Recommendations on article submission are needed!

[andreyknure]

I have already raised similar questions at forums; nevertheless I have some additional questions on article submission process to discuss with SEO professionals. The first one is about article submission practices! What are your opinions about submitting the same article to numerous article directories? On the one hand it be very difficult and can take a lot of time to write a unique article for each article directory separately, on the other hand search engines can accept these articles as content duplicate and links will not be counted in such a way. How to find the golden middle and to get the maximum benefits from article submission process? What keyword phrases it is better to orient articles on? What keyword phrases it is better to put in incoming link text? It is better to insert a key phrase existing at a website or the key phrase that doesn’t exist at a website? What advices could you provide on this matter?

[Brian Turner]

Not worth it - most article directories are poorly indexed by Google, many don't allow for a live link, and the few that are indexed and allow a link almost certainly carry very limited weight.

There's also an awful lot of churn in article directories, and many don't stick around for too long.

[Loredan]

Agreed with Brian

There are so many other ways to get quality links... not worth it to bother with this

[scene4u]

I tend to submit articles to the main directories but apart from the top 10 including Ezinearticles and GoArticles I do not submit to any others.

[Niche]

I have a bunch of articles with the article directories and they do generate some traffic for my sites. But I really honestly feel that article marketing is so time consuming that it is not the main form of traffic generation I use. There are things like social bookmarking that work as well and take less effort

[jackie100]

I was planning to write lots of articles to submit to directories, but i think i will now follow your advice and concentrate on something else instead.

[WebWiseBusiness]

What was the intended purpose for your articles? To generate traffic or to generate links?

Sure, an article ideally does both but by submitting to an article directory, you are probably more likely to generate modest traffic than you are to generate any decent links.

As Brian said, the churn that takes place on most article directories makes it very difficult to stand out in the crowd, no matter how good the content. Its probably best to try and develop a reputation on these types of sites if you plan to give submitting articles a real go.

[jackie100]

So there's still a place for articles as a means of generating some extra traffic even if they don't generate good links. I'll have to leave this on my "to do" list but move it slighty lower down in priority terms.