"Set It And Forget It" Article Marketing - The Only Way To Article Market

[sagasu44]

When placing backlinks, should we be linking to all 5 articles (which for those who haven't got Mikes e-book yet, are the same article using different keywords)?

Backlinking is an arduous task even when using Angela's package, and some sites allow for many baclinks, but what is best practice here?

What I have done thus far is place 2 backlinks on each site as I would in an article, 1 to the page my article is about and one to the original article itself, but I'm a little confused as to which of my articles I should consider the original and thus the primary one I should be backlinking to as they are all original, just using synonyms and different keywords, but still original.....therefore when backlinking should I backlink to all 5 in one place?

Hope I'm making sense?

[sagasu44]

one more thing, and sorry if I'm taking over the thread, being in Oz I'm busily working on this task which has suddenly given me so much purpose, while you all are sleeping.....

So, about the 5 articles again. I submitted all 5 articles to GoArticles 2 days ago, and one, which is actually the true original is getting loads of requests, 10 times the requests of the others, SO, fortunately that is also the one I have been backlinking which was a fluke as at the time I was doing the backlinking I didn't knowwhich article to backlink to so just choose the first version........hang on......maybe thats why its getting the requests...DOH! *head slap*

Just trying to follow this formula systematically...somebody please stop me if I'm getting it wrong

[Michael Franklin]

Originally Posted by sagasu44

This quote from another thread about duplicate v's original:

"The thing is you should do both, You should write some decent quality articles purely for traffic generation and submit those to say 10-20 directories, this isnt necessarily for backlinks but for traffic etc and then you should write some quicker articles and not worry too much about the flow of the article purely for backlinks these articles should be spun and submitted to 50-100 articles directories".

This sounds like good advice, what is your take Mike?

Hello again, Sarah!

For my method, I take my article and submit it to ONE directory...The one that I feel that has very little competition within that directory for my keyword phrase (which I talk about in my first post of this thread). As you know, I then do whatever backlinking I can to get it into Google's top 3.

So for this example I have just one article on one directory. Now, just so that I can get more views and ultimately clicks into my affiliate/squeeze page link, I will then take the original content of the article and spin it slightly and distribute it into various article directories. However, I only target 15-20 additional ones because I find that the drop off in views is significant after you get past certain directories.

I'm a big fan of putting articles on other directories as long as:
1)You can outsource our automate submissions
2)You still stay focused on the primary method which is get your original article in the top 3 and backlink.

It's a much simpler version than what is suggested by the person you quoted....It works great for me and it will for you too!

[multimastery]

Great informative post! It is true that most people just skim and click on the first few domains lol... that definitely what I do most of the time - but sometimes I do delve down deeper listing if the description happens to grab me.

Another site to ad for good PR sites to write on is HubPages! They definitely can't be left out because Google and other engines love them. I have found that HubPages outranks Squidoo in a heckuvalot of cases.

[Michael Franklin]

Originally Posted by sagasu44

What I have done thus far is place 2 backlinks on each site as I would in an article, 1 to the page my article is about and one to the original article itself, but I'm a little confused as to which of my articles I should consider the original and thus the primary one I should be backlinking to as they are all original, just using synonyms and different keywords, but still original.....therefore when backlinking should I backlink to all 5 in one place?

Hope I'm making sense?

Hi Sarah,

Ideally, you want to backlink to all 5 articles in one place. Keep in mind that for all 5 links you want them each to consist your 5 keyword phrases.

However, many times when you backlink from user profiles you will be limited to 2-3 backlinks. Plus, for some backlinks you are not using profiles but actualy blog posts or comments. In those cases, I wouldn't go beyond 2 backlinks.

So it's a good idea to have 2-3 accounts/profiles setup for each site that you are placing your backlinks.

Sound good?

[jefferyjansen]

Thanks for that information I can put it to good use!!!

Thanks a million!

