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Hi to all,

I never really used article directories as part of SEO process (Off page), but off late, I am considering using isnare for this. However, I have analyzed a few factors and will like to share my observation with other fellow warriors out here. I'll try to mention what I analyzed below, I apologize beforehand if I am missing anything or have provided some sort of wrong information.

According to isnare, I can submit an article and the same will be syndicated to many websites keeping my link intact.

Pros:
If I get submitted to say around 100 websites (This is again just an assumption, not sure if they do submit an article in 100 websites or not), I get 100 links from different domains and for $2 only. That's a pretty cheap price.

Cons:

1) I don't know the PRs of the sites, so not sure, how much link juice will actually be passed to my site.

2) I won't have any traffic from these syndicated sites with my link. Honestly, I used to get some (Very little to be specific) traffic from ezinearticles only.

3) I generally like to get 2 links from an article, because then it is possible for me to get 1 link for the home page and 1 for a relevant inner page. Not sure, if that's possible through isnare though.

4) Most of the links, I assume won't get indexed by Google, so I have to pay and use an energizer package so that I get some value from the links.

5) I have to write a unique article to submit to isnare, unlike ezinearticles, where you can use an existing indexed article of your website. So, that's extra effort or paying extra for outsourcing. The former will cause me lose my time, the latter money.

What do others think of isnare? Please share your thoughts and I urge everyone to correct me if I have misplaced any facts. I didn't really get the time to browse the detailed FAQ of isnare.

Thanks for reading and waiting for some great replies.
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  • Profile picture of the author bumba1988
    I personally like to go with seo link vine and UAW more then isnare
    Thanks for your response. Can you give reasons why do you prefer UAW or SEO Link Vine to Isnare? I am asking because I don't want this thread to only answer my questions, but, prove to be helpful for everyone else as well.
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    Originally Posted by bumba1988 View Post

    According to isnare, I can submit an article and the same will be syndicated to many websites keeping my link intact.
    I've never used iSnare, so I cannot comment on the service they offer. BUT, I've read other threads here, complaining they often take weeks to approve articles.

    Originally Posted by bumba1988 View Post

    Pros: If I get submitted to say around 100 websites (This is again just an assumption, not sure if they do submit an article in 100 websites or not), I get 100 links from different domains and for $2 only. That's a pretty cheap price.

    Are you aware that you will need to acquire somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 article directory backlinks to provide the link-juice equivalent to one single backlink from a relevant authority-site?

    Originally Posted by bumba1988 View Post

    Cons:
    1) I don't know the PRs of the sites, so not sure, how much link juice will actually be passed to my site.
    You are mistaken when you refer to sites having PR. Sites don't have PR, pages have PR and your article will be published on a PR0 page.


    Originally Posted by bumba1988 View Post

    2) I won't have any traffic from these syndicated sites with my link. Honestly, I used to get some (Very little to be specific) traffic from ezinearticles only.
    Why on earth would you want to use article directories as a means of obtaining traffic? You admit you receive "very little traffic" from Ezine Articles, so what is the point? Surely a far better strategy would be to publish articles on your own site and capture 100% of your visitors.

    Originally Posted by bumba1988 View Post

    4) Most of the links, I assume won't get indexed by Google, so I have to pay and use an energizer package so that I get some value from the links.
    I repeat, you will need to acquire somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 article directory backlinks to provide the link-juice equivalent to one single backlink from a relevant authority-site? What is the point?
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    • Profile picture of the author bumba1988
      Hi AnniePot,

      Thanks for a detailed analysis. I know a high PR relevant website link is far better, but, who will provide me with one, at the first place?

      I know pages have PR, not domains, I probably mistakenly used the word site. Anyways, thanks for pointing that out.



      Originally Posted by AnniePot View Post

      I've never used iSnare, so I cannot comment on the service they offer. BUT, I've read other threads here, complaining they often take weeks to approve articles.




      Are you aware that you will need to acquire somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 article directory backlinks to provide the link-juice equivalent to one single backlink from a relevant authority-site?



      You are mistaken when you refer to sites having PR. Sites don't have PR, pages have PR and your article will be published on a PR0 page.




