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Getting The Most Out of An Article Submission Service
Posted by Chris Nobel in SEO on January 10th, 2010
Do you want to use an article submission service to the best of your ability?
Read on for five methods to maximize your results by using an article submission service.
1. Submit Properly Formatted Articles - Make your articles readable by splitting your larger paragraphs into smaller ones; this makes it seem that your submission isn’t automated.
You also have to make sure that the article submission service you use formats your article properly. some article directories, like EzineArticles, use human reviewers and will reject submissions that do not use paragraphing appropriately.
2. Don’t Overuse Article Keywords - For the most part, article submissions services aren’t going to put limits on the keyword percentages in your articles, but you might arouse suspicion if your article has too many keywords in the text or in related fields.
Don’t put more than 6 keywords in your article.
3. Avoid Article Content Links - If an article directory sees a link in your main content, it’ll probably be rejected.
While this is not true for every directory, links within the text of your article are sometimes an indicator of an automated submission. So, prior to actual submission, you should take the time to remove any links that are present in your article’s main text.
4. Exercise Proper Category Submission - A lot of times, people forget that they can submit articles to whatever category they want to.
For the most part, article submission services show you a generic topic that your article can go under, like site promotion, but you won’t be able to specify your topic any further than that.
Due to this limitation, almost all automated submissions are submitted under a general topic. These tend to be rates as spam with other automated submissions that are not submitted in the right category. They also tend to attract a crowd that is not interested in your niche, such as leisure readers simply looking for free information.
5. Use a one-of-a-kind excerpt - I have found that articles using a one-of-a-kind excerpt produces a better click-through rate (CRT) to your site than those that don’t. With this in mind, do not simply use the first paragraph of your article for the excerpt of your next submission.
Keep in mind that you have to great quality articles that have unique content for any of this to work with an article submission service.
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How To Be An Exceptional SEO!
Posted by Ken Martin in SEO on November 2nd, 2009
Many of the webmasters with exceptional SEO skills work in many different fields. In addition to working with search engine optimization, they may also work with affiliate programs or other internet marketing strategies. To keep their techniques secret from others, those that are successful with SEO will generally not attach themselves to their websites. The reputation of a webmaster does play an important role in SEO, but it is not that important.
Sometimes the webmasters who are very successful with SEO will become famous. This could be do to them suddenly becoming millionaires or selling their site to a large corporation. After these people become well known, they may promote strategies which work well for them, but not for others. The tactics which bring one person success may not work well for others. People are different, and will need to accomplish things in different ways. At the same time, there are two thing which can bring you success with SEO. These two things are links and content.
When you look at SEO, this is what is important. If you ask different masters what it takes to be successful with SEO, you will get a number of different answers. Some will tell you that links are the most important factor. Others will tell you that having content is what will bring you the most success. In reality, all of these things are right. Placing an emphasis on one or the other is not likely to help you succeed. By mastering different areas of SEO, you will be able to succeed. However, it is important to remember that success doesn’t stop with SEO. Those who succeed must also know how to reach their visitors. SEO will only allow you to reach the search engines. This alone won’t bring you success.
Many webmaster succeed at SEO only to find that they’ve failed at other aspects of internet marketing. If you want to build a successful business, you must master multiple areas. This is what many SEO experts forget to tell you. Those who are really successful wil be reluctant to reveal their true techniques. One thing you can be certain of is that limiting yourself to one area will not bring about success.
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Are Directory Submissions Still Effective?
Posted by Yasir Y Khan in SEO on October 1st, 2009
Directory submissions seem to be one of the main ways of building link popularity used by many SEO companies out there. When you pay for a directory submission service, your SEO company submits your URL to 400 or 500 (sometimes 1000) directories out there on the web. SEO companies claim that directory submissions is one of the fastest ways of improving link popularity.
While directory submissions help with your link popularity, the submissions do absolutely nothing as far as increasing the rankings are concerned. There are some websites with only 200 links which are ranking higher than websites with over 3000 links. The reason for the difference in rankings is because one website has trusted inbound links which the other does not.
The first reason why directory submissions pass minimal to no link juice is because they contain only links and no content. And for that reason, most of them have another fancy name: link farm. Because of the lack of content, search engines stop favoring web directories and make sure that their outgoing links do not pass a lot of value.