[sagasu44]

Originally Posted by Michael Franklin

Hi Sarah,

Ideally, you want to backlink to all 5 articles in one place. Keep in mind that for all 5 links you want them each to consist your 5 keyword phrases.

However, many times when you backlink from user profiles you will be limited to 2-3 backlinks. Plus, for some backlinks you are not using profiles but actualy blog posts or comments. In those cases, I wouldn't go beyond 2 backlinks.

So it's a good idea to have 2-3 accounts/profiles setup for each site that you are placing your backlinks.

Sound good?

Sounds great! I have been doing the right thing then, well as of today. I have always been careful with links on comments, but with angela's help I am placing links for all five articles in the appropriate sites that allow it.

It has taken me hours and hours just to go through the first 30 sites from Angela, but now that I have set up some accounts with these places there are quite a few that I am willing, even happy to go back to as they have relevence to me. It's slow going though.

Now back to the multiple submissions, I will now be spinning and submitting to other sites...Think I will manually submit to the good ones then use the auto submit option for another 50 and see where I go from there. I'm eager to get onto another article but I can see form the amount of time it takes to research keywords and back link that I could only deal with one article at a time.

[Michael Franklin]

Originally Posted by sagasu44

It has taken me hours and hours just to go through the first 30 sites from Angela, but now that I have set up some accounts with these places there are quite a few that I am willing, even happy to go back to as they have relevence to me. It's slow going though.

Hi Sarah,

Keep in mind that there are at least 3 different backlinking services being offered on the Warrior Forum right now. They all have gotten great feedback from members.

Backlinking is time consuming so I would get in the habit of tracking exactly how long it takes you to backlink. Once you get the hang of it and start earning some money, I would take some of your earnings and invest it in these services so that you can free yourself up of your time.

Another option is to have family members help you out. I have a nephew who is on summer break and he's been helping me get backlinks as well. Like all his other teen friends, he's an Internet whiz, so he gets things done a lot quicker than I could and it costs me a lot less!

Anyways, keep your options open!

[feefondo]

I submitted articles to ezine and go 2 days ago. No index yet not listed in G or Y. Is there a particular time they review the articles? Maybe Mike's system created an avalanche of articles so now they're swamped.

[Michael Franklin]

Originally Posted by feefondo

I submitted articles to ezine and go 2 days ago. No index yet not listed in G or Y. Is there a particular time they review the articles?

EzineArticles sometimes takes a while to approve article submissions. As for GoArticles, I would double check and make sure that you submitted everything properly because it should be in their listings fairly soon after you submit.

[feefondo]

Well in go articles they have the url of the article setup and I can visit the page with my article on it but when I put the exact url into G or Y they say it doesn't exist. I guess it takes time for the spiders to crawl them?

Also ezine still has my article in the review state as specified in my control panel. I guess they are pushing for people to join their premium membership.

BTW I'm doing backlinking a little bit different from you. I get the sites that are ahead of me in the serps and I check their backlinks and see if I can get those also. Your way is probably better but that's what I fell into.

Cheers

[MavisAA]

Hi Micheal, Thanks for the info. I have a question - what do you mean by backlinking and how do you go about doing that once your article is on Google page 1 - 1st three results via ezinearticles?

[simmonsmike7]

Gosh this is going to help me so much with my article marketing efforts.

Pr..in..ti..ng!!

[sagasu44]

Originally Posted by feefondo

I submitted articles to ezine and go 2 days ago. No index yet not listed in G or Y. Is there a particular time they review the articles? Maybe Mike's system created an avalanche of articles so now they're swamped.

Hi Feefondo,

From my 6 month experience of regularly submitting to EZA they can take anywhere from 24 hours to a week to approve your submission, but on average I have had approval in 48 hours.

goarticles publishes right away, and if you've been following the thread you'll know I just submitted 5 articles to them, each one took about 48 hours to index. So perhaps they are swamped.

