Is It Okay to Just Use My Posts on my Site As Is For Article Directory Submissions?

You should, indeed, submit them to article directories, but there's absolutely no need to re-write them. You can just "syndicate" them (unchanged). It's exactly what very many of the successful, professional article marketers here are doing.

Explained here - earlier today, as it happens.

Your site will be the long-term SEO beneficiary if you always publish all your articles there, and have them indexed there, before submitting them elsewhere.

In a sense, they key question is this: when a potential customer finds one of your articles by putting one of its keywords into a search engine as his search engines, where do you want to "send him" - to your own site ("job done") or to an article directory (we all lose a lot of the traffic that follows that route, of course: nobody's click-through rate is 100%)?

There's only one article directory that requires previously unpublished content (and that's "Buzzle", which also no longer allows any external links at all, and therefore has no value to article directory marketing anyway).

It would make very little sense indeed to give someone else's site the initial indexation rights to your articles, when you can just as easily have that cumulatively effective privilege for yourself. People who habitually do that end up among those "article marketers" whose own sites are outranked by article directories for their own keywords! :rolleyes:

All my nearly-1,300 "EZA articles" were originally published and indexed on my own sites, in identical form (apart from the addition of a resource-box, of course), before EZA submission.

It's funny how these closely related questions come up in "fits and starts". There've already been two threads attracting posts about it today, in fact: this one and this one. Both very well worth a quick read.

This much longer, very helpful thread is the "authority thread" around here, on the subject: in it, a whole succession of experienced, professional article marketers explain in detail all their shared reasons for publishing first on their own sites, and after that in article directories.

But re-writing them won't make the backlinks worth any more.

Good luck!

Thanks Alexa, great response. The key is just getting them indexed on my site before the article directory you're saying. I ping my posts as soon as I write them on my sites and typically do some on site linking, social bookmarking, and some linking on my social networks, so I guess I'm covered.

I've certainly been wasting some time rewriting articles, glad I asked before I started doing this for a long while.