Other article directories website to post article, beside Ezine articles

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Once your article is in Ezine Articles (which can help, if you're using it in the right way), there's really no additional benefit from having it in other article directories, too.

This thread (see post #2 and #6) gives a much more detailed explanation: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

(This post from a couple of weeks ago might even help, too - and it contains some other links: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post9418843 ).

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dana67 10 years ago

HubPages is still around and it's just been announced they are combining with Squidoo.
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- Alexa Smith Banned 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by dana67
  
  HubPages is still around and it's just been announced they are combining with Squidoo.
  
  It is indeed, but it's not an article directory (nor is it a site that would be of benefit in the context Illusioz is asking about).
  
  http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post9453186
  
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- JohnnyPlan 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by dana67
  
  HubPages is still around and it's just been announced they are combining with Squidoo.
  
  If you are writing for Hubpages, use caution when linking to other sites. Make sure these sites being linked to are highest quality as you can get in trouble for using Hubpages as a backlinking tool. People act like Hubpages staff won't catch on, but they will. And, then all that work you put on the site will mean nothing if your account is banned.
  
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illusioztan

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Once your article is in Ezine Articles (which can help, if you're using it in the right way), there's really no additional benefit from having it in other article directories, too.

This thread (see post #2 and #6) gives a much more detailed explanation: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

(This post from a couple of weeks ago might even help, too - and it contains some other links: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post9418843 ).

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Hi Alexa,

Thanks for the great info provided.

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illusioztan

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Once your article is in Ezine Articles (which can help, if you're using it in the right way), there's really no additional benefit from having it in other article directories, too.

This thread (see post #2 and #6) gives a much more detailed explanation: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

(This post from a couple of weeks ago might even help, too - and it contains some other links: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post9418843 ).

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Hi Alexa,

I have gone through the thread that you suggested and realize that the article should be posted in my own website first before submit it to Ezine Articles.

Previously, i have submit around 10 articles to Ezine without posting it first to my website. Will it be useful if i post those articles now at my website?

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Alexa Smith

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by illusioztan

I have gone through the thread that you suggested and realize that the article should be posted in my own website first before submit it to Ezine Articles.

Ooh, yes - absolutely: definitely!

Originally Posted by illusioztan

Previously, i have submit around 10 articles to Ezine without posting it first to my website. Will it be useful if i post those articles now at my website?

I would want to, yes. (The SEO benefit will perhaps be very small, if anything, but that doesn't make much difference, anyway?). There's certainly no reason not to have them on your own site, as well.

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JohnMcCabe 10 years ago

The only place where submitting to a directory of content makes any sense outside of EZA (and that only as a last step) would be tightly themed niche directories. The problem is digging them out, as they seldom bill themselves as "article directories." Scour industry trade groups and insider forums for links to niche portals under whatever designation they choose to use.

Be prepared to offer them premium content, as most of them have editorial standards that make EZA look like an open bar.

A niche portal with authority is one of the places I would consider writing special content for, and giving them first online rights.
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illusioztan

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Ooh, yes - absolutely: definitely!

I would want to, yes. (The SEO benefit will perhaps be very small, if anything, but that doesn't make much difference, anyway?). There's certainly no reason not to have them on your own site, as well.

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Hi Alexa,

I have start upload some of my articles into my own wordpress blog. But is there anyway i can track and compare the SEO ranking of the article posted in my word press blog and the same article published on the Ezine articles?

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Alexa Smith

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by illusioztan

I have start upload some of my articles into my own wordpress blog. But is there anyway i can track and compare the SEO ranking of the article posted in my word press blog and the same article published on the Ezine articles?

Not so much, I suspect. Here's (kind of) why: articles don't "rank" in Google's SERP's. Only pages "rank". So it would depend on your pages. (You can see which copies are in the main index and which in the supplemental index, though.)

Having given EZA the initial indexations to these articles, I think, may make them unlikely to rank on your site, anyway. I would think the chances are that those copies will go in the "supplemental index" rather than the main index, in other words their SEO value to your site will be minimal. But that doesn't mean it will necessarily stay that way. That can change over. And if your own pages' off-site SEO improves, you can easily get a situation in which an article of which the EZA copy is in the main index and your own site's copy not, "swap places". This actually happens to all "new sites", for a start: if you have a brand new site and put a "first article" on it, wait for it to be indexed and then put it in EZA, normally the EZA copy will still briefly outrank you (and/or be in the main index and yours in the supplemental), but not so long after, if your site continues to acquire initial indexations, that will swap over and you'll end up with your own sites' copies in the main index. Countless people have reported this (and of course I've seen it with my own sites, when each was brand new).

