SEO question - is this a waste of time?

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Okay so I recently noticed that a page on one of my sites is ranked #13 for a 1-word search that gets about 90k searches/month. I'd like to get it to the front page. The problem is that I don't know shit about SEO.

This is what I've been doing every day. Please tell me if it's a waste of time or not:
1. Write a 300 ish word article based on the keyword I'm targeting or some variation of it.
2. Submit it to 15-25 good article directories. I'm mixing up the title and author sig, but I'm not spinning because I've yet to find a decent spinner. The list of article directories I'm submitting to is here.
3. Social bookmark the page itself (not the article), on at least 10 different SB sites.
4. Do a couple blog comments on related blogs. I sometimes use anchor text, but usually it's just my name.

Is that worth my time? Is there something I should be doing different? I'm not doing the bookmarking myself, it's too "grunt" for me, but I am writing and submitting the article which takes about 45 minutes a day.

Every damn SEO guide I've read says something different about submitting non-spun content to multiple article directories. I figure it can't possibly hurt, but should I be spinning?

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I'm not even an SEO expert's big toe, but I've read that you don't want to hammer your main KW for every article. Use keywords similar to your main KW and also don't always link to your main page, do some deep links as well. And make the keywords relevant to the pages your linking to.
 
Clash that sounds like a good plan. Hard to beat a site that adds links everyday. Usually looks fairly natural.

But I was curious. How many links and what is the PR of the sites above you? If they have 5000 links and you are going from 30 to 40 to 50 it really aint gonna matter.

I would mix up the link text. G is good at finding themes or related words. Think of it as a game where you are teaching Google what your site is about. Not hammering it over the head with one keyword in every spot, link, and metatag in your site.

Evaluate the sites above you and figure our why they are there. Duplicate and do it better. Do less things wrong.

GL
 
I am also starting a new affiliate site which I am going to attack by SEO and have some questions on how to go about it. (It is a review site)

If I choose 2 keywords or phrases to target for on site and off site SEO for the home page, can I simply copy the layout of the home page and place a copy to a sub directory then change the text / data to reflect another 2 words of phrases.
For example if I am advertising a review site for sunglasses suppliers and I have the keywords for the home page as Sunglass Suppliers, Buy Sunglasses. And I also want to list for Male Designer Sunglasses and Male Sports Sunglasses but it wouldn’t fit in on the home page as text is limited can I add a directory www.xxxxxxx.com/malesunglasses and have a page which is a new landing page which will look exactly as the regular www.xxxxx.com directory but with different text to represent different keywords?

Once this is done if someone searched Male Sports Sunglasses will Google be more likely to list the www.xxxxxxx.com.malesunglasses in the search results?
 
Drake said:
Clash that sounds like a good plan. Hard to beat a site that adds links everyday. Usually looks fairly natural.

But I was curious. How many links and what is the PR of the sites above you? If they have 5000 links and you are going from 30 to 40 to 50 it really aint gonna matter.

I would mix up the link text. G is good at finding themes or related words. Think of it as a game where you are teaching Google what your site is about. Not hammering it over the head with one keyword in every spot, link, and metatag in your site.

Evaluate the sites above you and figure our why they are there. Duplicate and do it better. Do less things wrong.

GL
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Yeah, I did that, and I just got depressed. I'm going up against a Wikipedia page, 2 official xbox.com pages and several high-pr high-backlink blogs. I'm surprised I even made it to the second page.

But yeah I get what you're saying. I'm going to do some more digging into their link patterns today.

Also, one of my individual pages is ranking #14, NOT my homepage, which makes it even harder. Hopefully I can figure out a way to beat this.
 
Don't forget about links on your own site. If you have other articles where you can link in the text of those articles (Wikipedia style) that will give you a boost too.
 
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