Am I being impatient?? (Article marketing)

Question

Hey guys,

I'm new to this forum and I wanted some input on something. Over the last 1.5 months i've been doing article marketing to get a site ranked higher for some key terms. I have been submitting spun articles to the top 50 directories (like EZA, GoArticles, etc.) at a rate of about 6 per day. A search for my name in Google shows about 200 results, so my articles are obviously being picked up.

Here's the problem. I have not seen an increase in my SERPs or overall traffic whatsoever. One of my terms has a search volume of about 2000 per month, while the other is around 15000 per month. The 2000 per month keyword should not be that hard to rank for since I did some research on the competing sites and some of the top 10 sites barely have any backlinks at all.

Here is a little background on my site.



-It is a little over one year old
-Up until 1.5 months ago I had done almost zero marketing for the site
-Traffic to the site has been steady around 2000 uniques per month over the past 6 months (could be a lot higher if I eventually get ranked for the terms I want)
-I have not done any major modifications to the site (no IP changes, no css changes, no url changes, etc.)
-It has about 70 pages of quality content
-All of my backlinks contain my keywords that I'm trying to rank for...some articles have variations of the keywords

Any help is GREATLY appreciated! Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Answer 1

patience is the virtue. 6 articles per day on 50 sites is a lot actually. you should see some decent traffic spike form all these submission. if you dont see any increase of traffic, then you are not doing this right.

make sure you have a resource box setup in a way that will entice the readers to click on your links to visit your site. most people go for the links and dont focus on minor details that goes a long way. your resource box needs to be written in a way so that readers will be interested enough to click.

regarding ranking, it may take some time. based on your keyword, you may need to keep submitting articles for some time before seeing any significant boost in ranking. for better result, diversify your link building campaign and use other link building methods at the same time