To submit Article or Not to submit them?

[OptWizard]

Views on this.

I have been doing this and submitting blogs for the past month and it seems to be helpping a little thoughts from others?

[DarrenC]

I've had a few articles generate 500+ back links over a period of time. I love writing travel articles, but submitting them is a pain. If it helps with SEO, I'd say yes.

[forumbulge]

Originally Posted by DarrenC

I've had a few articles generate 500+ back links over a period of time. I love writing travel articles, but submitting them is a pain. If it helps with SEO, I'd say yes.

I'm the opposite.. I don't like writing them but submitting them is a breeze

[etech-peter]

Doing it for a few weeks now and I think writing and publishing your own articles do help in getting high search engine rankings.

[BingoBalls]

Originally Posted by OptWizard

Views on this.

I have been doing this and submitting blogs for the past month and it seems to be helpping a little thoughts from others?

To be honest I have only written a few articles to submit which did help my back links but my downfall was it was taking too much time to write these articles just for a back link on another website.

Another thing that is moving me away from Articles is Google’s viewpoint on duplicated content. Let’s say you write a 300 word article and upload it to an article site for other sites to use with your link attached. Now Google will see your content on the main article site and whatever other site that uses that Article, how will they view your link? I’m thinking they will only see one article and one back link from the main article site because the other sites are duplicating content. A 300 word article that you could use on your own site is not really worth one back link. If this is the case then Article submitting may soon become an old method of building links for Search Engines.

In saying that, if your are going to use articles on other sites make sure that article does not appear on your own site, write them specifically for each article site you submit to.

I found that browsing onto well established Blogs and posting comments that ask for your URI/URL is a good way of building links but I am trying to determine if it’s better to stick to Blogs relevant to your site topic. When I say this I don’t mean go out and spam a hundred sites in day but to read a couple of Blogs daily and post a comment or two.

Blogs are usually updated daily, which Search Engines love, millions of people browse Blogs daily so you have better chance of getting traffic than from an article - extra traffic always helps and if the Blog owner just so happens to look at your url they may even post something that they found interesting on your site giving you more links and even more visitors.

I am not a pro at this game (only started 6 months ago) and the above is only something that I personally think is the case, hopefully if I am wrong some of the pro’s on here can comment on their thoughts on the whole subject.

[forumbulge]

I think people see it more as a method of gaining traffic, not as link building.
It's certainly not an effective link building technique due to the duplicate content rules that you mentioned.

But, by having your article and (hopefully) link published on multiple sites you can gain large amounts of traffic.

[Mong]

I think submitting of articles is helpful only if you submit them to top articles sites.Don't submit them uselessly in hundreds of directories.
www.articledepot.co.uk is good directory IMHO.

[forumbulge]

I only submit to PR4 and above sites.
Not that the page your article appears on will always have PR, but it's better than submitting on a complete PR0 site.

[rankland]

I say when submitting directories pr doesnt matter ... there were alot of pr0 that hit pr4, and alot of pr4 that hit 0... I really like to think of submitting like a baseball game .... if your not keeping your eye on the ball your going to loose the game..http://www.rankland.com

[SonicReducer]

I have written a few articles but the results weren't as good as I expected. It's not very time consuming if you use one of the automated article submit sites, so I plan on doing more in the future. I think I just wasn't targeting the article correctly in my first attempts.

[rankland]

try submitting web, web directory,web directory to submit....ive been looking quote on quote....at the so called big directories today are sending blogs like crazy, But when you look at there back page... theres alot to be desired...id rather have less links and alot of submissions.Generally speaking true links are going to keep your pr steady.

[mike21]

Unfortunately, only a few webmasters actually load their site with articles from article directories. That is why you shouldn’t expect too much benefit from them.

Submitting your article to individual websites is probably a more effective approach.

[John Scott]

Writing articles for links is kind of a round about way of getting links. It does work, if you write good enough articles, but for the most part there are better ways to spend your time.

[veridicus]

Originally Posted by JohnScott

Writing articles for links is kind of a round about way of getting links. It does work, if you write good enough articles, but for the most part there are better ways to spend your time.

