Thanks for your question–we recommend submitting 8 articles a month for each author name, but if you were submitting under different names then it would be fine to submit 8 per month for each website/topic. I don’t recommend submitting more than 8 per month for any website or topic–that is just overkill in my opinion.

Here’s another post on a similar topic that you might find helpful:

How Many Articles Should I Submit–Is More Better?

Beverly

I spend a lot of time writing articles. I want to get all the coverage I can. Thanks for the advice. It’s great how you keep it comming, I just hope I can continue to use it properly.

John

Thanks,

Thanks!

Thanks so much for your questions–you had asked:

“When people put your article on their site, does that link in the about the author section even count as a backlink?”

The answer is “YES! It counts as a backlink if that web page achieves a PageRank of its own. ”

This is why folks do article marketing and why it is so effective at driving traffic to a site (both directly through the link in the resource box and indirectly by increasing your ranking for your keywords in the search engine results pages).

You had asked about article marketing and duplicate content–let’s be clear what we’re talking about. Duplicate content is when Google detects that multiple versions of your article are on the net, and then they relegate the “extra” occurrences of your article to their supplemental index.

This does not mean that the links to your articles that are indexed disappear–it means that when someone does a search for your keyword terms, only one instance of your article will be returned in the search result rather than hundreds of listings for the same article. Your other articles are still on the net and are still in Google’s listings (do a search for your title in quotes and you will see that there are still multiple listings of your article on the net).

This is something different than your articles getting ranked in Google. Any webpage that links to your own site that develops PageRank will contribute to the PageRank of your own site, which in turn influences your website’s ranking in search results. Whether the linking page has the same content on it as another page is irrelevant–what Google is trying to determine is the value of your website based on the incoming links.

If you have let’s say 400 websites publishing your articles, and let’s say 100 or more of those sites develop PageRank of their own on the page where your article is published, then those 100 + incoming links contribute to your website’s estimation of value.

Also, as you know–website ranking change over time, so the more websites your article is published on and the more time that passes, the likelihood that the web pages where your article is published will develop their own PageRank increases.

Again, this is something different than Google only having one instance of your article show up in the search results due to duplicate content–if a webpage that publishes your article develops value of its own (PageRank), then that value is transferred to your website in Google’s eyes.

And of course even if the web page where your article is published does not develop PageRank, that link is still valuable because it can drive traffic directly–a person reading that article can click through to your website.

Robert, you had said that you’re duplicate content paranoid We have a tool we offer for free to our members at SubmitYOURArticle.com called ArticleLeverage–it allows you to create multiple versions of your article thereby decreasing instances of duplicate content.

Also, you had said “I don’t even want to use other peoples articles on my site.”

That’s a good idea, because you’ll be providing more unique educational content to your readers, and Google rewards that.

Google does not punish you for having duplicate content though–the worst that happens is that the web page that the content is on will be moved to the supplemental index.

As a general guideline, it would be advisable to restrict free reprint articles to take up no more than 10% of the content on your website, and to pick the articles you use carefully to ensure they fit within your niche, are of high quality, and that the website linked to via the resource box is non-competing. By keeping it at this level, it means you are still adding value to your site as a whole by offering content that you believe your visitors will find useful, and to help provide a well-rounded resource on a particular topic.

If I were you I wouldn’t worry so much about Google–what they are looking for is a site that provides value to its readers, and as long as you do that and market your website, you shouldn’t have anything to worry about. I would focus on building valuable content for your target market. Articles are part of that content and a great way to bring exposure to your website.

I hope that helps!

I have started wondering about the effectiveness of article marketing as a viral linkbuilding method. My question is: when people put your article on their site, does that link in the about the author section even count as a backlink? Or does google just look at it as duplicate content?

I have become duplicate content paranoid. I don’t even want to use other peoples articles on my site. I fear I will be penalized by google.