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3 Article Marketing Strategies

3 Ways To Use Article Marketing

After posting my article marketing strategy the other day here at PotPieGirl.com I realized that perhaps we need to talk about article marketing in general. There are 3 “types” of article marketing strategies – each accomplish something different and are done differently. When trying to make money online it is important to understand each type of article marketing, what each does to help your online business, and be clear about why you are writing articles in the first place. Let’s talk about the three unique styles of article marketing so you can choose which strategy will be best for you.

Understanding How Article Marketing Works

The term “article marketing” can mean many things and each can have a different result when done properly. The problem is, that term “article marketing” is all bunched together into one lump concept and it causes a LOT of confusion.

The 3 main types of article marketing are Direct Article Marketing, Article Marketing for Traffic, and Article Marketing for Backlinks.

Let’s look at each one.

1. Direct Article Marketing

Direct article marketing is the process of putting your articles online and having each article link directly to the page that makes you money. In other words – the link goes straight to the sales page via your affiliate link.

In that graph, A= your article and $= the page that makes you money (the sales page).

In short, you are writing articles with the sole intention of getting people to read your articles and click straight through via your affiliate link to the page that makes you money. In most cases, this is the sales page – but in all cases it is the page you want the reader on because that is the last step before they buy something.

Pros of Direct Article Marketing

1. Easy.
First off, direct article marketing is easy… not just easy to do, but it’s easy to understand and perfect for those that are new to this whole “make money online” thing.

2. Free.
You can do direct article marketing for no cost what-so-ever.

3. Uncomplicated.
This is one of those great techniques to make money online that is very basic. No need for a website, no need for a long, drawn out, and complicated learning curve. Just write, submit and go (and then repeat, repeat, repeat).

4. “Noise-Free”.
What I like about this technique is that it is not nearly as “noisy” as all the other things we can do to make money online. You don’t need other tools and learning programs… you don’t have to keep up with the “latest and greatest” – you just write on your own time and as often as you can. The more you write, the more you can earn.

Cons of Direct Article Marketing

1. A Lot Of Writing.
You need to write often and submit articles as often as you can. This is not a “write one article and get rich” thing by any means.

2. Affiliate Links.
Many good article directories will not allow the use of affiliate links in the articles they publish. There is a totally ok way to get around this, but it can cost a little bit (less than $10 a YEAR).

I have a completely free online course that teaches all about Direct Article Marketing and it teaches how to get around the “no affiliate link” rule that many article directories have.

If you are brand new to all this, or are just wanting a “no fuss, no muss – and no NOISE” way to work a few hours a day and make money online, this would be perfect for you.

The name of my free course is The DAM Way and you can find it at theDAMway.com

(and no, I’m not saying bad words… DAM stands for Direct Article Marketing )

2. Article Marketing for Traffic

Article marketing for traffic is a bit different. There is another web page involved that DOES allow affiliate links. This “other” page is called a “Landing Page”.

This Landing Page can be a page on your own website or a page on a free-to-use site (like Squidoo or Blogspot, etc). In short, you make a landing page and then write articles to push traffic to your landing page in hopes that those people will take whatever action your want them to take (ie, sign up for something, buy something, join your mailing list, etc). For this example, we will be writing articles to push traffic to a landing page that has our affiliate links.

In this graph – A= Your Article LP = Your Landing Page and $= The Sales Page

The immediate goal of this type of article marketing is to bring traffic to our landing pages. We put our articles on high-authority sites that are free to use because those sites rank well in Google. When someone searches in Google for the things we write about, they find out articles, click through the link and end up on our landing page. At this point (we hope) the reader clicks one of our affiliate links and buys something (earning us a nice juicy commission).

While we tend to write things in our article to encourage people to WANT to click and see our page, these articles are not promotional. They are general interest/informative articles that would appeal to someone who would be interested in the product we are promoting (same as Direct Article Marketing).

These articles CAN be used to help our landing pages rank better in Google if we make the links to our landing pages clickable words that we want our landing page to rank in Google for, but that is not the primary goal for writing these articles.

Pros Of Article Marketing For Traffic

1. Can be totally FREE.
You can do this entire system using all free sites.

2. Repeat Readers.
Enables you to build a readership for your blog.

3. Lists.
Also gives you the opportunity (if you want) to build a mailing list of your visitors so you can communicate with them long after they are gone from your page. Email marketing (list marketing) is a very powerful part of internet marketing.

