10 Articles in Ezine Articles But No traffic!

[klinvie]

Hi everyone,

I have been had 10 article listed at ezine articles but for some reason I'm not finding my articles when I type in the keyword. At first I was using keywords that were too competitive but now i choose keywords that's gets about 1000 to 6,000 seaches and still my article do not show up.

Are these search results still to high?

My articles has been in the directories for months now but I cannot find them at all when I type the keyword into Google. Have anyone had this problem?

[chargers]

It depends totally upon the niche you select. but You will get at least minimum traffic, are you?

[LegitBlogger]

This is not a very common problem, especially if you use
the right keywords in your titles/headings. If nothing the
articles are supposed to be indexed at least, but you
said you can't find any of them in the search engines
when you type in the keywords?

That's obviously why they aren't getting any visits.

But do you find any other EzineArticles articles for
the keyword? If yes, then someone else's article(s)
is ranking for the keywords you want to rank for.

I suggest you build some backlinks to the articles, using
the keywords you are targeting, and see how it goes.

[klinvie]

yes, i can't find any of them but as you said I DO see other articles which explains as you said must be ranking higher. Yes it does seem they are indexed and I'm using the keywords in the title and throughout the article.

So what am I doing wrong? How do I check the amount of searches each keyword have in google? do i place the keyword inside the " " to find out the non competitive keywords?

thanks

[Matthew Olson]

When I first started article marketing it was not unusual to submit an article to EZA and have it rise to the top of Google without any extra work.

I'm pretty sure those days are over...

As James mentioned earlier, you're going to have to create backlinks to your articles if you want them to rank high in the search engines.

This means at the VERY LEAST social bookmarking your articles. Depending on your keyword phrase you may want to build some high PR backlinks to your articles as well.

Now this may seem like a lot of extra work, but the upside is you can rank well for keywords with much higher competition. If you're going to go this route, I would suggest targeting keywords that are "buyer" type keywords to ensure that your hard work pays off.

Here is a free WSO that does a good job of covering the exact details of this process:

Article Marketing 102

Good luck!

Matt

[John W.G.]

Don't give up, it definitely takes time.

As mentioned above you should ping them
and build backlinks to them.

Build a couple web 2.0 properties and link
to your articles.

Another strategy that works great but many
people don't do that can build some serious
backlinks is to get your rss feed for all your
articles and submit it to the rss directories.

Pm me if you don't know how to do that.

jg

[klinvie]

James,

could you explain what you mean when you say ping? And when you say getting back links, do you mean I need to connect my articles to more articles or more websites.

thanks

[klinvie]

Thanks Mathew. This will help greatly!

[klinvie]

Just sent you a PM John.

Thanks

[saraward]

This is unusal i suppose it depends on the keywords im in the affiliate marketing game and my articles all seem to show up. I suppose it could depend on the article density or what you have done with your article.

did you bookmark them?

[klinvie]

Yea i think you are right Saraward. I didn't bookmark them. nether did I do any of the other thing everyone has been mentioning. Except I used my keyword in my title and sprinkled the keyword throughout the article.

Looks like I've been missing a lot of things here.

It's time to get busy. Thanks much for your help.

klinvie

[Dal.K]

some of my articles show up, but either way try promoting your articles via social bookmarking and backlinking.

[Marhelper]

Originally Posted by klinvie

Hi everyone,

I have been had 10 article listed at ezine articles but for some reason I'm not finding my articles when I type in the keyword. At first I was using keywords that were too competitive but now i choose keywords that's gets about 1000 to 6,000 seaches and still my article do not show up.

Are these search results still to high?

My articles has been in the directories for months now but I cannot find them at all when I type the keyword into Google. Have anyone had this problem?

