Index:
What are Article Directories?
Why submit to them?
What is a resource box?
Are they much the same?
Viral- What does it mean?
What is syndication?
Is it possible to get thousands of incoming links?
What is content scraping?
What is "fair use" and what control does one have over material submitted to the article directories ?
A brief list of established directories.
- An Article Directory is a database of information which is usually amassed by publishers accepting and serving articles, in exchange for a link.
- They are usually multi-topical, ranging from a few topics to hundreds, or more.
- You could think of an article directory as a storage interface; authors deliver content to that store, and anyone who requires such content can go there to get it.
- Depending on rights, which must be read or understood.
Similar to submitting to web directories, site owners, search engine optimisers, and webmasters submit to article directories for the following reasons:
- To form part or all of a linking campaign.
- Because some article directories are large, this action can also attract the attention of web spiders.
- To induce, or expand, e-mail subscription bases.
- It is often the case that an author will place a link to an email-delivered newsletter, in the resource box.
- To help create a brand or maintain a brand.
- To maximise any viral implications.
A resource box is a figure of speech and may or may not resemble a box. Resource boxes have more to do with function, rather than any particular shape or other formatting, with one exception:
The generally agreed exception, is that a live and functional link is left intact. Further and other exceptions for reprinting are normal enough.
- A resource box normally takes the form of a short paragraph at the end of an article, which gives linking credit to the author. It also can contain copyright notices and copyright credit.
- Basically, it is a short biography of the author, as well as an opportunity to advertize sundry offerings.
- An example of a resource box might be that "John Doe is an anonymous male and publishes a free newsletter about nobody in particular, at www.johnx'sdomain.com", or anything to that effect. As well as advertizing potential, a resource box and its contained urls, is another link of some worth.
- A resource box is payment in kind, from the article directory publisher to the author; the publisher gets keyword rich content, income streams from advertising, and further traffic from other site owners who require such content.
Yes and No.
- Most accept submissions at no cost and have that in common.
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A growing number of article directories are employing syndication technologies and techniques.
- Such technologies increase exposure, making some more effective in that regard.
- The submission process is much the same for all article directories.
- See http://www.countcontrol.com/submit#know for information on getting page rank passed on.
With one billion websites online, there is a market for free content. With free content, goes the url in the resource box and it is therefore possible to spread or propagate a domain name, a brand or copyrighted data. It is almost viral in nature.
Well known viral strategies would include ;- Free email accounts.
- Giving away branded software and reports.
- Branded software can include scripts with the script creators url visible as back links to such a creator.
- Your articles of course.
- Affiliation programs, to some degree.
- Excluding newsgroups and in somewhat earlier days, syndication was in the form of deals or arrangements between article directory publishers. Such arrangements were transparent and suited everyone that was involved. These agreements still exist, but have largely being surpassed by;
- Syndication by or through R.S.S., and similar technologies.
- Syndication, I suppose, could be viewed as a vehicle or vehicles for content distribution.
It is.
But it really depends on the topic, and the interest in it.- The quality value of such links can vary.
- Often, it is the article directories themselves that can have the highest page rank, rather than the sites that use your material for their own benefit.
- However, traffic back to the author should still be achievable.
I suppose that if one was to offer information with reprint rights, then that is pretty much that. And likewise for something offered under the Creative Commons Licences.
However, if the content of your index or internal pages, are duplicated elsewhere and without any reprinting rights, then that is something else entirely.
Content scrapers will harvest content which is rich in particular and targeted keywords, and capitalize on it. This is often done by running contextual ads.
Some sites can help you to find out if the content of your site is duplicated elsewhere.
See http://www.Copyscape.com for example.- You can try typing in a file name as well as the domain.
- An article directory may take countermeasures against scraping.
The directories often have their own "Terms of Service" or similar guidelines. It is important to read them.
In fairness though, it would appear difficult for a service which provides content, or is a content interface, to predict, track or approve, the people or software which may visit them. If reprint permission is given, then it may be concievable that your material could end up anywhere, and in contexts which might not have been originally imagined.
A lot of people accept this as a possibility and continue to use an article directory.
In fact, it could be near impossible to find out exactly where such material was sourced, if you submit it to many different sites.
Fair use is something more complicated, and entirely different.
Plagiarism is yet another matter, with a very interesting concept of self-plagiarism. See Wikipedia's reference to it.
http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.searchwarp.com
http://www.goarticles.com
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