Article Marketing, let me make sure I have this right.

No you don't, assuming that the article directory accept spun articles of course.
If they don't then you will need to generate a spun version yourself and submit that.

Google doesn't like repeat content so make sure it is not identical to the article on your site. Also, maybe only submit one spun version to 3 or 4 directories and spin it slightly differently for each 3 or 4 directories. It actually takes the same time to spin 5 versions of the same article as it does to spin one version. If you just get into the habit of adding three or four synonyms for all words, or quickly rephrasing easy sentences 3 or 4 times at once then it becomes automatic.

Yes, you can submit a spun article to multiple article directory sites. Just like when you have new article which also you can submit to multiple sites.

It can't hurt to vary your keywords in your articles. When you mention that you're worried about your articles "competing with my website rankings"... as long as you are promoting your site in the article bio box, it's not really an issue.

I would like to ask you guys only one question. why do you want to submit article when you have to submit one article in one article directory. you should create link wheel in this condition and promote that link wheel so that you will get good quality contextual interlinking for your website.

Now a days all article sites have 1000 of posts and all page rank is divided in these articles links. You will not get those desirable benefits which should be for your website.

so think about this and let me know your views for article submissions.

Nope you have article marketing 100% wrong! Amazing how this lame mass submission to content farms still goes on.

Despite popular belief, article marketing was created to market your quality content and syndicate it to websites that can help you empower your website. There are several factors that you need to remember because they are the most important in article marketing.

Quality Content - You may think you write quality articles because they sound good, but do you really understand what quality content actually is? In order to create quality content, your articles must contain proper spelling and grammar, semantically related words, and read at a proper grade level that corresponds to your niche, according the Flesch-Kincaid readability test.

Quality content means just that, quality! These attributes are needed for readers to take you seriously on what you are claiming to be an expert about. They are also needed in order to achieve higher search engine rankings. Google has always wanted fresh quality content to present to their users in their search results.

Your quality content gets posted on "YOUR" site before anyplace else. When you decide to syndicate your articles "YOU DO NOT HAVE TO SPIN ANYTHING". Article spinning and article rewriting is 100% optional and is in no way required to do proper article marketing.

It depends on how deep your spinning goes.

In order to make it clear and simple, for every sentence spinning you put in your file (assuming you have 18-25 sentences in a 400-word article), you will get a guaranteed 50 unique outputs from that. SO if you have 2 sentence spinning done, you will get 100 unique outputs.

If you put in proper word spinning, double that number. (2 sentence spinning = 100 outputs + word spinning = 200 outputs)

Ok, let's take your questions point-by-point.
ezine will never accept your spun content and that's the most important directory link you want to have. Now, I suggest you don't spin the articles you have on your website, as that is not a good thing.
What I use to do, is have somebody write me an unique article (You can write that yourself, if you have time) that I then submit to ezinearticles. They should approve it between 4 and 7 days. After that, I take the article on ezine and spin it once and submit it to auto-approve article directories. Then, I make a spun article for each of the other top directories (such as Goarticles, Articlesbase, etc.) that are not as strict as ezine and will allow spun content if it is unique and barely readable.
Then you have to repeat it for each keyword until you start ranking.

Removing them would be a great pain in the arse, in my opinion. I think it won't hurt you in the long term if you let them there. Assuming you continue adding articles to your website and stop spinning those, you are fine and in the end probably the first links with help too.
Just start using that plan from here on. Writing only one article and getting a lot of links for it is pretty great.
This step is a bit optional, but this is what I do: After you publish the articles, go on Wordpress.com and Blogger.com and sign for a free blog. There add an article ( can be original, can be spun, can be blatantly copied, I have used all methods ) with a nice picture and two links at the end. One to your website and the other one to the ezinearticles link.
Do this for ezinearticles, goarticles and articlesbase. In the end you will have 3 Wordpress.com and 3 Blogger.com blogs that would pass juice towards your website.
Hope this helps! And if you have any questions, really, feel free to ask. If I know something that may help you, I will share it.

To be frank, we all like spun article to publish in multiple article directories but did you think about the reader of that article? Will it be impressive for them? or get you the desired result? almost all time spun article kill the beuty of the article.

Never, ever put a spun article on ezine article.

Techbull system is similar to what i use.
Also social book mark your article on ezines, then the blogs.

Anthony

Quite a lot of what's above is mistaken and misguided.

If you're willing to invest the time it will take to read the following posts/threads slowly and carefully, Matt, they will help you a great deal.

Is Writing Articles and Submitting to Top Article Directories Still Have Value

Quit spinning your damn articles

Article Marketing: is the spin really necessary?

