Recently, I started publishing articles for distribution aka article submission to build inbound links for my main website. My favorite article submission site is EzineArticles.com. So the question is: after you submitted your article, how do you know if it was being picked up and published by other websites.

One of the easiest way to track your article is to search for it with exact search option. For example, I would search for the title of my article - “How Companies Can Optimise Their Web Pages for Search Engines” - to track who used it on their website.

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That is what Andy want to rank top in Google, Yahoo and MSN! He thinks Amelia is the coolest baby on the planet and he even got a domain for her daughter, AmeliaHun.com.

Here’s the screenshot of Andy’s masterpiece.

It is a simple web page. However, it was created on-stage in front of a live audience - I could imagine the sort of pressure he was experiencing. And if you look at the source HTML codes, you will see that the page is indeed optimized for the desire keywords: coolest, baby, planet. (The search engines usually ignore words such as on, the, it, a, and so on.)

I did a quick research on the Zippy.co.uk - a new SEO Meta Search Engine - to analyze the competition that Andy is up against. The number 1 in Google, Yahoo and Ask is actually about the coolest baby stuff and not the coolest baby on the planet. It is PR4 and Google reported more than 100 backlinks, Yahoo’s 700 backlinks and MSN’s more than 2,800. The website has more than 4,000 pages indexed by Google and more than 6,000 by Yahoo. So it will not be easy to top this website for the keywords coolest, baby and planet with the one page created by Andy at AmeliaHun.com.

So beside more aggressive on-page optimization and build more baby related pages, Andy has to get a lot of backlinks with the keyphrase “coolest baby on the planet”.

Unintended SEO Ranking Results
November 26, 2006
This blog is currently ranked 3rd for the keywords - coolest baby on the planet and number 1 for Singapore’s coolest baby in Google.