When to stop writing new articles?

13 years ago

Always continue to add a consist flow of content. Just because you want to backlink doesn't mean you should stop adding content for the time being. You can do a little of both.

Also just a tip, try low competition long tail keywords. They rank easy even without backlinking. This is how I get a majority of my traffic.

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im0001 13 years ago

Originally Posted by rsto95

Also just a tip, try low competition long tail keywords. They rank easy even without backlinking. This is how I get a majority of my traffic.

As a matter of interest, how many searches should they have before you decide they're worth considering?
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- martinp 13 years ago
  
  I think if you've been posting articles consistently to your blog for a period of time it might raise a red flag to Google if you just suddently stopped. Maybe you can scale down and post less often?
  
  If your articles aren't ranking you should most definitely be concentrating on building links.
  
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- Pete Lauder 13 years ago
  
  Don't stop. In the eyes of Google.
  
  Just keep doing what you are doing.
  
  Which is great advice, if you are a robot, with no home to go to, but I expect you are asking this question now, because you want to use your time more efficiently.
  
  Really, it is entirely dependant upon your marketplace, 150 articles in weight loss is a drop in the ocean.
  
  Make sure that your pages interlink, and you always show a link back to your homepage, this is often overlooked, and can produce great results.
  
  Do you repost your content to social media sites?
  
  You should do. Each repost would carry your backlinks naturally, and this will be vital in future algorithm updates.
  
  Continue to produce content, but make sure you syndicate it to your social media sites, to make a bigger splash with each new post.
  
  And, good luck!
  
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- rsto95 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by im0001
  
  As a matter of interest, how many searches should they have before you decide they're worth considering?
  
  I run a site with about 85 posts right now and most of them are aiming at long tail keywords. The only backlinks to this site came from blog comments and about 15 guest posts on PR2 to PR5 sites.
  
  As for searches, I usually start with 20 local searches at the very minimum. That's if the keyword is really easy to rank for. But a majority of the keywords have 70+ searches.
  
  My site averages about 210 unique visitors a day. And that's 95% long tail traffic.
  
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Jensha

13 years ago

Originally Posted by rsto95

Also just a tip, try low competition long tail keywords. They rank easy even without backlinking.

Is this the same way how other people do it on this micro niche blogs?

Any links to tutorials you can give me on how to make a nice research for long tail keywords?

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art72

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Jensha

Is this the same way how other people do it on this micro niche blogs?

Any links to tutorials you can give me on how to make a nice research for long tail keywords?

If you don't already have it you can get TrafficTravis.com for free, it will help you better understand keyword research, on-page SEO, competition, and it has short training videos to get you started. Probably, your best bet.

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art72

13 years ago

Originally Posted by hockmasm

I have over 150 articles on my blog. When should I stop writing content and instead focus of back linking instead?

or Should i just continue to write new content each week?

150 articles on one blog, Wow!

Personally, if I were you, I'd submit those articles (*providing they are unique, which I presume by your post they are) on Ezine Articles, and start reading through threads on "how to" syndicate those articles to gain relevant backlinks, and potentially receive targeted traffic in one fowl swoop.

You've done the hard part.

Word of advise, Alexa Smith (and others) who post about 'syndicating content/articles' could be a huge help to you, and in learning how it works.

Good job! - 150 articles is a lot of writing.

All the Best,

Art

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hockmasm

13 years ago

Originally Posted by art72

150 articles on one blog, Wow!

Personally, if I were you, I'd submit those articles (*providing they are unique, which I presume by your post they are) on Ezine Articles, and start reading through threads on "how to" syndicate those articles to gain relevant backlinks, and potentially receive targeted traffic in one fowl swoop.

You've done the hard part.

Word of advise, Alexa Smith (and others) who post about 'syndicating content/articles' could be a huge help to you, and in learning how it works.

Good job! - 150 articles is a lot of writing.

All the Best,

Art

can you all tell me how to syndicate my articles? and which sites should I do this too? Also, won't there be a problem with duplicate content out there?

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Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by hockmasm

can you all tell me how to syndicate my articles?

If we all tell you, you'll have 15 different ways of doing it, go into information overload and confusion, and achieve very little, perhaps? Here's something to start you off, though.

Here's a one-post overview of how article syndication works: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794

This post about article directories contains a little list of links to other threads about article syndication: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

This post explains how to produce articles for syndication: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post3188316

This post suggests how to find syndication partners: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6575732

This post describes one good way to approach potential publishers: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7475055

Originally Posted by hockmasm

and which sites should I do this too?

Don't think only of "sites". There are also ezines (not to be confused with article directories!), magazines, newsletters and even newspapers.

The sites/blogs which are appropriate for your niche are sites/blogs which are relevant to your niche. If you have an arthritis site, it won't help you in any way to have your articles syndicated on the "Deep Sea Fishing Today" website, not that they'd publish them anyway (and even the backlink there wouldn't be worth anything to you).

