What are some of the sites where we can submit articles? I used to know of a good one, but that was some time ago. I'd like to start using them again.

Thanks

Keith

As of the time of this writing here are the 2 best places to submit articles to:

Ezinearticles.com
Goarticles.com

These article directories are considered authority websites. These types of sites are trusted by Google. These directories have human editors that read and approval articles worthy of being on their website. Google knows that and as such those article, if keyword is utilized properly will hit the top of that ranks for that keyword.

Make sure your article is optimize for one main keyword like "Buying a house in Tulsa". Try to use the keyword for every 100 words in the article and make sure your articles are 500 words, for SEO purposes. Works for me!

If you back link the articles your rankings position increase and are more stable.

Great topic and information on this thread. Thanks everyone!

Not sure anyone referenced it above, but I thought I'd suggest a service that helps avoid the "duplicate content" issue. There's a service called Unique Article Wizard (no affiliation!) that will spin your article in such a way that you're actually submitting your article to hundreds of sites, just like Chris' "article marketer" but as a different article each time. I'll let you do the research, I'm not trying to sell anything. Just wanted to chime in with an alternative I've seen work for my business.

Unique article wizard is very good and it definitely gives you unique content. I have used it to achieve top rankings for some websites. And as of a year later those sites are still ranking high.

Here is my recommendation with UAW. If you have only one website you want to promote and have 3-5 hours a week minimum to dedicate to article marketing here is what you can expect.

Once you have your article, the plan on spending at least one hour at the UAW website doing their secret technique to making your main article into hundreds of different articles. Depending on your category (s) you should get 60 - 300 links per article, over time.

Interesting idea Chris, I would try it. Good luck!

Don't worry about Google slapping you for duplicate content. If they did this then people would be submitting hundreds of back-links to their competitors sites so they would be penalized by Google.

I believe Google will only penalize you for your own website and what is on it as this is the only place online where the owner of the website has complete control.

All the best!

Jeff

Just to clarify, you do not get a penalty for duplicate content. If there was such a thing you could ruin all of your competitors. You merely do not get any credit. Its like Google ignores you!

thanks for the great info, chris... it's certainly informative when paired with hard numbers....

thanks for all the great insight. i dont understand th pr1 and pr0 thing though. can someone plz explain this, thx

Chris, PR refers to PageRank. PR is from 0 to 10, from lowest to highest. As a local real estate site, your rank will vary from 0 to 6 or so, depending the age of the domain, quality of content on your site, and the use of white-hat SEO techniques. Getting backlinks from trusted sites with a high PR help you much more than lower PR sites. I hope that answered your question.

Great info in this thread. Thanks.

Great insight on backlinks! Nice to see some real numbers from testing.
Much appreciated. :rockon:

Josh Sanders
Founder, Shiloh Street University

Thanks everyone, I have picked up a lot of good info from this thread. The bottom line is that this stuff requires a lot of thought and long term commitment. Either that or a willingness to pay someone to do it for you.

For now I am not too busy to do it myself. Maybe when I have a good sound grasp of the how to part, paying someone else to do it and supervising the work will be more practical. I have an idea that paying someone to get you well positioned on the search engines and then keeping you there would not be cheap!

Thanks for this information Chris. I will for sure check this out.