Article marketing advice please

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Stuart Turnbull

I thought it was about time I started submitting articles to drive traffic, is it OK to submit the same article to multiple article directories?

Or do I need to change it so it is unique for every site I submit it to?

Stuart,

When you think in context of what some article submission sites actually ALLOW, this is really a tricky question....

Some sites do allow the same article to be submitted to their database as one has submitted elsewhere....

Other sites actually openly discourage and do proactive checks to ensure that the originality of their database is safeguarded.

The only thing I can say is that I have analyzed the growth of some sites that strict to 100% originality policies, and they 'seem' to be doing really quite well....

There is some indication that original content is preferred by Google....

Would be interesting to see what others have to say about the issue...

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14 years ago

You want to make the articles somewhat unique. Topic can be the same, however, you should try to change sentences around, wording, etc. From an SEO standpoint, if you are using articles to build backlinks, I have seen that this is pretty important.

There are software programs called "Article Spinners" that do exactly that almost automatically for you. Input your article, and then hit the spin button, and out comes a unique article. Now, it's not 100% perfect nor automated, but a decent spinner does an okay job.

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paj_mccarthy

14 years ago

Originally Posted by eiilers

You want to make the articles somewhat unique. Topic can be the same, however, you should try to change sentences around, wording, etc. From an SEO standpoint, if you are using articles to build backlinks, I have seen that this is pretty important.

What tests have you done to conclude that unique content is better for SEO than duplicated content?

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eiilers 14 years ago

Originally Posted by paj_mccarthy

What tests have you done to conclude that unique content is better for SEO than duplicated content?

I've done SEO campaigns for a ton of clients throughout the years and article marketing is a big part of our backlinking strategy (in addition to a lot of other methods). We've seen that by "spinning" an article we are much less likely to get slapped by Google for building links too fast, and also we've seen that the links are actually WORTH more in terms of weight.

So, a link from an article that is 100% identical and is on 100 other article sites is not worth as much as one that is unique (or seems unique) from 100 articles sites. So 100 links from UNIQUE articles are worth a lot more in terms of link relevance and importance than 100 links from the same article.

This is just based on about 30 SEO campaigns the past few years... Of course this is not FACT, but it's my theory based on my SEO experience.
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rehema 14 years ago

Some of these thing you will only about that after you have done it yourself so hat you can see the results.

Since I am one of those that have practice this I will say that yes you can have the same article to many article directory. But the fun thing in all this is that you will be ranking only one an of them the others will not be raking good.

I believe this will really help you for more details try it and search for your article after a week long.
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marketingva

14 years ago

I second Alexa. She outlines what I do with my articles and I get great results.

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Zack Lim

14 years ago

There are many old threads that contains tons of useful information on article marketing.

I have personally bookmark these 2 threads and I hope you find it useful

1) http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...marketing.html

2) http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...icle+marketing

The threads are long but it really contains tons of valuable nuggets inside.

Hope you will find it useful

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Yoel Cohen

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Stuart Turnbull

I thought it was about time I started submitting articles to drive traffic, is it OK to submit the same article to multiple article directories?

Or do I need to change it so it is unique for every site I submit it to?

I would say submit unique articles to the most trafficked article directories and actually work on getting them ranked high on Google.

You can then use 1 article to submit to multiple directories and use their resource box to backlink to the articles your working on ranking and to your website.

The main goal is traffic - I don't care if its my website on position #1 on google bringing in 100 visits per day or one of my articles on ezine article (for example) sending in 100 visits per day.

All you really want is the quickest way to get traffic and by piggybacking on authority websites it works faster.

About duplicate content: So what?

What is RSS and syndication all about? There are a lot of myths about duplicate content.

If you follow what Matt Cuts says it basically all boils down to - google doesn't like to see the 2 websites with the exact same content.

Article directories have 100's of 1000's of articles - its OK to submit the same article to multiple directories (if they allow it), just to get backlinks. However if you want each article to rank individually then then each one needs to be unique because search engines (especially Google) will only display 1 unique version of content (the one with the most authority) in the SERP's

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Yoel Cohen

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

I care enormously, because I find it affects my long-term income enormously. I'll do far better (in all my different niches) if it's my site that's at the top of the SERP's rather than an article directory. And I can keep it there much longer, too. Promoting an article directory by doing backlinks to my work there may help with fast sales, but the long-term downside with it is that if I do that, I'm making it harder rather than easier for myself to build my own authority sites. For me, one is "quick income" but the other is "a business": I develop only my own properties, not other people's.

