Lynella Grant writes:

Chris,
Do you agree with Jason’s information that posting to multiple sites in quick succession creates a problem/penalty? I post my articles manually, but do plug through my relevant posting-sites list as quickly as I can. Am I wasting my time?

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Chris Knight writes:

Lynella,

I think this model is a waste of time:

Creating (1) single article and posting it at (100) locations.

I think this model is smart:

Creating (100) articles and posting them in (1) location.

Obviously, I hope that (1) location is us because we can deliver the highest ROI for the authors time submitting the article.

Revised:

Creating (100) articles and posting them at a few high-return locations that either return a lot of exposure for the submission (like us) or highly niche related so that your content adds value to their content and vice versa.

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Steve Turley writes:

Chris,

First I was going to tell you I think your nuts, and then I read the revised. I would agree with the revision; search engines especially google have de-valued the reciprocal link, for a site to achieve a high SERP in a competitive Key Word it will have to have one way links with the proper anchor tags linked to it. So I would say a hundred articles submitted to a few quality sites like EzineArticles.com would be correct.

As far as the penalty, I’m sure they’re talking about the theorized “Sandbox Penalty” and yes I believe Google does look for link spammers and if you are receiving links to quickly they may consider you a link spammer and you could get penalized. However, I have noticed from my own experience that they do un-penalize you after a bit.

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Elisha Hong writes:

Chris, I’m glad that you mentioned that it is better to focus writing many articles on ONE site as compared to ONE article distributed across many sites though many marketers promote that method. Better to become an expert on one platform rather than dilute the efforts.

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