Article Marketing and SEO. The Super Advantages of Articles

[rifinder]

Hi jcorkern,

I looked into the instant article submitter that you recommend and I'm curious about the sites it can submit to. For example, can it submit to "ezine articles", "about", and other big name article directories. Or does it only submit to sites that no one has heard of and have a PR of 0 or 1?

Thanks.

[DocHale]

whew....i'm going to need to read that a few more times...good stuff

[jcorkern]

Ezine articles is one of the few not on the list. I always do that one manualy. Others like article trader and go articles is on it. There are a lot of low pr sites, but also a lot of pr3 to pr6 directories also.

I have used it to take a lot of local sites like real estate sites and carpet cleaners, local web design sites, car dealers ect... to the top with it.

I also use it for all sites when i need to vary anchor text for google (i Hope you know about this) I can send out 1 article and get as many variations as i want by rotating the authors bio box on each submission. This makes the linking look more "Natural" to google and makes it easy to get top positions.

You should always use just 1 anchor text for your top level keyword or phrase until you hit yahoos top 10, then continue to run articles and start varying the anchor text to hit the next google update.

This tool makes it easy to do this and fast.


I just checked, there are over 120 PR3 to PR 7 sites in the list. I get great results with it.

There are Other secrets that i use with articles that drive even more traffic to your website!

Hint: use the power of high PR article directories to controll the first page of Google and Yahoo!

If you think about it and read the first post, you may catch on, If not, ask and i will show you.

[beamup]

Hello

Thanks , that was very GOOD read indeed. Explained well so that anybody can understand it.

Thanks for sharing.


Steve

[DamienOh]

Hi,

Wonderful tips here. Thanks for sharing.

I have been writing articles regularly since last sept and I can vouch that it is the best and low cost traffic generating strategy that REALLY WORKS. In fact, Ezinearticles is my No3 traffic referrer after Google and Yahoo.

usually, I only submit my articles to my list of top 10 articles directory (all with PR 6 and above). My only question is: does submitting to a low PR article directory works? These sites have very little traffic and their articles seldom get reprinted, so does it worth the effort to submit to them?

[jcorkern]

I have found that people are creatures of habbit, people who start reading articles at a low pr site continue to read from that same site. So yes, you will get clicks from them. I use submission services, so it is not a big deal to me. and sometimes they do ger reprinted from them.

the downfall of low PR directories is because the directory is doing something wrong, this is why they have low pr.

What they do wrong is put a no-follow tag to rob the writer of the link to prevent PR bleed. Now, most seo companies (mine included) build links to their article pages. And i will not bother getting links to an article that is published on their directory if the have a no follow tag. so they are killing their own pr by trying to save pr.

But you may get some clicks anyway, i just do not make the extra effort to make sure there are a few dozen links to the article page on the directories site.

I know, you are wondering why i would build links to an article on someones directory. Well, it is simple. If i place a couple dozen links to an article, it will gain PR, and if they have a pr3 page in a directory, it will not be removed in 6 to 18 months. Would you delete a PR 3 page from your site???? Plus it give me a higher pr link that = more powerfull link for me.


and the pr 6 means nothing as far as the link you get from the article. Value of the link is calculated from the PR of the page the link is on, not the pr of the index page, so all new articles are calculated as a pr0 from the start, as that articles page grows in pr, so does the power of the link.

[dc dalton]

Originally Posted by jcorkern

here is a link to anothyer article i wrote about duplicat content. Notice the PR of the page!

Are you being Duped by the Duplicate content theory and other SEO theories?


Go to any article directory, take the title of the article and paste it in a search bar. See how many results you get. !!!! If google indexex it 200 times i am sure that they are not worried about it. Read the article and it will help you understand.

There is a lot of mis-information on the net about seo


Hope this helps.

AMAZING, someone that ACTUALLY 'gets' the dupe content thing! I have had this argument with a thousand people and they all tell me I'm nuts BUT I have proven it over and over.

My point of view (based on experience)

1. All of the other content that surrounds an article on a page counts (why people can't get that I don't know) SO if you have an article on one site's layout it will NOT be counted as dupe content on another, totally different site.

2. even the code within (and directly surrounding) an article will stop the dupe content filter. I have proven this by cleaning up the garbage HTML code in 60,000+ articles. Just silly stuff like removing Front Page tags, making the code XHTML complaint (IE: removing font tags etc)

I know it, I've proven it yet people still think their is some magic wand at Google that can separate the actual article from the rest of the page .... trust me I'm a developer and the code to do what some of these people claim it does borders on artificial intelligence.

Great article!

[jcorkern]

I agree with you 100%. If people would investigate instead of assuming that the so called "gurus" are right. Then seo and all of the other scams on the net would not exist.

Duplicate content is one false claim, and if you notice the sources, they are trying to sell something, or take something out of content.

The "content is king" theory is also false! this article proves this: Without a Throne of Links-King Content Has Nowhere to Sit in the SEO Kingdom

The content is king theory was invented by copyrighters who make their living writing copy. Makes sense huh? they try to downplay links on the net, but top search engine postitons are reached by links (approx 80% of SEO is links). not content.

Content does have it's place, but is worthless without links.

I had a client that bought the "content is king" pitch (guess they were good salesmen). He waited for over a year for it to work after being promised that it would for a sum of over 12 thousand dollars! then he called me back and hired me, Within 6 months he ranked nationaly in the majors and was recouping his 12 k that he wasted.

People need to investigate before buying a lie.

The first question to ask is "who gains"? If they are putting out information and then trying to sell information without solid proof! They are scamming! Period!

Don,t buy the ebooks, dont buy the CD's, Don't pay thousands for a seminar.

Everything you need to succeed on the net is readily avaliable on the net.

[dc dalton]

Originally Posted by jcorkern

I agree with you 100%. If people would investigate instead of assuming that the so called "gurus" are right. Then seo and all of the other scams on the net would not exist.

Well not only are these so-called gurus propagating this nonsense, you have people at some of the 'bigger' shall we say forums that come up with these inane ideas and people believe them for the simple fact they have a lot of posts! Makes me crazy

[lexiseek]

With all due respect, I think that article marketing is a waste of time and effort.

Too many people steal others people content and throw their own link in and once you're in an article directories Email database they spam you until the end of time with get rich quick schemes and new article directories.

Sorry if I sound a bit cynical, but this is my personal experience. Been there, done that and tried to "opt-out."