You may be targetting keywords that are less competetitive but still missing the mark. You need to dig deeper. HINT: SemRush.com

[StevenSaliba]

What I recommend you do, is to make a search on Ezinearticles.com for the keyword you want to rank for. If no one else wrote an article with the keyword phrase you want to rank for, you have a good chance of ranking high in the search engines. Try to title your article with the keywords at least 2 times if you can. It will help your SEO efforts.

[Andie]

Klinvie,
I'm no guru, but I'm going to recommend checking out the 30 day challenge training, particularly day 10 which focuses on Ezine articles and how to make the most of them, backlinking and kw...IMO, the whole program rocks/is free/explains all things very well..maybe it will help with the dots that aren't connecting for you.
Can't post links yet, but it is thirtydaychallenge(dot)com/training/2009day10.php

hope that doesn't get me into trouble!!
Andie

[lklein]

Besides the above, keep submitting more articles with good titles.

10 is not very many. I have over to 100 in Ezine. Never thought I would a few years ago, but it happened.

So learn about formating your articles and promoting them. Keep on typing!

BTW I am one of those two finger typist. A few years ago I couldn't even write one article.

Lambert

[klinvie]

Wow!

thanks everyone for all you help. Have lots to get me going now!

klinvie

[Tomwood]

try searching like this allintitle:thetitleofyourarticle this will bring up all pages with this title and your article should appear if it has been indexed.

This will as least let you know if it has been indexed or not

[clint48]

Originally Posted by klinvie

yes, i can't find any of them but as you said I DO see other articles which explains as you said must be ranking higher. Yes it does seem they are indexed and I'm using the keywords in the title and throughout the article.

So what am I doing wrong? How do I check the amount of searches each keyword have in google? do i place the keyword inside the " " to find out the non competitive keywords?

thanks

Yes put your keyword phrase/title in quotes and that will tell you the amount of competition you have for that key word phrase/title. Then you should check the 10 sites listed on that page and see how many back links they have to their site. If most of the sites have 1,000's of back links you might want to try a different keyword phrase/title.

[entrepreneurjay]

Are you optimizing your content for the search engines? They should be showing up your chosen keywords if optimized correctly, and no I am not having this problem. Are you sure they have been indexed? Are they fairly new? If they have been out there for a while and you're not seeing them, try optimizing your content more.

[klinvie]

Thanks everyone for your feedback. It really Helped a lot!

[JohnMcCabe]

klinvie, I'm a little curious...

Why did you wait over a year to thank everyone?

Edit: I guess I'm getting a little blind to one-line posts at times. I missed klinvies's TY post (#10) - Thanks, Sylvia.

Even without that, I want to clarify that my question was simple curiosity - I hadn't seen that before. No hidden meaning at all...

[oneplusone]

Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe

klinvie, I'm a little curious...

Why did you wait over a year to thank everyone?

That is what I was thinking.

Maybe he fell asleep for over a year, and just woke up

The alternative is, that he took the advice from the replies and has come
back to express his gratitude and love...

[Damz]

the days of ezine Articles are gone,,,,

[lklein]

No. They are still here. I get a good percentage of traffic from my articles.

Lambert

[Nicola Lane]

Threads asking how to do Article Marketing come up quite often here - so I have a standard reply - I hope this helps:

Two brilliant threads to read about article marketing are these:

Tips For Better Results From Your Article Marketing

Article on site or EZA first ?

Read them both - all the way through - and take notes.

For further information I recommend the following directory - It is education in article marketing - a guide book and monthly newsletters - with a directory thrown in! You can read what Warriors think about it here:

Allen Graves Walks The Walk

Promote My Articles Article Marketing Service

also available as a WSO here:

http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...g-service.html

This is a really great WSO for people trying to write good preselling articles:

http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...iors-only.html

I can also recommend the WSO's from this guy:

View Profile: Zeus66

In particular this one - All people interested in article marketing should study this!

http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...-you-need.html

This guy also has some good stuff - some article marketing some on other things

View Profile: Steven Wagenheim

Hope this helps.

