Hey guys, I'm new to this forum and I wanted some input on something. Over the last 1.5 months i've been doing article marketing to get a site ranked higher for some key terms. I have been submitting spun articles to the top 50 directories (like EZA, GoArticles, etc.) at a rate of about 6 per day. A search for my name in Google shows about 200 results, so my articles are obviously being picked up. Here's the problem. I have not seen an increase in my SERPs or overall traffic whatsoever. One of my terms has a search volume of about 2000 per month, while the other is around 15000 per month. The 2000 per month keyword should not be that hard to rank for since I did some research on the competing sites and some of the top 10 sites barely have any backlinks at all. Here is a little background on my site. -It is a little over one year old -Up until 1.5 months ago I had done almost zero marketing for the site -Traffic to the site has been steady around 2000 uniques per month over the past 6 months (could be a lot higher if I eventually get ranked for the terms I want) -I have not done any major modifications to the site (no IP changes, no css changes, no url changes, etc.) -It has about 70 pages of quality content -All of my backlinks contain my keywords that I'm trying to rank for...some articles have variations of the keywords Any help is GREATLY appreciated! Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Article marketing takes time. 1.5 months is not a long time, mix up your link getting sources and you will be fine in the long term.
patience is the virtue. 6 articles per day on 50 sites is a lot actually. you should see some decent traffic spike form all these submission. if you dont see any increase of traffic, then you are not doing this right. make sure you have a resource box setup in a way that will entice the readers to click on your links to visit your site. most people go for the links and dont focus on minor details that goes a long way. your resource box needs to be written in a way so that readers will be interested enough to click. regarding ranking, it may take some time. based on your keyword, you may need to keep submitting articles for some time before seeing any significant boost in ranking. for better result, diversify your link building campaign and use other link building methods at the same time
it takes time as others said. submitting the same article to multiple places ruins the purpose. you should rewrite/spin the articles when you submit the same article to multiple places.
Article marketing is the best form of white-hat seo and long term link building. You want that article to rank. All your doing is collecting soliders and sending them out there to bring you traffic. Within that traffic you will have those who have $$$ to buy your stuff. Some will and some won't but so what... You need to be prepared and create value for your visitors and don't be afraid to sell
you haven't mentioned about article quality means are you submitting same article in various sites? I think you should spin articles so that a new fresh article will be created. Search Engines are always looking for non-duplicate content so spin your articles.
To be frank this is not the right way of doing SEO. 6 articles per day is quite a lot. Actiually I submit less than 6 article per month. Moreover only doing article marketing will not fetch you results. Article marketing should be one of your method of doing SEO. Yes, patience is virtue. You can not expect the results over 1.5 months. Do other methods of link building and continue to fetch good contents. Your website will grow over a period of time.
Hey guys, Thanks for the replies. For those of you who mentioned the spinning of articles, all of my articles are spun...but thanks for the input! i should also clarify that I'm not submitting 6x50 (or 300) articles per day. I'm submitting a total of 6 articles per day. So, after about 8 or 9 days each of those 50 article sites will have 1 of my articles. At this point the process is repeated. 300 per day would be wayyyyy too much. haha! I think i'll try social bookmarking my site pages and also my articles. Maybe this will give me a little extra "link juice". I'll also try to submit to directories to switch up my link sources. I'll try to update you guys over the coming months on my results. Thank again.
Don't get impatient, usually it takes a lot of time. In the meantime try other ways of increasing traffic - go for social networking sites. Hope that you get results soon.
How many links are we talking about? How many articles? Does 6 per day mean, 6 submissions or does it mean 1 article submitted to 6 different sites? One of the inherant problems with article marketing is that it depends on time. As your articles age they tend to gain PR and become more valuable links.
Time is definitely a virtue when it comes to building quality traffic. There are quick methods for getting hits to your site, like the browse sites, buying visits etc, but that is really all a waste of time and money. By using a quality and consistent method you will build solid results. Writing quality articles and submitting them without saturating or over duplicating to waste the effort, mixed with submitting to the search engines and link directories, mixed with setting up a gravatar account and posting quality feedback comments to multiple dofollow blogs, then of course visiting forums that after an initiation time allows for a signature, that again is dofollow. When you do submit articles using your social bookmarks after they are posted is also not a bad idea....having friends doing the same for the ones they like is also a tremendous help. By using all of the tools at hand in combination good quality consistent traffic will begin to increase...a six month goal for a decent following is probably not a bad thing to have in mind either
Nope you are not being impatient, but you are taking the wrong road to climb up the rankings. Don't get me wrong, but as far as I understood you trying to improve rankings of your website by just article submission? If that's the case, then I am right, you are in the wrong road. Not only it will take you a long time to achieve your rankings, but anyone who will notice that your sites "power" comes from deep pages of "certain" websites only can knock you off the rankings. What you need is to diversify a bit your marketing strategy, few article submission, few healthy quality links from related sites, more article submission etc etc..sticking with one method only you will have a long way to go until you achieve your goal. Just my two cents.
The SEO benefit of article marketing is meager in comparison to the natural traffic you'll gain from people who love what they read. That's why QUALITY articles are imperative.
Article submitting is different from directory submitting or blog commenting: article directories always create new separated page with zero pagerank for your article. In other cases, you link should be placed in existing page that has some pagerank value already. For this reason, you need more patience for article marketing However, for article submission, you have full control the context where your links appear. That's very good.
Simple article marketing wont work anymore, there are 'n' number of guys doing the same thing and trying to rank for the same results as article marketing is one of the most cost effective and simple solution to link building questions. You need to make article marketing in a diversified nature: #You need to get your articles indexed #Constant article submissions, that is rinse and repeat every week or month #You need to get link juice to your article pages #You need to build backlinks to your article pages, so that the link benefit remains strong #You need to keep thos pages indexed to ensure you get the benefit of links over a period of time. #You need to mix web 2.0 marketing along with article marketing to gain full benefit from those article backlinks. #Occassionally get other kinds of links also, think out of box, article marketing has great potential, just that you need to be different from what a 1000 others are doing.