ALWAYS post all your articles / content to your own website / blog first and wait until it has been indexed by Google before posting anywhere else. This will ensure you get the initial indexing rights.

Then, the only article directories worth considering are Ezine Articles and ArticleBase. Both of these offer your best opportunities for subsequent article syndication.

Of course, the very best method is the accumulate a list of niche relevant websites / blogs / newsletter, etc. willing to syndicate your content. This, and this alone will provide you with the most focused eyeballs reading your content, and once your articles are published there, you will also receive a high quality backlink too.

As usual, Alexa beat me to it LOL

As previously discussed (many times), I get this.

However, afterthought.

When I write a post, it's often worded to give the information in a certain way. While being informative and helpful, it's also trying to build a long term readership/relationship with visitors.

The title would normally be constructed to 'be found' by Googlies (Googlers?) when they're searching for something specific.

What I'm trying to ask, in my clumsy way is this:
When publishing to an article site (after your own), does it effect the article in any way if you change the title, or tweak the body copy?

Hope that makes sense.

Hi Alexa,

I just read your post regarding your statement below and stated that you produce three articles per month for each of my niches, now is that three article for each niche or a total of three altogether?

I am asking because I am new with online marketing and struggling how to get valuable content to put into my articles, newletters and emails so I would like know how do you gather these information to send to your niche?

Is it through researching or does it come from your mind?

I ofter wonder how this is done to keep your niche well informed and continue to build my list.

Your post is the first I have read that someone is actually making money and a full time living at that so it is very uplifting and encouraging.

Thank You,

James





I make my full-time living from article marketing and I produce three articles per month for each of my niches. People producing "thousands of articles" are not doing article marketing successfully. They have it confused with article directory marketing, as you do.

No, it isn't.

Squidoo, for a start, is not an article directory.

(And neither are one or two others on your list above).

Those page ranks are simply the page ranks of those sites' own home pages. Websites don't "have page ranks". Only pages have page ranks. If you can ever find a way to have your articles published on their own home pages, then they may become relevant to you! But until then, the backlinks you get from doing this, just like the backlinks I get from doing it, will all be non-context-relevant PR-0 backlinks.

There simply isn't a way to prevent these threads from filling with misleading "information".

It saddens me, because this is exactly the same information I found when I first came here, as an intending article marketer, in 2008, and I believed it then, and that was one of the reasons I didn't earn any money at all in my first 4 months, until I realised that it was all nonsense.

People are still churning out the same misinformation now.

They're still claiming that they "submit their best articles to Buzzle" (which doesn't allow any backlinks, not even in a resource-box).

They're still claiming that Squidoo and HubPages are article directories. (They're not - and that actually matters, because it affects what you can submit there, and why).

They're still listing directories (some of which aren't directories at all) "by page rank".

It's all nonsense.

It never ends.

I "go on about it" (yes, I know I do that ) only because this stuff makes it harder for people to learn anything that's factually accurate, and harder for them to earn a living.

Sorry - HubPages is NOT an article directory. :rolleyes:

As Alexa has just pointed out, I don't think this plethora of completely misguided, totally wrong information is ever going to end.

The best place to place articles is on street articles. I use that and it would not take so long to get your articles like others places. I recommend it because it gets you ranked really well in google. Hope this helps!

An "article directory" is a site to which publishers can go to look up content available to be re-published.

Directories are places where people "look things up". That's their purpose and function. That's the reason they exist.

Neither Squidoo nor HubPages is designed for this purpose, or even permits it.

In no sense are they article directories.

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

Articles available for publication, in this case. That's why they're there.

That isn't article marketing, Kevin. It's article directory marketing. It's the attempt to use article directories for their own backlinks. It's completely silly and extremely ill-advised, too, these days. It was only ever really based on a complete misunderstanding about what an article directory is, and what benefits it can provide. It's a waste of time. It hasn't worked for years and it won't be working again any time soon, and there are reasons for that. But this thread is headed "Article marketing", so clearly it isn't about that.