Mikes system is great as it really focuses on quality over quantity, if you really take pride in your site then its a great program for you.

[sagasu44]

Originally Posted by Michael Franklin

So for this example I have just one article on one directory. Now, just so that I can get more views and ultimately clicks into my affiliate/squeeze page link, I will then take the original content of the article and spin it slightly and distribute it into various article directories. However, I only target 15-20 additional ones because I find that the drop off in views is significant after you get past certain directories.

Ok, I think I have it, if I am on the right track with what I am doing so far I could understand this as "I have '1 article for each of my 5 keywords' and I take each of those 5 original articles, spin slightly...and bake in the oven at 200 for 20 minutes....lol, it really is like following a recipe isn't it. Seriously, spin each of the 5 and submit each of the 5 to 15-20 other articles sites! (which I am assuming are those article sites with higher page rank)

Have I got it now?

[ademartin]

Originally Posted by tommygadget

I think that in another thread, it was advised that you link to your eza article from the other article directory submissions. That way, your eza article gets to the top with the added link power.

TomG.

This is so true! Always promote the promoters.

Ade

[sagasu44]

Originally Posted by MavisAA

Hi Micheal, Thanks for the info. I have a question - what do you mean by backlinking and how do you go about doing that once your article is on Google page 1 - 1st three results via ezinearticles?

Hi MavisAA,

Backlinking is the strategic placing around the web of keyword rich anchor text links that lead spiders, crawlies bots etc and of course traffic, back to your article (and/or site), thus in the long run improving your page ranking with the search engines.

If your article is getting to the top of page one without that then you are a lucky girl,

[sagasu44]

Originally Posted by tommygadget
I think that in another thread, it was advised that you link to your eza article from the other article directory submissions. That way, your eza article gets to the top with the added link power.

TomG.

Originally Posted by ademartin

This is so true! Always promote the promoters.

Ade

Actually I think this is not necessarily true. At first this seemed like a logical idea to me, but also thought that linking articles to other articles woul be confusing for the reader, I posed this q to Mike who confirmed it would be confusing. Still, I guess that doesn't mean it wouldn't assist in raising the rank of the article being linked to.

[Michael Franklin]

Originally Posted by sagasu44

Ok, I think I have it, if I am on the right track with what I am doing so far I could understand this as "I have '1 article for each of my 5 keywords' and I take each of those 5 original articles, spin slightly...and bake in the oven at 200 for 20 minutes....lol, it really is like following a recipe isn't it. Seriously, spin each of the 5 and submit each of the 5 to 15-20 other articles sites! (which I am assuming are those article sites with higher page rank)

Have I got it now?

You got it, Sarah! In terms of which article sites...Choose the highest PRs from the link below, except ehow or helium

Article Directories by Alexa Ranking

[sagasu44]

You're the man Mike!

So what don't you like about eHow and Helium? I haven't used either of them before. I do have an account with buzzle which is #4 on the site but also have never used it as they seem to be pretty clear that they want absolute original content, how do you get around that?

Squidoo isn't there, but I am guessing that must be due to it's lens approach rather than article as such.

[JAIDEEP2959]

Great ideas, I did not know that backlinking is such important.

[Michael Franklin]

Originally Posted by sagasu44

So what don't you like about eHow and Helium? I haven't used either of them before. I do have an account with buzzle which is #4 on the site but also have never used it as they seem to be pretty clear that they want absolute original content, how do you get around that?

eHow and Helium want original content and you cannot market affiliate links in your article.

Originally Posted by sagasu44

Squidoo isn't there, but I am guessing that must be due to it's lens approach rather than article as such.

Despite their lens approach, I've always considered it to be just like the other article sites. It's tops on my list!

[sagasu44]

I see, how do you go with buzzle then or have you never used that on either? I also noticed articlecube want unique also. I created a slightly spun version of it's own to submit to that one, so will be interesting to see if it is approved. Not sure whether to do the same for buzzle.

i think squidoo is excellent, more interesting on the eye than many article sites and more bloggish which is also appealing.

