If you are doing article submission using same articles you’ve posted on your website here’s what I found out to work best.
First of all you can write articles and put them on your website. Then do not submit them to directories the same day. Submit the next day. Plus if you put them on a blog ping the blog. Here’s a little known secret, ping also the page your article is on. You can ping pages, not just a blog. A blog consists of pages as well. Pinging tells spiders to come visit the page because there’s something new on it.
You want spiders to see the article on your website first, not on article directories first. So it’s sort of becomes your property.
If you post it in article directories same day, spiders see the same article on several sites – they simple choose who they think the real owner of article is, and that page will get the most benefit.
So you want to be known as the real owner, so wait a day and ping blog if you placed it on a blog. If not a blog make sure you still wait a day before submission and make also sure your site structuring is well. So it should be easy to navigate from homepage to the page your article is on.
Not saying link to page from homepage, but if it’s an article create a folder called articles and link to it from homepage or some prominent page and put on that page links to your articles. Make it easy, and to get this right put yourself in the shoes of your visitor. How does it feel navigating your website. If it’s feels good spiders will find it good too 99 percent of the time, if it’s bad means confusing for example than spiders too will get a bit confused.
So this is how to make sure your blog posts or articles pages get indexed and sometimes very fast. Avoid allowing spiders to see your article as a copy, let them see your article first. This will eliminate the chance of your page taking longer to get indexed. I also always link back from bio of articles to the site I’ve have my article on. So the article directories give credit to my website, the site where the original article is on. That spiders see my article is the original copy and the article directories as sites recommending my article.
If article directories do not link back to your website, they are not giving credit to the original article. Sometimes it hurts them for duplicate content, because it’s stealing content without giving credit to the appropriate site.
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