Writing articles is easy - write yourself

I've decided to feed both of my current sites with articles. Just now I have written an article and submitted it to ezinearticles.com, goarticles.com and buzzle.com.

I consider for successful article marketing these top article directories are enough. Anyway, success in article campaigns depends not on the number of directories you've submitted your article into, but rather on how interesting and compelling your article is for

• target readers
• other webmasters that reprint your article

Easy to say - hard to do, right? No!

Write articles yourself! Do it until you are very successful affiliate making 5-number income monthly and you really have more efficient and profitable work to get busy with. The more you write yourself, the easier it will be for you to create quality rather than submit to 100 article directories and wait for SERPs to skyrocket. Quality - that's the clue to article marketing success.

I have the article that is still in top 10 in Google for a very competitie keywords, and it has almost 50% clickthrough to my main site. This is interesting content. It made me 3 sales through my affiliate link I also placed in the article. Not bad for just 1 article.

I still have no time to write more about real article marketng success. But I consider it as the easiest way to push your site in SERPs and to get sales of your product through affiliate links within article.

Are you afraid of duplicate content?

The question of duplicate content is botherning minds of many affiliates especially those who promote sites via article marketing.

And the main question asked is "Should I rewrite article for every new article directory I distribute to?" We know of some horrible duplicate content filter that can throw your site away from SERPs for indefinite time... So what is the right answer - to use duplicate content or not to use it in our article marketing?

I have answered this question for myself a long time ago and I cannot tell I regret of my actions :)

But instead of long discussions I love precise experiments. And here's what I found recently on the subject.

Evidence

First, go to Google and type in how does real estate investing works. On 04.09.2007 I've seen such results.



What we see here are two articles from ezinearticles.com, ezinearticles.com/?How-Does-Real-Estate-Investing-Work&id=452125 is #2 and ezinearticles.com/?How-Does-Real-Estate-Investing-Work?&id=678585 is #3

I'm interested in this article, note author's name and first paragraph.



But if we look further, we can see another article that is also in Google's top 10, with exactly the same title Real Estate :: How Does Real Estate Investing Work?
This article is hosted in ArticleBiz.com directory (www.articlebiz.com/article/82964-1-how-does-real-estate-investing-work/ - ) and is #5 in Google for our keywords. Nice, we see 3 different articles with the same title that have top positions in Google.

But are those articles different? ;)

Well, here's where the show begins! Remember my last picture? OK, let's open ArticleBiz.com article and see it:



We can see the same author and first paragraph looks like the same as first paragraph of ezinearticles.com article.

I decided to check how unique are these two articles and typed www.dupecop.com - service that allows to check uniqueness of 2 different pieces of text. I inserted article from ezinearticles directory and article from ArticleBiz directory. Here's the result:



Both articles are identical.

And the show is not over yet. If we take a look at these two sites in top 6 - www.dealfiles.com and www.transformit.net, we find that www.dealfiles.com belongs to the author of ezinearticles.com/?How-Does-Real-Estate-Investing-Work&id=452125, and www.transformit.net belongs to Nancy Spivey, author of our duplicate articles =)))

Both articles and the site are feeling great in top Google results! I could say - "Use it to your advantage", ...but the show is not over yet!

Finally, I took a look into that site that held top positions thanks to successful article "trick", and found guess what? -



I checked article from the site and articles from both directories and found they all were all identical.



Conclusion

As you see, this is not guessings but real situation. Duplicate content not only works, but helps the main site reach SERPs. It's up to you to decide how to use this situation ;) What do you think?

Article rocks!

Oops! Today I've checked my clicks stats and found that my article is back in Google top 6 for very competitive keyword. This article is special! I would like to write a post about the power of PROPER article marketing, but I think I'll do it later... Stay tuned!