Comments on: Do Article Sites Provide “Quality” Links? http://www.marketingwords.com/blog/?p=89 Copywriting Blog Featuring Copywriting & SEO Copywriting Articles Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:34:03 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Karon http://www.marketingwords.com/blog/?p=89&cpage=1#comment-803 Karon Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:12:13 +0000 http://www.marketingwords.com/blog/?p=89#comment-803 <blockquote>The search engines analyze links in context and if they see links coming form gardening sites, video game sites, and electronics stores to your website about raising chickens, they will penalize your site.</blockquote> Yes, I agree that a flurry of <em>unrelated</em> links will hurt you. But we're not talking about unrelated links. If you're publishing articles on cordless phone reviews, it's not typical that a gaming website would reprint it. Usually, sites related to cordless phones or other such stuff would have an interest. Even the links from the article directories themselves wouldn't be unrelated since so many people distribute articles.

The search engines analyze links in context and if they see links coming form gardening sites, video game sites, and electronics stores to your website about raising chickens, they will penalize your site.

Yes, I agree that a flurry of unrelated links will hurt you. But we’re not talking about unrelated links. If you’re publishing articles on cordless phone reviews, it’s not typical that a gaming website would reprint it. Usually, sites related to cordless phones or other such stuff would have an interest.

Even the links from the article directories themselves wouldn’t be unrelated since so many people distribute articles.

]]> By: Copywriter http://www.marketingwords.com/blog/?p=89&cpage=1#comment-802 Copywriter Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:51:24 +0000 http://www.marketingwords.com/blog/?p=89#comment-802 Hi Karon, I just saw your response. I've been doing this a long time and I can tell you without a doubt that getting a bunch of trash links (links not related to your content) will, in fact hurt your sites rankings. The search engines analyze links in context and if they see links coming form gardening sites, video game sites, and electronics stores to your website about raising chickens, they will penalize your site. Chris Elliott Hi Karon,

I just saw your response. I’ve been doing this a long time and I can tell you without a doubt that getting a bunch of trash links (links not related to your content) will, in fact hurt your sites rankings.

The search engines analyze links in context and if they see links coming form gardening sites, video game sites, and electronics stores to your website about raising chickens, they will penalize your site.

Chris Elliott

]]> By: Karon http://www.marketingwords.com/blog/?p=89&cpage=1#comment-678 Karon Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:05:44 +0000 http://www.marketingwords.com/blog/?p=89#comment-678 Thanks for stopping by, Chris. Just to clarify, flooding the 'Net with a flurry of links <em>won't</em> hurt you. It might not help, depending on which sites link back, but it won't hurt. Thanks for stopping by, Chris. Just to clarify, flooding the ‘Net with a flurry of links won’t hurt you. It might not help, depending on which sites link back, but it won’t hurt.

]]> By: Copywriter http://www.marketingwords.com/blog/?p=89&cpage=1#comment-676 Copywriter Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:20:20 +0000 http://www.marketingwords.com/blog/?p=89#comment-676 Hi Karon, I agree with you about being selective on the places you choose to distribute your content. Some sites can actually hurt you and flooding the net with a flurry of links can do just as much damage. Chris Elliott Hi Karon,

I agree with you about being selective on the places you choose to distribute your content. Some sites can actually hurt you and flooding the net with a flurry of links can do just as much damage.

Chris Elliott

]]> By: Karon http://www.marketingwords.com/blog/?p=89&cpage=1#comment-184 Karon Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:55:24 +0000 http://www.marketingwords.com/blog/?p=89#comment-184 You can just use the standard back link string. Just type in link:http://www.WHATEVER.com. Obviously, you'd replace "whatever" with the site you wanted to find. Google is always trying to refine this process so sometimes it's more accurate than other times. You can use back link checkers online, but they are based on the same string from what I've seen. You can just use the standard back link string. Just type in link:http://www.WHATEVER.com. Obviously, you’d replace “whatever” with the site you wanted to find. Google is always trying to refine this process so sometimes it’s more accurate than other times. You can use back link checkers online, but they are based on the same string from what I’ve seen.

]]> By: Viki Nygaard http://www.marketingwords.com/blog/?p=89&cpage=1#comment-183 Viki Nygaard Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:36:07 +0000 http://www.marketingwords.com/blog/?p=89#comment-183 Karon, I agree wholeheartedly with everything you covered in this post. Another reason article marketing is so effective from an SEO point of view is that they provide one-way links to your web site. One-way links carry more weight with the search engines than two-way links due to the fact that two-way links have been highly abused by link farms, link exchanges, etc. When you mentioned "find backlinks"...what methods would you recommend to go about doing so? Karon,

I agree wholeheartedly with everything you covered in this post. Another reason article marketing is so effective from an SEO point of view is that they provide one-way links to your web site. One-way links carry more weight with the search engines than two-way links due to the fact that two-way links have been highly abused by link farms, link exchanges, etc. When you mentioned “find backlinks”…what methods would you recommend to go about doing so?

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