My most popular page on a large site was ranked in the top 10 in Google for the keywords. A few weeks ago, I added an ezinearticle with a link to the page. Now the ezinearticle stands where my search listing once was. My search listing has been lost into oblivion. It appears Google is now punishing people who use ezinearticles. They take off the listing and just put the ezinearticle there. Has anyone else experienced this?
Hehe, well...they (EA) get pounded with 10,000 article submissions a day, might as well give them some good listings. I know I submitted many articles to them, and little good it did for that site of mine....Also EA are getting pretty picky these days about their rules....they'll find fault with you about many little things.
that's because ezinearticles has more authority then your site. this problem is quite common. get some links to the page that appeared on your site and its rank should improve. but in the future, it would be a good idea to not submit the same piece to an article directory that you are already ranking for.
Writing Articles and submitting them to Article Directories is a good way to replace Adwords. Because Google may loose business it is quite possible that we see a Big G taking a step and penalizing people who use articles abundantly.
No, I guess I'm not being clear. My site has been COMPLETELY removed from those keywords. The ezine article appeared in the same place my site used to be. The page for those keywords wasn't there at all. Now I don't even rank in like 1 million pages.
As for using articles abundantly, that's not the case. This is the only article that points to my site. The site has over 800 pages.
Interesting!... have you tried the obvious and removed the ezine article to see if your search listings return? Do some backtracking!
Same article posted on your blog and on ezinearticles.com = duplicate content. The site with authority wins. Google *should* find which page was first and eventually rank that, but this is not always the case. People "spin" articles so that they do not appear to be duplicates. If you can delete your article on ezinearticles.com, you may want to do so. Then reword/write the original article and resubmit it. Good luck
I have seen many articles form ezinearticles outranking my site, but now I no longer worry about it as this is only a temporary problem, at least it is for me. After few days, I see those articles gone deep in SERPs. They just rank high because of the new content boost.
Why complain ? Its more better for your article to get it listed on better rankings. You should understand the power of ezinearticles.com. I would advice you to even promote that article link.
If your article already has good rankings while on your own website, you should probably keep that article to yourself. Google doesn't want to list that same article twice in its search results, but as mentioned above EA has more authority so they win. You could try getting a bunch of links to the article on your own website. The EA version likely only has links from within the EA site. I don't with hlln's comment about it being better than on your own website. With the EA version taking your rankings you could be losing revenue. EA can be useful for getting some rankings, but not at the expense of your own rankings.
It's so strange thing..... But I think the thing which caused that problem in your site ranking is that you copied the content from EA and pasted it into your site that makes google hate your site so that you have to write your articles by your self.
i wouldn't give up on EA articles. i would just make sure that the ones submitted are not exactly the same as on my site to avoid duplicate content. also i wouldn't remove the EA article. hopefully there will be a reversal and your site will take back it's rightful place.
Dont submit articles from your site to ezinearticles. I have many articles there but i write them especially for submission. That surely a case of duplicate content. Such a case may not be a popular one. What happened in your case was that you made ezinearticles compete with you by submitting an article already doing well. So you lost and it won. A better way of promoting your popular pages would be creating a fresh article for submission and linking it to your popular pages.
Use only unique content to submit to directories, never reuse your websites content or you're to be outranked.
it happens that the sites you submit will rank higher than your site. you can fix by keep buildin your backlinks to make your site stronger and they will dropped soon. To preven this, try not to put the same keywords as your site when you submit to articles site or bookmarking site. (if you only want traffics)
That's why I don't add any articles to any top article directories if our site is already popular and ranking well.
Well I just wrote about replacing adwords with articles. I think that is very much true as in your case the article lead all the way and left your site far behind.
Please listen. The article is not at all listed on my site anywhere. It is just an article with some content that links to a webpage on my site. There is not duplicate content. However, Google totally removed my webpage from the search results. I mean 100% removal. The ezine article now ranks where the page once did. It seems like Google just decided that if I'm going to promote my site with a link in ezinearticles, then there is no reason to maintain my site for those keywords, but rather to just put the ezine article in the search results. Duplicate content is not the issue. Thanks for the suggestions to delete the ezine article. I didn't realize that I can do that.
I'd really appreciate it if you would let us know if deleting the article solves the problem. It sounds like the kind of mess I could easily get myself into, no offense! --T