Articles

[logan9497]

I have a quick question for anyone out there. I have a client that has written a number of articles about certain medical procedures(he is a dentist). I am thinking of creating these articles into simple HTML pages and establishing a link to his website on the article. I want to know if this will help his ranking?

[gobeyond]

Not clear where you are going to post these articles, on his site or someone else's site? Either way, it will help, assuming these articles have a lot of relevant keywords. Likely they will help more if you post some of the articles on his site and some on other sites with links pointing to his site.

[Robert_Charlton]

logan - It's my feeling that syndicated articles are of limited usefulness. Basically, they're dupe content, and that raises a bunch of questions. See my comments about this on these threads....

Subscribing to article directories to create back links
http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=12793

LIST OF ARTICLE SITES - Submit articles for high SE ranking
http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?p=66774

[Kostis Panayotakis]

Hi

I have submitted some articles of mine on a respectable article bank. I receive a steady amount of traffic and inbound links.

I do not experience negative effects.

K

[Robert_Charlton]

Hi

I have submitted some articles of mine on a respectable article bank. I receive a steady amount of traffic and inbound links.

I do not experience negative effects.

K

Hi Kostis - It's good to know about the traffic, and that is a substantial benefit that is not to ignored. The original poster's question is: do the links help with ranking?

My thought is that if a well established site wants to give you really good placement, it might be worth your while to write a unique article for them. Then the article itself will have a chance of ranking in the serps, and you are likely to get even more traffic, with perhaps a better chance of getting SEO value from the inbound link. I wouldn't do this for every site that wanted to run my article, but I would for some.

[Kostis Panayotakis]

Hi Kostis - It's good to know about the traffic, and that is a substantial benefit that is not to ignored. The original poster's question is: do the links help with ranking?

My thought is that if a well established site wants to give you really good placement, it might be worth your while to write a unique article for them. Then the article itself will have a chance of ranking in the serps, and you are likely to get even more traffic, with perhaps a better chance of getting SEO value from the inbound link. I wouldn't do this for every site that wanted to run my article, but I would for some.

Hi Robert,
a well established site will give to your article a good placement (in the recent articles page), for a limited amount of time. During that time your article receives many page views and you can redirect some traffic to your site.
Your article is usually placed on a new permanent page of low ranking, thus you get inbound links from that page. If you manage to gather many inbound links from low ranking pages, it can yield some page ranking for your site. Moreover respectable article banks (like Ezinearticles I use) build an author page which is also linked to all your articles and can build page ranking for your site.

Therefore, the answer is: if you gather many low value links from a single respectable site, they can definitely help your rankings.

K

[Robert_Charlton]

Therefore, the answer is: if you gather many low value links from a single respectable site, they can definitely help your rankings.

Hi Kostis - In my opinion, the question is, does Google count these links? I truly don't know... but this is duplicate content, and Google filters duplicate content. Does Google then count links from material it filters?

Additionally, to repeat a point I made in one of my earlier posts...

At SES San Jose in August, Matt Cutts strongly suggested that Google was discounting inbound links not only for duplicate anchor text, but also for duplicate descriptions. What could be a bigger duplicate description than an entire article with a link to you?

[Kostis Panayotakis]

Hi Kostis - In my opinion, the question is, does Google count these links? I truly don't know... but this is duplicate content, and Google filters duplicate content. Does Google then count links from material it filters?

Additionally, to repeat a point I made in one of my earlier posts...

Hi Robert,
your comment made me thinking.
Should I submit articles less frequently ?
Should I submit small parts of my content and keep the most valuable part on my blog ? This sounds like a good idea.