Article Demon / Article Marketing Newbie - Help

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Help!

I'm trying to get started with article marketing to help with my SEO rankings (not using it to intentially to drive website traffic). I've purchased Article Demon and started to set it up and have a couple of questions that the tutorials don't help with (and will show just how much of a newbie I am at this).

Q1: I've registered for a new domain so I can get a 'non-free' email address to use when setting up article directory accounts (don't want to use an email address on my domain, and will also be submitting articles using a pen name). When I complete the account details that are used to set up accounts with the article directories, where it asks for a website, should I give the website for the domain I've purchased for email, or should I put in the address of the website I'll be putting links to in my articles?

Q2: With Article Demon, can I include links within the body of the article (and if so how many are advised) or can I only put links in the resource box?

(Also if anyone could point me in the direction of some sound article marketing advice for newbies that would be great too)

Thanks,

Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author masterjani
    Place one link with in article and one in resource box.And you can use your website url.
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    • Profile picture of the author PatriciaJ
      Originally Posted by masterjani View Post

      Place one link with in article and one in resource box.And you can use your website url.
      If you do that without checking submission guidelines many directories will decline the articles, sometimes automatically when the script allows it. Some directory scripts do not activate links within an article body so you have lost your link benefits there. I think that links within the article body also mean that your chances of syndication will lessen because some publishers aren't so keen to have your links in such a prominent place. Syndication to authority sites in your niche will benefit you more than those links.

      After much experimentation I usually have 2 in the author bio, one to the main domain and the other to a sales page on that site and that seems to work the best.

      Another thing about article directory links is that some scripts don't automatically activate links so you should use the html version. http:// at the beginning activates with some scripts but never just put www.yourdomain.com because the links won't activate unless the directory owner notices and is kind enough to do it for you. It's surprising how many do just that or forget to add their links.

      If you aren't sure how to write active links PM me and I'll show you
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  • Profile picture of the author PatriciaJ
    First of all you should place those articles on your own paid for domains and get them indexed.

    Then I would start out by manually submitting to a handful of the top directories and check out their submission guidelines first. That way you will learn the sort of guidelines that you will have to comply with if you want your articles accepted.

    You will also learn more about the acceptable standards of articles and how your articles will do. Ezine articles is the best bet for a beginner because of the wide range of stats and because you will learn more of what is acceptable.

    When you submit articles using a pen name it's better to use a proper name and the same name for each article. You should link to your own domains in the articles, but not in the article body. A large amount of directories don't allow it so it's better to submit to the ones that do separately.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Patricia beat me to it, but my natural response to all four paragraphs of her post just above is "Yes indeed - exactly so, and try not to listen too much to people telling you anything that doesn't match what Patricia has said" - because this is all exactly right, and exactly what you need to know, in your position. And good luck.
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    • Profile picture of the author steveradford
      Thanks for the advice. So if I'm using a pen name with an email address at a seperate domain to my site, when I register an account with a directory what should I put in the website field, the website that matches the email address, the website I'll be linking to from the articles (my website), or doesn't it matter?
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by steveradford View Post

        when I register an account with a directory what should I put in the website field, the website that matches the email address, the website I'll be linking to from the articles (my website), or doesn't it matter?
        Answers to questions like these tend to vary from article directory to article directory, according to their terms of service.

        At EzineArticles, for example, one person may have only one account (which can be in any name and using any email address, and your real name and physical address and the email address you give EZA themselves will show in your articles only if you decide that that's what you want), but may have and write under as many different pen-names as they wish. The fact that the pen-names are "related" (i.e. really belong to the same person) is concealed from readers: it's known only to the author and EZA's staff.

        I have one pen-name per niche, and use each niche's pen-name consistently and exclusively within that niche, showing it on my own blog(s)/site(s), all articles published anywhere, and so on.

