What is the Best site for Posting Articles

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I agree. Article submission isn't as effective as it once was in seo. I think you should discover how social networking sites like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter can improve your traffic.

Not "all" of them. Just the ones that neglected to ensure the quality that Google has been telling people to provide for years.

I have personlaly given up on articledashboard.

Many site's traffic/rank were hit hard by the Panda algorithm update.

It is also important to clarify WHAT kind of site you are looking to post your content at, because they are different in nature and purpose, and shouldn't be thought of as the "same".

For example, a site like Ezine Articles is an article directory. Your content is able to achieve syndication there. They don't share revenue from adverts, however, the fundamental idea is that it is suppose to be used as a repository for content....when others find your content, they can use it on their own sites, just so long as they keep your signature line intact.

On the other side of the coin, you have Web 2.0 rev sharing properties. Both "types" of sites, you can typically derive a great deal of search engine authority (dependent upon WHERE they are in their stage of growth and development). HubPages/eHow/Squidoo are examples of these.

article base really gets my tick of approval.

Goarticles, i am amazed we get the results we do with them. I think they are worth a go too.

Go Articles. Article Dashboard.Web Pro News.

For some writers, it perhaps doesn't really make any difference where articles get posted.

Your own site, according too google:

Well said. I use to send all my great content to other sites. I am pounding my site with FAQ's, Articles, etc and I am really picking up traffic. Nice work!

These are predominantly article directories. As I had mentioned above, these are different than Web 2.0 rev share communities. On both, you can essentially publish content, however, it just depends on what your goal is with your content. From both, (typically), you can gain a tremendous amount of search engine authority. Google's panda algo update did serve to make the competition a bit more 'interesting' though.

It is no question that getting stuff posted on your own site and indexed first is the best thing for long term business, but most people who start article marketing want quick results (income) and that is why many people post to places like ezinearticles and other major sites over and over and over again...these sites sometimes bring 20-50 clicks a day or more as soon as they are accepted and this results in instant money....

The key is mixing it up and setting a short term and long term goal...if you keep posting articles to the same place you will get no where! you need a wide array of backlinks directly to your site, but if you have an article that seems to bringing in some dough....then backlink to it to...why not?

Alexa,

Do you use article spinning software?

Why? Why not?

You realise that some of the entries on that list are article directories, and others aren't?

And that the page ranks shown on it are simply the page ranks of the home pages of the sites concerned, which isn't where articles submitted to them are published at all? :confused:

No, not for a long time now. I gave it up a few months after I started, when I learned and understood why it didn't and can't have any benefits at all for my business, and saw through the often deceptive and almost always inaccurate claims made about it by some of its promoters, which collectively feed the propagation of so many urban myths of internet marketing.

It is annoying that they are "strict"?

NOT being strict was what caused their traffic to be hit so hard in the first place.

Such threads, however well intentioned, actually tend not to do anyone any favours, Alan. People with a financial or emotional interest in promoting spinning software tend (perhaps understandably) to defend their position vociferously, they end in arguments, and are simply confusing to members without enough experience and judgement to know who's giving accurate answers and who's regurgitating the urban myths of internet marketing, in which they may have either a commercial or an emotional investment.

All these questions are already answered hundreds of times in other article marketing threads, and a new thread for them won't be any different. Apologies - really - for sounding like I'm giving the cold shoulder to an obviously totally well-intentioned and understandable idea.

I'll happily answer your questions above briefly, though ...

Duplicate content is multiple copies of the same text within one website, and if Google determines that it's been put there in order to "game" their search engine (as they put it), they may penalise that website with regard to their SERP's database.

There's no penalty for "syndicated content" at all (as is obvious from looking at all the authority news sites who syndicate content from Reuters and Associated Press, and a thousand other examples), and indeed "article syndication" is itself a hugely successful business model for many of us here.

This thread explains the difference pretty clearly. (Yes, it has its share of nonsense in it, as well. They all do. One doesn't need to be Einstein to identify it, though, in this case.)

An "article directory" is a depository of online content which is freely available (within the TOS of each directory, of course) to be syndicated by webmasters and ezine/newsletter compilers. That's what article directories are there for, and that's the purpose they serve. They're for syndicators, and for authors wanting their work to be syndicated.

They're also sometimes used by some "article directory marketers" as an attempted way of getting backlinks and traffic. This was never their original intention, and for most people - especially these days - it isn't a viable business model anyway, partly because their backlinks are non-context-relevant, PR-0 ones (and one would typically need 50,000 - 100,000 of them to confer the link-juice equivalent to one backlink from a relevant authority-site), and for some other reasons, too.

"Ezine Articles" was originally called that because it contains "articles for ezines". In other words, if you're sending out an ezine, you can take content for it from EZA (as long as you include the author's resource box, and so on). Actually "Website Articles" would be a better name for it, but you can hardly expect them to change their name just because these days there are more website-owning content-syndicators than ezine-owning syndicators.

