Article submission for link building still relevant?

Any link is good for link building if it is from a reputable site and is relevant to your content. It is the spammy links that are hurting everyone.

No; definitely not.

But that wasn't ever the purpose or function of article directories anyway.

It wasn't even relevant for a year or so before the Panda updates of 2011.

Even before that, the authors of the standard SEO textbooks were explaining (in some detail) why you'd need something between 50,000 and 100,000 of those "backlinks" to give you the same linkjuice as that arising from one backlink on a relevant authority site.

And since then, all the Panda updates have devalued the article directories enormously (which is a good thing for article marketers, not a bad thing, of course).

And the Penguin update has certainly made sure that nobody much is going to be doing mass automated submissions to article directories any more.

This post (and maybe post #6 of the same thread) is perhaps all you need, to get your question pretty fully answered: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

Article marketing isn't "part of SEO" at all: it's a non-SEO-based traffic-generation system in its own right.

It can happen. But normally only when your site's very new and has little SEO of its own to help it out.

The more you publish articles on your own site first, before syndicating them anywhere else, the less likely that is to happen, in the long run, as you acquire the collective long-term benefits of all those initial indexation-rights.

If that's so, they're almost certainly going to be very easy to beat in the SEO department.

Take that with a grain of salt. They still have some SEO value. (I know there are many people saying they don't, but they're "just wrong" - what can I tell you?).

No, it doesn't.

That isn't duplicate content.

It's syndicated content.

This will help you: Article Marketers – Lay the Duplicate Content Myth To Rest Once and For All - Internet Marketing and Publishing

These things tend to work with about 85% efficiency, I think. There are some exceptions. This may be one of them. Either that or there's "something else going on here".

Your articles from article directories: you have been publishing them on your own site first and making sure they're indexed there before they go anywhere else, have you? :confused:

Not article submissions to article directories, no - not at all!

Nobody should be trying to use article directories for their own backlinks: that isn't part of their function at all (and it won't work).

If you can get them syndicated to a wide range of relevant sites in your niche (after having them first published and indexed on your own site, of course!), that's another matter altogether.

Alexa's got your back, as usual. Listen to everything she says.

I do believe article links still have some type of place when it comes to link building. A "link is a link"

Sure they may not be as powerful as they once where....but they will still have some sort of significance.

-Omar

Article submission is steel affected in ranking. You can get backlinks from article submission; it is great area to promoting your website or products in details. You can also submit your article in relevant category and you can get relevancy.

What shall be recommended strategy for article submission?
Plan 1: Submit same article copy to major 10-20 article directories.
Plan 2: Submit spun article by TBS manually selected synonymous and then to submit to major 10-12 article directories?

I will wait for feedback / review from senior warrior forum members ...

Well all I have to say is that I submitted a spun article to about 60 article directories 6 months ago and the page got to number 3 for the search term on google and gets me 50-100 visits a day (its only a sub page). After penguin update its still there. Before I made the backlinks it was page 3... so say what you want but articles work, however I can't determine what article techniques offer the best results.


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They are relevant in the sense of syndication. The purpose of article directory submissions are for your content to be syndicated.

Article submission still work.Its not only a link building process but also a great way to get traffic.

What shall be recommended strategy for article submission?
Plan 1: Submit same article copy to major 10-20 article directories.
Plan 2: Submit spun article by TBS manually selected synonymous and then to submit to major 10-12 article directories?

I will wait for feedback / review from senior warrior forum members ...