I have co-written a number of articles, and I am wondering how one would go about publishing them. I really don’t want my efforts to go amiss by publishing them in the wrong place.
Initially I was thinking of publishing them on ezine, then it was mentioned to publish them on my own website/blog. The trouble is my site has a low-page rank, not to mention low-SERP for it’s specific terms. I was directed to this artcle which made my think twice about publishing them on ezine - Google Forecloses On Content Farms With “Farmer” Algorithm Update
I was hoping to publish some articles on sitepoint or a related site, but most sites require some form of history publishing. Maybe it might be worth publishing my articles on ezine and from here get the recognition needed to continue to publishing them on blog sites.
If anybody has any experience in this field, or any knowledge or tips I would be really appreciated if you let me know.
With Panda update, Google was aiming at lowering the value of spammy contents. After this update, Ezinearticles have made some changes into their sysyem to make their website meet up with the algo changes happening on Google like now the minimum word count on Ezinearticles is 400 and the approval time for a article has also increased to great extend.
Publishing the article on your own website will help improve your SERPs! If you don’t get some good, unique content on there, you’ll always struggle. Once you’ve got the article there, as well as having more content you’ll also be in a better position to get some inbound links, which will also help your SERPs.
The update is fairly new, and nobody knows how it will affect us. The US is the chosen test market, but like it’s mention it’s probably going to hit my area soon. All my articles are over 400 words anyhow, some run into the thousands. So I don’t think I will run into problems from that half.
At one point I thought of rewriting articles and publishing them on other article websites? Is this something to consider, or is this likely to be a waste of time too?
Publishing the article on your own website will help improve your SERPs! If you don’t get some good, unique content on there, you’ll always struggle. Once you’ve got the article there, as well as having more content you’ll also be in a better position to get some inbound links, which will also help your SERPs.
I was thinking more of the one-way links coming ezine. Then again if people are linking to you on their own you’re likely to get those one way links. Let’s just hope their strong links.
Well, you will have to compromise on something. It would be better if you publish it on your site. It will give your site some exposure and also increase in traffic. Why are you wasting your effort by publishing it elsewhere, considering the fact that sites like ezine and articlebase have lost a lot of rankings because of spinned content.
Assuming that you have sufficient content on your site already, I would recommend staying off Ezine for now. Google’s recent algo changes has affected article directories most.
Sega, there really isn’t a 100% certainty that Ezine and other such sites will be affected.
And there is always hearsay, rumors and flat-out misunderstandings when info is passed along the Internet.
But, BUT, if they would be affected, so what? Your articles will be in other sites anyway, right?
Your goal is to have your articles read by as many people as possible, and that means publishing them in as many high-traffic sites as you can find (syndicating).
For example, if you have articles on men’s interests: Askmen, Men’s Journal, FHM, Wired, Men’s Health…
But do keep in mind that many online editors do not consider Ezine much of a reputable place … and rightly so.
Publishing your own articles on your own site does NOT increase traffic. It increases REPEAT traffic.
Another thing to think about is that even if you are lucky enough to have one, two or three of your articles land on page one in a search, you will still get a hell of a lot more viewers by syndicating your articles to a slew of sites.
Oh I do have to disagree. Publishing your articles on your own site does increase traffic. People reference them on forums, social networking sites, email them to friends, etc.
Another solution is to contact blogs and sites within your areas of interest and ask them if they would consider a guest post, contributing editor, etc. They may not pay you for your article but it will appear on an authoritative site that will generate traffic for your site and increase your own “authority” in the minds of your readers.
If you want to be recognized as an authority in your field, then put your articles where you have a chance at that. It may take a little more work to get them where you want them to go, but it will certainly be worth it in the long run. You don’t see any well-known writers contributing to content farms. It isn’t too difficult to figure out why.
If your content is good quality and truly unique, i.e. written by you from your own angle or perspective, then putting it on your own site gives your site something unique that other sites don’t have. That’s what draws traffic in the long term.
My own experience backs that up. Traffic from sites like ezine accounts for very little of the overall site traffic you will get. A good quality article, found only on your site and referenced by others will get you better quality, long term traffic.
While the article you put on ezine may get reprinted by other sites, the fact that it’s duplicated devalues it. Even if it’s not devalued by the search engines, the mere fact that the reader will find more than one instance of it when they search, will have a detrimental effect.
You also have to look at what sites will be picking up an article that’s not unique. In general it’s a site that won’t be attracting high levels of traffic itself, meaning you’ll get little or no long term benefit.
Oh I do have to disagree. Publishing your articles on your own site does increase traffic. People reference them on forums, social networking sites, email them to friends, etc.
I agree, but, if I am not mistaken, Sega is talking about Google and page rank.
Okay, although this is the “Content for your site” forum rather than the “SEO” forum, let’s talk about Google and pagerank (again ) for a moment.
If you submit your articles to oodles of sites, wouldn’t it be true that those established sites will have better page rank than your site? Golly, I wonder just which site Google will give priority to in indexing your articles – yours or some more established site?
Let’s say you are big believer now in the power of the ezine content farm. When they have more (and better) content in your field than you can produce for your site, what will ever entice a visitor to visit you?
Is there competition amongst writers at content farms? I think there is. That said, where would your articles be placed at one of those lovely places? In the show ring or back behind the barn somewhere?
It’s time people got real. If you are publishing only for Google, then you are publishing for the wrong reasons. Google even gives some very strong hints that I am correct in making that statement. If you are publishing to create authority for both Google and your own visitors, then publish at your site and at sites where you can be recognized as an authority-- the farmer instead of just one of the herd.
