Online Article Views and Search Rankings a Total Crap Shoot

Many people will tell you that there is a secret method to getting your articles to spider well in the search engines. They have theories of how to get the best rankings, which key words to use, which titles and best times to post your online press releases, articles, poems, stories or public relations. Well I am going to let you in on a little secret.

The whole thing and all these so-called tips of article marketing, titling and key wording are completely full of it. In fact if you will look at the articles of those who sell eBooks on how to best get your articles seen you will find their articles do not rate as well as your articles as a novice. So take all their volumes of advice and stuff it.

I have written 3050 articles and placed them online and my data sets show that something is a miss and many articles (same subject, similar titles and key words) get no play, while others posted nearly within the same week get more play immediately and over time. Many which have been optimized for best chance of search engine ranking do not get as many article views or rank as high in search engines as articles with no real effort to make them more visible to search engines.

Even online article submission sites, which treat every single article exactly same often find that it is quite interesting the number of article views on certain articles and how others fail. Am I saying such systems are a complete crapshoot? Am I saying why bother doing much of anything about it at all, just rely on beginners luck? Am I suggesting that one may as well let all the articles fly and throw darts at the wall? Yes, this is what I am saying. I am saying screw these so-called experts all competing for that perfect article placement.

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