Key to Quick Rankings – High Value Links from Trusted Sites

Guest Post by Nitin.

Utilizing article submission is one of the most important methods to improve your online ranking and boost traffic. But many people don’t pay attention to the strategy of article submission. What really matters here is the popularity of trusted sites – those are the ones that produce the most traffic and can help raise your recognition level.

Link popularity is the key factor in determining how high your site will rank and this is determined by the number of sites that link back to you. The method for increasing this number, link building, is undoubtedly one of the most complicated SEO tasks. Nonetheless, an extensive set of back links is crucial to outranking your competitors.

One way to accomplish high value links is from article directories; they can provide a fairly speedy way of obtaining back links and can generate quick results in the search engines. But here’s the question — do you opt for the bulk submission from these trusted sites, which most webbies do, or should you be more selective, and focus on niche directories?

Well, it’s without doubt that the more links back to your website the quicker you’ll move up in the search engine rankings. But, submitting to every and any directory, whether it be an article directory or niche directory or just a relevant blog can hinder your results more than they help you. You must be selective when choosing where to garner your links because all sites are not all created equal.

Submitting Articles to Directories

If you submit articles to 10 great article directories and 100 crappy directories you end up wasting time and possibly doing more harm to your page ranking than you intended.

Search engines filter out unimportant directories with low page ranking and low traffic and these directories are most likely branded as Spam directories for those marketers looking to duplicate mass submissions. Take Yahoo and Google for instance – those article directories with low page rankings will never climb to the celebrated first 3 pages. So all the multiple articles you have submitted to the 100 crappy directories just got buried to page 15 on Google.

So which article directories are at the top of the heap?

1. EzineArticles
2. ArticleBase
3. Buzzle
4. iSnare
5. Suite101

When choosing where to submit your articles review the directories and see what option authors are submitting; are the majority of submissions quality content or stuffed with fluff? Next decide if that particular directory is where you want your work displayed. What type of clientele frequent that site?

You must plan how to quickly obtain rankings because simply submitting articles and commenting on any niche site isn’t always in the best interest of your goals.

Keys to Quick Rankings – There are always rules to climb the search engine ladder

• Keep your articles between 450 and 750 words; these will comprise better response from the search engines; any more words and you’ll be in danger of losing their center of attention
• Keep your articles focused and on point; forget the fluff – keep it informative
• Make sure your articles include your main keyword in the title and within the body a minimum of three times
• Develop quality content!

There are more than 1.5 billion people online right now. You are in a position to successfully grab their attention and compel them to learn more about you. But laying down the foundation to move to center stage is pivotal for you to advance.

While we all want quick, fast and right now remember quality shapes and defines your presence online.

This is a guest post by Nitin, who is the founder and owner of Offshoreally- a company offering virtual assistant services. He likes to write blogs about SEO techniques, social media and blogging etc.