Article Submission that Goes With the Flow
In the article, "Article Submission and Page Rank" also on this site, I mentioned there were benefits to submitting articles to all different levels of page rank. This article is an explanation of those benefits.
Here are the facts . . .
Article directories come in all forms and levels of page rank. There are many that are set at PR0 to PR3, but there are some that have achieved PR7 and 8 as well as PRs in between. These page ranks are determined by the number of articles posted on the sites, the content relevancy of the categories, the amount of site optimization the directory owner performed on the site, etc.
The vast majority of all these article directories "hand moderate" their article submission intake, meaning that a human physically reads each article and determines:
1. If the article is of good quality.
2. If the article is relevant to the back link in the bio box
3. If the article is relevant to the category it was submitted into
So it's no stretch of the imagination to come to the conclusion that article submission moderation can take some time. Thus sites with thousands of submitted articles coming in every day could take weeks if not months to moderate.
Adding to that, some of the higher ranking sites have "expert author" status granted to their frequent members who get their articles moderated first. So if you're relatively new at this, or don't yet have expert status, you could wait quite a long time before your article gets posted and you start receiving the benefits of the back link.
But all is not lost!
Hand moderation can work toward a greater benefit than anything else when it comes to article submission and getting the value to your back links.
As I mentioned, the more articles coming into a directory, the longer it takes to get it posted. But on the other hand, the less articles coming into a directory, the quicker an article submission will get posted. So by submitting to various levels of ranked directories, you can get immediate results from some, results in a day or two from other, more results in a week, and finally the maximum results within a month or two.
Every posting on every article directory counts as a back link. A "yes vote" in a sense, because having your article posted on another site means the owner of that site deemed your content worthy of inclusion. The search engines consider this "link popularity" and use that as 75% of the determining factor for ranking the site the back link points to.
So Google sees your article with its back link getting posted on a few sites to begin with, then more, and more, and then finally it gets picked up by the sites Google values the most.
Hand moderation of article submission intake thus creates a natural flow, or as Google likes to call it, "organic." Your article appears gradually on all these sites over the course of a month or two and the benefits of your back links increases over this time.
And the best part is, the gradually increase isn't a false "organic" either. Every article directory that hand moderates the article submission intake ofyour article is a legitimate view and positive vote for you.
It can't get any better than that!