I was expecting such a comment...

I agree with you to some extent because it's your property which is ranking and not "someone elses". However, sometimes keeping a website up there for long requires a lot of work (updating content, backlinks, etc').

When you "piggyback" on the authority article directories have (especially ezinearticles.com) and assuming you KNOW how to do it CORRECTLY, you're article can rank quicker and stay up there for a longer time.

Now, yes, maybe the traffic would be a bit less, because of the ads on the article directories CTR issues etc', BUT, you need to remember that every person who clicks through your article is PRE-QUALIFIED, meaning they are waiting to take action and once they click your link in the resource box and arrive on your landing page they are more likely to convert.

There are other benefits too...Think about picking a keyword, optimizing for it and it does not convert, that sucks~! Sure I have a budget for testing keywords with PPC, first and then scaling campaigns with SEO but not everyone does. Furthermore, not everyone who has the budget knows how to run a PPC campaign even if it's just for testing purposes.

By getting your articles ranked high and QUICKLY (if it takes too long it aint worth it) you can cost effectively test keywords (and yes there are also ways to track which article converts for you based on title and article ID). But there's more to it: Everytime your article ranks high your link inside the article pointing to your website is worth 10 times more than other links in terms of relevancy and link equity - and that has a tremendous impact on your overall website SEO efforts.

Think about it: Most article directories are considered as Authority websites and you have a backlink from a high ranking webpage off an authority website with SUPER relevant content surrounding that anchor text..that's got to be worth something...agree?

So, in my opinion, in the long term, getting articles ranked high for keywords with GOOD search volume in your niche is definitely profitable ALL in terms of TIME, effort, testing, traffic, your own website's SEO AND conversions (those are prequalified visitors who visit your website).

Just my thoughts...

Yoel

PS - How the HECK did I let your response pass me by for over a MONTH??

Warning: lame excuse coming:

I was busy....

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14 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

It's easy to outrank article directories. Most people don't do it because they don't try. I'm a technophobic, incompetent, 20-year-old student and I can easily outrank Ezine Articles for my long-tail keywords. All I need to do, to achieve that, is to take care to publish them myself before submitting them to EZA, and do (or outsource) some additional SEO. And I can include in those articles (and probably can't even avoid doing so) other keywords for which I know EZA will outrank me, too.

Now that is a new thought. I wonder if this technique will actually help rank the articles on your site higher. In other words, if your articles receive EZA's stamp of approval and Google recognizes your personal site as the originator of the document, does the level of relevancy of the article on you site increase in Google's eyes???

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Yoel Cohen

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

I wasn't expecting such a reply, to be honest. I'd hoped for a very different one, if you'll excuse my saying so.

You're excused, what answer were you looking for?

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

But I'll still respond in a couple of hours rather than waiting 5 weeks ...

That's cold

gimme some credit for my lame excuse - it was honest and I really didn't see it. Otherwise I would have said something immediately, you did have an intelligent comment and made some valid points.

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Big incomes from article marketing are not generally earned by people not willing to work.

And are also not earned by people who won't put in the time and effort (or money) to get organic traffic to their own websites.

Originally Posted by Yoel Cohen

BUT, you need to remember that every person who clicks through your article is PRE-QUALIFIED, meaning they are waiting to take action and once they click your link in the resource box and arrive on your landing page they are more likely to convert.

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

And you think that isn't true of the people on my website? :confused:

Never said that. The point I tried to make is that if a person reads an article and does not click the ads and does not click the back button or closes the window but does click the link in your resource box - then that person wants whatever you're promising him/her in the resource box and you have better chances of getting the prospect to take action when the prospect lands on your website.. Hence the article puts the prospect in a certain state of mind.

Originally Posted by Yoel Cohen

if it takes too long it aint worth it

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

That isn't my experience at all: my experience is that some of the most gradual traffic increases and developments turn out to be the most lucrative and sustainable ones, whereas the fast floods of traffic usually produce comparatively few sales and can disappear just as quickly.

