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Hi there,

Can someone suggest me some top sites that have high traffic that allow article submission. It would help if they don't snipe my signature!

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Tim

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Short version for : article directories are no longer a reliable way to build lasting SEO value. That point raised by and the “put originals on your site” advice from are both on target — the goal now is to own and promote the canonical copy, not spray identical text across dozens of low‑quality sites.

If articles have already been copied around (as asked), do not delete your original. Instead take these practical steps:

  • Find the copies by searching an exact sentence or the article title in quotes (or use a service such as Copyscape).
  • Contact the republishers and ask them to either add a rel=canonical link to your original or to use a meta noindex on the syndicated page. If they will not, ask for a clear “Originally published at” link with an absolute URL. For official guidance on syndication and canonicalization, see Google’s recommendations for and for consolidating duplicates via rel=canonical (consolidate duplicate URLs).

If you cannot get cooperation, make your site the definitive source: expand and improve the article (unique intro, updated data, media), add Article schema and visible dates, and promote that URL through outreach and social sharing so search engines are more likely to choose it as the canonical copy.

Longer term: abandon mass article-directory submissions. Invest time in original, useful content on your site, targeted guest posts on relevant niche sites, outreach to resource pages, and content that earns natural links. Google’s duplicate-content guidance explains why original publishing and proper canonicalization are the more sustainable route.

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Member Avatar for stymiee

Article submissions is dead for SEO. I wouldn't bother with it anymore.

Member Avatar for timhysniu

Article submissions is dead for SEO. I wouldn't bother with it anymore.

Hmm, I thought that would be okay way to get some free backlinks.

Member Avatar for canadafred

Best advice.

Just write articles and put them on your own web site or blog.

Member Avatar for stymiee

Hmm, I thought that would be okay way to get some free backlinks.

Not anymore. Those backlinks will be worthless. That content be filtered out as duplicate content which means no one will find it to link to it. If no one is linking to their page links from that page are worthless. Add to the fact that those pages not only will be in the supplemental index but they will be duplicate content. For all we know Google discounts those links.

If your article is any good put it on your website. That way you get all of the links from that article. If it is a bad article then it wouldn't have been successful on the other websites anyway and, once again, the links from those sites would be worthless.

Plus if another site republished your article and Google considers them to be the source of the article then your copy will be considered duplicate content and you'll have your page put into the supplemental index.

Member Avatar for Estreetloans

We had submitted the articles, which are now on the site, to various article submission sites. Would we be better off deleting those articles off our site and writing new ones? Is it affecting our site negatively since the articles have been duplicated?

Member Avatar for stymiee

It won't hurt your site but they won't help it either and thus isn't worth your time. Create unique articles for your site that are useful and informative. Those kinds of articles are good to have because they attract links which is what you are ultimately after.

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