How do Article Directories work?

As usual, Alexa is a great source of information. I think the biggest problem with article marketing is there are two schools of thought on how to approach it.
One side says write quality articles and webmasters will pick them up from article sites use them on their sites and backlink to yours from the author bio box giving you lots of links back to your site.
The other side says write one article spin it thousands of times and submit it to article directory sites knowing no one will post such unreadable garbage on their sites, but you will have lots of backlinks to your site from the usually high PR article sites.
In theory, both are capable of achieving your desired result of better page ranking, but the first also allows you to develop a good reputation for writing quality content.
There are variations, of course, but those two seem to be the main ones I've encountered.
I hope this helps clarify things for you.
Best Regards,
Jim Waller

Some free article spinner are not good. Try to buy an article spinner to get a new unique article

Okay Matt, listen up. I'm gonna make this simple for you, and I'm going to do what you asked...Address every sentence in that paragraph 1 by 1.

Stop spinning. Stop reading. Stop listening to people in this thread. Just read what I'm about to tell you...

First, to set the record straight - There is NO SUCH THING as duplicate content penalty for content that is the same across multiple domains.

Okay?

So if you publish an article on your website, there is ZERO penalty if you syndicate that exact same article to 1,000s of article directories. If you want proof of this, just Google "Matt cutts duplicate content myth".

The only duplicate content penalty that exists is applied to duplicate content WITHIN YOUR OWN SITE. Okay? So if you published an article on your website, and then publish the exact same article again on your website but on with a different permalink, you would be penalized for that.

Do you see the difference between the two cocepts?

Duplicate content across multiple domains = Okay
Duplicate content multiple times on the same domain = Not okay

Okay, half of this statement is true, and the other half is false. As I already said, Google does not HATE duplicate content. However, they do have a special index for duplicate content - This is called the supplemental index.

To understand the supplemental index, you need to understand that Google's goal as a search engine is to return the most varied and most relevant results possible for every keyword. The supplemental index is one thing that helps them do that.

Here's how it works - When Google finds a duplicate copy of an article already in their main index (the index that's used for search engine results), they don't penalize either piece of content, but they DO relegate the duplicate article into their supplemental index.

Because you're right, Google doesn't want the same piece of content to rank twice...Because that wouldn't be the good for the searcher.

So then the obvious question is: How do you control which piece of content goes into the main index - the one that's used for search results - and the supplemental index?

The answer is simple: Google automatically assumes that the first indexed copy of a given piece of content is the original, and all others are relegated to the supplemental index as republished versions of the same content.

Now, notice that there is no PENALTY anywhere in here. Just because a piece of duplicate content won't rank in the SERPs doesn't mean that it's useless or that it's trust is being penalized in anyway.

Yes, exactly right. Because as we just explained, a duplicate article still counts, it's just never going to rank. No penalty, just a different index.

Okay, here comes the simplest methodology for true article marketing. This is going to be simple and concise. I'm going to walk you through what you should do with each and every single article that you write:

#1. Write a high quality, original article and publish it on your website. It should be indexed by Google almost immediately, but you may want to wait a couple hours before proceeding to be safe.

Remember - Google considers the first copy it finds to be the original, so always make sure your article is indexed on YOUR SITE first.

#2. Take that exact same article - Yes, EXACT same - And submit it to EzineArticles and up to 4 other article directories. EzineArticles is the only one you really need, but if you're going to do more anyways then limit yourself to 5 total. Anymore and you're wasting your time.

Okay, now real quick, let's be clear about what exactly an article directory is originally intended for:

Article directories exist NOT for search engines, NOT for visitors, but for WEBMASTERS (who hate writing). Article directories are a place that webmasters can come to find high quality writing to republish on their own websites or in their own newletters.

#3. So, ideally what is going to happen is that a webmaster is going to see your article on EzineArticles (and remember, this article has already been published and relegated to the main index from your own website), and then they're going to republish that article on their blog, or send it out to their email list. In return for getting to use your article they'll keep your links intact, so you'll receive traffic and possibly backlinks from every article republished, but their republished version will NEVER outrank your original.

Well, never say never, but it would be very difficult to do; more difficult than just writing an original piece of content to begin with.

You can keep track of where your article has been republished by searching for a sentence or two in "quotes" and seeing what comes up.

When you see that your article has been republished on a high quality site, feel free to privately contact the webmaster and offer exclusive content or see if you can work out a guest post arrangement. This is totally optional though, especially in the beginning.

Alright, at this point this is everything that you NEED to know.