What I am doing now is putting my article on my blog first. Then when some article sites allow for an extra link or two I'm backlinking to my blog, then the blog is backlinking to my site, and to my original first article submission....

think I'm getting the hang of it.

[darrin_cooper]

It's all great in theory, but there is routine to this madness & a "beat" to it.
Because, you can't just take 2 months to accomplish these tasks; there is something that has to be done on either a daily or weekly basis.

What's actually being done on that daily or weekly basis? How much is too little? How much is too much?

What methods have you automated? What tools do you use? How much time does it take you?

Originally Posted by Michael Franklin

I am going to share with you how I article market....That is, write your article once and truly get traffic month after month from the same article.......

When I first started article marketing, I thought it was so cool how my articles ended up on Google. Yes, the traffic would come in at first but inevitably it would die down....All except for a few articles. A few of them kept yielding traffic every month.

Here's what these winning articles all had in common:

1) They had proper keyword density (no surprise)

2) They were informative and were user friendly (no surprise)

3) They all were among the top 3 results on Google's page one - Aha!

You see, so many of us start to hoot and holler when our article shows up on Google. Yet, statistics have shown that most clicks only occur among the top 3 results on Google. Think about it....Most of the time when you search on Google, which results do you tend to click on first?

In short, it's not enough to just write an article and rest on your laurels when you are in the ninth or even the fifth spot on page 1. You have to get it within the top 3.

Here's what you have to do to improve your odds of being among Google's top 3.

1) Research the competition on the Page One results. It does you no good to pursue a keyword phrase any further if places like Microsoft, Ebay, or Amazon (High-Authority, Established sites) are dominating Google's page 1 with that phrase. You can often tell just by looking at the domain names what you're up against but to be sure, use a Page Rank checker to see what you're competition is like.

Now, if I notice that the top spots on Google are nothing but Web 2.0 properties (Squidoo, Ezine Articles, GoArticles, blogs, etc.) then I will proceed to write up my article using proper keyword density for that keyword phrase. I make sure that it is informative and flows well. AND, I use a property that is not currently among the top 10.

That is, if I see Ezinearticles and Squidoo but no GoArticles, I might write up an article on GoArticles. The point is that Google leans towards diverse domains. Therefore, use whatever domain that has a high enough Google PageRank but not currently in the top 10 for that keyword phrase. Some of my favorites are:

Squidoo
WordPress
GoArticles
EzineArticles
BlogSome
WetPaint
Vox

2) Keep backlinking until you are consistently in the top three. Why do so many people publish an article and not even watch it's progress in the SERP's? It's crazy! You should put as much (if not more) effort into maintaining your article's ranking in the SERP's as you put into writing your own articles.

Until your article cracks the top 3, you have to get enough backlinks so that your article will crack the top 3. There are many great backlinking resources on here to help you get started.

Even when you make the top 3, your article will still do the "Google Dance" and fall out. I keep adding backlinks until the dancing is almost nonexistent. Backlinking is time consuming, but it is the crucial piece of the puzzle.

Your goal is twofold: 1) Publish articles 2) Get them within the top 3 on Google. That's it!

Only when you have an arsenal of articles that end up within the top 3 on page one can you honestly say that your article marketing is passively bringing in traffic every month. Until then, you will be spinning your wheels, writing article after article and end up on here saying "Article Marketing Doesn't Work!"....It does work but it is up to you to make it work!

[Michael Franklin]

Originally Posted by darrin_cooper

It's all great in theory, but there is routine to this madness & a "beat" to it.
Because, you can't just take 2 months to accomplish these tasks; there is something that has to be done on either a daily or weekly basis.

What's actually being done on that daily or weekly basis? How much is too little? How much is too much?

What methods have you automated? What tools do you use? How much time does it take you?

Ok...let me breakdown what I do daily and the average time involved so you can get a better idea. My daily goal is to get 5 articles out there with this method.

