All Entries in the "Article Submissions" Category

Does Google Have A Duplicate Content Penalty?

There is still some confusion about Google’s duplicate content penalty. The truth is there is no such penalty. Google’s policy states that it will index the first instance of specific content on the web, but not the same content at multiple websites. What that means is if you submit your article to 100 article directories then Google will pick one of those directories as the original content location and not index all 99 instances of the same article.

Google says it will index the first publication of the same content, but that isn’t exactly accurate either. If you submit your article to 100 directories on the same day at the same time through a mass submission process then Google may make a good faith effort to find the original, or first published, article but its robot will not be able to discern small time nuances in the submittal process. It is likely that Google will give favor to the article directories that it considers higher authority websites, but that’s just my opinion. Still, Google’s policy is to index one instance of a particular content and to discount all the others. That’s different than imposing a penalty.

Even then, if that article is held in 100 different directories, you stand a much better chance of having it picked up by other publishers than you do if you list it in only one directory. Plus, other search engines may list each article that it finds online regardless of whether or not it exists on a separate website so submitting your articles to multiple directories is always a wise choice.

AssistantForRealEstate – Article Marketer Extraordinaire

Kandra Hamric of AssistantForRealEstate has been an advocate of article marketing for a long time. Her article submissions package for real estate agents is a great service and one that we think is an absolute necessity for professionals in the real estate business. Article do several things for real estate marketers who seriously make an effort to use them:

• They positively affect your reputation
• Establish you as an authority in your field
• Drive traffic to your website
• Build links into your website, which translates into higher search engine rankings
• Gets you widely published and an acknowledged expert

Kandra knows what successful article marketers know: Article marketing is one of the most important ways to market your business online. AssistantForRealEstate can teach real estate agents how to market with articles.

Article Marketing Through Newsletters

Just like writing articles exclusively for websites that you admire, you can write exclusive content for newsletters too. In fact, there is no better way to advertise your business than through newsletters. E-mail marketing is still the No. 1 Internet marketing tool in the world. Why? Because almost everyone has e-mail by now. Even people who do not spend 10 hours online in any given week have an e-mail account, and they will sign up to receive by e-mail a newsletter that produces content within their area of interest.

If you have an interest in marketing your business through newsletters you should consider article marketing. Here’s how you do it:

• Write an article between 300-500 words (some newsletters will accept articles up to 700 words, but shorter is better)
• Optimize your article well for one keyword
• Find a newsletter that services your niche and send your article to the editor of that newsletter asking if he’ll publish it
• If rejected, target your article to another newsletter within your niche
• Keep sending out the article to one newsletter editor at a time until it is accepted for publication
• IMPORTANT NOTE: Make sure that you give each newsletter editor ample time to make a decision; usually, 3-6 weeks is enough.

Article marketing is still one of the best ways to promote any business. Writing exclusive article content for a newsletter within your niche is a powerful way to market your business.

Article Marketing Mistakes You Don’t Want To Make

Here’s a great article on article marketing from an article marketing pro. You’ll do well to follow this advice.

7 Most Common Article Marketing Mistakes Made by New Marketers

By: Gen Wright

Although article marketing is one of the easiest traffic generation method to understand and implement, it can also be a total time waster if done incorrectly. That is because article directories will be rejecting the articles, and time that was spent writing and submitting the articles would have been wasted. Here are some of the most common mistakes that I have come across as a practictioner of article marketing.

One, the article title is too general. This is the first thing that the readers will see, and if they cannot determine if the article has exactly what they want to read, they will not click on the link and read the article. Besides, it is getting harder and harder to rank for general terms. So it’s definitely better to have something more specific in the article title. For example, instead of saying “Search engine optimization services”, choose something like “5 unique search engine optimization tips for new and advanced marketers.” The second title certainly sounds more appealing and communicates directly with new and advanced Internet marketers.

Second, the article title contains keywords that are too common. This is somewhat similar to the first mistake above, except that although the title has more specific details, it’s still too common. One such example is “Tips for Internet Marketing”. There is nothing wrong with such a title, except that these titles would have been chosen by several hundreds of article marketers already. And most article directories are setup to accept only unique article titles. So the article will most likely be rejected during submission.

Third, the article summary is too short. Some article marketers submit articles with summaries that are less than a hundred characters. A few established directories reject summaries that are less than a hundred characters. So it is a good idea to write at least three or four sentences for the article summary.

Fourth, the article summary is the first sentence of the article. This is the wrong thing to do as well. The summary should not be the first sentence of the article. Instead, it should capture the essence or the most interesting parts of the article to catch more eyeballs and entice the reader to finish reading the entire article.

Fifth, the article body contains too much self promotional material. Self promotional material means blatantly promoting the author’s own services, or including the URLs in the article body. For instance, the author writes about the features of his products and services without additional useful information. To avoid this mistake, try writing from a third party point of view. Write as if you are the reporter, and provide some useful information. Also avoid including URLs in the article body.

Sixth, more than two links are included in the article resource box. Most article marketers are not aware that a handful of established directories accept a maximum of two links only. So their articles will be declined outright. To get around this, rotate the resource boxes during submission, but all the time keeping the maximum number of links to two.

Seventh, the links do not contain anchor keywords. Part of the benefit of article marketing is that you will get better search engine rankings from your efforts. But if the wrong anchor texts are used in the links, your rankings will not improve. So instead of using a direct URL in your link, try to use texts that describe your products or services in the links.

If you can avoid the seven mistakes mentioned above, you will see tremendous success in your campaigns.

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The Only Article Submitter You’ll Ever Need

One doesn’t have to go far to see the article submission software being touted by today’s gurus. There are times when you see more of them and times when you see less of them. Every now and then you see a surge in the article submission software market as gurus come in out of the woodwork to sell their latest (or the software that was the latest in 1999).

For the most part, I don’t recommend article submission software. You are likely to get something doesn’t really help you. But there is an online article submission service that does a great job. It’s call iSnare.

iSnare charges $2 per submission and sends your article out to thousands of websites and directories at one time. The downside to using iSnare is that you can’t track your article. Once it goes through the loop it’s out there and you’ve lost control. But for $2, you get fast submission to a lot of websites. If you want to track your article then I’d suggest signing up for one of the popular article directories and manually submitting your article through them. Then you can track views, uses, etc. Otherwise, iSnare is about the best article submission service you’ll find.