Why You Should Focus On Quality Articles During Article Writing
Saturday, November 04, 2006
A lot of website owners are now aware of the fact that writing
articles and submitting them to major article directories like
EzineArticles, Isnare, and GoArticles can go a long way to
helping webmasters acquire one way links and get higher search
engine rankings.
I'm not going to deny that links from these directories help.
But getting links from them should not be the end goal; in fact
it should only be your initial goal.
What you should actually be striving to accomplish is having
your articles published on related websites. Those links look
far more impressive to search engines like Google. An example
to help clarify it for you - if you want to get a job as a
carpenter and on your resume you only have one reference - who
do you want, Bob Vila or the better known Michael Jordan. Bob
Vila, of course, because he's known for being in your industry.
The major mistake I see people making when writing articles or
hiring others to write their articles is that they're focusing
on quantity, trying to put out as many articles as possible or
hiring writers as cheaply as possible to mass produce articles.
That's a mistake - a MAJOR mistake.
It hurts you in multiple ways. First of all, real people read
articles on the major article directories. You'll get traffic
to your site just for having articles on these sites just from
people clicking your resource box links. However, if your
article is full or errors or unhelpful, they're not likely to
visit your site. On the other hand, if your article contained
information that was actually helpful to the reader, they're
far more likely to visit your site and spend their money there.
Second, if you're putting out low quality articles, other
webmasters are not going to want to republish your article on
their site. I've visited a lot of sites where people put
articles on them, and the good sites you desperately want the
links from are not using the articles you had written for $5
each from a writer in India. They're using the articles that
were written by people who are experts on their subjects or
articles that are clearly well thought out and written.
So do yourself a favor if you're in the business of using
articles to promote your site. Commit to only putting out
quality work and only hiring quality writers. Yes, you'll spend
more time writing, or more money on your writers, but try it for
six months and you'll be sending me a big thanks.
About The Author: Gary Ruplinger is an SEO expert who has
written a report to help website owners get their sites to the
top of search engines with a detailed step by step plan called
the Ultimate Traffic Blueprint - a completely Free link
building report - http://www.ultimatetrafficblueprint.com
posted by Dennis Cheesman @ 6:51 AM,
