After highlighting the various methods of Article Distribution we have some results from an article submitted to iSnare 10 days ago. The article was a travel destination related article and we used iSnare’s $2 distribution service that claims to distribute articles to over 40,000 publishers. We have produced screenshots of results found for the article title in search engines, searched for enclosed in quotes. Google, Yahoo and MSN search engines have been used to check the results of this iSnare article distribution experiment. As well as just checking for instances of the article title in the major search engines results pages we have delved a little deeper and actually investigated some of the sites that have picked up the distributed article. We were looking for cases of the article republished without our links and resource box as well as the quality of the sites our article ended up posted to.

iSnare Article 10 day Results in Google Search

Just 10 days after submitting our article to iSnare for the $2 distribution Google shows 897 results for the article title searched for enclosed in quotes. The first result is an iSnare url in Google’s search with the url being the direct url to our article page on the iSnare site. After the second result which is another article type directory site that has syndicated the article comes a holiday related blogspot blog. At first it seems like a good result, a PR4 blogspot blog in the same niche has published the article. But this blogspot blogger has republished our article without our Resource Bio Box and therefore we gain no live links from this website. With no contact information on this blogspot blog we left a comment on the copy of our article notifying the blogger that the article required the Author Bio Resource box to be published with the article. We will see if this comment persuades the blogger to include our Author Resource Box and links with the republished article. Apart from this blogger most of the other sites that have included the article seem to have kept the Author Resource Box included with the article and published the live links. It is good to note that there seems to be a good mixture of holiday, travel and other related websites republishing the article as well as the many expected general article directories. The first few pages of Google results seem to be a fairly even mix of sites related to the articles niche and article directory type sites.

Yahoo is showing even more results than Google search for our article title in quotes at 1,120 search results. Again yahoo has picked up on the blogspot blog that neglected to include our Author Resource Box when they republished the article and it appears in the first serp. Just below the blogspot blog result another holiday related blog is showing that has republished the article including the Resource Bio Box. This blog appears to include various holiday niche articles and has a homepage of PR4 so this is quite encouraging. Mostly article directories apart from these two holiday related blogs show for the first few Yahoo search results pages then a few more holiday, vacation, hotel type websites start to appear from Yahoo search results page 3 onwards.

iSnare Distribution of Travel Article MSN Results

MSN search results for the iSnare distributed article, search enclosed in quotes are much lower than the other two search engines checked. Only 90 results showed for our search in the MSN serp’s and instead of the iSnare url to the article GoArticles showed up as the very first result for this search. The holiday niche articles type site with a PR4 homepage that was found on the Yahoo search also appears on the first page in the MSN search. Some different sites seem to appear within the MSN search results that the other search engines did not show, including a travel directory type site with a PR3 homepage.

Effectiveness of iSnare Distribution after 10 days

This article submission has been distributed effectively using the paid iSnare distribution service, gaining over 800 backlinks according to Google search results after just 10 days. It seems that iSnare distributes articles to many other article directory type sites, therefore a lot of the instances of the article do appear in article directories. Although these are directories they may still hold some merit as the articles are posted in Travel categories on these article sites (so you could say the directory category they appear in is relevant to the niche at least). As well as the many article directories a good variety of holiday and travel related blogs and websites also have published the article. One was found to have removed the Author Resource Box, therefore all of our links from the article, but others published the article in full including our live links back to our site. Out of the travel related websites that republished the article some were PR4 and PR3 homepage sites.
Upon checking traffic stats for the website that the article linked back to, we found that there were 3 referrals direct from iSnare urls and also 1 direct referral from ArticlesBase.com. The traffic to the site also showed an increase of around 10% - 15% over the last 5 days or so, but it is not possible to determine if this is in due to the article submission or just normal traffic fluctuations. So for the $2 fee charged for article distribution this service has definitely gained our website some relevant backlinks on sites in the related niche, after only 10 days. The large number of other article websites that have also picked up the article will give a much higher chance of other publishers in the niche finding the article and republishing it in the future.