{"id":573,"date":"2008-07-16T08:47:58","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T13:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=573"},"modified":"2008-07-13T16:58:33","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T21:58:33","slug":"link-generating-articles-take-4-months-to-reach-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2008\/07\/16\/link-generating-articles-take-4-months-to-reach-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Link Generating Articles Take 4 Months to Reach Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been very closely monitoring links and organic activity on Google for a client that we have been aggressively been writing feature articles for directory syndication. What I have found out about the process is interesting.\u00a0There is about a\u00a0three to four month delay\u00a0before the results hit Google. So you must be patient with the process and continue to write while waiting.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, we have been writing 800 to 1,000 word articles typically focused for this client on bringing traffic to his website through broad syndication. He is a bed bug exterminator and the articles have been focused to the real estate and property manager industry as well as providing interesting information to home owners on the topic of bed bugs.<\/p>\n<p>It has taken Google four months to really show a difference in his number of in bound links. Last month he had 600 links reported by Google and this month there are over 3,000. We have written a total of just under 10 articles so far and the increase in the number of Google reported links has positively impacted\u00a0his organic placement on top terms in Google finally this month.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is that feature article writing for directory syndication is an excellent way to get one way in bound links, but that you should expect to wait 120 to 150 days or more for the results to really impact your website&#8217;s organic placement on Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been very closely monitoring links and organic activity on Google for a client that we have been aggressively been writing feature articles for directory syndication. What I have found out about the process is interesting.\u00a0There is about a\u00a0three to four month delay\u00a0before the results hit Google. So you must be patient with the process and continue to write while waiting. Specifically, we have been writing 800 to 1,000 word articles typically focused for this client on bringing traffic to his website through broad syndication. He is a bed bug exterminator and the articles have been focused to the real estate and property manager industry as well as providing interesting information to home owners on the topic of bed bugs. It has taken Google four months to really show a difference in his number of in bound links. Last month he had 600 links reported by Google and this month there are over 3,000. We have written a total of just under 10 articles so far and the increase in the number of Google reported links has positively impacted\u00a0his organic placement on top terms in Google finally this month. The bottom line is that feature article writing for directory syndication is an excellent way to get one way in bound links, but that you should expect to wait 120 to 150 days or more for the results to really impact your website&#8217;s organic placement on Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,17],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-search-engine-optimization","tag-linking"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Link Generating Articles Take 4 Months to Reach Google | The Web Authority<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The bottom line is that feature article writing for directory syndication is an excellent way to get one 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