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How best to maximize traffic with article directories?

by skibbz
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Is it better to post a thousand articles to the best articles directories like only 10 of them such as ezine ,articles base, go articles, article alley etc or to post 1000 articles to 1000 article directories one to each, even if the some of the article directories include low traffic directories?.

what is more effective? plenty articles to a few of the best or plenty articles to one each even if the quality is not so great?
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    There are three potential values to an article directory. If an article does not offer any of the three, it is a total waste of your time.

    1. Click-through traffic;

    2. Indexed by Google, and valid link popularity to your website for SEO;

    3. Syndicated to third-party websites that have the potential to deliver one of the other two values.


    #2 is the least likely of all three possibilities, but it does offer some value to your end game.
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  • Profile picture of the author Benjamin Ehinger
    Originally Posted by skibbz View Post

    Is it better to post a thousand articles to the best articles directories like only 10 of them such as ezine ,articles base, go articles, article alley etc or to post 1000 articles to 1000 article directories one to each, even if the some of the article directories include low traffic directories?.

    what is more effective? plenty articles to a few of the best or plenty articles to one each even if the quality is not so great?
    There are some that make a living just submitting to EZA and others that do the opposite and put their articles to a ton of directories. Either way can be very profitable if you do it right and you stick to it.

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    • Profile picture of the author skibbz
      it sounds to me that the most effective thing is to post your articles on the best article directories and do proper keyword research to ensure you are being found for these targetted keywords.
      since the PR of these directories are high your PR will also increase as well as your site will be found from direct traffic finding you on google through the keywords you selected
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      • Profile picture of the author skibbz
        you can see the amount of backlinks to your site by running link:http://www.mywebsite.com on google . I notice that some of the most heavily trafficked sites like ezine articles have less backlinks than others. which means that the quality of the backlinks are important. But I was thinking that more backlinks should=more traffic , but i guess it all boils down to aligning yourself effectively on the search engines with targeted keywords
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  • Profile picture of the author Ronny Kibet
    Quality is better than quantity. I would recommend publishing your articles to article directories with high PR and high traffic.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by ronsang90 View Post

      I would recommend publishing your articles to article directories with high PR.
      Article directories don't "have PR". Websites don't "have PR". Pages have PR. And your articles submitted to article directories, just like mine, go on non-context relevant, PR-0 pages, regardless of the PR of the directories' home pages (which is what you were thinking of).

      Originally Posted by musiclyons View Post

      Of course, you must use Original Content. That is a must.
      Why is it a "must"? :confused:

      That's actually not what most successful professional article marketers do at all.

      On the contrary, most of us are publishing our original content on our own sites first and getting it indexed there, and only after that submitting it to EZA and GoArticles when it isn't original content any more. And you can see all the reasons explained in detail here and in 100 other similar threads.

      Sorry to go on about these things, but sometimes the extent and persistence of the misinformation on the very basics of article marketing is absolutely breathtaking. And then people say that article marketing isn't working for them!
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      • Profile picture of the author BarberShop
        Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

        Article directories don't "have PR". Websites don't "have PR". Pages have PR. And your articles submitted to article directories, just like mine, go on non-context relevant, PR-0 pages, regardless of the PR of the directories' home pages (which is what you were thinking of).



        Why is it a "must"? :confused:

        That's actually not what most successful professional article marketers do at all.

        On the contrary, most of us are publishing our original content on our own sites first and getting it indexed there, and only after that submitting it to EZA and GoArticles when it isn't original content any more. And you can see all the reasons explained in detail here and in 100 other similar threads.

        Sorry to go on about these things, but sometimes the extent and persistence of the misinformation on the very basics of article marketing is absolutely breathtaking. And then people say that article marketing isn't working for them!

        Would I be correct in doing this:

        -unique content to my blog
        -unique content to article directories


        That's what I've been doing. Separate unique articles. My blog gets its own high quality articles. The directories get their unique high quality articles.
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  • Profile picture of the author Amit_articles
    If you take my opinion then I would rather say to select 20 top article directories (PR more than 2) and then post an article there. I hope you will get a good result...
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrew Barton
    I think it depends on why you want to submit the articles. If you want to generate traffic from the bio box, then focusing on the "best" article directories is probably what you want to do.

    If all you want to do is snag a bunch of backlinks, then submit to as many sites as you can find.