Bear in mind, also, that that's all "how it's meant to be" and "how Google says it will be", which actually happens about 85% of the time, in my estimation, and the remaining 15% of the time it doesn't quite work out as they say it should (which is why I said, above, that you might actually get some SEO benefit out of this even though "officially" you "shouldn't").

That's a lot of words for something not very important anyway (because article marketing has nothing to do with SEO anyway, really!).

The point is that having given EZA the initial indexations, you can't possibly make your site's/pages' SEO any worse, by doing this now.

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illusioztan

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Not so much, I suspect. Here's (kind of) why: articles don't "rank" in Google's SERP's. Only pages "rank". So it would depend on your pages. (You can see which copies are in the main index and which in the supplemental index, though.)

Having given EZA the initial indexations to these articles, I think, may make them unlikely to rank on your site, anyway. I would think the chances are that those copies will go in the "supplemental index" rather than the main index, in other words their SEO value to your site will be minimal. But that doesn't mean it will necessarily stay that way. That can change over. And if your own pages' off-site SEO improves, you can easily get a situation in which an article of which the EZA copy is in the main index and your own site's copy not, "swap places".
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Hi Alexa,

Thanks for your feedback on this. Indeed i learnt a lot from you about the article marketing. Before this, i always think that article marketing can generate more traffic compare to blogging. However, it seems to be other way.

Having said that, i feel that Ezine Article is very particular about the grammatical error. An article that i manage to upload as my blog post is not necessarily able to be published in the Ezine Article website, due to grammatical error most of the time.

Beside, at the resource box section of the article, i am not allowed to put the html link of my opt in page. I am only allowed to put in the html link of my blog post there. As a result, i have to create separate opt in box inside my blog post, which i think has reduce my website traffic indirectly.

So, if i am aiming to improve my website traffic, am i right to say that article marketing might not be a good option?

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Alexa Smith

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by illusioztan

Before this, i always think that article marketing can generate more traffic compare to blogging

Article marketing can generate overwhelmingly more traffic than blogging. The only traffic that putting content just on your own site can generate is normally a little bit of gradual, eventual search-engine traffic (and that's of very limited value, to most of us?). To all intents and purposes, blogging is not, in itself, a traffic-generating plan.

Originally Posted by illusioztan

However, it seems to be other way.

No; not at all.

Originally Posted by illusioztan

Having said that, i feel that Ezine Article is very particular about the grammatical error.

I think "very particular" is overstating it a bit, but it's true that they have some editorial standards.

Here's the thing, though: if an article isn't good enough to meet EZA's editorial standards, almost nobody else who has the already-targeted traffic you need is going to publish it anyway.

Originally Posted by illusioztan

An article that i manage to upload as my blog post is not necessarily able to be published in the Ezine Article website, due to grammatical error most of the time.

Well ... not using EZA is no great loss (though your own site would be better without grammatical mistakes. I do appreciate that "it's easy to say that" and not quite so easy to do it, when English isn't your first language!

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Originally Posted by illusioztan

Beside, at the resource box section of the article, i am not allowed to put the html link of my opt in page.

Why not? I always do. I link to a page with a prominently incentivized opt-in, because that's where I want the traffic landing if/when anyone re-publishes the article, having found it in EZA.

Whatever you link to, in an article in EZA, is (by definition) going to be whatever the subsequent publishers who syndicate the article from EZA are going to link to, and that's the only purpose of using EZA anyway.

Originally Posted by illusioztan

if i am aiming to improve my website traffic, am i right to say that article marketing might not be a good option?

If we're talking about articles which EZA wouldn't accept, then you're definitely right to say that, in my opinion. Article marketing is about "how widely you can get your articles published in places that already have the targeted traffic you want to attract". You do need high-quality, very well-written articles for it to work. And EZA is very much "only an afterthought" to the article marketing process: it's only a way to try to achieve a little additional passive syndication.

Don't imagine that submitting articles to EZA is "doing article marketing": it's doing only about "the last 1% of article marketing".

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illusioztan 10 years ago

Hi Alexa,

Thanks for your patience answering my question.

For the resource box section, may i know what is the incentivized opt-in that you mention?

