There are a few article directories that I use to get links to Paycheck Blogging. Namely, they are EzineArticles.com, GoArticles.com, Buzzle.com, and ArticleDashboard.com. I use these article directories for my niche sites as well, however I must say that I am trying a different article writing strategy for this site.
When I write an article for a random niche site, I do it for the links primarily. An article at Ezine for instance might get a handful of visitors in the first couple of days after I post it and sometimes this results in some adsense clicks and a few bucks. But honestly I don’t write clever articles or resource boxes that beg the person to click through. I figure that the people reading articles about some niche topic, say above ground pool filters, are internet marketers for the most part and not really people on Ezine looking for information about the topic. So I write articles that are just barely good enough to be published, 250-300 word snippets that are anything but gripping.
Like I said, I am writing the article for the links not traffic. But this site is in perhaps the most social of niches as it is about how to make money online. There are lots of people on EzineArticles actually looking for information on how to make money online and there are people who have crap sites about this topic actually looking for content to put on their sites. It occurred to me that if I write articles that are a bit better than the crap that I write for niche sites that some of those articles might be picked up and I could get a lot more links.
This has already happened to a degree and it has me thinking. To date, I have published eight articles on Ezines and another handful on the other article directories. I am getting a trickle of traffic from other domains which have republished those articles on their own sites. Now, I must imagine that these are not very good links at all. But, they are still links and I find myself in a new position.
You see, rarely was anyone picking up my articles about above ground pool filters. But people do seem to be picking up these articles on making money online and I can write a decent 500-800 word article on the topic. It strikes me that I will be far better served by writing the best content that I can for the article directories. Usually, I will write no more than 10 articles for a given niche site because everything that I read suggests diminishing returns for links from the same domain. However, if I am able to get more websites to publish my stuff then I may just writewritewrite as it will continue to do me some good. I think.
Currently, Yahoo shows 15 links for this domain. I think I will try to write a good article for EZA a day and see how many links those articles generate for me over the course of a couple of months. Again, I don’t know that they will really do me all that much good as they will be duplicate content links, but I’d like to see what happens.
Out.