Submitting articles question

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Hello fellow warriors,

I would like to know if you would recommend posting an article to a blog first and then to an article directory or the other way around. In my case, the conversion rate might be similar from both a blog and an article directory as an additional action (clicking on the affiliate link) has to be done for both.

Another question I have based on this is: if I were to use the same quality and amount of links to both my wordpress blog and to an article posted in ezinearticles.com which would you say would most likely rank higher in the search engines?
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  • Profile picture of the author BloggingPro
    It's best for you to post your article to your website first and then post to the article directories second. In terms of ranking above an article on a directory it goes beyond simple backlink's. On page SEO is very important in a post-panda world. You could throw as many links as you wanted at the page, but if you have little to no trust with Google you'll just dance.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by affiliate_marketer View Post

    I would like to know if you would recommend posting an article to a blog first and then to an article directory or the other way around.
    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...eza-first.html

    If you read through that thread, you'll find a whole succession of experienced, successful, professional article marketers explaining in detail all their shared reasons for always publishing all their articles on their own blogs/sites first.

    It would make no sense at all, compared with the alternative, to submit to an article directory an article which isn't already published and indexed on your own site/blog. You need your site to be the long-term, cumulative beneficiary of all those initial indexation-rights: you can't gain by giving them away to a directory.

    Originally Posted by affiliate_marketer View Post

    if I were to use the same quality and amount of links to both my wordpress blog and to an article posted in ezinearticles.com which would you say would most likely rank higher in the search engines?
    You'd better hope that it's yours, and do everything you possibly can to make sure that it is. (Don't worry - it will be, apart from when your site's brand new and has almost no content and almost no backlinks. Articles in EZA - as with all article directory articles - are on non-context-relevant, PR-0 pages. If your own site can't outrank an article directory, then you'd have much bigger problems than anything you're asking about here! Google's major algorithm change, earlier this year, seriously devalued the article directories, including EZA, as their owners were so openly commenting. It's very easy indeed to outrank them. ).

    And here are a couple of other recent threads which may interest you ...

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ave-value.html

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-internet-marketing-discussion-forum/456263-best-way-submit-articles.html
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    • Thank you for the links to the threads. Your answer combined with the threads has helped me to clarify a lot of questions I had.
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  • Profile picture of the author DaveWildash
    Fully agree with the replies given above, but I noticed you said:

    Originally Posted by affiliate_marketer View Post

    the conversion rate might be similar from both a blog and an article directory as an additional action (clicking on the affiliate link) has to be done for both.
    Don't make this assumption. I haven't seen your blog but I know there's a load of distractions on an ezinearticles page. Having read your article on that site a reader could click on an ad or a link to another article in the related or recently posted lists.

    If your own blog page has less distractions it may have a better conversion rate. Only testing will tell.
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  • Profile picture of the author the lord
    I think your blog should have some articles so that readers of the ezine articles can trust you. or you can directly use the sales page or landing page.

    Make the article in your ezine menjmain not your blog will have a good position in Google SERPs. But you will be able to take traffic from ezine articles.
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    • The lord, I just want to clarify one thing. Perhaps you mispelled a word in the second last sentence and I'm not sure what you meant exactly:
      "Make the article in your ezine menjmain not your blog will have a good position in Google SERPs".
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  • Profile picture of the author BXPS
    Having more articles as well as unique content.
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  • Profile picture of the author Clint Butler
    Alexa, thanks for the way you explained that and I completely agree. I repurpose my content all the time, but the original is always on my blog first and every other piece of content that i create from the first one links back to the original, regardless of the possible authority of the other sites I put it on.
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  • Profile picture of the author bastion
    Great post Alexa.

    Yes, you ALWAYS need to post on your blog first, and on the directories second. That's the way things work.
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  • Profile picture of the author StevenRichards
    You should always post to your on site before spreading the content else where. This is just my opinion though and is also how I do it my self. So it may not be the best way out their but I want my site ranking over all the other articles first.
    Originally Posted by affiliate_marketer View Post

    Hello fellow warriors,

    I would like to know if you would recommend posting an article to a blog first and then to an article directory or the other way around. In my case, the conversion rate might be similar from both a blog and an article directory as an additional action (clicking on the affiliate link) has to be done for both.

    Another question I have based on this is: if I were to use the same quality and amount of links to both my wordpress blog and to an article posted in ezinearticles.com which would you say would most likely rank higher in the search engines?
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