Article marketing (like most good, income-producing things in IM) is all about quality and relevance, and you can take that line to the bank.

Originally Posted by hockmasm

Also, won't there be a problem with duplicate content out there?

No.

Syndicated content isn't "duplicate content". The differences between the two are briefly explained in this post and this little article.
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sketchaddict

13 years ago

Originally Posted by hockmasm

I have over 150 articles on my blog. When should I stop writing content and instead focus of back linking instead?

or Should i just continue to write new content each week?

Hey hockmasm, Its super cool that you have 150 articles on your blog.. But i would suggest you to keep adding the content in the consistent flow.

If you are really adding the good and high quality content then i dont think that you will have to do link building stuff..

And as rsto95 said try searching for some good long tail keywords, so that you can easily rank for such keywords and drive a good amount of traffic to your website/blog.

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nitesh

13 years ago

I have 400 articles on my blog site and I am still working on to get more. Backlinks are necessary but do not stop the flow of new content to your blog and also do not disturb the flow you have maintained once. If you are submitting one article daily then try to get a new article for your blog at least twice or thrice in a week and if you are writing three or four articles daily then multiply your effort accordingly. I hope you have got your answer.

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RimaNaj2011 13 years ago

All you need is a few pages to rank and get traffic. 150 is more than enough for a while. I'd focus on the SEO and backlinking to get more traffic and higher rankings.
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13 years ago

Originally Posted by hockmasm

I have over 150 articles on my blog. When should I stop writing content and instead focus of back linking instead?

or Should i just continue to write new content each week?

Consistency is the key here, not any total numbers. So keep on writing plus work on your back linking too.

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khooster1

13 years ago

How are you doing in Search Engine Ranking?
With 150 posts, I presume you are aiming for a few high competitive keywords.

150 posts will last you for quite a while.

If you are not so keen to do backlinking, you can continue to write posts.
Do inter-site linkage. Like Wikipedia style. This is very powerful in setting up your authority site.

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ejullya

13 years ago

Continue writing. Fresh content will retain and continue to build loyal visitors to your blog, especially if your content is interesting. Even if you just reduce your writing to once per week.

If you have decent traffic why don't you invite some guests to write posts for you. You will get fresh content and the guest will get some of your traffic. Win-win for both of you

Also as someone already suggested re-purpose the content for articles, documents, videos, etc. to build some backlinks.

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James Gould

13 years ago

Scrolled down looking for Alexa's post... Guess she's still sleeping

Jamie.

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HeySal

13 years ago

If you've funneled the traffic from the blog over to another area of your site (on mine it's a forum), you can slow down quite substantially. Don't know if you'll ever want to stop completely - I don't post on mine often but I'm in my forum all the time.

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mobilemob

13 years ago

Make sure quality over quantity. I just saw a single post that was posted in August 2008 and still got good comments and questions in 2013. Quality and authority.

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David Moore

13 years ago

I think you should do both at the same time. There is no such a thing as enough writing a blog, some people fill their blog with more than 1000 article to compete with more fierce opponent to get a good organic traffic. If you have a strong competitor, I suggest you to keep doing it until 250, and then create back link with one article a day.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by hockmasm

I have over 150 articles on my blog.

How do people find them on your blog? :confused:

I've been a full-time article marketer for years (though I admit I don't have any niche blogs/sites with quite as many as 150 articles on them!), but I don't think people are going to find my articles just because I publish them on my own blogs. Article marketing is about taking your articles to where the targeted traffic you want to attract is already looking. This is how it can work really profitably.

Publish them on your own blog/site first, by all means, and make sure you get the initial indexation-rights attributed to yourself (just in case SEO traffic ever becomes relevant to you, though admittedly it tends to be pretty poor traffic anyway). But how well your business does from its articles, and whether or not you make a living, depend on where else they're published after that.

Originally Posted by hockmasm

When should I stop writing content and instead focus of back linking instead?

Personally I haven't stopped writing content for any of my niches, at all. I write a new article for each niche site 3 times per month.

Whatever you do for backlinking, you'll find it very, very difficult indeed to get better quality, more relevant (that's another way of saying "more valuable") backlinks than the ones you can gradually acquire from having your articles re-published on sites whose webmasters want to share them with their own readers/visitors/subscribers. "Relevance" is everything.

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jgant

13 years ago

If you're going the SEO model, you don't need to keep adding content to rank existing posts. I have sites I haven't touched in a long time that continue attracting traffic.

However, if you're writing for a loyal audience, you'll want to write to continue serving them so they return.

Take a middle-of-the-road approach. Slow down on adding new blog posts and dedicate more time to promotion ... whether SEO, article marketing, social media, forum participation, etc.