And that complete misunderstanding, mentioned above, is well served and perpetuated by telling people that you think Squidoo and HubPages are in some sense "article directories". Come off it, Kevin: unlike some of the inexperienced people asking these questions, you know better than this and have no possible interest in confusing others! Shall we all just try to be helpful, instead?

Well, I certainly got some very interesting ideas and snippets by posting that question on here. It seems entering the articles on my site and blog 'first' is a very wise thing to do. Thanks to all for your input.

Mike

So - having published on your own site, you want to spread the word.

Would you use exactly the same article to all directories, or should they be unique?

It's even better.

All those Panda updates of 2011 made EZA much easier and safer for article marketers to use for its intended purpose, without the risk that our potential customer traffic might find those copies (the last thing we'd want, of course, for all the reasons explained in this post: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5075780 ).

Since the article is published on his own site, there's an easier way to tell if it's been indexed. Just paste the URL in the search box. If the page comes up, it's been indexed.

Alexa's method is surprisingly effective in it's simplicity for finding where else your article may appear. You can even automate the method with a Google alert...

This is mistaken.

For all the reasons explained in this post, no article marketer would want potential customer traffic coming to their site via an article directory. We all lose most of that traffic, and would be much better off having it coming directly to our own sites instead, which is easy to arrange once you understand how article directories work and which benefits they can, and can't provide.

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

This is really completely wrong.

Article directory backlinks are of no value at all (no, I'm not exaggerating/minimizing) and enough of them in huge numbers of different directories will naturally get you penalized by Google's "Penguin-updated" algorithm. PR-0 backlinks on non-context-relevant sites simply have no value to you, for off-page SEO. This was true even as long ago as 2010, when SEO textbook writers were explaining why, in linkjuice terms, something between 50,000 and 100,000 of those "backlinks" were equivalent to one backlink from a quality, relevant site. And that was even before all the 2011/12 Panda updates decimated the SEO potential of article directories, and the Penguin update started penalizing the sites linked to. It's completely futile, and far more likely to damage your business than to help it.

As already explained higher up in this thread, trying to use article directories for their own traffic and/or their own backlinks is based only on a fundamental misunderstanding of how they work.

You could try Squidoo

Well, I like to try to pass on to others what's been helpful to me, in the hope they might avoid the disastrous start I had myself when I had no idea what I was doing, believed "forum misnformation" on this subject (much of it exactly the same things that are being said now, though they're even less appropriate now than they were back then!) and paid the price. But honestly, for me, rightly or wrongly it's also partly about the "personal annoyance factor": it generally irritates me less to be patient and offer explanations than it would to leave factual misinformation uncorrected (as was quite often the state of play in 2008 when I needed information, myself). I don't have the patience or a strong enough stomach to try to do it in the SEO folder, where truly the blind are leading the partially sighted, but I'll do it here, about article marketing.

The links in this post/thread may help you (even though it isn't specifically about that software - the underlying principles are still probably relevant to you): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post8215164

Kia ora!

Yes, all my articles are always published and indexed on my own sites before anyone else gets them.

Well, there are many threads discussing this issue. It isn't often my experience, and many who say that will often take them anyway if they want the content enough, and blogs are far from the only syndication outlet, and many blog-owners syndicate content from article directories anyway, and so on.

Duplicate content (according to Google) is multiple copies of the same file within one domain. As long as they haven't already published it, then it isn't "duplicate content" within the meaning they're concerned about.

However, there are some blog-owners who don't appreciate this.

In many niches, it isn't a problem at all. In anything to do with "internet marketing" or "making money online", it can be a problem simply because "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" and those therefore tend to be the webmasters who are quite likely to have heard many of the nonsensical myths about duplicate content, and to have got hold of completely the wrong end of the stick.

Among the things you can try to do are ...

(i) Try (if you really want to!) to educate them by showing them what Google says so clearly, unamgiguously and repeatedly about duplicate content, or even just things like this little article (very approachable and readable!): Article Marketers – Lay the Duplicate Content Myth To Rest Once and For All - Internet Marketing and Publishing Blog. If you really want to, you can even send them links to Google's WebMaster Central Blog where all of this is explained.

