Plain Discouraging - Somethings just are!
So I told myself that the moment the articles come out I'll start seeing views on the pages they're directed to. I told myself I'll start seeing traffic.
Here are some of my problems. They just frustrate me.
On the 8th day after submitting my first set of articles for my first campaign, they got slapped and the reason made no sense to me because I was not "blatantly promoting my company, myself or my product in the article body". I was doing it in the resource box.
I changed anything that could possibly be considered "promotion" in my article body and 4 days later its still under review. I don't even want to write any articles for my other campaigns right now because I don't want to see them get rejected for no reason either.
I ran over to articlesbase from ezine thinking maybe things will be better there, and they were. My article was up overnight, but not visible on google. even after bookmarking.
Another squidoo article of mine with great keyword density and (if I might say so myself its just a beautiful webpage) readability has still not even gotten ranked.I even bookmarked all this stuff, but it still hasn't been ranked.
Do I just need to be patient?
I AM LEARNING
I AM INVESTING TIME
I AM ACTING ON WHAT I LEARN
but I'M NOT SEEING RESULTS, and I don't mean a sale. I mean a page visible in the SERPs
In fact another one of my pages even though it is supposedly page ranked isn't even visible in the SERPs for that keyword. I know because I looked at all 20 PAGES.
I'M NOT GIVING UP THOUGH. HELL NO. I JUST NEED SOMEONE INSIDE WA TO GIVE ME MORE SUPPORT AND ADVICE. THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE ISN'T IT?
I WANT SOMEONE WHO'LL ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS FOR ME AND HELP ME UNDERSTAND HOW I CAN DO THINGS BETTER TO GET BETTER RESULTS.
I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE, so come help me figure things out please.!
Craig.
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Stick in there. I am going through much the same myself. Testing out an idea with a free blogger blog. Will but domain if it looks to be working. Used Hubpages among others to promote. Now here is the odd thing. My Blogger page does not show in search even for the address itself but the Hubpage which I only published yesterday is on page 2 of google for my keyword NOT in " ". I have to hope that my monetised blog will benefit from the good backlinks when it finally appears on Google.
Continue to backlink your articles through blog comments, more social bookmarking, more articles, etc.. make sure you create these using the keyword you're targeting as your anchor text link. Also, throw in a few keywords that are related to mix it up. Though a very tedious task, more backlinks never hurt, keep at it, you may not see it yet it but I'm sure these WILL have an effect, just need to give it time. Good luck!
Thanks again guys. Is there anyway I can keep the article rankings moving up though? I've bookmarked them, and posted them on my blog and ping-ed it afterward and stuff, but it doesn't have much effect.
I have had all my articles accepted by ezines but it does take time. One actually took 11 days. They are doing ok but no sales yet. I expected a lot to begin with and now I am learning more and trying to improve the quality of my articles and really figuring all of this out. I think that sometimes we think that this is going to just happen instantly because we have an article out there. Give it time I am sure if you did all you were supposed to do then it will all work out. Best Wishes.
Not a good idea to submit identical articles to various directories. The rule of thumb is to spin(rewrite) your article so that no more than 30% of your article is duplicate content. There is software to do this but most costs a bit of money and do not always flow very well. If you are new at this, get the experience and do it yourself. It will help down the road to have this "time served".
Thanks to all 3 of you for the encouragement and great advice. I am going to continue writing more articles and I'm going to continue adding more article directories to my arsenal. PS: what do you all think of submitting the same article after a while to different article directories?
cheers,
Craig.
One of the inherent problems with this type of marketing is that the results are not immediate. You need to work at it. And then do some more. Ezine has its standards, work with them to understand with what they have a problem. They do respond to intelligent questions about why things get rejected. They are quite busy this time of year so you need to be patient. Send them an e-mail and ask what they didn't like. Meanwhile, keep writing and submitting. You have 10 submissions with them. Try to be informative and not salesy.
It can be frustrating, not just because articles are kicked back, but because it's hard to see the reasoning. My first few articles were kicked back. I just had to rewrite once or twice. But, then they were posted, with few results. Then, a month or two later, I wrote a cluster of articles on web topics, and Google picked them up, and I got good rankings and more visits. My experience w/ the articles is to keep writing, modify as needed, and keep writing. You can also ask some of the senior WA members who do a lot of article writing to critique an article or two. Sounds like you're doing all the right things. It's just early in the game. And, yeah, frustrating. Good luck.
Hey hang in there. Keep firing. I strongly suggest you use GoArticles instead of / in addition to ArticlesBase. AB backlinks are "no-follow" whereas GoArticles are "do-follow" they also approve instantly.
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Stick in there. I am going through much the same myself. Testing out an idea with a free blogger blog. Will but domain if it looks to be working. Used Hubpages among others to promote. Now here is the odd thing. My Blogger page does not show in search even for the address itself but the Hubpage which I only published yesterday is on page 2 of google for my keyword NOT in " ". I have to hope that my monetised blog will benefit from the good backlinks when it finally appears on Google.