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How can you write a decent article in 7 minutes? How many words are they usually? I wouldn't think even a "fair" article could be done in less than 15 minutes. Maybe that is the problem with your traffic.

You can get a page ranking with much more competition than that. Go article crazy, using anchor text in all the resourrce boxes with your keywords, and link to the page from everywhere you can.

The last page I did this on was in the top 20 sites on Google for a keyword that has 1,500,000 competing pages. It CAN be done (that's 1,500,000 competing pages in a standard search, or 140,000 pages when searched for in quotes - and for the latter I'm ranking 8th).

No magic or tricks. Just link back to it from everywhere.

Wanted to throw my 2 cents in and say Alex has a great outline (although don't miss KansasDragon's upgrade - I'm a firm believer that if you're going to write then follow the site-first strategy).

I've had this thread open all day meaning to get some notes to you, cdmiller87, too. I can't help analyzing a site when someone says they've done some work and aren't seeing results. Not only is it educational for me, but sometimes I find some suggestions to make that might help the person who is struggling.

Whether or not you continue to pursue MOMU or not, I saw some things that you might want to explore further no matter what products you want to promote.

First, I checked out some of your articles and you have a nice, breezy, easy to read style. You have written a good number of them, too.

I checked out your site and it looks good but there's not a lot of content on it and no clear call to action to get your readers to the MOMU site. This is part of that whole site-first strategy. You've given a great deal of content to EZA, which is fine, but I'm sure you've noticed that the traffic spikes and then drops away. If you want to build yourself as an authority and get more eyeballs on your site, make your site the repository for all that great material. The more your site is updated with great, fresh content, the better and longer your site will rank over time. EZA is great for bursts of traffic. A site you maintain frequently is great for long-term traffic.

But there's something else that's strange. I can't find any backlinks to your site. Not even the EZA articles are appearing as backlinks. I checked using Market Samurai and Yahoo Site Explorer.

I then checked to see if your site was indexed in Google. It is, so I checked the cached version. (Type your whole URL into your search engine search bar and then click CACHED at the end of your URL listing in the results.) It's the NetFirms welcome page for a new site administrator and was cached on March 13th. You have EZA articles that are older than that and point to this URL so the URL must be older than March 13th.

Did you perhaps recently change your WP theme or maybe your hosting provider around that time? I've never seen this before.

You can ping your own site each time you add new content. In fact, WP will automatically do that for you but you can enhance that process with some plugins or by adding other ping sites to your WP settings.

You can also bookmark your own site and your articles (for which I also couldn't find any backlinks). You won't be penalized by Google for doing this. Bookmark accounts are for you to keep track of whatever material you want. Just make your profiles public so that Google can crawl your profile and pick up the links.

You do have to be careful using the social bookmarking sites that focus on sharing content, like Digg and Stumbleupon. They frown on heavy promotion of your own material.

I think Alex was saying to stop promoting MOMU because you weren't seeing great results and also because it's a highly competitive niche. However, you'll be writing your fingers to the bone no matter what you promote if you don't get that content on your site first and/or figure out a backlinking strategy so Google pays attention to your site and your articles.

Read the thread KansasDragon pointed out - long but VALUABLE.

Whether you use angela's backlinks or some other backlinking strategy, you need backlinks.

I don't care how long it takes you, read all of this thread, too: http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...fW8ETmhGLF74hX

Your head will spin afterwards and you might need to read it again but you'll be saying WOW once you understand it.

Backlinks to your Squidoo lens (which could use more content, btw - those can rank really well if you make them high-quality and packed with info), backlinks to your articles, and backlinks to your site. Backlinks to your backlinks, layers of backlinks (backlinks, backlinks, backlinks - just to give you the beating you said you might need.... )

Yup - I know I've been there. I'm pretty sure most people have been there. I like to think there are plateaus in IM. You get one small foothold and hang there for awhile. Break through, get to another plateau, etc. That feeling you have is one of being just on the verge of "getting it" - the next piece of the puzzle. You've done a lot of work. You have some learning to do but you've taken action. You've asked for help. Those are all good steps.

Now, read those two threads. Take notes. Come up with a step-by-step action plan that YOU know YOU can do from the notes that you take and carry it out. (Dang - not only do I write too much I'm a mom and I sound like it.... )

How many articles have you written for that keyword?
If you've written a couple a day for a looong time, then you seriosly need to reconsider your IM strategy...

If you want to continue with article marketing, this is what you could/should do:

Set up a fixed time each day and write in that time (if you aren't already?) OR set up a fixed no. of articles to write each day...

For me personally, I like to set my egg timer for 45 minutes and then just write like crazy... then I take a break for about 15 minutes beforeI continue...

STOP promoting MOMU now!

Try promoting something completely different... you might find that'll be much more succesful promoting health stuff or IM products or whatever.

You need to realize, that you have your own unique writing style and that style coresponds better with some markets than others. And apperantly, the relationship niche isn't one of them!

Hope that helped a little