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thats un-natural link building, u should just create great on site content and the visitors will follow
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Who in your community has a website that your prospects are already visiting? Maybe there is a realtor, community blog, or other website that you can do a guest post on. Be creative - for example, my local gym has a blog and they are begging for guest posters. You'll get a lot for your effort than having your content get buried in an article submission website.
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Just create great on site content? That sounds like a philosophical change for you, YGMM. Do you disavow link building strategies now? I'm curious, because I know you are good at keeping up on effective SEO.
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LOL
it was a joke
It depends on ur strategy really....and the kws u want to go after.....
There is what I call the "content mill" with hundreds if not thousands of pages of articles, that are actually good as in makes sense to the visitor and delivers a modicum of semi-valuable info, answers the question that prompted the visitor to look online in the first place, these arent ur $10/articles, more like 30-50/pop.
100 articles like this and if each article gets just 1 visitor a day, thats 3k/visitors a month, usually this is an option for bigger generic sites that target terms nationwide, hard to write 100 or more quality articles about "fill in your state health insurance" Though 50 would get a good goal.
As to link building, I see these site's doing mostly white hat link building, because they dont want to put their investment into site content at risk, considering if you have 100 articles x $30 ea, thats $3k just in site content...
-niche web directory links
-real guest posts
-purchased links from low obl pages
-prweb press releases
--links from links or resource pages
--ETC
all done to build up the domain authority, so when they slap up a new article it starts getting long tail traffic right away..
Most agents/affiliates, dont go this route for a number of ways, most of us, have geo targeted sites, because the traffic can be easier to rank for, OR in the case of an agent, they just are working certain states...
but back to the question of article directories, they are pretty weak for tier 1 links, they are a good link if you are going to funnel a bunch of tier 2/3 links at them to build up the link juice being passed through them.. and of course I'm referring to manual article directories, forget about auto approve directories using tools like Article MArketing Robot, at that point, you might as well just buy 500 blog network posts, and rank until the cows come home.
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Good info, YGMM, thanks for providing it.
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Submitting links to article directories is natural link building and search engines will not penalize you for that. Usually the link posted in the article directory on your content will not get indexed by the search engine. However, other web developers take content from these article pools and post it on their website with your link still on it. These websites do get indexed by search engines and therefore you grow your back-links naturally. Just from one good article you can generate many links. This entire setup is completely natural and encouraged because the author has to write real content that people would find useful, otherwise no one will pick up your content and it will get stuck on the article directory, which don't usually get indexed by search engines.
Alex1
Expert
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That is good advice. Google prefers websites with content that naturally goes with the keywords you are after.
But if there is alot of competition for certain keywords, you should probably go after more specific keywords to avoid competing with too many websites and therefore ranking lower.
TransferMan
Expert
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What you do is target keywords you realistically have a chance of ranking high for within a reasonable amount of time. Here's how you do it:
1. Do some research and find out what search terms (that relate to what you do) are the post "popular" (get searched a lot).
2. Then go to Google and conduct searches for these various terms and also include geographical modifiers (if you live in Seattle, do searches for "seattle insurance agent" -- not "insurance agent").
3. Find keywords that, when searched, bring up no more than 1 to 2 million competing search results.
4. Make these the search terms upon which you base all your website seo.
On a different note, remember to have 15 to 20 pages of website content to compete. Don't expect miracles with a 5 page website -- it won't happen for all practical purposes.
Mike Merten
1. Do some research and find out what search terms (that relate to what you do) are the post "popular" (get searched a lot).
2. Then go to Google and conduct searches for these various terms and also include geographical modifiers (if you live in Seattle, do searches for "seattle insurance agent" -- not "insurance agent").
3. Find keywords that, when searched, bring up no more than 1 to 2 million competing search results.
4. Make these the search terms upon which you base all your website seo.
On a different note, remember to have 15 to 20 pages of website content to compete. Don't expect miracles with a 5 page website -- it won't happen for all practical purposes.
Mike Merten
