Best place to send high quality articles

I would put it on your own website and book mark it to stumble upon and digg. With the wave of curation at the moment there is agood chance someone will used some of the information and link back to you as the source. You could also add it to technorati.

Yes. Do nothing else with it until it's been indexed on your own site.

You can certainly do this. I do, with all my articles. It's actually the last thing I do, but it can produce some further passive syndication in the way you mention. In ezines and/or on websites. Ezine Articles is the directory in which most ezine publishers and webmasters look for content. I submit all mine there (eventually). For me, there's no real value in using other article directories additionally, but I do sometimes put a copy in either GoArticle or ArticlesBase as well. I can't really recommend any others, though.

Not one that requires "unique content" and will take your initial indexing rights from you.

But you'd be better off submitting it yourself to plenty of relevant ezines and relevant websites. Relevant ones, that have targeted traffic for you.

Indeed. Exactly so. This is article syndication. Here's how I do it: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794

Here are a couple of other posts that might help/interest you ...

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post3188316

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

Good luck with it, Declan!

I'd put it on my site first. Personally i put my content on my blog first, then submit them to the article directories. I used to post to the article directories first, then to my site. But i soon saw that this was an exercise in futility.

YES 100% YES....your site first ALWAYS, then the directories. You will get more out of it on your own site than anywhere else, most of the time. If you have any questions of this nature, you can refer to these threads as they helped me quite a bit:

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...mith-myob.html

Benjamin

I think you would be best submit your high-quality, original article to ezinearticles.com
for more exposure, credibility and traffic back to your website.

You should put it into your website first. then spin it and put in other directories/ web 2.0 and other section of link building. But spin it to be safe.

I would go with spinning it and putting it up on a site like hubpages or ezines

As Alexa Smith said earlier, do nothing unless the article is indexed from your own site. After that you can submit it into article directories like ezinearticles, articlebase, goarticles, sooperarticles etc. Especially hubpages and squidoo. Do not miss these 2 sites to submit your articles. Because they are web 2.0 sites and they have billions of readers everyday. If you article is good quality, it will rank high easily by doing nothing. Which will lead towards more traffic.

Your site first, wait for it to become indexed. Then distribute it to various article directories and web 2.0's.

I don't think Google will penalise you for duplicate content this way, since it was on YOUR site first. The most important part is making sure it actually gets indexed before you move onto anything else.

Hey Declan,

If you're going to create a high quality article and if you are spending 7 hours to create it, then it would be foolish to submit this to article directories. Guest posting to high quality sites is another thing entirely because this is a much more high leveraged and high impact source of both traffic and authority (if you choose the blogs you submit to properly).

So it's definitely a good strategy to have remarkable content on your blog and then create remarkable content for guest blogging submissions. After I have created an article on my Website I will send it to Twitter (using Buffer for timed submission), send an update message to ping.fm (this unfortunately cannot be done anymore - looking for a good substitute), send to Facebook fan page, add to social networks such as digg, stumbleupon, reddit (this is done through Synnd) and also start a bookmarking campaign in Synnd also. Additionally, I will send a broadcast email to my list of subscribers about the content.

Rarely do I do submissions to article directories anymore as it's just not worth it when there are better options for distribution, for example guest posting.

I hope that helps,

Alex

No way would I invest 7 hours into content that was going on external sites, unless those external sites had a rep. of delivering massive direct traffic when content hit the external sites front page.

Thanks for all your pointers girls/guys. I completely forgot about this thread as it was moved from the copywriting section.

I understand the whole process of publishing to my own website first. I have been blogging for a while now. Great content on my own website is a given, but if I am to spend a few hours on just one article, I definitely want the best bang for buck so to speak.

It's been a while since I started this thread and since then I have tested out different strategies (as one must do) and found guest posting to yield the highest results for me. That's not to say it's the best strategy, just that I am not up to speed on how to market my written content for syndication as of yet. One step at a time

Thanks again everyone for your answers, I appreciate your time.

Declan.

try some popular freelancer site

I don't think it's better, coz I think it's the BEST thing to do! Have it on your site first, get it indexed by major search engines Then do the process of article syndication by submitting them to high quality and relevant article sites. As Alexa mentioned in different/other posts relating to article marketing, customers search in Search Engines (Google) while publishers search in Authoritative article sites (Ezine, goarticles). See the Difference, eh?

You want direct and indirect traffic but you don't want to lose potential customers at the same time... by having that article on your site and in high quality article directories, you get to choose which copy you would like them to have in SERP's.

I would follow alexa's advice. Its better to use high quality articles on your site rather than selling them or using else where.

Hey Declan,

Do you get the feeling 7 hours was too long to create an article? I know you wanted to make it the best possible reflection of your writing and your product. If for no other reason, that is why you need to post it to your own website or blog. You want to establish yourself as an authority spokesperson.

When I started out, I did NOT post to my blog first, because I didn't have one. I had a one-page website as a landing page. And that wasn't for list building. LOL I just referred the reader on to the merchant site from that landing page.

The point here is that this method left my income to the whims of ezine directories and Google shuffles. Alexa is an absolute authority on article marketing. Do what she says and you'll be ahead of the game.

The amount of time you took to write an article is just ONE indication of its quality. Just because you spent a lot of time on it doesn't necessarily make it a quality article. With that said, why not offer it to blog or site owners in its niche? In exchange for a link inside the article going to your squeeze page, they get to offer your article as premium content on either a squeeze page on their site or as a funnel filter link on their lists? WIN WIN situation. You might end up making more money off the article doing this than flogging it the normal way as described above.

Ezine should do it.

At first on your site, then consider high PR guest posting. I prefer gust posting to directories.

What do you want your article to DO?

That's the first thing to decide.

Next...

Who will deliver the result you want from your article?

Think "prospects".

Then...

Where do those prospects hang around online?

That's where your article needs to go.

First.

Second.

Or last.

Until it gets there, nothing much will happen.

When it does, magic will.

Once you know where you want to go, finding the best route is easier.

The hard part is nailing down your 'target audience' - and locating
them correctly.

There isn't anything quite 'formulaic' or 'one-size-fits-all' about this.

If your blog or website is brand new, and your article is an excellent
one about your niche, I would personally recommend guest posting it on
the leading industry blog in your niche (where you'll get recognition,
brand awareness, traffic, and positioning in front of a large crowd of
your ideal potential prosects) rather than on your own site where the
best you can expect from it is the warm fuzzy feeling of "ownership"
of your content!

Just saying.

All success
Dr.Mani

Always post to your own site first, and then add to the directories, or as someone else pointed, do some guest blogging.

The key though, is to add to your site and wait to be indexed. That way you are seen as the original author and everyone else is viewed as syndicated content.

BP

You said your aim is to drive traffic to your opt in offer...For that i'd advice you to also give guest posting a shot..try blogs with high traffic that are closely related to yours..here you're more likely to receive targeted traffic

For driving traffic, you ca directly get traffic on your website, if you have researched some keywords, I mean low competitive keywords.

I would go with a keyword related niche article directory before a regular one.

Definitely put on your website first and then send to the top directories such as Ezinearticles, Goarticles, Articlesbase etc.

Use it on your own website and use spin article/content for other stuff like Article Directories/Web 2.0 Etc.