some random article marketing tips
Today I am going to post my thoughts & observation on article marketing. I hope this helps you in your traffic building efforts.
1. Results with ezinearticles.com : I have found great results with this website. No surprise there. In fact I am only submitting to this website to generate starting traffic into my website. Here are few things you should remember:
- It normally takes 3-5 days for your article to show up on their site. My turn around is around 3 days.
- Don’t submit your articles close to weekend(i.e thursday/friday). I have noticed it takes more time to get my articles moderated.
- Submit multiple articles at one go to get better results… I found if I submit 2-3 articles one after another. I get better results.
- Don’t use PLR or any other automatic generated articles.
- Use your keywords in your title (they’ll show up on search engines). But don’t go keyword stuffing in your articles.
- Add call to action in your resource box.
- Don’t submit your content from your own website/blog to them. For better results its better if you can submit unique content. Or you can edit 50% of your article and then submit it.
I hope these tips on ezine articles will help you in generating traffic to your website.
2. Mass submission: Mass submission also helps in some ways… but I’d not mass submit ezinearticles article. Nope… I’d create another article to mass submit. I found Isnare.com‘s services to be great. Though it takes time with their service (may be they are getting overloaded).
3. Duplicate content:What’s that? I am not worried much about duplicate content. My own goal using unique articles is very simple. I am piggy-backing ezinearticles reputation to get more visitors to my website. Nothing complicated.
4. Quality & Quantity : Like in my earlier post on “Does article marketing work“. I showed you, you have to submit many articles to generate traffic. With the way things are going, I am getting 160+ uniques /day (up from 42/day) with total of 6 articles submitted.
My goal is to submit articles daily for next 60-90 days… With the way things are going, I’ll increase my uniques more than 200+ in this month (hopefully around 300) . In 60-90 days you can get 500+ unique/day with proper article marketing in decent sized niche.
Again, traffic building has been touted as the “Secret art Only for Top guys”. But trust me its easy. I asked one of my friend about his recent niche website (content site). I asked him “How much traffic he’ll be able to get”. His answer was “In six-8 months, I’ll able to get 1000 unique per day”. His only technique is Link building.. that’s it.
Remember guys, its about learning and applying your techniques. I use Article marketing or blogging, My friend uses link building, another one uses forums and classifieds. Its not magic, it’s effort. We put more effort than our competitors than we let on.
The Easiest way to make killing on internet
Last year I trained someone on how to make killing with internet marketing. I was talking to this guy, he is another Indian I met by chance. He was telling me, how easy it is and How stupid he was to never listened(actually follow) to do things I told him to. If he had done earlier what I told him to, he’d be stinking rich by now…
Now the story behind all this is very simple… He asked me about the Easiest way to make money on internet. And I Told him the secret. For first 7 months he didn’t do what I told him to. Then one day in frustration he finally tried it.
When he did, he was able to generate $4800 in one week. Thats 7 days. thats 685$ a day. Oh did I told you, No list, No JV’s etc.
Don’t you think thats crazy??? and all this time he was saying how what I am saying is hardest thing to do… But You know sometimes the hardest paths are easy to follow. He finally found out.. I guess he’s not going back to other ways any soon.
Actually he was not wrong, I, myself used to think that this might be the toughest thing to do. I think he could have made some more as I was able to find many mistakes he did in those 7 days.
Don’t you think thats amazing. Though I believe he could have made more if he was prepared.
So today I am going to share This Hard Path with you. Do you know what it is?
Its very simple. You create a product and sell it.. HuH..!!!??? Don’t believe your ears?
But lemme comment on the Easiest Path. You see people tends to believe that If they are creating Adsense Sites they don’t have to work as hard as making a product.
Listen to me, The method which you used to create adsense sites is not at all different than create products and marketing it. Lemme give you a fast overview on the both methods.
Adsense Creation method :
Discover niche -> Find Keywords -> Generate Content -> Write Articles -> Optimize articles -> Bring traffic -> Monetize traffic.
Product marketing Method :
Discover niche -> Find Keywords -> Generate Content -> Create Product -> Set up an autoresponder -> Bring traffic -> Monetize traffic.
You see there is no difference. In place of writing articles you are creating a product. And in place of optimizing articles you are putting up autoresponder on your site. If you want to know how to create instant products then read my earlier post on “Creating product is easy”
For the same traffic, you can get better rewards with Product Marketing. As You’ll have many chances to sell it to your visitor (if you are creating your subscribers list).
So How to go about Marketing a Product?
Today I am going to give you some thoughts about this kind of marketing. and then We’ll start the series based on this topic. I’ll be discussing finer details of the steps involved. So Here you go…
If you create a product based on what you like, or what you think people will like, you will be extremely lucky to sell one single copy, and you’ll probably have to bribe the person to buy it!
By finding a small segment of a much larger market in which people are actively buying, and where there are not too many competitors, is the best chance you have of making money from selling your own product.
The only way to create niche products or services that become best sellers is to discover what your potential customers want.
What problems are they facing that you can solve.
What pain are they experiencing that you can soothe.
You have to uncover your potential customers needs, their pain, even their dreams and aspirations.
There are some ways to get this information…
- Use the search engines to find a number of forums related to the niche your’re interested in.Visit these forums regularly and find out what questions people are asking and how often they are asked.
