A brief discussion on our success of posting articles to various article sites
Written on Thursday, October 12th, 2006 by lorien1973 :: more comments to this post
I’ve read some debate the past few days of the value of article submissions. I think the main focus of these discussions is misdirected. People, apparently, focus solely on the link value from your article. Many people seem to acknowledge the direct traffic you get from the articles. When doing anything online (these days especially), I think you should focus on traffic - not on links, not on PR. Traffic. It’s all it’s about.
Currently, I rank #2 on Search Warp for traffic driven to the site through my articles. Searchwarp also accounts for traffic, and direct sales to my websites as well. So providing information and content to other sites, helps me make sales to customers who many have missed me otherwise. Cost of creating an account and posting information. Zero. Price of getting customers you may have missed otherwise. Priceless. Searchwarp is actually my 10th largest referrer to one of my websites, sending me about 20,000 visitors every year.
There’s a lesson in here somewhere (I’m sure someone will help me out). Earlpearl, from the DP forums, brought it to my attention that I am #2 on Searchwarp. My submissions have slowed there due to lack of time, but I want to be #1, so I will definitely be putting more submissions there shortly.
I also got accepted as a writer to Buzzle the other day and will begin submitting articles there as well. The submission process is much the same, but the acceptance rate seems a little slower. My first article was approved there, and already has pageviews. If I can pull good traffic at Buzzle too (alongside the Searchwarp traffic), it will add 2 more avenues to getting traffic to my sites. One through the articles themselves and Buzzle’s natural traffic, the other through the SERPs Buzzle will possibly generate.
Since I have about 60 articles that I’ve written, but have not put online yet, there is a lot of work to be done, but in the end, it’ll help secure several venues for traffic that my sites could really use.
Now, if I could only secure a DMOZ editor position. I did apply a few months back (rejected because I submitted to a category that wasn’t narrow enough), so I may apply again. Who knows. Not sure if it’s worth it.
Small businesses are tough like that. Not enough people to handle all the work. Too controlling to hire someone to help. It’s a tough life.
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