      Why on earth would you want to use article directories as a means of obtaining traffic? You admit you receive "very little traffic" from Ezine Articles, so what is the point? Surely a far better strategy would be to publish articles on your own site and capture 100% of your visitors.



      I repeat, you will need to acquire somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 article directory backlinks to provide the link-juice equivalent to one single backlink from a relevant authority-site? What is the point?
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    Originally Posted by stevenjacobs View Post

    The reason is that they produce more in text links, they generally are indexed faster and are on way more different domains and ipadreses .you also have more traffic when you send out the articles , for seo link vine atleast
    OK. I understand your reasoning and I thank you again. May be, it's time to check out seo link vine.
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    Originally Posted by bumba1988 View Post

    Honestly, I used to get some (Very little to be specific) traffic from ezinearticles only.
    Yes ... not surprising.

    As Anne wisely explains, above, it's a terribly wasteful way to get traffic.

    There's no future in using an article directory (not even EZA) for its own traffic. That isn't what article directories are there for, at all. It isn't their purpose, or the need they serve.

    Look at it this way: saying "I have a 25% click-through rate from EZA" is just another way of saying "I lose 75% of my traffic at EZA". It's far better (in all sorts of ways) to have that traffic coming to your own site instead. For a start, there's four times as much of it, that way, because you don't get 75% disappearing and never reaching your site.

    I have about 1,600 articles in EZA, and the less customer-traffic I get from EZA, the happier I am. Articles aren't submitted to EZA for potential customers to find. They're there for people searching inside EZA (i.e. not in Google), who might (and do) re-publish them for me, gaining me floods of targeted traffic, high-quality, relevant backlinks (not EZA's backlinks!) and so on. These people are webmasters and ezine publishers. They're not my potential customers: they're people whose readers are my potential customers.

    An article directory is simply a "stepping stone" to syndication. That's why they exist. Not for their own traffic (and decidedly not for their own non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlinks!).

    Regarding Isnare: have a look using the forum's search function ... but you'll find many people asking "Is Isnare Dead?", many accounts of people not hearing from them for months on end after submitting articles, and so on.
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    • Profile picture of the author bumba1988
      Hi Alexa,

      First of all, thanks a lot for taking some time out and posting in this thread. I have read many of your posts here in WF and I gained nothing but knowledge from those.

      Now coming to the context of the thread, I wanted to use article marketing only for getting links, no traffic at all is expected. As Annie pointed out correctly, I need several of them to get a good ranking. However, blame it on my ignorance that other than social bookmarking and article marketing, I am not finding good ways to build free one way links. All that being said, I know about directory submission and profile backlinks, but want to avoid those as I have heard those are spammy in nature.

      Finally, when it comes to web 2.0 blog building and building links, I prefer to outsource the process, because I do it myself, it will take huge time.

      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      Yes ... not surprising.

      As Anne wisely explains, above, it's a terribly wasteful way to get traffic.

      There's no future in using an article directory (not even EZA) for its own traffic. That isn't what article directories are there for, at all. It isn't their purpose, or the need they serve.

      Look at it this way: saying "I have a 25% click-through rate from EZA" is just another way of saying "I lose 75% of my traffic at EZA". It's far better (in all sorts of ways) to have that traffic coming to your own site instead. For a start, there's four times as much of it, that way, because you don't get 75% disappearing and never reaching your site.

      I have about 1,600 articles in EZA, and the less customer-traffic I get from EZA, the happier I am. Articles aren't submitted to EZA for potential customers to find. They're there for people searching inside EZA (i.e. not in Google), who might (and do) re-publish them for me, gaining me floods of targeted traffic, high-quality, relevant backlinks (not EZA's backlinks!) and so on. These people are webmasters and ezine publishers. They're not my potential customers. An article directory is simply a "stepping stone" to syndication. That's why they exist.

      Regarding Isnare: have a look using the forum's search function ... but you'll find many people asking "Is Isnare Dead?", many accounts of people not hearing from them for months on end after submitting articles, and so on.
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by bumba1988 View Post

        I wanted to use article marketing only for getting links, no traffic at all is expected.
        I hear you ... I think.

