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Less Than Fifty Days With a Content Service
Posted by Pedro in Internet Marketing on March 11, 2010
First a little background. Seven weeks ago I became a member of an article marketing service. While I don’t actually know the guy that designed this remarkable tool for online marketers, it seems to me as if I do, because I have bought so many of his products and joined enough of his membership services to have paid for a good part of his car. [He should at least offer me a ride in it
Due to my many prior experiences with this boy genius (well, he’s not really that young), I knew that this new concept would give me what I was looking for: An innovative way of distributing my articles. Like any Internet marketer, I could always use more traffic, and who among us is not constantly looking for fresh one-way external links. My primary approach for achieving both of these goals is distributing content to article directories.
This service has some advantages over traditional submission to article directories, though. For example, I can now put my links directly into the body of the article rather than assigning them to a resource box. That’s something that most article directories don’t allow, but I know that it is more effective for both traffic generation and for search engine optimization. Second, the articles go directly to websites for publication, sites that are in my niche or a closely related niche. Once again, great for traffic and SEO. Third, since some of my business involves affiliate marketing, with this service I can put an affiliate link directly in the article, if I want–another thing that the article directories don’t allow. Fourth, the distribution system has a built in article spinner, so that the version of the article that each website publishes can be unique.
After almost fifty days, I thought that I would check to see what I had accomplished so far. Here are just a few of the highlights of my experience with My Article Network.
Now the articles trickle out to the sites, so those I’ve put into the system so far are all at different points in their publication schedule. I have submitted 58 well spun article. Over 1900 web pages now consist of my unique versions of those articles. I have between one and three links in each article, so my conservative best guess is that my sites singled out for promotion through this system have received somewhere in excess of four thousand links. Of course many of those are so new that they haven’t been picked up by the search engines, yet. In other words, a lot of the work that I’ve put into this distribution already will reach the maximum benefit months down the road.
I started a new site in a very competitive niche about three months ago, and I have directed the links from more than half of my articles toward that site’s promotion. Alexa couldn’t even find that site when I first joined this system, and now it has climbed in the Alexa rankings more than two million positions. I’m a bit embarassed to admit it, but the new site gets more traffic already than some of my old sites that I have been working on for years. Indeed on the oldest site that I ever built (that I still own), has received no attention from me in months, but I entered nine articles into this system and that site’s Alexa ranking has improved by more than 120,000 positions. I can’t attribute that traffic growth to anything other than those nine articles–and the system that distributed them.
I’m quite pleased with the results so far, but I have been lax in my tracking. Only six days ago, I decided I should just keep records of the results, so I set up a spread sheet. During that six day period, the eight sites that I have promoted using this distribution network have risen in Alexa a cumulative total of over five million positions. I realize that Alexa is not the finest measure of progress, but I still think that’s a very strong indication of getting my money’s worth and then some.
I actually became so excited by the whole process that I have subsequently created four new blogs to join the over 10,000 websites that are eager publishers for the content that we writer-marketers provide.
I strongly suggest that you become a member of My Article Network. Oh, and for you affiliate marketers, yes you can become an affiliate after you join as a subscriber.
Don’t Omit Article Distribution Directly to Websites
Posted by Pedro in Internet Marketing on March 11, 2010
The most well known way to engage in article marketing is to post an article on an article directory. These directories will then make the content available for publication in websites whose webmasters happen to be searching for content on that particular directory. Nearly all of the best ranked directories will allow you to include one or more links back to your website, but those links are typically restricted to the author’s resource box, most often at the end of the article. This use of article directories has proven an effective marketing technique for years, and you should certainly continue using it. However, there is another approach to article syndication that you should use as well.
If, in addition to using article directories, you offer your valuable content directly to other websites who happen to be in your niche or a closely related niche, you will find certain additional benefits beyond those that come from limiting yourself to article directories. For example, you will be able to control which websites are publishing that content. You should select sites that have targeted, highly valuable traffic–that is, visitors similar to those that you want to reach in your marketing message. You can make sure that you have longer lasting search engine optimization (SEO) benefits by providing each website with unique content. You can make sure that it is unique by writing a fresh article for each or by thoroughly spinning articles in order to obtain far better results from just a little more time and effort. Still another advantage is that you can place the links to your website within the context of the article. Contextual links are reputed to have even greater SEO benefits than those within an author’s resource box.