1) Keyword Research - Research good long-tail keyword phrases for my articles (30 minutes)

2) Article Submission - Write up 5 articles based on 5 long-tail keyword phrase. Also, proofread articles and make sure it is optimized for Google indexing (2 1/2 hours)

3) Submit Backlinks - Submit backlinks for current and past articles on various "dofollow" sites. Also, check rankings of past articles to determine backlinks for tomorrow (3 hours).

Total average time spent on this method daily - 6 hours.

Right now, I do most of these activities myself. Currently, my nephew has been helping me out with the backlinking....But up until recently, it was all done by myself.

Obviously, you can slice your time significantly by outsourcing some or all of these 3 steps.

Every article will index differently so there's no magic formula. All I do is write the articles and backlink them - that's it. Some articles will rank in the top 3 in a matter of days, and others will take a few weeks. But if you do this long enough for a large amount of articles, the results really start to snowball.

You don't have to do 5 articles, but that's what works for me. Go at your own comfortable pace.

I hope this helps you out!

[sagasu44]

Originally Posted by Michael Franklin

1) Keyword Research - Research good long-tail keyword phrases for my articles (30 minutes)

2) Article Submission - Write up 5 articles based on 5 long-tail keyword phrase. Also, proofread articles and make sure it is optimized for Google indexing (2 1/2 hours)

3) Submit Backlinks - Submit backlinks for current and past articles on various "dofollow" sites. Also, check rankings of past articles to determine backlinks for tomorrow (3 hours).

Total average time spent on this method daily - 6 hours.

Thanks for giving us a good schedule to aim for. It sounds like a really doable day Mike. The first question that comes to mind for me though is regarding the backlinking. If you submit the 5 articles, then do the backlinking for those articles and articles you have done before, at what point do you stop backlinking particular articles? I mean obviously the more articles you are getting out there the longer your list of anchor text backlinks get, so at what point do you say, ok, I've focussed on backlinking that article now I'm focussing on the next?

I have found that writing the 5 articles is easy enough, but then spinning each of those various articles manually and submitting takes way more than 2.5 hours for me. I have chosen not to use my auto-submitter at this point as I really want to be in control of what I am submitting, and of course, as I get more experienced, even my manual effort will speed up a great deal I am sure.

At the moment my process is about 1 hour for keyword research, and with time I am sure I'll get that process down to half hour like you.

2 - 3 hours writing 5 articles and doing a few spin versions of each

3 - 4 hours manually submitting got me into about 15 directories...granted though I had to set up accounts for many of them.

I'm guessing about 5-6 hours backlinking to around 30 sites, mainly only backlinking two anchor texts per site so as not to risk spamming...once again, had to set up lots of accounts in this process. I'm assuming you alternate between anchor texts each time you backlink in order to overcome the spamming risk?

From this experience I think I could focus 1 day on the article itself, and then another day on backlinking. So my goal is to get it down pat and be able to do both in around 6-8 hours like you. At that rate I'd be able to get two articles out a week which sound like a good place to start for me anyway.

[nevillealston]

Well the number three option to get results with this really threw me for a loop!

Since I 've started article marketing, I've noticed that yes, it does indeed help you to be in the actual top three search pages of google , for that particular search term...

So yes, I totally agree, and now since i'm pretty much dominating my niche, I've managed to find just the right key words and also long tail keywords that helps to get me launched at over 75% of the search results!

And trust me that this has REALLY helped with my profit margin!

But seriously though, great post!

I can see where your coming from with all that information..

Thanks!

[vicone]

I have chosen not to use my auto-submitter at this point as I really want to be in control of what I am submitting, and of course, as I get more experienced, even my manual effort will speed up a great deal I am sure.

A simple way to speed up manual submission to Article Directories (other directories, too) is to prepare a list of, say, 20-30 links to those preferred directories and place that on your website as an html file. This means that the links are clickable.

