Article marketing: PR0 sites worth anything?

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Hi guys,

I have a question about article marketing. Namely: if a relevant website in your niche re-publishes your article, but that website has only a PR0, is it worth anything?

I ask because I'm getting a lot re-published by sites like these and they usually don't include my resource-box (EzineArticles), so I'm wondering if it is worth my time to actually get in touch with them or am I better off just focusing on writing more, better articles.

What do you guys think?

P.S. these are sites that don't seem to be getting much traffic, though it's hard to tell as they are usually quite new.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by syncmaster913n View Post

    I have a question about article marketing. Namely: if a relevant website in your niche re-publishes your article, but that website has only a PR0, is it worth anything?
    Yes, of course.

    The purpose of article marketing is to get your articles published in front of already-targeted readers/visitors/subscribers - exactly the traffic you want to visit your site. If you can't find them on a relevant website in your niche, where can you find them? :confused:

    Relevance of the site (not just the page) to your site is also the primary determinant of the linkjuice.

    Originally Posted by syncmaster913n View Post

    I ask because I'm getting a lot re-published by sites like these and they usually don't include my resource-box (EzineArticles)
    Personally, I tend to ignore them if they're crappy-looking autoblogs (those aren't usually going to live long anyway), and otherwise I send them a quick, polite, friendly, pre-written, fill-in-the-blanks email thanking them for syndicating my article from Ezine Articles, pointing out that they've forgotten the resource-box (which they need also to publish in accordance with EZA rules), and asking them to re-attach it (and I send it to them). Sometimes they do; sometimes they don't. If they don't you can serve a DMCA notice on their host, if you want to.

    Originally Posted by syncmaster913n View Post

    I'm wondering if it is worth my time to actually get in touch with them
    It's certainly worth my time, overall. It only takes a minute.

    If you can't see an email address, try "admin" and "info" and "support" at theirsite.com.

    Originally Posted by syncmaster913n View Post

    or am I better off just focusing on writing more, better articles.
    That depends on whether your articles are written for syndication to start with.

    Originally Posted by syncmaster913n View Post

    What do you guys think?
    I think you should look at article marketing as a traffic-generation method in its own right, not as "part of SEO". That said, backlinks from relevant sites do definitely give real linkjuice, regardless of their page ranks. (I never even look at their page ranks - their relevance is all that matters to me).

    Originally Posted by syncmaster913n View Post

    P.S. these are sites that don't seem to be getting much traffic, though it's hard to tell as they are usually quite new.
    Yes - it can be hard to tell. The less traffic they get, the less worthwhile it is following them up, of course, but the "trick" is to have the pre-written email ready to go out, and then it's very quick, each time, to try it.
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  • Profile picture of the author syncmaster913n
    Thank you Alexa, that's all I needed to know
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  • Profile picture of the author Jay Brass
    I only submit my articles to the top 10 high PR/Alexa websites to be honest.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by Jay Brass View Post

      I only submit my articles to the top 10 high PR/Alexa websites to be honest.
      This isn't about sites to which you've submitted it, Jay: it's about other sites in your niche whose webmasters have subsequently re-published it from article directories, without your being involved. (That is the purpose of article directories, you know? )

      By the way, there's no such thing as a "high PR article directory". Article directories are websites, and websites don't "have page ranks". Only pages have page ranks. And article directory articles go on PR-0 pages anyway, regardless of the PR of the directory's own home page (not relevant to article marketers at all, because of course that isn't where our articles are published!).
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