Alexa you're quoting snippets which helps with the overload of the WF database but that snippet wasn't the point - that statement was in parenthesis and it was part of the following, that has to do with testing, saving money in the long run and doing things effectively.

Here's what I meant

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Originally Posted by Yoel Cohen

There are other benefits too...Think about picking a keyword, optimizing for it and it does not convert, that sucks~! Sure I have a budget for testing keywords with PPC, first and then scaling campaigns with SEO but not everyone does. Furthermore, not everyone who has the budget knows how to run a PPC campaign even if it's just for testing purposes.

By getting your articles ranked high and QUICKLY (if it takes too long it aint worth it) you can cost effectively test keywords (and yes there are also ways to track which article converts for you based on title and article ID). But there's more to it: Everytime your article ranks high your link inside the article pointing to your website is worth 10 times more than other links in terms of relevancy and link equity - and that has a tremendous impact on your overall website SEO efforts.

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Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

On the contrary, most article directories rank absolutely nowhere and won't even still exist this time next year. There are many thousands of article directories out there. You and I have probably heard of 40 or 50 of them. Not exactly "most".

You catch me on every word..don't you?
You can be an excellent lawyer!

That's right - most don't but the big ones do!
here are the top 3:
Ezinearticle.com - 53.3% organic ~ 4,500,000 uniques/month
ArticlesBase.com - 53.24% organic ~ 1,500,000 uniques/month
Buzzle.com - 66.16% organic ~ 2,850,000 uniques/month

There are others too that get enough traffic which is worth "piggybacking" on their authority and getting infront of that traffic - if you do it effectively. Blasting the internet with 1000's of articles is not considered doing things the right way.

Excuse my "most", next time I'll be VERY careful with words

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

It's easy to outrank article directories. Most people don't do it because they don't try. I'm a technophobic, incompetent, 20-year-old student and I can easily outrank Ezine Articles for my long-tail keywords. All I need to do, to achieve that, is to take care to publish them myself before submitting them to EZA, and do (or outsource) some additional SEO. And I can include in those articles (and probably can't even avoid doing so) other keywords for which I know EZA will outrank me, too.

Sure it is and it's even easier getting your articles ranked for keywords that get a lot of search volume with just a few backlinks for competitive key phrases.

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

All I need to do, to achieve that, is to take care to publish them myself before submitting them to EZA...

That's cool and works, I have a slightly different approach.
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Now that is a new thought. I wonder if this technique will actually help rank the articles on your site higher. In other words, if your articles receive EZA's stamp of approval and Google recognizes your personal site as the originator of the document, does the level of relevancy of the article on you site increase in Google's eyes???

Not only will you get more traffic from each article you submit, but you'll also find that each article that's ranking and has a backlink to your website (obviously) will help your website rank much higher! So that's killing 2 birds with one stone.

It has more to do with the link in the article pointing to your site - not the originator of the article itself.

If you're article is ranked for a specific keyword and you have a link pointing to a webpage on your website for the same keyword (assuming your webpage is optimized for that keyword and with some off page optimization) you'll also see your webpage ranking. Thus you'll dominate more of Google's first page for that same keyword..

See the following:

Originally Posted by Yoel Cohen

Everytime your article ranks high your link inside the article pointing to your website is worth 10 times more than other links in terms of relevancy and link equity - and that has a tremendous impact on your overall website SEO efforts.

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Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

I want the "authority website" to be my website, not EZA's.

So do I! But let's face reality EZA will always be an authority website because people CONSTANTLY submit articles to it and build backlinks, (published articles, manually, and social bokkmarks etc').

So what we can do is use that which already exists and harness it's power to help us build authority. We can piggyback on that, get infront of the traffic and use EZA's Silo structure design do rank very quickly, easily and for a LONG time.

We are planting seeds and getting our name and website out there. It's just another avenue of traffic which also passes authority.

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

I'm building a real business, not just trying to snatch quick sales.

Don't make me feel like the "bad guy"

I'm also building my online business and have been doing so since 2006. It's not about "snatching quick sales" it's about having more people visit your website for a long term by having more avenues of traffic out there and doing things the smarter and more effective way, not the harder way.

