Article Dilemma.
Hi WA friends, My first blog is here!
I am a member since August 15, working everyday to improve my knowledge about IM by using WA training. I am a slow learner but that is not a big problem.
I haven done my website, even added a sub-domain, but I am struggling with ULTIMATE TRAFFIC TRAINING Lesson 7 called "How to benefit from articles." Here I am stuck. (Correct English)
My first article is approved by SA and contains 2 links to my website. But if I keep going to upload my articles at SA, Hub page or Ezime etc. my website will get traffic but will not grow.
That would not be a problem if my website was a landing-page instead of a website. My site needs to have content too! For good ranking your website need at least 25 page/post, as I have learned.
I can't not use the same articles that I uploaded somewhere to create page/post else at my own website, because it not original anymore if I do! So what to do?
What do I see wrong here?
My site is www.codependencyvoices.com.
Any comment on this is welcome too!
It has a difficult nice. But competition is low while exact monthly searches is high. Plus I know a bit about the subject as you can read on the site.
Thanks for your attention. PeetJg
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Hi Peet, I posted a blog - ubersuggest.org This is a tool to help with keywords and phrases. I strongly recommend trying it. It will hopefully give you a lot of ideas.
To answer the other. You can have a couple of articles/posts/blogs on your site and keep posting at SA or wherever, or reverse that and have most of your posts on your web site. Personally, I don't intend to post continually at SA or anywhere else, but the odd post is good to get an awareness of your website.
I've looked at a lot of other people's sites and they don't put many articles on their web site at all. Maybe they like to post most articles on SA or similar. Some sites are a couple of pages and a product promotion.
A landing page is more appropriate to get/build your list, hopefully quicker, with a good free gift or similar. Then that email list you can send your blogs/articles too. What do you prefer? If you want to build an email list then you send them an email of your latest post on your site.
It's your call as to what works best, maybe try posting to SA for a while and watch if you get many likes on your website.
By the way I can't see your website. Perhaps the hosting hasn't transferred over yet. So as I can't see your niche, the above is the best advice I can give.
Hi AnnieB. I did see your ubersuggest.org maybe 10 days ago. But didn't go deep in it.
Learning WA is teaching takes all my time. I put away many mail regarding IM offers, just to concentrate on what I do with WA. But I will have a look again because I remember the keyword tool and that fits WA. After reading your advice I think I find my way what to do. 4 articles to my site and an overview of the four, with links to my site, to SA. Thanks for your advice!
Ref my site. I don't know what has happen with the my site but more people told me the same. How can I get the reason why this is happen?
I'm taking a guess that you have no hosting for the domain www.codependencyvoices.com. So as you are premium you can have hosting here at WA and it is included in your premium fee, so it won't cost you any more.
I just watched this video "How to Transfer a SiteRubix Website to Your Own Domain" - Kyles' video. It explains how to get a domain (you have one) and put WA hosting on it. Look for it in the search box at the top of the page. It may take up to a couple of hours for your website to go live on the internet after you put the hosting on it.
Hopefully this will help. Good luck!
The way I understand SA is that we write articles related to our content. That will help build traffic. You can still write about the same topic you turned in to SA but write it in a different way and wordings. It's not only allowable it they are the exact duplicate of each other.
I still don't get the traffic, SEO, and everything. But for now I continue to write contents for my websites and articles that I could link to my websites. My SA articles supplement my websites. And it improves my writing skills.
I will have yet to go through the lessons on traffic again. Well, maybe a slow learner like you. LoL! Thanks for blogging, Peet!
Thanks for your reply Betcha. It is not hard anymore the make a decision what to do with the articles I write. I think I will write four for my site and general overview of the four to place on SA. Anyway I think also, It whatever you do, it will takes time to generate a good amount of traffic to your site! Success with your writing skills. For me it is a hard job too!
Don't worry, there is always room for improvement. I like the way SA challenges us to write. The lessons and the tips are awesome tools.
I love seeing you give comments here and there. That's one avenue where you can harness your writing skills. It can be learned, it can be improved. So keep on reading other people's work and also writing as much as you can.
More blessings to you!
Yes the bulk and the best of your content shoul go to your site. BTW whered you get the number 25 from?
Also, your website is down. All I see is the WA hosting page. Try logging in at websites and hosting on the side bar.
Hi Choppydo, Thanks for your advice on the content to my site. Secondly I tried to look up where I did get that #25. I can not remember but I think It was not right from me to mention that number. Looking a bit deeper into the "number of page" matter it seems to me that nobody will give a fixed number.
This site is maybe interesting to read
http://www.seo-theory.com/2013/01/07/how-many-pages-should-a-site-have-indexed-by-search-engines/
Please can you check my site again. It shows up on my son's iPad and on my own computer but not an a friends computer. I need to find out the reason why not.
Thanks in advance. PeetJG
Nope still don`t see anything. Anyways if you can`t back it up, I think the number 25 is bogus. I think you should have a good amount of quality content(20+) and regularly add content atleast once a week in order to get ranked. There is no set amount to get you ranked and it will take days to months depending on your keywords so it`s all about the research IMO. But ya regular content writing is critical to keeping and improving your rank.
The reason that it shows on your computer and your son's ipad is that Google customizes their search results to display items that are frequently searched. They think they are helping but it make it difficult to get a true read on where your site is actually ranking.
In Firefox, do a private browsing or in Chrome, do an incognito window, these will show you the actual rank just like your friends computer showed you.
Hi Choppydo, Ref my website; If I click the link above in my post, I get the WA message, but if I type www.codependencyvoices.com into the URL bar I get my site.
Do you have an advice?
oh it`s because a period got eaten up into the url lol. Ya it looks fine, i don`t like the call to action at the end thought.Personally, I`d say"leave a comment" instead of "don`t hesitate to reply."
I just had the same question when I started. So here is what I have found out.
If you want to write articles then do a ratio. Like 1 article for every 3 pages of content.
However there are people who say that article writing doesn't have the impact it since did, SA doesnt rank like it use to and your focus should be entirely on your site creating content.
That being said my personal experience with SA is that I still rank with it and get traffic from it to my site.
So I would create content for your site and do a few articles in between as well.
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You should only concentrate building your site with post after post of like content back linking articles is very low on Googles ranking at least that's what I have been told. Just keep putting out quality content and give the people what they want to hear. Just keep doing your training and it will all fall into place. Baby steps. Good luck
Thanks Tom, I agree with you. I have read that too. Quality content is important for Google. The logical reason is, at least what I think, it is a better place for them to put their Adwords ads on and that generate their huge profit!
I will do the training, baby steps will give me strong legs! good luck to you too.