    If you can't decide, split the difference and make half of the articles high quality for the best sites to generate bio clicks and half of the articles can be "less good" and submitted to the "less good" article sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by skibbz View Post

    what is more effective? plenty articles to a few of the best or plenty articles to one each even if the quality is not so great?
    Plenty of articles to "one each" has no conceivable advantage in either traffic or backlinks.

    Mass submission to lower quality article directories can have a backlink advantage, not a realistic traffic advantage. But the backlink "advantage" is a very tiny and questionable one, because almost all of the backlinks acquired that way will be non-context-relevant, PR-0, temporary backlinks anyway. The average lifespan of an "article directory" is only a few months. Many are never actually published. Many of those published are not indexed. And one would need many thousands (some authorities even say "many tens of thousands") of backlinks like that to give the same link-juice as one context-relevant, higher-PR blog-comment (for example). It's the kind of "article marketing" done by people you see posting in forums who then mysteriously disappear and are no longer posting a year later - apart from the few who come back and start threads with titles like "Article marketing doesn't work any more".
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  • Profile picture of the author StephanieMojica
    I prefer sticking to just a few; EzineArticles, Associated Content, and IdeaMarketers. I've heard good things about ArticlesBase, Squidoo, and HubPages and may check those out.

    If you have an assistant, then it probably doesn't hurt to submit to dozens of directories. But if you're doing it yourself, realize that the time you're spending on this rather than other aspects of your business may be making you pretty busy but not really that productive or profitable.

    Good luck!

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

      I prefer sticking to just a few; EzineArticles, Associated Content, and IdeaMarketers. I've heard good things about ArticlesBase, Squidoo, and HubPages and may check those out.
      Please excuse my pointing out that three of those six are not article directories, Stephanie.
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  • Profile picture of the author musiclyons
    I totally recommend that if you don't post to any other article directory, I absolutely recommend you post to EzineArticles and GoArticles. These are two that really work well for me. Of course, you must use Original Content. That is a must. Hope this helps...
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  • Profile picture of the author BarberShop
    80/20 principle applied would mean submitting to ezinearticle/goarticles only. But it seems to be more like 99/1 principle.
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  • Profile picture of the author cooler1
    If you've already submitted an article to Articlesbase can you then submit it to Ezine?

    I was wondering, wouldn't they detect it as duplicate content because it's already on another article directory or do they only check for duplicate content in the article directory itself?
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by BarberShop View Post

      That's what I've been doing. Separate unique articles. My blog gets its own high quality articles. The directories get their unique high quality articles.
      There's nothing wrong with it, and it can do you no damage at all.

      But you're getting less mileage out of your material than you might be getting.

      Why not publish all those high quality articles on your own site first, have them indexed there, and then submit all of them to article directories? If you have a read through the thread linked to above, you'll see why so many experts would be doing exactly that instead of what you're doing: it's just a way of getting more out of what you have.

      Originally Posted by cooler1 View Post

      If you've already submitted an article to Articlesbase can you then submit it to Ezine?
      Yes.

      You can submit to EZA an article that has previously been published nowhere at all, in 1 other place, in 100 other places or in 1,000 other places. The only thing they care about is that it hasn't been published under a different name from the name/pen-name in which you submit it to them (understandably, of course, because that would raise in their mind the possibility that someone else might have rights to it).

      Originally Posted by cooler1 View Post

      I was wondering, wouldn't they detect it as duplicate content
      They would of course detect it as previously published content.

      They welcome and expressly invite previously published content and always have done. This little thread explains a bit more.

      And this post, come to think of it, explains a lot more.

      Ignore anyone telling you that EZA accepts only "unique content"/"original content": these people don't know what they're talking about.
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      • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
        To save time, I will simply agree with what Alexa has said in this thread.

        Hey there Alexa.

        She genuinely knows what she is talking about when it comes to article marketing, she is passionate about it, and she explains it in a way that most can easily understand.

        I am concerned, however, that things are going to be changing soon as far as how and why we should use article directories. In the mean time, I have limited my time to industry-related website (guest) submissions and industry-related blog (guest) posts.

        I'm not thinking that article directories are going to go away, I just think - and it's about damn time - that they will again be used for their original intentions. Whether this is because their links are devalued, or whatever, I don't care. I just care that they become a respected web presence again. Remember? A place where you could go and get content from REAL industry experts.

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