Thread: Which would be more SEO effective?

Originally Posted by agentforhire

I am in the process of writing an article about buying foreclosures. It will be about five pages when I get done. In the article there are a couple of well placed links to my website. Which would be more effective SEO or does it matter?

Put the article on my blog, active rain or personal?
Submit it to ezine?
Do a free press release?
Do a paid press realease?
Upload it to the foreclosure page of my website?
Do all the above?

Any suggestions would help. The article has great content for any potential home buyer wanting to buy a foreclosure.

Put the article on my blog, active rain or personal? Both

Submit it to ezine? Yes

Do a free press release? Yes

Do a paid press realease? If you have the money and it is newsworthy.

Upload it to the foreclosure page of my website? Yes

Remember to focus on content first, then modify the text to with links and targeted keywords next.

Jyang,

Thanks for the info and help. I didn't know if I put them several places if it would be considered duplicate content and not be as effective. By the way my site showed back up for the targeted keywords the next day, five spots higher. I gues slow and steady wins the race.

Originally Posted by agentforhire

Jyang,

Thanks for the info and help. I didn't know if I put them several places if it would be considered duplicate content and not be as effective. By the way my site showed back up for the targeted keywords the next day, five spots higher. I gues slow and steady wins the race.

No problem!

Personally, I wouldn't worry too much about duplicate content. Duplicate content was really intended for the same repeat content on the same domain, since spammers would repeat the same content with different URLs to increase their page count. Your situation is not the case. I've helped many clients in the past push articles across article directories and free press release sites and they helped with the backlinks.

I'm glad your site came back up in the rankings and increased! That's great news. It's likely that you may have stumbled upon one of Google's datacenter that didn't have your listing. This is theoretical, since Google doesn't let anyone know about datacenters, but from past experiences, it happens often.

Are you saying submitting the article for a press release? If so then I would say no. Press releases should be more event specific than an article... I do however, think that you should submit it to an article directly like ezine and then put it on your blog. That is a good idea. Or even summarizing it in your blog, and giving a reference link to your ezine article (feeding more juice to through your links embeded in your article to your site).

Originally Posted by EricRE

Are you saying submitting the article for a press release? If so then I would say no. Press releases should be more event specific than an article... I do however, think that you should submit it to an article directly like ezine and then put it on your blog. That is a good idea. Or even summarizing it in your blog, and giving a reference link to your ezine article (feeding more juice to through your links embeded in your article to your site).

Right, do articles and press releases, but the content submitted is different for each type. Articles would be for informational purposes, so like EricRE mentioned, ezine and your blog would be perfect candidates. For press releases, you would need something that tells the visitor that something new has happened in your realty, like maybe a new office branch opened to accommodate more prospects in Arkansas.

It would be best to do all of it but you might need to spin the article, (change somethings in it) before posting it to other places, otherwise google will see it as duplicate content.

Like poster above said, do all of the above but spin and change each article slightly

You should choose the one you can manage better, but don't do all of them, it will be content duplicate which will ban you from google.

Originally Posted by orianablage

You should choose the one you can manage better, but don't do all of them, it will be content duplicate which will ban you from google.

Google won't ban you for duplicate content. They usually just pick the one that is most relevant.