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Hi Guys

This post has come from a discussion on the Warrior Forum where a few people believe that it is better to post your articles to your own site rather than to the article directories and be able to achieve better listings in google. A few of the guys over their think that it is entirely possible to achieve the same listings with your own domain that it is with the article directories.

Now this has peaked my interest enough to give it a test and see what the results come up with. I do honestly hope that an article on your own blog can out do the article directories but I am yet to be convinced, hence why I am setting up this test. It would be so much better to be able to post articles on your own blog and get them listed in google just as quick and get the listing and traffic to your own domain. This would be a lot better as you can control everything then on your own. You will be able to monetize your article a lot better as you would not have any leaks in the form of google ads to distract the customer.

So here is what I am going to be doing. I will use a brand new domain name that will have a landing page just like any of my other products I promote. I will then create a subdomain and install a wordpress blog on it. I will then start writing articles for the blog and I will promote those articles just like I have done in the past with the article directories. So I will ping and bookmark the article on my blog and then submit it to other article directories with a link back to the main article on my blog. I will then start to get links from other blogs in my niche and then link them back to the main article in the blog. This is the same thing I was doing with articlesbase but changing that for my own blog.

OK the things I will be looking for in this test is the following –

1. How quickly the blog article can get listed on google. With articlesbase I can get an article listed easily within 30 minutes. Just under 10 minutes is my record. So I would like to see the exact same response from the blog article.

2. The Initial Listing of the blog article – With Articlesbase done correctly I can get an instant page 1 listing after the article is listed. Speed is of the essence here because the higher the listing you start with the immediate inflow of traffic you receive. You want the maximum exposure of the article you can get resulting in the traffic and sales/

3. The amount of time spent on 1 article – This is the deciding factor for me as I do write a lot of stuff and if I have to spend an extra hour a day or half hour a day on 1 article then this will hold me up a great deal.

4. Keyword Use – I will be using the exact same technique as I have with the article directories Keyword once in the title, 3 times in the body and once in the Resource. Also in this section I will be choosing a few different keywords. With my keyword research I will split it into 3 sections. 4 Keywords will be on the low end of the scale like very low competition and up to 1000 searches. You can generally get listings with articlesbase top 5 with these sort of keywords. Then 4 keywords with a bit more competition up to 4000 searches. Then lastly 4 keywords with more competition again round about 75,000 competing pages and anything over 4000 searches. This is the fairest way I can see to test the blog article because I know the listings I can get with articlesbase on these sort of figures and will be able to thouroughly test this out.

Ok I am going to get this started today and see what the initial test results are and I should have some figures or some sort of information to hand tomorrow.

Until then keep watching as I think this could be a very useful experiment for a lot of interested parties. If you have any questions let me know.

Thanks

Pete

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