Be Careful While submitting Articles

[davidweb]

I am not sure if anybody else has faced this situation. I am a big fan of article promotion and submit several articles to promote some of the websites.

However, I submitted one "original" article to a website Articlecity, but when I checked after a week, I found that it was pasted on some other blog

It never got published on the article site, but instead it got sneaked to some blogger who published on his own blog.

While I was waiting for the article to be published online, the scoundrels sneaked my article to other blogger who published my same article.

I have posted because I did not want any other to face a similar situation again.

One should not submit article to every and any article website. You can save whole lot of time and energy by submitting to a few reputed article websites like ezinearticles.

Do let me know if anybody else faced this situation before

It was really disappointed to see my original article being published on another blog and never got published on the articlecity site.

[Webnauts]

Excessive articles submissions can harm.

[davidweb]

I had only submitted 3-5 original articles per each website

Not more than that, but I was really shocked to see that there are people who put up article websites just to scrap your original articles.

[Black Cat]

My best advice would be to post to your own blog/site first, then wait a few days before releasing it to the article engines, depending on their T`s and C`s. This gives the bots the opportunity to pick up your unique content first.

Again i agree with Webnauts too much can do more harm than good, just a sprinkling here and there will do.

[grishamist]

Just to make sure to submit your article on sites having high page rankings. That's the only way to limit article sneakers to use your submitted article.

[innominds]

The best thing you need to do is ...submit the article only to one or two quality article directories like ezinearticles. The other option is to submit the article in your own website rather than submitting to the article directories.

[Feydakin]

No, the best thing is to make your distributed articles throw aways that you don't use on your own website.. Make them short summary articles that link to the better, more detailed, articles that are on your site.. Or just link to your site.. But running distributed articles on your web site is a silly thing to do..

[TechEvangelist]

I fully agree with Feydakin. You are asking for trouble if you submit the same article that you have published on your site. I have seen situations where an article was re-published on a site with a higher PR and higher traffic and Google mistakenly recognized the higher PR site as having the original article.

Matt Cutts addressed this at one point in his blog. If I remember correctly, he advised everyone to make sure that all of the re-published articles point back to the original site. However, we know that this is a not possible to police and many people who republish articles do not link back to the original like they should.

My advice is to always submit a different and unique version of an article to article submission sites.

[chowell]

Originally Posted by Feydakin

No, the best thing is to make your distributed articles throw aways that you don't use on your own website.. Make them short summary articles that link to the better, more detailed, articles that are on your site.. Or just link to your site.. But running distributed articles on your web site is a silly thing to do..

If you are doing article submissions, DO NOT use the same content on your website. Write unique articles and point back to your site as the source, but do not post the articles on your website unless you're going to be using a "noindex" tag or "nofollow" links to the pages.

[mark.smith]

Yaa, i am agree with others, that first of all you have to submit article on your own website and then after that you will go for some other good quality sites to submit your article pointing back to your website...

Although i have never face such an issue....

bye..

[SEMSpot]

It would not surprise me if some of the article directories out there are made for the simple fact to take good content and publish it on another site. You can hire someone to submit your article to like 1200 article directories for like $10, how many of those 1200 directories are really even used that often? It is an easy way for some article directory owners to get free content to publish for themselves. Sounds shady, but I would bet it happens. I would only submit an article to a small group of well established article directory sites, with of course making sure that my article does not match up to what I wrote on my site.

[TextLinks]

Did you try contacted anyone on that article directory??
Well yes, we must publish our articles to quality directories and there are already loads of them

[Janna122003]

If you promote your articles on various article directories how did you know that the article was not publish even in one article site? Maybe there is some article directories who published your article and someone got your article without posting author box.