4. Pre-Selling.
This article marketing strategy enables you to “pre-sell” readers on your product better than sending them straight to a sales page (like you do with Direct Article Marketing). You can review/compare more than one product, talk about your experience with a product or in a situation where someone might need that product… whatever, it just gives you more opportunity to connect with the reader.

Cons Of Article Marketing For Traffic

1. There aren’t any Cons.
Seriously, it’s a great technique that can be done for your own sites or with free-to-use sites. The more you write, the more traffic you can bring to your landing page. You don’t have to worry about getting around affiliate link usage either.

In fact, many people make a nice extra income (or more) from this simple strategy alone. Here is a video about a woman who makes over 100k a year doing this simple article marketing technique.

Article Marketing for Traffic using free sites is how I started making money online. The cost to start and do this technique is ZERO. Once you understand the basic concept of Direct Article Marketing taught in The DAM Way, you’ll be set to learn my way of using free sites to make money online.

I teach how to make money online using free websites and free techniques in One Week Marketing (OneWeekMarketing.com).

3. Article Marketing for Backlinks

The third type of article marketing is when you submit articles in order to receive backlinks to your web page and those backlinks help your web page rank better in Google and other search engines.

In this graph – A= Your Article, LP = Your Landing Page (lens, blog post, website, etc), SERPS = Search Engine Results Pages (ie, Google).

The primary purpose of this type of article marketing is to get backlinks to your web page from many different sources. We don’t particularly care if these articles rank well or if they bring us traffic. We want these articles to help OUR web pages rank well

The basic concept is that you write quality and useful articles on some topic that is related to the theme of your landing page. Within these articles (or in the author bio box) we are permitted to have links. We make those links clickable words that we want our landing page to rank in Google for.

The higher you rank in Google, the more organic (free) traffic your landing page will get. Theory is, more traffic means more sales.

Also, backlinks to your sites/landing pages help build authority and trust for your site/web page.

The “secret” is to get your articles syndicated to as many different sites as possible. We want as many links from as many different domains as we can get.

Now, this can be done with the exact same article all over tons of websites – but that is not the best idea in my opinion. I have done a LOT of article marketing for backlinks and have tried all kinds of ways to get my articles syndicated across the web.

Note: these articles are NOT monetized – meaning, there are no affiliate links or anything promotional about them. You are giving other sites free, quality articles to put on their site in exchange for a link (or links) to your site (or page).

I have narrowed down my own personal article marketing strategy that I use to gain back links and make my sites/web pages rank higher in Google. My system requires only ONE unique article…but gets you many, many quality backlinks from all over the web.

If you’d like to learn my article marketing for back links strategy, read this post here.

Summing It All Up

These are the 3 main types of article marketing and what each can achieve for you.

You can combine #2 and #3 so your articles both help bring you traffic AND help you rank better in Google. But #1 (Direct Article Marketing) is a system that is not used for any other purpose than to make money directly from your articles.

Many, many people ask me “Should I do…… {this, that or the other thing} when article marketing?” “Does article marketing work?” “What is the best way to {insert anything} with article marketing? etc etc etc.

My main answer is always – “WHAT do you want to achieve with your article marketing? What is your goal?”

Once you know your goal, deciding which article marketing strategy is best for you is easy.

Just pick one

One Last thing… If you haven’t gotten any of the cool free stuff that’s listed at the top of this post (in the red box) you might want to hurry and get it. All these cool pre-launch freebies will be gone starting tomorrow.

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Who Cares About Bing?

YOU Should! Here’s Why

Bing – I imagine you’ve heard of it? This new little search engine? If you’re like me, you probably don’t pay that much attention to it…. and you probably don’t worry about how you rank in Bing, either. Not much traffic comes from Bing, does it? They are small potatoes compared to the almighty Google, right? Yeah, well…. the days of ignoring Bing are just about over. There are some major changes rolling out now. Here’s what you need to know and what you need to do about it.

…and they lived happily every after….

Once upon a time, not so very long ago, Bing and Yahoo met…and decided to form a partnership – a search alliance.

They made an agreement to share resources and work together in an attempt to claim more of the online search market share that Google has dominated for years.

I didn’t think much about it when I was reading the details months ago. I knew it would have some impact, but it never crossed my mind that it would work out like this.

All this came to my attention when a fellow Wealthy Affiliate member asked in our private forum if anyone else was noticing major changes in their rankings in Yahoo.

Now, I’m gonna admit that I rarely check on my rankings in Yahoo. Whatever traffic I get from Yahoo is such a small percentage of my over-all traffic that it never concerned me all that much.