        But the reason you want to use articles is for their backlinks, and the reason you want the backlinks is to move up in Google's SERP's, and the reason you want to move up in Google's SERP's is so that you can get more search engine traffic, isn't it? So you're doing it for traffic in that sense, at least?

        Article marketing can be a way of getting the targeted traffic (and sometimes floods of it, far more than you can ever get through a search engine) by "cutting out the middle man" and making your business not so dependent on Google.

        I'm not suggesting that you shouldn't want any search engine traffic, of course.

        The SEO benefits I get through article marketing are all through having my articles syndicated to relevant sites. Mass submission to article directories for their own backlinks got me nowhere at all (and I did it for many months, before I learned better. ).

        The reason it works is that what determines the value of the linkjuice of backlinks is mostly relevance, and almost the only people who'll syndicate my articles are people with relevant sites (or ezines).

        So I've done much, much better, for backlinks and for SEO, by using EZA and almost no other directories, and by writing for syndication, than I ever did from submitting to 1,000 article directories: those backlinks are so low quality that they were no good to me at all.

        Originally Posted by bumba1988 View Post

        As Annie pointed out correctly, I need several of them to get a good ranking.
        Indeed ...

        I'm wondering if we share the same concept of "several".

        Unless your keywords are all the longest-tail keywords in history (in which case their search-volumes are so low that there's no real traffic worth talking about anyway), you may need many hundreds of thousands of them to make any significant progress. If you call that "several", then we all agree.

        Originally Posted by bumba1988 View Post

        other than social bookmarking and article marketing, I am not finding good ways to build free one way links.
        Article directories aren't a "good" way to build free one-way links, because the links are no "good", I'm afraid.

        Blog-commenting on relevant blogs is very good (it's a skill-set, with a learning-curve, of course).

        And the same applies to comments in relevant forums with a sig-file link.

        Anything relevant is good.

        "Numbers of backlinks" and page-ranks are not so good. To put it mildly.

        In short, forget quantity: think quality ...

        Originally Posted by bumba1988 View Post

        All that being said, I know about directory submission and profile backlinks, but want to avoid those as I have heard those are spammy in nature.
        Forum profile backlinks are clearly spam, yes; but in any case, they have it in common with article directory backlinks that they're better described, these days, as "cr@plinks". :p

        I'm "just saying" ...
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        • Profile picture of the author bumba1988
          So, I assume it will be best if I follow the methodology that use currently:

          1) Write an article and put it in my website.

          2) Wait until it gets indexed.

          3) Put the same article in EZA with two anchor texts in author resource box. Then having one pointing out to he Homepage and the other to an inner page, other than the article actually used.

          4) Hoping that the article will get noticed by webmasters and re-publish the same keeping the links intact in their website?

          I just saw a few cons and that's why wanted to shift to isnare. I am pointing those out below:

          1) Some webmasters just steal the content and never keep the links to the original site (In this case, my site).

          2) An article in my site is duplicated in another site, not sure, if this is good for Google or not!

          3) The webmaster who republishes the content with links may not have a relevant blog at all. These blogs are filled with duplicate content mostly (At least what I have seen so far), so does Google value them as relevant backlinks?

          On the other note, what are your thoughts on using BMR (Build My Rank)?




          Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

          Yes ... not surprising.

          As Anne wisely explains, above, it's a terribly wasteful way to get traffic.

          There's no future in using an article directory (not even EZA) for its own traffic. That isn't what article directories are there for, at all. It isn't their purpose, or the need they serve.

          Look at it this way: saying "I have a 25% click-through rate from EZA" is just another way of saying "I lose 75% of my traffic at EZA". It's far better (in all sorts of ways) to have that traffic coming to your own site instead. For a start, there's four times as much of it, that way, because you don't get 75% disappearing and never reaching your site.

          I have about 1,600 articles in EZA, and the less customer-traffic I get from EZA, the happier I am. Articles aren't submitted to EZA for potential customers to find. They're there for people searching inside EZA (i.e. not in Google), who might (and do) re-publish them for me, gaining me floods of targeted traffic, high-quality, relevant backlinks (not EZA's backlinks!) and so on. These people are webmasters and ezine publishers. They're not my potential customers: they're people whose readers are my potential customers.

