Whats the best way I can increase my articles rankings in google

Sam, why are they "all on EzineArticles"? Why aren't they on your own site first and foremost and after that on EZA?! :confused:

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...eza-first.html

You're asking how to increase the ranking of something that's on someone else's site. I recommend not doing that at all. I used to do it at one time but have now learned better (and am making a very good living through article marketing, having learned better), and I now increase the ranking of the copies of those articles on my own sites instead. Yes, they're on EZA too, and I get all the benefits of that - but it's my own site I want to rank highly, not their own site.

Not because it's "unnecessary" to boost their site on Google, but because in spite of the potential shorter-term traffic gain, it can really limit and possibly even damage your business in the longer term.

What you're asking about is a way of generating traffic from backlinking work (or however else) and sending it to someone else's site. I want to deveop my sites, not other people's.

It's easy to imagine, if you build backlinks to copies of your articles at Ezine Articles, for instance, that you're "getting a lot of traffic from EZA". But in the long run, you're really not: what you're actually doing is sending a lot of traffic there, which you could have sent to your own site instead, and getting only some of it back - losing a good proportion of it to EZA's AdSense (which is of course how they make a living and what they're there for).

It's really about "how you use article directories". You might be well advised make sure you use to them to get traffic to your site from them, and not to send traffic that you yourself are generating with your backlinking efforts to them. In the long run, every backlink you create to an article directory actually makes it potentially harder and less likely for your own site to be built up into an authority site, because you'll gradually be ensuring that article directories (who may have some "SEO start" over your site anyway?) will always outrank your own site for your own keywords.

It's one of those questions in internet marketing (there are others!) about which, if you ask two different groups of people, namely "people trying article marketing" and "people making a good living from article marketing", you'll typically find two very different consensuses of opinion. In other words, some people may disagree with what I'm saying here - but do bear in mind that in a field of endeavour with quite a high fail-rate, sometimes the "consensus view" may not be too reliable, and they might mostly be the ones not earning so much. Just my opinion.

There is a short-term benefit to doing what you're asking about, of course, which is why it leads so many people astray. The further you fall into the trap of that short-term benefit (and it really is a trap!), the more you potentially damage your own site's long-term, future SEO prospects. And you end up with one of those "rinse and repeat" businesses instead of one based on gradually increasing residual income.

When you have time for a long, informative, educational read, you'll really find a lot of the incidental conversation in this fine thread very helpful. Good luck!

Sam,

I'm going to contradict only one thing Alexa said. She said "when you have time" to go read that thread. That is completely WRONG. You need to go read it RIGHT NOW.

It will change your mindset on how to work with your articles very quickly. It may consume a few hours, but they are more valuable hours than cranking out a few more articles and then submitting them the wrong way.

Go grab a pot of coffee, put on some good tunes, and start reading the thread. You will quickly be back to click the "Thanks" button under Alexa's post.

I need to build my own site soon!

Oh jeez, article marketing just kicked my ass once more.

I figured it would be better to backlink to ezine since its a high PR site, and well my blogger is not, and would be a lot harder to build up to the ranking that ezine has.

But i''ll tell you, since you guys have answered my questions in the past, and its people like you that make this forum so useful, I will go and read that thread now, all of it.

As my question is probably answered within that long thread.

Thanks,

Sam

Yes it is Gary,

What would you recommend, a word-press, or a traditional website?

After reading what I have so far (3 pages and feeling light headed!)

Is there point in putting 10 articles currently on ezinearticles on my blog?

Since google wont show all the results which show the same title and body, is there point in submitting the same article to different directories?

Sam

Hey Sam,

An easy way I use is to head out to socialmarker.com and socially submit my article(once its approved) to topp Social Bookmarking websites.Helps a lot for the articles to rank.Also,if you can get a video done and posted to Youtube,like just a video presentation,and in the description you link to your article,helps another great a lot!



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