World of Warcraft Battlegrounds, a Series Continues

I have been very busy since I last wrote here promoting the site through link building, primarily through writing articles and publishing them on various sites.

I have met a few obstacles on the way, nothing new there then, the main one being that article publishing sites are claiming that Google Panda means that they can only use articles specifically written for them.  This Guardian newspaper article explains it well...

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/dec/05/google-panda-update-endangered-species

The problem this creates for me and thousands and thousands of other site owners is that we have to have back links from other sites in order for Google to list our sites.  We have to be on page one of a chosen search phrase to have any chance of getting the numbers required to make the site a viable business.  The advice has always been to write articles and to syndicate them.  Now Google is playing silly buggers because its search engine monopoly is being threatened by EU and US government scrutiny.  Quite how article sites can still have contracts with publishers like me saying they reserve the right to circulate my articles, is a bit of a contradictory mystery.

The whole point in writing the article is to have that back link to my site. Google bots pick up on and follow the link back to my site. The reputation of the article site enhances the link and gives my site a higher page index. To show you what I mean: in the author resources box of an article I am allowed to to use phrases you would would put into Google to find information you are after. I use the following linking phrases to my site:

new World of Warcraft players
new World of Warcraft player
World of Warcraft beginners
World of Warcraft beginner's
World of Warcraft beginner's guide
World of Warcraft beginners guide

Oddly enough each of those terms will give different search engine results.  Try them yourself to see what I mean.  Just look at the number of search engine results.  The link itself goes to my site of course but I'm referring to the phrases used.  What the link tells Google is that I want people to find my site using those phrases  Google tell us that we need lots of legitimate back links to our sites.

Be very wary of companies offering to give you thousands of back links.  If Google does not like the back link it will hurt rather than help your page ranking.  Quality is better than quantity, although Google wants quantity as well :-(

Anyway the latest articles I have written in my World of Warcraft Battlegrounds series can be located on HubPages:

Not any more as I've moved them to here https://game-guru-4-you.blogspot.co.uk/ and here https://learn-to-play-wow.blogspot.co.uk/

I hope you enjoy them and can find enough people to listen to you in the Battlegrounds!