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Article marketing: Same article to multiple directories, or different article to each directory?

by Gec
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Hey warriors,

Say I have 5 articles I want to submit to directories. All have been indexed on my site already.

In your experience, is it better to submit one article per directory, e.g. send one to ezinearticles, another to goarticles etc, or just send all 5 of them to all directories?

Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Personally, I'd probably submit all five of them to Ezine Articles.

    I might not submit any of them to any other article directory, and certainly wouldn't submit to as many as five (I did that with all my articles for about a year and a half: it was a complete waste of time). There's very little point in submitting to more than one (two, at the most).

    The essential thing is to understand really clearly what benefits an article directory can and can't provide for you, and the differences between "article marketing" and "article directory marketing". This thread will help you get started, if that interests you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by CelestineJane View Post

    Submitting the same article to different directories will not give you profit since Google indexing will consider the first article as unique and devalue the rest which are duplicates.
    This is completely wrong.

    That isn't how it works at all, and in any case Google indexing has nothing to do with the purpose of submitting articles to directories.

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

    Originally Posted by CelestineJane View Post

    After the Panda update, Google has started killing low quality content and duplicate content.
    What you're describing wouldn't be "duplicate content", anyway. It would be "syndicated content".

    The differences between the two are briefly explained in this post and this little article.

    Originally Posted by CelestineJane View Post

    As far as article submission is concerned, it creates loads of duplicate content.
    No; this is completely wrong. Sorry, but it just doesn't.

    There are literally hundreds of threads about article marketing in the Warrior Forum compiled by the many of us here who are successfully making our livings through article marketing. Please read through some of them, rather than repeating this urban-myth-based stuff about "duplicate content" which actually helps nobody!
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    • Profile picture of the author Ian Jackson
      As far as I've been lead to understand, DUPLICTATE content is that which has been repeatedly posted on the same domain.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gec
    Great... just what I wanted to know! Thanks.

    I did read the threads and I know what article directories do - and it's exactly what I want from them. It's just that someone said to me it's a good idea to submit to multiple directories, different article per directory - and it didn't make much sense to me.

    Thanks for clearing my doubts!
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by Gec View Post

      someone said to me it's a good idea to submit to multiple directories, different article per directory - and it didn't make much sense to me.
      Nope, nor to me: sounds to me like something based on mistaken beliefs about "duplicate content", probably. Or possibly mistaken beliefs about article directories "not publishing previously published articles"? Or possibly confusion between "original content" and "unique content"? On this subject, people believe all kinds of stuff ...

      Good luck with your articles!
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  • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
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    You wont know unless you track everything.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gec
    Well, I'm hoping folks will publish my articles on their sites, making for some backlinks. I'm not really after the folks who read the story on their site and then click the link to get to my site. These would probably be their subscribers, which, if they subscribe to my site, great, if not, they were a nice one-time visitor.

    What I'm after is the infinite number of always fresh folks who will land on my site from google & co, after google has (slowly) ranked my site higher and higher with each re-published article and backlink. I'm after the long term gain of 1 extra visitor per day from now on, rather than the 100 visitors today. Or 1000 per day, rather than 100.000 today.

    Not sure how to track those as scientifically as possible
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  • Profile picture of the author SeanMize
    Well, as you can see, this is quite an opinion - prone issue!

    You see, a lot of folks' opinion depends on what their own results may have been with something one time, or their understanding of the search engines current algorithm.

    Well, I'll pipe in with my own 2 cents:

    I wouldn't submit those articles that are on your site, to ANY directory.

    Nope, I would write a NEW original article, and submit it to the 5 directories to which you want to submit, with a link back to your original article, in each of the 5 articles

    Sean
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Hi Sean,

      Originally Posted by SeanMize View Post

      I wouldn't submit those articles that are on your site, to ANY directory.
      Well, I've seen you disagreeing about this point with large numbers of people I know to be making very good livings as article marketers. Of course that doesn't detract from your entitlement to your opinion.

      Originally Posted by SeanMize View Post

      I would write a NEW original article, and submit it to the 5 directories to which you want to submit
      You would give an article directory the initial indexation-rights to previously unpublished content?! "Tell me it ain't true"?!

      This little thread explains in some detail all the reasons that so many article marketers have, these days, for never doing that: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...marketing.html

      And of course in this much longer, better-known thread (which you've doubtless seen before, Sean?) a whole succession of professional article marketers explain all their shared reasons for always publishing all their articles on their own sites and having them indexed there before submitting them (unchanged) to an article directory: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...eza-first.html

      Originally Posted by SeanMize View Post

      with a link back to your original article, in each of the 5 articles
      You'd link from one article to another?

      No impoliteness intended at all, but please excuse the observation "rather you than I".

      I use article marketing to generate traffic (it's how my business is built and how I earn my living). I want the traffic generated to be landing on my landing page, not on another article - I've tried that in the past and it's a good way to lose traffic. For me.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gec
    I think I get subtle the point of submitting unique content. Methinks, if Google sees an article on my site, and on a bunch of other sites linking to my site, it will think "these folks are copying that folk".

    Whereas if I submit an original piece of work, that's not on my site, G will think "these fellows are endorsing that fellow somehow, not copying him".

    At least, that's what I think Sean meant. But I don't think that's necessarily correct, because the link to EZA will also be all over the place, so G will probably pick on that (at least, if I was working at G, I'd factor that in). Now if folks published your articles with a link back, but no EZA link, that would make it a good idea to submit "unique" content. But that's not the case. Unless I'm missing something and Sean meant something else.

    Alexa, and everyone who replied, thanks again!
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by Gec View Post

      I think I get subtle the point of submitting unique content. Methinks, if Google sees an article on my site, and on a bunch of other sites linking to my site, it will think "these folks are copying that folk".
      This is incorrect, though: that isn't how it works at all. Google fully understands and endorses syndicated content, respects it (and goes to great lengths to say so!), and doesn't think that at all. Submitting unique (i.e. previously unpublished) content to an article directory is a significantly mistaken approach, and based only on a misperception.

      Originally Posted by Gec View Post

      At least, that's what I think Sean meant.
      Yes, I'm afraid it may have been.
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