[Mangozoom]

I think your problem is to do with the keywords you are choosing.

Personally I write thousands of articles and on most my sites get most of my traffic comes this way. As a result I have to work hard at learning how to pick the best keywords.

So gen up on keyword research

One little tip is once you have found a keyword, type it into Ezine articles look at the top articles and do a simple math.

Divide the number of days published by the amount of views. This will tell you wether the keyword is worth going after.

Once you make a decision it is simply a matter of writing the article in a way that will trump those already listed.

John

[ShaunAllen]

LMAO. I developed a habit of always looking at the date of the original post. For some reason on this one I didn't do it which is rare. However, this is very weird. I'd also like to know if the tips helped him/her out and they're now living the dream.

Otherwise, why would you come back and write a one-line thank you post.

Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe

klinvie, I'm a little curious...

Why did you wait over a year to thank everyone?

[sylviad]

Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe

klinvie, I'm a little curious...

Why did you wait over a year to thank everyone?

Well, John, actually he didn't - check back at post #17.
Good catch though. I didn't notice how old this thread was until I got to your post #22(?).

Klinvie...

I'm still at post #22, so this might already have been said.

At the start of your thread, you sounded like you are confusing searches with competition. If there are 1000 searches, that has little if anything to do with the actual competition. To find that out, enter the keyword in quotes in Google to find out exactly which competitors are actually working to rank for that keyword.

If you search the competition without using quotes, you will get results that include any web site that includes your keyword. So if those sites are not using the keyword in the title and meta tags, they aren't your true competition.

And I agree - 10 articles is not much.

Keep in mind too, that articles sink down the pages after a week or more. If those articles do not have good back links to them, Google will not see them as being very important. They are important when you first publish them on EA, but it's short lived. It's not that your articles aren't in the results. They are probably way down on page 100 or something.

To find out if your article is actually in the results, search the article title in quotes and it should come up.

Hope this helps.

Sylvia

[sarahberra]

I don't have time to check my ezine articles, but sometimes I go back to them later and find out if they are indexed. I think it usually takes about 2 weeks to a month for these to get indexed.

[King Shiloh]

Hey folk,

Maybe competition has swallowed up your resources. You need to work on your articles. You need to churn out more quality articles with targeted long-tailed keywords.

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by Damz

the days of ezine Articles are gone,,,,

Many Warriors making very good (and increasing) livings by using EZA as the mainstay of their article marketing businesses will really be very surprised indeed to hear that.

Originally Posted by sarahberra

I think it usually takes about 2 weeks to a month for these to get indexed.

I think a day is a lot closer, on average, than a month, fortunately.

Originally Posted by pradiprg

Now i am wondering the discussion about developing backlinks for article ranking. I feel it is all useless.

Don't let people put you off, Pradeep. The reality is that "information" on the board here is by no means always true! With absolutely no offense intended to anyone, the resources listed in Nicola's kind post above will be far more informative (and accurate!) for most people's purposes than some of the many other incidental - and wildly inaccurate - comments in this year-old thread.

[Bradley McK]

I know people can make money doing this, but I just can't get used to the idea of creating good kw rich content and then putting it on somebody elses site. I want truly good content to go on my websites. Maybe barely acceptable articles can go to EZA or goarticles, but that's it for me.

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by brittany_46

I just can't get used to the idea of creating good kw rich content and then putting it on somebody elses site.

I don't mind it at all, as long I'm doing it just for something "extra" - obviously after publishing it myself, and having it indexed on my own site(s).

But in the case of EZA, for me, the "something extra" can be pretty good, too: by offering my already-published work as "ezine articles" (or "website articles") I get a lot of syndication out of it. My articles end up on high-PR, context-relevant authority sites in front of other people's targeted audiences, and the gradual increasing flow of high quality backlinks, traffic, opt-ins and sales I get from it helps my business to build up residual income from work already done.

For me, that's what "article marketing" is.