          An article directory is simply a "stepping stone" to syndication. That's why they exist. Not for their own traffic (and decidedly not for their own non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlinks!).

          Regarding Isnare: have a look using the forum's search function ... but you'll find many people asking "Is Isnare Dead?", many accounts of people not hearing from them for months on end after submitting articles, and so on.
          Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

          I hear you ... I think.

          But the reason you want to use articles is for their backlinks, and the reason you want the backlinks is to move up in Google's SERP's, and the reason you want to move up in Google's SERP's is so that you can get more search engine traffic, isn't it? So you're doing it for traffic in that sense, at least?

          Article marketing can be a way of getting the targeted traffic (and sometimes floods of it, far more than you can ever get through a search engine) by "cutting out the middle man" and making your business not so dependent on Google.

          I'm not suggesting that you shouldn't want any search engine traffic, of course.

          The SEO benefits I get through article marketing are all through having my articles syndicated to relevant sites. Mass submission to article directories for their own backlinks got me nowhere at all (and I did it for many months, before I learned better. ).

          The reason it works is that what determines the value of the linkjuice of backlinks is mostly relevance, and almost the only people who'll syndicate my articles are people with relevant sites (or ezines).

          So I've done much, much better, for backlinks and for SEO, by using EZA and almost no other directories, and by writing for syndication, than I ever did from submitting to 1,000 article directories: those backlinks are so low quality that they were no good to me at all.



          Indeed ...

          I'm wondering if we share the same concept of "several".

          Unless your keywords are all the longest-tail keywords in history (in which case their search-volumes are so low that there's no real traffic worth talking about anyway), you may need many hundreds of thousands of them to make any significant progress. If you call that "several", then we all agree.



          Article directories aren't a "good" way to build free one-way links, because the links are no "good", I'm afraid.

          Blog-commenting on relevant blogs is very good (it's a skill-set, with a learning-curve, of course).

          And the same applies to comments in relevant forums with a sig-file link.

          Anything relevant is good.

          "Numbers of backlinks" and page-ranks are not so good. To put it mildly.



          Forum profile backlinks are clearly spam, yes; but in any case, they have it in common with article directory backlinks that they're better described, these days, as "cr@plinks". :p

          I'm "just saying" ...
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          • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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            Originally Posted by bumba1988 View Post

            So, I assume it will be best if I follow the methodology that use currently:

            1) Write an article and put it in my website.

            2) Wait until it gets indexed.

            3) Put the same article in EZA with two anchor texts in author resource box. Then having one pointing out to he Homepage and the other to an inner page, other than the article actually used.

            4) Hoping that the article will get noticed by webmasters and re-publish the same keeping the links intact in their website?
            This is all good, as long as the articles are written for syndication and not "written for clicks".

            But bear in mind that it's all "passive syndication only". It may be a little of the jam, but it isn't the bread and butter, which needs to be active syndication, in which you yourself get your work syndicated to the appropriate webmasters and ezines.

            Originally Posted by bumba1988 View Post

            1) Some webmasters just steal the content and never keep the links to the original site
            Why is that a disadvantage?

            I see that it's a disadvantage compared with their taking the links, too, but you're saying that it's a disadvantage just "of doing this", and I can't begin to see why. :confused:

            Anyway, it's very quickly and easily dealt with, when it happens. Two pre-written, fill-in-the-blanks emails ready to send them (a "please add my resource-box" and a "DMCA") and you're covered.

            Originally Posted by bumba1988 View Post

            2) An article in my site is duplicated in another site, not sure, if this is good for Google or not!
            It's no problem. It's syndicated content, not duplicate content.

            Article Marketers - Lay the Duplicate Content Myth To Rest Once and For All | Internet Marketing and Publishing

            Originally Posted by bumba1988 View Post

            3) The webmaster who republishes the content with links may not have a relevant blog at all.
            Possible, but not a problem anyway.

            Originally Posted by bumba1988 View Post

            These blogs are filled with duplicate content mostly (At least what I have seen so far)
            You haven't. You've seen syndicated content and mistakenly thought of it as "duplicate content". The link above will clarify that for you.

