Article Marketers: What will you do with your article?

13 years ago

Don't think I'll be using article directories until the rankings get restored.

If they don't then i'll be focussing on website building and SEO'ing them. My sites havent been affected but pretty much all my articles have.

Always at the mercy of the big G in SEO!

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mailey

13 years ago

You can always submit more articles to directories in the hope a percentage of them get picked up by Google.

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Steve Peters Benn

13 years ago

I think keeping your content local, and having a lot of it is the future. Also, careful content curation and hybridisation using things like Yahoo Pipes and YQL is going to help...

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tpw

13 years ago

That is awesome news for my articles. It will be easier to stand apart from the crowd, as long as so many other people remain so solely focused on Google rankings to determine the value of a syndication channel.

I guess you don't see that the real value of EZA is your ability to get your article syndicated to other websites with really large and loyal audiences?

Good for you...

You keep wearing those horse blinders, and I will take advantage of your short-sightedness.

Rock on...

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Chris Worner 13 years ago

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goodmast3r

13 years ago

Originally Posted by tpw

That is awesome news for my articles. It will be easier to stand apart from the crowd, as long as so many other people remain so solely focused on Google rankings to determine the value of a syndication channel.

I guess you don't see that the real value of EZA is your ability to get your article syndicated to other websites with really large and loyal audiences?

Good for you...

You keep wearing those horse blinders, and I will take advantage of your short-sightedness.

Rock on...

tpw how can you make sure you article syndicated and not being copy paste?

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tpw 13 years ago

Originally Posted by goodmast3r

tpw how can you make sure you article syndicated and not being copy paste?

I guess I don't understand your question.

I want people to copy-and-paste my articles to their sites and newsletters, so long as my resource box stays attached to the article.

If I find people who are willing to copy-and-paste my article, without my resource box, I am more than happy to send a take-down DMCA request to their web hosting company.
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Always-A-Warrior

13 years ago

Create an ebook and sell it on Amazon's kindle.

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dezchamps

13 years ago

Create better articles, or rewrite the ones you have so that they pass the new criteria, and there are other places besides ezinearticles dot com that you can submit them.

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John Wilkes

13 years ago

tpw, I think you hit the nail on the head. Perhaps the Ez directory will start being used for their original purpose?

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Rob Whisonant

13 years ago

Let me give you a hint. I learned this before I posted my first article anywhere. If you do this, you will never have to worry about any algo change.

"Diversity of distribution"

Think about it.

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goodmast3r

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Rob Whisonant

Let me give you a hint. I learned this before I posted my first article anywhere. If you do this, you will never have to worry about any algo change.

"Diversity of distribution"

Think about it.

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Diversity? You mean converting your article to PPT, VIdeo, audio, etc?

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Rob Whisonant 13 years ago

Originally Posted by goodmast3r

Diversity? You mean converting your article to PPT, VIdeo, audio, etc?

Nope... But that's good to do to. When I say diversity I'm talking... Article directories are NOT the only places you can post articles.

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Marx Vergel Melencio 13 years ago

I'll initially ensure that the article I wrote provides my specific target
audience with beneficial info, advice, tips, strategies and techniques
relevant to their needs and problems...

I'll then make sure it is written in a style and packaged in ways not found
elsewhere...

I'll check if it incorporates my own observations, inferences, test results,
relevant actual experience, theories, opinions and perspectives...

At this point, I'll:

Publish it under my website's supplemental article resource section...
Repurpose it by adding supplemental content and converting it into an
ebook, a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation and a video...

Publish it under my website's supplemental ebook resource section, supplemental presentation resource
section and supplemental video section...

Update my website's sitemap.xml and submit it to Google...
Bookmark my onsite content on social bookmarking sites where my target audience
and target webmasters go to view relevant content...

Submit my onsite content to RSS directories where my target audience and
target webmasters go to view relevant content...

Submit my onsite articles under my author name to article directories where
my target webmasters go to view content they can syndicate on their
websites for their viewers...

Submit my onsite ebooks under my author name to ebook repositories where
my target webmasters go to view content they can syndicate on their
websites for their viewers as well as where my target audience goes to
view beneficial content relevant to their needs and problems...

