The Other Search Engines

**ajcones** · 06-30-2008, 05:20 AM

You can get traffic on article if more people like it.

**northbeach23** · 06-30-2008, 06:35 AM

Its better to do blog commenting rather than wrote an article for their site

**2fk** · 06-30-2008, 09:58 AM

Article submission can help in having decent traffic but not that big..It can help in order to gain quality backlinks for the site which will help in having a good PR due to SE's consider this article submission sites as a spam free because this sites are moderated...

**ezwoodz** · 07-08-2008, 08:26 AM

of course, absolutely, article submissions helps to get traffic, as long as you have some hyperlinks on the body and to your resource box.

**igniz** · 07-09-2008, 10:46 PM

articles are useful in gaining traffic but it depends on the content. articles vs blogs? best option.... answer: blog

peace

**jv17** · 07-16-2008, 09:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bbmm1980

If your contect is good , this article will helps you to increase web traffic for your website.

gotta agree on this, well said actually i was about to say this...

**EdTheil** · 07-29-2008, 09:41 PM

Content Content Content
Don't cover to much info in your article and leave the reader wanting more.
Along with an interesting signature and informative needed reader content an article will greatly increase your traffic for months to come.

**eautocad** · 02:23 AM

It's all about content, timing, how your website interacts with the PR, and choosing the right PR service.

Nail all of these on the head, and you'll win. I suggest PRweb.com because they have the widest spread. Costly, but effective. Expect to spend $800-$1000 for your article to be EVERYWHERE.... Be sure to include marketwire option ($$$) because this is what all stock market people use, and they FEED on PR's... Quick idea, "facilitate stock market somehow and announce it in a timely fashion with appropriate content and the right setup website and you should make money"

anyways

This doesn't mean editors will choose to publish it, but if you pick the right content at the right time, they will. You have to read what the public eye is on, and facilitate that within appropriate time.

You can drive traffic and increase pagerank, but you must satisfy the above.

**john_opwin** · 08-18-2008, 06:36 AM

I agree with X3mario article submission helps to get traffic as well as to improve page rank.

**Mickael_law** · 08-18-2008, 08:05 AM

Not only page ranking it also helps you to increase page traffic.

**barbie15** · 08-20-2008, 03:40 AM

I think it one source of backlinks..

**austinwells** · 08-27-2008, 05:52 AM

Yes ofcourse if you submitted your site in to good articles directory like Ezinearticles.com, articlesbase.com, Articlesboard.com etc.,

**greenbanana** · 08-28-2008, 05:07 AM

Yeah, article submission can help increase page traffic

**ajcones** · 09-01-2008, 02:43 AM

But not in all time and it's only a few.

**domainnew** · 09-04-2008, 03:19 AM

I agree with Djura, article submission is counted as back links. if you post good articles in good sites then it will gain traffic for your site .

**sivaji** · 09-12-2008, 03:44 PM

ya ... it obviously increases the traffic

**bakerc** · 09:24 PM

I dont claim to be an expert (because I'm not) but...

I tried this over a number of months (6+ months), I wrote a number of articles and monitored the benefits (I have deleted a number of them from the article sites as they were getting better rankings than my own pages!)

...This is what I found.

Backlinks...
If people syndicate from an online article they will tend to link to the main article site and not include the author bio, the links I placed in the body of the article were removed on syndication by the site owners (not the article sites).
Article sites (the "quality" ones, if there is such a thing) wont let you place a link above the fold and the majority of sites/blogs synicating will only copy the 1st couple of paragraphs (if that) then link back to the article site.

The articles I wrote BTW were heavily syndicated and got plenty of views so must have been half decent.

So IMHO if your writing quality articles and submitting them to article directories you are gifting competitors site content that may have more weight than the original as far as search engine results go.

Traffic...

I did not have 1 decent referral from an article, I did have referalls showing in analytics but none that ever converted which is what counts, by that I mean none of them submitted an enquiry, traffic from normal SE sources do.

Try it yourself, if you write an article waite a couple of weeks then put the article title in google with " " and see all the sites benefiting from your article, I can bet that most if not all will link back to the article site (if they include any link at all).

Put the article on your own site, submitting articles for the sake of backlinks are a waste of time, submitting articles for the sake of traffic will work for the article site (not yours). Putting the content on your site will benefit your site.

There was also comments about using a pr firm to submit your articles, why? if you must submit articles then submit them to the larger article sites, they will put the article all over the web anyway, but you wont benefit from it because of the stuff mentioned above.

Also, just a note but there are a lot of people on here giving good advice from years of experience (I do not include myself in that statement BTW) and their comments and/or suggestions regarding this stuff are completely ignored by other so called SEO experts who are comming out with stuff that makes me cringe
- half of the stuff people have mentioned in this thread will more than likely make new people (including myself if I didn't know better) give up web development altogether if they follow the advice given as they will yield no results other than RSI and a headache from banging their head against the wall wondering why things aren't happening for them.

Thats my 2 cents anyway.

**blockade** · 09-15-2008, 06:13 AM

I agree that articles can help increase page traffic but I think it also depends on the content of the article

**full house** · 10-14-2008, 02:12 AM

experience wise, I don't think it gives traffic but back links.

**hubertthefly** · 10-25-2008, 01:33 AM

Well, of course there's conflicting opinions from both sides here, but I'll say this if it's worth anything to you.

Writing articles should absolutely NOT be about getting traffic, if you're hoping to get backlinks AND traffic, then you're not focused enough with your SEO strategies. If you want traffic from Google, then focus on backlinks only, and the traffic will come when you increase in the SERPs. If you want traffic via clickity clicks then do social bookmarking.

Article marketing can and does help your SERP rankings via the backlinks you get, however, like with all SEO strategies, it takes time. You cannot assess how well an article has effected your SEO rankings after a random 2 week test. In fact, in my experience, it takes a number of months before you start to see any real benefit.

Why is this? It's because Google does not really value low quality links that have been around for about a day. If however you get yourself 500 low quality links that have been around for 6 months, then they give a minute amount of link juices, which when multiplied by 500, will increase your rankings provided you did things correctly (includes long tail keywords in your articles and varied the pages they were linking to, the more diverse your deep linking the better).

If your rankings fluctuate, do not worry. You cannot be penalized by another website linking to you. Short term you will notice things similar to penalization, however this is rather Google judging the quality of the links causing your rankings to fluctuate, not the links themselves being any "bad vote". If this was possible then everyone would be submitting duplicate content articles with a link to their competitors websites.

If you're unsure of what to do, experiment a little. I've learnt the most valuable lesson in SEO is to do things for yourself. You'll find conflicting advice from all leading experts on anything that has to do with off-page optimization, simple as that.