<b>Getting articles ranked on google?</b>

[Zach Allred]

Hi Warriors,

Here is an article I am trying to get ranked on google for the keywords "apply for a credit card"

Apply for a Credit Card - Review 5 Simple Steps

There are so many conflicting opinions out there on what the best way to do this is and I am very much a newbie. I am hoping to generate traffic to my article so I can avoid adwords for this market.

Did I use enough keywords? Did I make them dense enough? Is this market going to be too hard and should I try a different market?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[sparrow]

One of the best ways to get started is to find the rss feed for the article and go to a ping service and ping the rss feed for the article if you can't do this just ping the url

I do this all the time, this starts off the process

Ed

[Zach Allred]

Where do I find the ping service for the URL or RSS feed?

[factotum]

You're up against some tough competition. If you Google "apply for a credit card" (in quotes), you'll get about 1.3 million results.

Discover, American Express and Capital One are all among the top 10 results (with or without quotes). Top result is carrying PR4.

In other words, getting a directory-housed article high in the SERPs is going to require A GREAT DEAL OF EFFORT.

In fact, the amount of effort required to get that article ranked at the directory vs. doing it on your own site and claiming all the traffic is almost negligible in relative terms.

If you want to rank for this term, you're going to need to engage in one whopper of a backlink building effort.

It's not impossible (nothing is), but it's going to be an uphill struggle whether you put the content on your own site or work to get it ranked while on the directory.

If I was going into the credit card niche, I'd go with long tail keywords... The search volume won't be as impressive, but it will be a lot easier to rank and it would be more efficient to rule a handful of long tails keywords than it would be to work like crazy to promote the promotion (the article).

That's my opinion, anyway. Take it for what it's worth.

[HenrikC]

Add your article to different social bookmarking sites to get some backlinks to your article.

The competition is also very high for your suggested keyword.

Try to find some long-tail keywords for your keyword as well (which may have less competition), by using Google Adwords keyword tool or similar keyword tools.

[mario_a]

...And HTML tags in the post title don't work...

Regards,
Mario

[johntanyishin]

High competition for the keywords you are choosing, try to research and think of another one.

Create backlinks by social bookmarking and sprinkle a few keywords you want into your article.

JTYS

[homenotion]

Originally Posted by Zach Allred

Where do I find the ping service for the URL or RSS feed?

I use ping-o-matic

Ping-o-Matic!

Ms. Liz