What Was My Mistake On Top Search Engine Ranking?

Well  I was chatting with a good friend of mine online one day, someone who was already earning himself more than 100 dollars a day. I asked him what advice he could give me for a site that is already on Google No. 1 Position? I asked him specifically if I should continue doing link building or should I just ease off, leave it and focus instead on other sites. The reply came quick and he said something like “Don’t do anything. If it ain’t broke why fix it? ” That was 2 years ago.

Well fast forward to today, 2 years later, if someone were to ask me that same question, I would have a totally different answer for him or her.  I would say getting a site to Google’s No. 1 position is not the hardest part. The hardest part is knowing what you must do to keep that site ranking No.1 in Google.  There is no guarantee that it will remain there forever as most of your competitors are like you too. They will in no time displace your site’s position if you choose to be naive. Also Google is always changing its ranking algorithm. Think of Panda and you will understand just what I mean. There’s no rest for the wicked it seems!

The tip I am going to share with you today is found in a post I wrote sometime ago when I first discovered the article distribution site called Ezarticlelink. If you have not read it, here it is :”Discover How zArticleLink Auto Creates Backlinks For Your Blog. My intention then was to create some backlinks for my Learn Affiliate Marketing blog since I had neglected this blog and had practically zero backlinks. So I set up an Article Directory on the blog. Well after 1 year the site has now 1700 indexed pages, 1271 backlinks and PR1. Not bad for just setting it up and doing nothing because these backlinks are generated on auto-pilot.

 How I Get Free Backlinks For Another Site

One of the main advantages of using EzArticleLink is that for every article directory set up by a free member, it allows you to set up another domain in their system. Then you are free to post articles and get backlinks not only to your article directory – but get backlinks to this domain as well if you so choose to by just publishing and linking to its pages. For free membership however the maximum allowable number of posts is ’30′ but considering that each post is published and syndicated to 100+ sites, you get contextual links with your chosen anchor text.  And it’s free and automated, you don’t have to lift a finger. So don’t you think the effort to write and publish any of the 30 articles is worth the thousands of free backlinks you will receive. And it’s only about 30 minutes work per article using their easy system to spin write the articles. Think about it. It’s impossible not to see the benefits of doing this.

I Get Free Contextual Backlinks To My Domain Like This:

If you just stop to think for a minute you would understand how good this really is. Imagine just having to write one short article ( and I can do so in 10 minutes because it need not be a super quality article  that you usually write on your own blog,  just good and decent one). Then in return you get contextual links from about 180 published articles in 180 blogs. How sweet that is. Now take a look at this screen print and you will know just why I’m so happy I’ve found this site:

My Thoughts:

We all know that if you want to to rank well in the search engines, you need backlinks-lots of them. And one of the best ways to get lots of quality backlinks is through article marketing. Unfortunately with the recent Google Panda updates, many of the article directories have been penalized by Google . EzArticleLinks seems to be Panda proof at least in the last 2 updates and it also offers a refreshing change to get your backlinks. Well enough said, go check it out for more details from EzArticleLinks.

Latest Update: (Oct 14, 2011)

EzArticleLink just released their proprietary article spinner to the public, so that the whole world can use it. Now you get to use it without even becoming a member, although once you get to use it, you mostly probably will. Here is the link to get your free spinner:

Your link for the free online spinner is: http://www.peterleehc.com/blog/go/EzarticlelinkArticlespinner  Similar Posts:

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If like me, you have been doing Internet Home Business for some time, I bet you probably have some PLR articles lying around. Yes probably abandoned, forgotten and collecting cyber dust or cyber cobweb in your computer? Well why don’t you start to make good use of it for your home business blog, niche marketing or whatever you do that requires article writing?

Although on some occasions you buy PLR articles, most time you can get them for free. But most people used them only for a short while and stopped. Why? Well it’s too tedious even to just publish them even if you know they can provide useful resource to benefit your home business. But here is a good tip I’m going to share with you that I have been using. You can even automate the process – well sort of.

How Should You Use PLR articles on your blog?