The problem is that many people do things without knowing what their doing and then they become frustrated as to why it doesn't work.

We're all here to help one each other.

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Are you referring to all EZA's Adsense?!

Touché! That really gave me a good mood!
I think you know what I meant

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Yoel Cohen

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

The problem is that the most of the things that most people believe about article marketing aren't actually true.

People are sometimes very quick to wander into these threads and regurgitate what they've read in some other forum, which was a load of nonsense in the first place.

I agree with you 100%

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

So I have a perhaps-too-extravagant enthusiasm for joining in these discussions.

That's cool...and you're doing everyone a favor by joining in.

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Yes, I knew ... just trying a "touché moment": sorry!

Don't be sorry - I liked it it was "spicy" and actually made me laugh!

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nplatt

14 years ago

I don't count on articles in directories for traffic. If I get traffic from the article, great, if not, great. Once in a while, depending on the topic, I'll spend a couple hours writing a really good article for a directory in the hope that it will get republished.

I use them solely for backlinks. The articles I submit are not great. I don't labor over the psychology of drawing in the reader and getting them to click on the resource link. (I do that on my site, where the money is made and I fully control my links.) Article directories (or as some people call them AdSense farms) simply steal too much traffic for my efforts.

I am not a big fan of building others' assets while I get thrown the table scraps. It remind me too much of being an employee. That is exactly the feeling I get when I write a good article, post it to a directory, and see a big bar of ads inserted between the title and body of the article.

If I can write four passing articles in two hours, or one excellent article in two hours, I'll take the four passing articles for backlinks rather than the one for traffic. Then I'll move on to other link building.

I want the "authority website" to be my website, not EZA's.

I strongly agree and as Alexa mentioned, it's easy to outrank EZA.

I could put efforts into building backlinks to an EZA and get it on the first page of the SERPS along with my website. That's good, having multiple assets on the first page.

Or I could continue building a strong and diverse link profile to my site and try to reach the number one spot. To me, that's even better. To equal the traffic in G's #1 spot, you need to hold every one of positions 2-8. Not something I want to attempt.

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agrajtech11

14 years ago

You will have to change your article every time because if you will submit same content of article in different places the owner will delete your article and can ban you for submitting article.

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noodle2005

14 years ago

Originally Posted by agrajtech11

You will have to change your article every time because if you will submit same content of article in different places the owner will delete your article and can ban you for submitting article.

Err what???

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JasonB

14 years ago

Originally Posted by agrajtech11

You will have to change your article every time because if you will submit same content of article in different places the owner will delete your article and can ban you for submitting article.

They are trying really hard to contribute and get a relevant post inside this thread... :confused: But I have the same answer? What are you talking about?

Originally Posted by noodle2005

Err what???

NOODLE! Back at it again!

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noodle2005 14 years ago

Originally Posted by GuruCreation

NOODLE! Back at it again!

Hey Mr Creation, i only said what everybody else was thinking
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14 years ago

Yes, it is perfectly alright to submit the same article to multiple article directories without changing it.

If you have time and know-how then why not, you can rewrite your article or you can let professional writer to do it for you but it is not really necessary and can be very time consuming and expensive.

Lot of people take well written article and put it trough one of those article spinning software thinking that they can create hundred new articles out of one article, but they actually make it low quality, hard to read article and often times the articles does not make any sense at all after the spinning.

So, if you do not have time and money to get your articles professionally rewritten then submitting it as it is perfectly alright.

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Nicola Lane

14 years ago

Threads asking how to do Article Marketing come up quite often here - so I have a standard reply - I hope this helps:

Two brilliant threads to read about article marketing are these:

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...marketing.html

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...eza-first.html

Read them both - all the way through - and take notes.

For further information I recommend the following directory - It is education in article marketing - a guide book and monthly newsletters - with a directory thrown in! You can read what Warriors think about it here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...alks-walk.html

Promote My Articles Article Marketing Service

I can also recommend the WSO's from this guy:

View Profile: Zeus66

This guy also has some good stuff - some article marketing some on other things

View Profile: Steven Wagenheim

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johnben1444

14 years ago

It depends on what you really want. If you are into SEO that wouldn't be of much help but if you are trying to get traffic to your landing page that is fine. There are many article distribution service out there to help you distribute your article to lots of article directories for a small fee.