        It will cause a problem with EZA (and with some other directories, I think), if you submit to them an article in a different name/pen-name from the name/pen-name in which it's ever been previously published: not unreasonably, that would raise in their minds the possibility that you might have plagiarised the content. All my EZA articles (1,200+ of them) were originally published and indexed on my own sites first (and so should all yours be, too) in the same name as the pen-name under which I subsequently submitted them to EZA. This keeps everything clean, simple and straightforward.

        Always read carefully the terms of service of any website you don't own yourself to which you submit any content.
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    • Profile picture of the author mraffiliate
      Originally Posted by PatriciaJ View Post

      First of all you should place those articles on your own paid for domains and get them indexed.

      Then I would start out by manually submitting to a handful of the top directories and check out their submission guidelines first. That way you will learn the sort of guidelines that you will have to comply with if you want your articles accepted.

      You will also learn more about the acceptable standards of articles and how your articles will do. Ezine articles is the best bet for a beginner because of the wide range of stats and because you will learn more of what is acceptable.

      When you submit articles using a pen name it's better to use a proper name and the same name for each article. You should link to your own domains in the articles, but not in the article body. A large amount of directories don't allow it so it's better to submit to the ones that do separately.
      Hello Patricia,

      I'm starting to use Article Marketing for backlinks for mine and my clients sites. You state that it is best to place the Article on my site and get it indexed first before submitting to the Article Directories. Is that absolutely necessary? Here is why I ask this:

      1- All of mine and my clients sites are already up and indexed with the main keywords already ranked on pages 2-5 of Google. If I were to replace or add to the text on these already ranked pages, with an article that I am going to submit to the directories, would the addition of the new text hurt my rankings?

      2- One client of mine is a photographer (ranked page 3 Google for main keyword) She has several images of her work on the homepage along with 2 paragraphs of text consisting of 180 words. If I would replace or add to the text by adding an article of 400 + words it would change the look of the site to the negative. It would cause too much scrolling and some sites are set up to look great with very little text.

      Thanks for your time
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      • Profile picture of the author PatriciaJ
        Originally Posted by mraffiliate View Post

        Hello Patricia,

        I'm starting to use Article Marketing for backlinks for mine and my clients sites. You state that it is best to place the Article on my site and get it indexed first before submitting to the Article Directories. Is that absolutely necessary? Here is why I ask this:

        1- All of mine and my clients sites are already up and indexed with the main keywords already ranked on pages 2-5 of Google. If I were to replace or add to the text on these already ranked pages, with an article that I am going to submit to the directories, would the addition of the new text hurt my rankings?

        2- One client of mine is a photographer (ranked page 3 Google for main keyword) She has several images of her work on the homepage along with 2 paragraphs of text consisting of 180 words. If I would replace or add to the text by adding an article of 400 + words it would change the look of the site to the negative. It would cause too much scrolling and some sites are set up to look great with very little text.

        Thanks for your time
        It isn't absolutely necessary but I would rather the articles be higher in the search engines on my sites than somebody elses.

        Addition of new content should help your rankings not harm them. You don't have to add new content to the home page of a website or blog. If you are using Wordpress for instance you can either set a static page as the home page, or limit the amount of posts per page and make the ones you want on the home page sticky.
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        • Profile picture of the author mraffiliate
          Originally Posted by PatriciaJ View Post

          It isn't absolutely necessary but I would rather the articles be higher in the search engines on my sites than somebody elses.

          Addition of new content should help your rankings not harm them. You don't have to add new content to the home page of a website or blog. If you are using Wordpress for instance you can either set a static page as the home page, or limit the amount of posts per page and make the ones you want on the home page sticky.

          I will be doing this solely for backlinks.

