Comments on: 5 Reasons Why Article Submission Is A Poor SEO Tactic

By: Kate Whitely

Kate Whitely — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:00:28 +0000

Thanks for the info. (Author and commenters!)

By: North Cyprus Holidays

North Cyprus Holidays — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:15:32 +0000

Article submissions work to an extend. It has to be kept in moderation. Here at Cyprus Paradise we provide North Cyprus Holidays and post article on north cyprus holidays on a monthly basis. We get decent amount of traffic and backlinks.

Shouldnt go crazy on article submission but keep it in your arsenal.

Thanks,

By: Canvas Prints from Photos

Canvas Prints from Photos — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:13:18 +0000

Thanks for the info. I was about to submit 300 articles about my photo on canvas business. Lesson learned.

By: Mortgage Deals

Mortgage Deals — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:40:30 +0000

My experience so far with article submission is the high level of content rip off. A few months back I submitted an article to Ezine, did a search on my content and found a few sites that had just taken the body text and used it as their own. No links, just plagiarism.

I’m now becoming a fan of guest authoring as it is also a good method of controlled back links and targetted traffic if you get the right sites.

By: Tech Review

Tech Review — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:13:52 +0000

Article Submission is not so bad as its really consuming your knowledge. But its really takes some information and fresh content to deliver it to other websites and it look like what readers wants to read from your article. nice info

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:00:01 +0000

Article submissions ARE good for seo. No idea why this person thinks they aren’t. When other blogs and sites host your article they link back to the article on the article directory and that article then gets more weight and juice, and then that article passes it back to YOUR site. Try linking different articles to one another, put google alerts on your articles and contact webmasters directly when they host your article. Offer to give them a unique article with a link back. They usually agree.

I agree that these are 4 of the better directories. Especially ezine articles and buzzle. Many of the other directories out there are very weak and often your articles don’t get indexed on them. You can help them get indexed by linking to them from ezine articles and buzzle for example. Some directories decide to nofollow links like articlebase.com – which is why I stopped using them. For some reason they expect people to carry on submitting to them. Unfortunately most people don’t know they now nofollow (I think they always nofollowed but done something crafty with the links so nofollow tools didn’t mark them as nofollowed). Once they got enough articles and awareness to make good money from advertising they then nofollowed all outgoing links! I wish everyone would take their articles down from sites like them. Not a nice way to treat your users. It’s the users that made the site in the first place. Rant over

By: harvey

harvey — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:31:17 +0000

I often submit my articles from my blog to ezine and articlebase, i found out that some visitors came from ezine to my blog. its not really that effective but it helps a little, i dont submit every article to every article submission site coz its a hassle and not too many visitors click on my articles. Ways to Invest Money

By: Facebook Applications

Facebook Applications — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:31:47 +0000

I have never submited any article. About a week ago i was very close to it but changed my mind. I doupt that it would be part of seo, but the online marketing. If your site is not strong enough to provide real visitors by search engine hits, article submission may provide some linkbaiting opportunity.

By: Muzika

Muzika — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:17:14 +0000

You might be right that massive article submission isn’t worth much, and i completely agree that google does count the first url for the original article and tends to exclude the rest from the search results as it’s duplicate. Thank you for the kind advice.

By: puma boots

puma boots — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:35:07 +0000

I believe this marketing methods is one of the best.
If you only submit to the top 10-25 sites.
Submitting articles in excess of 50 pages with no pr with penalize you.