Question for mortgage brokers....

sarkin

So whats the town name Conrad lets have a look

AndyBlack_2

sarkin wrote: »

I found the broker blog when snooping around as you do.

I had a guy in Thailand do the article submission, according to google I have 2 articles loged out of 40 submission, oh well $40 down the drain. I still have the spread sheet so maybe I should do it my self. I addedd the article to my blog to avoid duplicate content.

Someone told me that ezinearticles use nofollow tags, well that must be wrong if you found my link.

Hi Sarkin,

The reason only two are showing is the fact that they are all the same article. If you submit the same article to multiple directories, a small handful will show up at first in the index, but eventually all but maybe one or two will get caught by the duplicate content filter and will only appear in the supplemental index. What you need to do is manually spin your article. Don't use any cack spinning software where it does it all for you. You will end up with Japanese and they are far from human readable articles. It can take a while to create these 'spun' blocks of content, but once it is done, each article that you submit will be unique, and therefore your backlinks will remain.

Who told you Ezinearticles apply the nofollow tag. That's nonesense. It's a PR6 article directory and one of the main ones. Go Articles is another big one. I have a huge amount of bought software for SEO which I use.

Andy

AndyBlack_2

Conrad,

Yes, I agree. I'm not saying that ALL companies are like that but I have yet to find one that delivers. Years ago I spent a fortune on SEO with comapnies and traffic was near enough zero. They chose keywords that no-one searched for, and they were full of broken promises. I started studying it myself, and within a couple of months I gained more traffic than I did in about 4 years with other peoples work. If I done SEO work for someone, I would never promise no.1 rankings. The reaon being... I don't own Google, and how can I control something that no-one truly knows the ranking algorythm for.... and there's the fact that this algorythm changes almost on a daily / weekly basis. These charlatons who claim they buy all the kyewords up is rubbish. They are basically talking about Google Adwords. Anyone can bid on keywords with PPC but it's organic results that you want. I love it when I get a company ring me and fill me with loads of tosh. I soon pull everything they say to bits and a minute later they put the phone down.

As sarkin has done, you're better off doing it yourself... if you have the time. I'm just about to start my campaigns properly as things have slipped the last few months as I've been developing projects.

Andy

Guava_2

Good to hear you did better on your own Andy, bad luck with the companies you had before. A respectable SEO company will advise you on keywords that will actually convert rather than just tell you which ones they'll optimise for - realistically mortgages are one of the most competitive terms to rank well for so you may be better off going for more long tail searches if you're starting from zero. It is amazing how many cowboys selling snake oil are around in SEO.

If anyone is thinking of looking into a SEO company, the Google guidelines are good place to start. I'm not plugging my own company, we've got enough work.