But, when the question was asked, I got to poking around online and found out something that really caught my attention.

It was recently announced that both Bing AND Yahoo
will be showing BING results in their search engines.

It is starting out now in their testing phase as they are incorporating a certain percentage of results from Bing into the results shown at Yahoo. If all goes well, I imagine the full change will be rolled out soon after. Now, the Yahoo blog has claimed that they might wait until after the holiday season to finalize this change, but who knows? I keep reading different thoughts and claims so as usual, we wait and see.

Now, Yahoo will still LOOK like the Yahoo we’re used to – and Bing will still LOOK like the Bing we’re used to…. but search results on BOTH sites will now be coming from Bing. This change is slowly rolling out. It’s been claimed that all US and Canada organic results will be fully powered by Bing (Microsoft) as soon as August or September. But again, I keep reading different time frames.

What Does This Mean To YOU?

The main response to this is usually, “So what? What does that mean to ME?“

Here’s what it means for you…

If you currently have good rankings in Yahoo, but NOT in Bing… kiss those Yahoo rankings good-bye. Whatever your ranking is in Bing will be what your new Yahoo ranking will be, too.

Considering Bing is so new and their index of the web is still so very small, it’s really possible that they don’t even KNOW about your site yet…and you won’t have any exposure or chance for organic traffic from Bing OR from Yahoo.

Great, huh?

But still, who cares, right? Google is the only search engine you need to worry about, right?

Well, yes…. and no.

What Does This Yahoo/Bing Alliance REALLY Mean?

They are going after market share… BIGGER market share. The online search business is BIG business…and the Bing/Yahoo folks want more of it.

Take a look at this chart from Comscore.com showing the market share for the top search providers online.

Google has a strong 62.6% share of all searches online. Even tho their share is down a bit for June 2010 that is still a LOT of searches going through their search engine.

Now look at Yahoo at 18.9% and Microsoft (Bing) at 12.7%. What’s gonna happen when those two search providers really start working together? I’ve read folks saying they expect the Yahoo/Bing alliance to achieve 30-35% of that online search market share very soon.

Now it’s making a bit of a difference, isn’t it? In my humble little opinion, if Bing gets it together, gets more of the web in their index and starts returning really good and relevant results, I bet they could get more than 35%. I’ve haven’t been a fan of search results from Bing.

In fact, I’ve barely paid any attention to them… until now.

Oh, wait, here is another interesting tid-bit. You know the search option on FaceBook? That is powered by Bing. It’s getting more interesting now, isn’t it?

Google SEO vs Bing SEO

Here is a really good video from WebProNews that talks about the differences in Google SEO and Bing SEO. It’s time to learn how to rank in Bing – because that will get you ranking well in Yahoo, too.

More WebProNews Videos

What To Do About It

We’ll talk more about the “how to rank in Bing” stuff in a moment, but first let’s talk about “Now What Do I DO About This Bing/Yahoo Thing?”

First, go to Yahoo and search for your keywords… compare them to how you rank in Bing. Whatever you see in the Bing results will be what you will soon see in the Yahoo results, too.

Are your rankings in Bing ok? If so, great! If not, you’ll need to do something about it.

As I mentioned earlier, Bing is still new – their index is still small with a LOT of web content still left to be discovered. If your site can’t be found in Bing at all, you need to tell Bing about it…help them find you.

There are a couple ways to do this.

How To Tell Bing About Your Site and/or Web Page

First, consider adding your site to the Bing webmaster tools. They are updating this area for webmasters in an attempt to…well, to get their index better and increase their market share =)

There is something called Microsoft Silverlight 4 which is this little application your install and then Bing webmaster tools is able to tell you a lot about your site from what Bing knows…and these stats can go back as far as 6 months. Things like indexed pages of your site, crawl stats, top search queries and click thrus, and the ability to help them find specific urls on your site that they haven’t found are all parts of the tools area for webmasters inside Bing.

The tools aren’t bad – not Google webmaster tools by any means, but it’s ok and they claim they will be adding more and more tools and stats inside the webmaster tool area as time goes by.

If you don’t want to add your site to their tools there are other options to be able to tell Bing about your site or web page to help them find it, crawl it, and add it to their index.

You can submit your site or url to Bing here. Simple form, not much to it. It won’t happen quickly, but at least you are headed in the right direction for trying to rank in Bing.

If you have an xml site map for your site, I highly suggest you submit your site map, too.

Submitting your site map to Bing is a bit different.

