Another Attempt At Article Marketing

[BlueBetty]

Hey Guys

I joined here a while ago and received a lot of help from some very kind people. I tried applying what I learned but I got so bogged down with all the information it just didn't work out for me.

After quite a break I've decided to try Article Marketing again, but this time I'm taking it slow and simple.

I've just started doing some keyword research and have come to a slight problem.

When searching for keywords using the Google tool I always choose exact match, I hope that's right?

I then type in my keyword into Google without quotes to view results. I then type in the keyword with quotes to view the results.

Anyway one of the keywords comes up with 36,000,000 results without quotes and only 1,590 with quotes so does this mean this keyword is any good?

Also why do we use quotes to check results when most people who use Google wouldn't type their search with quotes?

Natasha

[Jay Sullivan]

Hi Natasha, by putting the keyword in quotes means that google will return your true competition, so if you get results back where you've searched for a keyword in "quotes" and the result comes back at less than 500,000, you're more than likely to get on the first page of Google for that particular search term..with plenty of backlinking.

So in your case, 1, 590 competing sites means there is a good chance you'll get on the first page, with little effort.

I use micro niche finder (worth every penny) and in that software you can see if a keyword can be beaten in Google by checking out what's called SOC aswell, this stands for strength of competition. if that number throws a red cross up, it means i will have a tough time ranking for that keyword, even if competition is low (it measures backlinks etc).


Fo example, i want to get ranked for a keyword that has around 3,000 searches every month, and one that has less than 500,000 competing sites, i do a quick search and find that the keyword "romantic pick up lines" has 2,400 searches a month (average), which isn't bad, and it's around the 3,000 mark, so i check the competiton by surrounding the keyword in "quotes", and find that there are only 5,760 competing sites, SOC is only 58, so with a bit of good backlinking, i could be in the top 5 search results in Google.

I create an article to submit to EZA entitled "Romantic Pick Up Lines - 5 Romantic Pick Up Lines GUARANTEED To Get That Girl"

(Keyword is the first few words of title) And i then include that keyword once in first paragraph, once in the final paragraph, and put the keyword around once every 400 words...

I also have an anchor link in my resource box that goes something like "Grab MORE Tips On >>Romantic Pick Up Lines<< From This Site NOW! Visit the worlds best resource: http://www.mysite.com TODAY!

That should rank pretty well within a few days...especially if you submit the same article to about 100 other article directories with your anchor link pointing towards your article you submitted on EZA ( this builds the backlinks on autopilot!) Just stick another link in your resource box when submitting to other sites with a clickable url to your main site...because that will also create backlinks to your main site at the same time!

Hope that helps?

[Zeus66]

Yes, 1590 inside quotes is excellent. You should be able to get an article at a top directory like EZA ranked very easily. But, to take it a step farther, do a search of that keyword without quotes, then look through the top 10 results (page 1). You're looking for things like EZA articles (or other article directory articles), YouTube video links, and other Web 2.0 links (Squidoo, Hubpages, etc.). If you see some of those in the top 10, you're all set. It's a good keyword to write an article about. It should rank high without a lot of extra work. Just some backlinks, if that.

John

[Adam Bauthues]

Hey Natasha,

All advice given to you so far is excellent. I also agree with what has been said about the Micro Niche Finder tool. Strength of Competition is much more reliable of an indicator that your articles can get search engine juice than just searching a term with quotes around it.

Many times you can have a search term that is under 5000 competing web pages listed, but have one heck of a time getting on the first page. In other cases, you can be dealing with 1,000,000+ competing web pages and have no problem.

There are many more factors involved than just searching with quotes around a keyword, although that is a decent indication when first starting out.

Also, I would encourage you to not just prepare articles for specific keywords but to also keep in mind issues of relevancy. For instance, lets say your chosen keyword is "weight loss tips for women" but that this keyword has too high of competition to make your article appear in the results...just add a word or so at the end of the keyword...

Instead, write an article using the keyword "weight loss tips for women over 40" and submit that. It would have way less competition and still be very relevant to the issue at hand.

I have found that 100 highly relevant articles will produce more sales than 1000 articles written for the search engines.

