Adding article from site index page AFTER indexed

by maty

Posted: 15 years ago 4 replies

Hi Guys

I would be greatful for any advice, I launched a site just before Christmas, got all the pages indexed overnight and within a week I was half way up page one for the EMD KW, I decided to get some extra backlinks by adding the website content to ezine starting with the index page.

ezine accepted the article with a few minor (non promotional) changes and since that my site has dropped down to about page 600 odd and the ezine article is on page 6 for the search term - I will admit to being a little heavy on the linking with this one and it could be that but I've never taken my site content and added it to ezine before so just wonder if that could be the problem?

Also if I copy a chunk of text from my index page and search for that in google ezine comes back with the no1 result and my index page comes in at pg6.

I do think this is a penalty for linking a little too quickly, so I have continued to keep the same link velocity but would appreciate anyone more experienced with doing this with site content to reassure me that it isn't because I've added it to ezine, because I was going to go through and add the content from all of my sites quietly just for some extra linkage.

Thanks for looking, sorry for the long ramble.

Maty

#adding #article #index #indexed #page #site

BudgetSEO 15 years ago

Were the articles original (both your homepage and ezine)
How many articles did you submit to ezine?
Also did you only use ezine or other methods?

Might be a G Dance which you are experiencing
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bcinteractive 15 years ago

It sounds to me like the search engine is having trouble figuring out which is the original content. Ezine is an older site and their pages get indexed extremely quick. So google probably found the article there first, and then slapped you with a duplicate content penalty.

You should never just copy and paste your content for article marketing, not only does this induce duplicate content issues, but also decreases the quality of your site if all your content is also everywhere else. You need fresh, unique content on your website, and in your article marketing articles.

Be sure to also add a canonical meta tag to your pages. This tells google which is the original content should someone syndicate your articles.

I hope this helps!
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- maty 15 years ago
  
  Thanks for the responses
  
  @budgetseo
  
  The article on my homepage was original and was practically the same as the one on my site with a few minor changes as pointed out.
  
  @bcinteractive - the SE shouldn't be having any problems understanding who the provider of the original content is as it was indexed on my site first and yes it was fresh and unique content.
  
  @Alexa, I'm glad you've chimed in as I have read a good few of your posts surrounding this issue previously so I value your advice, enough so that I will continue to add the rest of the content from the site to ezine because I believe it is intersting compelling content which may get picked up by other webmasters, also I think even though not contextual it helps to mix the link types up a bit.
  
  I do have to disagree about the linking to fast myth - I know everyone says that if this was the case other people would just throw links at everyone elses sites but I have seen my own sites have thousands of profile links thrown at them in a short period (particularly new sites) and fly to the bottom of the serps, they come back usually but it definately happens.
  
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Alexa Smith Banned 15 years ago

Originally Posted by maty

I've never taken my site content and added it to ezine before so just wonder if that could be the problem?

I do this all the time. That's to say, everything I ever submit to EZA (and to anywhere else) has always been previously published and indexed on my own site first (for all the reasons explained here, of course). I'm afraid I'm not quite sure exactly what you're asking, but the fact that you've submitted some of your site's contents to EZA isn't a reason for your site ranking lower in Google's SERP's, anyway.

When you submit an article on your site to EZA, it's normal for the EZA copy to outrank you briefly. The more regularly you do it, the more temporary that is, and eventually you get to a point at which it doesn't happen at all (which is, of course, better). If your site's new-ish, this will be normal. But carry on with what you're doing: in the long run it will pay off well, and you'll avoid being one of those people unable to outrank a non-context-relevent PR-0 article directory copy of an article.

Originally Posted by maty

I do think this is a penalty for linking a little too quickly

There are no "penalties" for "linking too quickly": that's an urban myth of internet marketing. If there were, subfusc-headwear forums would be full of people selling that as a service "to disable your competitors". :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by maty

would appreciate anyone more experienced with doing this with site content to reassure me that it isn't because I've added it to ezine

It isn't.

Originally Posted by maty

I was going to go through and add the content from all of my sites quietly just for some extra linkage.

You can ... but the backlinks are worth little, of course, because they're only PR-0 pages from a non-context-relevant site (just as is true of any other article directory). However, if the articles are appropriate for being syndicated by other webmasters, they can lead to some very valuable, context-relevant, higher-PR backlinks and some additional targeted traffic, so there can be other benefits from doing this, too. There's certainly no downside to it, at all.
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