In the usual method of direct distribution to websites, you would attempt to contact the individual webmasters by email, or, if you can locate a number, by phone in order to convince whomever reaches the publishing decisions at that website can be convinced of the mutual benefit of uploading your article. If your article is high quality, and if it is not too competitive with the site that you are approaching, you will be lucky sometimes. On many of your attempts, though, you will either be unsuccessful at reaching anyone or else they will not bother to reply. When they do reply, more often than you wish, they will decline your offer.
Another way in which you can directly distribute to individual sites is by means of a somewhat automated system, which distributes uniquely spun versions of your content directly to sites within your niche–sites which have already expressed interest in receiving articles such as those you offer. That is the way that a new system operates; that system is named My Article Network, which I have described in detail elsewhere.
In this unique cooperative, webmasters can enroll their sites without any charge. This assures that the network will always have a growing number of willing and ready websites available in almost any niche with which you would probably want to be associated (Note: There are no pornographic sites or sites that promote illegal activity.)
Whether you use the labor intensive method of contacting individual websites or the newer, simpler method, I recommend that all article marketers take advantage of the benefits of expanding your syndication plan beyond only the top tier article directories. I know from my own experiences that the benefits far outweigh the costs of the additional required effort.
The Smart Way To Succeed With Content Marketing
Posted by Pedro in Internet Marketing on January 29, 2010
Content marketing is the best way to establish authority online, constantly increase the quantity and quality of the visitors you get to your sites, improve your site ranking and generate more cashflow if you are committed to this strategy. Adding every day relevant and valuable content is the best way to build trust and loyal redearship of your site. If you don’t have a highly visited site on the net, pretty much you don’t have a stable business online.
Unfortunetely, the majority of business owners tend to put off with content creation. Logically you may understand how greatly beneficial the strategy is to your ultimate success online, but practically you stay on the same place. Here are some tips to help you be much more productive.
Understand the reasons behind your strategy.
Having a perfect clarity about what is it that you want to accomplish with your content creation strategy is absolutely essential. Have a big vision and plan well. It must be something you are very passionate about so that the process of writing becomes very easy.
Engage your subconsious mind
Deep down inside you already know all the answers. You can right now create an unlimited abundance of great content. We get so busy at times anaylizing different options and thinking so we jump from task to another and thus loosing the focus. What you want to do instead is sit queitly and concentrate on just the task of creating a valuable content. Tap into the power of your subconscious as it contains all the data you gathered in your whole life. Brainstorming is a wonderful way to begin the content creation process.
Just share your knowledge and be genuine
You can easily write from your unique position and add content over the key ideas you pulled out of your subconscious mind. If yuo hesitate and procrastinate on doing it probably you are judging yourself too much. Write with joy, with a lot of energy in your words as though you write to your best friend.
Be inspired
Although it is important to follow the basic guidelines of search engine optimization philosophy, be sure you are writing from a place I call inspiration. The whole objective of content marketing is to add value so this is where you want to focus. Ideally, you want to be both inspired and keyword focused. What I do is I tell myself each and every morning as I get up that today I’m going to share some very insightful information with everybody.
Originality is power
You only limited by your own imagination when it comes to content creation. Most bloggers just rewrite other people’s content thus adding no real value to the net. Others blatantly copy the content. I encourage yuo to come up with totally unique your content. First of all you will become much more creative and knowledgeable about the subject. Secondly, the search engines will love you. Finally, people will much more trust you. It is easy to create your content. It is all comes down to your mindset.
Be consistent
You should make everything that is worthwhile to your business as a new habit of yours. It will absolutely transform your business if you will do it every single day. Never forget that you have a vision that is bigger than yourself. Commit to your online success.
Seven Weeks In and Traffic Mounts
Posted by Pedro in Internet Marketing on December 14, 2009
I have some data to report, but first let me provide a little background. Almost fifty days ago, I made the wise choice of becoming a member of an article marketing service. I don’t literally know the man who owns this service, but I think he should let me borrow it for my next vacation].
Due to my many prior experiences with this boy genius (well, he’s not really that young), I was confident that the service would accomplish for me what it promised: An innovative way of distributing my articles. Like any Internet marketer, I could always use more traffic, and is there anyone who isn’t on the look-out for a way to add external links pointed toward our virtual real estate? My primary approach for achieving both of these goals is distributing content to article directories.
