Day 25: Why Your Bum Marketing Sucks
Or rather,
How to Dramatically Increase The Results
You Get from Article Marketing…
Bum marketing is another fancy name for article marketing. Of course the focus is on long tail keywords. Before I can explain How you can put your article marketing on steroids.. You have to first learn about bum marketing.
Here are the basics of bum marketing (Marketing with articles).
1. You write articles based on Long Tail keywords: Keywords that have 3 or more words in them are basically your long tail keywords. If you focus on these keywords you’ll have less websites to compete with.
2. You direct all the traffic to your affiliate page (Basically a review page for affiliate products you are promoting). You use top article directories like ezinearticles.com or classified ads site like usfreeads.com
3. You bank your commission.
This is your basic Bum marketing method. Of course you can other factors into play like Using classifieds to craigslist to yahoo answers. There are tons of ways you can use to bring traffic.
How Spending 5 Minutes extra in your Bum Marketing can Double your results?
Interesting claim that, isn’t it?
Well, there are many ways you can improve your results. People have written and sold few reports on these techniques. Techniques like using squidoo, or use different classifieds lists or using blogs.
Of course all of this helps in one way or another. Moreover if you consider following a simple plan as this it’s great way to make some money without spending too much.
Well I am not going to talk about all these techniques.
I want to give you some food for thought. Something that you can use to build your marketing with your skills…
Lets say if Writing article takes X amount of time and it produces Y results.
X= Y
What if we add few changes which you can finish in 5 minutes and it has potential to double your results
X+5 = 2y
Now if you spend 5 more minutes, You can literally tripple your results.. Isn’t that right?
X+5+5=3Y
Now of course they are other variables and factors that will be counted. But we are taking it as bigger picture. This is the kind of thing that produces powerful results if you can apply it properly.
Your 5 Precious Minutes
You are going to write an article anyway, so what harm is in spending an extra 5 minutes. Ok ok, I won’t create more suspense.
Here are the steps you can follow on daily basis.
1. Write your articles based on long tail keywords.
2. Now use other long tail keywords based on the article and re-write 40% of article. Now I don’t believe in duplicate content but according to some SEO experts 40% of content changes will take care of all this duplicate content problems.
In this I suggest you to target different keywords based on same article. For example, Once I wrote an article on “how to lose your beer belly”. I found after some researching I can use “How to lose your gut” and other variations like “how to lose tyre around the midsection”.
Now this helped me target 3 different keywords variations with one article. All I needed was to change my keywords and some of the content tone.
How much it took me? Less than 5 minutes.
So think of ways to implement this idea which doesn’t take much time anyways. You are create more articles, targeting more keywords and create more ways to get exposure to your website.
3. Here you can submit these articles and implement the rest of bum marketing method as you wish. I know some people use squidoo or craigslist to add some omph in bum marketing… Implement those steps.
4. Do this on daily basis. In just few minutes per day you can get 3 times the result of your hard work. Isn’t that better?
In fact if you think of this technique, You can implement something like this in quite a few of the marketing process. That’s why I writing such a big post to explain something as simple as this.
We talked about leverage, this is one of the ways you can get leverage on your existing content. Can you implement in other ways? YES, you are only limited by your own imagination.
Now, What you are doing? Go and put some OMPH in your marketing.
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Tag & Ping : Is This the Secret Behind Getting Traffic?
Day 24 Is here… Today, we’ll look at Tag and Ping Secrets.
There is a very good chance you might have heard about this and scratched your head about it. About a year ago, tag and ping was touted as “The Secret” to getting loads of traffic. Now like always, tons of people tried this game of tag and ping without understanding anything about it.
If you think tag and ping is your untold secret key to truck loads of dollars, think again. Why? Because all of these people who thought like you bought into this trend and tagged and pinged the heck out of their blogs. All of them ended up over abusing this simple technology. Exactly same happened with blog and ping when it was made it to local marketing news.
So today, I’ll break lots of myth surrounding this secret and enlighten you. Tag and ping started with the thought of sharing, Yes, its about social bookmarking. What you can do is choose n pick your keywords and then save it under your social bookmarking websites.
It helps with these sites organize and check out which keywords were tagged recently or popular.
So to make it short, the definition of tagging is “The act of tagging a web site or blog with one of the services like technorati, del.iocio.us, flurl etc”.
Now let me explain what exactly is tag and ping. I’ll try to make it easy for you.
For example, if I am writing this post under tags “tag and ping”. I’ll create a tag with “tag and ping” keyword and the social bookmarking sites will know about it’s activity with tag and ping method. Now if you check that particular bookmarking site and click on the tag, you’ll find all the posts and webpages that are saved under that tag.
Now blogs have an inbuilt facility which is called pinging which basically alerts blog search engines about its updating. If you include tagging with this facility you’ll get Tag and ping. This is what it’s called tag and ping.
These posts can be belonged to you or anyone else who have shared the same tags.
The after effect of these techniques is that you can get your blog pages indexed faster. Plus you can create an authority site network just by tagging. More tag that links to your blog page, higher the authority of it will be for search engines. In non geek talk, this basically means lots of links back to your website and good rankings.
Now The question arises how can you utilize the information?
First of all what you can do is use few keywords that you want to target. Now you have to create tags for bookmarking websites. You can target either just a couple of those or may be use all of them. My recommendation is to select only couple of them (social bookmarking sites) and target them.
For example here is code for tagging technorati.
Marketing.
Here is a way to tags using your blog URLs:
<*a href=”http://www.yourblog.com/[tagname]” rel=”tag”>[keyword]<*/a>
(remove asterisks in actual code)
Example:
<*a href=http://www.Yoursite.com/Internet+marketing rel=”tag”>Internet Marketing<*/a>
You can do like this for almost any number of social bookmarking sites or keywords. There is no such restrictions on that, but you can always go overboard. So keep that in mind. Don’t tag spam.
Any ways if you think coding is headache then you can use either http://www.keotag.com/tagger.php to create tags for you. This little tool will help you if you don’t have plug-in for tagging.
Or you can use wordpress plug-ins if you use wordpress blog platforms. WordPress has Ultimate Tag Warrior Plugin: This plugin will help you create tags for your major sites like technorati, icerocket etc. Again this is a must have plugin for your blogs.
You can download this plugin at http://www.neato.co.nz/archives/2007/06/30/ultimate-tag-warrior-fin-the-end/
Now armed with these tools you can easily create back links whenever you post a new posts. My strategy is to focus on couple of keywords per post and update my blog more often. Normally I don’t like to go after Highly competitive keywords.
Use these tools and strategy to increase traffic. Don’t tag spam otherwise you’ll be just adding to existing problems. I’ll share some ideas in other article on tagging.
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