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Quick question on Posting Articles to blog then directories

by seedyuk
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Hi there I have built a website that reviews 15 products and currently that is all that is on there.

I am now trying to also write an informative article or 2 every day to expand my site.

Is it ok to then post my article to a couple of directories(for backlinks) once it is indexed on my site first or will Google do me for duplicate content? Maybe I should just NOT post the articles on my site and just put them in directories for the backlinks instead allowing me to gain backlinks every single day without the duplicate content risk?

Please help! :confused:
#articles #blog #directories #posting #question #quick
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by seedyuk View Post

    Is it ok to then post my article to a couple of directories(for backlinks) once it is indexed on my site first
    It's "ok".

    But that isn't what article directories are there for, and you'll get no measurable benefit from the backlinks, at all. Trying to using article directories for their own backlinks is a fallacy, as explained here. And here.

    Originally Posted by seedyuk View Post

    or will Google do me for duplicate content?
    No.

    It wouldn't be duplicate content. It's syndicated, not duplicate. They're two different things.

    Explained here: Article Marketers – Lay the Duplicate Content Myth To Rest Once and For All - Internet Marketing and Publishing

    Originally Posted by seedyuk View Post

    Maybe I should just NOT post the articles on my site and just put them in directories for the backlinks instead allowing me to gain backlinks every single day without the duplicate content risk?
    No - please excuse my very blunt wording, but that would be really silly: not only would that not gain anything measurable, but it would even deprive you of a potential on-page SEO advantage which you might otherwise have had for your own site by the gradual accumulation of initial indexations there. That's helping article directories, not helping yourself.

    This post will help you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

    So - no penalties, for sure, but above all, understand that there's also no SEO benefit in trying to use article directories in this way. This isn't "article marketing": it's only "article directory marketing".
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  • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
    You should indeed post to your site first, then after it is indexed post it to article directories.

    Google does not consider the same article across multiple domains duplicate content.

    Perhaps you could get a better understanding regarding duplicate content and syndication as well as the purpose of article directories from reading this thread do you use same article on your site and article directories

    Hope this helps.

    Terra
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  • Profile picture of the author Joseph Robinson
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    Out of thanks, but what ^^^^ those two posts said.

    I'm also too tired this morning to link to my own article syndication threads; but you're in good hands with those two.
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    • Profile picture of the author myob
      Consider publishing your informative articles to niche ezines, blogs, and websites. For any given niche, there may be millions of potential candidates for article syndication and backlinks. As is a very common experience by article marketers who leverage articles directly to targeted audiences, you may find this source of direct traffic outperforms (and bypasses) competitors' search results for your keywords.
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      • Profile picture of the author mrsvirtualassistant
        Doing this won't necessarily hurt your rankings, but it won't help you too much either. If you want to get the most out of article marketing, create unique content and submit it to high trafficked article directories. This way you will increase your chances of getting traffic and improving your search engine rankings.
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        • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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          Originally Posted by mrsvirtualassistant View Post

          If you want to get the most out of article marketing, create unique content and submit it to high trafficked article directories. This way you will increase your chances of getting traffic and improving your search engine rankings.
          This is completely wrong. It makes no sense at all to submit to an article directory work which you haven't yet published and had indexed on your own site. And article directory backlinks won't improve your search engine rankings, either - and that isn't what article directories are for, anyway: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

          Almost every time you say this, and very similar things, Mrs. VA, people here who are actually making a living from article marketing explain to you (sometimes briefly, sometimes at great length with links to further information) just how deeply mistaken and factually incorrect it all is.

          Such as here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6250326

          But there are also countless other posts like that, with other people offering you the same observations and correcting your misinformation.

          But it seems that you never read the replies to your posts, so there's no real "conversation", and even collectively, we can't apparently dissuade you from repeating this misinformation over and over again.

          Sorry to whine, but it really does get somewhat frustrating. :rolleyes:
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          • Profile picture of the author AnniePot
            Sorry Alexa, MissTerraK, MYOB and Joe I've run out of "Thanks" for today, but thank you nevertheless.

            mrsvirtualassistant - you are so wrong. Read the good, knowledgeable advice from the four I've mentioned above. They all really know what they are talking about.