As you go to each directory, make sure your browser is set to remember the password and UserID so that you can quickly log in on arrival.

Then just copy and paste your article form the text file you've already saved on your computer. This file will already have an article summary, resource box, keywords, and title prepared for copy and paste insertion.

When the submission is finished for each directory, just return to the list of Directory Links and click on the next one.

Ivan

[Good News Now]

Thank you for this post. Well-Done in sharing some insights …very helpful.

[JenniferChristine]

What a great thread!

I just want to thank Michael for this thread and for his free article report which is far better than some article reports I've paid $ for!

I am new to this as well, can someone tell me how to do back linking etc in the first place? or do people just hire someone to do this? As well, too much backlinking can cause a person to be banned on some article websites, I have heard, what does anyone have to say about this?

[vicone]

I am new to this as well, can someone tell me how to do back linking etc in the first place? or do people just hire someone to do this? As well, too much backlinking can cause a person to be banned on some article websites, I have heard, what does anyone have to say about this?

Have a look at some of the offers concerning backlinks being made in the Special Offers section of this forum. They'll also advise you on how to do backlinking safely.

Ivan

[JenniferChristine]

Michael, I've got a question.

On 9 June I did 30 backlinks using Angela's latest packet for 5 of my articles on goarticles, using 4 of my own keyword phrases and the one she used as an example in her free WSO. The keyword phrase was "panic heart attack symptoms" in her free WSO.

I've just used site explorer to see how many backlinks the #1 result in Google has for "panic heart attack symptoms" and it's only 19 links! The #1 result is a Goarticles article and I knew that when I wrote my own article with 1% keyword density and backlinked it.

I didn't read your report then otherwise I would have chosen another article directory other than Goarticles.

So, considering I did 30 backlinks, do you think I can beat out this #1 article with the backlinking I've already done?

So far I'm not even in the top 30.

[sagasu44]

Is anyone out there using isnare.com? It has a PR of 4. However, unless you are a paid member you can only include a single link to your web page. However, paid members get their articles "submitted to thousands" of directories, basically outsourcing, and have a dedicated bio page attached to all articles in which they can load it with links. Of course they have loads of testimonials, but has anyone here got any experience with them?

Also, Goarticles are now monetising articles with product links throughout our articles. I'm not happy about this as it detracts from our own links so have decided not to backlink to the articles I have submitted to them...annoying considering everything i have done this week has been backlinking to go-articles, grrr.

[sagasu44]

Question....what is article rebranding?

As I am setting up new article directory accounts I am noticing some saying this is not allowed. Is this referring to spun versions of articles and thus this site requires 100% original content?

[Michael Franklin]

Originally Posted by John McEachern

Hey Mike, what automated tools do you use, if any? Social Bot? RSS Bot? Micro Niche Finder? Any of those?

Hi John,

As of now I don't use any automated tools. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I've been outsourcing a lot of the backlinking to my nephew.

I don't have Micro Niche Finder but I have seen it in action and it is a wonderful tool. I'm so used to Google's Keyword Tool and my Page Rank checker, that it does a good enough job for me!

I don't touch any of the social bookmarking tools....

In terms of RSS, I only ping my Squidoo RSS feeds occasionally, but I'm starting to find that even doing that is no longer necessary.

[Michael Franklin]

Originally Posted by sagasu44

Thanks for giving us a good schedule to aim for. It sounds like a really doable day Mike. The first question that comes to mind for me though is regarding the backlinking. If you submit the 5 articles, then do the backlinking for those articles and articles you have done before, at what point do you stop backlinking particular articles? I mean obviously the more articles you are getting out there the longer your list of anchor text backlinks get, so at what point do you say, ok, I've focussed on backlinking that article now I'm focussing on the next?

You stop backlinking particular articles once your articles is in the top 3 of Google and stays there consistently every day.

