Submitting artilces to Blogs or webpages?

grafx77 · Joined: 05 Dec 2005 Posts: 29 Location: Las Vegas

I have been getting very creative on some of my current Wordpress blogs and now that I have a few setup, I will be working on posting more articles to them.

I have always been extremely curious to know if posting my articles to blogs will benefit me in the same way as posting articles as an html webpage on my site when considering SEO. If both reside on my server and both have the same navigational panel, wouldn't the blog pick up visitors from the SE alot quicker and be more intuitive for my visitors to comment?

I have had a great deal of success posting articles to my blog and driving PR and traffic upstream. It seems that the SE's pickup these articles alot quicker than standard HTML pages. Do I even need to worry about posting the same articles from my blog to a static HTML page too? Would there be any benefits to posting articles twice like this if your blogs navigation works just like your website?

John

its_me_shaners · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 65 Location: Ottawa, Canada

I believe that the spiders treat both of them the same. !!
Do both I would say !!

richerbrat · Joined: 12 Feb 2006 Posts: 137

Don't post the same articles on your site as on your blogs. The search engines could pick this up as duplicate info and your ranking would drop. I was reading about this wedding favours site that was number one on google and they got dropped for having duplicate contents. They had to totally rewrite the content on one of their sites to get their ranking back. Be careful.

Out of one idea, you can get several different articles if you're careful in the way you think, so you could use the same research etc for writing the articles for your site and blog - just write them differently.

boysbach · Joined: 27 Dec 2005 Posts: 195

What happens if you submit your articles to article directories and then it is used on numerours sites. Is that seen as duplication as well?

We have 2 sites one for the UK and one for the US and for some articles I have the same ones on each site because they are relevant

richerbrat · Joined: 12 Feb 2006 Posts: 137

I know it sounds awful, but as long as it's not on your own site - hopefully it wouldn't affect your ranking too much - more likely the rankings of the sites that have published your articles. I hope this is the case anyway.