Yeah, maybe not a good signal for a SEO writer. Most of the questions with author images, how I can also keep my photo on comments and questions? Members can use gravatar. And I am sure that they do not like it. Only thing you can do is adding monetary compensation. It is always better to make more money and share it, than making less money. Do your keyword research and you will find Wikipedia tops most keywords period.
The SEO for website owners applies to people who understand backlinks. No one is trying to game any search engine rankings. They are linking to highly relevant keywords Which is considered to be good off-site optimization. Any body can purchase a domain and build a authority site in your niche, the no follow links shows Google that you are here to provide high quality content and educate. Google does not care about no follow links. It is as if it is not exist.
They just avoid no follow links. So the question of showing google nofollow links does not arise at all. But this may also result in lower submission of articles by those people who are looking for DoFollow links.. Hi Chris, I think one of the main objections is, a writer provides content for your site, free of charge.
They expect something in return, a link, a click, something that benefits them. If one side does anything like, write poor content, nofollow links, both sides may loose. Or that you are afraid to link to any outside page because it maybe spam? If every outgoing link on a site is nofollow, what is Google going to think about that site?
It depends, Wikipedia does really well having most links nofollow, if you understand how this happens, which i am sure your team can figure it out one reason, see above.
An interesting article that will help me much, I believe to find out do follow or no follow links. Thanks for sharing. We stopped writing new EzineArticles since all outgoing links became nofollow.
And, I agree on allowing at least 1 dofollow link in the article body. I have not published on here for a long time because there are zero SEO benefits, only direct traffic benefits of people that stumble on one of my articles. It is better for me to partner with other high or moderate domain authority sites all around the web in order to build some SEO benefit for my hard work. If EzineArticles would change its policy from nofollow to at least 1 dofollow link in the body of the article, I would submit quality original articles and quality original articles of my clients to this site.
I hope you change this and I will be eager to find out when and if you do. Thank you. Hi Aaron Do follow links from any article directory are not good. Google will simply remove that result from their results or they will penalize all domains. Be it 1 link or 2 links. It is the same story. Google needs organic links. Not you yourself writing articles to these type of article directories and making your own back links. SO better stay away from these article directories. No more use to anybody.
And the traffic of EzineArticles has dropped to only 2. After reading through the comments some more, I find the explanation of why Wiki ranks so well as compared to ezine, quite wrong. Wiki ranks so well due to its internal structure, and the millions of incoming links. I have to say as a newcomer to EzineArticles I find this NoFollow decision to be quite astonishing especially as we are almost 4 years on and the decision does not appear to have been reviewed.
Firstly though, I can also see that many of the contributors above do not understand what NoFollow is so allow me to elaborate. The attribute tells the search engine crawler not to acknowledge link. A regular link does have such an attribute and is followed by the search bot.
NoFollow is often used on internal site links to tell a search engine not to index certain pages such as a login page but generally speaking you add NoFollow tags to external links that may be related to untrusted content.
A good example of this is paid links because you are not necessarily endorsing the vendor or their product. Adding a NoFollow ensures you are compliant with the likes of Google whose terms would otherwise penalise you by damaging to your site reputation. Placing a regular link omitting the NoFollow might well encourage others to interact because each contributor could benefit from a link back. However, this runs the risk of spammers clogging posts and damaging the site and its primary contributors.
Therefore, a balanced view should be taken to determine who can be trusted and who might not. As the author of my articles I can trust what I write and if I add a link to my site it too can be trusted. Therefore, this is a link that should be followed. If others add comments, good or bad, I cannot vouch for them or any link provided and quite reasonably these links should be NoFollow.
Some earlier posts referred to Link Juice. This is a value that passes between web pages. When one high ranked page links to another it passes that value along. Each domain holds a rank which is determined by the total positive links associated to the site. Each page in a site will also hold a rank that differs from the site as a whole. Google no longer shows PageRank but it is still used by others to rank the quality of information within.