Currently, i am actually linking my article back to my blog post, which i have create another opt in box for it. Is this the correct way?

Appreciate if you can share your opinion on this

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myob

10 years ago

Originally Posted by illusioztan

I have start upload some of my articles into my own wordpress blog. But is there anyway i can track and compare the SEO ranking of the article posted in my word press blog and the same article published on the Ezine articles?

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Being a simple kind of a guy, I never paid much attention to anything about "how Google says it will be". But because of the resources used in producing and distributing each article, tracking was much more important to me for measuring conversion rates and other metrics. This particular method may not be helpful to you except perhaps for illustration, but what I did for tracking articles was to use a short source code appended to the link in the article resource box.

Each publisher or source was assigned a four-symbol code, and every article also had a unique identifier such as a modified Julian date. For example: mysite.com/?ABCD245689601 shows the four-character originating source and indicates which article (first article written on 8/27/2014) resulted in the call to action click. Sources or articles that did not produce acceptable results were dropped out of the marketing process. No fussing around with Google or "SEO ranking" at all.

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troy23

10 years ago

GoArticles and ArticlesBase has worked well for me.
You could also try submitting short reports to the doecument sharing sites such as Scribd

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illusioztan 10 years ago

Hi Troy,

I have try out the Article Base, but it is rejecting when i post the same article that i have posted in Ezine article

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- Alexa Smith Banned 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by internetmarketer1
  
  I really like GoArticles, and the guys from WealthyAffiliate who made StreetArticles is also great!
  
  Street Articles (as discussed here in so many other threads) isn't an article directory (it just looks like one).
  
  Originally Posted by illusioztan
  
  I have try out the Article Base, but it is rejecting when i post the same article that i have posted in Ezine article
  
  Yes, it will. (GoArticles would accept it but ArticleBase won't.) Don't do that, Illusioz. Once your article is in Ezine Articles (which can help, if you're using it in the right way), there's really no additional benefit from having it in other article directories, too.
  
  As is inevitable in Warrior Forum threads about article submission, there's some misinformation in the thread, too (some of which was kindly deleted by one of the moderators earlier today).
  
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internetmarketer1

10 years ago

I really like GoArticles, and the guys from WealthyAffiliate who made StreetArticles is also great!

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10 years ago

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Alexa Smith Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by talktotop

Hope this helps

It doesn't, I'm afraid.

It's horribly out of date and completely inaccurate and misleading.

Some of them no longer exist.

Many more were never article directories in the first place.

The "page rank" figures quoted are irrelevant nonsense: those are just the page ranks of those sites' own home pages. Our articles are not published on their own home pages! So who cares what their "PR" is?! Websites don't "have page ranks": only pages have page ranks.

In any case, article marketing has absolutely nothing to do with SEO at all.

Respectfully, it would really help you a great deal to have a read through this thread, rather than copy-pasting this erroneous and inaccurate stuff into the forum: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

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Again, if it helps anyone who reads selectively, here's the single-sentence answer to the OP's question: once your article is in Ezine Articles (which can help, if you're using it in the right way), there's really no additional benefit from having it in other article directories, too.

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Ferzy

10 years ago

Ezine articles was given as example of unnatural links that lead to penalties in google webmaster tools, and the other article directories are even worse, so i would suggest staying far away from traditional article marketing.

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Alexa Smith Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Ferzy

Ezine articles was given as example of unnatural links that lead to penalties in google webmaster tools

Not quite. Multiple backlinks from multiple, different article directories, were given as an example. Nobody (including Matt Cutts) has ever suggested that multiple directory backlinks all from Ezine Articles have any potential downside at all. Nor is there any reason why Google would want them to, if you look at the reasons behind what Google's doing - which, to be fair, they do go to some lengths to explain openly and clearly, in spite of the "aura of mystique" that some SEO-providers like to try to cultivate around this subject.

Originally Posted by Ferzy

i would suggest staying far away from traditional article marketing.

Article directories have absolutely nothing at all to do with "traditional article marketing". "Traditional article marketing" existed long before article directories were invented (and long before the internet existed, for that matter). What you're advising against (and quite rightly!) is article directory marketing, not "traditional article marketing" at all.

However, it's possible (and in fact easy) to avoid all the potential problems of article directory marketing, while still getting the benefits of submission to Ezine Articles. And, of course, that's why so many successful article marketers are still submitting their last-stage copy of each article to EZA, to try to get the benefit described here.

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