Article Submitters and General Article Tips
Writing articles has been a popular trend lately. Some people hate it, while others love it. There are a few downsides to watch out for, but writing articles might be very beneficial to you if you give it a try.
The idea behind submitting your articles for others to post is for a few reasons. First, if the article is written well and provides useful information, it will make you appear to be an expert in your field. If you have enough articles on the same topic, your name will start to be associated with your niche more. This not only makes people listen to you more, but you're more likely to become a trusted expert and have people listening to you (even when you're selling them your own products or services).
The other reason behind this is for free incoming traffic. When you submit your article, you are usually allowed to place your name, e-mail, and often a link to your website. Some individuals who see your link will click on it for more information and be brought to your website. When you submit your article to even just a few article directories, you have the possibility of dozens to even hundreds of other sites, ezines, and so forth posting your article as well. This creates even more free traffic, and it can even help with the search engine optimization of your site (increases your chances of getting indexed in the search engines).
One thing to be careful here is that if you post your own article on your own site, be sure to make it different than the articles that you distribute freely. Google and other search engines can penalize you for duplicate content, which can hurt your search engine rankings. Since some of the sites that you are submitting it to might be viewed as more important (and visited by the google bot more often), they'll sometimes get the "credit" of having it first, which will make it appear to the search engines that you took your own article from them! If you create a similar but different article for your own site, the chances of this happening are less likely.
Another thing to keep in mind is that some article directories allow any site to take your article freely. If your article ends up on the wrong site that Google or other search engines don't like (perhaps they are banned), some SEO experts say that your site can be penalized for having the same content, or for having that site linked to you. On top of that, some article directories will even edit your article to the point of adding their own links within your article, or even deleting the links that you already had in it! This even ignores the chances that individual sites will do this to you as well. The end result is that you have to be careful of who you submit your articles to.
Some SEO experts feel that giving out articles is ridiculous, as you can build up your own content if you kept them all to yourself. I agree with that to a point, and I feel that some sites are better off keeping all the content to themselves. However, if the site isn't doing well traffic wise with other methods, I think it might be much more helpful to actually try articles. It all depends on your niche and your plan of action of how you're trying to get free visitors to your site.
In the end, it's up to you to figure out which route you want to go. Please feel free to post any relevant comments here as well!
If you want a free article submitter, or if you want to join our weekly newsletter with free downloads for useful tools, simply join up using the form located on the right navigation bar. We will be offering weekly downloads and will include an archive of all the downloads soon.
The idea behind submitting your articles for others to post is for a few reasons. First, if the article is written well and provides useful information, it will make you appear to be an expert in your field. If you have enough articles on the same topic, your name will start to be associated with your niche more. This not only makes people listen to you more, but you're more likely to become a trusted expert and have people listening to you (even when you're selling them your own products or services).
The other reason behind this is for free incoming traffic. When you submit your article, you are usually allowed to place your name, e-mail, and often a link to your website. Some individuals who see your link will click on it for more information and be brought to your website. When you submit your article to even just a few article directories, you have the possibility of dozens to even hundreds of other sites, ezines, and so forth posting your article as well. This creates even more free traffic, and it can even help with the search engine optimization of your site (increases your chances of getting indexed in the search engines).
One thing to be careful here is that if you post your own article on your own site, be sure to make it different than the articles that you distribute freely. Google and other search engines can penalize you for duplicate content, which can hurt your search engine rankings. Since some of the sites that you are submitting it to might be viewed as more important (and visited by the google bot more often), they'll sometimes get the "credit" of having it first, which will make it appear to the search engines that you took your own article from them! If you create a similar but different article for your own site, the chances of this happening are less likely.
Another thing to keep in mind is that some article directories allow any site to take your article freely. If your article ends up on the wrong site that Google or other search engines don't like (perhaps they are banned), some SEO experts say that your site can be penalized for having the same content, or for having that site linked to you. On top of that, some article directories will even edit your article to the point of adding their own links within your article, or even deleting the links that you already had in it! This even ignores the chances that individual sites will do this to you as well. The end result is that you have to be careful of who you submit your articles to.
Some SEO experts feel that giving out articles is ridiculous, as you can build up your own content if you kept them all to yourself. I agree with that to a point, and I feel that some sites are better off keeping all the content to themselves. However, if the site isn't doing well traffic wise with other methods, I think it might be much more helpful to actually try articles. It all depends on your niche and your plan of action of how you're trying to get free visitors to your site.
In the end, it's up to you to figure out which route you want to go. Please feel free to post any relevant comments here as well!
If you want a free article submitter, or if you want to join our weekly newsletter with free downloads for useful tools, simply join up using the form located on the right navigation bar. We will be offering weekly downloads and will include an archive of all the downloads soon.
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