An "article site" is just "a site to which you can submit articles". It's a far broader, vaguer term. Some are sites where the articles are for sale. Some are places where they're published because the companies that own the sites share the AdSense income with the authors. All sorts of different business models involved, but not "depositories of freely available content for syndication". Some people - for reasons best known to themselves - even call HubPages and Squidoo "article sites" although that's obviously not how they describe themselves.

You most certainly don't for any article directories (apart from "Buzzle"). For "article sites", it's up to them: you have to read their terms of service; there isn't a "short, simple answer" to that question, because "article sites" is such a weird term and needs to be defined every time it's used.

For me (and for many others here) absolutely none at all.

For me, yes, absolutely. They're actually worse than a waste of time and money. I think they're very damaging indeed, collectively, to the entire "internet marketing industry".

I also agree totally with the view expressed by Paul Myers in this post.

Seriously, Alan, when you have time (or when you can make time), you can do a lot worse than read all the incidental conversations in this thread: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...eza-first.html . There'll be very, very few basic questions you can have about article marketing (and especially about article directories) which aren't answered in there.

As explained here in many other threads, in reality, it seems to me (opinion only, here, but it's well observed opinion and shared by many) that most people who fail at "article marketing" tend to fail in more or less the same way, and it's a way broadly characterised by ...

(i) depending on article directories for traffic and backlinks;

(ii) using "spinning" and/or "mass-submission" software;

(iii) using a "rinse and repeat" model of "article directory marketing";

(iv) writing/submitting large numbers of shorter articles which are sometimes "salesy" in tone and have a prominent "call to action" in the resource box.

You can be almost certain, every single time you see one of the ever-increasing threads we have here with titles like "Article Marketing Doesn't Work Any More" or "I'm Not Sure About Article Marketing Any More", that the person starting it off has been doing at least three of the four things mentioned above.

In contrast, most people who succeed at article marketing succeed in their own slightly different ways, a little harder to describe succinctly, but often (I don't say "always", of course) characterised by ...

(a) avoiding all the above (for example, writing much longer articles without an obviously sales-motivated call to action in the resource box, etc. etc.);

(b) involving article syndication in their business model;

(c) building an asset-based business which produces gradually increasing residual income from work already done.

Thanks for all the tips and resources! I'm definitely looking for alternatives, and I'll diversify where I publish my stuff (have started already, but will accelerate my efforts).

I also second some of the above-mentioned sites (goarticles, articlesbase, especially, plus some of the other formats). They also do well in the search engines, better than EZA actually...

One advantage of EZA is that you get quite a bit of information, i.e., clickthrough rates etc.,though I suppose you can get some of that info with analytics maybe...

I will still publish there, but not nearly as much, and I'll publish a LOT more elsewhere.

The step about turning it into a video is the one that I always have trouble with. I've been thinking that Youtube could be a wonderful way to get some more backlinks and traffic but how do you suggest making videos from articles? Just a text and picture slideshow with some music or should I buy a microphone and add speech to it? What is a good program for making videos easily for this purpose?

I was one of those who got into the article writing trap and was wiped out by Panda as well. Now I wish I had taken the time and energy to focus on my own sites. I am simply grateful I was really just getting started and didn't waste more time than I did.

It likes my sites: it's only article directories that it doesn't like ... for exactly the reason you suggest, I think.

Not that article directory backlinks were really worth anything - comparatively speaking - even before Google's famous "Panda update".

This is yet another reason (as if one were needed) why the best, most important and most urgent site for posting articles has always been, and will always be, your own site.

Alan, I'm obviously not Alexa, but here's my take on it.

I've tried mass submissions (submit your article to thusands of sites with the push of a button), and the results didn't justify the effort for me.

Yes, the software reported that the article was indeed posted, but I wasn't going to spend the hours visiting each and verifying. So I waited awhile to let the spiders do their work, then searched for a unique bit if text inserted for the purpose. Results? Of the "thousands" of sites submitted to, a dozen or so links.

A search for the article by keywords yielded zip, zilch, nada in the first 100 results (ten pages - nine more than most people will dig through for the term in question).

Building your own list of sites willing to syndicate your content yields far better results in terms of both link juice and targeted traffic. The only downside to building such a list is that it takes two four-letter words - time and work...

Sonny, I have an article site that hasn't been updated in almost two years now. The articles are all hand-picked. Some I wrote and some are syndicated.

Since Panda, my traffic is up ~18%, and the traffic from
Google in isolation is up almost 50%.

Have you ever checked the page-rank of one of your articles there?

You may be in for a surprise: they're PR-0, just like mine are.

Nobody's submitting to EZA for their "page rank".

You're thinking of the PR of their home page, but your articles aren't published on their home page. Websites don't "have page rank". Only pages have page rank. No hostility intended at all, but you're propagating and perpetuating misinformation, here; you really are. Both your "facts" and your conclusion are entirely mistaken.

