Article Marketing 101 - Everything You Need To Know About Article Marketing In One Place!

[James Schramko]

Imagine if you wrote 100 quality keyword researched articles for your OWN website and got 100 bookmarks for each page....

[jbolte1976]

Daniel,

Great post. Congrats on you 500th post as well. You've sparks some great conversation on AM Best Practices that'll help the new article marketers and re-establish some fundemetals that can get forgotten about by the more seasons AM'ers. Good luck on your next 500.

Jason

[Allen Graves]

Just for the record...I don't know of any article directory which has taken the lead out of EZA or is about to overtake them. But there are a couple that are poised to do it. Website-Articles.net gets nowhere near the traffic of EZA (of course), and we are debating on whether or not to limit our author base to just one or two thousand members.

Fact is, as long as EZA has the Google love, they're the ****! And even if they lost their Google love, they would not disappear overnight. I think Chris is doing the right things for EZA to stay on top. Losing a few authors won't matter to them (IMO) as long as they stay on top.

I'll shoot you a PM Daniel.

AL

[Warrior Markets]

Hey, Daniel

You mention submitting same article to other directories. But, when you do, do you change it at all? I know some prefer to change it, but is it a case you have to? If we want (out of, say, sheer laziness) to submit the same article to many directories, can we? Also, how would they verify that the other articles are, indeed, ours - if we've used pen names. Is it only possible if we direct resource box to same page?

Also, what directories do you submit to?

Thanks

-WM

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by Warrior Markets

Hey, Daniel

You mention submitting same article to other directories. But, when you do, do you change it at all? I know some prefer to change it, but is it a case you have to? If we want (out of, say, sheer laziness) to submit the same article to many directories, can we? Also, how would they verify that the other articles are, indeed, ours - if we've used pen names. Is it only possible if we direct resource box to same page?

Also, what directories do you submit to?

Thanks

-WM

If your article is good and unique, submit it as is to as many directories as you wish, there won't be a duplicate content penalty for that. No need to change it.

[ezinesRus]

What a great post. I thank everyone for their input here! There's definitely some fantastic information in this post that is worth saving to the computer for later reference.

Kind regards,
Jullieanne Matheson

[Daniel Molano]

Thanks everyone for their input and feedback.

I wouldn't mind if Allen made the thread a sticky.

There are like 10 article marketing related questions every day on the forum from beginners and this thread answers every single one of them.

Basic, but powerful information.

[Marhelper]

Good post. I agree with Dean, finding the right niche is obviously a huge part of it.

[Ping Liang]

Thanks for your excellent guide. Sure that I have learned something I didn't know.

[PRandContent]

Hi Daniel,

Congratulations on your 500th post and thanks for sharing these great tips!

Is there any way for you to PM me the backlink software that you're using? I would love to get my hands on that


Cheers,

Irene

[profitgenie]

Hi Daniel

Thanks for the fantastic post, my article marketing was pretty poor and not getting much results will try and follow your guidelines and see how it goes.

When i submit articles a few directories like article marketer always come back to me about hard line breaks and find it a real pain to find them and fix them.

Anyone suggest a tool that i can write articles in to avoid this problem

thanks again

PG

[Jenni Mac]

Originally Posted by profitgenie

Hi Daniel

Thanks for the fantastic post, my article marketing was pretty poor and not getting much results will try and follow your guidelines and see how it goes.

When i submit articles a few directories like article marketer always come back to me about hard line breaks and find it a real pain to find them and fix them.

Anyone suggest a tool that i can write articles in to avoid this problem

thanks again

PG

Well why don't you just write/type without hitting the RETURN/ENTER key? That's all there is to it. And obviously for a new para you have to hit return?

[profitgenie]

Are you serious? It is that simple, i have been using notepad but always cut off at about 65 characters. So i should just keep on writing and when posting article it will come out ok.

Is that right??

I feel so stupid

Thankyou

[Jenni Mac]

Originally Posted by profitgenie

Are you serious? It is that simple, i have been using notepad but always cut off at about 65 characters. So i should just keep on writing and when posting article it will come out ok.

Is that right??

I feel so stupid

Thankyou

Yep, I think you can even set notepad to wrap around the screen so that you don't stretch the document and can then keep an eye on what you're writing.

Yep, the words just wrap themselves around naturally when you don't hit return!

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by PRandContent

Hi Daniel,

Congratulations on your 500th post and thanks for sharing these great tips!

