Why is ezine outranking my website?

Your website will be fine!!!

Just build backlinks to it, it won't get anywhere without them :p

Wow where did you read that? That is so wrong, it's dead easy to outrank Ezine.

Exactly so.

This is temporary.

All Google's 2011 (and ongoing) Panda updates have all-but-destroyed the ranking potential of article directories. Ezine Articles is about as far from an "authority site" as it's possible to get, and it will be trivially easy for you to outrank it. But, admittedly, as you've already wisely appreciated, not while your site is brand new! :p

The important thing - as always, for any kind of article marketing - is to publish your articles on your own site first, and have them indexed there before submitting them anywhere else, so that you (and not an article directory) can gradually accumulate the collective long-term benefit of all the initial indexation rights.

Every time you do this, in this order, you're moving closer to outranking the copies of your articles on Ezine Articles.

No; it absolutely doesn't mean that at all.

That can change. And will. Don't imagine that what's "in the supplemental index" is stuck there. Nor even that it's "in the supplemental index" for all the keywords under which it can be looked up. It's much more flexible than that. An article which is initially indexed on your own site, when your site's brand new, may temporarily be outranked by the EZA copy. That's happened to me, too, with plenty of sites. But now it's the copy on my site that's ranking highly in the main index, and the EZA copy is nowhere to be found in Google, which is as it should be, of course.

Absolutely not!

Yes. Just keep adding high quality content to your own site and checking that it's indexed there before letting it go anywhere else.

Some backlinks will also help this process - specifically, relevant ones. Don't start using cheap, mass-backlinking services, whatever you do: Google is on the rampage against those, at the moment, and it's much more likely to do harm than good. But when people republish your articles on their own relevant sites, those backlinks will soon improve your site's off-page SEO.

It may help you to note that, without going through it line by line and picking it apart, some of the "advice" and statements offered above are totally wrong. As so often, in threads like this, there are responses from people who seem not to appreciate the difference between "duplicate content" and "syndicated content", as well as comments from people who are simply unfamiliar with how article directories work. This sometimes does make it pretty difficult to use the forum for "getting advice". (You can rely on Terra, and Jeremiah, above, anyway! ).

200 instances of the exact same content can show up in the google search results, no kidding. If they all have solid links there is no boundary to it.

It's quite possible to dominate a page in Google with the same article/content on various sites.

It's not the easiest thing to do, but can still be done.

Terra

Google looks for original content, having the same content on different websites is not good...in googles eyes anyways.

Well yes, but it doesn't have to be that way. As the others have already stated, you can get your original content to outrank the ezines one with various marketing techniques including links.

Terra

I've heard it's better to post to my site first, then to EZA. Is that not true? Will EZA post to other sites?

As you've stated your website is new.

Continue to add fresh quality content to it and that will also help in ranking.

With new sites, Google isn't always sure where it should be in the rankings and it can move around quite a bit.

As you add more relevant content, you should begin to see it rank higher as long as you aren't using methods to try and game the system such as keyword stuffing, for example.

Terra

Thanks for the tips Jeremiah. I'm not doing anything black hat. Have just launched my site with 100% high quality content. Each page has 700-1,500 words of content written by a very skilled writer from the US. My site got indexed pretty fast and most pages were #30-#200 right from the start, then within a few weeks they all dropped to 200+

The only backlinking I have done is put up some videos on youtube, vimeo, metacafe... No blasting of low quality links or anything. I'm in the process of posting high quality re-written (not spun) articles to top 20 web 2.0 and blog sites online. Creating bookmarks manually to all sites. Just checked and I'm not de-indexed so that's good.

When you say "submit" them to facebook and twitter. Do you mean you create twitter and facebook accounts for your website? Or do you get on another facebook site and "share" the content or mention it? There are two ways to use twitter and facebook for backliniking and I'm trying to figure out which is better. Setting up an official account for your site, or have others post likes, share, tweet about your site...

That's awesome Letsurf!

Be sure to keep us posted. I love hearing of progress and success!

Terra