Originally Posted by brittany_46

I want truly good content to go on my websites.

So do I.

And after that, I want it to go to EZA and eventually get widely syndicated from there.

Originally Posted by brittany_46

Maybe barely acceptable articles can go to EZA or goarticles, but that's it for me.

I look at it differently: I want my best work to go to EZA (after being indexed on my own sites, of course) because that's the work that webmasters and ezine/newsletter compilers are most willing to syndicate - and for me, that's where the money is.

[alexdigital]

Originally Posted by John W.G.

Don't give up, it definitely takes time.

Another strategy that works great but many
people don't do that can build some serious
backlinks is to get your rss feed for all your
articles and submit it to the rss directories.

Pm me if you don't know how to do that.

jg

RSS Feed directories seems interesting. Do you have a list of good directories you'd like to share?

[Bradley McK]

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

I don't mind it at all, as long I'm doing it just for something "extra" - obviously after publishing it myself, and having it indexed on my own site(s).

But in the case of EZA, for me, the "something extra" can be pretty good, too: by offering my already-published work as "ezine articles" (or "website articles") I get a lot of syndication out of it. My articles end up on high-PR, context-relevant authority sites in front of other people's targeted audiences, and the gradual increasing flow of high quality backlinks, traffic, opt-ins and sales I get from it helps my business to build up residual income from work already done.

For me, that's what "article marketing" is.



So do I.

And after that, I want it to go to EZA and eventually get widely syndicated from there.



I look at it differently: I want my best work to go to EZA (after being indexed on my own sites, of course) because that's the work that webmasters and ezine/newsletter compilers are most willing to syndicate - and for me, that's where the money is.

Thank You for your thoughtful reply. I think you have changed my perspective about this. A simple thing, but not many posters have mentioned the step of publishing on our own sites first. I post to my site first, naturally, and then if I got around to it I would spin a version for the 2 directories I mentioned. Your steps sound better.

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by brittany_46

A simple thing, but not many posters have mentioned the step of publishing on our own sites first.

They don't ... I suspect that quite a lot of people imagine, in spite of occasional threads like this one (which is very good!) that EZA - and other article directories - won't publish content already published on one's own site. In fact, as far as I know, "Buzzle" is the only one that won't.

[Slin]

Play it as a numbers game, by the end of a month you should have 300 articles in your account (ten a day) I find that usually some of my articles get stuck high on some random longtail keyword that no one even knows about.

Usually my articles will get random views every few months or so, so by creating a huge number of them you'll continually get large amounts of traffic trickling through.

A lot of work?

Yes.

But it's autopilot profits once it's set up.

[JohnMcCabe]

Originally Posted by pradiprg

What a funny thing. Up till now i was reading that article writing and marketing at eZine etc. heps to develop backling. Now i am wondering the discussion about developing backlinks for article ranking.I feel it is all useless.

One approach to article marketing says to post your articles on directories because they are already regarded as authority sites, and thus have a better chance of ranking quickly. As authority sites, some directories may have more 'juice' to pass along. Which makes the link from your article valuable.

Some people believe that you can increase that 'link juice' by adding another layer and building links to the articles you posted to build links. Personally, I'd rather spend the time and effort building links to my own online properties.

One thing to keep in mind is the original purpose of article directories. They were conceived as a central place website owners and ezine publishers could come to find solid content to republish on their sites and in their newsletters. In return for quality content, the author got the resource box with a live link back to the site of their choice (more or less).

Having their articles published on a variety of content sites built valuable links, as well as putting the content in front of the site owner's visitors.

Then some bright person got the notion that you could build a lot of backlinks quickly by dumping a bunch of articles on the directories, regardless of quality. The only thing that counted for them is the backlink.

Couple that with directory owners needing more and more pages to place their own ads (often Adsense), and you have a perfect storm for loading up the directories with crap.