Is there any way for you to PM me the backlink software that you're using? I would love to get my hands on that


Cheers,

Irene

Sure, shoot me a PM and I'll tell you.

[jame58rown]

Hi Daniel, thanks for a great article, its got me fired up. Just one thing I am not sure about step 5, I'm a total newby but I am guessing that back links are links to the article directory from elsewhere, and how do we get them. I am not sure what social bookmarking is.

Also can you PM me details of that backlink automation software as that might demystify things for me as well. thanks,

[wordsandthings]

Originally Posted by Daniel Molano

Hello my friends and fellow warriors,

I reached 500 posts yesterday so I wanted to post something worthwhile and give back to the community.

...

Thanks for this.

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by jame58rown

Hi Daniel, thanks for a great article, its got me fired up. Just one thing I am not sure about step 5, I'm a total newby but I am guessing that back links are links to the article directory from elsewhere, and how do we get them. I am not sure what social bookmarking is.

Also can you PM me details of that backlink automation software as that might demystify things for me as well. thanks,

No problem, glad I could help. Sure, send me a PM and I'll point you towards the software that I use.

Social Bookmarking sites are ones such as Digg and Stumbleupon, you were right to assume that it's about linking to your sites or articles from other websites that are not yours (or some that are yours also work).

I wonder why there are still AM questions being asked in other threads that this very thread answers.

[mbacak]

This is a real good post.

Here is something that I personally do that can help
anyone out with articles, that adds to Daniel's post:

Slap Google Like a RAG Doll - a knol by Matt Bacak

[SeanIM]

Originally Posted by mbacak

This is a real good post.

Here is something that I personally do that can help
anyone out with articles, that adds to Daniel's post:

Slap Google Like a RAG Doll - a knol by Matt Bacak

I love this response Matt...you've done another like it and it *STILL* raWKs...

Great info for those that take it and use it...this stuff works, I've done variations of this on a much smaller scale and seen some pretty amazing results...so even if you want to get lazy with the formula he's laid out it's worth it.

:thumbsup

_S

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by James Schramko

Imagine if you wrote 100 quality keyword researched articles for your OWN website and got 100 bookmarks for each page....

That is exactly what I've been doing James, you completely read my mind man.

Originally Posted by mbacak

This is a real good post.

Here is something that I personally do that can help
anyone out with articles, that adds to Daniel's post:

Slap Google Like a RAG Doll - a knol by Matt Bacak

Matt that is some amazing advice, talk about leveraging 1 single article. Great blog post right there. Excellent input to the thread.

Add mass submission services to the mix (Like TubeMogul for video) and you got yourself not only A LOT of traffic, but a hell of a lot of backlinks also.

[greenovni]

Daniel MUY buen articulo e instrucciones. Felicidades!

[Jacqueline Watson]

I use adword analyzer for keyword research,
but apparently I haven't been using it effectively.

I appreciate your sharing...your post helped me
to see the error of my ways!

[tiger325]

article marketing brings results...i see it many times daily

[emha]

great info Daniel.Apreciate.
I have some question
1. you said that we can submite 1 same article to as many as article directory. let say I have 1 submite article on EZA and get aprovement and then it np to submite to other article directory? I mean what if the other directory find that that article has live at EZA so get caught as duplicate and they will decline. also does same article at so many place isn't make get penalty as duplicate by google ?
2. about submite 100 article, it mean we create 100 article from each long tail keyword or 100 article from various keyword on 1 niche? I assume we must dominate on 1 niche but write many article on 1 long tail keyword is not easy I think.

thank for answer and sorry for my bad gramatical
also can you pm me about your software to generate backlink?

[Chiayee]

hey Daniel:

nice post. just wondering if you have any idea how to track sales from article marketing?

Say you wrote 10 articles all link to 1 landing page, how do you tell which article generates sales?

thanks.

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by emha

great info Daniel.Apreciate.
I have some question
1. you said that we can submite 1 same article to as many as article directory. let say I have 1 submite article on EZA and get aprovement and then it np to submite to other article directory? I mean what if the other directory find that that article has live at EZA so get caught as duplicate and they will decline. also does same article at so many place isn't make get penalty as duplicate by google ?
2. about submite 100 article, it mean we create 100 article from each long tail keyword or 100 article from various keyword on 1 niche? I assume we must dominate on 1 niche but write many article on 1 long tail keyword is not easy I think.

thank for answer and sorry for my bad gramatical
also can you pm me about your software to generate backlink?

