So I mentioned in my last post that I was frustrated with our house buying process and needed a diversion. So I have decided to do some article backlinking to two of my sites which have not received too much attention yet and track my results here.

First, I have been making article marketing/submitting as the main focus of my backlinking efforts recently. The reason is because I feel it is likely the safest, easiest, and cheapest method. Safe because I feel it is less likely to succumb to spammers and have your efforts disappear than say forum profiles or blog commenting. Easy because once you know your targets and have your accounts, you can repeat the process – no searching for new places to create profiles or leave comments. Cheap for basically the same reasons – once you are set up you can just keep re-using  the same tools and methods. That’s not to say I don’t find alot of value with other methods, but using articles for backlinks just suits me better for now.

Here is the background information on the 2 sites I will be focusing on.

Site 1
Keyword.com domain
Current Ranking = #12 in Google for main KW
Current BLs in YSE = 9
Competition (PR on Pg1) = 7,7,3,3,2,2,3,3,5,3

Site 2
Keyword.com domain
Current Ranking = #314 in Google for main KW
Current BLs in YSE = 61
Competition (PR on Pg1) = -,3,4,1,1,5,4,3,0,3

(YSE = yahoo site explorer, inter-domain linking excluded from values)

Don’t get too excited that these are keyword.com domains, the search amounts are fairly low. That’s another story. But the fact that they are KW.com domains should make them easier to rank, I hope.

Site 1 actually ranked on Page 2 with no content (just WP installed), so the overall competition is probably not as bad as it looks by PR. So far the backlinking performed includes 2 Ezine articles and some social bookmarking. The site is monetized with Infolinks and Amazon although my original intention was for it to be an Adsense site. I’m still trying to decide whether I should add Adsense now or not. The Amazon links are secondary – this is an informational site where some physical products could be used.

Site 2 has never ranked well and I am starting to wonder why. An inner page is ranking at #99 in Google for the main keyword while the homepage is at #314. The backlinking so far includes 2 Ezine articles, some social bookmarking, and a blog commenting package. I think the blog comments were from a Scrapebox run (WSO) and I am wondering if those comments are not being smiled upon by Google, hence the bad ranking? This site is product-based and earned ~$71 on Amazon from some longtail traffic, so it has potential.

That is the site background, now here is my basic plan. I have ordered 2 sets of UAW articles from GetArticlesDone.com (GAD) for $19.90. That will give me a 500 word article plus 2 rewrites for each site. I have only used GAD a few times and the quality varies so I am worried I may have to do some editing, specifically b/c these 2 sites are technical. I really only need 400 words but ordered 500 words to give me some editing (deleting) room. Last time I ordered one of these UAW sets the uniqueness was quite high so I am counting on that again.

So I should have 3 semi-unique articles for each site. I will publish 1 to EZA, 1 to Info Barrel, and the last one I am still thinking about, but it will likely be a Hubpage or Squidoo. Then I will spin the EZA article and submit to various article directories and blogs using Automatic Article Submitter, ArticleBot, and ArticleRanks (see my ArticleRanks review). I will either link back to my site or back to the other EZA articles. OR, I may spin one of the EZA articles I already have for these sites and link back to the new EZA, IB, and Hubpage/Squidoo – I’m still deciding.

I will work out my exact plan over the next few days as I wait to receive my articles. This will be a busy week for me but I hope to make some progress once the articles come in.

Related posts:

1. Building Backlinks with Articles – Article Order
2. Building Article Backlinks – Spin and Wait
3. Building Article Backlinks – Posting Complete