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hockmasm

13 years ago

how many article directories do you all submit too? also, do you submit the same article to all of them or no?

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Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by hockmasm

how many article directories do you all submit too?

People who understand how article directories work, what benefits they can provide for you, and what their purpose is, submit to one (or at the most two).

Originally Posted by hockmasm

do you submit the same article to all of them or no?

No article marketer would (or should) submit to an article directory any article that hasn't already been published and indexed on their own site first, so the answer to that would be a "yes". There's no point in submitting unique content to an article directory (and in fact it would be a big mistake to do so, for all the reasons explained in the posts linked to above).

If a suggestion doesn't offend you, it'll help you a lot to give the posts listed above a careful read-through rather than asking a lot of subsidiary questions all of which are pretty clearly answered and explained in them.
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CDawson

Banned 13 years ago

never stop, the more posts you have the more traffic you will get from search engines...

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Paul Gram

13 years ago

Originally Posted by hockmasm

I have over 150 articles on my blog. When should I stop writing content and instead focus of back linking instead?

or Should i just continue to write new content each week?

WOW! You do know that you can rank a site #1 in Google with just an article or 2 right? More does not always mean better.

It totally depends on the quality of your articles and their usefulness to the reader as well.

Don't just write articles for the sake of having 500 more words on the site, write articles that will help your readers and build your brand.

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hockmasm

13 years ago

I have 150+ articles because I am trying to be an authority site. However, I don't think I get as much traffic as I should with that many articles. I write one article per researched keyword. I haven't done any back linking except a few blog comments. I feel like I am missing out on a lot of traffic because of this.

I only add 1 new article per week now. I'm trying to get more traffic with what I have written so far.

How do you rank #1 in Google with 1 article?

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CDawson

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by hockmasm

I have 150+ articles because I am trying to be an authority site. However, I don't think I get as much traffic as I should with that many articles. I write one article per researched keyword. I haven't done any back linking except a few blog comments. I feel like I am missing out on a lot of traffic because of this.

I only add 1 new article per week now. I'm trying to get more traffic with what I have written so far.

How do you rank #1 in Google with 1 article?

If you haven't done any bookmarking on those articles then you aren't getting enough exposure from them. Good quality content can form a huge fan base but it must be marketed in itself.

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Paul Gram

13 years ago

Originally Posted by hockmasm

I have 150+ articles because I am trying to be an authority site. However, I don't think I get as much traffic as I should with that many articles. I write one article per researched keyword. I haven't done any back linking except a few blog comments. I feel like I am missing out on a lot of traffic because of this.

I only add 1 new article per week now. I'm trying to get more traffic with what I have written so far.

How do you rank #1 in Google with 1 article?

I've gotten #1 rankings with nothing but a Heading 1 title and an image BUT, I don't recommend it or say that's what should be done. It's purely on some of our testing sites but our rankings have stuck.

Anyway, an authority site is an authority based on the quality of information not the volume. As long as you are writing high quality and useful content, it will be good, but don't buy into anything that says an authority site must have X number of articles etc.

I know of sites with thousands of articles that don't rank and sites with no articles that do, and vice versa. Focus on the quality of your content and then reach out and get some high PR quality links to it and you'll be rockin!

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Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by hockmasm

I have 150+ articles because I am trying to be an authority site.

It seems that your idea of what an "authority site" is is very different from mine (and incidentally very different from Google's, too).

Originally Posted by hockmasm

However, I don't think I get as much traffic as I should with that many articles.

There isn't an amount that you "should" get with "that many articles". And this is the point you're still apparently missing.

Your traffic and income don't depend on how many articles you have.

This is the essence of the point that people are patiently explaining to you, over and over again, in our different ways, and giving you references to places where you can learn more about why and how that's so, but at the moment you're apparently not hearing the answers at all, but repeatedly going off on other tangents of your own. This makes it terribly difficult for people, who know what you say you want to know, to try to explain it to you. Sorry.
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hockmasm

13 years ago

how do you go about doing bookmarking?

sometimes I feel overwhelmed with all that has to be done per article. Right now, I just write an article, post it to facebook and twitter.

What else should I be doing to get maximum exposure?

Should I be doing this strategy?

Write article
Facebook it
Tweet it
Bookmark it
Submit to Article Directories
Do a blog comment and backlink to it

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CDawson

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by hockmasm

how do you go about doing bookmarking?

sometimes I feel overwhelmed with all that has to be done per article. Right now, I just write an article, post it to facebook and twitter.

What else should I be doing to get maximum exposure?

Should I be doing this strategy?

Write article
Facebook it
Tweet it
Bookmark it
Submit to Article Directories
Do a blog comment and backlink to it

I would suggest using onlywire and get an account with all the bookmarking websites and bookmark each link of your website with it. Bookmarking pages can create backlinks and backlinks can boost page rank over time. Facebook and twitter can be great if your fan base is already on there but if you are posting to a random audience you might not have much success.

