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Web Spammers (Black at) already have a variety of rewriting applications based on Markov principles… this is nothing new and the tactic, I dare say, could be considered shady. There is absolutely nothing wrong with an article appearing on multiple sites. Between Article Marketing and Site Scrapers… it is VERY common. It is merely the site with the greatest trust, (authority) that gets credit for it.

Beyond that, I can’t imagine more than 50-100 article sites even worth submitting to… and that is over-kill IMO.

What people don’t seem to grasp at times is that merely throwing a bunch of links at something is not the end game here. It was 1-2 years ago, but no longer. Not to mention that all links weren’t created equal… a few hundred weak ones don’t mean squat if we get them from authority sites… so publishing a well thought out, well researched article, on the TOP industry/market news sites… is always a better idea anyways.

Article marketing, like directory subs, is one of the basics of link profile development, it is not an entire campaign….  Put out 1 per week on the top 20 or so sites… Make it good so there is hope for it reaching further distribution. Also try and get one per month onto a TOP News site…. Dats it… get on with other activities

kmott wrote:

waveshoppe/ thegypsy
points taken...I was just interested in finding out about this specific app and if it brought any results..link wise. My suspisions were tending towards what you guys are saying... Looks bleak..

I do publish regularly to ezinearticles .com which I consider a really good article directory - authority site? Probably have 150 live ones... I just wonder why none of the backlinks are indexed in google - most are indexed in yahoo.

I believe the quality of the majority of the articles I publish are pretty good based on views and CTR to landing pages on my sites.

Good points anyway... I'll refocus energy on targeting news sites..How about high pr blogs?

What's the market? ie; which industry, what's the conversion?

Since ezine I believe didn't start tracking url clicks to the stats until recently ( I could be wrong but I never noticed until a few months ago) not all my article stats are correct. For example one high traffic article I published (7-10-07) as of yesterday  has 9143 views, 1653 url clicks ..18% CTR  ,  industry is health / antioxidant. pretty sure this one is accurate. In other words many articles I published had history prior to implemnting url click tracking

Articles like these boost traffic but I've yet to see backlinks in google. Don't get me wrong... pinpointed targeted traffic is the ultimate goal so that's good...

back to the article spinning issue...

There are many unkowns to the jetsubmitter concept - how much traffic to these obscure directories really get? Many don't really have a robust search feature so finding a specific article may be more work than most want to go through.

The more I think about it the concept seems to be based on the more _ _ _ _ you throw against the wall somethings bound to stick.  Probably not the best marketing concept. But we'll see... I subscribed for 1 month.