          I have a company that is going to write the articles for me and they suggested that I have one article written to please the directories and one written to place on my site to please the SERP's. Boy this is so confusing to me. I'm getting ready to purchase Article Demon but I might put it off till I can understand this better :confused:
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          • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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            Originally Posted by mraffiliate View Post

            I will be doing this solely for backlinks.
            Do you know that article directory backlinks are all non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlinks, and that typically one would need something between 50,000 and 100,000 of them to confer the link-juice equivalent to that from one backlink from a relevant authority site? This activity is simply not worth doing for backlinks. I mean this helpfully rather than critically, of course, but it really would help you a lot to read something like thisthis (particularly useful and helpful book from a hugely acclaimed expert which compares enormously favourably with most "online information").
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              • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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                Originally Posted by Rutting Chimpanzee View Post

                Can anyone back up this statement based on experience?
                I suspect it depends what you mean by "back up". If you mean "can anyone prove it conclusively with the SEO equivalent of a perfectly controlled, double-blind, randomised, crossover clinical trial?", then I suspect almost certainly not.

                But many people will vouch for it from their own subjective experiences, which is perhaps as much as one can expect, and also perhaps accounts for the fact that so many marketers appear not to have learned it.

                For myself, I find it interesting, in discussions of "link-juice" generally, both how much and how often and how closely the widely respected authors on the subject (whose publications have been extensively subjected to peer review, professional editing, and so on) seem to agree on this subject, and how much of a disparity there is between their collective views and the ones one typically finds "discussed online".

                I attribute this to two primary causes, I think ...

                (i) There's very little quality control of "online information", compared with that found in orthodox commissioning, editing and publishing;

                (ii) There are countless numbers of people online with their own (sometimes apparent, sometimes tacit) financial agendas, in particular in the sphere of "SEO".

                In earlier discussions here of statements very like the one above, it's certainly been noticeable how many longstanding, apparently experienced, apparently successful Warriors have backed up the sentiment from their own experience.

                But I'd be the first to agree that it's "unproven conclusively" in a way which would satisfy a skeptic. I think this is probably true for the overwhelming majority of statements made about SEO, though?

                Welcome to the Warrior Forum, by the way: a very unusual "first post" indeed for a brand new member.
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                  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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                    Originally Posted by Rutting Chimpanzee View Post

                    How did you arrive at your minimum number of 50,000 then?
                    By taking the lowest estimate from an authoritative textbook in which - as in so many other similar books, every authoritative one you can find, really - the figures are discussed (I actually believe the true figure is much higher, to be honest, but can neither prove nor demonstrate it).

                    Curious that you chose to ignore 8 of the 9 paragraphs of my original reply to you, and just seize on the one that suited your purpose, and that your posting-style is so singularly reminiscent of that of a recently banned member. You'll probably be back in a minute to ask "which book?" Maybe others will be a little more interested in conversing with you ...

                    A very unusual "second post" indeed for a brand new member.
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            • Profile picture of the author mraffiliate
              Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

              Do you know that article directory backlinks are all non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlinks, and that typically one would need something between 50,000 and 100,000 of them to confer the link-juice equivalent to that from one backlink from a relevant authority site? This activity is simply not worth doing for backlinks. I mean this helpfully rather than critically, of course, but it really would help you a lot to read something like this (particularly useful and helpful book from a hugely acclaimed expert which compares enormously favourably with most "online information").
              I know you mean this helpfully. I learned using Article submission from a gentleman who makes his living from the web. He did a case study live last year and article submission for backlinks made up a large portion of his strategy and to this day his site is still #1 page 1 on Google for a highly competitive keyword.

              You mention that I would need between 50,000-100,000 links from article submission compared to one backlink from a relevant authority site, on of my sites I have nothing but high PR .edu, .com and .org backlinks from relevant sites and it has not benefited me hardly at all, that is why I am looking at other methods to help my SERP ranking. (and yes my on-page SEO is correct)

              I'm not a complete noob to SEO, I have a clients site that is ranked on the 1st page of the SERP's for 15 keywords in a competitive market but things seem to have changed since I ranked it approx 2 years ago. He has 17 reciprocal links and 2 one-way back-links with less 100 words of text on each of his pages. His on page SEO is correct but nothing else was done off-page. But now I have picked up 3 more clients and it seems getting them on page 1 is more difficult now.

