Improving Search Engine Rankings – Patience Is The Key
Author: David Andrew Smith

I have written before about the benefit of articles and how
they provide one way links back to your website and therefore
improve the importance of your website and thus its ranking in
the search engine results. The articles you write have the
chance of spreading slowly around the web and ending up within
ezines or on other websites or blogs. All of which provide
links back to your website. So once you have over thirty
articles out there the links can grow exponentially. Just
consider what can happen if you have one hundred articles
published? Two hundred articles?

The magic figure is said by some experts in this field to be
250 articles, it is then that this exponential growth in links
and traffic to your site can be truly seen. I do not have
personal experience of this yet as my own figure sits at 35 and
this number is already having remarkable results as reported in
a previous article. If you average 10 articles a month which is
what my own aim is, then after 2 years you will have reached
this magic figure of 250.

At the same time your website will have aged a further two
years which will also benefit it and it will be viewed as one
of the more important web sites.

Patience is the key element in promoting your website. If you
want your site to climb up through the rankings then you must
have patience. Do not be swayed into parting with money on the
promise of instant high rankings. They can be achieved but will
not be permanent and on Google in particular this is becoming
increasingly more difficult to achieve as the algorithm becomes
more complex.

Why do you have to be patient? Google in particular requires a
little patience. Google likes to see one way links pointing
back to your site but will only count and use links after they
have matured for some time. So your articles may not appear as
links for about 2 months and then as they mature further they
will assume more and more importance in the eyes of Google.
Consequently you may have 100 recorded backlinks but another
site with only 50 backlinks is still ranked higher. This is
presumably due to your links being still young and not 'fully
matured'. Once they do so you will leap ahead.

With Yahoo the situation is similar but the time delay is less.
You should start to see these links appearing after possibly 2 –
3 weeks.

MSN is the fastest of the search engines to pick up and
recognise these links which may very well happen within days.

Consequently you should see very nearly immediate effects in
your ranking on MSN and then a few weeks later with Yahoo
finally followed after 2 – 3 months your rapid rise through
Google.

Have patience and keep the articles flowing as you will
ultimately see the rewards for this endeavour and the most
important thing is that your rise in the rankings will not be
short lived.


About The Author: David Andrew Smith is the owner of a contract
cleaning company which operates its services across the whole of
the UK. He has developed and continues to maintain and promote
the companies website. http://www.wesparkle.co.uk