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Submitting Articles
There are tons of places on the web where you can submit articles. In addition to
submitting them, if you provide an extremely compelling article with reprint rights,
you will find that it may just end up all over the web. I started writing articles when
Google changed its algorithm in Nov 2003. Within a month or two I had articles
appear on:
? SearchGuild (http://www.searchguild.com/
;
? SEO News Journal (http://www.seojournal.com
;
? Sticky Sauce (http://www.stickysauce.com/
;
? LilEngine (http://www.lilengine.com/
;
? Internet Search Engine Database (http://www.isedb.com/
;
? and many, many other search-specific websites.
When you write articles to submit to other sites, you may want to give them a
different version than the one you post to your site, so that you do not deal with
duplicate content issues.
Additionally, you can drive more targeted traffic to your site by reminding readers
that they can get the extended version of the article on your site.
Instead of submitting articles to a wide array of article databases it might prove
more effective to write an exclusive article for a highly respected and trusted blog
in your industry. If many people subscribe to your blog your name can spread
through your industry quickly.
Becoming an Authority
In addition to the above links, I have received links from sites I have never even
heard of, and I got linked to by the #1 search resource (SearchEngineWatch.com
.
A link from Search Engine Watch is not something I could have bought with piles
of cash, and it validates me as a search engine resource in the eyes of many SEOs
(as well as in the eyes of some search engines
. Danny Sullivan (the editor of
Search Engine Watch
is a well-trusted search engine information source.
Becoming the Resource
Danny Sullivan is known as the world?s greatest search engine resource. I could try
to become the same thing, but I would likely fail time and time again. That spot in
the web is already occupied.
I can however become one of the better blog authors about SEO. I also can have
one of the better e-books on the subject. It is worth focusing on an idea until you
can find one that has not already been taken, or something you will enjoy
competing at.