              The folks who seem to practice what the preach are using blog commenting, profile links, press releases, article submission, forum posting, social bookmarking, and web 2.0 to push their sites up in the SERP's. I'm just trying to come up with a strategy that will work for me but the more I read the more confusing it gets because it is almost impossible to find someone will to share what they know. Those who do share their "expertise" always litter their knowledge with affiliate links.
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          • Profile picture of the author PatriciaJ
            Originally Posted by mraffiliate View Post

            I will be doing this solely for backlinks.

            I have a company that is going to write the articles for me and they suggested that I have one article written to please the directories and one written to place on my site to please the SERP's. Boy this is so confusing to me. I'm getting ready to purchase Article Demon but I might put it off till I can understand this better :confused:
            It is confusing and the more you read about article marketing on this forum the more confusing it gets. There are various methods of article marketing and unless somebody can prove differently I suspect that they all work in varying degrees and that perhaps we shouldn't knock other methods without thorough testing ourselves.

            I can only really comment on what I do and that is place an article on my site first, get it indexed and then hand submit to 3 directories before using Article Marketing Robot. That works for me, though I do have some unique content on all of my sites. I have several niche blogs that have one or more places in the top ten for their keywords and most of them have less than 20,000 backlinks but growing steadily.

            Somebody else could come along and say that this way doesn't work but another way does, common sense says that if only one method of article marketing worked there wouldn't be so many advocating the different methods. So I guess it boils down to testing and what you feel comfortable with.
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            • Profile picture of the author mraffiliate
              Originally Posted by PatriciaJ View Post

              It is confusing and the more you read about article marketing on this forum the more confusing it gets. There are various methods of article marketing and unless somebody can prove differently I suspect that they all work in varying degrees and that perhaps we shouldn't knock other methods without thorough testing ourselves.

              I can only really comment on what I do and that is place an article on my site first, get it indexed and then hand submit to 3 directories before using Article Marketing Robot. That works for me, though I do have some unique content on all of my sites. I have several niche blogs that have one or more places in the top ten for their keywords and most of them have less than 20,000 backlinks but growing steadily.

              Somebody else could come along and say that this way doesn't work but another way does, common sense says that if only one method of article marketing worked there wouldn't be so many advocating the different methods. So I guess it boils down to testing and what you feel comfortable with.
              1- The article that you place on your site is the same exact article you submit to the directories?

              2- Do you spin the article before submitting to the other directories that you don't hand submit too?

              3- Since the article you place on your site has to be SEO optimized will some of the directories decline it because I have been told that an article that is optimized for Google may not meet the requirements for submition into the directories.
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              • Profile picture of the author PatriciaJ
                Originally Posted by mraffiliate View Post

                1- The article that you place on your site is the same exact article you submit to the directories?
                1. A lot of the time it's exactly the same except for maybe a small change in the title and then when they are syndicated further I know where they came from. I also sometimes see improvements that I can make when I am submitting so that might change them a bit.

                Originally Posted by mraffiliate View Post

                2- Do you spin the article before submitting to the other directories that you don't hand submit too?
                2. No and I don't feel it necessary to spin articles. I've been on the receiving end of too many badly spun articles to want to do it myself. The only spinning method that I've seen that gives the results that I would want come from several total rewrites of each paragraph and then spinning the paragraphs. That takes forever so I would rather spend the time writing new articles.