Another reason for the minimal benefit that directories provide is the fact that everyone submits their junk content to them. It is also not hard to imagine each category of a directory to have over 200 outbound links, which severely limits the amount of link juice these directories provide. Also, because directories connect to bad neighborhoods due to spammy links, they lose quality and have to pay a price by getting even more junky links.
Directories also do not provide any traffic to their listed websites because no one uses directories as a reference system like they were used in old times. People normally go to search engines like Google to find any stuff that they want. Even though many SEO “specialists” still think of directories as major source of navigation, that is not the case with directories any more.
However, there are a few high quality and high PR directories out there i.e. Yahoo Directory, Business.com, JoeAnt and DMOZ, which can provide your website with a lot of link juice. The downside for submissions to such directories is that they charge a hefty fee.
In conclusion, my advice to you is to stay away from directory submissions because they can actually hurt (rather than help) your websites.
Article Writing: Writing For The Internet
Posted by Theo McLanahan in Traffic Generation on July 26th, 2009
To be a successful writer for the Internet, you must first select the right approach for writing good pieces of writing. In order to be a paid writer, you have to put your articles on sale, so you must understand the business of selling your content. You must believe that your ideas are better than others. In addition to the qualities required to sell articles for the Internet, there are also specific skills that are needed to write effective online articles.
The Foremost Rule You should write according to the taste of your intended reader, not according to your own personal taste. This means that you need to explore, identify, and target your message towards specific readers with specific interests. For instance, in an article on the financial market you can’t target grandmothers looking for designs of knitting. You need to write your message according to the comprehension of target readers. No one will understand even correct stuff until and unless it is presented properly.
Keep in mind that people who browse the Internet are impatient. They click off the material once they read something that is not pertinent to their cause, and they only linger on an article that they consider important and pleasing.
The Main Approaches First of all, ask yourself this question “Who are your readers?”
In addition to identifying your intended readers, you must also ask yourself another question: Why do you wish to produce this piece of writing? In answering this question, you are really narrowing your approach to writing your article in the first place.
The Main Approaches The articles on the Internet can be classified into four wide approaches:
- Writing for Selling: Marketing articles often sell commodities or services to woo readers to a web site. The fast-paced speed of these articles are immediately obvious and, for this reason, the content of marketing remains small in size. Keywords are important for selling because they invite readers performing general word searches.
- Technical Writing: This type of writing requires actual facts. The technical aspect is well understood with diagrams. Even if the writing lacks visual aids, descriptions and writing is precise so as to avoid misunderstanding. If you use highly technical words, be aware that a common man would find it difficult to understand. And if the article has more of the style, the people with technical expertise will find it without technical details.
- Trendy Writing: The extensive use of blogs in the recent times has made this writing very popular. The main aspects here are to make the content more appealing and entertaining. This kind of writing should still try to be as straightforward as possible, as well as short and full of quick points. Trendy writing tends to lack details and arguments.
- Intellectual Writing: This writing requires detailed description of a particular field and often makes references from popular books. Intellectual writing is aimed at contributing to a field of study. However, it does not necessarily have to be academic in nature. Good examples of intellectual writing are book reviews and editorial columns.
The Internet is the most popular media for sharing information and, if used in an efficient manner, it can work wonders for you as a reader and writer.
Reciprocal Links and SEO — Is it a Strategy or Hype
Posted by George Edmonson Jr. in General Marketing on January 9th, 2009
I started researching what is now known as SEO about 13 years ago. I tried over and over to build the site that I dreamed would rank at the top of Google. At the time I began the key apparently was Meta Tags. I made meta tags just like my competition, and made by key word density for the words in those tags higher. I figured that would easily put me to the top. I waited for months on sites, and I never moved at all. One thing I did find interesting is there were some reputable sites that were stuffing words in like pornography, XXX etc to try to capture free traffic on highly searched words even though their sites were not relevant to those results. Basically after nearly duplicating sites I never improved my rankings.
