SEO: Using Article Directories to Promote Your Site:: Plus, sitemaps?

[VestRite]

Hey I heard of this tactic that includes writing a relevant article, submitting it to about a hundred article directories, and including your site information in the bio box. Does this tactic still work wonders? My site used to be the top one listed for "VestRite" in google and now I can't even find it.

Also, I gave google a bad sitemap. Would that have anything to do with it?

[Blaine Moore]

Submitting 1 article to hundreds of directories probably won't help a lot, especially if it is the same article as you have on your own website. Multiple unique articles can be helpful, though, especially if other people use your articles on their own sites.

A bad sitemap can certainly confuse google. Log in to your webmaster tools and they will tell you about any problems that your site has.

[Yaro]

100 articles at one directory will do A LOT better than one article at 100 directories.

[VestRite]

Yeah search engines hate duplicate content. It's just hard for me to pop out fresh material on such a new topic for me. I'm sure I'll get the hang of it. So far I've got one article out in a dozen places.

And I deleted the sitemap. Now it is back on top. If you search for "vestrite" you'll get the homepage.

So how much link juice do I get from duplicate content?

[Yvonne Lyon]

Originally Posted by VestRite

So how much link juice do I get from duplicate content?

Depends on what you consider 'duplicate content'. If you're talking about using plr articles that have been posted all over the place, you won't get any 'link juice'. But if you take your good article, post it to the article directories, post it on your blog, ping your blog to several submission sites, twitter about your new article, have your blog on places like mybloglog, blogrush, etc. Lots of backlinks have begun.

As good as backlinks are, what you are looking for is traffic, and that means having your article interesting enough for people to either click through on your bio box, or to add your article to their site where other people will click through.

Just my two cents worth

[VestRite]

Originally Posted by Yvonne Lyon

Depends on what you consider 'duplicate content'. If you're talking about using plr articles that have been posted all over the place, you won't get any 'link juice'. But if you take your good article, post it to the article directories, post it on your blog, ping your blog to several submission sites, twitter about your new article, have your blog on places like mybloglog, blogrush, etc. Lots of backlinks have begun.

As good as backlinks are, what you are looking for is traffic, and that means having your article interesting enough for people to either click through on your bio box, or to add your article to their site where other people will click through.

Just my two cents worth

Yeah that is what I was asking. Good point about the traffic being my goal.

[lovesafron]

Apart from article submission you also consider good wahy out directory submission,link building.....

[SEO_Promotion]

Originally Posted by VestRite

Hey I heard of this tactic that includes writing a relevant article, submitting it to about a hundred article directories, and including your site information in the bio box. Does this tactic still work wonders? My site used to be the top one listed for "VestRite" in google and now I can't even find it.

Also, I gave google a bad sitemap. Would that have anything to do with it?

Article promotion is loosing its popularity due to duplicate content issues. I am not sure how google perceives article promotion, but one thing is for sure that article promotion could be mistaken as duplicate content promotion by Google.

Take for example, I wrote an article, and published on my site. My site gets crawled after 10 days. In the meantime, I submitted this article to ezine site (which gets crawed daily). Google will crawl ezine site even before my own site, and if due to some restriction , ezine site does not allow me to have signature link ( unless and until I submit 5 articles), then it could prove detrimental to my future rankings.

Google will first crawl ezine site, and will label my own original site as a duplicate site. This is my personal experience, and I always abstain from doing that.

However RSS is a better option, and more safe than article promotion. If your content is useful and information, other users will automatically subscribe to it. In RSS promotion, you wont have to submit your article to 100 article websites

[erikko]

i dont think article submission causes duplicate content if and only if spiders crawled your article first thing before those unscupolous content stealers do so.

[AngelaE8654]

Originally Posted by VestRite

Yeah search engines hate duplicate content. It's just hard for me to pop out fresh material on such a new topic for me. I'm sure I'll get the hang of it. So far I've got one article out in a dozen places.

And I deleted the sitemap. Now it is back on top. If you search for "vestrite" you'll get the homepage.

So how much link juice do I get from duplicate content?

That is NOT the definition of "duplicate content". If that were the case, the article directories and all the news feeds and such would be long gone because they would have been penalized by Google for "duplicate content".