Now as you know I create lots of micro niche websites and I write quite a bit to update the content of these websites. I used a lot of information from these free PLR articles, although I don’t use them “as is” – I rewrite them. You must know these same articles have been used by hundreds of people as they published on their websites. You won’t get into trouble with Google for putting   content on your blog that has been published elsewhere, as we know this is a myth.However you won’t get much benefit either because your content is deemed as not unique. Moreover you lose Google’s trust in your website when you do this. That’s possibly a greater sin for us Internet Marketers don’t you think?

How I used Free PLR articles for my niche websites

Step 1 – Go search for your free PLR articles. Simply go to Google and do a search for ‘your keyword + PLR’

Step 2. Sign in to your Blogger Blog and go to ‘New Post’

Step 3. Copy and paste your PLR article and use the title and body exactly “as is” for the time being. Don’t publish yet.

Step 3. Go to ‘Post Options’ at the bottom of the page. Under ‘Post date and time’, click ‘Schedule at’ and put a later date

Step 4. Now this is the step that requires some work from you. Rewrite your post title and body text to make it unique. You can choose to do this work anytime before your published date.

Step 5. Your scheduled posts get published at your scheduled dates automatically and run like clockwork.

Does this method work?

Yes absolutely. But only if you are a little disciplined and try to follow a fixed routine like re-writing your PLR articles daily, weekly, monthly and setting your scheduled dates to suit this time frame. Try to find what’s best for you that works and stick to a routine.

Why I used this method

• Well I have 20 niche sites and free PLR articles provide a good resource for my sites as I need to increase content and update them regularly.
• For some of my niche sites, just re-writing them is quite easy as the topics are usually simple as I target mostly product niches. It’s a lot easier than rewriting contents for ‘Internet Marketing’, ‘How to make money blogging’ that kind of stuff.
• Because Google owns Blogger – that’s a good reason
• I used it for good link building for all my niche sites
• Using a blogger blog is one of the link wheels people usually used for building very powerful link structure for their sites. You can read up more on how to create a link wheel from a good friend of mine, Alan Mater from his post: “How To Get Backlinks To My Blog Posts Resulting in Sales“

Final Thoughts

Using free PLR articles can serve your home business well if you learn how to do it right. Working at home takes a lot of your time as your Internet Business grows so learning a thing or two about automating your processes can really help.

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Have you heard of EzArticleLink, the system that helps to create lots of one-way backlinks for your blog?

While many SEO factors are responsible for your website to achieve top ranking in Google and other search engines, it is building an enormous amount of backlinks over time that’s most important.

I have to say today while the whole concept of building continuous backlinks to your web page never changes, the different ways how you go about doing it always does. You marvel at some of the ingenious software and tools that people come out with. Each time you stumbled onto one, you can’t but want to try it, to get the most of it, especially when it is absolutely free!

Well stumbled on one I did and I do like to share it with you if you have not heard of it and I’m pretty darn sure you’re gonna love it too.

EzArticleLink – what is it?

Essentially it’s a tool that lets you spin and syndicate your articles. If you joined the free membership, you will need to create an article directory on your blog.

1. Using its tool, you can customize your page to look like any other page on your blog. Here look at mine from my Learn Affiliate Marketing Blog to get an idea.(I’m still in the midst of housekeeping and touching up the look and feel of it and getting the ‘categories’ to show up)

2. For every domain that you put an article directory on, you are allowed another domain in which you can use it as a “post only” domain. This means you can use it solely for link building and to spin any of your articles and submit them for their approval. Once approved your spun articles will be published to about 200 members’ article directories which are created from their blogs just like mine.. That’s how you get your one-way backlinks. Pretty cool huh?

Any reservations in using it?

I think the benefits of potentially getting many backlinks are quite obvious but there could be people who have some reservation on putting an article directory on your blog. You may think having a topic like “Tips for Winning Back Your Girlfriend” is well kinda out of place in a blog like “Home Business Blog“. That’s because this is a general article directory like ezinearticles and you will find many articles get published that are totally unrelated to your blog theme and topics.

Personally I don’t think these unrelated articles will hurt my blog. If this were true, why would Google rank Ezinearticles or Wikipedia so highly? But it’s also nothing new too actually as lots of bloggers set up an article directory within their blogs.

Here is something provided by EzArticleLink that may answer your doubts too:

“..How does the system ensure that all backlinks are from relevant sources?