Keep in mind also that as you have more articles out there, the logistics of backlinking goes up so it's okay to either outsource a good chunk of it OR keep the backlinking minimal for each article....Even if you did one new backlink per article per day, it would do wonders over time!

Keep this in mind...A huge majority of article writers never backlink to their articles...at all. So you will have a huge advantage over them!

Originally Posted by sagasu44

I have found that writing the 5 articles is easy enough, but then spinning each of those various articles manually and submitting takes way more than 2.5 hours for me. I have chosen not to use my auto-submitter at this point as I really want to be in control of what I am submitting, and of course, as I get more experienced, even my manual effort will speed up a great deal I am sure.

At the moment my process is about 1 hour for keyword research, and with time I am sure I'll get that process down to half hour like you.

2 - 3 hours writing 5 articles and doing a few spin versions of each

3 - 4 hours manually submitting got me into about 15 directories...granted though I had to set up accounts for many of them.

I'm guessing about 5-6 hours backlinking to around 30 sites, mainly only backlinking two anchor texts per site so as not to risk spamming...once again, had to set up lots of accounts in this process. I'm assuming you alternate between anchor texts each time you backlink in order to overcome the spamming risk?

First of all, the more you do this, the more efficient you will get! Honestly, you will be amazed how much you slice your times in a matter of a week or two.

Second, I always keep the anchor text the same. I have never run any spamming risk by having multiples of the same anchor text all linking to the same article.

Originally Posted by sagasu44

From this experience I think I could focus 1 day on the article itself, and then another day on backlinking. So my goal is to get it down pat and be able to do both in around 6-8 hours like you. At that rate I'd be able to get two articles out a week which sound like a good place to start for me anyway.

Just take it slow. I did that at first and I am amazed how far I've some since then!

[Michael Franklin]

Originally Posted by JenniferChristine

On 9 June I did 30 backlinks using Angela's latest packet for 5 of my articles on goarticles, using 4 of my own keyword phrases and the one she used as an example in her free WSO. The keyword phrase was "panic heart attack symptoms" in her free WSO.

I've just used site explorer to see how many backlinks the #1 result in Google has for "panic heart attack symptoms" and it's only 19 links! The #1 result is a Goarticles article and I knew that when I wrote my own article with 1% keyword density and backlinked it.

I didn't read your report then otherwise I would have chosen another article directory other than Goarticles.

So, considering I did 30 backlinks, do you think I can beat out this #1 article with the backlinking I've already done?

So far I'm not even in the top 30.

Hi Jennifer,

It's okay to write a GoArticles article even if there is one there already. I wouldn't pursue it much though if there's more than one GoArticles article among the top 10 on Google for that keyword phrase.

Still, I think you could get into top three considering that the #1 has only 19 backlinks. For now, I would keep adding backlinks from high PR sites.

Where did it rank as of today?

[Zeus66]

I know it's been said here and elsewhere, but it bears repeating...

PICK GOOD KEYWORDS!

For article marketing, the most important skill is often the least developed, and that is learning how to properly evaluate niche keywords. You need to keep a simple formula in mind: As high a # of monthly searches as possible + as low a # of competing pages as possible = traffic.

If you just write articles - even good ones - without a keyword frame of reference, you're whistling in the wind. You'll get a bit of traffic from the freshness bump and being highlighted on the homepage of the article directory (sometimes), but then you'll hear crickets chirping. Taking the time to build a list of keywords first and then drilling down that list and writing at least one article around each keyword = giving yourself a very good chance of opening the search engine traffic floodgates.

It makes all the difference, seriously. In a niche I'm involved in, I have an article at EZA that is the #1 most viewed in its category for the past 90 days. Because I first found a keyword that gets a good number of monthly searches (8,000) and has hardly any competition, it only took me 5 backlinks to reach the Top 10 at Google. The article has been viewed about 2000 times in the past 8 weeks or so. The #2 most viewed in that category doesn't even have 1000 views.

