Using
Articles As A Search Engine Spider Bait
Many marketers
know that writing articles are great and powerful methods to
marketing online. The true power in article promotion is to
get as many articles published on other websites as possible
and to get read of course. If your articles don't get read,
this means chances that your website link will be clicked at
the end of your article in your author bio are practically none.
Well this article won't show you how to get your articles read
and your website link clicked but will focus on how your articles
can be used as a search engine spider bait.
Search engine
robots like Googlebot(Google), Inktomi Slurp(Yahoo) and MSNBot(MSN)
crawl the web on a regular basis to fetch new pages and old
pages as well so as to index them or to update their databases
with any changes you've made to your existing pages. So these
search engine robots also known as spiders or crawlers visit
websites to perform their activities. If you imagine the above
scenario and you have your website link on one of these sites
that these robots crawl regularly, chances are high that your
link will get noticed and will be picked up through the spidering
process. This is already a good news because this means your
website will get indexed in the search engine databases in the
near future. Usually the more frequent the robots' activities
are done, your website and pages will be indexed much more faster.
It also depends on the quality of the site from which you have
your link on. If it's a good site that has several quality inbound
links to it, it will be visited often by the spiders and your
site can only benefit.
A very lucrative
strategy to be able to achieve the above example is to write
articles and submit them to other webmasters' sites or to article
directories. If you manually look for sites which might have
an interest in your articles, you will be proactively looking
for sites to publish your articles. That's a good thing to do
and if you keep at it and your articles are quality ones, you'll
get some sites to publish them. On the other hand, if you submit
to article directories, that's good too but this one is rather
passive because you have no idea who is going to use your articles
initially and you just wait for other people to come to the
article directories in the hope of using your articles. Well
you can use both methods because they work.
So now,
if you've already done that step, your articles will start to
get scattered across the web on several websites and guess what?
Your website link as well will be hyperlinked on these sites
and this is how you're going to benefit from all this:
(1) Your
link popularity will improve because you will be getting backlinks
from multiple sites.
(2) You
will get traffic from your link in your author bio if your articles
are good and are read.
(3) You
build name recognition and expert status in your chosen field.
(4) Your
website will get spidered on a regular basis and you'll benefit
because any new pages you build will get indexed quite fast
plus any new changes you made to your existing pages will reflect
in the index quite fast too.
(5) Promoting
your new website this way is profitable because once it has
a strong foundation in the search engines, it will be easy for
you to build future new websites and get them crawled and indexed.
The answer is simply by giving your future new websites a link
on your initial new website.
(6) Your
search engine rankings will get better.
Below is
a good list of article directories or article banks to get you
started with your article marketing:
http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.articlebiz.com
http://www.articlesfactory.com
http://www.articlealley.com
http://www.searchwarp.com
http://www.articlecity.com
http://www.a1articles.com
http://www.articleheaven.com
If you want
to know which sites are using your articles, it's simple. Go
to the search engines and type your article title surrounded
by double quotes eg "5 Tips To Get More Traffic To Your
Website". When a site just used your article, it won't
appear immediately in the search engine results. You just need
to give the search engines time to index it. It might be fast
for some sites whereas for others slower. It just depends on
the quality of the site using your article. Well don't worry
about this and concentrate on getting your articles submitted
to other webmaster's sites or article directories. With time,
you'll be surprised to notice how many sites are using your
articles.
Talking
about improving your search engine rankings in benefit (6) above,
you'll get the most benefit out of this strategy if only you
know how to implement this simple technique with your articles.
Get more information below.
Article by Jean Lam, webmaster of ZineGuru.com
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