How many Article Directories are too many? Different people will have different answers to this question. The organised among you will know exactly how many you submit to, and it will be somewhere in the region of two or three figures. The disorganised among you will be wondering what article directories actually are.
The world of article directories is one that’s worth exploring in depth to teach you about ways for valuable SEO , but the main reason for this blog post is to remind you that there is safety, and sales in numbers. Just think, every article you send to one of these sites provides another link back to your own website.
Every single link means Google sits up and takes more notice, as it automatically thinks you have a popular site. After all, why would so many sites link back to you if they didn’t like what you were all about?
Traffic is the Goal
Now we know that it’s you that’s posted all those articles to Article Directories all over the web, but that makes no difference. They all provide valuable back links and they all provide a chance for new people to come and find your site and make it more popular.
Traffic is the goal here, and if someone has taken the time to read your article on widgets, they will provide targeted traffic if they are interested enough to go and visit your website as well.
Don’t Limit Yourself
So don’t limit yourself when it comes to using Article Directories. You may take different approaches as well to avoid the duplicate content filter with some of your articles but go for quantity and quality.
If you are submitting articles manually then there may be a limit to the number you can submit to in the space of a couple of hours. But if you get a program that takes a lot of the hard work out of submitting to these sites then you can cover a lot more ground in a much shorter amount of time.
Have a most outstanding day.
Sean RasmussenAussie Internet Marketing
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008 - 2010
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Hi Sean,
I have read your “duplicate content” post and it all makes sense except for 1 thing; how much “should” you change content around?
Is changing a few paragraphs around enough or do we have to re-look at the entire article?
Hi Cemil,
There are no “hard and fast” rules for duplicate content and how it is seen by the search engines. My personal opinion is that your articles should be 100% unique for SEO purposes. Unique content will benefit your readers and your rankings. There is nothing wrong with “borrowing” information from other articles…just be sure to put your own spin on it, add some of your own thoughts, and write with your own style.
Regards – Sean
Hi Sean,
What I do sometimes is look at an article see to see what someone has said then write my spin on it in in my own words, so it is totally mine except the subject was someone else’s idea.
Rita
Sean
Would it be best to stick to the high page rank directories or the more the merrier?
Hi Gee,
Excellent question. I was thinking exactly the same thing because I have a list bookmarked of the top PR article directories. I think it’s better to go with the higher PR ones.
Submitting articles is great, but I understand that I can’t (or shouldn’t) submit the same article to different article directories. It has to be re-written or at least changed substantially for each and every one. Being (still) not a fast writer this puts a limit on my submissions, as I am just to slow to write my regular posts plus several versions for articles.
So I will keep going, one text at a time.
But – practice makes perfect
I’ve never written articles for ezines, or the like. I’ve written the occasional newspaper article, so I guess that’s somewhat similar. I will definitely look into this.
My answer to the question of how many article directories do I submit articles to is a big fat 1. Thats it and thats not even very often. Ezine articles won’t let you submit your article if the content is very similiar to something already there and creative writing is not the most prominent skill I have so I really need to work on this side of things.