Article Submission

[SpadaMan]

I would like to know the best places to submit articles. Free would always be best; but I not against paying if required. We launched a site within the "Home and Garden" industry and have tonnes of into to share.

[Giorgio68]

Hey Mat

Interesting response you've written.

It appears that Post Panda, Google has cracked down on article submissions i.e. not giving much value at all?

So would you agree, that one is better off writing an article and posting it in their own blog, and in their own social media pages?

Cheers

George

[AymanH]

Matt is right on this.

Some years you may have tried to look for satellite websites or more. Now it's definitely not recommended.

In our case we reviewed all our competitors backlinks to see if there is any good website to do guest blogging with.

But the main guideline is now is: write content, make it good and useful, promote it on social media.

It is the best methods (at least the 7/30/13)

[matbennett]

Hi SpadaMan,

Submitting articles usually means finding sites that only existing to host other people's articles, giving them a link in exchange for the article content.  That approach has always been flawed and Google has been cracking down on it as deliberate manipulation of the results.  Definitely steer clear.

If your articles are original and useful then your best bet is likely to be to use them on your own website.  Start adding them on a regular basis, and push them out through social media at the same time.  You could contact sites in your niche and see if they would take a and credit you as the author (with a link) as well.

If they aren't original and interesting/useful then your options are going to be limited.  However I'd rather opt for "do nothing" than submitting them to article directories.