Hello! I thought I would share with you a different approach to SEO with article marketing that I have been doing. Now, I read about this method somewhere and did not create it ...... but I have been implementing it with great success! My niche is very competitive and in Google there are over 40,000,000 results and I have the #5 position. Now, this isn't the only method that got me to the top 5 .... but it definitely helped! 1. Write a 1,000 word article and have a keyword density of 5% (people will argue the density should be higher or lower, but this is what works for me). 2. Create a subpage that has your keywords in it (ie. www.YourDomainName.com/long_tail_keyword) and paste your article in there HERE'S THE IMPORTANT PART! 3. WAIT - You will want to wait 10-20 days or until Google indexes this new page of your website. 4. After your site has been indexed, syndicate the article to as many sites as possible (I hire someone to submit mine to 400 directories). Be sure the article you syndicate has a backlink to your website where the article is (www.YourDomainName.com/long_tail_keyword). I also, put mine on ezinearticles.com Don't worry about the duplicate content .... If Google really penalized people for having their articles on too many sites, people would submit their competitors articles to hundreds of sites and Google would penalize them. WHY THIS APPROACH???? Here's the logic of letting Google index the article on your site first..... Google will see the article first on your site giving you credit for creating the article .... then Google will see your article all over the internet being picked up by other websites ... this shows your article is FULL of useful information for the subject (keywords) you chose. Do this often and Google will start to look at your site as constantly building VALUABLE content and will reward you. You have now become the authority in your niche and have added both content and valuable backlinks to your site.... I would love to hear any feedback or thoughts on this Ciao, Jeff
Hi Jeff. You certainly got a few things right here. Sticking the article on your site and waiting to submit it will resolve a few issues that escape most folks. That said, it works a bit better to not submit the article all over the place but to get folks to reference the material. What you suggest is still better than simply writing something and then sending it all over the place though. Simply having a link back from the same article is ultimately sorta useless in the long run. Nigel
..i'm not sure if this is of any use but. I have a site that I started a couple of years back, at the time I spent lots of time submitting to directories and writing/submitting articles. 100's of directories, 20 or so articles submitted to 50 or so article directories, but none of it worked and even after 10 months the rankings were bad I then got a full time job and completely forgot about this site, the hosting expired so there was no site but the domain never expired.. I recently decided to resurrect this site, I put a simple keyword rich landing page up, fortunately most of the original links I had generated were still in place.. some 500 or so links. As soon as the site was indexed it appeared at the bottom of the first page of results for the phrase i'd been targeting several years earlier.. So my take on this, directories and articles still work, they just take a long time to kick in!!
This is no different really than typical article submission. I do have a few comments... Searching for a phrase and seeing there are 40,000,000 does not mean that particular keyword phrase is competitive. As you can see here my URL ranks 7-8th with over a billion with a "B" results... very competitive... NOT! The number of results returned for a broad search term in no way indicates the competitiveness of the keyword phrase. It's a freaking marketing gimick used a lot by untalented SEOs to make clients "think" they know WTH they are doing. Perhaps... Honestly? Do you REALLY believe you can "trick" all those PhDs at Google into thinking that your web page is "FULL of useful information for the subject" JUST because it has 400 backlinks from 400 copies of the exact same article? Do you REALLY think Google doesn't know that the ONLY people linking to your article are low quality sites with zero original content who only have content at all because they subscribe to RSS feeds from article sites and others sites because they are too lazy and/or untalented to actually write their own original content? The people designing the algorithms at Google have more intelligence in their pinky finger than most webmasters and SEOs have in their entire brain. They have already anticipated this and if they are not currently dealing with it, they will. This is a terrible approach to link building IMO. You are MUCH better off writing a totally separate article on the same subject (totally original... not just spinning the old article... but writing a new one completely from scratch!) and submitting the 2nd article to ezinearticles.com. At least you'll get ONE link from a URL on another site that has content (which is different from yours) relevant to your page. If 400 download it from ezines, who cares... Your article has one copy and it's original... It's ezines problem who gets considered the originator of the 2nd article... And regardless of who does, you should still get credit for one good inbound link. I'm sorry... But do this often and you'll by creating a backlink profile riddled with spammy, low quality links. This will NOT make you an authority in you niche in Google's eyes. It will only serve to cheapen the quality of your site, and eventually when Google gets tired of people like you trying to work the system by "planting" links back to their own site via this technique instead of getting links naturally because others think you have a site worth linking to, Matt Cutts' team will modify their algorithm to deal with your spam backlinks... then you'll be here or on some other forums whining because you went from a PR4 home page back to a PR0 home page because they are no longer counting your spammy links. Stop trying to look for some cheap trick to get easy rankings... Write good content. Create a following for yourself. Give others a reason to link to you naturally instead of trying to spam hundreds of links from duplicate pages back to a page which is also duplicate. It may take longer but this strategy will stand the test of time, unlike YOUR strategy.
What Google does is penalize the links associated with the duplicate content. So if you were to submit your competitor's content in duplicate, then there would have to be a substantial penalty for the links (your competitor's link), to overcome the fact that these links are backlinks. Overall doing this would not help, because as said above, the fact that it is a backlink would only be cancelled out if the same content was submitted to literally hundreds of different sites.
Hi Canonical, I understand what you mean in regards to it depending what the keywords are. I wasn't trying to say that my keywords are competitive because of the amount of competing pages . I said my keywords are competitive and have lots of competing pages Also, I'm not writing poor content and spinning it. Your post seems to insinuate that I use some crappy article spinner to regurgitate the same article. I never said I re-write any of the articles.... All articles are completely original and never re-written or spun. I am dedicated to my niche is and have brought it from nothing to approx. $3,000/month through hard work, building quality (original) content and offering a quality product. My apologies if my post came across the wrong way as I can see where I said "then Google will see your article all over the internet being picked up by other websites ... this shows your article is FULL of useful information for the subject (keywords) you chose." was poorly worded. I should have said ".....this helps show your article...." You are right that just syndicating your article to hundreds of sites doesn't mean it's a good, quality article and that it's linked to a quality site. I guess it's like advertising a lemon car on a hundred websites doesn't make that car any less of a lemon ..... I do however like syndicating my articles to multiple sites and it doesn't seem to hurt me I wasn't trying to say 'get crappy articles to as many sites as possible' and Google will see you as the leader and full of great information (but that's how I came across and sorry about that) .... I was trying to say to get your article out to as many people as possible ...... but be sure they know where it started ... and be sure it's on the topic that you are trying to target (your keywords). Jeff
Jeff - if it's working for ya - then good for you. Not sure who is right. I have my own method of building links and am doing very well at it.