Comments on: Is Self Submission Really that Bad?

By: Seo Submissions

Seo Submissions — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:25:48 +0000

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By: Dwayne from Probably Sucks Blog

Dwayne from Probably Sucks Blog — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:14:49 +0000

I used StumbleUpon to generate a constant stream of traffic to my new blog – http://probablysucks.com in just over 1 week of operating, I’ve received over 3,000 visits and a majority of it is StumbleUpon, some of it is surprisingly Google searches as well.

I don’t think self-submitting is that bad, look at me. I’m doing pretty well for only being an actual blog for just over a week now.

By: ZaggedEdge

ZaggedEdge — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:09:16 +0000

I agree that submitting your own stuff does look bad.

BUT if nobody is reading your stuff AND your a new blogger–go ahead and submit it.

Besides, the more you submit your stuff on SU, the less effective it becomes.

Matt

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:59:04 +0000

Mark,
I wouldn’t feel bad about submitting your own content, but be careful where you do it and how often you do it. If you do it too much it can be frowned upon more so than if you just submit the best stuff. Like I said in the post, I tend to submit to niche sites where it doesn’t seem to be an issue. You just have to be active and the sites and you should get a feel for what’s acceptable and what’s not.

By: Mark Aplet

Mark Aplet — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:59:46 +0000

I followed your link from SEO 2.0 where I was feeling quite discouraged because I had submitted some articles to social sites. I was feeling like I was now an evil person that should be shunned. I have read other blogs saying to submit your content. So I followed their advice. Now I am confused and feel paralyzed, affraid to submit, concerned that nobody will read my articles if I don’t…

I feel that your opinion is more factual based and less fueled by personal emotion on the subject. So I thank you for that. Your article was more enlightening and makes me want to take a closer look before submitting my own articles rather than categorically stating that I am a jerk if I do so. (Though I don’t think that is what Tad was intending to say) At least for now I feel that I can submit articles at least until I have more than my current 20 subscribers. haha!

So again thanks for posting a more relevant followup article.

By: ImJustCreative

ImJustCreative — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:43:43 +0000

I am still not not overly comfortable with self submissions direct to the various sites. I think I feel i still have a way to go in proving myself, posts that are readable and a site that is interesting.

What I do do however is use Twitter to send a message about a new post. It just says a new post is available, I don’t ask for anything. This I find then helps spread the word and I now find that they are being submitted to say Stumble or bookmarked on Delicious if a reader feels its necessary. So there is a very subtle ‘push’ as most people who are following you on Twitter tend to get the ‘hidden message’. The re-tweets then spread the message even further and so on…

But then we get into the realms of posts being submitted JUST because, rather than on quality. But that’s another story.

Graham

By: Tracey Grady

Tracey Grady — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:03:38 +0000

I discovered Tad’s blog (and read his self-submission article) and subscribed to it a few minutes before reading this post on your blog. Serendipity!

When I started my blog earlier this year I submitted some (not all) early posts to Stumbleupon but now I won’t self submit to SU and I find that readers are submitting them for me instead, so that’s working. What’s most interesting (in terms of this discussion) is that the greatest amount of traffic from SU comes as a result of a post I self-submitted in July. That would suggest that if people like the content of a blog post enough then they won’t be concerned that it was self-submitted (so long as you don’t overdo it, of course).

By: JONxBLAZE

JONxBLAZE — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:53:39 +0000

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with self submission as long as it’s done in moderation. If you submit a crappy post yes it will hurt your blog in the long run, but as you mentioned, if it’s a genuinely great article then I say self-submit.