should have done a little more searching before posting this thread
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  • Profile picture of the author Leslyaviel
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    Do not and I repeat, Do not just write random articles hoping to bring traffic to your site. The Key is in Keyword Research. Once you have mastered this skill, you want to post on the best article marketing site. Don't overwhelm yourself in submitting articles to all of them. I use Ezine Articles and it works. Alexa Smith above has the right idea. Do not spin your articles. It is better to outsource them if you have to. Create valuable content in your articles that draw people to clicking on your resource box. This will generate traffic for you for many years to come.

    This does take patients but imagine if you wrote 1000 articles using "golden nugget keywords"; you would be earning from things you did 5+ years later.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Anderson
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    I use articles + social bookmarking and always receive a lot of traffic, mainly from Facebook.
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    • Profile picture of the author dows
      Originally Posted by Mike Anderson View Post

      I use articles + social bookmarking and always receive a lot of traffic, mainly from Facebook.
      dude,whats the connection to facebook ? soc.bookmarking? ololo

      place your articles on relative blogs with good pr.do you have partners among bloggers ? if no - find them,cooperate
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        Originally Posted by dows View Post

        dude,whats the connection to facebook ? soc.bookmarking? ololo

        place your articles on relative blogs with good pr.do you have partners among bloggers ? if no - find them,cooperate
        You're right. The comment makes absolutely no sense.

        No reason to give your best stuff away to article sites. If anything,
        send them a bare-bones summary like most of the drivel on a
        lot of those "article" sites.

        I remember way back I was looking for free content, not knowing any
        better. Tried to find anything worth a dang on EZA. Just sifted through
        the rot and decided I could do better. I even sent my articles
        to EZA., stayed around, got the coffee mug, then realized I'm
        wasting my time on them. I'm sure some people still get some rise
        out of EZA, but I'm done with my article submission days. Now I
        either do more blog posts or create a squidoo lens. Completely
        ditched article marketing. Oh sure, if I have exhausted every
        other thing I could be doing....who knows? But I have yet to
        be at a point in the day where I can't think of something better...

        Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author Ruby Tyagi
    I am also working as a Content Writer for past few years and submit my articles usually to the following directories:

    free-online-articles
    articlesnatch
    goarticles
    ezinearticles
    articleblast
    and, articlerich
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  • Profile picture of the author RachellGrace
    I only use ezinearticles, because of its high PR
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