You need to copy the query string below, paste it into your browser, and then change the “www.YourWebAddress.com” part to the web address of YOUR site map.

http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?sitemap=www.YourWebAddress.com/sitemap.xml

Then, simply click “enter” like you were going to that web address. Bing will display a “thank you” message when it is complete. Complete instructions on how to submit your sitemap to Bing are here.

Ranking In Bing – How To Rank In Bing?

Right now, Bing seems to love pages on big sites that have lots of content. For example, Wikipedia pages sure seem to rank well in Bing which makes me think they like pages with LOTS of content and lots of links OUT.

Bing also seems to be liking many article directories and big content sites. And they seem to like older, more “aged” sites, too. In my testing I’ve seen many Wikipedia pages, articles on article directories, Squidoo lenses, eHow articles, news sites, and Blogger blogs ranking really well when, in my opinion, they might not be the best result for the query (just my personal opinion on that).

For a very popular and competitive phrase in our business, I saw TWO Blogger blogs ranking at the top in Bing – and neither of these two blogs show in the first two pages of a Google search for the same phrase. Odd – especially since Google OWNS Blogger/Blogspot.

While Google and Bing (and the current Yahoo) like keywords in the domain name – Bing seems to like hyphens a bit more than Google does. Again, just my observation…and the index at Bing is small and new so this is subject to change as their index size increases.

Bing also seems to not only love lots of content on a web page, but they seem to NEED it, too. In my niche site guide, I talked about a test I did with a totally BLANK website. Google loves it… the current Yahoo loves it…but Bing loves it NOT. There are no words to “read” to tell them what the page is about to help them decide how to rank it, I guess.

What About Backlinks… Does Bing Use Them To Rank Your Web Page?

Yes, Bing uses back links to rank your web pages in their index however, they don’t use them the way Google uses them as a ranking signal.

With Google, high-quality backlinks to your web page are really, really important – and they are one of the three most important ranking factors for Google (read about all three ranking factors for ranking in Google NOW here).

Google loves backlinks – it’s a major part of their patented Page Rank formula. The anchor text of your links plays a major part and so does getting links from .edu and .gov sites (read this to learn the easy way to find .edu sites and .gov sites for backlinks to your site).

Bing also likes backlinks, but Bing likes LOTS of links from LOTS of different domains. The anchor text of the link doesn’t seem to be as much of a factor, or a factor at all. I’m not quite sure Bing is “smart enough” to read anchor text of a text link and use it as a ranking signal for their index.

What they DO seem to do is count links from web pages that are on the same topic as the page being linked to. They seem to get that info from the words in the title tag of the page doing the linking.

For example, if you have a site about puppy training and someone links to YOUR site from their web page about dog training – regardless of HOW they links (click here, good anchor text, straight url…whatever), Bing seems to really value those kinds of links.

And again, they (Bing) seem to like LOTS of links from LOTS of different domains.

(that was a hint that they seem to like my article marketing strategy).

Here’s a little tip: As you find backlinks to your sites/pages, check and see if the url for the page linking TO you is already in the Bing index. If it’s NOT in the Bing index, submit it. That link won’t help your ranking in Bing if Bing doesn’t know about it.

How about another little tip?

Remember how I said I observed these different sites that Bing seems to really like right now? Try getting links on those sites to your web pages. Also, learn how to get links from .edu sites and .gov sites – I think those sites are considered authority sites that Bing will love, too.

For more tips on how to rank in Bing, Mark has a good blog post that you can read.

Focus On Bing SEO or Google SEO?

Bing is a different beast than Google… SEO and ranking are not the same.

We’ve talked about How Google works in this post (with a great flowchart type image to help understand it all)…and we’ve talked about Google’s latest big change, Google Caffeine, in this post called Google Caffeine – What It Means To YOU.

If you got this free report about how to rank in the “new” Google, then you know the 3 major factors that affect your Google rankings now…and how to make it all work for you. (by the way, that is a REALLY good free report. Be sure to print it out after you read it. It has a lot of info that you’ll want to keep at your fingertips like I do).

We talk a LOT about how to rank better in Google, but I’ve never talked before about ranking in Bing.

Last month (June 2010) Bing only accounted for 1.56% of my search engine traffic here at PotPieGirl.com – but so far this month, I’ve seen a nice jump in traffic from Bing…and I think it will continue this way. For some of my niche/info sites, Bing is already accountable for over 11% of my search engine traffic this month.

I think it’s time to start paying attention to Bing.

