Creating an article to get more traffic - questions

by osekdomains

Posted: 12 years ago 10 replies

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So here is the thing. My website is quite new and I would lIke to attravt more traffic. I decided to submit relevant article to some kind of directory. I want to outsource it using eLance (english is not my native language) because I want the article to be perfectly written.
My question is what to do next? I don't know what article directory should I submit it to as I dont have much experience.

Basically I want the most for my money. I even thought a out rewriting the article and make multiple submissions. Is that a good idea?

#article #creating #questions #traffic

AnniePot 12 years ago

I think this earlier thread will help you quite a lot: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5318945

There are quite literally hundreds of previous threads, with collectively, thousands of responses, devoted to article marketing, but the one I've indicated will give you a decent grounding.

First though - publishing articles on directories to attract traffic is all but dead. It had its success some years past, but it's abilities have declined drastically over recent years, most significantly following the succession of Google algorithm updates.

Article marketing was created originally for an entirely different purpose, and thankfully, it now seems to have returned to its roots..

Also, writing one article will be useless. Good, well written articles certainly don't need to be churned out by the thousand, but you will need to add relevant content to youy site at a consistent rate. Publish everything to your own site, then maybe to a directory of two, but your own site is primary and this is what you need to be building.
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osekdomains 12 years ago

Ok. Thank you for your insights. That other thread definitely helped. I already publish content to my site consistently but I do not have a single backlink basically. So i thought that having at least somethin out there might help. Plus I heard that eHow allows you to share ad revenue which sounds like nice extra.
I am not looking to boost my SERP,I just want another visitor channel. Plus my article that I want to submit is actually a follow up on one article already on my site which I think could give a people a reason to go there.
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osekdomains 12 years ago

Ok. Thank you for your insights. That other thread definitely helped. I already publish content to my site consistently but I do not have a single backlink basically. So i thought that having at least somethin out there might help. Plus I heard that eHow allows you to share ad revenue which sounds like nice extra.
I am not looking to boost my SERP,I just want another visitor channel. Plus my article that I want to submit is actually a follow up on one article already on my site which I think could give a people a reason to go there.
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StephenDavies 12 years ago

I'm not sure that I agree that article marketing is dead, I still manage to get regular traffic from it.

It is certainly not as easy as it once was, but then that is not necessarily a bad thing.

I agree that just submitting to one directory is not really worth it. But you idea of having them click to your site to read a continuation of what they were reading on the article directory site is a valid one, in my opinion.

Try here for a website that lists the leading article directories sorted by traffic and page rank, updated frequently:

List Of Top 50 Article Directories By Traffic, PageRank

You could do worse than submitting to the top ten in that list.

Steve.
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- Alexa Smith Banned 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by StephenDavies
  
  Try here for a website that lists the leading article directories sorted by traffic and page rank, updated frequently:
  
  Unfortunately not, Stephen.
  
  Many of the things on that list are actually not article directories at all.
  
  This is enormously significant, of course, if you're intending to submit stuff to them, because article directories have totally different purposes, functions and acceptance criteria from many of the non-directory sites on that list. Its compiler seems somehow not to appreciate this at all, and not to understand what an "article directory" is, either!
  
  In fact I think only three of the top ten on that list are article directories. One of them no longer exists at all, and "Buzzle" accepts no external links at all, not even in a resource-box. I promise I don't mean it impolitely, but what you're suggesting above would be of extremely low value, wouldn't really be a traffic source anyway, and wouldn't even be within the terms of service of many of those sites. I appreciate entirely that it was a well-intentioned suggestion, of course! Please excuse my pointing out that it's actually out-of-date, inaccurate and entirely inappropriate.
  
  Also, note that the "page-ranks" shown on the list mentioned above are only the page ranks of those sites' own home pages. Which have very little relevance to anyone submitting any articles to any of them, because our submitted articles aren't published on their own home pages! :rolleyes:
  
  Websites don't "have page rank". Only pages have page ranks.
  
  And all those sites - the ones that happen to be article directories and the ones that don't - publish submitted articles on their own brand newly formed PR-0 pages.
  
  http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872
  
  Originally Posted by osekdomains
  
  Creating an article to get more traffic
  
  This post, which may help you explains in detail why it would be a mistake to try to use an article directory for its own traffic. Article directories do have uses (at least, some do), but that isn't one of them. As Anne explains above, it's your own site that matters.
  
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StephenDavies 12 years ago

Oops, you are right Alexa.

Sorry to the original poster, but I cut and pasted the link from VRE Toolbar as I have used it before, but without reading the page.

I have used the following before:

Ezinearticles.com, articlesbase.com, buzzle.com, goarticles.com, articlesnatch.com, helium.com, articlealley.com, articledashboard.com, articlecity.com.

Buzzle was a bit of a pain as their submission guidelines were quite stringent, but I had good results from articles submitted there so don't rule it out.

I have also made Squidoo lenses and hubpages, which of course are not article directories.

Also don't bother with Google Knol as this is being phased out.

Sorry again for not checking the link before posting.
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osekdomains 12 years ago

Wow that is a lot of info. Thanks everyone. I definitely agree that submitting to directory will probably drive only a small portion of readers to my website. But I guess it's better than none, right?

So the weight of the link in the resource box isn't that great after all, heh?

What do you think about eHow? As I mentioned earlier, it'd be nice to be able to collect share of ad revenue, even a little (but it's passive, which is a good thing.) My article is "How-to" article, so it would make sense to put it there.

I have heard about latest Google update, which means I won't probably "spin" the article. I don't have resources for it anyway now. So I would just keep it exclusive to eHow with the note at the end of the article: "If you want to know another 5 ways to do this, go here"...

Which brings me to another question: can I use links in the article (apart from the resource box)?
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SirStanley 12 years ago

If you are going to write an Article, in my opinion, you might as well submit to a directory first: You can put it on your site after it has been accepted, and this way you are at least getting a backlink.

You can put a link to that article on your facebook page, also, if you have one.

Try other methods of marketing. I have been posting in football forums for years, and last week decided to add a signature to my posts. I got 38 visits in my first day, with a 4% bounce rate. Not mind blowing, but I consider this free traffic, as I would post in these forums whether I was marketing or not.

Start putting you signature wherever you can, even in emails to friends.

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osekdomains 12 years ago

But I wouldn't I be penalized for duplicate content if I had the same article in the directory and on my website as well?

Of course, forum signatures - I have them on all the relevant accounts, it does indeed create traffic but I had this figured it out already. Thanks anyway.

Unfortunately I cannot really share my website with my friends in emails and so as lot of them don't speak english etc. But I do have my website setup that when a new user registers on my site, he is automatically added to my subscriber list (they can unsubscribe anytime).
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- Alexa Smith Banned 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by osekdomains
  
  But I wouldn't I be penalized for duplicate content if I had the same article in the directory and on my website as well?
  
  No.
  
  That isn't duplicate content: it's "syndicated content".
  
  The difference is explained in this post: Article Marketers - Lay the Duplicate Content Myth To Rest Once and For All | Internet Marketing and Publishing
  
  There's not much point in giving an article directory the initial indexation-rights to your work. In this longer, older thread, a huge number of successful article marketers explain all their shared reasons for always publishing their articles on their own site before submitting them to any article directories: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...eza-first.html
  
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