Backlinks are built from related contents only. This means you will not see your weight loss link appear within a dog training “web page”.

Our unique dual linking system ensures that every backlink that we build to your web page is from a web page with related contents and the web page that links to you is linked by other non-reciprocal web pages IN the same topic. Talking about relevancy of backlinks, nothing beats this kind of linking pattern….”

If you are still unsure, you don’t have to use your make money blog but choose another blog that you know you have neglected or not getting too much traffic. Then in your “post only” domain allowed by EzArticleLink, put your top blog for your link building and article syndication purpose.

How do I like using it

Well I have to say I’m still a new member. My domain approval only took 2 days and yesterday I used one article to spin it for their approval. If you are familiar with how to spin an article (like Free Traffic System), it’s a breeze. I took about an hour to complete mine but should easily do it in 30 minutes once I’m more familiar with the system. So it’s 30 minutes of work to get a possible 200 backlinks. Well what more can I say. Check it out will you? EzArticleLink

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You will agree with me that Article Marketing is one of the best ways to market your online business besides getting nice backlinks too. There are thousands of article directories over the Internet with some of my favorite ones like Ezinearticles, GoArticles, Amazines. Over the years we probably have taken them for granted but let’s pause for a second to understand:

Why Article Directories Submission is good for you

1. Your article always stays at the article directory you published at. It gets read by visitors today or many years later.

2. If it is a well-written and keyword optimized one and with a compelling resource box text, you can be sure your article is going places – yeah possibly viral!

3. You get nice backlinks

If there is one magic word that I can best describe why all the super affiliates, super Internet Marketing Gurus keep on saying they get thousands of page views for any of their articles – it’s SYNDICATION! All of these article directories allow other publishers to reprint or use whatever articles that have been published on their sites, as long as they stay intact, including the resource box.

Why are people still not submitting to all these article directories?

…but only to a handful, even if they know they are allowed to. After all, there is really no duplication issue. You could well submit the same article you wrote to hundreds of them. Duplication exists only if the same article is submitted to the same site (same IP address). Well here’s the answer:

It takes too much time to submit the articles

than it does to research and write them.

Here is The Best Solution

Outsource! Pay someone to submit your articles for you so that you don’t get to do this labor intensive task (yeah you know it’s good but you just don’t have the time) and let you do all other more meaningful tasks you’ve got planned.

Here’s my recommendation

My Article Directories Submission Service

What you Get From My Article Submission to Article Directories Service:

1. I will submit your article to hundreds of article directories in my article directory database. At the moment I will submit it to 110 article directories in which I have completed registrations ( I am still in the manual process of registering to many others as I write this) so this number will increase every day. Once I have exhausted myself with registering with every article directory I have in my database, I will update this number, the price, and other submission options.

2. You will get a report from me once work is completed and the report will show you a complete list of article directories (list by url, and submission date) that your article has been submitted to. It should be completed within 24 hours after I received your complete article details.

How To Get Started if You like me to do your article submission to these hundreds of article directories:

1. Make payment of $3.99 via pay-pal using this button:

2.Use the contact page on this blog and provide me the following:

• your article title
• your article body
• your keywords – not more than 5 keywords preferred
• your text for your resource box – you need to provide it in html format. For best results you should put not more than 2 links with or without anchor text.
• 2 other alternative titles for your article (optional)
• 2 other article body for your article (optional)
• your pen name preferred- good for SEO (hint: pen name can be your main keyword (optional)
• your email address for me to send the submission report – if different from the mail you sent me.

(Note: the alternative titles/body of your article will be used randomly during the article directories submission process)

What I cannot guarantee you the following:

1. Like in all other article submission services, I cannot guarantee what happens once we submit your article to the article directories. Whether it gets accepted and published is outside the scope of this article submission service. It all depends on their systems they used, and their site’s policy and guidelines.

2. As you may already know, some of these article directory sites may have a minimum or maximum number of words for your article and depending on your article’s length, your article may be rejected due to not meeting this requirement.

3. Once submission work is completed and submission sent to you, we do not monitor the outcome of this submission e.g. if the article has been published. However I have submitted them for my own articles and have been receiving confirmation emails of publication from various directories.