So, regardless of the rank that EzineArticles. It is the rank of that page that could be passed to the page on your site if a regular link is used. The problem of typing text that is longer than this input box is that typing errors are often missed.
I apologise for my errors. While I may still submit the occasional article 1 or 2 a year I will never pay for the privilege of providing you guys free content quicker via your premium membership. Paying Enzine money so that they process what is free content for them quicker with NO SEO value in return is a crazy situation. If there is no SEO value within the articles published on Enzine then to charge for quicker review process surely must be questioned from a moral perspective.
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Hi Yaro, This blog is really fantastic. I have spent money on PPC marketing without success. I would try all the ideas suggested in this blog. I would let you know my result.
Is it good to link readers of my article to my landing page or an opting mail page? Whats your suggestion? So far, it rocks! Ahh, so you mean the difference between a namesqueeze before the sales page or direct to the sales page.
That depends on the type of product being sold. In almost all cases a nice series of follow up emails after a namesqueeze produces better sales and opt-in rates for free things are always higher than trying to sell. If you can write a good email sequence after the namesqueeze that educates the prospect about the product then you will make more sales. Do you have any numbers, or at least gut feel on what kind of actual traffic your articles produce on your primary site?
In my opinion the biggest factor that determines how effective article marketing will be for you, including the clicks back to your site, is the industry you operate in. I think article marketing can really help to get quality traffic. Especially ezinearticles. In your blog which is great you mentioned the company Article Markerter. Have you have a good experience with this company? Plus their customer service is a 1 on a scale of 1 — Re your point about what industry you are in: From my experience blogging, and seeing how I can get search engine traffic from less popular keywords, I suspect that article could be doubly effective for the nichier, less searched-for site genres.
With more than articles posted on ezinearticles. I get there for two reason. Not only do my articles make links, they are wonderful ebooks when I group them and create a bank of articles to post in an ebook. I sell those on my sites or a friend auctions them on ebay and we make a mint every month. I love article marketing! It does work. Great topic.
I am new here but I personally have to agree that article marketing is the way for myself. I have published less than 10 articles but to many directories manually and I definitely could see some results.
The results are not so great to shout about, but an extra unique visitor a day to my site is better than nothing. I think article marketing is great for lead capturing. I learnt this technique from one of the top copywriter. After filling in contact details, visitor is redirected to the main sales page. This technique works very well. Then I designed a landing page just for collecting contact details and I was able to get 5 or 6 contacts per week.
So from the experience here are 3 things you can try to improve your conversion:. As a baby internet marketer, I absolutely refused to spend 1 dime on Pay Per Click or any other form of advertising until I started making money online by working.
Article Marketing has served as a vehicle for me to have a pretty steady stream of Clickbank Income. Performing Keyword Research is without a doubt the way to get that article indexed and listed in the top twenty. Because of the free overture and google keyword tools available that part has never been easier.
I must admit to being a little confused. On the one hand we are told that duplicate content harms your rankings, and then next, suggestions of using an automated sumbitter, which by default is going to submit duplicate content. I am feeling that most people employing article marketig do not make a living on the web. Well, I guess we could say that about most people in general! Not sure if this came through, however just to say this is the best post I have read so far on Article writing.
I have always had great success with article marketing. For my link, I have linked to an article I wrote that gives explicit details on how well article marketing actually does work for my website. Of course, some people have less than stellar results with article marketing, but those with poor performing articles can generally blame the article for the lackluster performance, rather than the method itself.
Regarding andy, the first commenter, creating a mirror of your site is a bit different than syndicating articles, and actually is a good illustration of the REAL, and ONLY risk of a duplicate content penalty; tons of duplicate content on one domain. Thanks for your article marketing report. People who get a good result from article marketing is that they submit an article more than 10 articles a day, and at least a month to get the result. I think that you are just started compare with those advanced article marketers.
