The Billevard

Commenting on other people’s blogs for traffic is definitely a growing traffic strategy, it just hasn’t grown to the level that submitting articles to article directories has…. YET. I think commenting for traffic is 100% better than submitting articles to article directories, why do I think this?

I’ve got a couple of reasons why I think article directories are a waste of time…

• For one thing, real people don’t go to article directories. Think about it… do you spend hours upon hours just reading through articles (not just any articles, but junk articles because most people that submit them to these directories don’t take their time writing something worth reading) on article directory websites? Chances are you don’t, in most cases the only people that ever visit article directory websites are webmasters, and they are there for one reason… to submit their crappy, depth lacking articles. So many “guru’s” claim to high heaven that this is a must do tactic… submit your article to thousands of directories to get thousands of backlinks! Well I have something to say about these guru’s, while THEY may be writing quality articles, all they are doing and all they are promoting is the pollution of the internet with duplicate content. I don’t want to see an internet full of duplicate content, especially one where people take an article and change a couple words in it just so they can claim it as their own… this whole “private label articles” idea is BS. Whoever is supporting this nonsense should be beaten by chimpanzees holding bananas.
• The people that own article directories in most cases don’t care about the content slapped on the site. Now there are a couple of high quality article directories out there that only accept unique content, and those I am ok with, I just don’t see how submitting an article to a place real traffic doesn’t go to can help (real traffic meaning real people, as in not webmasters or lazy affiliate marketers that are trying to advertise a crappy affiliate program).

What does make sense to me is writing a nice in depth response to a blog post. Chances are there is another blog out there that is like yours, or one that has an audience that will appreciate your content. Comments are easier to write too… all you have to do is write a couple of sentences and you have a comment and a backlink, whereas writing an article means you have to think of a topic and write a lot more. Sure, you can use automated article submitters that will “SUBMIT YOUR ARTICLE TO THOUSANDS OF DIRECTORIES ACROSS THE WEB,” but why pollute the web with duplicate content and waste your time on a tactic that search engines don’t pay attention to.

So in short:

• It’s quality not quantity when it comes to search engines
• Go where the real people are
• Private label articles are a joke
• Comment on blogs that have your audience (but never EVER link drop in your comment)

Real people read blogs, they don’t read articles in article directories.

Article Directories Suck, Commenting for Traffic

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