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I recently posted an article to a few pr4 blogs and my site went from 350+ on google/yahoo to the top 100. I know as more and more posts are added to the blog it probably wont help as much. What are some other resources similar to this that I can submit articles to? I am looking more for smaller blog type sites, the article submission sites are a headache. This cost $5 so anything around that is good.

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Short-term lifts from a few external placements are common — as observed — but those gains often fade unless backed by a sustained, relevance-driven strategy. was right to flag sustainability: permanent ranking improvement for a niche like wineries comes from three things working together — meaningful on-site content, relevant external placements, and strong local/structured signals.

Practical, evergreen places to invest time (not just one-off article farms): niche wine blogs and regional tourism sites, local press and event pages, industry associations, and your own controlled blog where you publish original, deep pieces (tasting guides, vineyard history, harvest journals, pairing pages). When you approach external sites, pitch story angles that fit their readers, ask for a contextual link back to a specific page (not just your home page), and request that duplicates be canonicalized rather than left as verbatim copies.

Technical and local priorities that make those links count: add Product schema for individual wines and Event schema for tastings (search engines surface these better when structured) — see https://schema.org/Product and https://schema.org/Event. Claim and optimize your Google Business Profile and keep NAP consistent across listings (see ). Track outcomes with Google Search Console and analytics and measure traffic/conversions, not just rank position.

Avoid chasing metric-only targets (old toolbar PageRank or paying for bulk directory entries). Do not build links via low-quality article farms or obvious paid-link schemes. Steady, relevant placements plus strong on-site pages and local signals will produce durable visibility — a better investment than repeated $5 blasts that expire or dilute over time.

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Member Avatar for silveraden

What is the category of your site? I misght be able to help you..

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Post your article in your blog and submit the link to social bookmarking site like netscape and digg. New post to blog can easily indexed by Google.

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... posted an article to a few pr4 blogs and my site went from 350+ on google/yahoo to the top 100 ...

I would suspect that the postings to a few blogs has had little effect in ranking changes. 350 to 100 is no more than an indication that your web pages are in regular crawls. I would also suspect that your site will drop to the 350 range and crawl up to top 100 repeatedly over the next few months, unless you do something significantly important to your own web pages.

Now, when you see a jump from top 100 to top 20 you would in fact have done something favourable to increase increase your SERP ranking because you addressed your own on-site lack of top ranking sustainability.

In ther words, I suggest you concentrate on creating your own important content rather thatn seek externally to empower something you have created that is obviously mediocre, like the other 250 web pages in your SERP range.

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You can also stumbleUpon your article. I am sure, you will get too traffic for your articles but leads are not confirmed.

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I would suggest some one site changes as to editting content and try some combinations of strong and italic content along with off site optimization campaigns. Posting to same blog again and agian may not be too much helpful.

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What is the category of your site? I misght be able to help you..

They are winery sites

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I would suspect that the postings to a few blogs has had little effect in ranking changes. 350 to 100 is no more than an indication that your web pages are in regular crawls. I would also suspect that your site will drop to the 350 range and crawl up to top 100 repeatedly over the next few months, unless you do something significantly important to your own web pages.

Now, when you see a jump from top 100 to top 20 you would in fact have done something favourable to increase increase your SERP ranking because you addressed your own on-site lack of top ranking sustainability.

In ther words, I suggest you concentrate on creating your own important content rather thatn seek externally to empower something you have created that is obviously mediocre, like the other 250 web pages in your SERP range.

I agree, the content needs a lot of improvement. I am building a new site not worrying about backlinks at all, just quality content and it just got crawled and is in the top 200 for all keyphrases already. I have seen steady improvement by posting a variety of blog articles in different directories so I was going to experiment with that for the other sites.

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I would suggest some one site changes as to editting content and try some combinations of strong and italic content along with off site optimization campaigns. Posting to same blog again and agian may not be too much helpful.

Does the bold/italic keyphrases still help with seo? I used to do this but I have heard it does work from some people and doesnt work from others?

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<b> </b> = depreciated html code to bold something, has been replaced with the CSS style of font-weight:strong
Similar with <i> </i>

However, <em> for emphasis (typically rendered as italics) and <strong> for strong emphasis (typically rendered as bold) do help SEO. They're also good for usability, and will be read with emphasis to blind people using screen reader software.

Remember, even though they are typically visually displayed as bold and italics, their true meaning is "emphasis" and you are free to use a css stylesheet to render them however you wish.

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