CommunityBuildrsUsing article sites to boost traffic?
Posted June 10th, 2007 by Kirk Eisele
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This might take a while to get a response but I'm patient! Has anyone tried writing articles and submitting them to article repositories for use as a way of driving traffic to your site? I'm thinking about giving it a shot. There is a real quick overview on the topic at: http://www.wilsonweb.com/linking/wilson-article-marketing-1.htm.
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Publish them on your site too.
I suggest publishing them on your site too. Utilizing the XML Sitemaps module, you'll get some SEO love.
~ Chris Charlton
Quick Clarification
Thanks for the info Chris! Just thought I would clarify by pointing out that XML Sitemaps is a module for the Drupal content management system. Information for that module is available at:
http://drupal.org/project/gsitemap
Watch out for nofollow links
This used to be a really great technique to generate inbound links, but many site owners have made changes that make those links worthless.
For example, some of these sites do not link back to the author's site. Also, some sites now add "nofollow" to links to other sites, which tell search engines to not follow these links back to the author's site.
So before submitting to one of these sites make sure the links provide real search engine "juice" for your site.
Cliff Allen
Web Analytics Consultant
www.Allen.com
Does "nofollow" = "nojuice"?
I was wondering about this question. Does a "nofollow" tag destroy the value of having your URL on someone else's site for link popularity or does it just prevent Spiders and Bots from using that link to find their way to your site for indexing? At first I thought it seemed likely that a search algorithm would just tally up the number of links found irregardless of whether there was a "nofollow" on the tag. (Since "nofollow" only applies to bots but not to actual people who click a link. A nofollow link is still a link in the human sense.) I have a feeling that I am wrong on this one... Does your experience with SEO/analytics show pretty decisively that nofollow is the same as not having a link at all?
Nofollow pages do get indexed
Google says they won't give credit to the page in a nofollow tag.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html
Some bloggers ran tests to see if nofollow links get indexed by Google -- yes, they do get indexed:
http://www.linkrain.com/articles/nofollow-links-get-indexed-by-google/
So, if a page has only one link to it, and it's a nofollow link, then Google will index it, but it would have to be unique content for Google to ever include it in search results.
Cliff Allen
Web Analytics Consultant
www.Allen.com