Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Does Article Submission work as SEO to increase rankings?

By Brent Sweet

Let me tell you my story. On November 20, 2008 I started a website called http://www.article-submission-express.com. This site is actually for a service I offer for article submissions. Basically what we do is solicit clients who want to increase their search engine rank by getting one way text links to their website. Today as I write this it is December 7, 2008. I am now ranked 101 on Google for the term Article Submissions.

I have studied several of the guru search engine optimizers to figure out how to get a site to the top of the search engines. I have a few websites, so I divided up the techniques I am using to find out what the best way to promote a site, and move it through the rankings is. For this particular site I have only used two methods. I bough a few relatively low cost Google advertisements, and I submitted articles just like this. The reason I am writing to you today is because I can say with certainty that article submission may be one of the fastest was to move to the top of the search engine results.

Let me begin by telling you as this writing there are 15,200,000 results when you search on Google for article submissions. Wouldn't you agree that being number 101 after just two weeks and three days out of those results is incredible? I also want to tell you my site was indexed in Google in 3 days. To me, these are incredible results.

I have studied tons of experts on search engine optimization. I have studied Aaron Wall, Brad Fallon, Brad Callen and more! These guys know what they are doing. I started experimenting with several sites doing the techniques they are doing, and I have to say that Google Ads and Article Submission have gotten me more results than any other option.

I have used tools like TrafficBoosterPro, which is supposed to generate great content and feed the search engines so that your rankings increase. Well it worked, but then it killed me. I ranked 60 for one of the most competitive key words on the internet on Google. A few days later, I was not in the rankings at all. That site has never recovered, even after a complete reconstruction and white hat methods only. I also have tried reciprocal links. These may or may not work, according to most experts, google doesn't count them, though some still say they do. I do have to say though, the ones that say they do, I don't see reciprocals in large quantities on their sites. I have two similar sites, that are optimized for key words, but are not duplicate sites. Guess what, one has over 400 reciprocal links and the other has none. The one that has none, outranks the one that has no key words. The one that has no links, even outranks a search for the domain name of the one that has the links.

So far on my current site, http://www.article-submission-express.com, I have done two things. I bought Google ads that convert to promote my site until I can get a good organic listing. For those who don't know Organic Listings are the ones in Google that are free, and you don't pay per click. Then I submitted articles just like this one to as many directories as possible with a link back like you see below in my resource box.

This is the most success I have ever had. I did no press releases (which I believe to work, but I haven't tried because of cost.) I did no link building, I didn't join a link farm, I didn't make link bait, I didn't trade links. As a matter of fact, I didn't even put a page on there that you could like to me. I didn't put this in social networking sites or anything. Why not, couldn't I and increase my rankings? Maybe, but right now what I have done this far is working, and therefore I am going to keep doing what I am doing and monitor my results. The best part is, now I am 101 in Google, so I can monitor my results. My next article will probably be a report on what this article did for my rankings.

As always I wish you all the best of look in your search engine optimization efforts. If you are at all interested in having articles submitted, you can find submissions services like mine or my competitors, or you can do it manually. My website, as I said earlier, offers this service and there is a link in the resource box. I do want you to understand and take away from this article, that article submission and writing works, I am not trying to promote my service, but the method in which I optimize my website. - 16890

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