1. Most article directories accept articles that are already live in other article directories, with the exception of a few (such as EZA, which is why I said to submit there first).

2. Yes 1 long tail keyword PER article. And no it isn't hard, I have found thousands of long tail keywords for some niches.

Originally Posted by Chiayee

hey Daniel:

nice post. just wondering if you have any idea how to track sales from article marketing?

Say you wrote 10 articles all link to 1 landing page, how do you tell which article generates sales?

thanks.

As far as I know you can't tell which article generated the sale. You can however tell how many visitors each article has sent to a specific landing page through CTR and Google Analytics if set up correctly in the landing page.

[Maria M]

I am totally new to Warrior Forum, but I have experience in Article Marketing. The beginning was hard for me, what with all the gurus and the way they explain things and advice from everyone and their mothers. However, if you follow Daniel's advice which is pretty straight forward and add some of the other "ingredients" from other warriors, you won't fail...you can't fail. I did it.

My advice is to stick with it, even if you are not getting the results you want in the first week; keep going and TRACK everything you do and everything you submit. See what works and what needs tweaking; fix it and continue on your course. You will arrive if you are doing things right.

One very important point: HAVE A PLAN!!! Put it on paper. Is it traffic you're after, is it an amount of money? Whatever it is, write your goal down and look at it everyday.

[TashylaB]

Thanks! I appreciate this post

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by Maria M

I am totally new to Warrior Forum, but I have experience in Article Marketing. The beginning was hard for me, what with all the gurus and the way they explain things and advice from everyone and their mothers. However, if you follow Daniel's advice which is pretty straight forward and add some of the other "ingredients" from other warriors, you won't fail...you can't fail. I did it.

My advice is to stick with it, even if you are not getting the results you want in the first week; keep going and TRACK everything you do and everything you submit. See what works and what needs tweaking; fix it and continue on your course. You will arrive if you are doing things right.

One very important point: HAVE A PLAN!!! Put it on paper. Is it traffic you're after, is it an amount of money? Whatever it is, write your goal down and look at it everyday.

Welcome to the forum Maria M! Very nice first post also!

Good to know there are people that don't just sign up to promote something.

[goins0410]

enjoyed the post, its a must read!

[TomBuford]

Fantastic thread. Thanks for taking the time to put this together and grats on 500 post. Can't wait to see what you bring out for 1k ;-)

[dbarnum]

Good post with specific steps to take! Rock on

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by BritneyCSmith

Daniel,

Thank you very much. This post is very helpful to me. Sometimes the hardest part of all of this is just figuring out where to start.

Brit

Thanks and that would be correct. But don't get stuck on the learning process.

The biggest mistake most IM beginners make is that they stuck themselves in the learning curve, buying the next big how to product and never taking action. If you don't make that mistake you will find yourself making money in no time.

[reverendro]

Outstanding post Daniel. Between your post and Matt's a marketer in a good niche could literally build a full time income just by following the steps you guys have outlined here.

Article marketing works. I charge $10 to $20 for a 500 word article on Elance and I have clients that use my services like clockwork every single month. Some of them pay me more money a month than some people pay for their RENT. Why would these clients continue to pay me money to do something that doesn't work? Plus there's hundreds of other article writers on Elance all having clients paying them to do the same as well.

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by reverendro

Outstanding post Daniel. Between your post and Matt's a marketer in a good niche could literally build a full time income just by following the steps you guys have outlined here.

Article marketing works. I charge $10 to $20 for a 500 word article on Elance and I have clients that use my services like clockwork every single month. Some of them pay me more money a month than some people pay for their RENT. Why would these clients continue to pay me money to do something that doesn't work? Plus there's hundreds of other article writers on Elance all having clients paying them to do the same as well.

Yeah Matt's post is definitely a golden nugget, amazing way to leverage lots of traffic from 1 single article.

And I hear you, I started joking about how much I charged per article once hordes of people started PMing me about it (I said $75 per 500 words) and your jaw would literally drop if you knew how many actually went for it, I didn't accept though, but yeah...

[Peter Nguyen]

Hey I found a keyword with 1470 daily searches but 12,400 google competition, does an extra 2.4k competition matter much?

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by Peter Nguyen

Hey I found a keyword with 1470 daily searches but 12,400 google competition, does an extra 2.4k competition matter much?