            Originally Posted by bumba1988 View Post

            so does Google value them as relevant backlinks?
            Who cares?

            What difference does it make whether you get some good, relevant backlinks on their own, or some good, relevant backlinks and some worse, irrelevant ones as well? There are no penalties for irrelevant backlinks (I don't mean it impolitely but I can hardly believe I'm explaining this to someone who a couple of hours ago was apparently interested in mass article directory backlinks, which are about as irrelevant as you can get!!); they're just of no real positive value either.

            Originally Posted by bumba1988 View Post

            what are your thoughts on using BMR (Build My Rank)?
            I haven't used it, I'm afraid - can't help you with that one. "I'm an article marketer. I don't need to buy any backlinks." (Sorry!) :p

            But seriously, none of your "suggested problems" is actually a problem/drawback at all.
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            • Profile picture of the author bumba1988
              Alexa,

              Thanks a lot for clearing my confusions. I read the thread stating how to make your article syndicated, it was awesome. However, the page stating the difference between duplicated and syndicated content didn't open for me.

              Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

              This is all good, as long as the articles are written for syndication and not "written for clicks".

              But bear in mind that it's all "passive syndication only". It may be a little of the jam, but it isn't the bread and butter, which needs to be active syndication, in which you yourself get your work syndicated to the appropriate webmasters and ezines.



              Why is that a disadvantage?

              I see that it's a disadvantage compared with their taking the links, too, but you're saying that it's a disadvantage just "of doing this", and I can't begin to see why. :confused:

              Anyway, it's very quickly and easily dealt with, when it happens. Two pre-written, fill-in-the-blanks emails ready to send them (a "please add my resource-box" and a "DMCA") and you're covered.



              It's no problem. It's syndicated content, not duplicate content.

              Article Marketers - Lay the Duplicate Content Myth To Rest Once and For All | Internet Marketing and Publishing



              Possible, but not a problem anyway.



              You haven't. You've seen syndicated content and mistakenly thought of it as "duplicate content". The link above will clarify that for you.



              Who cares?

              What difference does it make whether you get some good, relevant backlinks on their own, or some good, relevant backlinks and some worse, irrelevant ones as well? There are no penalties for irrelevant backlinks (I don't mean it impolitely but I can hardly believe I'm explaining this to someone who a couple of hours ago was apparently interested in mass article directory backlinks, which are about as irrelevant as you can get!!); they're just of no real positive value either.



              I haven't used it, I'm afraid - can't help you with that one. "I'm an article marketer. I don't need to buy any backlinks." (Sorry!) :p

              But seriously, none of your "suggested problems" is actually a problem/drawback at all.
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    The one big drawback that I have experienced with isnare.com is it takes on average about 3 weeks to approve article submissions. Each article needs to be atleast 500 words and unique. I have had success in the past with an improvement in my serp when I have used this service.

    I going to be posting 10 articles over the next few weeks to retest this service. I'll measure the time it takes them to approve and article and the effect it has on my search engine positioning. I'll let you know the results.
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    • Profile picture of the author bumba1988
      Originally Posted by sudiekram View Post

      The one big drawback that I have experienced with isnare.com is it takes on average about 3 weeks to approve article submissions. Each article needs to be atleast 500 words and unique. I have had success in the past with an improvement in my serp when I have used this service.

      I going to be posting 10 articles over the next few weeks to retest this service. I'll measure the time it takes them to approve and article and the effect it has on my search engine positioning. I'll let you know the results.
      Thanks for your comments. I'll love to know your experience.
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  • Profile picture of the author grandstar
    I have used isnare in the past and i did not receive a flood of traffic as expected. I must admit however that I am not a keyword freak.

    I believe its best you write for syndication purposes and not for search engibe traffic.

    Thats the purpose of writing articles- for webmasters to republish your well written articles to their readers.

    Make sure you write something worth syndicating.
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    • Profile picture of the author bumba1988
      Originally Posted by grandstar View Post

      I have used isnare in the past and i did not receive a flood of traffic as expected. I must admit however that I am not a keyword freak.

      I believe its best you write for syndication purposes and not for search engibe traffic.

      Thats the purpose of writing articles- for webmasters to republish your well written articles to their readers.

