A couple of days ago I wrote an article on how to make money with Entrecard. One or two days later I used Google to search for those keywords and voila:
Result number 1, on page 1.
I was impressed. My post was the number one result! Then a few days later, my post is nowhere to be found. I clicked through a few pages of results, 1,2,3,4….nothing, it had disappeared. I can’t explain the reasons why this happened but it might be because Google penalized me for something. No sweat!
The point I am trying to make is that even if your post or blog does not necessarily show up on the first page of the results for a particular keyword, there are a few ways to get it out there. To at least get some visitors to your particular article through search engines without it, the article, showing up.
The way to do so is by submitting your article in databases and having your articles with your links show up.
When you submit and article in one of these databases you can embed your links. These articles will be stored in the database, usually ranking high because they are trusted sites by Google. In addition to that there are tons of webmasters out there that are constantly searching for new content to publish. If your article is well written and they take it and post it on their site, you will get an awesome extra backlink. Just think about it, if you write and publish 5 good articles and they get picked-up by 2 webmasters each that is a total of:
5 backlinks from the article database
10 more from the publishers, for a total of 15!
Some databases take time to publish an article, up to two weeks, so don’t expect immediate results. It could take a bit of time. I don’t care; I see it as investing some time for the future of this blog.
If you focus your efforts in writing articles around a particular set of keywords pointing back to a particular relative post of yours then that post will rank higher and higher. There is no rocket science here; just posting….You can get automated software to do this, but I prefer the good old painful and free way.
Article Databases
There are tons of content/article databases out there. Take a post of yours, change it around a bit and submit it. What do you have to gain? Well backlinks that will down the line result in higher rankings. To get a better idea on how the process works you can read more on the topic by checking out an older post of mine on Keywords and Backlinks.
You can start doing so right away. Fit it in your weekle blogging routine. Save copies of your post in a word file, once a week take every post, enhance it with your links and keywords, make it a bit shorter and submit it. Cutting it up a bit is a good way to go because you don’t want to give out all the information in the article you want to submit, adda link to your blog or particular post and submit it.
Some of the databases allow 1 link, some allow more. Depends. For some you will need some basic knowledge of HTML. It is not that hard, just see how I do it, I have and example written out at the same older post, keywords and backlinks.
Once you have your articles ready then you’re off to submit.
Here are some databases I submit articles to:
goarticles.com
ezinearticles.com
articlecity.com
amazines.com
webarticles.com
article-directory.net
articledashboard.com
In most of the above you will need to create an account. It is advised to have all your info handy…your e-mail, a name, your website address as well as information regarding your article (keywords, title, categories). Visit the first one and create an account. You will get the idea. Write everything on a text file so you can just copy paste for the next one.
Hub Pages
From the hubpages about page:
“HubPages is the leading online publishing ecosystem with easy-to-use publishing tools, a vibrant author community and underlying revenue-maximizing infrastructure. Hubbers (HubPages authors) earn money by publishing their Hubs (content-rich Internet pages) on topics they know and love, and earn recognition among fellow Hubbers through the community-wide HubScore ranking system. The HubPages ecosystem provides a search-friendly infrastructure which drives traffic to Hubs from search engines such as Google and Yahoo, and enables Hubbers to earn revenue from industry-standard advertising vehicles such as Google AdSense, Commission Junction and the Amazon Affiliates program.”
To learn more just check out my two articles on Hubpages:
Yes I have published articles that point back to my blog. They are teaser articles for the bigger versions that ‘reside’ here. These rank high in search results,(not the first one, it was published today….it takes some time), and potentially can get you a steady stream of traffic. Hubpages is a search engine favourite so any sites you create, any articles you post (called Hubs) are quickly crawled by search engines. There is no limit on how many Hubs you can create. Don’t miss out on Hubpages because, as you probably read from the quote they can be monetized! If you start getting into article submission, you should start submitting articles through hubpages, because it is easy and it will help you get a better idea of how things work. Hubpages is an article submission database that gives incentives to the writers. The only downside is that for every article you publish you will only get one backlink because they can’t be republished.
Don’t forget to check out my hubs.
In addition to Hubpages there is BloggingZoom…
BloggingZoom not a mainstream content publishing medium. It is geared primarily towards bloggers. Bloggingzoom publishes content on its first page. In order for something to get on the first page it has to collect enough votes from other bloggers. For an article of yours to get on the first page and be “showcased to the masses” as the about page specifies, it has to collect votes. So other blogger decide if your post is worthy of being showcased and the extra traffic. The feature I like the most about Bloggingzoom is that you don’t have to rewrite your post, write an article or anything like that. Once you become a member you can just bookmark your existing post on your blog and it automatically gets featured. All you need to do is write a short description, tag it and you are ready to go. Once submitted your post will sit in the upcoming section. Personally, I haven enjoyed much traffic from bloggingzoom. Mind you I haven’t submitted may posts. What I enjoy most about this service however is the fact that every submitted article/post gets ranked well on Google and I get some indirect search engine traffic which I can’t complain about.
If you are still concerned about getting visitors to yoru blog, or even which kind of traffic is better, social media or search engine traffic you might find my other post helpful. The one that raises the question:
So there you go…
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Good idea I thought about it before but I've never tried it.
Great Idea indeed, i will love to submit and creat on Hub Pages, thanks for bringing such a great idea to boost traffic.
This post is very helpful. I had never heard of these databases until I read your post. It seems like quite a bit of additional work, but I guess the payoff is worth it.
The guidelines that you have provided are very detailed and easy to use. I accessed the information as a read the post.
it's a good Idea to Generate Extra Traffic, and of-course its very user friendly too.Keep on Publishing these type Of Article which may also be helpfull,
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Jeff Hancock
A good post and very correct in its concept and its rendering.
BTW, it will be nice if you can include
http://www.articlesandarticles.net as one of the article banks where people can submit their articles in various categories for backlinks.
Cheers!