Article submission. The results of my experiment.....

[metaphase]

About 5 months ago I decided to try out article submission as a way of getting backlinks

I wrote an article and paid a service to submit my article to 200 directories

They gave me a report, and I check through randomly checking if my article appeared in them. The ones I checked did carry my article so we'll assume they actually did submit them to all 200

Today, 5 months on I did a link:domain name search in Yahoo and Google to see how many backlinks I have gained.

Result:
Google: 0
Yahoo: 4

Is this typical? Seems a bit of a waste of time, but people are always raving about article submission as a way of getting loads of backlinks.

Any thoughts?

Thanks everyone

[weysol]

On one new domain recently I managed to pick up nearly 200 backlinks with a couple of articles and they seem fairly steady. Managed to get positions on pages 1/2/3 on Google for various "long tail" terms, or brands.

Its just part of one strategy. On a new domain I submit a couple of articles to get it listed and linked. Also if you can actually find the articles you could social bookmark them or ping them (if they went onto blogs). This might give them a boost.

You will need a lot of articles though to have an effect. Not just one!

[jag]

There are various aspects behind the process

(1) Is your article link in the directories, search engine crawl able?
(2) Does the articles directories page holds your domain direct link or is it pointing its own domain with some URL id's and redirecting to your domain or article page
(3) Avoid a root level of 3 or more, sometimes-deep crawl doesn't happen unless the article directories is so popular
(4) On click do your article lists under frame and not your direct link in browser?
(5) Try to have more articles under various categories in your domain and try to get inlinks for those categorized articles

If you don't see these, then on your next campaign you may shoot these factors to the provider

Originally Posted by metaphase

Is this typical? Seems a bit of a waste of time, but people are always raving about article submission as a way of getting loads of backlinks.

Best,

[mocgiit]

What program did you use?

[axeline]

Hey there..

If you are after backlinks...then better make sure
that your article has links there pointing to your
site...

Maybe the reason why, you have O links from Google and
4 from Yahoo, it's because, the article that you have
submitted for those article sites has no links..

Although, the progress of article seems a bit slow,
but after a time when it will be approved, that will
surely give your site, more traffic and at the same time
will add your backlinks..

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[jag]

New insight would be better than posting same answer in different forms just for link drops