another article marketing thread

Yes you can submit the same exact articles unchanged to EZA and almost all directories. In fact what I do is first submit articles to targeted individual ezine publishers first and then to the biggie directories such as EZA and articlebase. There may be some (very few) directories that demand original content, however, which will be in their TOS. Articles tend be indexed much faster by posting on your website then submitting them to targeted ezine publishers.

Here is a little secret. Articles are one tool in obtaining visitors.

You don't market Articles... you market products and services.

Most people don't have any real clue what marketing really is... and it's not sales.

I think the best answer would be to split the question you ask into two elements. Your articles are presumably part of a strategy for both links and clicks. The links will be fine, presumably, but duplicate content will result in your ranking slipping a little and you won't get as many clicks as if the articles are different.

There are 200+ article submission websites....would be pretty hard writing fresh content for all of them...lets say if you are targeting 50 of those sites, i would suggest, submit the content to 10, spin and submit to another 10, repeat...repeat....done.

Great
thanks all for your help

but what article directories are worth submitting articles to, im sure some of the directories dont get as much traffic as others.

what are the top 10 or 20?

Yes - you can submit your content to other article directories. There are a few directories though that only accept unique content that has not been published anywhere else (Buzzle and InfoBarrel are the top two I know of).

In my honest opinion, stick to a few directories and distribute them accordingly. Most importantly, don't forget to place those articles that you want to submit to Ezine Articles on YOUR site first, wait until it's indexed and then place it on Ezine. This way, you're website is credited with the original article.

Q: Can I submit the same exact copy of my article to multiple article directories.
A: Yes.
Q: Why?
A: You own full rights to your content. You choose where to republish and syndicate it.

Q: What about the duplicate content penalty?
A: What about the duplicate content penalty?
Q: Google's duplicate content penalty?
A: How can Google's duplicate content penalty be relevant to what you're asking if
you don't publish the same exact copy of your article on one of your websites multiple times?
Q: Won't I get sandboxed or something if I submitted the same exact copy of my article to
10 or 20 or 30 or so article directories?
A: Then you can use that method against your competitors if that were true?

Q: Why do I need to publish my article on my website first, have it indexed then
submit it to various article directories?
A: Do you want your Web properties to rank high on SEs for your target keywords, or
your marketing materials?

Q: Why would publishing it on my website first have that copy ranking higher in most cases for
my target keywords than copies of it on article directories with higher domain authority due to
greater volume and quality of backlinks, homepage Google PR and longer domain age?
A: Have you heard the Jan 2011 Google SE algorithm modification?
Q: No. What does it do?
A: Google now aims to give more credit to original content sources than
syndicated, resyndicated, republished and repurposed copies of the original content.

Q: Would spinning my article be a good method?
A: If done properly: Yes.
Q: Why?
A: You can submit the same exact version, each version, to multiple
article directories,
each version under one author name. So, if you get 50 unique, human readable versions out of
your spin-ready article, then you can submit each version to 10 or 20 or 30 or 40 or 50 or or or
article directories.

correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it a bit more effective to spend your time creating the best, unique, in demand content possible rather then submitting the same article to a thousand different directories?

Some people say the more you have out there the better (which i'm sure is true in a lot of cases) but I've seen pretty nice results from superior content that is as specific to the the theme of my site as possible (also being categorized on your site as accurately as possible) then submitting the material to just a couple of directories (ezine included)

i learned a lot in this thread. Article marketing is something everyone should consider learning. I will also try to promote the same article to different article directories if possible.

I would submit to a few high traffic article directories, and some other sites where you can submit content, etc. For example, there are news/gossip sites that rank very well in the search engines where you can start your own blog and write whatever you want, best to not make it too salesly and more "bloggy" heh heh, though.