Mikael Rieck is the author of more than hundred articles on topics of how to make money both online and offline. He has been online since 1999 and has always had a passion for money making opportunities and teaching others how to make a profit.Did You Commit and Follow Through with Article Marketing?
A little over a week ago I wrote a series of posts on how you can start building good incoming links to your website by using article marketing.
One of the articles showed you how to get the most direct visitors with article marketing by copying what the professional are doing.
If you’re only just starting out with your website and want to start getting some traffic to the site, article marketing is an easy way to get going. I believe I told you to start by just submitting one or two articles a week as that would be something that everyone would be able to find the time to do and it would create and natural amount of incoming links to your site.
But the question is whether you actually did submit these two articles?
As my report will tell you the concept of only thinking of doing something but never really getting around to actually doing it is one of the major success killers out there. In order to be successful you need to make constant forward progress towards your goals. Thinking about it is not enough (even though “The Secret” might say so).
Personally I am working on one of my newer websites that have shown a lot of potential and I need to get it going by having both visitors come from the search engines but also from the article directories.
Since I wrote the article marketing posts last week I have submitted 12 articles to 2 different article directories and I am planning on submitting them to 4-5 more before this week is over. The great thing is that you can just take the exact same articles and submit them to the other directories without worries.
My Favorite Manual Article Directories
Let me just share with you the different article directories that I tend to submit my articles to:
http://www.articlealley.com
http://www.articledashboard.com
http://www.articlesbase.com
http://www.easyarticles.com
http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.ideamarketers.com
http://www.articlebiz.com
Besides these I also use a lot of automated solutions likes Unique Article Wizard and iSnare which I have to admit are my personal favorites because they are automated and you will get a lot more backlinks with a lot less effort.
I promised that I’ll write some future posts about these two programs as they can really revolutionize your linkbuilding efforts.
To Your Success,
Mikael
19 Responses so far
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May 22nd, 2009
11:08 am
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Alex Sysoef
May 22nd, 2009
11:17 am
Hey Mikael,
I can’t agree more about article marketing importance. I too use iSnare as I’m lazy and I like how they give us option to promote only when we need it, instead of subscription model.
Thanks for the list of manual directories – I need to check those out.
Mikael
May 22nd, 2009
11:54 am
Hey Alex, some call it lazy, I call it smart. As for the manual directories they are great resources but I prefer to have my VA do the work
Chris
June 3rd, 2009
9:05 am
Mikael
I have started a new site recently, and submitted two original articles to two different sites (ezinearticles.com and goarticles.com)
So far I have seen NO incoming links from it, and just a small amount of traffic.
What am I missing?
Can I definately submit copies of articles and that doesn’t matter?
Thanks Mikael
Mikael
June 3rd, 2009
9:17 am
Chris,
Are the articles in EA and GOA indexed? It so you should see the link (at least in Yahoo… you can’t count on Google).
The traffic you’re getting is that from the articles? In EA you can see how many have seen your article and how many clicks you have received (which should match the traffic that you see).
Mikael
Chris
June 3rd, 2009
9:20 am
I presume they are not as the links haven’t shown up in Yahoo site explorer yet. Do you do anything special to get them indexed, or do you just wait…
Mikael
June 3rd, 2009
11:09 am
Normally I submit a ton of articles so I don’t bother checking whether they are indexed. What you can do is social bookmark the articles and wait a few days. That should get them going.
A way to check if they are indexed is to take the url and put it into the search box in Google and Yahoo. If the results come up blank then it is not indexed yet.
Make sense?
Chris
June 3rd, 2009
12:26 pm
They are indexed, the links just aren’t showing… hmm!
I’ll throw a few links at the articles and see if that helps… I guess it won’t do any harm as it’ll boost the rank of the article which should boost my site too.
So would you recommend submitting the same articles to every site?
Do you write just 1 article that you submit to all, or write a few and submit a few to each, or write a few and submit them to them all?
Cheers
Chris
Mikael
June 3rd, 2009
12:56 pm
You’re right, it’ll never hurt to give them some link juice. Just don’t link from the sites that they are linking back to
I normally submit the same article to as many places as I feel like (have time to do). I actually think I explained it in this post: http://retirerichroadmap.com/blog/why-using-the-same-article-with-multiple-article-directories-is-okay/
You can change the headlines a little if you feel like it but normally I don’t.
If you only have ONE article then I would probably change it a little more but since I submit 10-20 articles per week I really don’t bother
/Mikael
Chris
June 3rd, 2009
1:04 pm
Wow, how do you write so many so fast?
Do you just rehash old articles or other people’s articles?
How much traffic / ranking benefit do you see from doing that?
Mikael
June 3rd, 2009
1:29 pm
Hired help
I have a virtual assistant as well as some writers that I hire on a project basis.