In the past, most of my subtly promotional articles have gone to article directories, but this new network offers some important advantages over article directory submissions. For example, I can now put my links directly into the body of the article rather than assigning them to a resource box. That’s something that most article directories don’t allow, but I know that it is more effective for both traffic generation and for search engine optimization. Second, the articles go directly to websites for publication, sites that are in my niche or a closely related niche. Once again, great for traffic and SEO. I can also put an affiliate link directly into the article if I choose, another “no-no” with article directory syndication. Perhaps the greatest advantage is this: The system has a built in article spinner so that if I prepare my articles well, each website that receives my article can publish a unique version of it (essential for any SEO gains).
Let me tell you what my membership has helped me achieve in the less than seven weeks that I have been a member. I’ll present just a few of my results regarding my relationship with My Article Network.
You need to realize that the system gradually distributes articles to websites, so every article I’ve submitted so far is still yet to be published on some of its sites and other articles have just begun. I have written not quite sixty articles for the system, so far–all very well spun. Over 1900 web pages now consist of my unique versions of those articles. I am allowed to insert up to three links in each article, but I vary the number of links, so I estimate that the sites I have been promoting have added a cumulative total of around 4000 external links. Of course many of those are so new that they haven’t been picked up by the search engines, yet. In other words, a lot of the work that I’ve put into this distribution already will reach the maximum benefit months down the road.
About half the articles are directed toward my newest site, which I just started building three months ago. From the first time I noticed it in the Alexa rankings (after I had joined this network) it has climbed over two million positions! I’m a bit embarassed to admit it, but the new site gets more traffic already than some of my old sites that I have been working on for years. Indeed on the oldest site that I ever built (that I still own), has received no attention from me in months, but I entered nine articles into this system and that site’s Alexa ranking has improved by more than 120,000 positions. I can’t attribute that traffic growth to anything other than those nine articles–and the system that distributed them.
Okay, if you like those numbers, take a look at this. Only six days ago, I decided I should just keep records of the results, so I set up a spread sheet. During that six day period, the eight sites that I have promoted using this distribution network have risen in Alexa a cumulative total of over five million positions. Not bad for six days.
I became so enthused, I actually started four new blogs just to take advantage of all the free content that is available in this system. By the way, adding websites is free; maybe that explains why there are over 10,000 sites in the system ready to publish articles!
I strongly suggest that you become a member of My Article Network. Oh, and for you affiliate marketers, yes you can become an affiliate after you join as a subscriber.
Want To Boost your Business Credibility? Start Article Marketing
Posted by Pedro in Internet Marketing on October 4, 2009
A vital element of a successful venture constituent is being able to offer yourself or your brand as an expert in your own field or niche. If you’ve got an internet business and need to fire up real footfall to your website, enhancing your ROI and your credibility in your slice of the market, make article marketing a part of your internet marketing methodology.
Article promotion on the web is a facinating employment of a tried and tested marketing system as dated as media themselves. For years , firms wanting to reach customers with information about their goods and services have used written articles, distributed free to paperspapers. This plan benefits all parties involved the newspaper has further content in its pages, while the biz can develop itself as an authoritative purveyor of its goods and services. In this regard Jamie Lewis & Letian Liu have you covered as their DigiBizPro Review is well recieved in terms of being a quality product and tool. For instance, a law office could market itself by manufacturing articles on the benefits of having an attorney make your will and offer the article to the close by paper. Content promoting online works in a simmilar fashion, sustain content for publishers and another marketing gizmo for an advertiser.
To use article marketing as a part of your web marketing strategy, here are a few tips to consider :
1. Keep on topic a common aberration in bum marketing is for the columnist or writers to go past the subjects relevant to the site for which they are writing. Make sure you know, this is a business application! Manufacturing content on items that are only a little related, or perhaps not related, to the core subjects will erode your credibility as a professional in your niche. Remaing on the relevant subjects also increases the chance of your content being higher placed in search site date.
2. SEO awareness of SEO and use goodpractices will help place your articles more highly in search website data. When you start writing your articles, ask what KW’s, phrases, or search terms folks are probably going to place on Google, Yahoo, Bing, or another search site and assimilate those terms into your articles. You can, sometimes have too much of a good thing. Use good search phrases and phrases, but their uses should not be forced, as doing so destroys the standard of your content. Using appropriate search terms is crucial, but manufacturing a well-written professional article is supreme.