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PvPGuy

13 years ago

Originally Posted by hockmasm

Right now, I just write an article, post it to facebook and twitter...

...Should I be doing this strategy?

Write article
Facebook it
Tweet it
Bookmark it
Submit to Article Directories
Do a blog comment and backlink to it

Its a good strategy if you have facebook and twitter followers. Do you? Is it practical for you to build a social following? If not, then you're better off pursuing the advice of the syndication mafia in the links above (I say that affectionately :p).

However I will venture out on the precipice here and say that writing for ranking purposes is not dead at all, but it is only half a strategy. If you don't have the ability to rank, then it may as well be dead.

So the question inevitably becomes what is the best way to get in front of the most eyeballs? Syndication, once you achieve it, is incredibly efficient in terms of required effort and return - right behind a top ranking for a juicy KW

The simple answer to your original question, however, is YES, sloooow your writing and focus on building off-site authority. But I am basing that upon several assumptions

You have a proper site structure
You properly evaluated the competition for your KW's
Your site actually provides real value to searchers
You know how to build off-site authority

You should also pursue finding places to syndicate your content. The good news (hopefully, if you've written quality articles), you have built up a large reserve of content to get started with!

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hockmasm

13 years ago

are there any cheaper options that onlywire? i don't want to commit to $13 per month.

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rsto95 13 years ago

Originally Posted by hockmasm

are there any cheaper options that onlywire? i don't want to commit to $13 per month.

Spend the money. Social bookmarking is important in the ranking process too I have found. It's only $13 a month and a good investment. Articles on my Amazon site rank well from social bookmarking alone.

Internet Marketing is all about taking risks. If you can't spend a bit of money on your website than it leads me to believe that you aren't committed in succeeding in this market.
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hockmasm

13 years ago

so what are the benefits of social bookmarking? i have heard mixed opinions on it.

also, are there any automatic article directory submission services/softwares?

the more i think about it, it seems to make sense that i social bookmark every article i write to as many places as possible AND submit my article to as many article directories as possible to increase exposure.

is that a good idea?

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Banned 13 years ago

Keep adding content regularly and doing backlink at the same time I recommend you to get Gsa search ranker to run on another computer while you write your article on your computer. Means you need 2 coms.

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13 years ago

Originally Posted by hockmasm

I have over 150 articles on my blog. When should I stop writing content and instead focus of back linking instead?

or Should i just continue to write new content each week?

hockmasm, I think you might be an ideal person to ask. Over on the SEO board, there are post about getting traffic with just posting new "quality" content and not doing any seo. What have you found? With 150 articles, do you get much traffic? Does your traffic count go up with each additional article that you post?

We would really appreciate your response. Thanks.

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johnben1444

13 years ago

I would never be an article writer and hoping or caring for people to read my piece, i will ensure the site has sufficient traffic daily, let's say 200+ unique visitors daily and also a high retention rate.

The visitors coming to my site will be the primary source of blogging on a consistent basis.

A lot of people assume that by having a blog and posting 100% unique content on them make them an authority or get them ranking high on the SERP, that isn't TRUE.

Building an authority site doesn't begin in one day..

Besides, you don't have to leave the stone unturn when aspiring to be one, you don't just want to publish unique article for blogging sake. The content has to be something people can't find easily, it's got to be hot and you got to be the first to let them know.

That is when you will enjoy returned visitors, recommendation, referrals, bookmarks, syndication for back links and what not..

I suggest you get tons of traffic your way first and blog less but more quality.

Find some of the top blogs and see what they do, rinse, filter, add your idea and stand out.

Good luck..

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13 years ago

150 articles is a lot.. great job. An authority site isn't just articles... it's all types of content. If you don't know how or don't have the time, you might want to hire someone to do the backlinking work for you. That way you will be able to focus on writing and someone else can handle the other stuff. There are tons of packages you can buy or hire a VA to do specific things.

Good luck with your site.

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troy23

13 years ago

If those articles are bringing you traffic then that's great.
If not then you may have to rethink things.
Try submitting to doc sharing sites also.

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kenzo22

13 years ago

You shouldn't ever stop updating your website with new content. You can focus on other aspects, but don't stop posting articles from time to time.

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Janice Stacy

13 years ago

Also just a tip, try low competition long tail keywords. They rank easy even without backlinking. This is how I get a majority of my traffic.

Thanks a lot for the tip.

Also, I would like to suggest adding contents in a regular basis. This can be once in every 1 week or may be twice. Its up to you but it is important to keep your blog updated. Backlinking is a regular process and you can do some backlinking everyday for about 1-2 hours. This will ease the pressure and will bring good result.

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