ezinearticles.com...not a good idea?

coosbaytv · #1 (**permalink**) 05-04-2009, 09:12 PM

I think I remember reading somewhere that it is NOT a good idea to post content to both ezinearticles.com and your blog or own site.

Anybody have any thoughts on this?

TIA

lisa · #2 (**permalink**) 05-04-2009, 09:23 PM

I agree. I would never post the same article on your blog/site to ezinearticles because your blog/site could be penalized for duplicate content. If you are going to post to article directories, I would change the article significantly.

coosbaytv · #3 (**permalink**) 05-04-2009, 09:38 PM

OK, so there is obviously a real reason on this.

On a similar idea, I made a blog post today that was the first 3 paragraphs of an entire article I wrote to put on one of my websites.

In the blog post, at the end of what I posted, I put "Read the entire article here". The Here is a link to the other site.

So, did I just kinda screw myself as far as Google is concerned?

If you didn't follow that, the blog is here and the full article is here.

My thought was that blogs do better than a static site in SEO, so I thought it would help to drive some traffic to the actual site from the blog.

Back to the topic of ezinearticles.com; is there a lot more to adding this as a tool to drive traffic to your sites because you are having to do that much more writing? What about sending a text article to ezinearticles and posting an audio of video version to your own site of the same content?

Just thinking about some new options...

bluefox · #4 (**permalink**) 05-08-2009, 02:41 AM

I agree, whatever you post to Ezine you should view as potential 'viral' content and use this content for long term backlinks.

When you think about it, if you create a killer article. The original goes to Ezine and then if it is actually 'killer' loads of people will copy it.

In the words of The Highlander, there can be only one!

If you are going to write articles to put on Ezine, use some pre-thought and make it different than any post or any impending post.

Design an ezine article for it's specific purpose, and that is to provide all the lazy people with content who don' really appreciate the curse of duplicate content.

Although it is tempting to use a great article as a post, the all seeing eye 'Google' will notice and although it might seem like your scoring a free lunch, you won't be really!

wgcool · #5 (**permalink**) 05-11-2009, 12:29 AM

You should either publish an article in ezine or your person blog to get benefited. You can submit your article in multiple article submission sites for this purpose and you will not be penalized for it.

ATT-Ken · #6 (**permalink**) 05-13-2009, 10:07 AM

Oh.. cripes.. you mean I can't submit the same articles on my website to those other places??

Man.. that knocks out a lot of the genuine content on my website..

Crap.. I need to rethink my battle plan..

makecashnow · #7 (**permalink**) 05-14-2009, 08:36 AM

You should rewrite the article you submitted and include a reference and link to that article, many people I know from warrior forum do this and they swear it helps increase the value of the article.

Another trick they do is submit similar articles to other directories with a link to their Ezine article.

aquapearl · #8 (**permalink**) 05-25-2009, 01:11 AM

Always Write unique and fresh content for your site and blogs ... And for other services where you are going to promote your site , write separate articles , no matter its Ezinearticle , goarticles, hubpages or Squidoo lens ...

wgcool · #9 (**permalink**) 05-26-2009, 03:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ATT-Ken

Oh.. cripes.. you mean I can't submit the same articles on my website to those other places??

Man.. that knocks out a lot of the genuine content on my website..

Crap.. I need to rethink my battle plan..

I said it would be better for you if you post a genuine article in ezine because in most of the cases they discarded duplicate articles. But this is not the case with the other search engine optimization websites.

William Wilson · #10 (**permalink**) 05-27-2009, 04:45 AM

I can see your dilemma...I believe you should post a fresh article...one that is not already present anywhere else...Just continue to write for today...and keep at it...good luck...William Wilson

ForexTrain · #11 (**permalink**) 05-27-2009, 08:18 AM

I have heard that if you are the first site that google finds with the article, then you are the perceived owner.

I'm not sure if that is correct - it's what I've heard.

jackies35 · #12 (**permalink**) 07-11-2009, 09:17 AM

Wow! This is so interesting. I just published an article on ezinearticle.com. I had never done it before and I was approved. Now, for my website and blog, I started to post the same article thinking "no one is going to see it on ezinearticle". Well, thank God I did not.

Now, I am able to add one of these special buttons on my website to show that my article have been featured on EzineArticle.

Do i really need to publish 10 articles in 30 days? What happens if I decide I don't want to? If I continue to do so, that's more data, content, and ideas taken away from building my "rich content website". What do you think?

bluefox · #13 (**permalink**) 07-11-2009, 09:51 AM

You can rewrite a great article and use it as a post as long as you mix it up enough so Google won't notice notice.
I have done it a few times without issue.

In fact you can duplicate content, but the content loses it's Google Search potency the second time around, so if you can avoid using a submitted article as is on your blog it's much better.
You can submit your article to multiple directories but the same applies, the first submission will carry far more weight with Google.

I have an article in a top 3-5 position on Google.
It takes a bit of practice to write really good articles, but when you write a good one you sure know about it. Things go absolutely crazy!

A top tip when writing articles is experiment with Titles, as you can have a killer article but if your Title stinks no one is going to stop to read the first line of your article.
Look at other peoples articles, especially article writers with 100's of articles and how they arrange their titles.

Even 'after' you have submitted your article, if your article isn't doing as well as you think it should you can change the title. Don't be afraid of doing this! It doesn't take that long for Ezine to give it the once over if you have submitted an article, had it approved and then altered it.

With the new title you can then see if there's an improvement in views.
When you have written a good number of articles you start to get a better 'feel' of of title arrangement draws people to read your article.

Another trick I do is after my article has been on the directory for a while I plug my article 'title' into Google search. Google will show my article at the top 'of course' and anything below is the people who have copied my article onto their Blog as a post.

Very sneaky Black Voodoo stuff!

You can then give those people a hard time 'on their blog', who have copied your article but not kept your link intact! (Some people do it!)
These days I only submit articles to Ezine, Google seems to give Ezine a lot more weight than any of the other directories.

Apart from traffic and SEO, article marketing is a great way to develop your writing skills.

Happy Writing!

John

ForexTrain · #14 (**permalink**) 07-11-2009, 10:47 AM

You can write as many or few articles as you wish.

If you begin to see results from your articles you should of course continue. If you want to balance your own site content articles with outside articles, I'd suggest a 2 to 1 ratio. Two articles for your site and 1 for ezines.

Or, whatever ratio you feel comfortable with.

lkpub · #15 (**permalink**) 07-14-2009, 12:31 PM

Interesting post on Google about duplicate content:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...-scrapers.html

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