Best use of an Article??

So I have a professionally written article and I am trying to determine what is the best way for me to get the most return on it. Should I go with a distribution service like isnare.com and get the Article out to as many sites as possible? Or should I focus more on the higher authority Article directories. Most of them are no follow so do you have any suggestions on which ones I should focus on. I have a few articles on ezinearticles.com and they will give you a dofollow in the resource box. Just looking for some guidance on the best way to maximize the SEO aspect of this article. Thanks again

You should publish the article on your own site then promote it through social marketing and by building quality 1 way links to it. Let the link love flow baby through naturally gained links and the world will beat a path to your door.

Why should I publish it to my site first?

Read my sig friend. This is SEO today.

edit: wtf, where'd my sig go? lol well if it was there it would say:
If you want Google to think you have a great website that deserves great ranks
build a great website that deserves great links.

I definitely intended on putting the article on my site but I am wondering is there any additional benefit to putting it there first rather than after submitting it to article sites? Thanks in advance

If the article is one of the very best on the web then place it on your own site and try to get traffic to it through social media announcements. Do not give it to others to use on their sites.

If it is decent but less than one of the best on the web you can flip a coin about what to do with it because it will probably not perform exceptionally well no matter where it is posted.

If it is a crappy article then see if you can get your competitor to post it on his site without any attribution or links to you.

PS.... "professionally written" doesn't mean much. I know professional content experts who can't write worth crap... and I know professional writers who can screw up the facts in a content article.

Let's assume it is one of the best. Wouldn't an excellent article with an in content back link from a well respected article site be more valuable than putting it on my site and building back links to it? Can I do both? Can I post the article on my site, build back links to it and submit it to article directories? I do appreciate your time on this.

If you give your great article to a powerful site that site will outrank you in the SERPs. It will get your traffic and the links that your article would have earned.

Giving away great articles feeds your competitor. It invites more competitors into your SERPs.

So, if you have truly great content submit it to slashdot, reddit, stumblupon, digg... if your content is really good that will be like throwing gasoline on a fire. You will not need to submit to other sites to get links.

There is one situation where giving great content away makes sense... that is when you have a message to spread and you are not concerned with bringing traffic or links to your own site.

There is a lot of discussion on this topic here.. i suggest you search for it. There is enough to answer just about any question.

If it is one of the best thn why do you want it to give any other sites? if it is the best and you should post it on your site and Links will follow you.. quality content is like magnet for quality Links

I agree with everyone above - If you have a great article, it would benefit you much more by being on your website and collecting links,
than if it would be "donated" to some article site and help that site get links.

IMO in general article sites are for articles without too much value, but mostly links to a persons homepage.
In those cases you'll mostly see that article in many article directories with some alterations
(to avoid duplicity) - But still they'll get you nothing.

It's better to let that article be an anchor for links (or linkbait) and users on your website, both from a user point of view,
and from Google.

Good advice yet again. Good to see your moving away from the always on your site approach.

I think the other variable that needs considering is where in developement the arctile writers site is.

If its very early in the developement cycle the need for links is much greater, and the effect of good content on the site is not that much.

So id lean strongly towards using it on other peopels sites. Crappy articles distribute widley(unique versions of), good articles look for the quality link form the quality site.

As the site matures the need for links lessens, and the effect of content on the site increases.

So use it on your own site is the way I think at that time in a site developement.

Other factors to consider are availability of good content, does it replicate other content on your site and how effective are the article distribution systems do you have ?

Thank you all for your time on this.

I also want to ask a question with you, that is,

On which page of my website I should publish my articles. Because, I am a small business with a website with only few pages.

If I publish this article by creating new directory, named articles then will it help to increase the rankings of my index page or other pages for which I want to do optimization.


Please help, really thankful to you.