Subscribe via RSSDo You Make These Mistakes With Article Submission?
November 22, 2007
Original content quality article, sound like something normal? Yes, indeed it's too normal for me to recognize the benefit. Look at the snapshot above and tell me, can you believe that article of mine got listed on 1,430 unique external pages?
Introduction
Here is an overview of what happened.
8 months ago I wrote 2 articles and submitted it to EzineArticles.com. Then I forgot about them. 2 months ago I revised the articles and... 1 got rejected, 1 got re-published. I didn't really care. Until... today
The point here is that recently I receive around 20+ page view from this page: Guide - How To Install IIS on Windows XP SP2 Without CD to the page on my site. I was so surprise about it. I abandoned the article a while ago. I renamed it once to Guide: Install IIS on Windows XP SP2 without CD and renamed it's URL also.
The ignorance thing is that previously I renamed the URL and didn't care much. When I realized I got 404 error hits everyday to this page, I started questioning myself.
The investigation
Today I visit EzineArticles.com to investigate the incident. I suspected my article is listed somewhere in a popular section. And really it was. It is listed in this section: "Most Viewed EzineArticles in the Computers-and-Technology:Software Category (90 Days)"
At the time I check, it got this status:
This article has been viewed 2540 time(s).
Article Submitted On: September 15, 2007
The lesson learned
We should write more quality articles and submit to the popular article directory. Blog is good but it's won't be as good as that.
The only caution is that, being on an article directory mean you have lost that article forever. Why?
- Visitors are going to EzineArticles.com to read my article instead of going directly to my website. Out of this, only a small portion take the time to quickly look at the original page than leave. They found nothing interesting.
- The article directory definitely have higher page rank than you. So your article being published on your site will be in the Google supplementary result and never... or barely get clicked through from Google search result page.
How to do it the right way? Remember that you are allowed to have 3 active links in your source box.
- Write an abstract version of your article, which meet the word count, and submit it instead of your original article.
- Write highly crafted author bio, which will attract the reader attention, but not a spammy type.
- Keep a link to your homepage (this definitely is most stable address)
- Keep a link to your article hosted on your website, a perfect URL that stays for life.
- If possible keep the 3rd link point to your other site, which you want to promote.
- THE ULTIMATE (This should be a secret, but i'm sharing with you): Promote your article on the directory as well as the one on your site. This way will make that article become popular and stay in the list spreading through-out the category and give you an overwhelming traffic as well as a share of Google PageRank.
What's next?
Go along with me for the learning journey. I will share with you whatever I learn, even the most secret techniques. Subscribe to my RSS feed and stay tune for updates. I will follow up on the "Major Issue with Common Blog Layout". For now I need some relaxation, playing mahjong with the family.
Update 15/03/2008: I just realized I you may want to learn some Article Tips and Writing Tips from Open Tips.
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