How are My Articles Doing?

Now that a few days have passed since the conclusion of "The Vinyl Project" I thought I should check to see whether any of my posted articles are showing up in searches for my MIKWs (Most Important Key Words). I did searches for four of my MIKWs in both Google and Yahoo, and here is what I found:

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KW: "vinyl banners"
Engine: Google:
Article: "Design Tips For Vinyl Banners", #31
Soruce, Placement: IdeaMarketers.com,

KW: "vinyl banners"
Engine: Yahoo
Article: none in first five pages
(note: america-banners.com/products.html is #4 and banners-canada.com is at #5)

KW: "vinyl banners"
Engine: MSN Search
Article: none in first five pages
(only listing is for "lowestpricebanners.com" (#50)- a completely inactive site)

KW: "vinyl banners america"
Engine: Google
Articles:
1. "The Lowly Vinyl Banner..." #2
Source: developers.evrsoft.com. This is an old article, picked up by the webmaster of this site.
2. "Design Tips for Vinyl Banners", #4
Source: Ideamarketers.com
3. "Putting Images on Large Vinyl Banners", #5
Source: Ideamarketers.com
3. "The Many Ways ...Vinyl Banner", #6
Source: GoArticles.com
(nothing else in the top 50)

KW: "vinyl banners america"
Engine: Yahoo
Articles: None
(My sites score #1 thru #5. The only "articles" to score are Linknet articles at #15 and #16)

KW: "vinyl banners america"
Engine: MSN Search
Articles: None in the top 50
(My sites score #1, #2, #3, #7, #8, #23, #27, #30. Also 3 listings on the first page are spam redirect pages)

KW: "vinyl banners canada"
Engine: Google
Articles:
1. "The Lowly Vinyl Banner...", #2
Source: developers.evrsoft.com. This is an old article, picked up by the webmaster of this site.
2. "Design Tips for Vinyl Banners", #4
Source: Ideamarketers.com
3. "The Many Ways ...Vinyl Banner", #5
Source: GoArticles.com
4. "Putting Images on Large Vinyl Banners, #12
Source: Ideamarketers.com
5. "Tips for Putting Images...", #25
Source: GoArticles.com
6. "Vinyl Banner Designs that get notices", #38
source: CanadaDisplayGraphics.com (old placement)
7. "What is a PopUp Display?", #46
source: Sticky-Sauce.com
(NOTE: article picked up and published. These guys stuck some of their links into my article, but left my links intact.)

KW: "vinyl banners canada"
Engine: Yahoo
Articles:
1. "Vinyl Banner Designs that Get Noticed", #4
Source: Canada Display Graphics, Article Pages, old placement
2. "Put Your Most Important Message on Your Business Card", #20
Source: Linknet Printing Services Pages, (moderately old placement)
3. "Put Your Most Important...", #21
Source: Linknet Page on Small-Business-Online.com (moderately old placement)
4. "Make Your Vinyl Banner ...Masterpiece", #24
Source: BF Printing Newsletter 5. (moderately old placement)
NOTE: This site has always scored well for me, but was not (yet) included in this round of placements.)

NOTE: 16 out of the top 50 listings are my sites or articles, inlcuding #1-#6.

KW: "vinyl banners canada"
Engine: MSN Search
Articles:
1. "Vinyl Banner Designs that Get Noticed", #4
Source: Canada Display Graphics Creative Services Articles (older placement)
2. "Put Your Most Important Sales Message...Business Card", #14
Source: SBO Linknet Articles (2 months old placement)
3. "Put Your Most ... Business Card", #15
Source: Creative Services Linknet Articles on Easytraineronline.com. (2 months old placement)
4. "Make Your Vinyl Banner ...Masterpiece", #24
Source: BF Printing Newsletter 5. (moderately old placement)

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CONCLUSIONS:

1. Google indexes articles from specific sites very quickly. Yahoo and MSN do not.

2. Certain sites consistently score while others consistently do NOT. This confirms my previous conclusions.
The sites that do best are:
www.ideamarketers.com
www.goarticles.com
www.bfprinting.com (didn't use it this time)

Maybe if I was to do a "submit" for some of the others they would be indexed more quickly.

3. Generally Google puts more emphasis on "articles" than Yahoo or MSN.

4. No dynamic pages reported in any of these searches. No articles from any of my database sites. This is hard to swallow. SEO "experts" and reps from the engines are inconsistent about this, but the facts speak for themselves.

I will do further analysis of more keywords, and try to do a more concise summary of my conclusions in a few days.

-- Rick

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