I write ezinearticles 24 so far , and, like you have no real idea if I am reaching any big time goal. This drew me to reading your article. I get onto little food critic sites, etc. Thank you for this article. Article marketing is new for me, and I can use all of the information I can get. Actually, blogging, SEO, and everything that goes with it is new to me.
I started a blog this year and jumped stated my writing career at the same time. I am very blessed for the writing opportunities that came across my path. I have been doing article marketing for the past few months both by submitting to individual sites and with a subscription to Article Marketer.
I am a professional in my field, but am continually told by Article Marketer that I am posting to the wrong category or that the content of my article is other than it should be. I have not had any of these problems with individual submissions to other sites.
Mail about this issue to Article Marketer go unanswered. I guess they figure that once they have your money they can do what they want. I have not had any visitors to my site from the listings done by Article Marketer although I have from the individual sites that I am submitting to. The most important one appears to be ezinearticles. So is sending articles to ezine the only place I should be sending articles? Or should I be sending them to other places? EzineArticles is number one, that is for sure.
If you have time to do the other directories like AffSphere. It is clear that writing articles is a fabulous form of viral marketing. It is free, and the potential for traffic explosion is phenomenal.
All the input here from everybody is great! Now it just comes down to writing discipline! Yaro — This is a fantastic exploration of article writing and article marketing for Internet business results. You offer a fair and balanced perspective on the pros and cons of this approach to web marketing. Yaro I agree with you on certain points.
I like that you submit your article to top article directory i. However I have been doing some different things. Instead of submitting 1 article to 1 Article Directory.
I am submitting the same article to say around 30 top article directories. Surprised you didnt mention SubmitYourArticle. All the best from Sam Deane currently on your BlogMastermind course and loving it! Yaro, as a rookie to internet marketing overall, and article marketing as a technique, I feel much better about my efforts after having read this.
It seemed like a good idea, giving some credibility to the content of the site, and I was pleased to read that you recommend it. I can see that this is a gradual process that will require constant feeding and grooming. But I also see the potential, and I intend to see my labors bear fruit. Thanks for the encouragment. The more time I spend on this blog, the more great things I find. This is a great article Yaro.
Your website is my favorite Internet marketing site. It is definitely the highest quality content out there in my opinion.
Regarding EZinearticles. Adam described an article marketing campaign that he does for his niche websites by posting an article to EZinearticles every day for several days. He mentions that the article should be material that was created specifically for EZinearticles and is not duplicated on the blog or sales website that you are promoting. Can you expand on this a little bit?
Hi Yaro, can i just share. One advantage of article submission in terms of backlinks I believe, is that of being able to control the text around your link. If theories are right, then search engines actually give a lot of importance to the words around your link aside from your anchor text of course.
Yaro, I published a bunch of duplicate articles from my site onto ezinearticles. What do you suggest I do? Rewrite the ezinearticles, which would take a heck of a lot of time, or just delete them entirely?
Try PAR.. Once you write your article, import it into PAR…go word for word through it, and PAR offers alternatives to the word you have. Of course, you could just write it in PAR. By the end of the article, you should have hundreds of variations of the words in the article.
About 5 seconds later, PAR says.. Hi Yaro, Thanks for this informative article. I came across it when I researched how I can publish some articles on Polish pottery that I make and sell. My main concern was that by submitting it to the wrong place, the article would get duplicated multiple times on sites out of my control and I could get punished by Google for duplicate content and maybe for being on sites that are disliked by Google.
I was hoping to find some information on reputable sites. Also you mentioned technorati for backlink lookups, but I could not find this tool on their website.
You must have wrote this article about 3 years ago. Do you have any new information on article submission software? Great article Yaro. I think there are some tried and true methods that generate results. To me, if no one is using a technique its most likely for a reason. You are definitely my go to source for internet marketing topics.
This article marketing test definitely help me have a success campaign on EzineArticles. I just posted a cool YouTube video sharing some of the tricks that I learned. Check it Out! This was a really great article and so much of what I was looking for. Will doing that and having that article just sitting in ezinearticles help boost the page rank of your website?