3. Strike out , Edit and Revise An old saying about writing holds that there’s no writing, but only re-writing. Do not make the error of amateur article marketers; that is, to renounce quality of contents to their volume. There’s enough badly written internet articles out there without adding to it. Quality, professional content means concentrating to details. This suggests reading, rereading, editing and rephrasing. Learn from the quality of other marketers content like DigiBizPro Review to have a proper idea of what is needed. One thing more do not trust your computer’s spell checker to find all your mistakes.
4. Be informative, But Summary you may have a wealth of data on the niche that your biz serves, but content starring lengthy blocks of text that require in depth scrolling on screen are all but certain to scare away readers, also known as your future customers. Articles in the 400- to 800-word range are a helpful guideline. D
o not forget to reinforce readability by trying such graphical methods as subheadings and bullet lists.
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Article marketing And internet marketing Go hand in hand
Posted by Pedro in Internet Marketing on October 3, 2009
Online marketing and article promoting aren’t the same thing, because internet marketing is a broad concept with many smaller ideas beneath it, and bum marketing is one of those smaller sides of internet marketing. The reason why these 2 ideas go hang in hand is because no web marketing campaign is complete without some kind of article marketing. Internet marketing and article promotion go hand in hand because using articles to market your brand, your website or your associate products is vital in creating a total net selling solution.
There are numerous different types of online marketing that you can take advantage of to get their name out there. You should know that most forms of online marketing have costs of some type because advertising isn’t free. That is, advertising isn’t free unless you are advertising through article marketing. This unique form of promoting was preferred long before ecommerce was a large thing. For as long as mass print techniques have been available, companies have been selling themselves thru article creation, by offering something valuable to print medium like widely read newspapers in exchange for a byline or a little advertisement. When it come to ecommerce and internet marketing, bum marketing is a superb means for getting information out there and making powerful links back to your website or affiliate products.
When it comes to article marketing, there are numerous benefits and features to think about. In order to fully appreciate and run a succesful online business you will need to consider other aspects including your websites and overall plan of action. With DigiBizPro these aspects of your business would be taken care of so that you can concentrate on what really matters
– This form of promoting creates tough links from high PR websites back to your website or affiliate products. The more backlinks you have moving towards to your website from alternative sources, the more powerful your website will be in search engine page listings like Google.
– By providing price in the content that you create, you will be building yourself as a respected authority on the keywords, niches or subjects that you are writing about. When readers know they can count on you for real, truthful info, they’re going to keep coming back for more.
– By including a byline or resource box to your articles you’ll be giving possible clients a way to contact you after liking your valuable content. Not merely will this create strong links, but it will also help connect extra traffic to your site that you wouldn’t routinely be in a position to get.
– By creating written content optimized for search engines you’ll be improving your general traffic and even your overall PR by submitting to content sites with high pageranks and authority.
For these reasons, it is absolutely vital that article marketing be an aspect of any net promoting plan that you put together. While there may be a variety of different ways to promote your net site, one of the most powerful is to use valuable, easy to read article content with an action call for readers who appreciate your work to go to your internet site for more info, products, a newsletter, and so on and so on.
If you need more information on Article Marketing you can get this at my blog.
The Traffic Benefits of the New Approach to Article Distribution
Posted by Pedro in Internet Marketing on July 18, 2009
I have some real data to share, but first let me provide some background with you. Seven weeks ago I joined an content distribution service. While I don’t actually know the guy that designed this remarkable tool for online marketers, I honestly feel as if I do, because I have heard his voice on so many training videos about how to use the many products and services I have purchased from him. I’m sure I must be sending a kid of his to college, but he’s too young to have kids that age..
Due to my many prior experiences with this boy genius (well, he’s not really that young), I knew that this new concept would give me what I was looking for: An entirely unique, effective approach to content marketing. Like any Internet marketer, I could always use more traffic, and who among us is not constantly looking for fresh one-way external links. My primary approach for achieving both of these goals is distributing content to article directories.
In the past, most of my subtly promotional articles have gone to article directories, but this new network offers some important advantages over article directory submissions. For example, I can now put my links directly into the body of the article rather than assigning them to a resource box. That’s something that isn’t allowed in most article directories, but contextual linking offers greater benefits in terms of search engine optimization and traffic maximization. Also, rather than being filtered through an article directory, my articles in this system can go directly to a website that is specifically related to my niche. As with the previous benefit, that helps with regard to both traffic and SEO. I can also put an affiliate link directly into the article if I choose, another “no-no” with article directory syndication. Fourth, the distribution system has a built in article spinner, so that the version of the article that each website publishes can be unique.
