Publishing Free Articles on Your Blog
- Filed under: Getting Traffic
- Date: Dec 5,2008
What do you mean by ‘Free Articles’ ?
Authors submit their writings to free article directories to build up their reputation and link backs to their website. Any website can republish these articles by abiding to creative commons rules and keeping any links intact.
Instead of writing your own content you can simply publish free articles to keep your readers entertained. There are some pros and cons however as the easiest path to blogging fame may not be the best. So, where to get these mass published prints…
Free Article Directories
There has been massive growth of article directories on the internet. This is because they like to generate revenue by using Google AdSense and uploaded content from enthusiastic free article writers.
Free articles serve the author by sending specific traffic back to their website. This is effectively achieved by attaching an intriguing signature or author bio at the bottom of the article. As free online newsletter editors search for monthly content, new blogs seek relevant texts, author bio links grow as their free articles are republished. Google then scans these blogs, newsletters, article directories which all point back to the authors PageRank effectively pushing up the author website in Google Search results.
Top 3 Article Directories
1) Ezine Articles
- URL: http://www.ezinearticles.com
- Google PageRank: 6/10 (higher the better)
- Alexa Traffic Rank: 262 (lower the better)
- Incoming Google Links: 2,010
- Incoming Yahoo Links: 857,112
- Overall Incoming Links: 1,128,710 (Estimated 558,433 unique links)
- Outgoing Links: 681
- Accurate as of: November 16th, 2008
2) Go Articles
- URL: http://www.goarticles.com
- Google PageRank: 6/10
- Alexa Traffic Rank: 32,258
- Incoming Google Links: 1,160
- Incoming Yahoo Links: 155,863
- Incoming MSN Links: 0
- Overall Incoming Links: 161,098 (Estimated 102,065 unique links)
- Outgoing Links: 488
- Accurate as of: November 8th, 2008
3) Article Dashboard
- URL: http://www.articledashboard.com
- Google PageRank: 5/10
- Alexa Traffic Rank: 39,508
- Incoming Google Links: 1,320
- Incoming Yahoo Links: 2,873,481
- Overall Incoming Links: 3,594,356 (Estimated 1,868,624 unique links)
- Outgoing Links: 284
- Accurate as of: November 13th, 2008
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Advantages of Publishing Free Articles on Your Blog
- Free Unlimited Content – With persistance you find the odd gem article to bring readers to your site.
- Saves Time – Find a free article in a directory and publish it leaving links intact. It’s that easy.
Disadvantages of Publishing Free Articles on Your Blog
- Spam Content – Google notices if you publish duplicate content which effectively spams the blogosphere hence lowering your blogs impression to the all powerful Google rankings. Keep your content unique to keep Google on your side.
- You are a Wordsmith – Readers may be attracted/connected/drawn to your voice on your blog so by posting other peoples work you are contributing to your own blogs self destruction
- The Other Guy Wins – You are promoting the free article authors website not yours
Want more? Try the following
Try this list of 850+ article directories updated March 2007 (check comments for new dirs). A streamlined list of 200+ article directories with a view and submit link for each site.
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