Or do you only benefit when someone actually publishes the article on their site? I have over articles right now on ezinearticles. In my experiences the publishers always remove the author info and links. I have caught many and Ezine and A. She benefits from a bit of pocket money and some more content for her portfolio. People I know use Elance for their writers, but I find using local students works very well.
I do believe article marketing works especially if when starting out you have more time than money. I have submitted hundreds of articles to EzineArticles and I am now starting to see the fruits of my labor.
It does not happen overnight, but once you start to lay the foundation it only gets better. Ezine articles are good for backlinks because most article sites have good trust rank.
Ezine articles can also be a way to get traffic. If your article gets to the top 10 in Google then many people might come to your site. Because I think people are more likely to click on your site listing then on an article that leads to your site. Does anyone one know? Thanks for the informative information about article submission. I actually just submitted two article at Ezine but waiting approval. I use free syndicated text all the time instead of writing things down. It does help to bolster you blog content.
I was hoping to write more to get some one way links. I think that having genuine, fresh topics will help you get those links. My wife is in school and writes bunch of papers, I think that I will use hers to submit to ezine and similar websites. I just have to get her permission. I have a website which is quite tiny. I have a german and an english part. For my german part I get pressreleases and for my english part I try to get articles of all walks of life.
I receive my articles through e-mail but since a few weeks I have rather difficulties receiving any article. But what I had so far of about a 50 articles a day when I was lucky I could use just about 20 most of the time actually less. I read every article and check the links. My toes curl up reading them and my native tounge is not even english you most likley guessed.
Article marketing is absolutely worth the time and I think that this was a great effort to prove this via EzineArticles, which is the market leader and probably the best one for new marketers to test and share their content.
While 20 articles is not probably enough to establish significant success, those 20 articles will send the writer free and pre-qualified traffic to their site s that they would not have received, while also establishing credibility in their marketplace. The best way to write articles and blog posts is using good templates. Its possible to automate these so that the results are good quality unique articles or blog posts.
The most important points for me in getting better url click-throughs from my articles were keeping the articles short and trying different author resource boxes until I found one that worked. When I was able to delineate a tangible benefit to the reader and a utilize a specific call to action, my click-through results improved drastically. Some articles produced unexpectedly good results, while others that I thought would do well unexpectedly underperformed. What I discovered is that a short and catchy title and strategic keyword targeting are also invaluable.
Also one quick correction to this post, since it was written in EzineArticles no longer allows you to change the article title after submitting, so make sure to choose your article titles carefully! Great information. I am just starting out, but I learned so much from reading all the comments. Thanks, guys. I have tried article marketing, but, alas, I am one of those who only has a few articles so far. I think like all things with SEO, the more effort you put in, the better your results will be.
Although, you only have to be a little bit better than your competitors to get higher in the rankings than them! Here is another resource for article marketing, where you can search and find guest blog opportunities and submit unique articles to niche blogs for free: linknami.
Article submission is a daily work for every online marketing man. Besides those helpful tips mentioned above. What I want to add is that video article is also a creative way of article marketing. It plays an important role in online business promotion. Here is my article discussing about how to make full use of video article and explore website traffic with it. They have a decent PR rating, give you an author section, allow you to include links and even let you make some money from the google ads on the articles you submit.
They even give each author their own rss feed which you can use to link into your twitter or facebook. Anyways, I use it to submit articles and love it so far. Great article. Is EZine a preferred online article directory? Streetarticles is a good one too. Hope that helps. I would venture to guess that with article submissions, Google treats them as a first come first serve basis.
Just to clarify something you said about content duplication penalty. We show the most relevant result. Thanks for the article, very interesting indeed.
Rich and Daniel this may answer both of your questions , You want to make your articles for article marketing as unique as possible, but it is ok to submit the same article to just a few directories. The unfortunate thing is that there will always be content moochers out there that re-syndicate your content for their benefit. Sometimes your articles will even get entered into article banks by lazy people looking for fresh content that think it will help them.
