Creating Free Reprint Articles

How many different sites do you submit to?

[Jane_Doe]

Just curious, but for those of you who write articles for links and advertising your sites, how many places do you usually submit your articles to?

If you don't have the same article on your site, do you think there are any drawbacks, either now or possibly in the future, to submitting the same article to lots of different directories and other sites that accept guest submissions, like twenty or more?

[Quadrille]

Most article farms exist on the false basis that search engines will somehow value the links at the foot of the article. Very, very few article farms have many real human readers (look at some of the stuff they publish, and the reason is rather obvious).

There are,of course, exceptions. And if you can find one or two that may give you referrals, good luck to you.

If you think there are twenty or more, you may, however, need psychiatric help ;)

Content, for most people, with most sites, works best - by far - on your own site.

No duplicate content issues, no free gifts of content to other webmasters with nil in return, no dreaming of floods of visitors who never come.

Put that effort and investment into your own site.

[Jane_Doe]

There are,of course, exceptions. And if you can find one or two that may give you referrals, good luck to you.

I've actually had my articles picked up by many of the top sites in my niche. I get tons of referrals from my articles from those sites, as well as from newsletters and ezines.

I suspect one's degree of success with reprints depends a lot on the niche and the author's writing style. For example, I try to write helpful and friendly articles that are not condescending to their intended audience. :)

[edited by: Jane_Doe at 3:10 pm (utc) on July 18, 2007]

[Quadrille]

I'm sure you are right; a quality author stands head and shoulders above the average 'cut, paste and plagiarise stuff' that most farms are full of.

Are you sure, however, that your skills would not do you more good working for your site, instead of others?

[JohnRoy]

You still need to get the referrals.
If you put 10-20% of your content on other' sites, your exposure is enlarged.

[bostons4u]

I get tons of traffic from articles and good page ranking. When I started submitting articles for one of my websites I was ranked at number 5 within about 2 weeks. Lots of one way backlinks. I submit to only the high rankiing sites.

I pull articles not from those sites because everyone is using them, I pull articles from sites past 11-20