      Make sure you write something worth syndicating.
      Thanks for your words.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lyanna
    I just purchased credits ($10 worth) to get my articles syndicated. I am unsure why it seems to be so cheap but it's worth a try. I just submitted 2 articles and got a message saying it will take 5-7 days for paying customers to get their articles approved so it looks okay so far.

    I'll post an update when my articles are approved and what I got out of it.

    From what I understood from the Isnare website, they will be sending my article to a whole bunch of people who may or may not want to publish it on their websites. Obviously the factors involved are:

    - how many publishers they have in their syndication list
    - the quality of the publishers'/webmasters' website
    - are there good ones in my specific niche?
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      Originally Posted by Lyanna View Post

      - are there good ones in my specific niche?
      That's the first and second and third most important question.

      For the backlinks to have any real value, and for the traffic to have any value at all, they have to be relevant to your niche.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lyanna
    The thing is, with these types of syndication services, you won't know about your specific niche until you try it. What may not work for the food niche may work for the IM niche, for example, so I am going to give it a go. $10 is pretty cheap for 5 articles.
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  • Profile picture of the author marco005
    Hy,

    I wonder a littlte bit too with an article directory marketing strategy.
    Now, read the article marketing blueprint, a little pdf wso about this from Matt Callen.

    He shows screenshots, he has written onbly 10 artilces to high pr directories, set it and forget it.
    A case study from Jonathan Leger.
    he only wrote 10 artilces and added his site to 3waylins.net, he started August 2007;

    So, in week 2 he has 257 visitors.
    In September 2007 692 visitors.
    October 2001 1067 visitors without doing writing any new articles.

    In this pdf are another stories example from Pat Marcello, content manager from Tellman Knudson,
    he said, in the last 2 years, who the pdf is written, he has daily written articles and then submitt to 90(!) directories.

    So, are this all lies about article marketing?
    From Jonathan Leger, over 1000 visitors within 6 weeks.

    What can you say about this?


    best wishes
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  • Profile picture of the author Lyanna
    I'm back with the update I promised. I submitted two articles to isnare and they were approved on Nov 14 (within 3 days). However, there has been no syndication as of today. Still waiting to see if the syndication service is still alive.
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  • Profile picture of the author marco005
    Hy Lyanna,

    tell us within a few days or on two weeks or so,the result from your two article on isnare, traffic and backlinks.

    best wishes
    marco005
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by marco005 View Post

      tell us within a few days or on two weeks or so
      Don't hold your breath waiting for that, Marco ... according to many people here, it can take isnare two or three months even to reply to an email. (I'm not exaggerating). :p
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        Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

        Don't hold your breath waiting for that, Marco ... according to many people here, it can take isnare two or three months even to reply to an email. (I'm not exaggerating). :p
        That sounds horrible...
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        • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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          About two and a half years ago, I used to wonder about trying their service myself. But every time I was about to, there seemed to be a new thread by someone saying "isnare haven't circulated my articles and don't reply to inquiries for month after month, so I'm abandoning them now". So I never actually tried them. (And there are more recent threads like that, too). Granted, it's entirely second-hand information (obviously) but for me, it doesn't paint an attractive picture.
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  • Profile picture of the author marco005
    Alexa, what?

    Does isnare works so slow, to require me, when I have become backllinks?
    Thats worst, that is unacceptable, untrustworthy, ok for free,they not will be many work for free author members.

    best wishes
    marco005
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Have a look with the forum's "search function", Marco. There are several threads in which Warriors discuss "whether or not isnare still exists at all" because they can't get any replies from them, and can't get their articles distributed, either. I'm "just saying"!
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  • Profile picture of the author celente
    I really do not think they are as good as they use to be.