Here is a sample of the Article Submission Report which you will receive:

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Recently while revisiting some of my older posts in my home business blog to do some tests on my Google Adsense placements, I came across my post titled: “If I Could Start My Blog All Over….” where I asked 4 of my blogging friends to give their thoughts on how different their blogs might be if they were starting all over again.

Well all of them said they would still have their blogs but with big differences in how they were to be built and promoted impacting domains, backlinks, blog marketing, blog theme among others. These are valid suggestions or improvements on their blogs which now begs the question : “How important do you value your blog?”.  Would you have the courage or audacity to give up your blog now? Or would you have not started with a blog at all if you had to start your Internet Home Business all over again?

Well my good friend Tom Lindstrom from The Home Business Archive says “Marketing without a website can be done by building a list of subscribers and broadcasting messages to that list.” All that is needed, he says, is a monthly investment for a reliable autoresponder which costs about $20. That is relatively low maintenance although this expense could be about twice you would have paid hostgator every month to maintain your hosting account.  But not having to update your blog frequently should make up more than the 10 bucks you got to dish out.

Going without a blog or a website is a serious decision to make and presumably you know what you’re doing if you’re seriously contemplating just that. Starting an autoresponder is not the only serious work you have to immerse yourself with. In Tom’s post, he advocates having a “system” to follow before you can start to run your home business. His system focuses on :

• establishing yourself as an expert on whatever affiliate products you intend to market. My thoughts on this: Well some statistics I’ve come across put the affiliate marketing industry failure rate as 95% so obviously you have to strive to be in the 5% category of successful affiliate marketers.
• using article marketing and promote extensively your affiliate products using both your article “resource box” and your autoresponder. Well that is something new for the average blogger and it’s for better usage than most of us could ever imagined.

My Final Thoughts

Personally, I would prefer having a blog and website than without one. The look and feel of a blog has changed over the years and somehow I get the feeling that people are more comfortable “talking” to someone on his blog than through his autoresponder. Nevertheless I know that the autoresponder plays a significant role in most successful marketers’ rise to fame and fortune.

A blog plays a big part in introducing who you are as an Internet Marketer through this communication channel. I have also yet to read many success stories of marketers who became exceedingly successful without a website or a blog. But of course it could be this ignorant me or the lazy part of me preferring not the road less traveled.

Over to you….

How important do you value your blog? Will you give it up now or would you have not used a blog for your home business from the start? I like to hear your thoughts.

Do read the full post by Tom Lindstrom on “Marketing Without A Website” to give you that insightful read in his blog

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Since May of this year I’ve been doing more article writing since it’s part of the weekly blogging services I provide. Then when I recently started my micro niche websites, article writing became an even more important part of my backlink building. This is when much work is done to try to rank all my niche sites in Google’s Top Search Engine.

Well today as I was thinking about what to write for my next blog post, I figured it would be a good idea to critique my own past article writing and share with anyone interested on what are some of the changes I am making to achieve my current objectives. On the same breath I will also share some changes that I’ve recently implemented too.

Why is The Article Title or Headliner so very important

Besides the author’s bio provided at the resource box, the article title or headliner is the most important text in your article.  Now just to put things into perspective here if I may compare an analogy with what experts giving Tips on Public Speaking say “…. the first 10 words are more important than the next 10 minutes…” Similarly people giving article writing tips say “…the first 10 words (the title) are more important than the next 300 words (the body)…”

I strongly believe this to be very true and I can just show you one particular article I wrote in Ezinearticles dated May 8, 2009 and the same article re-written on June 12, 2009:

the one on May 8, 2009:

the one on Jun 12, 2009:

Clearly you can see that the first title looks much better, more inviting and asks a question which is one of the recommended article writing tips. Because there is such a big gap of readers’ views it does make perfect sense to spend that extra effort to write a more enticing article headliner don’t you think? Also if you noticed the first one, 112 readers clicked the author bio’s link compared to just 6 for the second. Well what can I say but first impressions last!

