How do You Rank an Ezinearticle on Google?

[Jack25]

Hi Warriors,

I am going to apologize in advance if this ends up being a long post.

I have been involved in article marketing for some time, and I have around 200 articles or so online under various pen names. I have been able to write articles and get #1 rankings for uncompetitive terms, but how do you rank higher for competitive terms?

I recently read a method to rank #1 for any keyword, and this pdf was written by a very respected warrior who practices what he preaches.

Basically, the long tail keyword had to have less than 500,000 competing pages in google (in quotes), and according to the report I read you need 100 high pr backlinks (linking back in anchor text) to rank #1 for your keyword.

I want to start writing less and make every article count, meaning that I want each article to rank high on the first page of google. I am thinking about outsourcing some backlink building using some of the popular backlink packets that are going around the forum.

I see how many views some of these ezinearticles that rank high on the first page of Google for popular keyword terms have, and I know that this could be a good business model, I just need to know how to do it.

I realize that not too many people are going to want to give a step by step method, but some tips on backlinks (specifically the backlink packets) and how they have helped your search engine rankings for competitive keyword would be appreciated.

Any input for ranking ezinearticles high on the first page of google will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[Jill Carpenter]

Well, you can write more articles which backlink and point to the page you want to rank.

But honestly - that is not wise.

If you are really going to do that work, why direct traffic to a site you really don't have control over? You should put the article on a site that you own, and link to it.


PS: why did you push me down the hill?

[Moneyland]

Just trying to understand this..are you saying to put an article on my website, what say on my blog and then link other articles to it?? Would this then rank my website better?

Thanks in in advance for any further info.

Originally Posted by avenuegirl

Well, you can write more articles which backlink and point to the page you want to rank.

But honestly - that is not wise.

If you are really going to do that work, why direct traffic to a site you really don't have control over? You should put the article on a site that you own, and link to it.


PS: why did you push me down the hill?

[Jason Perez O'Connor]

It depends what he's after, a membership site looking to get more members (quicker) could use articles to get members to click through ezines to the sales page. The paying customer can then become a recurring customer.

If for example, he wants to earn from adsense, cpa etc then it might be wise to build his own one up.

if he builds a list, again it may be quicker and more effective to build a list through articles and then to a squeeze page. Whilst slowly boosting his site.

Due to the list still being his, he can promote his site to his list anyway.

It depends on what he's after.

To the OP, if it says to get atleast 100HIGH PR links for those terms, then you should go ahead and do it.

Have you? if not that's probably why you havn't ranked for higher terms. You've pretty much answered your own questions, get high pr links to your article, optimize it well then market it to the world.

You don't neccesarily need 100 high pr links though, my advice is to test i.e build backlinks to an article for a term until it ranks, then look at the amount of competing sites, what those sites did and how many links you needed.

That way you can make an estimated guess based on the amount of competing sites and the way pages are optimized among the top 10.

Ranking is not the hard part. There's no voodoo special technique. Methods still remain the same:

Optimize well
add quantity+quality
build backlinks from various different sources i.e videos, pod casts, articles, blog comments, forum signatures, partner sites, directories, press releases, classifieds

The basics are easy, but rather tedious. When I buy an ebook, it's usually to find out the little bits I'm missing, like hidden websites with more power, improving my writing, better programs, more advance ways of researching competition.

But ranking your stuff still remains the same.

Content>Optimize>Backlinks>Test>Improve>Repeat


Jay.

[NightWolf]

found this thread that may help :-)

Step By Step - How to get the MOST out of an Ezine Article!

[Marx Vergel Melencio]

Originally Posted by Jack25

Hi Warriors,

I am going to apologize in advance if this ends up being a long post.

I have been involved in article marketing for some time, and I have around 200 articles or so online under various pen names. I have been able to write articles and get #1 rankings for uncompetitive terms, but how do you rank higher for competitive terms?

I recently read a method to rank #1 for any keyword, and this pdf was written by a very respected warrior who practices what he preaches.

Basically, the long tail keyword had to have less than 500,000 competing pages in google (in quotes), and according to the report I read you need 100 high pr backlinks (linking back in anchor text) to rank #1 for your keyword.

I want to start writing less and make every article count, meaning that I want each article to rank high on the first page of google. I am thinking about outsourcing some backlink building using some of the popular backlink packets that are going around the forum.

I see how many views some of these ezinearticles that rank high on the first page of Google for popular keyword terms have, and I know that this could be a good business model, I just need to know how to do it.

