No results of article marketing

Yea the panda google update has damaged the effectiveness of many article sites, regarding your 50 backlinks, hopefully you have some link diversity, different sites, different anchor text and also non anchor text and a mix of noFollow and follow links. 50 links all from one article site woulds not be so good.

I have seen some SEO experts advice giving a brand new site as little as one new link a day in order to appear 'natural' your 3 links a day seems reasonable compared to some automated link generation giving a brand new domain 100s of inlinks on the first day.

So much more information is needed here. What is the keyword your trying to rank for?

What article networks are you posting on? A lot of those got hit and hit hard, meaning that you could give Google exactly what they want and you still won't rank until the penalty period is over.

Mainly its your keyword. You might have simply bit off on a keyword that really needs a website in a post-panda SEO world.

You haven't been doing "article marketing", Vannaylove. As explained to you in some detail in other threads, what you've been doing is "article directory marketing". They're different things.

It's not about numbers of backlinks. I think you must be starting to appreciate this, now?

It's about quality and relevance.

Article directory backlinks are non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlinks.

i am new here and its my first post. i am here to learn a lot. by above these posts what i got is that directory submission and blog commenting and forum posting are parallel jobs and have equal effects normally. correct me plz if i am wrong. and yes they have to be relevant for sure.

Hi Vannaylove,

Yeah, you're doing article directory marketing. Thanks Alexa for pointing that out. Article directory marketing, in my opinion, covers:

•Writing and submitting articles to article directories for backlinks...
•Riding on the domain authority of the article directories for high search engine rankings of those submitted articles for your target keywords...
•Submitting articles to article directories as a point B platform between the search engine user, point A, and the pages of your websites, point C and hoping the user will go to point C, even with the presence of "effective distractions" like a lot of other links pointing to other relevant articles published on the article directory and contextually relevant banner ads...

I said "effective distractions" because:

•Article directories need viewers to click on banner ads displayed on the page with your published article, hence the presence of those banner ads...
•Article directories want viewers to spend more time on their website, hence the presence of those links on your published article page which point to contextually relevant articles published on their website...

In my opinion: It has given my clients and our company good results by writing and submitting articles to article directories with the objective of having our submitted content picked up by other webmasters looking for useful content to provide the viewers of their contextually relevant websites...

Imagine if webmaster A regularly goes to a dog training article directory in the hopes of finding excellent content to offer the regular viewers of his dog training website, approximately 20 unique viewers per day. Other webmasters of dog training websites also frequently go to that dog training article directory to pick up useful content for their viewers, say collectively worth 100 unique viewers per day, people interested in dog training topics and sub topics, looking for solutions to their dog training problems and needs...

My main objective now is to write content and syndicate it, of course after publishing the content I wrote on my own website since my primary goal is to offer potential customers beneficial content on my website, for the purpose of:

•ATTENTION•
Grabbing the attention of webmaster A and those other webmasters...

•INTEREST•
Enticing them to publish my content on their websites...

•DESIRE•
Making those webmasters and the viewrs of their websites think and feel I'm a friendly expert author of useful content about dog training topics and sub topics, enough to make them desire more content in the form of info, advice, solutions, products, services, techniques and strategies from me, by writing in a way which emanates a personality they can relate to and packaging the content in ways which will entertain them while being informed and educated about things they can use to solve their problems and satisfy their needs about dog training topics and sub topics...

•ACTION•
Making them act in ways which would be beneficial for them and me, the author, such as:

•Republishing my content on their own websites to share the benefits offered by my content with their viewers...
•Going to the pages of my website via links in my content, all pointing to my pages offering more benefits not found in the content they just viewed...
•Bookmarking the pages of my website...
•Sharing the pages of my website to their own contacts and social networks...
•Posting links on their own websites and in the social communities they frequently hang out, particularly during times they participate in discussions about topics and sub topics relevant to dog training, with the objective of contributing valuable content to those discussions...
•Referring my website to their friends, colleagues and relatives during times when dog training topics and sub topics are being discussed...

Hold on, hold on... With article marketing: Don't I also get a lot of contextually relevant backlinks on pages of those websites where people interested in relevant topics and sub topics go to get useful content about their problems and needs?