Write Short Articles

Ever since May 2009, I have changed my article writing style to write short articles and have the contents list the numbered points or tips I’m presenting e.g. “Discover 5 Article Tips To Make Your Writing Quick and Easy”. This is perhaps the simplest form of writing an article, at least how I’m finding it. I prefer to write short articles because:

• it’s easy to write and it’s easy for the reader to understand just what you are writing
• it takes a shorter time to write – Ezinearticle accepts 250 words minimum articles so it suits me fine.
• if I write too long I could use the extra points to write another new article with similar topic thereby maintaining the 250 minimum I like to keep at. I get to publish 2 instead of 1 article in this way.

What’s your Objective in Article Writing?

Different writers have different purpose or objective whenever they write articles and publish them at article directories. That determines the kind of topic you can write about. This is especially true if you have lots of websites with diverse niches in your business. For example for my micro niche adsense websites which I focus entirely on products, I never write articles on products as that would be too boring. Instead I write about things that interest me like Internet Home Business which is a lot easier with many broad categories that I can focus on. Fortunately the article directories I submit to do not care much if the content is totally different from the resource box in terms of niches and topics.

My main objective of my article writing today is solely for backlink building for my niche sites and not for any traffic generation strategy. The traffic comes when the keywords I’m ranking for them achieved Google’s Page 1. So far together with Angela’s Backlink Building Program, it has yielded me the results I want.

A new way of getting contents to write your articles

If like me, you have been writing for a while there is one quick and easy way to get contents to write – yes re-write them just like the example I showed you above. Sometimes when I read some of my earlier articles, I couldn’t believed I had written them so poorly. But it’s understandable, we like to think that over time, we learned how to write better, more enticing articles.

A new way of getting new free backlinks from your old articles

I am quite sure for most of us, we have purchased many different domains over a period of time; created many websites and some of them may be inactive. You probably like to terminate them at the next domain renewal. Well if you have written and published articles with links on your resource box pointing to such domains, you are about to get free backlinks. Just go to the particular article directory and edit the links to point to your other websites. I have just got some of them this way over the last one week. I won’t be surprised if some of you didn’t realize that, being caught up in the frenzy of ‘too much to do in so little time’ syndrome.

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When I first heard about Free Traffic System (FTS), it was from one of my Warrior Forum buddies about three months ago. He shared his experience about how this system not only helped get him massive amount of one-way links, it helped get his keyword to Google’s page one.

Naturally I got excited then and took a look at it. It looked really promising but somehow the video tutorials, an important part of learning how to do your submissions in FTS, among other things, failed to work for me. I resorted to reading the pdf document which probably wasn’t that good – because my first submission turned out a disaster. It didn’t get posted. I got pissed and left FTS in cold storage. Until yesterday that is…

Well fast forward to yesterday after many more people have sung similar praises to it, I thought it deserved yet another look at FTS. Thankfully this time it didn’t fail on me. The video tutorials worked like a charm and I have since submitted two articles in two days. That I’m writing about it just means two things: One is I really like it and believe in what it can do. The second is to recommend you take a look and start to get these free one-way links for yourself. I can assure you that unlike me, you will be successful in your first attempt. I’m here to help.

What can you hope to get from Free Traffic System?

1. There’s a paid membership as well as the free membership. Of course I like it free so I joined the free membership. The most significant difference between the two is that the free one gets you only 2 backlinks per article submitted whereas the paid ones give you more one way links.

2. Inside this free membership you will get one-way links from:
– relevant pages
– inside non-duplicate content
– with diversified anchor texts (for SEO safety)
– in the most natural SEO way possible.

3. You are free to build as many one way links per day as you wish – there are no restrictions in the number of backlinks for the members. But you are allowed only 2 backlinks per article submitted.

4. FTS has a good affiliate program and gives out many viral bonuses to members – they reward active members with unlimited number of bonus one way links. For example, if you add just one site to their membership – you will be given +7% more free backlinks instantly. So you may not realize it but just sharing with others about FTS can help you in your link building efforts in the long run.

How will you know you have received this bonus link- for doing nothing. Well simple – it will show up in your WP -Admin showing you of an incoming link like this:

Upon clicking the link it shows a post submitted by one of my referrals (Brian Hawkins, thanks!!):

5. Your article submissions are manually approved by FTS and similarly with any new blogs you want to add to get free content from their network. You can be sure that they have stringent checks and the sites they approved are reasonably good quality. (I should know, I had my first blog rejected 3 months ago as I submitted my free wordpress blog, which was not allowed)

How does it work?