    Isnare use to submit articles in a day or so. Now if we use them it takes weeks. We eventaully had to move on. There are lots better sources out there, and we now use fiverr for this article distribution....5 dollar, and the exposure is huge. Just something to think about...but fiverr in the right hands is very very POWERFUL!
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  • Profile picture of the author ibacklinkpro
    A place that requires unique content better have good value to offer... I personally op out of iSnare and use Squidoo and Hubpages with my unique content (and my personal blog too, of course), however I use Squidoo and Hubpages for the backlink, where as the content I don't care about being duplicated I post on the likes of EZA and GoArticles for potential syndication... however I have shied away from doing that altogether, it is very rare to get quality syndication from those sources, it is much more useful to try to get approved for Associated Content and try to get syndication there... there are some really powerful sites using AC's content...
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    • Profile picture of the author bumba1988
      Originally Posted by ibacklinkpro View Post

      A place that requires unique content better have good value to offer... I personally op out of iSnare and use Squidoo and Hubpages with my unique content (and my personal blog too, of course), however I use Squidoo and Hubpages for the backlink, where as the content I don't care about being duplicated I post on the likes of EZA and GoArticles for potential syndication... however I have shied away from doing that altogether, it is very rare to get quality syndication from those sources, it is much more useful to try to get approved for Associated Content and try to get syndication there... there are some really powerful sites using AC's content...
      OK, That's definitely a new piece of advise. Yes, writing for AC and getting content syndicated with them should be a good idea. However, they will unique content (Also, of high quality only). So, why shouldn't I try to write unique and quality content my for blog only and then get it published for a better exposure?
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  • Profile picture of the author Lyanna
    Well yes, I will get back to you if/when I do get any results with syndication. The articles have been published on the isnare website itself but not on other websites yet.

    tell us within a few days or on two weeks or so,the result from your two article on isnare, traffic and backlinks.
    So far the website itself (isnare.com) is definitely alive as I did get approval within 3 days but I think the question here is about the syndication service which has had no results yet.

    Status: still waiting
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    • Profile picture of the author caksut
      You can trust it to spread your article to other massive article directories. Article marketing still powerful to boost natural traffic!
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    • Profile picture of the author Lyanna
      The articles I submitted are in the isnare website but no syndication has taken place. It has been almost a month so I guess syndication is dead (or extremely slow!) but the article directory itself is still alive.

      Originally Posted by Lyanna View Post

      Well yes, I will get back to you if/when I do get any results with syndication. The articles have been published on the isnare website itself but not on other websites yet.



      So far the website itself (isnare.com) is definitely alive as I did get approval within 3 days but I think the question here is about the syndication service which has had no results yet.

      Status: still waiting
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    • Profile picture of the author curly sue
      Its alright but there other much cheaper article submitter like articlemarketer.com with a much wider reach.
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  • Profile picture of the author marco005
    Thanks I will be avoid isnare.
    Is it better (traffic and backlinks) to syndicate about rss feeds?

    Yes, squidoo is an googd alternatives, to build own squidoo lenses with backlimk to your own website.

    Other alternatives? I think related Forums,there you can write "articles" too, articles in your niche, articles about infos and tips and so on, but decent,decent,not too much (how much is too much?) you will be kicked out as a spammer.

    Alexa, thanks very much for your tip.

    Celente, thanks for the tip with fiverr is that social traffic who is not convert?
    ibacklinkpro, who other powerful sites uses AC content?

    Share is important, to learn from other people. Then we all here must stick together.
    The business principles in large and as so in small, are the same.

    with best wishes
    marco005
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  • Profile picture of the author marco005
    @sexy sue,

    yes there are free submitter, from Brad Callen, I have forgotten the name of it, but I have not tried this submitter.

    But I think you focus only on ten high pr directories,not hundreds.....this ten you write 10,20,30 articles weekly, will bring you traffic.


    best wishes
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  • Profile picture of the author bumba1988
    Originally Posted by nm5419 View Post

    Well, why not try this link? It describes how Google defines duplicate content (straight from the horse's mouth): Duplicate content - Webmaster Tools Help

    Woah! This an old thread!
    That's really a good share. Let others know what Google has to say about duplicate and syndicated content - both.

    Originally Posted by Lyanna View Post

    The articles I submitted are in the isnare website but no syndication has taken place. It has been almost a month so I guess syndication is dead (or extremely slow!) but the article directory itself is still alive.
    I believe we draw a conclusion here and that is: Isnare is indeed dead... I mean when a syndication service cannot syndicate your content, no matter whether it's up or not, for me (I believe I will have many other fellow webmasters for my company) it's dead.
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