                Originally Posted by mraffiliate View Post

                3- Since the article you place on your site has to be SEO optimized will some of the directories decline it because I have been told that an article that is optimized for Google may not meet the requirements for submition into the directories.
                I try to never have more than 1-2% keywords in whatever I write or outsource. I write my articles as naturally as I can because I am writing for readers and not search engines, but isn't that what Google wants now. Most of my sites are targeting the general public who won't have a clue about keywords and would find it strange to have them littered unaturally amongst the content. Therefore I've never had an article declined for keyword stuffing, but I do decline articles myself for that.
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  • Profile picture of the author Diane S
    Steve,

    Patricia and Alexa know their stuff and you can trust what they have told you. If you want to get the maximum successful acceptances at the article directories using Article Demon, I would use a maximum of 2 links in the resource box, one to the index of your site and one to a deep page.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dhira
      Originally Posted by Diane S View Post

      Steve,

      Patricia and Alexa know their stuff and you can trust what they have told you. If you want to get the maximum successful acceptances at the article directories using Article Demon, I would use a maximum of 2 links in the resource box, one to the index of your site and one to a deep page.
      This is correct.
      Some article directories do NOT accept articles with links in the body.
      But all accept amax of 2 in the resource.

      So writ your articles leading them to the resource box so they click by the time they're done reading
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  • Profile picture of the author anthony2
    I have to buy article demon....looking at the features it blows
    away any article software I've been using.

    I have two article software on my desktop now. One I paid for in full
    the other one has a monthly fee to it and it doesn't do half of what
    article demon can do.

    I looking to buy article demon and put it through the ringer.
    If it is good as advertised then i will be deleting the other 2 article submission
    software.
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  • Profile picture of the author erange
    I've use Article Demon with success...but I'd still recommend:

    1) Post to your website/blog first.
    2) Post to your top 3-5 directories manually.
    3) Then you can spin/post to the numerous directories in Article Demon
    (...which I believe out of the box you'll only get about 100-150 successful submissions)

    Oh yea...and:
    4) Listen to Patrica and Alexa. ;-)

    To Your Success,
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  • Profile picture of the author Patchworks
    Currently I own Article Marketing Robot and it is a great product!! It has had problem like any other package, but it has high number that I don't see with any other package...
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    • Profile picture of the author PatriciaJ
      Originally Posted by Patchworks View Post

      Currently I own Article Marketing Robot but the support is lacking. I'm looking into getting Article Demon, but I'm wondering which scripts it supports.

      I currently have built a list in AMR of over 7K sites and would like to move these over to Article Demon.

      Article Demon appears to have more automation than AMR, but I can't seem to find a trial download to test it out.
      I haven't found the support lacking and since they moved servers it's been working better than ever for me. Have you tried the support forum or emailing the owner direct?
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        Originally Posted by PatriciaJ View Post

        I haven't found the support lacking and since they moved servers it's been working better than ever for me. Have you tried the support forum or emailing the owner direct?
        We had an email conversation about a month ago, and since then he's decided that he would go out of his way and comment on every forum post about how "lacking" my support is, amongst other things.

        AND JUST JUST got this email:

        Hi Vince

        I don't know how often you are told this, but I will take my chance right now.

        You are by far one of the greatest men I have met. Very communicative, very helpful and very very nice. You deserve a lot of good karma to come your way - and if it hasn't come yet, I know it will soon.

        No, I did not see that link. A few of them were obvious (and I already had done). But, one thing I had not done was do SMALLER batches of sign ups instead of larger sign ups. This has helped significantly. Already with batches of 50-100 sign ups I am seeing a spitter spatter of "fails" turning into "successes".

        Lastly, I can tell you honestly as a person that has used almost every single site and almost every single software - yours is by far the best. Why?

        Its cheap
        Its easy to set up - it literally is automated, not semi, not partial, but automated completely.
        You are nice! You havent screamed at me, called me a SENSORED, or tried to defamate my character.
        And most importantly Vince, this SENSORED works LOL.

        Like I said, I used Article Marketer for years. And for years their numbers have gone down. Its a disgrace. Yesterday, after 5 years of being with them, I have downgraded to a free account. lol. 4 days ago I submitted ONE article and for that article it has been distributed to well over 2100 sites.

        So, thank you. And thank you for that link. And thank you for the software, it is absolutely without a doubt brilliant.