I’ll still be keeping my focus on ranking in Google, but I will start paying more attention to Bing ranking factors now, too. While one more thing to worry about is not overly welcome, when you’re in this business, you have to stay flexible and aware of what’s happening in the industry…and adjust accordingly.

Will YOU start paying more attention to optimizing for Bing traffic now?

Your thoughts?

I get some of the best questions from readers–here was one that came from an affiliate marketer:

I’m doing affiliate marketing with my articles, and I am using my own URL (a domain name that I bought) that is redirected to the merchant’s site. I am not noticing my URL in the search engines. Is it because my URL is redirecting to the merchant’s website? Do I really need a website with a landing page and content?

Read more on Article Marketing Strategy: If You’re Doing Affiliate Marketing, Do You Need A Real Website?…

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The Internet is a true blessing to stay-at-home moms and dads (let us certainly not leave these guys out) who wish to make money online to supplement their family’s cash flow. And possibly the best methods for any mom or dads to earn money from home online is through affiliate marketing online that is an easy and established money-making opportunity online.

Affiliate marketing is actually perfect for stay-at-home moms mainly because this can be a quite flexible way to make money online. Moms can do this any time of the day including during the night whenever their children already are sleeping or when all household chores are done. And unlike having a full time career, affiliate marketing online will not require 8 hours of one’s time every single day, 5 days weekly, leaving you the required time for the loved ones and for the things you want to complete. The basic exact same reasons this kind of business online is actually attractive to dads as well. Yet another good thing about affiliate marketing is that to make it happen it’s not necessary just about any special equipment apart from your personal computer as well as Connection to the internet. You also will not need any specific skills or even a history within advertising as well as business in order to get into affiliate marketing online.

Being a stay-at-home mom seriously isn’t a simple thing to be, specifically if you have more than a couple of youngsters. In fact, some people point out that becoming a stay-at-home mom is much like holding two jobs. This is why the ideal money-making activity with regard to stay-at-home moms and dads is one area that is certainly versatile and wouldn’t call for them to work for many parts of a full day. And also and here , affiliate marketing online comes in. Affiliate marketing can be a business that could be established hands free. In the beginning, you would have to spend effort and time in starting your internet affiliate marketing business. But after the mechanisms come in place, you’ll only need to devote several hours every week in maintaining your online business.

To the people new to this, affiliate marketing online will involve advertising the products or services of others in trade for a fee from sales made. Some people have already become profitable using affiliate marketing and they are generating 1000s of dollars from it every month. The versatility of affiliate marketing online including the actual relatively low funds necessary to enter this sort of business helps it be an extremely ideal money-making endeavor for those who need to devote time at home with their families as opposed to in an business office.

You do have a preference of being a part-time affiliate marketer as well as earn several hundred or so bucks to use in the household budget or maybe a full-time internet marketer and earn a substantial income that could afford these individuals higher economic stability. Eventually, just what affiliate marketing online offers to moms /dads could be the possibility to make money online whilst at exactly the same time allowing them to devote quality time with their children and families.

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My Article Marketing Strategy

One Article – 5 Steps – Tons of Backlinks

Article marketing for backlinks does NOT have to be a hair-pulling, confusing, punch your monitor experience. I have my own article marketing strategy that I use over and over…and it works pretty darn well. Know how many articles you need? One. Yes, just one good article is all you need to get through my simple 5 step article marketing process. Think you can do that? If so, keep reading and let’s walk through this step-by-step.

Article Marketing for Backlinks

Before we get going I want to make a few things clear.

1. This article marketing strategy is for the primary purpose of building back links. If these articles send me traffic, great – if they rank well, also great….but those are all bonuses. I want back links that help MY sites and web pages rank better in Google. That is the primary goal of this strategy.

If you are interested in doing article marketing to directly make money, read my free e-course, The DAM Way.

2. I will be talking about spinning articles. Do NOT freak out and think this is complicated, hard, or time consuming. The way I do this is NOT any of those things. I like things simple, remember? Why work harder than you need to?

Also, I am NOT going to even HINT at mass-submitting tons of spun crap onto the internet. If you’ve wandered the internet at all, you know exactly what I am talking about. These articles all read well and add value to the sites they are placed on.

3. I am NOT talking about submitting the SAME article all over the internet. I don’t believe in doing this – I also don’t believe in the “one massive blast of the same article and done” concept. I like a steady and LONG TERM drip of back links going to my sites and I like them to come from articles I am proud to have on the internet.

If the “one big blast of the same article everywhere” technique works for you – Great! I’m not a fan…and in the time it takes to do that, I can do my strategy which I feel works better for all involved.

