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Article Writing - Backlink Strategy

by Why9999
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I have a basic question about article writing as the answer to this will affect how I do things:

Let's say I write a decent article for one of the big article directories and they accept it and use it. Now let's say that article doesn't do well and ends up on page 30 of Google for all releveant keyword combinations. Am I still going to get a decent backlink from this?

Or does the article itself first have to have a bunch of backlinks pointed to it, so that it gets a higher page rank before it becomes a decent backlink for me?

What I'm getting at is the fact that my niche is quite competitive. I'm wondering if it's even worth it to submit to article directories for keyword combinations where the competition is fierce?

Any help in understanding all of this is much appreciated...
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  • Profile picture of the author Hugh
    Your backlink will be from the directory that publishes the article.
    And will carry the juice of that directory.

    HTH

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  • Profile picture of the author nim3
    Youll get the backlink but you wont get any traffic directly from the article if its on page 30
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    • Profile picture of the author Why9999
      Gotcha. Thx guys. I need backlinks more than anything and, of course, eventually that should drive traffic anyway.

      Thx because that means I will probably go for keywords that are fairly competetive anyway in order to try to boost my ratings on those keywords.
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      • Profile picture of the author RyanT
        Originally Posted by Why9999 View Post

        Gotcha. Thx guys. I need backlinks more than anything and, of course, eventually that should drive traffic anyway.

        Thx because that means I will probably go for keywords that are fairly competetive anyway in order to try to boost my ratings on those keywords.

        If you are just looking for backlinking a good way to go about it is get like 100 articles (can be more or less) don't really worry about content so much, just make them 300 words and put your keyword as the title and maybe once or twice in the article and then in your author or resource box have your link.

        If the directory allows it in the body of the article go ahead and throw it in there. These will all be backlinks whether they rank on page 30, 3 or 1.

        Your backlinks alone will help whatever page you're promoting to rank much higher even if your articles aren't ranking that high.
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        • Profile picture of the author Why9999
          Originally Posted by RyanT View Post

          If you are just looking for backlinking a good way to go about it is get like 100 articles (can be more or less) don't really worry about content so much, just make them 300 words and put your keyword as the title and maybe once or twice in the article and then in your author or resource box have your link.

          If the directory allows it in the body of the article go ahead and throw it in there. These will all be backlinks whether they rank on page 30, 3 or 1.

          Your backlinks alone will help whatever page you're promoting to rank much higher even if your articles aren't ranking that high.
          Beautiful...
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  • Profile picture of the author mikea262
    Very well said. Also, its a good idea to use your two links allowed by most directories wisely. What I mean is point one with your main keyword to your main domain and then use the other with a different keyword to a internal page.
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    • Profile picture of the author Why9999
      Originally Posted by mikea262 View Post

      Very well said. Also, its a good idea to use your two links allowed by most directories wisely. What I mean is point one with your main keyword to your main domain and then use the other with a different keyword to a internal page.
      Thx for the tip.
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      • Profile picture of the author Why9999
        So I have a question then:

        If you get page rank then is the only advantage to writing a great page the fact that it may get a lot of backlinks and then you'll get a lot of direct traffic from the article?
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