How To Get Your Article Ranked on the First Page of Google
No doubt you know that getting a first page ranking in Google can bring you a lot of traffic. And while I think it is generally more important to use article directories for backlinks to your main blog or site, they can provide a tremendous amount of traffic to your site if done correctly.
While there is no sure-fire, guaranteed way to get it ranked on the first page, here are 9 things you can do that will give it the juice to get there.
1. Focus on one keyword for the article – only use one keyword per article. Too many times people try to stuff in a bunch of keywords in their articles. 2 things happen when they do this. First, the article doesn’t flow right. It ends up sounding like a bunch of jibberish. Second, if you try to rank for a bunch of keywords, you end up ranking for none of them. In a directory like Ezinearticles, you are allowed a 2% keyword density. You want to make sure you use that entire 2% for that one keyword.
2. Only focus on keywords or keyphrases with less than 20 intitle and inanchor quote results in Google. What does this mean? I generally don’t use “quote” searches much anymore except for a quick glance at competition. I do an intitle and inanchor quote search to see what my real competition is. Here is an example – if my keyword/keyphrase is “get rid of tonsil stones” my search in Google would look like this:
intitle:”get rid of tonsil stones” inanchor:”get rid of tonsil stones”
This will tell me what sites have “get rid of tonsil stones” in the title and the anchor text. In other words, how many other sites are competing for this term. Shoot for less than 20 results. In my opinion this is a much better indicator of whether or not I have a fighting chance ranking for my keyword or keyphrase.
3. Only go after certain keywords – when deciding on what keywords or keyphrases to go after, just do a basic search in Google for that term WITHOUT quotes. If there are high PR sites dominating the top 10 results, ditch that keyword because you probably won’t have a chance at ranking. But if you see Ezinearticles, Goarticles, Articlesbase, Weebly, Digg, etc. in the results on the first page, you can submit to those sites too – you will have a much better chance at ranking if other people have ranked for them.
4. Look at the “keyword suggestion” listing in Ezinearticles. This is the box where you put your keyword tags for your article below the actual article itself. When you are done typing, it will suggest keywords based on your article. If Ezine does not suggest the keyword you are trying to target, then how is Google supposed to know that is the keyword you are trying to rank for?
5. Use LSI in your article. LSI stands for latent semantic indexing and is an indexing and retrieval method that uses a mathematical technique called Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) to identify patterns in the relationships between the terms and concepts contained in an unstructured collection of text. What?!? Basically this means to use similar terms related to your keyword in the article.
It has been rumored that Google uses LSI in its algorithm to understand and rank websites. For example, if your keyword is dog bowl, LSI terms might be puppy, dog, pet, ceramic bowls, etc. A cool, free website to play around
with to give you some LSI terms for your keywords is
http://www.gorank.com/seotools/ontology/
6. Submit your article to the major RSS feeds. One problem with this is that Ezinearticles will not allow you to do an RSS feed on an individual article, only the category (at least from what I have found). The solution to this – http://www.Dapper.net.
This cool little site allows you to create an RSS feed out of any web page. When you go to the site, go down to the bottom right hand corner and click on “Dapp Factory.”
Then, once created, submit your RSS feed to 10 RSS feeds as follows:
http://www.blogdigger.com/add.jsp
http://www.blogpulse.com/submit.html
http://www.feedage.com
http://publisher.yahoo.com/rss_guide/submit.php
http://www.plazoo.com/en/addrss.asp
http://www.feedbite.com
http://feedraider.com/
http://www.feedsubmitter.com/
http://www.feedest.com/feedAdd.cfm
http://www.feedbase.net/Add.php
7. Submit your article to http://www.socialmarker.com. This is basically where you submit to a bunch of social networking sites “automatically.” I put automatically in quotes because it can be somewhat time consuming as you still have to put in some information for just about every site, but this is a nice site where a ton of the social sites are in one place.
This 1) gets eyeballs on your article from those sites and 2) builds backlinks to your article.
8. Post a blog comment – did you know there are other peoples blogs you can post to that will give you backlinks to your site or article? The 2 I generally use are http://www.3stepads.com and http://www.free-adz.com.
You can get a free account, post on their blog, and include your keywords as anchor text pointing back to your article. I have literally had my 3stepads ranked in 20 seconds for a couple of keywords. If Google is in there that fast, you can bet your article will get picked up quickly too.
Oh, and a side benefit is that I have had my 3 stepads rank on the first page of search results ABOVE my own article!
9. Build backlinks to your article. If you want to really get ambitious, build additional backlinks to your article. When I first started, I never knew what this meant. Basically it means you post a link with your keyword as anchor text on a high PR site. How do you find the high PR sites? Personally I use a service where I get 30-50 high PR sites delivered to me monthly that allow you to post links and I post the links myself how I please. It is a steal at $5 per month and can be found HERE.
But you don’t NEED a service like this. You can continue to post to the blogs mentioned above or find high PR sites that will allow you to post a link (it’s time consuming, that’s why $5/month is totally worth it).
Once you get these steps down, they really don’t take too long and they can give you the juice your article needs to get ranked on the first page of Google – which could mean a ton of money in your pocket!
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Great post and very informative. Couple of things didn’t know about. I’m sure I can increase my article effectiveness after reading this.
Thabnks
Paul
Thanks Paul, I appreciate the feedback
When I use intitle:”xxxxx” inanchor:”xxxxx” substituting the xxs for my keywords, I get 2 listings but when googling the keywords without quotes I get 177000 listings. Are the keywords good?
To me it looks like a good keyword, but it all depends on the niche and if it’s a buying keyword. But the results you state are very promising, the competition looks low. Another thing to look at is the first page competition – what kind of sites are there and what kind of page rank do they have. See this post which helps explain this a little more:
http://imspeed.com/?p=50
Hi
I’m newish at Article Marketing for sure. I came here via Josh’s forum and came to follow the link to the $5-00 a month link-building deal. One question: Josh in his SEO report recommends LinkXL.com. Is that company and the one you recommend doing the same thing essentially?
By the way, your post helped me a lot. I thanked it so to say, and found I’d done that B4. Anyway, I look forward to your reply
@imspeed
A question about the link service you recommend. Are these anything like Paul’s or Angela’s links where they only go to internal no rank pages of forums? The main sites have great GPR but the internal pages have nothing.
Hey Rich, they are actually Angela’s links. My understanding and experience is that the page rank passes from the main site to the internal pages thus giving you the juice you need to pass through to your site.
Thanks,
Mat
Hey Ed, thanks for the kind words, I appreciate it.
I am not familiar with LinkXL, but it looks interesting. The links in Easy Back Link Builder are really nothing like it though from what I can tell.
EBB is basically a once a month package delivered electronically of 30 high PR sites that you can post your links at. You go in and manually post your links. I believe you can go in and also pay them to post your links for you.
It’s a pretty good deal for some really good links. I have had great success with them.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Mat