Effect of Panda Update on Article Submission

Visiting a forum site after a week is so refreshing for me. Let me share to you the most interesting thread that I've read when it comes to SEO:
johnston981 asks:
I wonder if Panda Update will effect article submission in any way. Lets say I have submitted an article in 50 different directories what could be negative effect of this? What else can we do for effective article submission.

Here are the best answers that I got:
From: billaa
-For effective article submission, you have to submit unique articles in popular directories. Never try to spin the articles and don't submit a single article in all directories, It's not going to give you positive results now.
From johnwho
-Submitting the same article in 50+ low PR or trusted site is a big no no. I suggest that if you spin the articles you need to limit the submission per article. 10-15 per spun article is ok..
From: snapshot
-The recommended idea is to write newer materials and submitting them only to a few directories, of course the links gained may still not seem very helpful from SEO perspectives because article submission is known to be an effective traffic building method and not a very solid way of improving web links stats of domains but anyway if you write lots of original copies, you will will be able to enjoy the benefits even after the recent update.

The fact is that Google no longer likes accessing hundreds of article directories pages and finding most of them containing exactly the same materials found over the net and on other directories. Writing fresh contents still seems to be one of the best ways of promoting sites and if you seriously are looking for publishing them on other sites, and not on yours which may be a better idea, try writing several decent copies and submit them to a few sites.

For more information with regards to the topic you can visit: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1046718

SEO Change Constantly

Every year Search Engine Optimization upgrades and changes. These changes are mainly changed by Google because this search engine has the largest influence for sure.
So, what is changed recently? I will show you some important changes and upgrades that are related to Search engine optimization in general:

• Meta Tags – Today, a meta tags (description and keyword) are less useful than before. Well, they are important, but today the most important thing is content than these tags. Some search engines still have a large importance for these.
• Link Exchange – Google has changed link exchange policy where link exchanging and buying text links is not permitted. Find more about Google Link Schemes policy.
• Canonical URL’s – Search engines employ canonical URLs in order to assign importance to web pages and to reduce indexing of duplicate pages. Web crawlers perform URL canonization in order to avoid crawling the same resource more than once.
• Site Speed – Google has include a website speed as next ranking factor when they are consider to rank a website. Google want to make sure that faster web pages rank better than slower ones. Page speed would not be a tremendously weighed factor, unless the site takes 90 seconds to load.
• Content Importance – A website content is important more than ever. The modern search engines are smart enough to find out which contents are quality and which contents are not. The quality content is important – much more than meta tags today.
• Social Media SEO – Today, most search engines knows to analyze the traffic from popular social media sites and services. There are significant benefits from combining search engine optimization and social media marketing tactics ranging from increased social network discovery via search to the ability to attract links for improved SEO in general.

So, these are only the most important changes happened to SEO recently. You should care about all these facts and changes when you are trying to optimize your sites for search engines!

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