For free membership, each time you submit an article to FTS, you get to submit this article to 30 blogs with your chosen niche or blog category. This means you will get free 60 (2 linksX30 blogs) relevant one way links to your site or blog. Now if you’re getting worried about having duplicate contents, you have nothing to worry about. That brings us to the most important feature of FTS – it allows you to spin your article while you are doing the submission process. Just to give you an idea how this is done, here is an example of how I spin my second article title:

[spin]How|Here’s How[/spin] To Get [spin]Massive|Huge|Lots of [/spin] Traffic From Blog [spin]Marketing|Promotion[/spin], Good Content

Free Traffic System (FTS) published my post using a variation of title possibles like:

1. Here’s How To Get Massive Traffic From Blog Promotion, Good Content
2. How To Get Lots of Traffic From Blog Marketing, Good Content

The spin feature is to be used for both your article title as well as the article body content. You get the idea? The tip here is the more your spin it the more unique the article is.

After I submit my article, then what?

1. Your submitted article gets reviewed by FTS (on ‘wait’ status) and upon approval you’ll see the status changed to ‘approved’

2. After your article has been approved by FTS, this just means it’s up to the blog owners (30 of them you submitted to) to approve your post. It’s exactly similar to you having submitted your guest post to someone to approve.

3. You can then monitor the progress of your blog articles status by checking on your ‘stats’ page in FTS. Here is an example of mine for my first approved article by FTS:

As you can see 3 of the 30 blog owners have approved my post and you can clearly see that the article title has been spun, along with the contents. Now if there is one thing I don’t quite like about FTS is that it does not provide the link to these 30 blogs. So I ran a Google Search on the blog name and indeed I found the blog in which my submitted article has been approved by its owner. And yes I also checked that my 2 links are shown there with my chosen anchor text. See for yourself it’s here:

Final Thoughts

In my opinion Free Traffic System has thought of a clever way of letting anyone get unlimited one way links using our very own resources and investing little effort and time. In fact I kinda enjoyed spinning my 2 articles I submitted and knowing that I’ll be getting 120 relevant one-way links. Well judging from Yan whom I chatted with this morning, it usually takes about 6 days before he sees all 30 blog owners approve all his posts.  Don’t forget to check it out and get the free one-way links for yourself:

=>Here check it out GET FREE ONE-WAY LINKS FROM FREE TRAFFIC SYSTEM.

Get 30 high PR6-PR9 links for $5.00 from Angela Edward’s Backlink Building Program

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Going along with the recent post of Peter, Article marketing is probably one of the most discussed topics in my forum with people asking me daily whether or not it really helps with SEO.. People are divided between 3 categories when it comes to talk about article marketing on internet:

1. People who love article marketing.
2. People who hate article marketing.
3. People who don’t know about article marketing.

This article is for the people in the 3rd group, namely the ones who have no experience with article marketing and are wondering what its worth.

What is Article Marketing?

Article marketing is an online strategy that consist of you writing a quality article (in theory), and making it available for other people to use and republish on their site. Of course, since all labors require compensation, you’ll be rewarded for your generosity with a one way backlink towards your site, as well as a short biography of yourself. Here are the traditional steps taken:

1. Write an article.
2. Submit it to an Article Directory.
3. Wait for your article to be reviewed and approved.
4. Once your article is approved, it will be made available to visitors of the Article Directory.
5. People download your article.
6. People publish your article on their site.
7. You get visitors and backlinks from all the sites that re-published your article.

Your personal involvement pretty much stops at step #2, after that you can just sit back and relax, everything else is automated and doesn’t require your participation. Depending of the article directory you submit your piece to, it can take anywhere from a few minutes to a few months to get your article reviewed and approved. Also, keep in mind that all articles submitted are not automatically approved, so take the time to write properly.

Why You Should Love Article Marketing?

