I also enjoy writing a lot but i like to keep things simple and straight to the point because if you write so much people are going to end up losing interest in the discussion.

I am new to your site, and have got a lot of great info on your post “Article Marketing – Unique Content Wins Hands Down…” My posts on my blog are unique content that I wrote. I have been submitting away to article sites, and trying to get my content published any where I can. I really like what you have to say on this topic. Thank You and I look forward to reading more posts on your site.

-Billy

Thank you for the great reply! I’ve been reading your letters for years. Top notch content and material that is always relevant.

Thanks,
-Brett

“He wants to throw out a huge ‘drift net’, as he calls it, of cheap content right across the internet and catch what he can.”

At the end of the day there’s nothing wrong with that approach from a link building perspective. If you think about the thousands of article directories out there that no one ever reads (but the search engines index) then the quality of content doesn’t have to be Pulitzer Prize winning material. I would certainly keep the quality content exclusively for the website – but if you’re throwing a few lower quality articles out there that you’re reasonably comfortable with I don’t have an issue with. I would also keep the lower quality content off the more popular article repositories (ezinearticles.com for example) however because you can build up a decent reputation there.

Clearly your reply to Ray it is the distillation of extensive experience and thought. So I’m paying close attention. Why don’t MORE people read these sorts of replies?

Bottom line is original content … YES. Totally agree.

Right a debate is raging between me a certain web site owner. He wants to throw out a huge ‘drift net’, as he calls it, of cheap content right across the internet and catch what he can.

My advice is to be more focused on quality. I seem to be a lone voice, but I won’t back down on quality, because in the end that is what the business loyalty and reputation is built. Trouble is it takes much longer and everyone is in such a rush to get to the goal!

What say you? My feeling is do our own material but replicate THAT many times. It surely must be better than a massive amount of unoriginal article content.

Jonathan Gunson

The printer is hot with activity! This is way more than I expected or hoped for. You’ve over delivered without charging! It will take me a while to study everything and fine tune my strategy. Thanks for all the extra advice, especially regarding, “My Article Network” as I had been wondering about that.

A tip I read just this morning was to write my articles in 2 parts putting both parts on my blog first and then submit just part 1 to the article directories with appropriate anchor text links in the resource boxes.

Thanks again for everything
Ray