Recently, I have noticed that i get a boost in ratings every time my website gets a link back from a completely new website that it has never gotten a link back from before, and the more juicy keyword content the better. For example, when I first did article marketing submitting my article to about 30 different article directories i got a quick boost in ratings and thought this was great! Than after repeatedly submitting article after article i realized the boost in ratings kind of slowed down or nearly stopped. Than when i submitted my article to a completely new article directory it gave another boost. So I just wanted to know has anyone else faced this? It seems that submitting articles to the same directories doesn't do much unless its picked up by a website that isn't linking to you know. This kind of makes me want to try to only get new links from new websites. Another example is forums, if i post on the same forum a few hundred times with a link to my website in signature, doesn't do as good for me as when i get a link from a different forum even if of lesser page rank. So has this happened to anyone else? Let me know what you guys think!
Hmm-mm that's interesting. I use Linkvana for backlinks and I had the same kind of experience where you get an initial boost and then it dies down. Someone once explained to me that although the link goes to a high PR site, it only stays on the first page for a short while (first page is the high rank) and then as other articles go to that site yours gets pushed further down/to another less high PR page and so you get less 'google juice' out of it. This may be what is happening with you.
Google likes variation, it is important to vary the IP addresses of where your links are coming from. Another few things that i have picked up recently is that it seems better to use only one keyword/anchor text in the article you are submitting and also make sure you keep backlinking to the same page on your site i.e one of your inner pages, once you have this inner page on page 1 of Google then backlink your home page using the same keyword/anchor text. There are SEO tools out there that will show you exactly where your links are coming from.
Sounds interesting. personally I try to vary my backlinks amongst different ips as much as possible. Right ow I am doing all my backlinking by hand so I hope to see results soon.
Yeah, getting links from the same domains over and over again kinda dilutes it after awhile. Another thing I noticed is that with the blog networks often times your link like you said gets indexed on the homepage which has PR if any, but the link actually will disappear after awhile on most searchengines, MSN used to keep old links that didn't work, but I'm not sure if they still do since it's now Bing.
Im not sure about the MSN to Bing to be honest. Have you thought about buying an aged domain? E.g Buy a domain at least PR3 or higher if you can afford it, try to get one that has yahoo directory and Dmoz and use this high PR domain to backlink to your money site. Google favors sites that have been around for a while as it trusts them especially with the yahoo and Dmoz directories.
In the case of Linkvana, when you do a new set of hyperlinked articles the new ones go to the high PR sites top page so you get another boost. They are adding new sites all the time so the links don't always get sent to the same palces every time. Other ways to get backlinks (best to vary) which Google likes are with images+anchor text/videos/audios. You can do a recording of your articles (video of you reading them, powerpoint etc) and then distribute the recordings eg via TubeMogul. You can get more juice out of your articles on site by going to RSS Mix and making up a new mix with your site(s) and/or one or two related ones and then submitting this to Feedage. Do lots of tweeting and facebooking. Don't get bogged down in why articles are not giving the same juice ... just do more... much more and get them placed in lots of places - high PR places particularly. Lots of 'mud' being thrown at the wall - some of it will stick! Articles also often do well as they mature over time.... hope this helps
It may be useless in terms of pagerank. But if you are just looking to increase your rankings for certain keywords, then article submissions may just provide as an effective tool to pass on some anchor texts.
@simple007 "duplicate content" is about largely identical text, not so much about identical keywords ... S.
I mean that two different articles with the same keywords is OK, but two nearly-same articles with the same keywords are not OK! S.
With google, organic linking is important. This means you naturally get links spontaneously from all over the web. This is difficult to fabricate, so just focus on putting out content people would link to.
You have put forth a very interesting and factual position about backlinks. It means we need to submit articles at various directories so as to get different backlinks of various values.
As a few others have mentioned, Google loves variety, particularly variety in the domains that are linking to your site. So I'm not at all surprised you were seeing things fizzle out when submitting articles to same sites over and over again, but then received a noticeable boost when you tried out new sites. It's always important to keep your link building campaigns changing and to not focus on the same things over and over again.
Yup... Happens all the time... Focus on building a "variety" of "authority" type backlinks and you will get a nice boost in your rankings... Keep doing it and maybe just one day you will be on the first page for your targeted keywords.