Start by searching the article directories and find authors with a ton views and just hijack their keywords by looking at the source in firefox. There is a reason why they got a ton of views, because they did the keyword research already. Leverage.

Articles are a slow process but they have to be quality, if you use rubbish then you are just wasting your time. The keywords are what gets your articles read. A good article should be easy to read, if you try to read some of the rubbish out there they just don't make sense. Try to write an article as if you were talking and explaining to a friend.

Good articles will get picked up, and once your name gets known as a good writer then you will find more and more of your articles will be read, thus this will bring you traffic to your sites.

Make sure you are submitting your articles to the top 10 directories, there are so many out there but most of the traffic will come from the top 10.

Articles do work but it's all about time. Another good tip is have you ever thought about turning your articles into video then into power point slides, this works really well.

I use articles myself and they work for me.

Good Luck My Friend

I will definitely try this Source Page formula mentioned here to find the better keywords. I have had some success from article directory marketing, some of my articles got republished multiple times, but I believe this approach will only enhance my article views.

OP, how old your site is? What other things you do to attract visitors/searches other than Article Posting/Marketing.

What type/kind of product/service are you offering, your target visitors/market is US/EU or ..?

This will help us to suggest you in better way

HTH

There's another reason for writing articles and it's the reason I use article directories. Not for backlinks, not even necessarily for syndication but for visitors.

I get visitors directly from the articles on the article directories - I can see that every day in the stats. I don't know how visitors find the articles as I almost always add them to my own sites first - but they do find them and they do click and come to my sites.

To answer the OP.
Have you done keyword research?
Are your articles well written, grammatically correct and readable? If they aren't people will leave.

Article writing isn't as simple as writing any old rubbish (no disrespect intended as we haven't seen your articles), shoving them up and hoping people will click. You have to make your readers want to click.
Rank in Google doesn't just depend on backlinks. It depends on site age, relevance of domain name, quality of content, onsite seo, as well as backlinks.

On the subject of backlinks - it's almost impossible to find out the total number of backlinks to someone else's site. Almost none of the backlink tools will report all of the links. Try it for yourself on your own site. The only reason you know there are 50 to your own site is because you made them. The other site probably has 100s that don't show in whichever tool(s) you're using.

Forget article sites, post your content on your own site.

If your going to take the time to create content, post those articles on your own site, and establish your site as an authority in its field.

Every once in a while I take a spin through the Googles and find where people have pulled my articles off of an article directory for use on their own site.

Well over half of them have left off the resource box and another large percentage of them have disabled all hyperlinks and/or disguised the hyperlinks so that they appear as normal text on the page.

I would spend a few extra minutes bashing EZA but they recently sent me a really nice coffee mug just because I hit platinum author status...

Given you know how to do SEO and you write great articles, Street Articles is another directory you can try. The approval times are way quicker than EZA (articles approved and published in a matter of HOURS) and has a smaller community so your articles get found and read quickly. My articles, the few really targeted ones, easily showed up in the first pages of Google with them. It wouldn't hurt to try

The days when you could saturate EZA with articles and get thousands of views before your articles were even indexed by Google are over, thanks to Panda.

I still like to outsource a few articles a week strictly to get back links, but EZA (or any other article directory) itself isn't the cash cow for me that it was in 2008.

As for your site being outranked by others with less backlinks, keep in mind that it can take time for those backlinks to be indexed. I have sites with over 100 backlinks where less than half of that show up in Market Samurai.

article market is not as easy as some write here on teh forum.

You have to have a high quality article with lots of great content, a good resource box, a good call to action yada yada yada.... once you master this recipe your article market will hit new heights. It took a while for us to master, but once you do, you see some great results.

We have an article that went viral in about 2008, and we still get traffic and sales from this one article. I love it when they go viral. :-)

take a look at this, very interesting -

I wonder what kind of articles are those. Did you write it well? Do you think it is informative? Interesting?... I hope to see and read your articles.

Someone mentioned above but I'd have reservations about someone taking the article and removing the links back to your website. Maybe a better way would be to contact a recognised authority site and ask to write an article for them which is of quality content with the agreement you can put in a link to your website within the article, or at the bottom.

it takes a bit of time sometimes