I realize that not too many people are going to want to give a step by step method, but some tips on backlinks (specifically the backlink packets) and how they have helped your search engine rankings for competitive keyword would be appreciated.

Any input for ranking ezinearticles high on the first page of google will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Believe this will work:

1) Create an article for article marketing purposes. It should offer useful/helpful advice relevant to your niche. Write the content down this way: title = attention-grabbing, description/introduction = interest-provoking, 2/3 body = useful/helpful relevant info/advice-providing, last 1/3 body = curiosity-provoking for more/new useful/helpful relevant info/advice, bio/resource box = call to action.

2) Create 3 content pages on your site which can support your article by offering more/new useful/helpful advice relevant to your niche. Write the content down this way: title = attention-grabbing, description/introduction = interest-provoking, 2/3 body = useful/helpful relevant info/advice-providing, last 1/3 body = curiosity-provoking for more/new useful/helpful relevant info/advice, bio/resource box = call to action (could be "Buy Me", "Sign Up", "Share This", etc.).

3) Submit your article to EZA. Use your main and relevant longtail keyword anchors as backlinks pointing to your content pages.

4) Wait 'til it gets published.

5) Ping and social bookmark published article.

6) Spin your article. Spin it this way: 2 phrase variants for each of 2 phrases per sentence, 2 sentence variants with 2 phrase variants for each of 2 phrases per sentence, and 2 paragraph variants with 2 phrase variants for each of 2 phrases of each sentence per paragraph. This would yield 50-100+++ versions, each 70%-above unique (if you use the right article spinning tool). Use your main and relevant longtail keyword anchors as backlinks which can point to: (1) your published EZA article, and (2) your content pages.

7) Submit each version to the top 50-100 article directories (include "auto-submit" as well as NF article directories) following this strategy: 1st version to directory 1, 2nd version to directory 2, 3rd version to directory 3, and so on until you submit the last version to the last directory in your list. Your list of article directories should be ranked in order of "effectiveness" considering these factors: PR, Alexa, total number of outbound and inbound links in published article page, total number of outbound and inbound links in published article body, total number of outbound and inbound links in publsihed article bio, nofollow or dofollow, and auto-submit or non-autosubmit.

8) Ping and social bookmark your submissions.

9) On Angela, Steve and SEOBDB's sites, create accounts and profile pages with your main and longtail keyword anchors as backlinks pointing to your: (1) EZA article, (2) other published articles on high PR high Alexa high traffic article directories and (3) your content pages.

10) Do forum marketing and blog marketing using your main and longtail keyword anchors as backlinks pointing to (1) your published EZA article, (2) your published articles on other high PR high Alexa high traffic article directories, and (3) your content pages.

11) Monitor the overall performance of your campaign.

12) Use data to improve campaign or correct problems if any.

Natural backlink building via viral marketing and content syndication will follow if article content quality = comprehensible, interesting, entertaining and useful/helpful and relevant for target market.

Hope this helps.

[AndyBlackSEO]

You basically need to make your article an authority article. You would do this by linking to it but more importantly, having the article linked to from related posts, articles. These can be blog posts, etc. It's all about giving your article relevance for your keyword.

A perfect example of this is a blog post I written on profile backlinks. It was referenced to quite a bit around the net and had quite a few comments at the time. If you type in 'profile backlinks' into Google my blg post comes up no.1. It's probably not a vey competitive keyword phrase but the concept is still there. No link building has been done by myself, only other people linking to my post.

[E-supreme]

I have many articles ranking well for my keywords. Building backlinks is a great method, however, I prefer to just get on the most published and the most viewed list in ezine and this creates an avalanche of backlinks, and also excellent traffic.

[Shevd]

There are two main ways that work for me

1) Get on the most viewed list on ezine articles
2) Building Backlinks via submiting other articles to other article directories and web 2.0 sites that link back to my original article.

I hope that helps

[GeorgR.]

Basically, the long tail keyword had to have less than 500,000 competing pages in google (in quotes), and according to the report I read you need 100 high pr backlinks (linking back in anchor text) to rank #1 for your keyword.

Competing pages doesnt mean a thing really, you use keyword research software like micro niche finder or market samurai, its better to shoot for "competing sites which have keyword in title". For ezine i think a good value is < 35.000.

But this is a really rough number because there is still more to it, you can only have TEN competing pages but they can be strong, strong PR, many backlinks etc...

But basically, yes, its right, do keyword research and write the articles based on those keywords. With those methods alone i have some articles #1 in Google, so its doable!