So then I got into the impression that the size of the site had a lot to do with ranking. Some of the topics I have chosen to build websites on were impossible to build a large site on. Every number one site I saw on google though, if you did a site:http://www.domain.com search had thousands of indexed pages. Then I stumbled upon a program called Traffic Booster Pro. This was the answer to my question. This program basically builds a bunch of junk pages that take content from RSS feeds and make it unique by randomizing the words. It creates thousands of pages all optimized and linked together, and generates a sitemap. Google was crawling my site like crazy. And for one of the most searched words on the internet, I ranked in position 60 within a few weeks. I was so excited, I thought for sure I was right, I needed the bigger site, the larger the site the better I would rank. If I couldn’t build that many pages, this program would do it for me, but when my users click on one of those they are redirected to my main page. I got some traffic for a while, and then one day my site crashed for about an hour. The reason it crashed is because Google was crawling it so much the traffic overloaded the data center that I was housing my information. Not the server I was on, the entire data center. My sitemap tracked in Google Sitemaps had thousands of errors. I had my datacenter folks get back online. When I checked my rankings I found all those keywords I was ranked for were dropped to nothing. I went from 60 to not in the top 1000. I thought this would be rectified soon, I adjusted my crawl rate, let my data center know this site was taking a lot of traffic. I waited 2 months and my rankings never came back. The site I had has a unique domain name that is not even a word, and to this day that site doesn’t even rank number one for the domain name. Therefore that site has been penalized, there is no other answer.
Then on the advice of some Gurus I decided to start a link exchange. I put code on my site on how to exchange links, and on top of that I joined Linkmarket.net to exchange links. I was able to secure a bunch of links to my site and I built a reciprocal directory with probably 400 partner sites. Guru’s claimed this is how they go their rankings, but after some testing I decided to see if these Guru’s have reciprocal links on their site. Guess what? They didn’t. These guys weren’t using reciprocal links to get those rankings. Once again I saw no results, and had proof that the Guru’s pushing this also saw it as ineffective. I don’t want this to be construed that links don’t help. Look at the results for “click here” on Google. Adobe ranks #1 and click here is not anywhere on their site as a keyword. They just have a bunch of links with that anchor text. However, they are not exchanged links. I haven’t found one site being number one on Google with exchanged links.
So to answer the question, no link exchanging does nothing for SEO. The two ways to get your sites link that are not exchanges you can share information or make link bait. The article that you are reading right now helps my rankings. I just write experiences and information that I have retained in knowledge, the distribute it to webmasters to update content on their site. This helps the webmasters by making Google visit their site often since they are constantly adding content. Best part is when they like and add my content they add a link to my site. I write articles several times a day about different things that relate to my website. This is how I get links to my site, without exchanging them. I exchange information of a one-way text link.
There really are two ways like I said. Link bait, and content sharing. Link bait is like the chicken website for Burger King if you can remember that. If you saw it you would remember it was a guy in a chicken suit on video that did stupid things. It ranked Burger King number one for the single word chicken. That is quite a jump. It was people liked it an virally linked to it from their sites. The drawback to link bait is you better be extremely creative, or have someone build link bait for an astronomical price. There is a better way.
Content sharing is exactly what you are looking at. I published this informational article for webmasters to add to their site. If people like it several website will publish it. A SEO site trying to provide free advice my put this article online. This helps them because if they constantly add content Google will spider frequently. This can help them if they make a change to their site, to have it updated in the index quickly. The catch is to use the content that I write they have to include my resource box. The resource box talks about me and then gives me a link to a site that I want. I submit a bunch of free content to the directories where webmasters go find it. When they find it an publish it I get a link back to my site. The best part is even if a webmaster doesn’t publish my article the directories they go for publish my article and that creates links. I don’t link out on my site at all. I do have meta tags, but they don’t really do much. I also only have a 3 page website and it still ranks nicely.
To conclude it won’t hurt to have a well coded big site, but that is not what pulls rankings. The best rankings I ever obtained are from submitting articles. I love to write the different articles and share information or knowledge I have for free. Also Google can tell that I am manually writing these because there is no duplicate information in them across the network. So they know that I am not trying to steal rankings, that I am providing legit information and a link to my site. This causes each link to have a nice weight with google. My job has become to promote my website through distributing information.