- The same question asked by many different people on many different forums is a possible topic for your product or service.
- If you own an opt-in email list, send a brief survey to your subscribers to discover the problems they are facing.
- If a common problem emerges from your survey, providing the solutions to this problem is a possible topic for your product or service.
- If you don’t own an opt-in email list, you could send a solo advertisement to a few ezines with a large subscriber base and invite people to take part in your survey by offering a useful reward for their participation.
- If you own a website which receives a lot of traffic, you could use a popup to invite people to your survey.
Wordtracker.com is one of the most useful research tools on the internet. You can use it to uncover what people are searching for on the internet.Not only that, you can use it to find out how often people search for different topics. It is a great tool for discovering niche markets.
On its own, Wordtracker is unlikely to point you to your next best seller, but when used in conjunction with surveys you have a very powerful research tool.
Private Label Rights is by far the quickest method of creating your own product. The only real disadvantage is other people will be using the same content as their own, so if you use the contents “as is” you won’t have a unique product.
Do a search for public domain products and once you have found one purchase a copy and have it digitized (made into an e-book). Matt Furey has made million dollars from one of the public domain product.
If a product is in the public domain, it means the copyright on it has expired and you are free to use the contents.
You can copyright your new digitized product, meaning nobody can sell copies in that particular format.
There are many ways to start off your own business on Internet. But You need to have a Blueprint or a method which can help you start properly. If you look around this blog, then you know I have even shared simple blue prints too.
I guess that’s it for today. This is very simple step but really powerful if you implement.
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Traffic : The Elusive Secret.
This is one of my old newsletter issue. I thought this issue would be really helpful for you. So I am reprinting it here… N`joy.
In some of my previous Newsletters you have learnt a lot about Creating sites, creating Virtual Real Estates (VRE’s), indexing your sites. So I thought Today I should talk about Getting traffic.
In my “Site Book”, I have a complete equation for getting traffic and it looks really complicated, but it is not.
Lets say You have been a good student and have done exactly what I taught you. You have researched your keywords, SEO-ed your web pages and written good content. This is what we call On Page Optimization. Which is basically in our hand.
Now I am going to talk about Off Page Optimization techniques like Back Links.
There are basically many ways you can get back links ie link exchange, paid links, article marketing etc etc…
My favorite way to get links in Link exchanges and Article Marketing. Well sometimes I use press releases too. But Link exchanges and article marketing tops for me./span>
Link exchange : There are many portals which lets you list your sites and exchange links with others. Now I suggest you guys to get links from related sites first as much as possible. But if you get asked for a link exchange from un-related sites, Don’t shy away.
You can give links to un-related sites too. No worries. People often ask me/tell me, their sites will get banned if they link to un-related sites.
If you need to avoid links then Do not link to bad neighbourhood. Check out sites for scrapped content, junk content or sites that are using Black Hat SEO techniques. Do not link to them.
Anyways, Lets talk more about Link exchange. You see whenever I ask anyone for a link exchange or someone asks me for an exchange. I always give them better option than a normal link exchange.
I ask them either for an Article Exchange + Normal Link exchange on Links pages Or
I ask them for Link on their internal articles as my site is related + Normal link exchanges.
Or
I ask them all of the above.
Now why Do I ask this? Well you can guess, any links coming from inside the site is better than coming from just links section. It has more value.
And you know what? No one till date has declined my offer to link exchange in this fashion as they also knows that this is good for their sites too. Understand it by looking at the image.
Scenario 1 is what Everyone does>
Scenario 2 is What I do.
Click on the image to get better View.
Now I have 3 incoming links from my sites. Of course I also give them links. What else I do is, sometimes I ask them to link to my specific pages rather than just home page. You can check the 3rd scenario.
Here you can see I am also getting 2 links to my Sub Section 1.
Now this is something that 95% of webmasters don’t do. It has helped me in getting not only good PR but also good traffic.
Another Important thing to take note is about the keywords you use to get link backs. I always vary the relevance of the keywords while getting link back.
Let me explain. Lets say You are using Keyword as “Weight Loss Diet”. Most often people will use this as a link to get link back. If you have your complete keyword anchored then it basically means it have 100% relevance.
Your code will look like this <a href=”yoursite.com”>Weight Loss Diet</a> 100% Keyword relevance.
If you write something like this <a href=”yoursite.com”>Help With Weight Loss Diet</a> Your Keyword relevance is 60%.
All these figures are basically rough calculation for you to understand. Relevance also counts where you keywords figure in the link.
This is where I love SEO Elite. You know when you are doing competitive analysis. You can check what keywords your competitor is using to get link backs. I check my competitors back links and try to get more than them.
ie. If they have 20 back links then I’ll take any random number above 20 and then try to get back links for them. I know other folks doesn’t use this odd method like I do… Everyone have their own methods. But I am just sharing this with you to get an idea on How to work on getting back links.
Phew… We are almost finished with this.
Before I close, I have one last thing to say. Be Consistent. You see I always see questions in forums like “How fast I should get links? What is the magic number for getting link back in a month?”
Well there is no such magic number. All you need to do is be consistent in your method. Keep working on getting links. If you are doing 100 links in a month, then keep getting those links every month…
Only 1 thing to note here is Try to improve your link profile. In your back links you should have links from as many resources or types as you can find. that means include press releases, article marketing, paid links, blog links, directory links etc.
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