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Hi all, I'm back again.

My attention has been drawn away from IM for a while due to my day job but I am back with what I think is a good idea for a starter project.

Before I throw myself at this project, I would love to tap into the magic that is the Warrior Forum and ask the more experienced marketers out there to tell me if I am on the right track.

I want to make a site where I will be writing fresh content every day, and about once a week (or fortnightly) I want to try and offer a product for which I am an affiliate.

I will make a squeeze page (should I include a video?) and build a list.

1. What is better suited to this kind of thing, a blog or a website?

2. Someone once told me a blog will rank better on the search engines than a website. Is that true?

3. How often should I offer a new product?

4. For article marketing, can the articles I send to Goartcicles and Ezine etc be the same as I post in my blog/website, or should I keep them completely different?

Thank you Warriors!
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  • Profile picture of the author twright
    1. Blog- You stated you are going to write fresh content daily.
    2. Not true, Please someone show proof otherwise.
    3. No limit to offers but you need to consider perception.
    4. No, There should be a level of rewrite. ( you will get different feedback on this)

    Best thing you can do is just get started and be willing to keep an open mind to changes to tweek your system.
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  • Profile picture of the author peetred
    1.) fresh content.. blog
    2.) I don't know for sure, but I would say this isn't true.
    3.) I would offer products in the sidebar of your blog and links in posts. Recommend periodically in posts. I really think that if you are not putting at least a link in each post you are losing opportunities. Now, recommendations are a different story, if you are always recommending, people will know you are trying to sell them something and stop reading.

    4.) rewriting is up to you. I personally don't rewrite my articles from site to article directory.
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve Faber
    Blogs are super easy to add and change content on very quickly. For that reason alone, that would be my choice. Add that to the tremendous number of tools, widgets and plugins that are available and easily implemented, and you'll see why so many marketers feel the same way. Speed, flexibility and ease of use counts for quite a bit.

    Blogs, especially WP, have an internal linking structure that lends itself to high SE rankings. It's easy to make sure all your links are there, correctly structured and formatted, and intact, even when you frequently add or change content.

    That being said, I don't think (IMHO) that blogs necessarily rank any better than a well optimized static site.

    I change my articles, and I'll usually not put my posts up as articles. I'll write different articles for the article directories, then spin those for use on different directories. I usually submit to at least 4 or 5, sometimes more.

    How often you offer a new product depends on your market, list members, and the products themselves. Are they short, limited subject reports or videos, or are they more comprehensive? If they are short and deal with intensive coverage of a single, narrowly focused subject, you can offer them more frequently. For one thing, you'll be able to create them much more quickly, and you'll be able to have one lead naturally into the next. That way your prospects will be ready for the next one.
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