When it comes to SEO, article marketing offers an incredible feature, and that’s to build a potentially unlimited and constant flow of one way backlinks towards your site. The leverage on article marketing is huge as one person only needs to write an article once, submit it to a specialized directory where more and more people will then re-publish it giving you more and more one way backlinks without you having anything to do for it. Each of the articles have submitted in the past is being reused 300 times in average at least. That means for each article I wrote, I got over 300 one way backlinks. Another interesting aspect of those links from a SEO stand is the fact that they come from diverse domains, which is a great thing, and that they don’t appear all at once, but rather over time as all the people don’t publish your article at the same time. It’s a onetime effort, and a lifetime one way link building machine.

Why You Should Hate Article Marketing?

There’s a sound difference between theory and reality. Most of the articles in those article directories are of very low quality and some really limit spam junk. This having for resulting effect that you are very unlikely to ever get your article noticed further than the article directory itself. If spending so much effort for that, you are better of publishing on your own site instead. Even if your article get picked up, more often than not, it will be by automated scrapping software, and your article will be published on a rubbish site where no one will see it. Not only no one will see your article and you won’t get traffic from it, the pages where your article will be published are most likely to be in the supplementary index, if indexed at all. In SEO term, this means that the backlinks you get from there are worthless. At worst, you’ll get dishonest publisher who won’t give you credit at all, and steal your work to make it theirs. Article marketing ends up being a huge waste of your time, resources and talent. If you want quality backlinks, there are many other ways to do so.

In Conclusion

The truth is that no one side is more right than the other. I personally like article marketing as it helps in many other ways beyond SEO, such as branding to me. I’ve got thousands of visitors coming from those republished articles to my site, and in some instances was even lucky enough to get my articles in pages on the primary index and get people commenting on them, building valuable SEO backlinks and reputation for myself. On the other hand, I’ve also experienced people trying to steal my content, and honestly, majority of the backlinks I’ve got don’t bring any or much link juice. If you really plan to get a high PageRank, I don’t feel that article marketing is the way to go for you. On the other hand, if you plan to increase your exposure, or do increased of deep linking on your site, I would strongly recommend you to include Article Marketing as part of your SEO campaign.

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Article Marketing is one of the best free effective methods you can use to promote your website and all your marketing campaigns.

If you’ve gone through my blog archives, you would have noticed that I don’t have many posts on article marketing. That’s not to say I don’t believe in it or know how essential it is for getting backlinks and free traffic to your website or blog.

I stopped writing to article directories temporarily for at least a year because I wasn’t getting any traffic then, despite getting lots of backlinks. I used that break to focus on other aspects of the business, blogging being one of them. Well now I’ve resumed doing article marketing. Want to know the reason why?  Well I am now doing freelance writing articles and every week I write at least 5 articles and publish them at selected article directories. But most importantly I found the mistakes I made that caused me not to get much traffic for the articles I posted one year ago.

Article Writing Mistake #1 – Lack of Article Marketing Research

When I first started article writing I did so without doing any research on how successful authors write and the techniques they used. My mistake was to just focus on the relevant keywords and start cracking. As a result, my posts were generally too long. The correct technique is to write short articles about 270 – 300 words.

Article Writing Mistake #2 – Article Contents not Scannable

Whenever I visit an ezine site looking for ideas, I usually don’t like to read long articles. I’ll just read the first paragraph and moved on. However if it’s long and has good sub headers, I’ll just read these headers only. If they are long, without eye catching presentation, I skip them. I realized now I was guilty of many of these same article writing mistakes then.

Article Writing Mistake #3 – Article Headlines didn’t grab my readers’ attention

I learned that in an article, there are just 2 places where you can grab the attention of a reader. The first is the title or headlines and the other is the bio text. Looking back, I have to admit most of my articles’ headlines or bio text could have been better written in these 2 areas.

How you can use these article marketing tips to help improve your web traffic?

1. Reaching out to more people

If you think you have written a good article, don’t you want to share it with others. When you choose this method of submitting your articles to ezine directories, nothing really stops you getting the traffic. If you are are new marketer, it gives you better results than writing on your new blog which may not be indexed, have no traffic or no search engine ranking. But when you submit to article directories, all it needs is good content and good article writing technique to bring in traffic.

2. Get High Search Engine Ranking

Even with a short article, you could make it search-engine friendly by optimizing your article using good keyword phrases that can give your articles a high search engine ranking.However avoid using too many keywords. In fact for a 300 word article, I usually use about 3 keywords.

