I am trying to rank my article on the front page of google.

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does that still work ????

i mean building backlinks to an article and ranking it on the first page of google.
#article #front #google #page #rank
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    An article is a web-page, isn't it?

    You can get anything ranked anywhere, given sufficient SEO.

    The big question is: are you trying to rank the article on your own site, so that you get all that traffic, or an article on someone else's site so that they do?
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  • Profile picture of the author Fazal Mayar
    Is the article on a blog or is a squidoo lens or something along those lines?

    yes you can get it ranked, im currently trying to rank articles!
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  • Profile picture of the author buffblaze
    article is on an article directory.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by buffblaze View Post

      article is on an article directory.
      Well - don't build backlinks to an article directory, Buffblaze. That surely can't make sense? :confused:

      Have you read this thread in which a large succession of professional article marketers explain the importance of publishing articles on your own site first and doing the backlinking to that copy rather than to an article directory copy? It may be really helpful to you.

      When a potential customer finds your article by putting one of its keywords into a search engine, what do you want him to find: an article directory copy or the copy on your own site?

      Most people who go to an article directory don't make it to my site at all, don't opt in, don't become customers, and so on. And of course that's so for most article marketers, most of the time. When their potential-customer-traffic goes to a directory, they lose most of it. So there's not much to think about, really, for the answer to that question - the important thing is just to be aware of the question, because it's typically a hugely important one to one's income.

      Getting traffic to your site via an article directory is a bad method. You'll lose a high proportion of the traffic in the process (to the directory's AdSense, other distractions, and some will just not "click through"). It's much better to concentrate on getting traffic directly to your own site.

      You need to be building backlinks to your site and NOT to article directories.

      This is perhaps the single biggest determinant, for the "average marketer" of whether or not s/he actually makes a living at all from article marketing. It's no coincidence that very few people who build backlinks to article directories are successful in the long term. Most of the time it's a simple case of the descending ceiling. This really is exactly how the ceiling has descended on so many people, and why for the last year or two (even before this recent Google algorithm change) there've been so many threads here commenting that "article marketing is dead".

      This is the trap into which many people fall. If they have a newish site, their article will of course be on a PR-0 page there. In an article directory, it'll also be on a PR-0 page (that's how all directory articles start off), but because directories' home pages have a higher PR, that'll still make the directory copy rank a tiny bit more easily (fortunately this problem is very easily overcome, and people wanting to own their business and promote their own site do need to overcome it!).

      Sadly, because of this, a lot of people decide "the directory's easier to rank than my own site, so I'll send my traffic there instead of to my own site" and they then build backlinks to the directory. The directory must love them! :p

      And once they start doing that, it can only get worse - not better, because the more they do that, the harder it is for them ever to rank their own site (and to own their own business, really). The outcome is that instead of getting 100% of "their traffic", they're sending it to someone else's site and getting back only what's left after the AdSense, other distractions and non-CTR have all taken their toll.

      It's easy to imagine that you're "getting traffic from an article directory" when what you're really doing is sending your traffic (i.e. traffic arising from your own backlinking campaign) to an article directory.

      It's explained further - here, here, here, here, here, here and so on.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ken Leatherman
    Just as Alexa mentioned you can get the article ranked with backlinks and other SEO.

    But why give the article directory your traffic. Put the article on your own site/blog and then SEO the heck out of it and throw the backlinks to it.

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  • Profile picture of the author DancingHamster
    Really, this is SEO. Did you do keyword research? Now you need to build backlinks
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  • Profile picture of the author magicmarcus
    it all depends on the keyword you are after... what is it?
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  • Profile picture of the author area51backlinks
    Interesting thread. I heard lots of articles dropped from Page 1 since the Panda update. Not 100% sure though as I don't do article marketing.

    I agree with the other comments that it's better to drive visitors to your site, not some article directory banking YOUR hard earned traffic with THEIR AdSense. (Just my opinion though.)
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  • Profile picture of the author buffblaze
    but articles on article directories rank quicker. and thats what am really interested in.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by buffblaze View Post

      but articles on article directories rank quicker.
      Mine don't (I prefer my own site to rank more quickly). Yours will, if you build backlinks to them.
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