Article Writing Best Practices for SEO?

[Chuckmiser]

I write my own articles so for max traffic, back links and to avoid being penalized should I

1) only post them on my site?

2) submit to article directories ?

3) post them on my site, age them for a couple of weeks, then submit to the article directories?

4) post them on my site, age them for a couple of weeks, and then rewrite them, and send to the article directories?

5) post them on my site with images, Age them, write short blog comment with in-text link to article, rewrite them , submit to article directories?

Other suggestion in this vein?

I don't want to be wasting time and effort, and I especially don't want to get zapped for duplicate content. I need back links and I need traffic (duh who doesn't) and I would like to be a step ahead of the scrappers.

[chirosche]

I write a lot of articles and I submit them right after I write them to my favorite articles directories. I find that they bring traffic to my site from the directories and the articles also rank well on the directories. I also put the articles on my own site and link to them and eventually they also rank.

I don't know about this age thing, never heard of this before. Just submt your articles to your favorite articles directory and remember to put in-text links using your keywords back to your site. You get the benefit of both the link back and the extra traffic.

Beverly

[Chuckmiser]

I ask as some other areas of the net that I have been too including threads on this forum seem to suggest that someone could take your article put there resource block on the bottom and then in theory the original writer could get hit with a duplicate content penalty because the bad person has more back links than the writer.

I am trying to figure out a strategy to combat this.

thank you for your input!

I hope some of the others join in, as I would like to figure out the best way to go.