4. I LOVE “Set and Forget” Strategies. This IS a “set and forget” article marketing process. After step one is done, you can do all the other steps in an hour or so….and then you don’t touch it for at least 4 months. BUT, this strategy WILL continue to drip links back to your content the entire time. THAT is what I like… a steady stream of backlinks being built and found – and I don’t have to do anything!

Ok, to sum up, we are learning article marketing for backlinks in a way that will improve our ranking AND add value to the internet (and not take hours and hours to do it). This is a “set and forget” process that takes a bit of your time NOW and will continue to be working FOR you for at least the next 4 months.

Let’s get started…we have a lot to cover.

Step 1 – One Good Article

Yep, that is all you need for my article marketing strategy – One Good Article.

And right now, I can feel the back button clicks start happening…

What?!??!? WRITE ?!?!?!? Me?!?! Nooooooooo, I can’t do that!

Yes you can. YES. YOU. CAN. Hear me?

What we want to do is write one really good article. We want this article to have it’s own unique title, be well-written, and be designed to also get click-throughs to our site/web page. About 400 words is fine.

If You REALLY Can’t Write – Or At Least THINK You Can’t Write…

Or, you just want a MUCH easier way to crank good articles out and do this article marketing process faster – take a look at this article writing software. Seriously, take a moment and watch the video to see what it does. It’s awesome, it’s fast, I have it, I love it (and it makes my article writer nervous because she thinks I won’t need her anymore…lol!).

So, if you can’t write, or want to write faster, use this software and get your really good article written.

Step 2 – Submit Article To Ezine Articles

The article you wrote is going to EzineArticles.com first. No matter what anyone says or thinks, EzineArticles is a top place to place your article for good rankings, traffic, good back links, AND the potential to have your article picked up and syndicated by other sites.

Write your one good article, submit it to EzineArticles.com and wait until it is published (very important – do not start step 3 until this article is live and online at EzineArticles.com)

This is the only article that we really DO want to rank and send traffic – and this article is the core component for the rest of the copy/paste steps.

Step 3 – Article Submission Service #1

Now that our one good article is published on EzineArticles, it’s time to move on to step 2. The rest of these steps can be done whenever you want to. I usually take an hour and do all of them at one time. It’s a bit of “copy/paste” but not a lot of WORK or brain power (just the way I like it…Can you tell I made this strategy for ME? hahaha!)

Now, take that article that is now published on EzineArticles and put it into this article submission service. You can have THREE links IN the content of articles for this service…and that is AWESOME!

So paste your article into the submit article area. Then, link it up the way you want. Now, use the built in “spin” tool to get your article to create a unique version each time it is published. It’s easy enough to do – there is a video that teaches you how.

Note: if you used this article writing software, you don’t need to spin again. Just copy the article from the software (with the spintax or whatever the coding is that makes it spin is called) and then paste it into this submission service.

Choose your categories, set how many to go out each day (I choose unlimited….that usually gets me a few each day) and the submit it.

Done.

Here’s why I like this submission service so much.

1. You get THREE in content links to your sites/web pages in each article. No resource box…no footprints. This service is not about getting your articles out there FAST, it’s about getting GOOD back links out there in a slow-drip fashion.

2. I have 80+ Sites in that network that RECEIVE content. So far, my sites have accepted and published almost 5,000 articles from OTHER PEOPLE. My sites are good – many have a good Page Rank…and I don’t accept articles that are not spun to a good uniqueness. I don’t want crap on my sites..and that works best for all of us.

My sites also pass ranking value well. (If you don’t know how to test to see if your article marketing strategy passes ranking value, read my niche site guide. There is a good way to test it). I have tested this service, I use it, I KNOW the sites *I* have in the network, and I feel very comfortable recommending it to others.

If you’d prefer another article network, you can try this one. It’s not quite as good and doesn’t have all the rank tracking and stuff that mine does, but it’s ok.

Ok, step 2 complete =)

Step 4 – Submission Service #2

This second submission service submits your articles in a unique version to a whole other big network of sites. It also “spins” the article a bit differently so you are contributing even more unique content on the internet.

BOTH of these services allow me to have many, many unique versions of my article title, too – and that is SUPER important to help you get the most out of this article marketing strategy. Lots and lots of unique titles, got it? (yes, that was a BIG hint)

This second service allows for TWO links in a bio box area, BUT you can also set it to have tons of versions of your bio box (and your anchor text)- also a VERY good thing.