That's the power of finding good keywords. Do that and you absolutely will nail some high rankings and lots of that good free TARGETED traffic! Sometimes you don't even need backlinks.

John

[Michael Franklin]

Originally Posted by sagasu44

Is anyone out there using isnare.com? It has a PR of 4. However, unless you are a paid member you can only include a single link to your web page. However, paid members get their articles "submitted to thousands" of directories, basically outsourcing, and have a dedicated bio page attached to all articles in which they can load it with links. Of course they have loads of testimonials, but has anyone here got any experience with them?

In terms of distributing your articles, I hear it's pretty decent. I wouldn't use it though for my method, based on the PR.

Originally Posted by sagasu44

Also, Goarticles are now monetising articles with product links throughout our articles. I'm not happy about this as it detracts from our own links so have decided not to backlink to the articles I have submitted to them...annoying considering everything i have done this week has been backlinking to go-articles, grrr.

I am still seeing good results with GoArticles. There has been a slight decrease in traffic since these product links have been popping up but not enough to stop me from using them.

The product links will be ending in early July since it is an experiment being temporarily conducted (which has really backfired on them!). So if you want to deal with them after this experiment is over, just wait a couple more weeks. Still, you might want to try some of the other options that I mention in my first post in this thread.

[traceye]

Michael, great ebook - had some real gold nuggets of information in there.

I'm a fairly proficient article marketer but I found some things that you do that I'm going to try to see if I can boost my articles.

I too don't like the hit and miss strategy of writing articles and just hoping one will stick, so your method is absolutely hands down a much better way to go.

Thanks again
Tracey

[sagasu44]

Originally Posted by Michael Franklin

The product links will be ending in early July since it is an experiment being temporarily conducted (which has really backfired on them!). So if you want to deal with them after this experiment is over, just wait a couple more weeks. Still, you might want to try some of the other options that I mention in my first post in this thread.

okay Mike, thats good to know.

In another thread someone put forward a good strategy to overcome the risk of your keywords being pinched by the adverts and linking to other sites; hyperlink them first as there are no restrictions on placing links in the actual body with goarticles and thus you still ensure maximising your own keywords.

If I use Goarticles for my original article again (which I'm sure I will) this would be something to keep in mind even if they don't continue with the advertising.

[JenniferChristine]

Hi Michael

I just used used serprank.com and my article isn't in the top 50 for all the search engines it checks for panic heart attack symptoms

[sagasu44]

I just checked mine and it isn't in the top 500, lol.

[havefunandlive]

This eBook is magnificent.

Reading through it, I have new confidence in my campaign.

Thank you very much for taking the time to help people like me!

[mkayius]

Yeah....many thanks to Michael. This is truly a very informative ebook. Noobs like me need people like you.

[modikai]

A question for mike:

In your ebook(great ebook by the way), you did not mention about the keywords competition in quotes. Is it not important? Is the alintitle with quotes for the keyword is enough o determine the competition level?

What if I have a keyword with less than 700 allintitle under quotes but have competing pages of about 15,000 under quotes? Can I still get rank for top 3?

Thanks

[Michael Franklin]

[quote=modikai;903326]A question for mike:

In your ebook(great ebook by the way), you did not mention about the keywords competition in quotes. Is it not important? Is the alintitle with quotes for the keyword is enough o determine the competition level?/quote]

Thanks for the kind words....I don't even bother looking at keyword competition in quotes. The allintitle with quotes has always been a more accurate barometer for me.

Originally Posted by modikai

What if I have a keyword with less than 700 allintitle under quotes but have competing pages of about 15,000 under quotes? Can I still get rank for top 3?

Absolutely! I have done that many, many times!

[Michael Franklin]

Originally Posted by John McEachern

Oh, do you build any review sites for the products you promote, like that Conduit Method stuff?

Hi John,

I currently don't....All of my articles are truly articles.

I have heard some good things about the Conduit Method on the War Room.