Go for it, with enough backlinks you can rank easily for anything below 60,000.

[Rick67]

RE: "duplicate content does not apply unless you submit the same article under the same domain".

I am not quite sure just what you are saying here. Could you explain this in a different way? I appreciate it!

Rick

[Allen Graves]

Originally Posted by Rick67

RE: "duplicate content does not apply unless you submit the same article under the same domain".

I am not quite sure just what you are saying here. Could you explain this in a different way? I appreciate it!

Rick

Check out this blog entry...

http://www.warriorforum.com/blogs/al...e-content.html

[mymarketingsecret]

This is great information. I need to start using this method

[Trieu]

I remember in the in the other thread you previously said it was 100 daily searches out of a competition of 10,000, and now its only 10 daily searches? Or did you misspelt that?

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by Teo

I remember in the in the other thread you previously said it was 100 daily searches out of a competition of 10,000, and now its only 10 daily searches? Or did you misspelt that?

Hey Teo,

It wasn't a mispelling, that is my method, but you can bend it however you see fit and whatever works for you. There is NEVER only one way to do things.

In fact, you can go for at least 10 daily search results and less than 60,000 Google competition if you want to go for a wider margin.

[aboutalhah]

Excellent post.

The only thing I would suggest is to build your list in the process.

[jame58rown]

Hi Dan, great info.

What if, when I send off my 10 EZA articles, all aout the same niche, to the other 10 directories, rather than have a link to the same article on EZA I included a link one of the other similar articles. Each of the 10 with a link to one of the others.

That way if someone does happen to click on the EZA link they are not taken to the same article because we might lose them if they do. The similar article on EZA might hold their interest until they reach the resource box. But the 10 EZA articles still have the same amount links to them to boost their position in Google.

Would this be better or am i missing something? Its all a bit new to me and this curve is pretty steep.

[Daniel Molano]

Hey James,

Every article, EZA or not, should link to a landing page where you pre sell a product (as an affiliate) or to your own product sales page.

There is one way I believe EZA allows direct linking, which is through a redirect to a top level domain. But they way things are going, EZA will prohibit redirects soon as well.

Dan

Originally Posted by jame58rown

Hi Dan, great info.

What if, when I send off my 10 EZA articles, all aout the same niche, to the other 10 directories, rather than have a link to the same article on EZA I included a link one of the other similar articles. Each of the 10 with a link to one of the others.

That way if someone does happen to click on the EZA link they are not taken to the same article because we might lose them if they do. The similar article on EZA might hold their interest until they reach the resource box. But the 10 EZA articles still have the same amount links to them to boost their position in Google.

Would this be better or am i missing something? Its all a bit new to me and this curve is pretty steep.

[Janet McLean]

Dan,

Yep must've read my mind. I'm a total newbie to article writing and have just started searching for help. This is absolutely great!

Thanks so much for sharing. And congrats on reaching 500 posts. Whew, incredible.

Thanks again

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by mikelinley

Hey Daniel what about outsourcing your article writing and sending your outsourcer to this thread as rules for writing the article?

That is a very good idea Mike. You can transform any outsourced article into an SEOd article powerhouse that way.

Just give them the keyword list, point them to the thread and after you receive the articles do the backlinking.

[Liquidgraph]

Originally Posted by Daniel Molano

Go for it, with enough backlinks you can rank easily for anything below 60,000.

Daniel, thanks for the informative post. My key concern right now is figuring out how to SEO domain names. How can I tell when a domain/keyword is overly competitive? You mention searching in Google in quotes ("my keyword"), but what about non-quote search results, and high PR competition sites?

For example, I want my to register a .com domain that will appear #1 on Google. My keyword gets 2,870,000 page results non-quoted, but only 9,500 quoted. It gets 1,900 searches per month (according to Google Keyword Tool). Is this too competitive a term, broadly speaking? I intend to have a domain with this exact keyword, and my site will have dozens of unique articles related to the keyword.

Also, what percentage of traffic can one expect to get from the projected monthly search result given a #1 position? If my site becomes #1 for a keyword that gets 1,900 monthly searches, is it reasonable to expect 50% of that number to actually visit my site? i.e., 950 visitors/mo or 30/day.

-Thanks

[Lionel Turner]

If you submit an article to a bunch of directories with links back to your site should my site have that same article as a blog post (if it is a blog) or should it not? Will this hurt or help SEO

Thanks

Lionel