Effects of Google Farmer Update on Article Distribution Backlinks (UAW, Article Ranks, etc.)

Yip, I guess it's hard to believe when your site takes a hit, but in the long term it's a good thing. Google wants quality, so give it quality. You should see results if you do that.

Logically one can make that assumption, but analysis of the sites that were affected disproves this logic. I personally have many links from article directories pointing to my sites but the "panda" update didn't negatively affect my rankings.

The guys at SEOMOZ did their own analysis and they say:

"We generally interpret that to suggest that link analysis likely wasn't the culprit here - Google's Farmer Update is looking at something else on these sites - perhaps user/usage data, content analysis, page formatting, uniqueness/quality of user experience, etc."

source: Google's Farmer/Panda Update: Analysis of Winners vs. Losers | SEOmoz

So you think that when your Google Webmaster account shows inbound links that proves those links are really helping you out? When you make a statement link that you better back it up with solid proof.

I know I can prove that article directory links are worth less than the links you create in your own content (pages or posts) linking to your own URLs.

I can give you stats showing a blog that has hundreds of inbound links from article directories, and a blog that only has links created internally, and of course all the links that a good blog gets normally.

What G does is judge inbound links based on the quality of the page the link came from. Article directory links have been devalued for years now, and yet so many of the marketers here on the Warrior Forum claim them to be so important.

The only help article directories give you is traffic from their articles, and not link juice. The traffic is going to dwindle more and more too, and professional level bloggers are now writing content that KICKS article directory drivel into the river.