Article Writing Tips | Avoidable Xomba Blunders – Part 1
This article writing tip concerns Xomba, specifically the xomblurb. For those of you who do not use Xomba (shame on you by the way) the xomblurb is a wonderful thing. It allows you to link to one of your articles and drive traffic to it, and, possibly make some adsense money as well.
Unfortunately, despite the wonderful potential of the xomblurb some people, myself included, have not used it correctly, or more specifically, have made a terrible mistake with it.
Consider the following xomblurb (one of my first)
Huh? Same article name and description!
You see the problem here. I just copied the article title and first paragraph into the xomblurb page. This is a big mistake.
Consider this, somebody types ‘best bbq pit’ into google, now which do you think will be listed first.
- The 50 word xombyte with an Alexa rank of 2900
- The 500 word eHow article with a rank of 400
Exactly, the eHow article will place much higher in the search engine results and that means your xomblurb is wasted since it’ll place much lower. I should’ve targeted a different keyword, changed the title and wrote a new description.
So for the xomblurb one of the most important article writing tips is to target a different keyword and change the text a bit. You efforts will be rewarded.
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Reader Comments
Hi Norm! That’s a good point about using a different title/description to target a different long-tail keyword, but this Xomblurb won’t go to waste since it acts as a backlink to your original eHow article. If anything, that should drive up your eHow ranking even further, which means more money for you! Good stuff!
I wish I loved Xomba but I just don’t bother to make time for it (I’ve been slacking on eHow too, but these 14 hour days of working on niche sites is starting to get to me!) I wish I had your drive to continue writing for eHow — congrats on your ever increasing income!!
Hey Scarlett, I’ve actually looked at the code for Xomba and unfortunately they have no follow links, which means they won’t count for backlinks. It would be nice if they did, I’d go crazy with them. For me, work is starting to take it’s toll, I haven’t had a vacation now in almost a year so needless to say I’m just a wee bit burned out. I’m actually planning on slowing my eHow’ing down and starting on niche sites myself, I’ve been looking into BANS.
Interesting tip.
Xomblurbs have a tendency to rank very high on certain things. So, don’t count Xomba out.
It’s better to write your own summary rather than copy your first paragraph from the article.
We’re about 2 weeks away from launching the new Xomba and everything is going to change. We expect much better SEO in the next year as well.
As for No follow links we really didn’t have a choice.
Spam spam and more spam. Trust me we wanted to leave follow. Just didn’t have a choice.
Check out Google Insight an awesome tool.
Nick
Xomba Admin