Posting Articles to Ezine AFTER Posting to your own Site? (and the X-Factor method)

I personally don't see how its a bad thing if your article outranks your website. As long as its a decent, unique article with a strong call to action and a link to your site, I don't see a problem.

Also, backlinks from relevant sites/articles are more valuable than non-relevant sites.

The folks who talk about posting articles on their own site are mostly in the article marketing world and they are doing it to receive traffic to their sites. By posting the article on their site first, they are getting credit for it in the eyes of Google rather then the article directory. A lot of folks take the view why help the article directories develop their business when they should be focussing on theirs first and foremost.

If you are doing Adsense, ideally you want the article on your site and not an article directory. There is only going to be a small percentage that click through anyway so why not focus the efforts on getting all the visitors to your site instead and getting them to click your Adsense ad rather then the one on Ezine, Article Dashboard, etc. And also the prospect of having two pages competing for the attention of the web user does not work in your favour.

I personally don't post the same articles on my site to article sites. What I do is write a different article for my site and a different one for article directories...it works!

Both strategies are geared toward the simple fact that if you click on an ad over at EZA, then EZA gets paid, but the article's author doesn't. You want the reader over on your site, where the ads pay you - and you can use a lightbox script to get an opt-in, or a CPA gateway to make a buck fifty, or even directly sell a $47 product. It's about getting the user under your direct control.

Even when all you want is for them to keep reading and bookmark your site, you want them bookmarking your own site, not your EZA author page.

And they're quite right, too, for all the reasons explained in this thread.

In the long run, it really matters.

It's not just about backlinks/traffic. It's much more significant than short term, individual-article-based considerations like that. It's about whether you ever get to develop anything approaching an "authority site", or have the long-term handicap that article directories will always outrank your own sites for your own keywords. That's one big-sized, shoot-yourself-in-the-foot handicap to have.

In the short term, on a per-article basis, there's typically nothing you can do about it. Especially if your site's new-ish and not well established. You post the article on your site, get it indexed there, and then submit it to EZA and elsewhere. Not so long after that, the EZA copy will outrank the copy on your own site, temporarily. That doesn't matter in the long run. In the long run, your own site will "win". Many of us here are "living proof"!

You should never post exact same article which is posted in your site in article directories
It can have negative SEO effect to your site and the directory article can also outrank you.

You should always write another article with related keywords to your articles and submit it to article directories.

Here are my thoughts.

Yes, it's always better to put any articles (if they're good) on your own sites first, before submitting them elsewhere.

But if your site is a micro-niche AdSense site about Leopard-skin leotards, and you've been backlinking it with articles about general health/fitness, you're not going to want those particular articles on your tightly-focused AdSense site, are you, since they're not relevant at all.

So, to make use of all these articles, why not create one big, separate website, on which you can publish (and get indexed) any "backlinks articles" you write, first?

Sure, the topic of the articles will be all over the place, but what's it matter?

And, over time, you'll most likely amass some authority and PageRank to that site all the same, and could perhaps even monetise that with AdSense or affiliate links, or via some other means.

The major drawback to this approach, of course, is that anyone visiting that big "article depository" of yours will be able to quickly discover - if they're so inclined - what all your micro-niche sites are. But then again, people can usually do that anyway, one way or another, if they're determined.

Of course, the other thing to consider is not to write articles solely for backlinks at all, but find some other means through which to acquire them - such as through blog commenting, participating in forum discussions, or whatever else.

Just my tuppence.

Thanks Alexa for the info and the link.

Thank you all for your input...there are some truly generous people here...