        I hope you have a superb day!
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      • Profile picture of the author celente
        Originally Posted by PatriciaJ View Post

        I haven't found the support lacking and since they moved servers it's been working better than ever for me. Have you tried the support forum or emailing the owner direct?
        I would be trying to contact those higher up yes.

        Its actually a suprise how much they want to help and how nice they are.
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        • Profile picture of the author PatriciaJ
          Originally Posted by SniperSoftware View Post

          We had an email conversation about a month ago, and since then he's decided that he would go out of his way and comment on every forum post about how "lacking" my support is, amongst other things.

          AND JUST JUST got this email:

          Hi Vince

          I don't know how often you are told this, but I will take my chance right now.

          You are by far one of the greatest men I have met. Very communicative, very helpful and very very nice. You deserve a lot of good karma to come your way - and if it hasn't come yet, I know it will soon.

          No, I did not see that link. A few of them were obvious (and I already had done). But, one thing I had not done was do SMALLER batches of sign ups instead of larger sign ups. This has helped significantly. Already with batches of 50-100 sign ups I am seeing a spitter spatter of "fails" turning into "successes".

          Lastly, I can tell you honestly as a person that has used almost every single site and almost every single software - yours is by far the best. Why?

          Its cheap
          Its easy to set up - it literally is automated, not semi, not partial, but automated completely.
          You are nice! You havent screamed at me, called me a SENSORED, or tried to defamate my character.
          And most importantly Vince, this SENSORED works LOL.

          Like I said, I used Article Marketer for years. And for years their numbers have gone down. Its a disgrace. Yesterday, after 5 years of being with them, I have downgraded to a free account. lol. 4 days ago I submitted ONE article and for that article it has been distributed to well over 2100 sites.

          So, thank you. And thank you for that link. And thank you for the software, it is absolutely without a doubt brilliant.

          I hope you have a superb day!
          Ha ha

          Originally Posted by celente View Post

          I would be trying to contact those higher up yes.

          Its actually a suprise how much they want to help and how nice they are.
          I agree. I just wish some people would try that route out instead of complaining on forums
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  • Profile picture of the author meetmanan
    If some site do not accept links in body area then its better if you use all in resource box, but for making more concentration for user, use link to you domain to keyword used.
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  • Profile picture of the author Joey Babbs
    Keep in mind that any content on your site needs to be original especially after recent updates...spun content should only be used later to blast your other articles,,,.you also don't need to worry much about when you sign up to article directories - they pretty much approve anyone so it doesnt matter what website address you give them when you sign up,,,as for links in the body only a few directories allow that so you might risk not getting posted...if you are going for backlinks then it doesnt matter if its in the body or the resource box....
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    check out fiverr for people who will auto-post your articles for cheap using advanced tools. some will even write the article for you. lots and lots of backlinks easy...
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    • Profile picture of the author PatriciaJ
      Originally Posted by rajseo View Post

      I always put up links in resources part only because various article directories make the body link no follow then in that case would not be considered as quality backlinks.
      Some directories have no follow links anyway. Articlesbase, one of the big ones is no follow yet I've always done well with them. The bigger picture is that article directories are intended for places that publishers to find content to reuse on their websites or ezines, so if articles get syndicated in this way it doesn't matter if the directories are nofollow, not that I think it matters much anyway.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by rajseo View Post

      various article directories make the body link no follow then in that case would not be considered as quality backlinks.
      Raj, no article directory backlink can be considered as "quality".

      They're all non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlinks.

      In SEO terms, backlinks don't really get much worse than that.

      As Patricia wisely comments above, the bigger picture is that article directories are intended as places that publishers use to find content to syndicate, and when articles get syndicated like that, it doesn't matter if the directories are no-follow ... and actually it doesn't matter much anyway!
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  • Profile picture of the author jerkean
    I never did see the answer to the original question. I happen to have the same Q. I am using Mediatemple as my server and they do not have a C-Panel. I have inputted the correct settings(I think) and i cannot get the email account to sync the pop server. it gives me an error. any ideas?
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