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Driving Traffic To New Blog Day Elven

May 20, 2008

May 20th (Day 11)

Ok, Today was a little more productive. Hours, hopefully should be back to normal, up at 6am today, got some stuff sorted then finally managed to get today’s work for this case study sorted.

* Time started 8:12am
* Submitted another 5 articles to article directories.
* Copied article links approved from yesterday to a note pad, added to new articles today.
* Submitted more pages to social bookmarking sites (only a few rather than all of them)
* Got some more forum back links
* Submitted to more link directories
* Traffic received before starting - 19 visitors
* Finished for the day - time spent on project 4 hours 26 minutes.

Ok, I’ve repeated a few steps as described in the other posts; forum links, social bookmarking.

In day 9’s post, I mentioned that we’re gonna start submitting articles to article directories now and jot down the approved articles to a note pad, remember?

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Ezine Articles (source 1)
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articledirectory-one.com/Article-Post-1.htm (links pointing to it = 2, via source 2)
articledirectory-one.com/Atticle-Post-2.htm (links pointing to it = 3, via source 2, & 3)

and so on.

GoArticles (source 2)
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articledirectory-two.com/Article-Post-1.htm (links pointing to it = 2, via source 1 & 3)
articledirectory-two.com/Article-Post-2.htm (links pointing to it = 2, via source 1 & 3, 3 links)

and so on.

Another Article Directory (source 3)
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articledirectory-three.com/Article-Post-1.htm (links pointing to it = 2, via source 2)
articledirectory-three.com/Article-Post-2.htm (links pointing to it = 2, via source 1 & 2)

and so on.

Keep updating this file so you can keep track.

All I am doing here is simply keeping track of where I have previously had approved articles on, jotting down the FULL URL to the article. Then the next day (like today), I submit some more articles to article directories and add one of these links to a new article post, then move on to the next article directory, and once again, copy the 2nd approved article and add that to the new article I posted today on the article directory.

I do this in the fashion where I take Keyword 1, create 5 articles around that keyword, post them on the first day to each article directory. Day 2, I’ll create 5 articles on Keyword 2, and add article keyword 1 link to this second article, along with 2 of my other pages of my blog or normal website inner pages in my bio section or within the body text (which ever is allowed by the article directory). Then some weeks later, what I am going to do is fetch all of the articles that I have posted on my blog, and article directories, and other 3rd party websites and import these into Website Content Wizard and spin these articles again to make them even more UNIQUE. These will be submitted out using Article Post Robot to heaps of article directories, excluding the ones that I have already posted to. Whilst using Website Content Wizard to create all the bio-sections, subject lines for me so I don’t have to. :)

This step is what a LOT of people miss. You see, why people miss this step is beyond me. It’s like as if they are wasting all their SEO efforts. All new pages indexed don’t really have much authority on them, It’s not good to just rely on the website in question authority status. Ok, sure, their pages will get indexed quickly, thus having your new pages indexed in a preferred timely fashion, or a back link counted more or less instantly (varies from search engine to search engine) as that new article from the authority article directory gets indexed.

We ALL get links to our own pages, why not to the articles that we post to these article directories or other sources? Is it that we feel that it’s not our website, why should we be helping them have their pages rank higher? Well, hey, don’t have that attitude. What we are doing here is funneling the PR to our pages AND increasing the importance factor of the article itself, which is then passed on to your article, pushing your article up even higher in the rankings. ;)

Eventually we’re going to have more links pointing to our pages any way than the sources we get links from and in time your pages will rank higher and higher and remain stable beating everyone else, unless of course you’re in a competitive niche where rankings change all the time; another reason why I choose niches in the sector that pay high, there’s not many people out there that decide to go for niches that they feel people aren’t searching for things unless they have like thousnads of visitors a day.

Now, you know when you want to check to see where search engines have indexed your back links, let’s use google as they seem to be a little fussy which back links they want to show. I’ll give you a tip, something I noticed many months ago. And in essence, this is going back to the authoritive nature of how an article is ranked. How are they ranked? Votes right? Well, sure, amongst other things such as onpage factors, other points of relevancy, etc and how many links there are pointing to that document.

Sites that are regularly updated will be shown in googles back link index more or less all the time. Sure, for a while those links you get from places like goarticles, ezine articles are shown, but they don’t hang around for long? Why? Cos you’re not pointing links to them. Once you leave an article as is, published and that’s it, it’s like you sitting on some island on your own, with no company to have fun with. How boring.