If you simply follow these three steps then that is already a much simpler and less time consuming methodology over the spin-and-submit method.

Just to sum it up clearly:

#1. Publish an original article on your website.
#2. Submit that exact same article to EzineArticles plus a few others if you want
#3. That article will then be republished on other webmasters' blogs and newsletters.
#4. Rinse and repeat.

I'm not one of those people that's going to tell you that spinning is for the devil, because I do believe that it has its place in Internet marketing, but it is completely unnecessary, even counter-productive, for leveraging the huge power that is article directories.

Please let me know if you have any questions, and if it seems like I'm not replying here just shoot me a PM. I'm really bad at keeping up with threads =/

I hope that something in there helps someone!

- Stephen

Alexa has good info on this, and many people still have not woken up to the fact that article marketing and sydication is changing alot.

I am glad people have not woken up yet, I do not need the competition

Actually I been doing article marketing for our financial niche sites the right way even before bum marketing came to the forefront, but now the darn info is becoming main stream, thanks to the warrior forum and other places, but I just Need to keep it secret for as long as I can. **rubs hands**

stephenwaldo explained in more detail what I referred to as the first school of thought. (...write quality articles and webmasters will pick them up...)

He also mentioned that there is no penalty across multiple domains (that belong to other people of course), which is true. However, some people would consider their article going to the supplemental index a penalty, because it can't rank in Google, which may be their goal. (I'm not sure why they would want this, but it is possible. As long as your links are intact, it may not matter to you where your site ranks.)

He also stated, "I'm not one of those people that's going to tell you that spinning is for the devil, because I do believe that it has its place in Internet marketing..." which is also true. An example would be if you want to make PLR content unique, you could run it through a spinner to get ideas for variation, and clean it up later so it is good and readable.
I only bring this up, because it has application in article marketing (Before anyone goes CRAZY, I mean PLR content can give you a base of knowledge from which to create your own quality, unique content) Much like spinning, PLR is not "for the devil" if used properly.

Jim Waller

Unique content is always better when it comes to Google. They discourage spun content and it can sometimes affect your ranking ability.
Article submission is not as effective as it used to be. In terms of SEO I would highly suggest researching some other techneiques such as building high PR backlinks, keyword research, and optimizing your website onsite. These can be more effective.
Just my 2 c

I wouldn't use spin articles at all. By the time you've finished correcting all of the errors on the article, you could have probably written an entirely new article from scratch. I have yet to see a good article spinner that makes unique, good articles. Most of them are laughable... which is why i create my own content 100% from hand.

The company I work in no longer even submits articles to services like Article Marketing Robot or anything that allows spinning.

Why?

Because most of these directories have been deindexed. Google HATES them. They are crap.

Try guest blog posting on useful sites instead or doing some social media or video marketing. Article marketing is getting weaker and weaker by the minute.

NicoleBeckett I wasn't advocating the second method, I was merely mentioning it exists. Judging by his post, I'd say precious007 knows more about that side of article marketing than I do.
Personally, I'd rather have content you can read.

Hey everyone, lots of good - and some confusing - advice here. I was not even aware that you could post your website articles on any ezine sites. Ezinearticles especially seems to abhor duplicate content and certainly won't accept plr articles, even if they have been changed quite a bit; I know cause I tried it.
What I'm wondering is: how do you know that anone who takes your article to use will actually keep your link in it? They could be mean and leave it out even though they are not supposed to....how would you even know?

The spun just does not help in any case. Afterall, even you submit the content using AMR who reads the submitted content and who should visit your website? A human that can be converted or a Robot.

No.

Every time you spin an article you should upload one unique version of the spun article to only one article directory.

When you spin your articles you should be getting multiple unique articles of the original. You submit One Unique article (1 spin) to each article director for maximum link juice.

The search engines -Especially Google - HATE DUPLICATE CONTENT

Example:
Spin 1 goes to article directory 1
Spin 2 goes to article directory 2
Spin 3 goes to article directory 3
Spin 4 goes to article directory 4

Hope this helps!...

yes just wait till alexa gets here, she is going to tear some people a thing-a-me-bob. LOL.

Do not spin articles, I am hearing those that keep spinning articles are going on a list and will be sent to FEMA camps. I am thinking about becoming an affiliate for this program...LOL....look out.

stop spinning junk that is written by a 3 year old, what use it is. Start writing valuable content that actually helps people out.....nah....that would be silly right......you are right too much hard work ey?

Hi celente,

I sent you a PM. Please check it... something pretty important.

Asher

*hops back into lurk mode*