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13 years ago

why the need. You could submit the articles on the directoies and the link it back to your site for rankings. why did you want to sumbit the contents to article directories?

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mctavish100 13 years ago

thanks but wouldnt I lose, or not gain, PR by doing it that way
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scott022281

13 years ago

If your going to do that, make sure you spin the article enough so its unique also. Especially now with the Google changes.

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peter gibson 13 years ago

Originally Posted by scott022281

If your going to do that, make sure you spin the article enough so its unique also. Especially now with the Google changes.

Take this nonsense somewhere else to sell "article creator" software. It's horsepuckey. Spinning articles is half the reason google handed down this recent slap on the directories that housed them.

Syndication is still effective. Syndication provides a larger audience to the work you've spent time creating. Syndication is NOT duplicate content and is NOT subject to any google penalties, still. (In so far as my data has shown me)

Do as Alexa just said and you're imitating what tons of successful marketers have been doing all along. The reason we all do it is because it works.

The latest nudge from google is designed to promote quality content while whacking the meaningless litter that should never have been given a platform in the first place.
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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by mctavish100

i am thinking of creating a website then submitting the content as articles to the article marketing directories.

Is this a good idea or a bad one?

It's part of how many successful article marketers make a living. So probably "a good idea", on balance.

There's certainly no advantage to submitting articles to directories without first publishing them and getting them indexed on your own site first, for all the reasons explained in such detail, by so many making their livings through article marketing, in this fine thread.

And contrary to the opinions of members advertising "spinning software" in their signature-files, there's absolutely no need to "spin" them, or amend/edit them in any other way.

But be clear about what an article directory is, why you're choosing to use them, what your objectives are, and whose business you primarily want to build up: yours or theirs.

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a04cmccl

13 years ago

Yeah,
It's a solid approach to start. Make sure to post your articles to your site as well as the article directories and diversify with other sources, such as Facebook.

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Zed Shah 13 years ago

Regardless of whatever anyone says or product tells you, Article Marketing is still an Important part of your Online Business.

Like mentioned by the others focus on good quality content offering genuine value and information.

Syndicate that article to multiple directories and also ping each article wherever it is placed to increase chances of it being picked up by the search engines, There are plenty of good quality Pinging services on line so no need to buy one

Wishing you the best dude
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hotseochick

13 years ago

Are you saying that you are going to take the content on your website and submit it to the article directories? If that is the case I would recommend that you DO NOT do that. Also, DONT SPIN ARTICLES. It's 1000% better to have unique content. If you have a bunch of duplicate content all over the internet, it's not going to help your rankings and could actually hurt your site with the new algorithm change.

If you really want to submit content to article directories, then you need to write fresh new content and submit. The article directories are also getting stricter on the types of content, word count, grammar, etc that you can submit, so be careful about that too.

The last thing you want to do with a new site is get it stuck in the google sandbox because you have zero unique content. Also, article directories are extensive and time consuming if you don't have any 'real' information to share. I would try other sources to build links and drive traffic if that is what you are after.

Hope this helps some.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by hotseochick

Are you saying that you are going to take the content on your website and submit it to the article directories? If that is the case I would recommend that you DO NOT do that.

Well, please excuse my mentioning that you have a curious perspective there and one that's totally opposed to that of many of the experienced, successful, professional article marketers here, then, Hotseochick. As you can see from this thread.

Originally Posted by hotseochick

If you really want to submit content to article directories, then you need to write fresh new content and submit.

I promise I don't mean it rudely, but this is totally incorrect (to put it rather mildly).

Originally Posted by hotseochick

The last thing you want to do with a new site is get it stuck in the google sandbox because you have zero unique content.

Oops ... I think you may have misunderstood the difference between duplicate content and syndicated content, or something? I don't see that happening to all the major international news sites which syndicate all their content from Reuters and Associated Press, do you?

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peter gibson

13 years ago

Originally Posted by hotseochick

Are you saying that you are going to take the content on your website and submit it to the article directories? If that is the case I would recommend that you DO NOT do that. Also, DONT SPIN ARTICLES. It's 1000% better to have unique content. If you have a bunch of duplicate content all over the internet, it's not going to help your rankings and could actually hurt your site with the new algorithm change.

If you really want to submit content to article directories, then you need to write fresh new content and submit. The article directories are also getting stricter on the types of content, word count, grammar, etc that you can submit, so be careful about that too.

The last thing you want to do with a new site is get it stuck in the google sandbox because you have zero unique content. Also, article directories are extensive and time consuming if you don't have any 'real' information to share. I would try other sources to build links and drive traffic if that is what you are after.

Hope this helps some.

This post is so wrong on so many levels I don't even know where to start.

Do us a favor. READ THIS. Nothing - not one metric, not one example, not one iota of proof has ever been presented that backs up the things in your post (marked in red) as being at all accurate. My sites haven't suffered 1 bit, and a few have actually improved in google as a result of this latest update.

Syndication is not duplication, and what you've just told OP is NOT to syndicate his stuff. How wrong that is I can't even begin to tell you without writing a frikin novel. Like I said, read this.

Looks as if people are now panicking about google's "farmer" update. Good. Spinning software companies should have been tanked years ago. Folks who take one article and, based on advice like you're giving, rewrite it 60 times until each manipulated article reads like a 5 year old's English essay are feeling the sting. Again. Hell yeah. Good.

Farmed content is that which has been manipulated for search engine purposes. It's keyword stuffed bullsh!t. It gives 0 value to the reader. That is the stuff being looked at and down graded, and the sites that allowed this nonsense a publishing platform have been given a slap - it's google's way of saying to stop crapping in the backyard. Halleyluya google. About frikin time.

The quality of content is what caused this, not the AVAILABILITY of it.

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Drizlek

13 years ago

Submitting articles to article directories is just part of the process. You cannot rely on that solely. You need to also put some effort into your site as well. Articles are great for that. I cant tell you how often I have seen people rely solely on article marketing on other sites not realizing that they are not doing the site itself any justice or helping it get ranked.

Because once something changes with article marketing and it no longer works like it used to, if your site isn't ranked your going to have a long battle ahead of you to try and get that done asap instead of already having it done.