Start pointing links to those articles you made on a regular basis, or every other week, it wont hurt and in fact holds far more power making your articles appear more relevant by giving it some link love.

As the weeks ahead come closer, you’ll see me using the same tactic here with these other places that I place content on. And even some other places that you wouldn’t think I would do. if you can think back, are there any other links that are left abondend, not including the forum links? If you can’t guess, the answer is, somewhere in the other posts here, but if you can’t find it, not to worry, it will be revealed in the posts in the near future.

As yesterday, I’ll post the images below, the first one is the traffic, with the average daily visitor count hitting 62 visitors a day. I got some more adsense clicks today before starting, not checked since then, but will give it another check tomorrow.

The next image shows my blog, I’ve blurred out the blog name and the text of the article and links used to ensure authenticity of the results that I show every day of the traffic received.

What I’ve done here today was removed one of the 468 x 60 banners from the top of the article, just under the first paragraph. Then hacked the wordpress code to allow the installed width for recent posts to show more than 15 recent posts at any one time, and added a 160 x 600 wide skyscraper to the left, 2nd virtical column, I’ve also added a blue lined border. I’m just testing something out, I don’t usually use blogs for adsense I don’t find that they convert as well for adsense clicks than normal websites. Any ways. The other 468 x 60 banner is just below the article, above the last paragraph. I decided that if these people are coming from search engine traffic, I’ve already got their attention and I didn’t want to put them off by displaying an advert just under the first paragraph and added one to the right in the column instead, to make it appear that it’s a part of the link navigation.

I’ll leave it like that for a while then test it again without the blue lined border.

Also notice the in-content links? K, as I mention before, it just gives the search engine the feeling that you know what you’re talking about, adding more points of referrences to futher increase user experience. It’s also a good SEO tactic as well to not just place these links anywhere, but to concentrate on the proximity of the links, ie, how far away is the link from another related keyword. This works especially well in Yahoo and MSN too. But just requires more links than Google.

That’s it for now folks,

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Cheers

All the best

Loz


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Comments

8 Responses to “Driving Traffic To New Blog Day Elven”

  1. Nefarian on May 20th, 2008 5:42 pm

    I have tried your method where you link an article to another article of yours. I think that was 2 months ago. But I made a 3-way link instead.

    1st article>>>2nd article>>>My blog>>>1st article

    From what I understand your method is like this:

    1st article>>>2nd article(with link to yor blog)>>>3rd article(with link to yor blog)>>>4th article(with link to yor blog)>>>so on

  2. Nefarian on May 20th, 2008 5:48 pm

    I have a question though:

    What if your article is not approved?Do you have to wait for it to be approved or declined? Some article directories takes more than 1 week to approve/decline.

  3. Loz on May 20th, 2008 5:49 pm

    Sure, but I am also linking my other article directory articles to the new ones the following day. Building up the authority factor on those links to help my main keywords on my blog to rank higher. ;)

    if it’s not approved it’s not approved, if they state the reasons why, I go back and re-edit it until it is. In any case, once they are, I give it some link love :)

  4. skiper on May 21st, 2008 1:54 am

    So your creating a chain

    Article1 => Article 2 => Article3 => Article4
    and each of the articles will interlink on each other..

    are all articles have a link back to your blog ?

  5. Loz on May 21st, 2008 8:25 am

    That’s the general idea Skiper, the image from the other day gives you a basic idea of the first process. I’ll do another one today to show you all what it looks like. :)

    All the best

    Loz

  6. anish on May 21st, 2008 10:36 am

    Hi Loz,

    Nothing on adsense for the day ??

    No screenshot of it thats why asking.

    Does the adsense banner on top of the article result in any click?

    Whats your experience.

    How about the big box adsense 336×280 in the content itself, have you tried those.

    Anish

  7. Loz on May 21st, 2008 11:33 am

    Yup, I mentioned it in the post that a few were received. It’s not necessary to keep posting them.

    Yup, top 726 x 90 has received some.

    I’m not going to use the 336×280 until later, you may by all means test that out first, there’s no right or wrong way to start with what adsense block unit you want. I’m just doing it in this manner first before I move on to more testing.

    All the best

    Loz

  8. king social media on July 6th, 2008 3:06 am

    This is really very hands-on so it follows that it’s very helpful. Thanks.

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