Thursday, December 18, 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.

The sole way of promoting this site was with Google Advertising, which I use a very low budget for and then submitting articles, such as this, that describe how the technique works. The idea of the article I am writing today is not to promote my site, but to describe how easy it is to use article submission to get ranked.

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 dedicated myself to the study of search engine optimization over the past several months. I want to rank high for a competitive word, because if I can learn how to do it, I will have many different avenues of income available to me. I have studied people like Aaron Wall and Brad Fallon, I also use Brad Callen's software a lot. I started a few sites, and used different methods for each site to see which of these methods are most successful. Of all the sites I have started, this site with the article submissions and Google Ads has brought me not only the most efficient results, but the most results.

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.

The website that I designed http://www.article-submission-express.com has only been promoted through two very simple methods. Number one the day I had it designed I bought a few obscure Google ads to draw some traffic and make me some sales before I could get a good organic listing, or a listing I didn't have to pay for. I then, used the program that the website sells to submit a few articles about Search Engine Optimization with a link to my website in the resource box, like the one below. These articles are just like the one you are reading now, and in a few weeks I had incredible rankings.

In all the studies I did with SEO, this is the most success I have ever had, and boy am I excited. I have used press releases as of yet, because they are too large of an investment for me at this point. I also with this particular website did not use link building programs or link exchange services. I haven't traded any links, and I don't even provide code to link to my website. I also have not ventured into adding links on a social networking site which would probably increase my rankings further. The website is a controlled experiment. I have to eliminate all variables and use certain techniques to test them against others. I am going to continue to do what I am doing and monitor Google. The best part of the whole bit is I am not at 101 in the rankings so it makes it easy to see which direction I go. Hopefully the next article you read will give you more information on where I am after I submit this article.

Good luck to you in your search engine optimization efforts. If you are further interested in article submission, you can do it my way, as a matter of fact the service that this site promotes does this for you. See the resource box below to get more details.

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