Article marketing is certainly worth the time and effort. Being in the article marketing field myself I can no longer count the times yes, it had been so many I have website owners benefit from the effects of article marketing.
If you have the time and the writing skills, my suggestion it to go for it. I guess it must be worth it Yaro as I Googled article marketing in google. I guess it is simply a long process of head down, keep pedaling and eventually it should pay off. From an SEO point of view article marketers do what they do for the links because the more links you have out there in high quality sites, the higher your PR, ergo, the higher Google serves you up in search results.
Hence, you gain traffic not from the article itself but from organic traffic as a result of having all those links in the directories. Submitting to Ezine alone does not consist article marketing.
Real article marketing for link benefits means submitting to hundreds of sites and blogs. Google states that duplicate content has no penalties for your website. If you are worried about not being indexed in Google be sure to put a link in the article to the article.
Google is very good at determining who wrote the content originally. I am trying to write one every other day, it is definitely time consuming and who knows if it will turn out to be worthwhile.
I am betting the back links are more valuable than actually getting traffic from the article. Greg, yes back links are more worthwhile, however if you include a link to the article you will get back links! Either there where written by some articlewriting software, or there where just pure marketing articles. I would not use an articledirectory on automatic.
If I ever use one again I make sure I read every one of those articles and also check the links. Of course it is not easy to write an article but I think most articlewriters could put in a little bit more effort. So many perceptions, makes you wonder what really works, however someone must be doing ok from article marketing. I agree with one comment on here, to really succeed you really have to post your article to hundreds of sites.
Yes and no as you rightly pointed out. In my opinion just post the articles on our own site and ping it. Over time this will be more beneficial. I think article marketing can still work if you combine it with other methods like press releases, blog commenting, social media marketing and even Yahoo Answers marketing. Can i share with you my favorite article distribution service? Does it still work? After all the algorithms changes google is making, its perfectly clear that soon enough only backlinks from articles will worth something.
I noticed this blog published in and doubt if the ezine article still has the power, especially for the recent Google Algo changes. But anyway, this blog is still worth reading. Yes, article marketing is great for website seo but i prefer to use press releases also. This give me great results longtime. Since everyone spins articles and add masivly to all articles directories this is not so strong now. Marketing articles on the internet is way over saturated making it difficult to tell the difference from quality information and individuals that are just looking for traffic.
What other purposes is there to publishing your content on other websites? Is article marketing that valuable for your website? I noticed that on popular e-zine directories there are thousands of authors and huge collections of articles, what kind of exposure your articles will have?
Thanks for your articles. Allowing you to publish your blog pieces directly from the sidebar of the WordPress dashboard. Take a look at this email between an internet marketer from the Warrior Forum and a Google employee.
Google is secretive about their algorithm and how they rank websites. As you can imagine, there was a mad scramble to remove backlinks from EZA as fast as possible. As their name implies, Ezine is an online magazine publisher. Like most publishers, they make money from ad revenue.
Once their traffic fell off, their revenue did as well. For a while, they had a lucrative system going on. That gave them a lower overhead than a traditional magazine. Lesson: Secure high-quality content for your site by developing it in-house or by hiring a freelance writer.
One of the original tenets of EZA was article syndication. The idea is that a webmaster will publish your article on their site, leaving you an author bio at the end. The website gets fresh content, and you get more exposure. As a result, a lot of authority websites only publish unique articles. If a website will play ball, there are workarounds.
That means your version will rank above their version. On the whole article syndication takes some research. This quote from Search Engine Land shows the delicacy of article syndication. There are definitely times when syndication makes sense. There is no one formula here, and you will need to apply your own critical thinking to make decisions as to how this might fit into your longer-term strategy.
Additionally, the downside of article syndication is having your website pushed down in the SERP. Try Commun. Social Searcher is an amazing way to grow an online brand in leaps and bounds it simply takes creativity, passion and consistency to keep things moving in the right direction.
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