What is PR ? Who is giving the rating? Google right?

EZ has hit hard and it was confirmed by the owner.

You will noticed when a particular site is saturation. There loss it pant. So you cannot put all the eggs into a single basket. Spread your links and not only on article marketing.

It is indeed a ton of work - at first. For example, if everyday you get at least 5 new sites to syndicate your articles, after 14 years you will have over 25,000 syndicated outlets. It can be done, because this is what I have done, and continue to do. These syndicated outlets are spread out over several dozen very highly competitive niches. Every article generates massive targeted traffic which is highly convertable to sales.

On the contrary: search engines haven't really liked article directories very much for a few years, now, and are steadily continuing to devalue them further and further all the time (most notably with Google's recent major algorithm changes); it requires far less work than blog commenting, which is extremely laborious; and in any case "how long something takes to do" has absolutely nothing at all to do with its link-juice value.

Blog commenting on context-relevant sites has incomparably more value than the non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlinks you can get from an article directory. The scale of the discrepancy between their values is breathtaking.

Sorry to go on about it, guys, but rarely, if ever, has there been quite so much misguided misinformation and factually incorrect nonsense as there is scattered about in one single thread, here. :p :rolleyes:

Yes; it's how many of us, here, are making our livings and building our businesses.

Four suggestions:-

(i) Seek out actively the owners/webmasters of sites relevant to the niche who might want content (using "blog searches", being inventive with Google, and so on) and contact them, offering them a "content for links" deal;

(ii) Follow up assiduously anyone who's previously syndicated any article of yours from an article directory offering them further content (this should have a very high success-rate);

(iii) Approach relevant ezine publishers, who are always looking for content (outstanding way of getting high quality articles in front of well targeted traffic, and that combination adds up to "money") ... the "directory of ezines" is very useful, but not free. Getting your articles in appropriate ezines does little/nothing for your SEO of course, but who cares, if it directly produces targeted customers? Some people make a very good living from this alone, without caring about the SEO/rankings of any of their sites at all, and without their businesses being in any way dependent on Google.

(iv) Submit all your articles (after publishing them on your own sites and having them indexed there, obviously) to the places where webmasters go in search of freely available content for their sites ... also known as "article directories". I've done far, far better, in this regard, using EZA than using any other directory (but I know there are Warriors who've had some syndication from GoArticles and ArticlesBase, too - and I do still use those as well, though they haven't been nearly so useful to me as EZA has).

The three non-ezine (I don't mean "non-EZA", I mean literally "non-ezine") methods mentioned above can be brilliant for SEO, in that they get your backlinks on some decent, relevant sites ... and once that starts happening, you really see "article directory backlinks" for what they are! :p

But most importantly of all, of course, your articles have to be written for syndication, otherwise none of it will happen at all.

Thank you Alexa. Those are very good ideas and I am going to put it into action today! I have an article I was going to submit to EZA, but now I'll publish it first, then submit it with a unique phrase so I can track where it shows up and contact those owners. =)

The sites that were hit the hardest were the ones that had little to no adherence to any semblance of a quality control process. Likewise, their traffic was impacted enormously. This is why HubPages saw a 50% decline in its traffic.

Here is a quick one and a powerful one that does the job: alexa.com

Article Marketing and the Google Adsense program, they've two big similarities. Kind of funny and I smile now a bit more as people eventually understand the reality. Submitting article to directories works for indexing your articles, getting a lot of traffic to your websites and getting top Google, Yahoo, MSN rankings. The reality of course, you've to be more consistent with article marketing to achieve the results people use to achieve in 2005 and earlier years.

A trend in a lot of my subscribers is that they ask me for the articles we create so they can post the articles first at their website sub-pages and 2-3 days later, they give us the go to publish and submit their articles to all the networks in their campaign. I don't do this personally, I like exclusivity, but Google still loves it.

Great shares of opinions here. Somehow I continue to smile and assimilate article marketing and Google Adsense program in this and a lot of other forums a lot; "Google Adsense is dead", "The Death of Google Adsense", "Article Marketing is Dead", heck, everything content is dead. I just know, someone doing article marketing has to work a bit harder to actually get the results achieved back in 2004, 2005 and so on. Back in those years it was enough to get top rankings in Google for competitive keywords with ezinearticles and the old articlemarketer.com network, now I use a mix of networks and .edu/.gov and is usually enough with 4+ month old or older domain names.

Terribly out of date, I'm afraid: Buzzle, for the last year or so, hasn't been an article directory, nor a site for posting articles to, within the context of this thread at all.

They changed their business model completely after the first of the 2011 Panda updates.

They no longer allow any external links at all, not even in a "resource-box", so their site has no possible benefit for, or use by, an article marketer at all.

These threads about "posting articles" can go on and on for ever, but half the "information" offered in them always needs to be corrected ...