I plugged in the first, of many, high quallity 1200 word articles into my site. I have done all of the basic SEO, keyword density, H1 tags, title, meta values, etc. So, now i'm going to start my offsite SEO for the article. Added the article to my sitemap.xml, and have done on page link building for the article. I already know to social bookmark the article, and convert the article to a podcast and submit it to appropriate directories. What else should I do? (I do not want to submit the same article to other article directories, I want my high quality content to stay onsite)
Overall it sounds like a good strategy. You may want to build more links to the article through other means....blog commenting, forum posting, more social bookmarking, etc. After that it may just be a matter of waiting for that article to start bringing in some extra traffic. Of course if you keep building links to your website, it will become easier and easier to get rankings with new articles. So now you may want to just keep repeating this strategy with a new article once or twice a week. I agree with your decision to not post that article to article directories. Keep the best unique content for your own website. It may still be worth getting some other articles for link building purposes.
Yeah, we have a number of "cheap" articles which we plan to use for link building. Once we start generating some cash from this site, I was actually thinking of going with the article writing/submission service from seo-peace.com. I'm quickly finding that cheap writers = really crappy content. But, does it really matter for the offsite articles? I feel that my goal should not be conversions from the offsite articles themselves, but more establishing a brand, as well as build backlinks to the site. I mean, I know that they should be readable, and not "spun". My other thought, is to only submit an article to a couple of directories. I know there are lists of 500+ article directories here on DP, but I feel that submitting the same content to that many places is a risky and amoral move. then again. Ultimately, I am shooting for the stars. I want to end up ranking for the term "credit cards" at some point down the road. Can this even be feasible while taking a "white hat" POV to link building and content? Assuming that I go full board with onsite articles (2 "research paper quallity" articles a week), offpage optimization (no purchased links) and 2x daily blog entries, press releases, blog/forum commenting, and manual one way link requests?
Plugged in? Quality? You should STOP everything right now and back up. What you are doing is meaningless. Why are you doing it? Who is your customer? What problem are you solving? What's your backend. Get all that in place. Plugging in articles doesn't mean anything.
Ahh work for back links. Join forums. If you have joined plenty of forums already then just add you article link in signature. cheers
Well since you are admitting that you are one of my competitors, I'm not sure how much I should help you Then again I've let my credit card websites sit for years now. One of these days I'll get back to promoting them and competing with you. I really, really doubt a website can get 1st page for 'credit cards' by white hat techniques alone. That is one of the more competitive niches and the guys on top have big budgets. You would be better of focusing those efforts on more realistic keyword phrases....just don't go after my keywords lol. It probably is fine to use low quality articles for link building, but it may not be as effective as using quality articles. A quality article will get republished more giving you more backlinks. It would likely produce more direct traffic using a quality article too. I'm not really sure whether 500 article directories is better than using just a few. Technically you shouldn't have to worry about duplicate content since it won't be on your website.
lol.....I just read what internetmarketingiq wrote. How is what he is doing meaningless? It sounds good to me. It benefits both his customers and his rankings.
Is my sarcasm meter off? Why is frequently updating a webpage with high-quality relevent content, and doing white hat link building techniques to my main page, and article, a waste of time? I have already identified my customers, and search phrases, including long tales that the customer will search for. I have already identified the monthly search volume, competition, and consumer intent for the keyphrases. I have matched all of the keyphrases to products that the customer would most likely wish to sign up for, with preference given to the higher payouts. There is no "backend" it is currently fully w3c compliant CSS webpage which I hand edit for every given page. The site already converts, I have tested it via PPC traffic. So.. I guess yeah, my sarcasm meter must be off....or you know something that I don't. If it is the later, could you please share?
okay you have one high quality article on your site so now i would rewrite the article and submit it to other high quality places likes ezinearticles, amazines, goarticles etc. These will build backlinks to your site, and if you have SEo it properly even generate some traffic from search engines.
consider submitting to article directories with link to you site on those article which generate some dedicated traffic to you site...
Do backlinks and join forums. What your doing is good as it benefits both customers and your rankings.