(ii) Try to identify only blog-owners who aren't toiling under that misapprehension, by - for example - looking for high-quality articles in your niche inside Ezine Articles and then using Google to find the sites to which they've been syndicated (this is a way of building up a list of bloggers who are already known to syndicate content)

(iii) Submit to as many ezines as possible (you'll very rarely encounter the problem, that way, and the traffic quality tends to be even better)

(iv) Ignore their reply, and just send them another, different article a couple of months later and see whether they accept and publish that one (this often works - you'd be surprised!!).

This thread may possibly help? How to Find Article Syndication Partners?

(And if it helps at all, this is how I approach potential syndicators in the first instance: Questions about Content Syndication ).

Three times per month.

This doesn't matter to me in the slightest. I'm an affiliate marketer, so the purpose of all my blogs is to collect the visitors' email addresses by ...

(a) showing them a content-rich site

(b) establishing credibility

(c) branding myself (albeit under a pen-name) as an authority, and ...

(d) all the other fundamentals of list-building: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6123982

"Readers", to me, means primarily readers of my emails (because these are readers who translate directly into money), not so much readers of my website.

I'm selling (mostly) ClickBank products. The great majority of people who buy ClickBank products by clicking on website links do that by getting to that link following one in an email they've opened, read, and paid attention to because it was from someone they trusted and respected.

No; I always publish it first to secure the initial indexation rights for myself. This is fundamental to article marketing.

The bottom line, for syndication specifically to blogs (which is only one part of my syndication efforts), is that there are really two types of bloggers who might publish someone else's content: those who publish content to please Google and those who publish content to please their readers/visitors. Some of the first group will publish only unique (not-previously-published), content, whereas the second (who generally have sites and traffic of much greater interest to me anyway - it's not all SEO traffic!) will decide to publish it or not to publish it according to the quality of the content (and how well they expect the content to match the needs of their readers). Speaking for myself, as I want to syndicate my content online, I focus on the second group and don't use up too much of my time trying to satisfy the first group. People with a strongly "SEO-based mentality" are of more limited value to me, anyway: their traffic mostly comes from search engines - I can get all I want of that for myself, both by accumulating initial indexation rights and by getting relevant-site (highly valuable) backlinks from syndicating my articles, anyway. I'm really trying to find something more valuable than just that sort of traffic.

I'm afraid not. Call me pedantic but Squidoo isn't an article directory, and they don't allow you to post anything there that's already been published on your own site.

The post immediately above yours explains this.

As so many Warriors have found out and commented on, if you did that, it certainly wouldn't stay there for long, and neither would your account there, if you tried it twice. All of which leads to the ever-mystifying question: where does much of the "information" offered in threads like this really come from, and why?!

Not for article syndication that gets traffic. They can get you some low power links which might benefit you. If you want to test it out without spending more than $5 you can go to fiverr. There are several good providers there I have used Mikemeth before and he does a good job. I will warn you though that I have used this for SEO on huge sites with high PR, I would not use this for a small site that has few existing links and I would be careful to get diversity in my link text.

You may want to just post to ezinearticles and goarticles, those two sites do at times generate syndication of your content onto relevant sites. You can find other sites to post on using google searches as detailed above. Get them on an email list and wallah you have a "automated bot" that will actually bring you some traffic.

It seems you have misunderstood Alexa completely! :rolleyes:

She has never said the best place is on your website. Reread her posts, beginning with #3.

Depends on how you define "good". If you mean that they will automate the process of spreading your article across a large number of sites that will never be seen by human eyes and never taken seriously by spiders, some of them are very good.

If you define good as destroying any chance a new site has of ranking for anything by creating a large number of irrelevant junk links very quickly, some are excellent.

If you mean "will this software help me put my articles in front of targeted potential buyers in such a way as to build long term relationships with real publishers", they pretty much all suck.