My sentiments exactly. I was just about to write virtually the same sentences. Good thing I read yours first so I didn't create duplicate content!

[mad4]

If you have some good articles written or have an hour or two to spare then submitting articles can be a good way of building links.

The feeling of visiting a random site and seeing that they have copied your article from one of the free article sites and are giving you a natural, relevant high PR link is great!

Choosing which sites you submit to is important - try searching google to find the ones with the best rankings and submit to those first.

Over the last few months I have become a bit of an expert on doing this commercially so if anyone needs any tips on getting your articles accepted by the most sites feel free to ask.

[[keyword]]

Although it is a roundabout way of getting links, it is a very good way to build them naturally. For multiple sites of mine, all I've done besides directory submission was write 2-3 articles and submit them to about 25 of the top article sites. I build niche sites with lower than average competition and this seems to suffice. I rank well in yahoo, msn, and eventually google. I've got relevant backlinks, that are for the most part, natural - due to article submission.

There are a few things you have to consider:

When writing an article, make sure it's unique, has good grammar, flows well, etc. Make sure that your article makes you an authority on whatever it is that you're talking about. No one wants to read an article from someone who lacks confidence. They want to learn, they want to know that you know what you're talking about.

Your links that are on these articles may it be in the footer or embedded, although may not use the exact anchor text or keyword you're trying to rank for, will still definitely help you. The page's content can be read and the relevancy to your topic can be determined (LSI) which will make your link, regardless if it says "click here", or "www.bluespeakerwire.com", a good one.

Also, when submitting to sites, don't focus on PR or anything to that effect. Focus on circulation and how many people syndicate articles from their sites. Sites like articlecity, findarticles, etc, those are great.

Who has time for this you say? Well I sure as heck don't and I'm obviously not an English professor. I do have a few writers that charge me about $1.50 for every 100 words, which means I can have 350-400 word articles written for about $5.00. I would rate their grammar about a 9/10, the originality (which has been checked for plagarism) a 10/10, and the speed of their work about a 9/10. I also pay these guys to submit to the top article sites of my choice. I love it and I'm not changing my methods anytime in the near future.

Sayonara.

[Dustin07]

rather than writting an article and submitting it randomly to article submission sites... you may try to get blogs and sites relevant to yours with some traffic to post your articles on their pages with links back to yours. At least then you know who's picking it up and the quality of the site.

Submitting articles works... I've submitted hundreds... But there are a lot of bloggers out there lately who have been trying to get posts for their blogs/sites.

I think having your article posted on a blog or site with traffic on it comes off as being much more of an authority on the subject than just being a random article in a submission site.

[rankland]

I see alot of wedsites, web directories that are suffering on there back page , because they base their linking on blogs. I notice every body in the forums talking about front page megga sites, and i look on the back page, and see nothing. I believe blogs do help your site, but theres a fine line....Then you have to submit, and improve your web site....I believe media will supply you with your strongest links....http://www.rankland.com.

[[keyword]]

Originally Posted by rankland

I see alot of wedsites, web directories that are suffering on there back page , because they base their linking on blogs. I notice every body in the forums talking about front page megga sites, and i look on the back page, and see nothing. I believe blogs do help your site, but theres a fine line....Then you have to submit, and improve your web site....I believe media will supply you with your strongest links....http://www.rankland.com.

I'm not exactly following you rankland, however Dustin is suggesting submitting articles to blogs and other sites for them to post the articles on their sites which is actually very effective, and I'm glad he pointed that out. It does carry a lot of weight.

Originally Posted by Dustin07

I think having your article posted on a blog or site with traffic on it comes off as being much more of an authority on the subject than just being a random article in a submission site.

See the thing is, I've gotten some REALLY good links from sites that picked my articles up through these submission sites. These links came from sites that would NEVER look twice if I had just asked them to post on their site. Going directly to the source is sometimes the more efficient way, as you can choose the type of quality sites you would want your article to be posted on so you can avoid all the crappy stuff. So I think both would be very powerful tools, and I definitely should've put that in my post originally. Good call Dustin!

[Dustin07]

thanks KW

I believe media will supply you with your strongest links

I don't follow. Do you mean ABC?