IS IT THE END OF SEO THROUGH ARTICLE DIRECTORIES ?

12 years ago

Article marketing and back linking still works, panda slap is more about the quality and relevance of your content, stuffing keywords that type of thing. Your efforts WILL pay off no doubt.

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Ord Allenbea 12 years ago

The panda update was about more than just quality content, it was about quality websites also. Many of those article directories you are thinking of submitting to got hit hard because they are nothing more than content farms (Matt Cutts own words).

Those article directories that are loaded down with ads, adsense, and massive links all suffered in the SERPS. Ezine articles lost over 1 million keywords in Google because the site does not offer the quality Google is looking for.

Article Marketing is very much alive but you need to rethink your strategy and make sure your articles are high quality. Your articles must posses proper spelling and grammar, semantically related words, have a proper reading grade level according the Flesch-Kincaid readability test.

Once you have high quality articles then you need to submit to your own site / blog first and then syndicate your articles to websites that are built according to what Google wants. These sites must have proper seo and must have very little ads to 0 ads.

If you follow the above then you will see results but just slapping those content farms with articles hoping for backlinks, you are going to be hugely disappointed. Recently Google has implemented what is called the Google page layout algorithm which will start to devalue and even de-index sites that are built with too many ads and very little content.
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PatriciaJ 12 years ago

Your articles submitted to 100 directories will not be considered duplicate content, just syndicated.

You should not be looking for backlinks from article directories you should be looking for syndication to authority sites and to get that they need to be good quality and informative.

You should get your articles indexed on your site first, then submit to such as ezinearticles and then articlesbase once they have been accepted on EZA. More directories may help, may not help - directories in the same niche can. There are whole threads about syndication and also guest blogging if you do a search.

Add more info and turn them into PDFs and submit to document sharing sites like Scribd. You can turn them into videos etc. but whatever you do your site first.
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TBInternetMarketing

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Mrexclusive

Article marketing and back linking still works, panda slap is more about the quality and relevance of your content, stuffing keywords that type of thing. Your efforts WILL pay off no doubt.

Yea agree with this.
At the end of the day, quality will always beat quantity when it comes to link building.
If you focus on that, you will never have any issues with Google.

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AnniePot

12 years ago

Originally Posted by isimrikasharma

Hello Friends.

Link Building via submitting articles to article directories is what I'm concerned about...

I believe it should be worth the effort for SEO and link building of my website, if the article i'm submitting is of acceptable quality. But what is a concern to me is that if post panda my articles submitted to 100 directories will be regarded as a duplicate content and my all my SEO efforts would fail.

Please guide me.

I think you have missed a number of very enlightening threads on this very subject...

Try this for starters:

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068263

There are many more similar threads, just do a search.

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