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PCRoger

14 years ago

I write unique articles for my own sites - always; never publish to directory.

I submit to 10 directories the exact same article.

While I may change things around for testing, Google isn't going to think changing a few things around makes a different article.

I spend my time creating backlinks and new articles.

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Jamian

14 years ago

Just change the headlines and you good to go.

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Stuart Turnbull

14 years ago

Just to say thanks to everyone who offered their advice, I've got some really good info to go on!

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tyroneshum

14 years ago

Actually, I believe article sites accept the same article submitted to other article directories as long as you have all the same information (pen name, author name, etc) making the content all originally from you. The only issue that will occur here is when you're submitting the same content from an article directory that's been copied from someone else that makes it duplicated but since you all have the rights to submit the same content to directories, I don't think it's punishable.

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BonganiS

14 years ago

Hi!

Some article directories do not have a problem with the same article. However, some directories like EzineArticles.com and Buzzle.com do not accept second hand articles. They want fresh and unique articles.

If you use PLR articles, re-write them.

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14 years ago

This thread is going to save me a great deal of work...

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ButterflyGarden

14 years ago

You can submit/syndicate the same article but it is better if you mix it up.

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Oleg Cherkasky 14 years ago

I found a website by Laura Burke, she is a member of this forum.

It's skipthescams.com

She gives out a free faq on affiliate marketing that is very informative, I emailed her for advice and on the same day she answered my question so I think that she would be happy to help if you email her.

Her email is in the faq which is a pdf file.

WHOOPSEY, I misread the title and thought it was affiliate marketing.
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JasonB

14 years ago

I posted this on another forum where someone basically asked the same question.

"I write an article of about 500 words or so. Post it to my website, then rewrite and post it to either EZA or Buzzle. Once accepted and published there, I take the same article and post it to several other websites.

When I post to EZA or Buzzle, I link back to my main url of my website and one to the original article on my site. I take the exact same article that I posted to one of those directories and I post to all the other directories - I link back to the EZA or Buzzle article and back to my original article on my website.

Sounds like a lot, but once you do it several times, you will really get the hang of it and do about 2 or 3 a day. I'm currently doing one a day.

Neither EZA or Buzzle accept articles that are on other sites or attributed to other authors. And the reason for both is that I find I get more traffic from one than the other, depending on what I'm writing about."

Which sends a hell of a lot of traffic to my site.

I'm basically giving my site and the EZA or Buzzle article link, some authority by posting backlinks to them using other article directories.

There is no problem with this - Duplicate content or not. This works and works very well.

If you have any other specific questions, give me a shout and I would be more than happy to help you out.

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14 years ago

Hello Alexa!

Originally Posted by GuruCreation

Neither EZA or Buzzle accept articles that are on other sites or attributed to other authors.

Let me reword that... EZA will not accept your articles if they find them on other sites where there is no source to the article(no author) or attributed to a different author name, other than yours. Otherwise, you can submit the same article to EZA, that you submitted the thousands of other directories.

Here is an email I received from EZA in regards to the above statement:

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Thank you for the clarification. We verify exclusive rights based on the author name associated with the article submitted to us.

I'm sorry, this article is listed elsewhere without crediting your author name, which means we are unable to verify exclusive rights based on the author name.

The article contains word-for-word content to the article found here:
(Removed link)

... which is not attributed to you. Can you please clarify the source of the article? If this is yours, we require that you add your name to the found article.

If you are able to add your name to the found article, you can resubmit your article for review.

If you believe this website is posting your content without crediting you, I would suggest that you contact the owner/webmaster of the site and ask them to fix the oversight.

We require that all submitted articles be either original articles written by you or articles to which you have an exclusive right to. Please keep in mind that to have an exclusive right to an article, only your name may be associated with it.

Thank you,
Kimberly
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Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Hi again, Mr Creation ... to article marketers, the key difference between the two sites, EZA and Buzzle (and in my case, and all my clients' cases, the reason why we never use Buzzle at all) is that EZA will accept a copy of all your articles exactly as you've previously published them yourself, without amending or editing, but Buzzle won't - it's the only article directory I know of that requires unique content.

