How does a customer searching for content find us?

damyanti · Post by **damyanti** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 7:32 pm

I was writing an article on women and their taste for wine today. As I was doing my research on the search engines it occured to me that articles on constant content do not come up on search.

Ideally if I type" wine" on Google, all articles pertinet to google on Constant content should turn up:), if not on the first page, then on later pages....

I realise that it may be a costly exercise to make CC pop up on searches, but it might be worth the effort.

Even when I type "content", CC does not come up!
Arent we missing a few customers here?

From what I read about the feedback on CC on some sites by website owners, article prices here are comparatively cheaper....and quality is better than on other places like Article Insider....

So maybe there will be people willing to pay for articles that turned up on searches?

Just a thought....

Post by **constant-content** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 9:36 pm

People pay thousands of dollars a day to become first in search engines on certain terms. Its not that easy as it sounds... Search Engine optimization is a million dollar a year industry.

Its very hard to explain, but you can't just write a wine article and expect the search engines to place that article among the first pages when searching for wine.

With that said, we spend A LOT of money and effort making sure we rank for certain keywords... some of those keywords are:

Purchase content, Purchase articles, article search, etc...

Think about it... the word "wine" has over 500,000 searches a month, imagine if your website that sold wine was number one for that word. You would be a millionaire.

Add to that CC only takes 35% of the article that sell... then take 20% for affiliates and 5% for referring authors. That leaves us 10% to advertise with and spend on marketing. Not to mention payment gateways fees, hosting, development, hired help, etc.

Post by **constant-content** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 9:47 pm

Let me add to this that I spend hours and hours a day trying to find new clients. If its paying for advertising, answering emails, searching writer boards, job boards, freelance sites, webmaster forums, etc....

I also have many... many...many advertising campaigns with google, as well as other sites going one at the same time.

Dorothy Edison · Post by **Dorothy Edison** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 2:05 am

Personally, I think it's lucrative for us all to pitch in to the ad campaign when it's convenient and appropriate--just passing the word along is valuable and can help everyone out. The more people who buy from CC, the more people they'll tell.

DE

candicep · Post by **candicep** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 5:42 am

Hi,

Many of the CC articles do come up in the search engines eventually, but it's impossible to know under which keywords and when. A new article might take a few weeks or several months to even show up because typically search engines wait a while before listing brand new content.

I think CC does fantastic with promotions.

Just my 2 cents worth!
Candicep

Lizaj · Post by **Lizaj** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 5:53 am

Yeah, I had a C-C article come up in research the other day, too.

I totally agree that we should be helping with the advertising. I've just started a (another) blog and even though I'm offering my services as a writer, I listed C-C under my favorite links. It may sound counter-productive but I figure if I get them to my site but my writing is just not their taste, maybe they'll come to C-C and find someone else to write for them. That helps all of us. (it will be a while before I start generating anything though lol)

I think C-C does a great job...and it's always fascinating to watch the "recent content" page take off. I can just see administration's eyes zipping through all our articles.

One more thing, while I'm feeling all praise-y...I'm amazed by the generosity of the writers here. You give away so many ideas to help out the newer people. Noone would blame you for keeping the ideas to yourselves and making that money but you don't! You are always so helpful. I know I've benefited from your advice and I really appreciate it.

Dorothy Edison · Post by **Dorothy Edison** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:18 am

Lizaj,

This is a rather helpful bunch of people, as I've found out myself. I think it's important that we all proliferate this attitude--there's no reason we have to be dog-eat-dog.

Sometimes I get discouraged when people indicate they'd willingly go around CC's policy of encouraging customers to offer requests to all authors, or when people are less than encouraging (to either the administrative staff or to each other). We're all here for the same reason and we should all get a fair shot.

DE

damyanti · Post by **damyanti** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:27 am

Well

I did say that I thought it would be costly,I had no idea how costly.....

As long as CC turns up with keywords like content,I guess we are doing great.....I have got a few writers to the site through my blogs, but not knowing any website owners and having none of my own,It is tough to get clients:)

And CC sure has a helpful bunch of people starting from the writers to the admin and i am happy to be here:)

LJade · Post by **LJade** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:38 am

I've mentioned before that when I see a job ad for a writer, when I respond ... of course I pitch myself but I aslo mention:

"If you need several writers to work on your project, I've had good results with constant-content".

I provide a link and click send!

Or something to that effect, it works because I actually got an e-mail last week. The person thanked me for the referral and said that they purchased several articles. I was happy but a little ticked because I didn't use my referral link, grrrr. But that's okay.

LJ

malward · Post by **malward** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:37 pm

I'm not sure about anyone else, but when I started writing, I had a writer who gave me all kinds of advice, which I used to get my articles published. Now, if I can help anyone else who is starting out by adding a few words of advice or encouragement, I do so. I would hope that when they are experienced that they would help a fledgling writer.

mattsterrr · Post by **mattsterrr** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 2:59 pm

I'd hate to try and sound authoritative on this, but am I not correct in saying that once you index something with Google it can take weeks or months to get it actually listed on the search results and to get higher up the search results you need a better P?

Google only do the Page Rank dance once every three months don't they? This means that you could be looking at 4 to 5 months before any kind of result is seen. Personally, I don't want my articles on this site that long. No offence, CC, but I'd rather sell them sooner.

LJade · Post by **LJade** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:41 pm

I'm not totally sure about this but I think it depends on what kind of rank a site has to start off with. I think for some newer sites, yes it does take up to three months and even then it's not like it will pop up in the top 10!

I think Chris has studied SEO techniques enough to answer this one but my I just finished writing a lot of stuff today ... my brain hurts bad!

LJ

Eliza Ferree · Post by **Eliza Ferree** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 5:52 am

Not sure about the rest of ya'll but just yesterday I was searching my name and pulling up all my latest articles I've added to the site. Hope this helps some of you.

Post by **constant-content** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 1:01 pm

mattsterrr wrote:I'd hate to try and sound authoritative on this, but am I not correct in saying that once you index something with Google it can take weeks or months to get it actually listed on the search results and to get higher up the search results you need a better P?

Google only do the Page Rank dance once every three months don't they? This means that you could be looking at 4 to 5 months before any kind of result is seen. Personally, I don't want my articles on this site that long. No offence, CC, but I'd rather sell them sooner.

This is correct, its random and a lot more goes into if your listed first or last for certain keywords. Most importantly the keywords, title, and summry you use in the article.