Submit my onsite presentations under my author name to document-sharing sites
where my target webmasters go to view content they can syndicate on
their websites for their viewers as well as where my target audience goes
to view beneficial content relevant to their needs and problems...

Submit my onsite videos under my author name to video directories where
my target webmasters go to view content they can syndicate on their
websites for their viewers as well as where my target audience goes to
view beneficial content relevant to their needs and problems...

Links on my onsite content posted for syndication on those offsite resources will point to the
appropriate resource section landing page where the content is found. Other links will point to
my other onsite content pages offering supplemental benefits not found on the content page
with those links...

Develop content from my onsite content and add to it beneficial content
not found on my onsite content, so as to offer it as freely downloadable
content upon signup and regularly sent newsletter content to my mailing
list subscribers...

Develop products and services from my onsite content. Add to it
unique benefits relevant to the related needs and problems of my target
audience. Those benefits should be benefits not found on my onsite,
signup and newsletter content. Develop it in a style and package it in a
way not found elsewhere...

Sell those products and services to my onsite viewers and mailing list
subscribers...

Contact webmasters with contextually relevant websites and mailing
lists. Negotiate fresh, contextually relevant and beneficial content posted
on their pages in exchange for my website/business info and links placed
with it. Negotiate ad placements on their pages and newsletters.
Negotiate mutually beneficial joint venture deals with them...

Establish the reputation of my website/business as a friendly expert
resource of beneficial content, info, advice, products and services...

Build mutually beneficial relationships with my target audience and
webmaster partners...
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TimG

13 years ago

Business as usual for me, I will still be submitting articles with a strong focus on these other activities:

1 - focusing on article syndication
2 - focusing on guest blogging
3 - focusing on creating videos from my articles
4 - focusing on answering questions on Yahoo Answers
5 - focusing on creating PDFs from my articles and uploading them to sites
6 - focusing on creating articles for my own websites

Awww....shucks....I have a whole lot of things I'll be doing with my content. I'm actually looking forward to seeing more improved rankings from my article content as should everyone else provided you create, submit and publish quality content.

Respectfully,
Tim

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Sarah Russell

13 years ago

Exactly what Tim said - business as usual until I see a good reason not to. So far, I haven't seen a dip in EZA or Web 2.0 traffic, so I don't plan on changing anything up yet.

That said, I gave up on tiny, insignificant article directories a long time ago (nothing ever seems to get ranked or generate traffic for me), so if those are affected by the algorithm change, I wouldn't notice anyways.

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Andrea Wilson

13 years ago

Ezine has made everything more complicated than before. I will still submit articles but I will skip EZA for a while. They made too much noise in the online news and I dont think I will love to worry about them.

Andrea

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garben2011

13 years ago

Originally Posted by goodmast3r

What will you do to your unique article after Google's Algorithm Change? Are you still thinking of submitting it to article directory especially Ezine? As you know, they are taking huge hit by this change

Yep, I'm still submitting them to EZA and a few other directories. Nothing has changed except now I know my articles have a better chance to get seen and will be in better company.

On a related note I am really liking this update. I checked my stats at midnight and this past week has seen traffic increase from 15% to 48% on my websites compared to the week before Google made their update. Not from article directories (that traffic appears to be the same) but traffic from Google has increased significantly.

This kind of increases my confidence to stick with article marketing because for many of these pages (a couple of my sites are authority sites with one having 175 pages and another having several thousand) the only links are from articles published at EZA and a few other directories. Well, and any links they may have picked up from being published elsewhere. But for many pages the only links are from articles. So it is looking like the links coming from the directories actually carry value.

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turbostar52

13 years ago

My advice is as follows:

Create a few authority sites, with each one focused on a subniche within your niche. Owning mutltiple sites gives you more leverage against the google algorithm than owning only one niche site.

And instead of submitting large volumes of content to these sites at a brisk speed as you would normally do to an article directory, concentrate on writing unique high-quality content, even if this means that you have to write at a much slower pace than you would normally write. Hell, I would even consider hiring a high-quality freelancer, even if I would have to pay extra money.

