I was greatly surprised today. Today I typed in a keyword phrase to see if a highly profitable article I wrote back in October was still on google. Sadly it wasn't. But somehow my landing page was! This was the biggest surprise for me because one thing, I was under the impression that getting your own website on the 2nd page of google was impossible. Also I had done absolutely no seo what so ever. The title of the page the was indexed wasn't even the keyword title I searched. This was the first web page I put up and I had no idea what I was doing. But somehow it got indexed I have no idea how. I think it might be because of the backlinks I got from by article being published in other websites. But other than that I'm clueless. Well the moral of this story is that I will definitely get into SEO and combine that with article marketing instead blindly pumping out XXX many articles a day. And I think it definitely worth trying if you are not a rookie. I know nothing about SEO like actually ZERO so I am going to start with Lemonarians new guide and combine that with the good SEO knowledge at Wealthy Affiliate.
I think some of the SEO stuff may be about time as well. Meaning Google doesn't like fly-by-night operations, but if your sight has been up for a while it will hold more authority simply for the fact that it hasn't disappeared.
which article directory you are referring to? Is it EzineArticles? Then it's not a big surprise because it always happens with ezine.