[klinvie]

Hey everyone, didn't mean to be confusing on the thank you post. In post #17 I said thanks but I was away a year or so and after returning I was going through the thread but must have skipped my #17 post. And I can see why that can be confusing.

Sorry about that but just wanted to make sure I thanked everyone for their help.

[Randy Daugherty]

This means that your articles on ezine is not getting enough traffic so when you try to search for the keyword its not included in the option...

[neda30]

One of the best ways to get index is getting backlinks from authority sites like Digg, Reddit, or stumbleupon. The way I get indexed is I use websites like social poster and Ping Fm. These sites are free and very easy to use. Everytime you write an article submit them to multiple article directories like ezinearticles, isnare, goarticles, and articlesbase. DO THAT EVERYTIME YOU WRITE AN ARTICLE. Then submit your article url's to Social Poster and Ping Fm. You should start seeing some results. Remember, it takes time when writing articles. I have hundreds of articles being sent to my blog and websites. If you write one article everyday for the next 90 days I'm sure you will get some decent traffic. Its always depends on the topic as well. Hope this helps. Keep writing and never quit.

[rahulbatra]

Originally Posted by klinvie

Hi everyone,

I have been had 10 article listed at ezine articles but for some reason I'm not finding my articles when I type in the keyword. At first I was using keywords that were too competitive but now i choose keywords that's gets about 1000 to 6,000 seaches and still my article do not show up.

Are these search results still to high?

My articles has been in the directories for months now but I cannot find them at all when I type the keyword into Google. Have anyone had this problem?

If your article was published earlier and now you cannot see it, there might be a possibility that they could have deleted your article for some reason.

[newbie2011]

Hey,

The World of web must know about your new articles. So keep optimizing your site and use also SM sites.

[MWZ81]

If you see an Ezine article in the top ten of google does that mean you will be able to create an article with the same keywords and rank for it? NO!

Odds are that article you are seeing in the top 10 of google is on the most viewed and/or most published ranks in Ezine. Which means that article is going to be linked like crazy through the Ezine site AND people will also publish that article on another site because its obviously popular.

Get your article backlinks and get it published on other sites and you might get it ranked well.

[aaadating]

Ezine's still working for me, I suggest writing more articles but also try writing for very long tail keywords like questions.

[precious007]

If you're using EZA I can only tell you one thing.

There are certain ways to use EZA, just submitting articles and seeing the cash roll in pretty much useless. (You'll maybe a few sales from a couple hundred articles) which is a complete waste.

I won't share my methods either, I'll probably do it in a WSO.

[dayanthan]

Some good info on here. I have 7 articles published so far and am pretty new to it all and am trying to find the best way to go about the whole article submission and choosing keywords thing. I am unsure as to how many and often which directories I should submit to as well. Also I find it difficult to build an article around the best keyword but I am getting there. I am not worried how many people are going to visit my site but I want to make sure I am getting some decent backlinks to help me in my SEO efforts. That is the priority for me now.
I am looking to write at least 100 articles and hopfully more in my niche.

[Globolstaff24]

Well, I think that you should hire a VA to promote the links of your articles in Ezine. lol.

[tpw]

Keywords in your titles only serve to put you into the line of sight of the people you want to read your articles...

BUT THIS IS NOT ENOUGH...

Your Title must be written in a way as to ATTRACT THE READER to your article...

It must catch the attention of those browsing the articles and pages available, AND it must appeal to the reader enough, to cause the reader to OPEN YOUR ARTICLE...

Lame Keyword Titles only get you in the line of sight of potential readers...

Appealing Titles that also have keywords in them will get you positioned in the search engines too, BUT HERE IS THE DIFFERENCE, Titles that appeal to your prospects are the bait that gets someone to click your Article Title and start reading it...

Do include keywords in your titles, BUT make darn sure that your title is strong enough to Attract The Click !!!

It is essential that you do so, for the success of your Article Marketing endeavors...