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If I post my main, unique, original article to ezinearticles.com and then I spin my articles to all the rest of the directories, would it benefit me to include in the spun articles, a link to my ezine articles?

If I have a lot of articles, say 200, and I want to use a link building service, are there services that build links to mulitiple sites ( article urls) within the niche I provide?

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    It will benefit EZA, for sure. They'll probably love it.

    In the long run, it's better to use article directories to get traffic from them than to send traffic to them by backlinking. You could build all those backlinks (from articles elsewhere) to your site, rather than to theirs. Your site needs them more than theirs, especially if it's new-ish. Many people do variations of what you're suggesting, and there can be some short-term benefits from it (which is, of course, exactly why it leads so many people astray), but if you do that, EZA will probably always outrank your own site for your own keywords, which is kind of a "less than optimal" long-term strategy, isn't it?

    Anyway, the incidental conversation in this fine thread answers your question very fully, with detailed explanations (and also answers many other, closely related questions, too). Happy reading!
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      The principle explained here is, of course, entirely valid and correct.

      However, in the case of articles at EZA (as asked about in the original post) there's a real long-term downside to doing this, generating traffic by backlinking and then sending it to EZA rather than to your own site.

      What you should try to avoid is a situation in which EZA outranks your own site for your own keywords.

      Building backlinks to the EZA copies of your articles is helping them to do that. There can undoubtedly be a short-term traffic benefit in doing this, but in the long run it's shooting your business in the foot and making it harder for you ever to develop your own site to its full potential, for all the obvious reasons.

      The fact that so many people get led astray into doing this is one of the reasons for the eventual high failure-rate among people trying article marketing. The people who have done this are the very same ones who end up, a year later, starting off all the threads we see here so regularly asking "Article marketing doesn't really work any more, does it?" (and words to that general effect). This is high on the list of reasons they couldn't really make it work for them, while others are increasingly successful with it.

      Think carefully about what sort of business model you want to implement.

      It is possible to make steady income from the "write for clicks", "fast traffic", "develop other people's sites", "send your traffic to directories", "rinse and repeat" model, and there are even some (not many!) people who manage to do it successfully over the long term, by fast and furious rinsing and repeating, but it's not really building a business, and especially it isn't building your own business on your own property.

      It's short-sighted in the extreme.

      Having done this both ways, I can tell you (like many others here, of course, albeit that several of the more successful Warriors grow tired of continually pointing it out) that the real, growing, residual income in article marketing is not made with this sort of approach.

      The incidental conversations in this thread may help some people to decide what sort of business they're working toward building.

      Indeed - exactly so!
  • No. They recently seem to be discounting the links and PR to the articles. Goarticles seem to be doing the same. So for SEO it won't help the article with ranking any longer. As for traffic you won't see significant traffic unless the linking article is already ranking, and you'll be making the visitor have to click twice.
  • Yes it will benefit you if you have all those links pointing at your article. Its no different than building backlinks to your website, or blog.
  • I would rather focus on building backlinks to your website and easier things to rank on the first page of Google like Videos, Shopping results, and PDF FIles. Backlinking to other article directories dont make much sense to me, I would focus on building more links to your website as it will always pay off much more.
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  • Article submission is a good activity, it gives you backlinks and is helpful in getting traffic.
  • Build both backlinks to your website and backlinks to your backlins. Spread your link network.
  • Have you guys checked the articles on ezine articles lately?

    Articles that used to show backlinks and PR doesn't show them anymore. This just happened within the last month or so.

    I can't find individual articles that have ANY backlinks or PR. Building backlinks to your articles now is next to useless.
  • I use Building Your Backlinks - Private Article Network and they accept spinner syntax that I send them from The best Spinner and it gives me killer amounts of back links!
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      Curious.

      How long have you been using their services for?

      It seems their own domain-name was registered only a few months ago, and they apparently haven't done much backlink building even for their own website?! (Which you'd think would be the very first way that anyone would want to check them out? If they can generate such "killer amounts of backlinks" for their clients, why can't they do it for their own site?).

      And they're very anonymous, aren't they?

      No name, no address, no contact details on their site? Anonymous proxy registration?

      Please forgive me sounding like a skepchick, but wouldn't you think that in an industry with such a collective murky reputation to start with, that would all ring quite a few alarm bells, for most people? :confused:
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    backlinks for articles

    If I post my main, unique, original article to ezinearticles.com and then I spin my articles to all the rest of the directories, would it benefit me to include in the spun articles, a link to my ezine articles? If I have a lot of articles, say 200, and I want to use a link building service, are there services that build links to mulitiple sites ( article urls) within the niche I provide?