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Advanced Article Marketing Tip

by kindsvater
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Let me share a very advanced article marketing tip with you today. A tip many article marketers are never able to master.

This is based on years of operating more than one article directory/content site and having moderated thousands of articles:

Either take an English class, or stop outsourcing your crap to someone who needs an English class, or stop spinning.

The garbage and pure junk being disseminated as "articles" is truly amazing.

Forget the dubious content. The mechanics are atrocious.

If you are sending out this crap solely to increase your backlink count, I suspect you will be disappointed with the results. The websites who blindly accept these types of articles do not rank well, if at all, and will not give you much value.

That is why some sites, like EzineArticles, while not perfect are able to garner good rankings and traffic.

If you are sending out this crap expecting people to swoon over your article and follow your link to your autoblog, you're again in for disappointment.

If you can get this tip right you're already way ahead of most article marketers. Congratulations. Anything else you're concerned with about your articles is the small stuff.
#advanced #article #marketing #tip
  • Profile picture of the author DLMedia03
    I'm disappointed. I wanted a "real" advanced tip >_>

    I will take it. Also, I would have to say if someone doesn't speak good English and out sources their article, it's probably not that easy for them to decipher whether or not what they got back is, in fact, good English.

    So another advanced tip might be... learn good English
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  • Profile picture of the author BenJackson
    But real syndication is when I blast my article out to 2,000 article directories, not when a real human webmaster likes my content and uses it right? :rolleyes:
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  • Profile picture of the author CatherineC
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    I feel blessed to have such a command of English that it allows me to effectively sell the click and convert that click on just about anything I write.

    It must be tough not being able to get a grip on the complexity of the language...and having to resort to nonsense brute-force submissions of garbage/spun articles to achieve the same result as a single well-written syndicated article.

    That said, the people doing it will only suffer in the future as Google continues to clamp down on it. Grammar 101 anyone?
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    • Profile picture of the author Andyhenry
      [QUOTE=CatherineC;3408993]I feel blessed to have such a command of English that it allows me to effectively sell the click and convert that click on just about anything I write.

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      You should.

      I've written many books and thousands of articles and I don't think I can say the same.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Worner
    Ah, Mr. Kindsvater,

    people who spin articles are a lot like VFX technicians, you know when they did not do their job properly.

    Chris
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    • Profile picture of the author Tashi Mortier
      I also don't think that this is really an advanced tip but thanks for sharing anyways!

      Yes you need quality articles. You want to provide value. An article should be interesting enough to keep your prospect reading and get him interested in you, the author. Curiosity is a very strong "feeling" and once someone gets curious about your product or service you can be sure that it will stay in his mind for a while.
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  • Profile picture of the author Peter Gehr
    Couldn't agree with you more on this.

    A spun article would be useful if it was naturally readable, but a lot of times it reads like something that a Martian would attempt in communicating with earthlings.

    If we load up blogs and sites with unreadable rubbish, most people will not even want to read it, and conversions will tank.

    I've used word spinners, and from my viewpoint, it can often take longer to process your original text through the spinner i.e. choosing the synonyms, correcting weirdnesses etc. than what it would take to write unique content.

    If I visit a site with such ridiculous content, loaded with grammatical errors and nonsense, I'm outta there in a heartbeat.

    Unique content--bring it on!
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  • Profile picture of the author ELK
    No matter how strong your command on the English language, I would make one helpful suggestion.

    Read your articles outloud to yourself.

    You'll notice all kinds of things this way that you might not if you are just skimming through your paragraphs.

    Then again, you can't really do this if you are spinning thousands of articles that look like something my third grader might write when she's half awake.

    If you know your grammar isn't the best (even if you were raised speaking and writing English) go learn something about grammar and word choice!

    Better yet, READ well-written books and articles (offline) that have some flow to them. Read actual books and magazines that cover a wide range of topics (not just gossip celebrity mags - something intelligent).

    Look at how those sentences are constructed so they sound smooth and readable. Figure out what seems difficult for you to read or track visually and then avoid doing those things when writing your own articles.

    Thousands of pieces of Crap can't possibly be better than a small-to-modest amount of Quality.
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