Submit articles : Is it worth it?

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Then you should contact YMC. She is the best content writer around

I have used her help many times not for articles, but for the content of my sites.

Now regarding digg, you can't say that an article worths or not. Digg is like lottery. You have to be lucky to get your link in the first page, there is nothing to do with quallity there (a quick view in their home page will easilly convince you....)

Then you should contact YMC. She is the best content writer around

I have used her help many times not for articles, but for the content of my sites.

  

Between the webmaster forums and writing forums I look at, it would seem that this is a hot topic on all of them. Debate is whether in the long run it would be more effective to put the content on your own site rather than on one of the article sites. On the webmaster forums the opinions seem rather split. The writing forums have a more decided opinion on keeping it on your own site, but admit sometimes article directories can be effective.

My opinion (based on observation, not proven by testing) is that writing an article for someone else's blog or website directly with a cross promotion or payment agreement has a better return for article writers because:

1. You know who is using the article.
2. You know the bio & links will remain intact.
3. You eliminate dup content issues.
4. You lessen the chance of the article being ripped and used by the auto content generator folks.

I have seen several conversations on Digg as well. General consensus is it's great for hits but not conversions with the exceptions of forums, directories, and to a lesser extent other article sites.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the most important aspect of article submissions....backlinks to tier 2 pages.  How it works is that the link you have to your page at the bottom is NOT your website name.  You may add that link too, but hte important one is the exact page you are trying to rank higher for in the search engines.  The article you submit needs to contain anchor text the same or similar to the page name.  So if the page you want to rank higher is "brown dogs" then you say Bill is the author of dogs.com, which contains the related article brown dogs (which in anchor text).  You'll find that your brown dogs page jumps in ranking after a few people link back.

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I'm surprised no one has mentioned the most important aspect of article submissions....backlinks to tier 2 pages.  How it works is that the link you have to your page at the bottom is NOT your website name.  You may add that link too, but hte important one is the exact page you are trying to rank higher for in the search engines.  The article you submit needs to contain anchor text the same or similar to the page name.  So if the page you want to rank higher is "brown dogs" then you say Bill is the author of dogs.com, which contains the related article brown dogs (which in anchor text).  You'll find that your brown dogs page jumps in ranking after a few people link back.

That's a very good point, but I start thinking that google don't give weight to links that coming from duplicated web pages.

So I guess this will work best if you submit your article to a small ammount of directories, or if you have some extra time to submit different versions of your article....

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