Comments on: Mass Article Submissions Are Not Worth It…?

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 09:38:12 +0000

Hi Schecter,

Since I wrote this I have too found some value in even the newest of directories, I think anything in fresh content will have a positive impact on rankings.

By: Schecter

Schecter — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 04:50:07 +0000

Tim, I have found that part of what you are saying is true. Perhaps mass distributing is not worth it anymore and I believe that to be true because you end up getting a bunch of junk links that are bound to disappear later and eventually hurt your rankings. However I do not believe that you need PR5 or above article links to do well. I’ve found lower PR article directories that are just fine, provided that you backlink your articles in order to establish some link juice.

BTW, nice site and I’m bookmarking it (so you can get some “natural” links).

By: Multi Blogging

Multi Blogging — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:46:49 +0000

Hi Tim,.. thank you for sharing this article… I learn a lot about SEO, and backlink from this article…

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By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:01:26 +0000

Hi Alan,

Thanks for your input there.

I understand what you are saying about article quality, I have outsourced content creation before and safe to say my 5 year old could have done a better job. I also understand that quality control over every article is hard to do without a sizable budget. Thanks for letting people know you are willing to be flexible and I hope people get in touch.

By: Alan buchanan

Alan buchanan — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:39:21 +0000

Hi Guys,

Just noticed your post and discussion about article directories and in particular, nofollow.

Being the ownder of articlemonkeys i thought i would add my opinion. I was recently forced to add nofollow to the resource box links due to alot of poor quality articles affecting the ranking of the site and articles within the site.

So there needs to be a happy medium between wanting your article to rank well in the search engines and pull in traffic, or gain a do follow backlink.

However, i do not want to alientate good quality authors, which is why i would like to offer the chance for quality authors like yourself, the chance to make their resource box links do follow.

Please contact us via the site with your author account details and i will review your account for do follow.

I hope this helps us both out a bit.
Let me know your thoughts on this.

Alan

By: Jim Robinson

Jim Robinson — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:42:20 +0000

Thanks Tim, Understood.
I read some posts from a big discussion and criticisms about the “no follow” situation at Digital Point. And Talia —someone—, one of the Articlebase managers defended their policy and giving reasons to say it was justified. However, I have crossed them off my list.
Thanks, Jim.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:00:57 +0000

Hi Jim,

I apologise, they must have changed their policy recently. Yes nofollow in effect means ‘no point’, not for link building puposes anyway. Your better off starting with ezinearticles and goarticles. These are the ones I always used, I now use the tools I discussed, hence the over sight with article base. I wouldn’t bother submitting their save your articles for places where you are going to get a genuine link.

Sorry about that.

By: Jim Robinson

Jim Robinson — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:42:14 +0000

Hi Tim
you mention articlebase as one of the better directories to submit to, and in process of sending them I note that their links are “no follow”
does that mean what I think it means? That the links don’t lead back to your own target posts — which seems pointless, Could you clarify please.
Also I cannot find their instruction on how to form a link and anchor text etc, they are not accepting the conventional form, at least in the body, I haven’t got to the resource bio box yet.
Thanks, Jim Robinson.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:28:37 +0000

Jim,

I know what you mean and email, comment or whatever anytime to ask a question.