Hey guys, I just invested $200 or so in submitting my site to social bookmarking sites, article creation and submission and blog reviews. I am getting backlinks..etc but I only moved from spot 15 to spot 14 in Google after nearly a month. What am I not doing? I have completed my onsite SEO and paid nearly $7 an article and submitted each article to only 1 directory. The niche I am in is not that competitive but I did not think I would have spent all this time and money and it did nothing. Would someone mind sharing a link or point me in the right direction for external SEO? Thank you guys!
How old is the site? I usually wait about 90 days to start getting results. have you submitted articles to ezine, article base, squidoo. What are you using for anchor text? are you using variation? Are using different methods for backlinks?
Friend, According to me search engine optimization is a time game. You need time as well with efforts. You are in the right way only. But it require good time to get the results. Carry on the works and see results coming.
I got ranked for a brand-new domain in seven days-- don't listen to these guys. In four weeks you should definitely have something substantial. Give us the website URL so we can judge it. Otherwise we can't help you.
Social bookmarking isn't going to help your rankings, so I wouldn't bother paying for that. With regards to article directories, if all you want is the link juice then don't pay $7 per article just to submit it to one directory. Just spin the hell out of one article and submit it to a few hundred directories. There's a service provider on DP somewhere who can do something like this for you for $18. Article directories are just dumping grounds for cheap, rehashed articles. Don't give them any more respect than they deserve by devoting your time or money towards writing a unique and useful article
I would buy this domain: verygoodthnx.com This is a broken link from spoofcard.com which seems to be the authory for your keyword.
Try two main keywords that drove 1k uniques to my website in the first 30 days, and 5k in the past thirty.
So you're telling me you went from being nowhere to being on the first page in seven days? Unless you were in the so called "google honeymoon" where new sites are well ranked for only a few days and then dissapear, what you're saying is not possible to my knowledge.
I think it's a waste of money to submit one article to each directory, since your aim is to get as many backlinks as you can. Why not use Jetspinner to manually spin each article into 20 spun copies, and submit to another 20 article directories? I think an additional 1,000 backlinks will help.
Im sorry, but wouldnt this hurt my credibility if it links back to my main site, MyOwnName.com ? I kept reading that solid quality content is the way to go.... (newbie getting more confused )
After nearly a month? You will get the benefit of the article you submitted after 3 months once Google update the PR
No - search engines can't tell whether content is good quality or not. So if you spin an article so that it passes the uniqueness test then it doesn't matter how good or bad the article is, as long as it is reasonable enough to get accepted into an article directory. Since most of them accept all sorts of garbage, it simply isn't worth submitting a high quality article to a directory if all you are looking for is link juice. If you are talking about credibility in terms of reputation and brand, then I don't suppose you would be submitting to article directories in the first place.
-web directories -do follow forum signature -article directories -squidoo and hub pages -blogger -wordpress.com -blog posting/commenting -reciprocal linking -paid links Do all these for well rounded results Larry
well, social bookmarking and article submission should drive some traffic to your site. both of them are great source of traffic with article submission converting more than bookmarking. however, this traffic will be instant and short lived. for long term traffic, you will need to continue your link building. just one time article submisison and social bookmarking will not rank any site well for competitive terms. do some of the link building yourself and keep building links as much as you can. most people fail or give up because they dont stick with it. SEO is a long term game and you need to have patience if you want to see some result