SEO Tycoon

**epithet** · 06-13-2006, 04:19 AM

I've known that article submission is one great way to add traffic to your site but I have also known that press is another good one. What's the difference between the two? Which is more effective or more efficient in generating traffic?

Thanks.

epithet

**chrishirst** · 06-13-2006, 04:27 AM

neither or both

A press release is something newsworthy about your company

An article is something useful or an opinion you want to share with the world.

**starsearcher** · 06-13-2006, 05:57 AM

IMO, both of them are important. None of them should be taken lightly.

**etech-martin** · 06-13-2006, 09:28 AM

Out of the two I would say Article Submission. An article is an editorial piece and it's intended use is as a soft sell i.e to provide useful information and eventually a link back to a site/product/service. The target audience is the end user most of the time.

**dwirken** · 06-14-2006, 02:28 PM

go articles first..

if you wirte a press release about an empty site, no one would visit it

**ablaye** · 06-14-2006, 09:28 PM

Article submission is a smarter way to get people to visit your site.

**ChipJohns** · 06-18-2006, 05:45 AM

Article submissions are usually about the link. (Depending on were you are submitting the article of cousre.) They are great for getting pages indexed by search engines, and they may or may not give you a worthwhile backlink.

For traffic to your site, create content on your site that others will want to link to. This provides awesome backlinks and traffic from these sites.

Network with bloggers and get them to link to your site. Provide information they can use.

**astrojith** · 06-20-2006, 08:50 AM

Wont article submission make the articles in my site less unique ?? One more thing, I've seen morons who place the articles without the link in the bottom and bloggers who adopt them but have no pagerank. Those links are worthless. U have an objection ??

**SEO Madrid** · 06-20-2006, 10:56 AM

From a SEO perspective everything depends on how relevant and useful the PR or the article are. If nobody picks them up linking to you, they're pretty pointless. But if you write an article that becomes an authority and is linked from other relevant sites within your community, it can be a really powerful tool. The same, if you submit a PR into, for example, PRweb.com and pay $140 to place an anchor link, but nobody picks it up, you'll be kind of wasting your money, but if it's picked from lots of journalists or sites, you'll get a lot of good quality links almost for free.

**palconit** · 06-20-2006, 07:56 PM

For a readers point of view, a good Article always helps, but most of the time a reader would like to go to the resource site to read more interesting topics. Article without a link to your site may have no benifit in your site's backlink effort but at least you helped other people learn something.

If you are planning to write an Article to increase your backlink/PR, make sure you write it on high PR article sites.

**euk-damien** · 06-21-2006, 10:48 AM

I think article submission gives good results than press release.It helps in getting more traffic to your site and this results in high PR.

**netklick** · 06-27-2006, 09:08 PM

Both are important like many mentioned above. However, articles will drive traffic on a long term while a news release means a short term traffic. Articles will also give you back links from other sites. That will increase your page rank as well.

**kbtsup** · 01-31-2007, 11:00 AM

A good press release may spread your message very quickly across the net. Even if your PR is not picked up by human, some search engine will drive traffic to your site. Article submisson is great no doubt, but PR's dimenson is different.

**bzimage** · 02-01-2007, 07:20 PM

I have seen many threads like this as of late, both are useful and both should be done regardless of what type of site it is!

Bottom line, if you want to rank well, cover every area you can!

**ForrestCroce** · 02-01-2007, 07:23 PM

Personally, I would never issue a press release without having something newsworthy to say.

**bzimage** · 02-01-2007, 07:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ForrestCroce

Personally, I would never issue a press release without having something newsworthy to say.

Um, thats the point of a press release the last time I checked which was 5 seconds ago.....

**ADAM Web Design** · 02-01-2007, 07:54 PM

Hold up, theseokit. That comment wasn't directed to you specifically. It was a general comment, and there are a number of people who may be misled and think otherwise.

He's absolutely right, and you making smartass remarks like that isn't going to help anyone.

There are too many contrived "news events" that companies come up with these days for press purposes. Anyone watching the Super Bowl media coverage over the last few days will be able to attest to that (although I REALLY think I should have been Chunky Soup Man of the Year. I rock.)

So let's use the concepts for which they were originally intended.

**ForrestCroce** · 02-02-2007, 01:17 AM

I was replying to epithet, not theseokit. She asked which is the best way to get traffic ... and for 99 % of us, writing a good article that people will be interested to read is better than trying to fake a news event, and being ignored ( at best ).

If a print newspaper wouldn't cover something, you're probably better off finding a different way than press releases to hype a web site. And there's no shortage of ways for an enterprising webmaster to promote a site.

**astrojith** · 02-02-2007, 02:38 AM

Why would anyone use articles from directories ? Because, he's not good enough to make one on his own or he doesn't blog to genuinely help people. Chances are that, these blogs might be MDA(Made For Adsense) or spam sites where 100s of article from Article Directories are dumped like toilet paper.

So, aren't we loosing reputation ? We're also being in bad neighbourhood. And, what if that double crosser delete that link at the end ? We're contributing our effort to spamming and duplicate content. So, why not create good content and stop submitting to these beasts which're gonna break up the internet ?

**princess06** · 02-02-2007, 03:40 PM

Both Press Release and Article can give you traffic and one way links...

The difference between the two is that

An article is a non-fictional prose forming an independent part of a publication. An article is an ideal way of documenting a real life 'problem' and then providing a solution to the problem in the form of a case study. In this way people are then able to see what relevancy a service or product might be to them.

Press releases are official statements issued by companies and organizations to print, television and radio media. These press releases may be purely factual and address a specific issue or concern, or they may be more promotional in nature. Some press releases are generated in-house by authorized employees, while others are produced by outside public relations firms contracted by the company or organization.