            I speak from many, many years of experience myself after syndicating thousands of my articles to thousands of webmasters who run high profile, context relevant, ezines, newsletters and blogs. I make a very comfortable living from article syndication and I don't give a toss about Google, SEO, backlinking, etc.
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          • Profile picture of the author mrsvirtualassistant
            Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

            This is completely wrong. It makes no sense at all to submit to an article directory work which you haven't yet published and had indexed on your own site. And article directory backlinks won't improve your search engine rankings, either - and that isn't what article directories are for, anyway: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

            Almost every time you say this, and very similar things, Mrs. VA, people here who are actually making a living from article marketing explain to you (sometimes briefly, sometimes at great length with links to further information) just how deeply mistaken and factually incorrect it all is.

            Such as here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6250326

            But there are also countless other posts like that, with other people offering you the same observations and correcting your misinformation.

            But it seems that you never read the replies to your posts, so there's no real "conversation", and even collectively, we can't apparently dissuade you from repeating this misinformation over and over again.

            Sorry to whine, but it really does get somewhat frustrating. :rolleyes:
            Since article marketing gives you quality inbound links, it helps you improve your rankings indirectly. Since the best article directories have high page rank, you will get a higher score in search engines when you receive backlinks from these directories. The more quality backlinks you obtain, the better you will rank. What I have said in my original post is not wrong. Maybe I should have explained better.
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            • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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              Originally Posted by mrsvirtualassistant View Post

              Since article marketing gives you quality inbound links, it helps you improve your rankings indirectly.
              It can indirectly, but only if and when the articles are syndicated from the directories, not from being in the directories as you wrongly keep stating.

              But this bears no resemblance to what you've been so repeatedly saying!

              Originally Posted by mrsvirtualassistant View Post

              Since the best article directories have high page rank, you will get a higher score in search engines when you receive backlinks from these directories.
              No. You won't.

              This is completely wrong.

              Article directories are websites. Websites don't "have page ranks". Only pages have page ranks, believe it or not.

              You're getting confused between the page ranks of the article directories' own home pages and the linkjuice of the backlinks you get from articles in directories. This is all wrong. Articles are not published on the directories' own home pages, so the page rank of those pages doesn't help you much, does it?! :rolleyes:

              Even in Ezine Articles, your article goes on its own newly formed PR-0 page. This is simply factual, and verifiable.

              For heavens' sake, check it for yourself. Submit an article to EZA (as I do every day) and have a look at it a month later and check out its PR. It will be PR-0 just like all mine are. And then check it a year later. It will still be PR-0, just like all mine are a year later. (Assuming we're not insane enough to build backlinks to someone else's website and boost it ourselves, artifically).

              Originally Posted by mrsvirtualassistant View Post

              What I have said in my original post is not wrong.
              Sorry, but that's just not so.

              And many of those of us who are actually making our livings from article marketing keep telling you so, every time you post this stuff.

              You're looking at submitting to article directories as if there were some benefit to be received from the directories' own backlinks. That's incorrect. That's not how article directories work and it's not the purpose of submitting articles to them.

              http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

              Even a year before the series of Panda updates gradually but consistently decimated the linkjuice from article directories, the standard SEO textbook writers were explaining at great length and in great detail why you'd need something between 50,000 and 100,000 of those "backlinks" to give you the linkjuice equivalent to that from one backlink on a relevant authority site.

              Please don't keep telling people that the point of submitting to article directories is to gain off-page SEO for your site from the directories' own backlinks. It's just wrong.

              It's because people believe this ill-informed nonsense that they mass submit to article directories and get their sites penalized by Google for "over-optimization"/"spammy backlinks". And all so unnecessarily, because there's no real SEO benefit there to attempt, anyway. That isn't how article directories work.

              I know you're getting exposure for your sig-file with all these drive-by posts whose replies you never even look at unprompted, but seriously, you're harming people rather than helping them by repeating these misunderstandings all the time, which is why so many other Warriors have to keep correcting your misinformation. Sorry, but that's how it is! :rolleyes:
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    The next step in my business model is article marketing. I've been hesitant until reading these posts. Thanks for clarifying things.
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