If you submit your articles to oodles of sites, wouldn’t it be true that those established sites will have better page rank than your site?
Obviously, which is the second reason why he should submit his articles to other sites. The first and biggest reason is so he can get as many people reading his articles as he can, in addition to getting credibility, which I already stated.
(again ) for a moment.
Since that is what he is asking about, that is the subject of the thread, there is no “again.”
Let’s say you are big believer now in the power of the ezine content farm. When they have more (and better) content in your field than you can produce for your site, what will ever entice a visitor to visit you?
The same reason such sites as this one, or ShoeMoney, or JohnChow, or Askmen or Onion has: They created different, more interesting content to read.
Because of variety, everyone enjoys reading several different type sites, even if one of the sites is very small but has tid bits of interesting stuff to read.
Exactly. I don’t believe you will find ShoeMoney, JohnChow or Onion articles on an “article submission site.” Why? Because real writers write for them and real writers understand the value of their content. It’s odd that the hue and cry is “Content is Kingi!” while those that are hue-ing and crying are putting content in the web’s dungeons-- or should I say “gutter”.
Why? Because real writers write for them and real writers understand the value of their content. It’s odd that the hue and cry is “Content is Kingi!” while those that are hue-ing and crying are putting content in the web’s dungeons-- or should I say “gutter”.
So …concentrate on the substance of the composition, and the “publishing” part sorta takes care of itself.
All this comes down to is the old “push” model, where you focus on shoving (shoveling) content in front of people versus a “pull” model of attracting readers. Two completely different ways of thinking – and apparently antithetical to each other.
(Then of course there are those effete snobs using words like antithesis, but we won’t go into that.)
The first and biggest reason is so he can get as many people reading his articles as he can, in addition to getting credibility, which I already stated.
An article will only find credibility on sites that exercise considerable editorial discretion to decline contributions. In other words: Want Credibility? Avoid Content Dumps.
Having a blogger go to the trouble of writing up a commentary, then linking to your site beats fifty content farms. …for credibility. …for getting people to convert. Getting many people reading is only a first step. Far too many treat readership as a be-all and end-all, which makes for lots of looks …a few reads …and almost nothing else.
Follow-Up Question: Who has an article dump site bookmarked, and goes there to browse? Most don’t. They merely happen onto an article that has a high SERP. How is that? It’s not because the dump site has inherently good SEO or boosts the article – it’s primarily due to that article being linked to and boosted to a high rank.
This really makes some interesting reading, and the bouncing of ideas is very useful. The main reason/cause for me even contemplating a site like ezine was to gain it’s one-way link. The content is unique and does stand out (I hope). I could publish it on my own site, but Google will treat this as another page. I really have to get my site noticed by the search engines, and this was the initial idea.
Many of you said it’s best to publish it on your own site. That might be good, but what if your site has little to no traffic, what then?
Actually, the better and more useful your site is, the more attention Google (and visitors!) will pay to it. Is it more important to get a backlink from an article farm or is one from say, Copyblogger, better? Is it more important to have an article published here at SitePoint that gives you a link back to your Site or more important for one of their recognized bloggers to reference your site in a link from their blog post.
Consider the importance of all of your options and their results before you publish anywhere!
Oh great new…Even i was concentrating on ezine for so many days but no results and as such you guys mentioned that because of change of algo,ezine is behavior weird…
That might be good, but what if your site has little to no traffic, what then?
If your writing is worth linking to, you’ll get traffic. Traffic isn’t the problem on the web. Traffic worthy writing is the problem.
You know, this feverish traffic obsession must have some deeper motivator. This is as annoying as people thinking 5,000 Facebook contact they’ve accumulated are “friends.”
Tell a few people. Put your site in your sig. Then take the results as EVIDENCE, and integrate that evidence into future writing. Obsessing over forcing traffic is keeping everyone from a moment’s thought about earning it. Try learning less about Google, and more about an audience and target reader.
A real writing problem if you’re trying to make traffic rise in order to not work on the writing. We may be getting into gold-star precious snowflake academy territory here, and that is not a writing issue. And you do know this is not an SEO section, it’s for working on your writing. Raw unqualfied traffic is the other guy’s schtick.
Here traffic is your report card. And your parents can’t call to get it changed. On the plus side – there is no “permanent record” issue.
Push technology died in the 90s. Pushing content in front of anybody and everybody as a subtitute for puliing them in …alive and well.
Try learning less about Google, and more about an audience and target reader.
Completely understood. This might be a solvable issue if your a blog website. The trouble is most people don’t blog, and most sites are developed to force an action or sale. Do you understand the problem? Even with quality articles on your site, they have to find your content to link to it. Unless your somebody huge like Argos, DFS, M&S, you’re unlikely to have a stand-by audience. Your traffic is likely to be a result of immediate advertising rather than a community, unless you develop a blog on your site, which could possibly be used to gain traffic on it’s own.
Yes. It is the problem of saying “social network” as if those two words just happen to end up next to one another.
The problem with SEObsessive compulsive disorder is people can imagine a universe without Google …but they imagine it as an empty void. The concept of a content driven solution is simply not going to mean anything to these people. The concept of pull doesn’t mean anything when your whole universe is PUSH. And that is the problem.
I honestly don’t know how people don’t flag all my posts as just meaningless jumbles of nonsense words. That is really how I’d expect to look from this universal perspective. Nobody on the outside would, just because I say something like “Focus less on getting published and more on writing something worth publishing” imagines all print publishers just vanish off the face of the planet.
And it is not just me. When Matt Cutts suggests something not disimilar, you should see the expletives start flying.
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