Every time someone from Google speaks, something sort of new spreads around, and real webmasters start to worry. They’ve just written an article like a day ago and now they read Google knocks article directories.
The same people that think Article Directories are no longer effective, which I am translating the phrase Google knocks article directories, are probably same ones who taught submitting same article to thousand article directories is useless. When there was the duplicate content theory.
So they just hear something, without experience or testing anything simple say what they wish to say. It’s not correct thing.
I’ve been doing same article submission techniques with minor changes only for 4 years. People accused me of doing it wrong when there was the duplicate content theory, but they simple did not know what this theory is.
You see, I still kept my rankings and increased, because when you submit the same article to thousand directories that’s not duplicate content.
I link to my website from each article, so these directories that are using same content from somewhere else are giving credit to me. They are not stealing articles, or copying them. In the eyes of spiders, they are simple recommending my article to their visitors, so the link in the bio makes all the difference.
So if you think submitting to article directories is not effective, that’s an advantage for seo’s who “get it”. Why? The less people who submit to article directories the better for us… our articles get approved faster, less articles to approve or reject. Your competitors will love you, because they are using a great method to get loads of one way links, while you are probably looking for the next best thing.
They outrank you easier. Article marketing has been the number one way to get one way links for years. The other important thing to mention is that Google did not say they are not effective, what they did say is that some article directories have no unique content. Means they simple have articles that are on other article directories. No unique content.
However, people translates that as Google knocks out article directories. So if you are a new seo, search engine optimizer, than make sure you don’t visit forums with no real seo experts. After all seo experts don’t give their best tips in forums, most of them make a ton of money from search engine traffic, and know that on forums most of the time you don’t find accurate information. It’s great to get tips, but more like a freebie way to learn.
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