submitting an article to 250 article sites

James Trotta · 03-21-2006, 07:53 AM

What do you think would be achieved if I wrote a decent article and had it submitted to 250 article directories. Would I get lots of backlinks?

I'm guessing I would because duplicate content filters seem to have no problem with hundreds of the same article cluttering up the web...

John Scott · 03-21-2006, 08:00 AM

You could try it and tell us the results

My guess is that more than half of the sites won't link back to you.

James Trotta · 03-21-2006, 08:35 AM

Even if I end up with 100 one way links, that's pretty good. Plus some sites take the articles and actually maintain the link...

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Originally Posted by JohnScott

You could try it and tell us the results

My guess is that more than half of the sites won't link back to you.

John Scott · 03-22-2006, 03:05 AM

True

James Trotta · 03-22-2006, 03:33 AM

OK, here's the experiment. I jsut spent 2 hours writing 2 articles and 30 bucks to have them submitted to 240 article sites.

The first article linkd to: my stock blog with 10,200 backlinks in Yahoo and my travel blog with 3,530 backlinks.

The second article linked to my directory with 7,070 backlinks and my online advertising blog with 2,110 backlinks.

I'll keep track of backlinks and see if there's any change in the anchor text I chose for the links and let you know.

John Scott · 03-22-2006, 05:20 AM

Good experiment.

James Trotta · 03-22-2006, 09:14 AM

Thanks. Of course when I said change in the anchor text, I meant SERPs for the keywords phrases in my anchor text.

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Originally Posted by JohnScott

Good experiment.

[keyword] · 03-22-2006, 01:02 PM

I've always had good experiences with article submission. Did you submit to just article sites, or some relevant sites who could possibly use your article as a valid resource on their site? If you haven't done the latter I would do that as well.

James Trotta · 03-22-2006, 07:48 PM

Just article sites. I might be interested in hiring someone to submit to relevant sites for me, but I doubt doing so myself would be worth my time. I'd have to start by doing research and whatnot...

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Originally Posted by [keyword]

I've always had good experiences with article submission. Did you submit to just article sites, or some relevant sites who could possibly use your article as a valid resource on their site? If you haven't done the latter I would do that as well.

mlmpro · 03-22-2006, 09:02 PM

Article are one of the best ways to sart a viral advertising campaign online. There are so many publishers ou there who love to borrw content. If you write it, then you will reap the rewards of all of the traffic ad of course all of the one way back links pointing at your domain name tus driving search engine rankings for your targeted keywords.

matt

James Trotta · 03-22-2006, 09:55 PM

Well the articles have been submitted. Maybe we'll see some effect soon.

vikypatil · 03-22-2006, 11:42 PM

Hi James Trotta,

where can I find the articles sites are they free or paid .. let me know so that i can also submit my articles..

Thanks
vikypatil

WorldwideTrading · 03-23-2006, 01:15 AM

I would recommend creating a little outline of what you are trying to write.

Paragraph 1 {About xxx and yyy}
Paragraph 2 {About xxx and yyy}
Paragraph 3 {About xxx and yyy}

Now write each paragraph three ways from a different perspective.
By placing different Paragraph 1's, 2's and 3's together you have nine different articles.

Every time you post one of the articles change all three of the selected paragraphs slightly so it is targeting a different audience. Bonus points for making it relevent in some way to the article site you are submitting it to.

Now you will have completely unique articles everywhere.

James Trotta · 03-23-2006, 07:58 AM

Well I paid someone to do the submitting: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=53226 - they did send me a list of all the places they submitted to but I honestly haven't looked at it and don't want to distribute it because that's like giving away someone else's work. But you can contact the people who did the submitting and see if they'll give it to you.

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Originally Posted by vikypatil

Hi James Trotta,

where can I find the articles sites are they free or paid .. let me know so that i can also submit my articles..

Thanks
vikypatil

James Trotta · 03-23-2006, 08:02 AM

Rewriting the same article from different perspectives sounds harder than just writing a new article! Perhaps as a linguist I would approach that task too seriously.

Switching paragraphs around is a quick way to get "more" articles, but I don't think I could ever do that. As a professor, publishing an article is an academic thing (not that these will go on my CV) so I have to meet my own academic standards...

But I'm sure this advice will be useful for SEOs...

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Originally Posted by cgreen

I would recommend creating a little outline of what you are trying to write.

Paragraph 1 {About xxx and yyy}
Paragraph 2 {About xxx and yyy}
Paragraph 3 {About xxx and yyy}

Now write each paragraph three ways from a different perspective.
By placing different Paragraph 1's, 2's and 3's together you have nine different articles.

Every time you post one of the articles change all three of the selected paragraphs slightly so it is targeting a different audience. Bonus points for making it relevent in some way to the article site you are submitting it to.

Now you will have completely unique articles everywhere.

Dustin07 · 03-23-2006, 08:27 AM

I really slowed down in article writting when I saw that a good 30% or more of my article downloads were being published WITHOUT the linkage. I think it was mostly from people not knowing what they are doing rather than actually trying to steal, but oh well.

like you said, even if you only get 100 out of 240, that's still pretty good for $30.

James Trotta · 03-26-2006, 04:19 AM

Yes, I also spent about an hour writing the two articles and that was content I could have used on my site. I guess I still could use it, but I don't think I will since there's a good chance other sites will ahve the same content...

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Originally Posted by Dustin07

I really slowed down in article writting when I saw that a good 30% or more of my article downloads were being published WITHOUT the linkage. I think it was mostly from people not knowing what they are doing rather than actually trying to steal, but oh well.

like you said, even if you only get 100 out of 240, that's still pretty good for $30.

MadKad · 03-26-2006, 04:26 AM

I would just go for it and you will get some hits also i do this often and it works great for me

also you will find that other people will add them to there website so it would increes alot more.

one thing that does get me when you add these articles i think all the links should be added aslo correctly as your adding content to there website I no that i will be keeping any link in taked in the articles i add to my site also i see john does as well

Mong · 03-26-2006, 05:43 AM

Do you have list of 250 worthy article websites

you will not find more than 20 worthy article websites

MadKad · 03-26-2006, 05:45 AM

To me if you can submit a free article on a free website and they take it then its a worthy website as it ups the chance of you getting your name out