Hello! I'd like to start a thread where we could compare link building to article submit. I have a good results from article submit. What I do: 1. Write an article with more than 500 words. 2. Submit it to few sites with PR >= 5 and do a bulk submission to 60+ other sites. 3. I use a link in Author bio with anchor text. 4. As a result I'm having a better position on this keyword. If talk about money/result, then I invest about 10-20$ in writing article and about 10$ (my time or outsourced submit service) in submitting article. As a result I'm having for 20-30$ few links from PR5 sites, and more links from other article sites. Also, the is a chance (if I invest 20$ in article, it's better) that someone will put an article on his web-site and keep a link to me. I'd like know to compare to link building strategy. As I understand there are two common strategies: 1. Buy links 2. Get links for free (as I do from article submit, as people can do by submitting to directories, etc.) I'm interested in math of "buy links". From my experience, it sounds like investing 8$-20$ (2-4 links for a month) will bring my web-site to the same position on the keyword, like submitted article. But article links are permanent, and links that I have purchased are not. So it looks like submitting articles is much more profitable than just purchasing links? In what cases I think link building will be better? 1. If link is from site with good traffic and what I purchase is not a PR, but targeted visitors. 2. When link is from site from my niche, and site have >= PR7 (I cannot get PR7 from article submit). Could you please share your experience and highlight the investments you made, the results you have in terms of traffic and search engines positions. Thank you!
The investments I've made...aside from a lot of time and effort, I've spent absolutely nothing for advertising. Period. My strategy has been article marketing all the way. And I'm in the top 10 for many keywords related to my site, and my articles are #1 for a lot of targeted keywords.
I don't actually tell that paid links are more helpful (sorry, if I did ), when I deal with my partners I'm getting free links from them and they are very useful, but I have to link back to them, and today google might think that it is bad practice, but I will continue to do so, because I'm getting real traffic. Do you know a good strategy for building free links to your web-site? Please, share if you have your own tricks. As for ranking - last time I was promoting with articles took 2 months to get PR4 for internal pages and PR3 for the root. I need to submit about 3 or 4 articles, it was in very tight presentation niche (by the way, I found no use for this web-site for me right now, so will be selling it in digital point marketplace soon)
Agree, but with articles I have measurable result, e.g. submit X articles to get Y keywords in first 10 search results. Could you please share your experience about links that will look like pay/exchange X links, got Y keywords in first 10 results in search.
Link building, except paid ones with express approval, have proved to be a slower way to get traffic but in the long run, I have benefited from quality backlinks. With article marketing, sometimes the articles are published at sites without similar themes so I think Google may discount or under rank such backlinks. When it has appeared on the main original article directory, traffic has been good.