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 =-.

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?

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! =-.

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

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? =-.

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

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

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.