Each article is like a little sales person going out to work for you, only they never take a day off. Stay highly relevant and you will build assets. The search engines will take care of you as a result of thinking that way too.

If you need help feel free to PM me here and I will see what I can do.

[yommys01]

Checking your competition with quotes is very good but it does not have to end there. You can to analysis the strenght of your competition.

Checkout this thread Keyword Research Video For Warriors

[Chucky]

Hey Natasha,

I like to go with Zeus66 advice. But let me elaborate that a little bit more. Let's say you want to target the term 'Acai Berry'. I know you won't, but let's assume you do and the competition is very low.

If you do a search for Acai Berry on Google, the number 1 ranking is a GoArticles article. #8 is an EzineArticle. Now that doesn't mean you will be able to write another article and take the #1 spot over.

If you have the SEOQuake firefox plugin (or any other backlink analyzing tool) you will also see that the author has been able to build 19,130 links to this article as of 3pm CST. I mentioned the time because the number of links is going to be even higher when you check it. I don't know how this person does it, but he/she is building backlinks to it crazily. When I checked this article about 3 weeks ago, it had 12,000 links.

Anyways, that's out of the point. What I wanted to say was that you will not be able to take over this spot unless you were better than this author in building backlinks.

So that's another aspect of the game that you shouldn't forget to check out!

Good luck!
Chucky

Originally Posted by BlueBetty

Hey Guys

I joined here a while ago and received a lot of help from some very kind people. I tried applying what I learned but I got so bogged down with all the information it just didn't work out for me.

After quite a break I've decided to try Article Marketing again, but this time I'm taking it slow and simple.

I've just started doing some keyword research and have come to a slight problem.

When searching for keywords using the Google tool I always choose exact match, I hope that's right?

I then type in my keyword into Google without quotes to view results. I then type in the keyword with quotes to view the results.

Anyway one of the keywords comes up with 36,000,000 results without quotes and only 1,590 with quotes so does this mean this keyword is any good?

Also why do we use quotes to check results when most people who use Google wouldn't type their search with quotes?

Natasha

[BlueBetty]

Hey Guys thanks so much for the help. I'm really determined to make it this time and all of your advice makes a lot of sense and it's really appreciated.

[IM Headlines]

Rather than checking the keyword by typing it in with quotes, you should
take a look at the websites that dominate the first page of google for that
keyword.

Check them out, check their PR, check the amount of pages they have
etc... You can find all of this stuff with the SEO quake plug-in for firefox.

If they're not that 'strong' then you will most probably be able to dominate
the first page with your article, if you submit it on EZA.

[Sara Young]

I'll just add to the excellent advice here - don't submit your article to just one place. EZA, ArticlesBase, and GoArticles are all good places to submit to, as are others.

[Jason Perez O'Connor]

In Response to Chucky:

Submitted by Anonymous on December 19, 2009 - 11:30.
Using lasers is the best way to get rid of the unwanted hair.There are various hair removal clinics but Laser Hair Removal is the best among them. <-Acai-> <-Acai-> <---- both of those are two links pointing to a EZA and GOARTICLES site.

The person spams with the anchor text ACAI in a hair removal post, i then checked the articles and did a ctrl+f and typed in hair to see if anywhere in the article she talked about hair removal....she did not

While this method might work... its spam and it isnt relevant, the person has achieved god knows how many views on GOARTICLES and as many as 305,000+ views since november from spamming irrelevant S*** for EZA. Not the way I want to be recognised to be fair...

One thing you can take from this though.... It's always better to target both long tail and short tail keywords, such as using a short tail keyword and extend it into a long one, so you can target both the small and the long.

Then your article doesnt have to die.... over time you can continue to link to it through relevant links and posts and keep marketing the same article over and over providing it is useful to the audience.

The above way as done by Anonymous, wont say her name but shes easy enough to find, is not the right way though.

Just pointing out to chucky that although your method for checking works, its good to check if the person is a spammer, because trying to challenge someone whos not going to care about going for thousand of thousands of links is not going to be possible, as they are never going to stop spamming...