I see a lot of benefit from doing that BUT what is important to remember is that it will come SLOWLY. You can’t submit 10 articles on a Monday and expect to be ranking #1 on Wednesday.
But consistent effort for months and months will get you to the top.
Geoff
June 9th, 2009
11:49 pm
Hi Mikael,
I have submitted a number of articles for our own website purposes as well as for other people. I use Ezine, Go, Ideamarketers, Expert and ISnare. However, I would like to know why you think the list you have is your favourites. There are so many article sites to choose from. Is it because in these sites, your article stands a better chance of being read, of being indexed by search engines, has more credibility or is easier, faster to get published?
I also notice that Yahoo tends to pick up backlinks, but that Google does not tend to show so many. Do you have any comment on this?
Regards
Geoff
Mikael
June 10th, 2009
3:53 am
Hi Geoff, the main reasons for choosing these article directories are their PR, the speed at which they seem to be spidered, the ease of use and the number of direct visitors I get from them.
It is true that there are tons of directories out there but if you submit manually you’ll have to stop somewhere.
I do also use iSnare, but since it is a paid service I didn’t feel that it should be part of the unpaid list.
About the backlinks you’re absolutely right. Yahoo shows way more links than Google and the fact that Google doesn’t want you to know about them doesn’t have to mean that they don’t count.
/Mikael
Damon@Honest Debt Settlement
December 1st, 2009
8:52 am
Mikael,
I have to admit I petered out on article marketing real early. Because I was worried about potential duplicate content issues, I would completely rewrite a post to use as an article. A few months ago I did this to a handful of my posts and submitted to about half a dozen directories. I didn’t really notice much traffic from it.
So I sort of let it fall by the wayside. I felt it was very time consuming and difficult to rewrite an article that I had just written. At one point I picked up the idea of writing a good solid post that was longer than normal, and then actually break up the post into 2 or 3 articles.
In your opinion, is the return from good articles posted in the directories, worth the extra time for me to write my posts over and submit?
.-= Damon@Honest Debt Settlement´s last blog ..TASC – Debt Settlement Lobby or Protector of the People? =-.
Mikael
December 1st, 2009
9:14 am
Hi Damon,
There is no doubt that writing articles can be very time consuming (even if you’re a fast writer) and that makes your question a very relevant one.
Personally I do not see the benefit from doing the rewrites as you can (easily) have the exact same post indexed more than once and therefore get several backlinks using the same article.
One way to do this is just social bookmarking the articles you’ve submitted.
The ONLY places where I would use unique content would be on:
1) My own sites
2) When exchanging articles with other websites (I am not talking article directories here)
So the short answer to your question would be a “no”.
/Mikael
Damon@Honest Debt Settlement
December 1st, 2009
10:24 pm
Ok, I am a bit confused. When I was talking about the rewrites I was talking about rewriting posts that I would first publish on my blog. I certainly wouldn’t take the time to rewrite for each article directory.
Are you saying it is ok to publish a post to my own blog and then use the same content to submit to some article directories? I was always under the impression that that was a bad move, because the article directory might easily outrank your own blog and keep my own blog from showing up in the search engines.
So when I first learned about article writing, I would spend a few hours writing a post, publish it, and then take some time and rewrite the entire article and put it on a few article directories. Even just the one rewrite was sort of a pain.
I would do it if I thought it would help. But I see some of these guys with absolute crap content, submitting hundreds of articles a month in my niche. The articles don’t even make sense but they have submitted thousands of these pieces of junk and then I go to their website and their traffic rankings are off the charts bad. I am talking alexa rankings in the millions for these guys putting out all these articles. Sure they suck, but you would think with the shear volume they would be getting something.
Then I start to think, why waste my time submitting a great article if the directory is going to publish 100′s of these piece of junk articles within a few days and just drowned mine out.
What are your thoughts on this?
.-= Damon@Honest Debt Settlement´s last blog ..Debt Settlement – FTC could put 84% of Companies out of Business! =-.
Mikael
December 1st, 2009
10:39 pm
Hi Damon,
I see that it didn’t quite get what you were saying then. I think the misunderstand came from you doing rewrites of articles that you had posted on your own site.
Personally I would never do that. My sites will only get 100% unique content and doing rewrites and submitting those to article directories would not be the way to go in my opinion. Instead I would do another unique article for the directories and then submit the same article to a selected few of these directories.
If a directory accepts crap content I wouldn’t bother adding an article to that directory at all.
Make sense?
Damon@Honest Debt Settlement
December 1st, 2009
11:35 pm
ha ha,
Ya it makes sense. Now my problem would be that if I have a good idea for a good article, I would want to put it on my blog, not waste it on an article
.-= Damon@Honest Debt Settlement´s last blog ..TASC – The Association of Settlement Companies – A Closer Look =-.
Mikael
December 2nd, 2009
5:37 am
Then the easiest way to go about it is just to pay other people to write the content you use for link building.
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