3. The Use of Readers’ Comments and Testimonials

When you received good reviews and testimonial, put them to good use on your website or blog. Find a relevant post in which you can use them to promote your products or substantiate an opinion on your topic of discussion. It does give you that extra weight besides looking nice on your blog or website as it helps to build your reputation, or the authority that you site projects or at least tries to.

IMHO testimonials are very powerful statements as they come from people who shared similar experiences or who have just used and loved your product or services. Sometimes they serve as your customers’ deciding vote before buying your product.

Final Thoughts

Even after one year of neglecting article marketing, I’ve finally realized how much I could have gained had I known some of the things I learned only recently. But on the other hand I prefer to look to the future and not what could have been. I’m pretty fired up on article writing especially after having learned some of the best kept Article Marketing Secrets from the gurus.

I’ve been very encouraged by the good article stats I’m seeing in my Ezinearticles submission. In fact it was this one post which got 100+ views the day after it was published that got me curious as to how that came about, something unheard of when I last wrote articles for them.

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Are you a guest blogger on other blogs? Or do you have a passion for writing or sharing your knowledge you’ve learned on your Internet Marketing journey as I’m on this blog?  If you are, I want you! I like to extend an invitation to you to write as my next guest blogger.

Guest Blogger – The Benefits To You

1. You will get 2 links in your post.
2. You can decide the Anchor text that you wish to use for your link, provided you informed me.
3. With this, you will get permanent backlinks for your blog/website from Work At Home Blog.
4. You will get exposure of your blog and traffic coming from WFHBB.

Be My Guest Blogger-What it means to me

My main objective is to see a dramatic increase in my blog contents as my readership has grown quite significantly recently.  Having said that, I’ll still maintain quality over quantity to live up to what this blog has  been evolving from the very beginning. So all guest bloggers will have to be first approved by me after they have complied with some simple requirements.

I like to think that I’ve established very good relationships with many friends in my blogging community and I do hope that many of them will take up this challenge. It’s a great way to work with them and also to help one another achieve similar success in our home internet business. After all, we all know how important guest posting and having guest posts on your blog mean to our blogs.

What are the requirements to be a Guest Blogger on This Blog

1. Your guest post must be original and written in English

2. Minimum post length of 600 words

3. The topic must be related to one of the categories found on this blog.

4. The post must be unique and not published anywhere else on the internet.

5. No blatant advertisement of your products or services

6. You will be given 2 “do follow” links within the post body or your author bio.

7. You are required to provide your own custom author bio that will be displayed at the end of your post. You may choose to put one of your 2 links allowed here.

8. I reserve the right to make whatever changes on your post prior to publication including adding my own links or changes for SEO.

9. Your guest post will become the property of Work From Home Business Blog once it is published on the blog, but you will be given credit as the author.

10. Provide a few written samples of any blog posts that you have written either on your own blog or as a guest blogger on other blogs.

Incentives to Guest Post Regularly On This Blog

One of my main objectives of seeking out more guest posts is to provide more quality content for my readers, subscribers and just about anyone who reads this blog.  While I’ve been diligently ensuring quality over quantity of post here, I felt it’s a good time now to work towards another level of success with more good quality posts.  Obviously a one-man show will take much longer to achieve this, so therefore this post. I hope to encourage as many other regular bloggers as possible to write guest posts on this blog and sharing their experience and wisdom in their work.

My Guest Bloggers: Thanks for your guest posts

1. GT Bulmer: Internet Home Business: What To Do When The Honeymoon Is Over
2. Ben Pei: Breaking The Mental Block in Blogging
3&4. James King:
13 Reasons Why You Should Start An Online Business
Why Start A Home internet Business
5. Salwa: 10 Blogging Mistakes To Avoid
6. Michael James Jr: The Secret To Catchy Headlines Using Good Keywords

Interested To Be A Guest Blogger On This Blog?

Then contact me using the Contact Form on this blog stating your interest to write a guest post here. Also comment here and tell us how many guest posts you’ve written.  If you fulfill all these simple requirements, I’ll be only too happy to have you as my next guest blogger.

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