Ok, so now have your article in Submission Service #1 open in one tab and the have the form to submit your article into submission service #2 open in another tab. (I have dual monitors/expanded desktop over two computer monitors – this is a BIG help for things like this, but don’t ask me how I managed to make it work. I think I beat my computer into submission…lol).

Now, at the bottom of the view article screen in service #1 there is a button that says “spin” – click it and a new version of your article will appear – highlight the article and then paste it into the place for the first version in service #2. Click “spin” again, and then paste that into the box for the second version, click “spin” again…and then paste into the box for the third version. (the second service takes 3 versions of an article and makes unique versions out of them. You can use their spinning option to make them even more unique, but you don’t have to).

Now, give each article a new title, add more titles, add in your resource box with HTML links to your sites/ web pages, choose your keywords and categories and let ‘er rip.

I usually choose to allow 50 articles go out per day. This works fine for me. Not all get published…not all get found…so this seems to be a good number for me to work with (and it’s what the service recommends).

hint: Become an affiliate for this service to help offset the costs…make it free… or make you LOTS of money. Your articles sent out can have your affiliate link for this service in the bio box…and it helps A LOT

Sound like a lot of work? Guess what? It took me longer to type all that than it ever takes me to DO all that!

In fact, I could probably do THREE articles from step 2 til this point in the time it’s taken me to type the 1600+ words I’ve typed so far.

Step 5 – Everywhere and Anywhere Else

Ok, now you’ve got your article at EzineArticles.com, you have unique versions dripping out slowly in one service and 50 more unique versions going out each day in the second service. This is all being done FOR you everyday… set and forget, right? Right!

Now, we ALSO have our article in two different services that both are creating various unique versions of that first (and only) article we wrote.

Guess what? You can now go into either (or both) of these services and click to “view” your article and get a unique version for you to use anywhere and everywhere else! All you have to do is click “view article” from your list and click either the “spin” button or just refresh (F5) your page… a new unique version will appear.

Kinda cool, huh?

Now, take a unique version and make a Squidoo lens and link it up… make a HubPage… submit it to other article directories…put it on other blogs you have… make a link wheel if you’re into that….submit it on free to use blogs (If you’re a One Week Marketing member, you know some great free blogs to use – HINT!)

Just go copy/paste crazy! Use a unique title – a NEW unique title – each time you put a unique version of your site somewhere else. This is important, ok? Unique titles and unique first paragraphs are really important to get the most out of this.

How Often To Do This Article Marketing Strategy

If you are doing it for one little mini niche site and one round of this process is all you need to work on the keywords you want to rank for – you don’t need to do much else ever again except one step.

After 4 months have passed (make sure it has been OVER 4 months) – go back to step 4, review your article, see if you want to change up the anchor text (no need to touch the article), and then re-send it. Your article will begin dripping out again for the next 4 months (or until it hits all the sites it can – I usually see between 600-900 sites available to take my articles)

If you are working on many keywords or you have many pages on your site you want to rank, repeat this process for all of them. Don’t forget tho, that you get 3 links from step 3 and 2 more links in step 4… you can change them up or spin them, ok?

As for step 5, you can do that for as long as you want, as many times as you want. What I really love about this strategy is this – anytime I am wandering the internet and find a new place that will accept my content with links, I just pop over to service #1 or #2, get a unique version and paste it into the new site. Add a few links, a new title..and I’m done.

What About Making Other BackLinks?

Now I’ll get the questions… “What about social bookmarking?” or “What about blog commenting… forum links…profile links…so-and so’s backlink package or linking service…or….or….or…?”

Do whatever else you want to – or you NEED to do – in order to achieve the ranking you want. Seriously, go for it. All links are good, so get them whenever and wherever you can, ok?

This is how I do MY article marketing. Do other people do it this way? I have no idea. Does it work? Yes, for me it does. I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel here – nor am I saying that the way anyone else does it is wrong… this is just MY way.

I work in low to mid competition markets – it doesn’t take much work for me to rank well… and I LIKE IT that way…lol! This article marketing system I use is usually all I need to get where I want to be (Page 1 in Google, preferably above the fold/top 3). For the niches I work in, this system is almost always plenty and I know that Google is finding new links to my stuff everyday – and I don’t have to DO anything else for that to happen. Make sense?

Bonus Tips For Article Marketing

1. Use as many unique titles as you possibly can.

2. Rewrite/spin your first paragraph as much as you can.

3. Your article does not have to be about the keyword you want to rank for – just something on that general topic.

4. For in-content links, get your first/most important link in the first sentence. Bold it, too.

5. Do not submit crap to the network site owners – we don’t like it and are prone to delete it or not publish it at all. Remember, we opened our sites to others for free (ie, kindness of our hearts and yes, we like receiving free content).