I'm really sorry to sound so argumentative, but this is just not so (regarding EZA). And it's exactly the misinformation I'm struggling to correct all the time. All my articles (and there are hundreds of them) have been published on my own sites in the identical form in which they're submitted to and accepted by EZA. The same is also true for almost all of my clients.

Buzzle is strictly unique - no article can be found anywhere else, otherwise they won't publish it. So, get it published there first, then post it to other directories.

I don't submit to Buzzle if I'm working with a client of mine, but I use them for my own personal use. And I find the traffic to be a little different in most cases when I use Buzzle or EZA.. (Just my opinion)

Alexa, you can call me Jason

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14 years ago

Originally Posted by ButterflyGarden

You can submit/syndicate the same article but it is better if you mix it up.

To EZA yes and to many other article directories, but what are you trying to achieve?

Originally Posted by GuruCreation

Neither EZA or Buzzle accept articles that are on other sites or attributed to other authors.

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Hi again, Mr Creation ... to article marketers, the key difference between the two sites, EZA and Buzzle (and in my case, and all my clients' cases, the reason why we never use Buzzle at all) is that EZA will accept a copy of all your articles exactly as you've previously published them yourself, without amending or editing, but Buzzle won't - it's the only article directory I know of that requires unique content.

I'm really sorry to sound so argumentative, but this is just not so (regarding EZA). And it's exactly the misinformation I'm struggling to correct all the time. All my articles (and there are hundreds of them) have been published on my own sites in the identical form in which they're submitted to and accepted by EZA. The same is also true for almost all of my clients.

I warmly and cordially invite anyone/everyone who persists in misunderstanding this and misleading others on this subject to read this fine thread, where there's so much to learn!

Let me add Buzzle does not agree and EZA does
The following is quoted from EZA at:
Editorial Guidelines For Submitting Quality Articles To EzineArticles.com

"MUST BE AN ORIGINAL ARTICLE THAT YOU WROTE. If you work for an author as an employee or contractor and are submitting the article, please submit the article as if it was from the original author including his or her email address and name.

MUST NOT BE AN ARTICLE YOU RIPPED-OFF FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN OR BOUGHT (PLR). If you did hire a ghost writer to write your articles, you MUST have an EXCLUSIVE LICENSE that *only* allows your name to be associated with the articles produced for you. Do not waste your time or ours by buying article packs that have non-exclusive licenses as we reject those articles. Why do we do this? #1) It makes you look like a fraud because you're putting your name on someone else's works that already may have hundreds or thousands of other authors who already put their name on the exact same works and #2) we do not want more than one copy of any article in our directory.
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PLUGIN??!?

Furthermore EZA has CREATED a wordpress plugin that allows you to submit YOUR articles DIRECTLY from your wordpress blog/site:

I quote:

"Over the years, we’ve recommended that one of the best ways to increase your article count was to repurpose your existing content, like blog posts and other materials, into articles. Trouble is, there’s never been an easy way to do that … until now.

The EzineArticles WordPress Plugin* will provide the ability to simultaneously publish new posts to the web and submit them as articles to EzineArticles.com. Not only that, it allows any existing posts to be selectively submitted as articles without ever leaving WordPress."

You can find out how to get the plugin for free here:
Submit Your Articles Directly from WordPress

That is one heck of a time saver...

Some tips:

If you're outsourcing content creation you can set up a wordpress blog on your domain in a subfolder...set the wordpress options to:

"I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors"

That can be found when you login to your admin panel IN WORDPRESS under:
Settings -> Privacy Settings -> I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors

Then simply create an "author account" for your staff and they can submit the articles there which automatically updates in your ezine articles account.

By clicking the "I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors" you'll be preventing the search engines from crawling and indexing that content...It will automatically add a "disallow all" to your robots.txt file.

So it depends - ask yourself do you really want the content on EZA to be unique?

It all depends on your strategy.

If you want the content indexed the set the option to:
"I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Sphere, Technorati) and archivers"

It get's better though...

You can add a "no follow" link from your blog to that "inner blog" so your visitors can read the content and even merge both RSS feeds with Yahoo Pipes so the people who read your feed can read content from the non indexed blog WITHOUT IT getting indexed...

It sounds like a handful but it is VERY quick!! and once you set it up you're done for life!

