backlinks and articles

[honestman]

What is better for increasing backlinks for my site, adding 9 articles in one week or 3 articles a month for 3 months? These figures are not necessarily how many articles I am considering but are just sample figures to get a idea of which is the best way.

[Jeff Martin]

Consistancy is the key as slow and steady wins the race. Whatever amount you go out with make sure you can keep publishing at that rate for your backlinks to consistantly be increaing without your articles making your efforts seem artificial.

[BuckfastMonk]

Always easier to go forward! Start with 50 articles a week and your in for trouble, On that note jeff is 100% right

[debraM]

What is better for increasing backlinks for my site, adding 9 articles in one week or 3 articles a month for 3 months?

I don't think it matters when you're talking about numbers like these or if you're considering adding them to the article directories, especially if you have a site that's been around awhile and has inbound links.

Article directories, like general directories, probably won't pass as much link juice as you'd like until those submitted links have aged. And by 'aged' I mean a couple years.

Case in point: go to G and search the phrase 'article directory', click on the first result (articledashboard), click on "Acne" category and then click both the "oldest" and "newest" links. You'll see that the oldest pages are from 2005* and show in G's index with accrued pagerank while the newer pages don't and don't show any green.

* - I don't know for a fact those articles were submitted in 2005 but - since the copyright on the page says 2005 and the WayBackMachine shows a spider date of Jan2006 - I'd say it's a VERY fair bet those articles were placed there a couple years ago.

IMO, your time would be better spent finding a couple of industry relevant sites popular with your customers and ranking well and contact the publishers directly about hosting your content. You'll find the residual link effect much greater this way.

:)

[kneoteric]

Consistancy is the key as slow and steady wins the race. Whatever amount you go out with make sure you can keep publishing at that rate for your backlinks to consistantly be increaing without your articles making your efforts seem artificial.

This is the perfect answer.