Submitting large volumes of content as some article marketers do or have done will serve no purpose, as google now, since the latest algorithm update, values sites with unique content over sites with volumes of regurgitated content.

Also, include a newsletter signup with each of your sites.

With these points, you should be able to build a robust business in the long-term.

The days of spamming article directories with regurgitated content are definitely, by no long shot, over.

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turbostar52

13 years ago

Originally Posted by turbostar52

My advice is as follows:

Create a few authority sites, with each one focused on a subniche within your niche. Owning mutltiple sites gives you more leverage against the google algorithm than owning only one niche site.

And instead of submitting large volumes of content to these sites at a brisk speed as you would normally do to an article directory, concentrate on writing unique high-quality content, even if this means that you have to write at a much slower pace than you would normally write. Hell, I would even consider hiring a high-quality freelancer, even if I would have to pay extra money.

Submitting large volumes of content as some article marketers do or have done will serve no purpose, as google now, since the latest algorithm update, values sites with unique content over sites with volumes of regurgitated content.

Also, include a newsletter signup with each of your sites.

With these points, you should be able to build a robust business in the long-term.

The days of spamming article directories with regurgitated content are definitely, by no long shot, over.

I also would like to add:

Don't give up article marketing all together. Hint: Just focused your efforts on developing relationships with authorities highly respected by google in your niche.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by goodmast3r

What will you do to your unique article after Google's Algorithm Change?

Exactly the same as I've been doing before it - but with even more confidence and optimism and even more of a spring in my step.

Originally Posted by goodmast3r

Are you still thinking of submitting it to article directory especially Ezine?

Of course. After publishing it on my own site first and having it indexed there, obviously.

I get great value from EZA. I'm using it as an article directory, i.e. not for backlinks (those were never any good: they're only non-context-relevant PR-0 backlinks anyway) and not primarily for EZA-traffic either (obviously I want the traffic coming directly to my site, not to EZA's site where half of it gets mopped up by the AdSense).

Originally Posted by goodmast3r

As you know, they are taking huge hit by this change

Nothing personal against Chris Knight (whom I like), or against EZA (from whose directory I get such great syndication value), but on this occasion it looks, so far, like their loss was my gain. They're ranking lower. I'm ranking higher. For now, anyway. Early to tell, but obviously good news for serious article marketers while it lasts.

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Frank Marker

13 years ago

I get my articles written for me by writers I trust and have a good relationship with. Nothing about the google slap scares me in the slightest.

There is a stampede mentality on here sometimes. Someone says their making money on Amazon rather than clickbank and then all the posts are suddnely about amazon. Then its making money autoblogging, then a few more posts appear and suddenly it all autoblogging this and that. Then its autoblogging is dead and the same names who a month ago were saying they 'might' get into it are now declaring its dead and buried. Then its 'oh know the google slap articles are dead' and people who never tried or barely tried article marketing are saying "what should we do now!!!"

Try having done something before worrying about what to do.

Rant over.

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goodmast3r

13 years ago

If we submit to our own blog first that submit the same article at Ezine, that will make Ezine article not unique. This will hurt Ezine more right? Are we still allowed to submit article that we own but already posted on our own website?

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Gail Ogden 13 years ago
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arttse

13 years ago

Alexa Smith has answered this question over 500 times. Go over her posts. She even answered it again on this thread.

Originally Posted by goodmast3r

If we submit to our own blog first that submit the same article at Ezine, that will make Ezine article not unique. This will hurt Ezine more right? Are we still allowed to submit article that we own but already posted on our own website?

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GeorgR.

13 years ago

I have no reason to stop Article Marketing (as part of my link building). You are welcome to read
The best link building strategy
where i explain why.

The actual traffic from articles is really always secondary, and only a fool would stop submitting articles and not want the links "because someone SAID that allegedly article marketing is dead".

But what is my own re-action to that recent "Google Change" ? Writing better, longer articles, this to keep the ad <--> content ratio on sites low, providing better content, more satisifed site visitors, smaller bounce rate etc..etc... Otherwise still submitting articles too.

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aaronngoh

13 years ago

I will continue to submit to EZA to see what changes has impacted my website.

May be will come back to update all of you in 2 months time

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