6. Do not submit or spin articles that you do NOT have rights too. Write your own article… you only have to write one so don’t be lazy.

There are no easy ways to success in this business – do your part and do it to the best of your ability. While there is no easy way – there are faster ways…and that is why I use the article marketing system above. I work hard, but I don’t like to work THAT hard…and I like to make the most of my time.

The Short Version

1. Write an article, 400 words or so (use this software if you can’t write).

2. Submit to EzineArticles.com – wait until it is approved and published.

3. Paste, spin and submit article into this article network.

4. Take 3 versions from step 3 and submit to this article submission service.

5. Take unique versions and make web content everywhere else – Squidoo, HubPages, GoArticles, blogs….everywhere you can.

It’s taken me almost 3000 words typed to explain this. In the time to type and post this article marketing tutorial I could have written and sent 7-8 articles into this drip-feed system of mine.

This is NOT hard… everything you need is here laid out exactly how it needs to be done. This is not something you stress over – you do it and forget it. Don’t over-complicate it, ok?

For those who wanted to know, this is how *I* do it. After MANY, MANY ways of trying this in all different ways and fashions, this is the way that a) is the fastest way for me, b) is the easiest to outsource (or outsource some of it), and c) works the best for me and my niche marketing needs.

Will it work for you? Why not try it and find out? Don’t talk yourself out of it – try it =)

Here is another post I did about the 3 main article marketing strategies you can use to make money online – click here to read.

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How Google Works

How Does Google Get Their Search Results?

It never ceases to amaze me – I type something… anything… into the Google search bar and in less than a second or two, I get this huge list of web pages that can help me. Since I first started playing with the internet back in 1995 or so (AOL anyone…2400 baud rate…remember the sound when you tried to connect via dial-up…lol!) – since then I have been fascinated by how search engines work. HOW do they get all those different web pages and then list them in some sort of order of importance? Let’s talk about that…

Getting Search Results

Just now, I went to Google and typed in keyword marketing research. In “.26 seconds” almost 4 MILLION web pages were returned just waiting to give me the information I need.

HOW does that happen?

In my previous post, we talked about the “New Google” (Google Caffeine) and changes that have happened with the Google search engine – but what about the basics of Google that HAVEN’T changed?

When you are working online, I think it is REALLY important to understand how this happens.

How can you learn how to rank web pages
if you don’t understand how web pages are ranked in the first place?

Google is BIG… as in B-I-G big. It is claimed that Google has over 19 data centers in the United States and at least 17 more all over the world (which explains why sometimes your search results are different from what others see).

Now, these data centers are HUGE…. 500,000 square feet EACH with a cost of something like $600 MILLION each.

Google is a very complex beast – no one will understand exactly what happens… and just when you think you are getting close, they change again. When you consider all that people do to manipulate the Google search engine, you can imagine that staying at least 50 steps ahead is a really good idea to preserve their business model, agree?

So let’s get into how Google works. Let’s start at the top with what happens as soon as you add content to the web. This could be a comment on a blog, a “tweet”, a new blog post (such as I am adding now), a new page on your site, a comment in a public forum, an ebay auction, a social bookmark… or an entirely new website… anything that makes the web bigger.

We, as online marketers, are adding to the web in MASSIVE proportions every second of every day.

So what happens after we add something to the web?

How Google Works

This image/flow chart from ppcblog.com was shared on the Wealthy Affiliate forum not too long ago (thanks, Des!). I think it is fantastic! I’ve had it open on a browser tab all this time with the intention of sharing it with y’all.

Go ahead and start at the top and follow it all the way down. This chart takes you from you adding new content to the web to how pages are returned and ranked when a user searches Google for related terms and phrases.

It’s a BIG image and I did the best I could to get it to fit on my page here at PotPieGirl.com – but if you can’t read it, just click the image to view it in full size (MUCH easier to read it and follow it that way).

Infographic by PPC Blog

Spend some time and really think your way through that chart…let some light bulbs go off and let it all sink in.

I’ve said it before…and I’ve heard it said by others quite often…

If you want to rank well in Google – GIVE GOOGLE WHAT IT WANTS.

It’s not magic. When you combine the factors that Google wants with the factors that PEOPLE want, you will do just fine.

To me, this is all flat-out amazing. Yes, I’m weird, but seriously, Google fascinates me.

What do you think?