I thought I would just post a brief follow up on my previous experiment with promotion through article distribution. For a full explanation of what I tried with this visit this blog page. However as a brief overview, I basically wrote an extended version of an article I had written here and published it to a group of article directories through a service called iSnare.
The article was entitled “Beware The Impact Of Using 301 Redirects” and although it took about a week it was eventually submitted and distributed through iSnare. The article had links to this blog in the author bio section. At the time of writing this, if I do a search on google for my article I finds 825 references too it. It’s very hard to say if this article has brought me any real traffic, but I’m sure all of those links must be a positive thing for this blog.
Even though I am not sure of the results of the experiment I will probably try it again, it was a relatively painless exercise once I had found a suitable article to use. Also even if the links don’t mean a lot to google, it is at least getting my name out there. But I would strongly recommend that if you try it, make sure it is a unique article that will only be used for this purpose. The last thing you want is to have your own sites content flagged up as duplicate content in google.
My blog is mainly about programming in .Net 2, website promotion and affiliate marketing although I do have the odd ramble on about anything that comes to mind.