You can also add that Feed to your Aweber auto responder...they have a service which is called "blog broadcasting" - check that out...maybe it's something you want to use..

And it Gets even BETTER!!! - FREE auto submit and Scheduling ?!?!

You can use the built in scheduling function wordpress has to auto submit your articles to EZA by date...

So if you do not have a premium account (costs $100 monthly) you can schedule your posts and they will automatically be submitted..

that's a great free solution! (just take into consideration the approval time and that they usually do not approve over the weekend)

If your staff is trained they can do that for you...

Cheers,
Yoel

PS - if you don't outsource you can do it on your own and it will still save you HEAPS of time!
If you outsource this will help you cut costs!
Less staff work = Less Time = Less to Pay out = More savings :-)

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JonAlfredsson

14 years ago

Hi - I do agree that there won't be any problem if you submit the same articles to multiple directories. But if you do some little changes it would help you to rank well

Anything that is convenient with you would be fine. If you more time to change your articles a little bit - then do so. There's no harm in trying.

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Falade Oluwasola

14 years ago

Thank you.
It is always good to re brand and retouch article to give it a new look.

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LIndaB 14 years ago

Personally, I like to get my articles into as many directories and blogs as is absolutely possible. Even though a lot of the lower tier directories won't give you much traffic, they still give you backlinks, which will push your site up further in the rankings - thus giving you more traffic that way.

I do like to submit to Ezine and the top directories first, then spin the article a little bit (especially the title and first paragraph) and submit to other places. I think the more places you submit to, the more bang you get for your buck. Why spend money or time for articles and only submit them to a couple of places?
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theperfectstrategy

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Stuart Turnbull

I thought it was about time I started submitting articles to drive traffic, is it OK to submit the same article to multiple article directories?

Or do I need to change it so it is unique for every site I submit it to?

I won't recommend submitting the same article in different directories. I would say you submit different content with different anchor texts. Otherwise you may get short term success but not the long term one.

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IMStudentforlife 14 years ago

I'll re-post this question in this thread.

"Would any one know of a site that would list the differences of the individual site's TOS ? As to save time.

And what about using one account but having two/three Aliases for writing different articles? as I have two blogs that are in the same category but are a slightly different niche"
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Brekat23 14 years ago

Really great thread here, I'm about to dive into the world of article marketing myself if I can ever transition out of this 'technical' phase of setting up my site/blog/plugins/subscriberform/everything else first haha.

I'll save this though, and refer to it if need be, thanks again!
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NicoleBeckett

14 years ago

It's best to make your articles unique. That way, you look more credible, and you'll avoid any duplicate content issues.

Remember, one of the biggest benefits of article marketing is that it can allow you to establish yourself as an expert. If you're coming up with quality, unique articles, people will be more inclined to think you're an expert (and hopefully buy from you!!

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jdsypolt

14 years ago

I wanted to add something to this conversation. I apologize if I missed this point in another post, but it seems to me that if you are aiming at getting targeted traffic to your website, you would need to submit spun articles to many article directories.

If you expect the search engines to give your site credit for a duplicate article on many article sites, I wouldn't hold my breath because duplicate content doesn't get you anywhere with google. I believe you would get more quality backlinks and more generic traffic to your site with 100 original spun articles on 100 different article sites than you would with the exact same article posted to the same 100 article sites.

In the latter, you only get traffic if your article is read on a particular article site. However, if you have 100 strong links to your site with all the keywords you are targeting, that seems to me to have the most effect on traffic and profit.

Please let me know if I'm not looking at the correctly.

Thanks,

Jimmie

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12holger34

14 years ago

If you want to distribute articles at the same time, just got to www. submityourarticle.com

It depends on your subject and you will get out 500-900 articles by writing only one article.

Do not forget to add your source with the links, to promote your website.

I hope this will help you to write articles effectively.

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IMStudentforlife 14 years ago

Originally Posted by IMStudentforlife

"Would any one know of a site that would list the differences of the individual site's TOS ? As to save time.

That was my original question, so this site below is in way doing that very same thing?

Originally Posted by 12holger34

If you want to distribute articles at the same time, just got to

I've been burned before.. but then again.. haven't we all in some way or another..
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