Getting Links To A Boring Blog – Part 2

I have a blog on a boring topic that I am trying to get links to. You can read Part 1 of my link building efforts here. In that article, I discussed how I created an article that would appeal to a lot of blog carnivals, and then submitted it to some carnivals.

The next thing I did, which will be the subject of today’s post, is to submit the article to many article sites and ezine sites.

I did this with the help of James Brausch’s Artemis Pro software. This software will submit to a bunch of article sites that are internally stored in the software, as well as to external sites that you can add to it.

I got a large list of ezine article sites to add to it from Robert Phillips, who was selling the list on his Cybercashology blog. Of course, you can also build your own list. The Artemis Pro videos will show you how to format your list for input into the program.

Artemis Pro requires that you write three different versions of your article. It then takes the 3 versions and mixes and matches paragraphs from each, to create a whole lot of different articles for submission. This is how it keeps you from having dozens or hundreds of the same exact article out there. This way, you will not lose the benefit of the links, because Google will not throw out some of them as being duplicates.

Artmis Pro is easy to use, as it comes with videos that show you how to do everything. I did mess up on one thing, though. I had an earlier version of Artemis Pro (1.0) as well as the current version (2.0). I mistakenly submitted my article using the 1.0 version.

The disadvantage there is that the 1.0 version requires you to input keywords on what your article is about, and then it chooses which sites to sumit to. I had a hard time picking keywords for the article that would have a lot of matches in the submission database.

The 2.0 version doesn’t require you to enter any keywords. I’m not sure whether it just sumits to every site, or whether it chooses sites based on the content. In any case, I didn’t want to submit the same article again with version 2.0, because I didn’t want to get any article sites mad at me for submitting my article twice.

Next time, I’ll use the 2.0 version, and hopefully get submitted to even more sites.

So far, the link building is going ok. It has only been a little over a week, so it is really too soon to tell. However, before I started, my site had 47 backlinks listed in yahoo. Today it has 79 backlinks. I only submitted to about 10-12 carnivals, so the majority of them are from article sites.

It usually takes several weeks for all your links to show up, so I am hoping to have quite a few more links show up in the next week or two.

Unfortunately I was not a good scientist with my tests, as I jumbled several things together. Besides the carnivals and the articles I submitted with Artemis Pro, I also submitted to some other article directories, which I will tell you about in Part 3. So, unless I look at each backlink individually to see which part of my linkbuilding it came from, I will not know.

When it comes to links, “the more, the merrier”, I feel. So I am not too concerned about where they came from. The carnival submissions and the Artemis Pro submission were very easy to do (except for the actual writing of the article ). So I plan on continuing with both of these strategies. I will discuss the third strategy in Part 3 tomorrow.

- Pat Doyle