Article Marketing question

Hi Bannerchick,

I'll congratulate you for that even if you're not a newbie!

You did publish the article on your own site first, and have it indexed there, before submitting it to EZA, didn't you? :confused:

You can do that and the EZA copy may still outrank you for a while. Some people say that the one that gets indexed first will always be the one in Google's main index and others will go in the supplemental index, but I'm afraid this isn't quite true. But still, in the long run (which is all that matters), your own site will reap the rewards of holding the originally indexed copies of all your articles, of course.

In other words, don't worry too much about this. It's temporary. Just keep on doing what you're doing.

I know you're concerned about article directories outranking your own site for your own long-ass keywords, but in the long run, they won't, as long as you publish everything on your own site first and have it indexed there before submitting it to EZA, and of course do all your SEO and backlink-building to your site and never to EZA's site. That way, you're using article directories as a way of getting traffic from them, rather than sending traffic you're generating to them.

Here you are: this is the thread you need to read, for all the incidental conversation/information in it, as well as the "title discussion" itself.

The copies of all my nearly-1,000 EZA articles are identical to the ones originally published and indexed on my own sites. Same title, same content, same keywords. (Not the resource-box, admittedly - I don't need that on my own sites!).

I'm so stupid that I didn't even publish them on my own site. I just linked my site to my hub pages (which have spinned versions). Geez, I'm still learning!!!

Right please excuse me if I’ve got this wrong, theme your site, go to google and search you keyphrase
Go to the left hand side and look at related searches; see where you can create Categories form the related searches
That’s your site themed plus you now know what you need to focus on for ranking your site loosley
With your articles you really want the topics related to your site theme but the target keyword needs to be in your sig (most article dirs only allow this) linking back to your site for that target keyword as in
<a href="http://mysite.com" target="_blank"><b>target keyword here</b></a>
not ness the title of the article its the backlink thats more important in this case

well done on page 3 now lets take posn 3

Hi Afi,

Great job! Applause! All of the advice above is great so I only have a bit to add. Remember, one of the purposes of AM is to build links back to your site. So the more appealing your article is to other ezine directories the more it will get published. You probably already know that you can submit your article to more than one directory. I started doing it all manually and then signed on for a monthly service to do the distribution.

You will find that often your articles will grab high ranking before your website. That's because the article directories have high ranking and domain age. Just make sure your related blog post is as good as or better than the ezine submission. Also you can use 2 links in the resource box. Make one to you xxx.domain.com and one to your keyword related page xxx.domain.com/keyword-related-phrase.

Keep on cranking out those articles because article marketing works.

Kater

Congratulations!

I do it both ways. I generally submit articles that are targeted to different keywords than I'm targeting on my sites, but I also submit them for the same keywords a lot of the time.

I agree with what NicoleBeckett pretty much to the letter, so I won't retype it all again (scroll up a bit if you missed it ).

But I will say that having your Ezinearticles page in the top few results isn't a bad thing. In fact, it can be a good thing for a new site like that. You will quite likely get more traffic from it than from Google initially, assuming your resource box has a decent call to action to get people to click through to your site.

Even once your site climbs its way into the top results, having more than one page that you "own" on page 1 means there are more chances for people to wind up on your site.

John

Simple rule: one primary keyword per article.

Place it in:

* In the article title, preferably first -- Viz: "Dog Training: How to Teach Your Dog to Bark on Command";

* In the first paragraph of the article -- Viz: "Dog training doesn't need to be boring. You can teach your dog... etc"

* In the final paragraph: "Dog training is fun, when you... etc".

All you need to do is remember where to place your keyword, three times. That's more than enough for short articles under 400 words.

For article 600 to 1000 words, do some keyword research, and add a secondary keyword.

BUT (big but) remember to write to entertain and inform your readers. DO NOT overdo the keywords. If you try to manipulate the search engines you'll get nowhere.

Re your EA article at #3 -- that's a GOOD thing. They're a PR 6, that's why they're there. And that's why you post your articles to EA. Just make sure that you have the links you want in your bio, and you'll do great... :-)

Good luck. :-)

This has turned into quite the thread! Thanks all!

And because of this thread I have now signed up and submitted my first article to EZA.... I'm just waiting for the rush to my blog now ;-)

EzineArticles is not as powerful as it used to be in the past, but it is still driving traffic to my websites.

You have to write many articles if you want to have positive results, but some of your articles will keep driving traffic to your websites for years.

I think you should introduce your main keyword into the text with about 1% density and also put it into the title. You can use other keywords in the body of the article as well, introducing them once or twice.