Let me tell you what my membership has helped me achieve in the less than seven weeks that I have been a member. Here are just a few of the highlights of my experience with My Article Network.
You need to realize that the system gradually distributes articles to websites, so every article I’ve submitted so far is still yet to be published on some of its sites and other articles have just begun. I have written not quite sixty articles for the system, so far–all very well spun. Unique versions of those articles now appear on over 1900 pages on the web. I have between one and three links in each article, so I estimate that the sites I have been promoting have added a cumulative total of around 4000 external links. Obviously, it will require additional time for some of those links to be noticed by the various search engine. Some of my links are actually pointed at other of my articles published on article directories and some of the sites in the system to give them a little more “link juice.”
About half the articles are directed toward my newest site, which I just started building three months ago. Alexa couldn’t even find that site when I first joined this system, and now it has climbed in the Alexa rankings more than two million positions. In fact, it gets more traffic than some of my sites that have been around for quite a while. For example, I have done nothing to my oldest site (no pages added, no new SEO, only 9 articles in this system pointing at it), and it has jumped 120,000 positions. I can’t attribute that traffic growth to anything other than those nine articles–and the system that distributed them.
I’m quite pleased with the results so far, but I have been lax in my tracking. Only six days ago, I decided I should just keep records of the results, so I set up a spread sheet. During that six day period, the eight sites that I have promoted using this distribution network have risen in Alexa a cumulative total of over five million positions. I realize that Alexa is not the finest measure of progress, but I still think that’s a very strong indication of getting my money’s worth and then some.
I actually became so excited by the whole process that I have subsequently created four new blogs to join the over 10,000 websites that are eager publishers for the content that we writer-marketers provide.
I urge you to check out My Article Network. Yes, you affiliate marketers out there, you can become an affiliate–after you join the article distribution service.
An Effective Alternative Approach to Article Syndication
Posted by Pedro in Internet Marketing on July 18, 2009
The most common way to engage in article marketing is to post the content on an article directory. A top tier directory will make these posted articles available to webmasters for publication, if those webmasters a) happen to use that directory, b) search for one of your keywords and c) don’t find your article to pose a competitive threat. Nearly all of the best ranked directories will allow you to include one or more links back to your website, but those links are typically restricted to the author’s resource box, most often at the end of the article. That is a time honored and reasonably effective way to promote your site. You should also be aware, though, of another way to get your articles out to non-directory websites.
If, in addition to using article directories, you offer your valuable content directly to other websites who happen to be in your niche or a closely related marketing area, you will discover that its possible to obtain even greater results than if you submit only to article directories. One additional benefit is that you will be able to exercise some control over who publishes your article. You should select sites that have targeted, highly valuable traffic–that is, visitors similar to those that you want to reach in your marketing message. You will find that your search engine optimization (SEO) benefits that accrue from your article marketing efforts will be improved and, especially, longer lasting if you provide each website with a unique piece of content. You can determine that each site’s content is unique by writing a different article for each site or (more efficiently) carefully spinning articles in order to obtain far better results from just a little more time and effort. Perhaps most importantly, your links back to your own website can be placed within the article with carefully crafted (and spun) anchor text. Contextual links are reputed to have even greater SEO benefits than those within an author’s resource box.
In the usual method of direct distribution to websites, you must contact individual websites, hope that the webmasters will actually read your email (or answer your phone call, if you are lucky enough to locate a phone number) and persuade the decision makers that it is to their advantage to accept the free content that you are offering. If your article is high quality, and if it is not too competitive with the site that you are approaching, you will be lucky sometimes. On many of your attempts, though, you will either be unsuccessful at reaching anyone or else they will not bother to reply. When they do reply, more often than you wish, they will decline your offer.
Another way in which you can directly distribute to individual sites is through an automated distribution system that distributes spun versions of your articles directly to niche specific sites who have expressed a positive interest in receiving free content. Such is the foundation of a relatively new service called My Article Network, which I have reviewed elsewhere.
Webmaster can register their sites for free in this consortium. That means that you should always have a niche-related publisher awaiting your next submission. (Note: There are no adult content sites or sites that encourage illegal activity.)
Whatever method of direct-to-website distribution you choose, I strongly urge all article syndicators to broaden distribution beyond the usual top ranked directories. I know from my own experiences that the benefits far outweigh the costs of the additional required effort.