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An Interesting Question

by Ofthemix
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At least I think this will be an interesting question because I've never seen anyone on here talk about it before and I couldn't bring up anything on search. Maybe I searched wrong. Anyways, here it is . . .

I was sitting downstairs playing video games and contemplating about an article marketing campaign I want to start for one of my websites in the next week. I use the posts page as the home page which is, for the most part, product reviews. I want to add all of the articles that I create for my marketing campaign to the blog, but I don't want to knock down the reviews that I put up specifically for making money. I got the idea that I should create the articles as back dated posts. For an example: today is 06/19, I would back date the post as 06/18 so that it would show before posts on 06/19 (closer to the bottom of the page). I was wondering if anyone has done this before and how Google treats it? Will they index these pages even though this is technically cheating? Do other people do this?
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  • Profile picture of the author jonbeebe
    I think you might only get mediocre results with your article marketing doing things this way (I don't think the date thing is going to affect your Google rankings good or bad). The article directories perform, but not as good as they used to... so therefore, you should be working to RETAIN as many article marketing visitors as you can by offering some kind of incentive and building your targeted list.

    But building a list is only the first step. You need to work on building a positive relationship with them. Once you do that, you can have a relatively small list and make more money than churning out article after article each day and get the occasional trickle of a sale come in (if that... because that's assuming your products convert really well, and your blog does a good job of preselling).

    Preselling is hard... it becomes much easier when you have a targeted list of people who TRUST you.
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    • Profile picture of the author dljmktg1
      Why not just make the review posts "sticky" so they will stay at the top whatever the date? If you are using wordpress there's a lot of plugins to do this.

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      • Profile picture of the author PaulBaranowski
        Hey,

        2 options i can think of:

        - if you don't want the articles to knock off your reviews,
        use the "sticky" plugin.
        - second option is installing another instance of WP on a different folder of the same domain and post the articles on there while keyword-linking to
        the main blog pages you need a bump to.

        As a side note,with google you never know what to expect until you've tried it - i even had different results from using the same strategies because google very likely was playing with its algos.
        But i myself wouldn't use backdating the posts because that could confuse the search engine bots.

        hope that helps

        Paul
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        • Profile picture of the author wahdude316
          Just to add,

          If you decide to go the "sticky" route, IF you're using Wordpress, you don't even need a plug-in for this...

          When you're on the New Post screen, on the right-hand side there is a 'Publish' box. Go to the option that says 'Visibility'. There is a check box that says "Stick this post to the front page". I've used it with no problem

          HTH,

          Mr. G
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  • Profile picture of the author Ofthemix
    The website in question is already making money. . . with very little effort on my part. I just want to see what it would bring if I worked it to its full potential.

    I've had decent results with article marketing before. I just tend to burn out quickly when writing a bunch of articles a day. But, that's beside the point.

    Many people on here are making pretty much their entire IM income through driving traffic from article marketing. It takes a lot more work than it used to, but it still seems to be effective.

    I plan on submitting the articles both on my website and on EzineArticles (along with my other more detailed strategy). I'm not concerned about the EZA part. I just want to make sure Google's not going to get pissed if I back date articles, very likely to older than the website is. I don't want to lose out on traffic because of a stupid mistake.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ofthemix
    Thanks guys, this has helped a lot. I really didn't want to back date the posts, but I wasn't sure what to do.
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  • Profile picture of the author rickdearr
    If you are already making money, have you considered hiring someone else to do the articles?
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  • Profile picture of the author Ofthemix
    I used to get articles from textbroker, but I wasn't impressed so I went back to writing my own. I think the search for a good article writer will probably continue when I'm making a bit more money.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mary Green
    Why not make them pages? They wont show on the blog but you can still link to them.

    I disagree that article marketing doesn't work, so far I've been able to pick out specific problem areas in everyone's article marketing strategies I have found. Its a constant battle to be sure, but one very worth the effort.
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