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Question for article syndicators...

by ymest
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Hello Hello,

I have a quick question regarding how you actually send your emails to the people who have picked up your articles and placed it on their sites.

Do you create an email address ie; hotmail, yahoo etc for each Niche?

I am VERY TECHNICALLY CHALLENGED lol and I have not ventured much into my wordpress/ hostgator Cpanel to see if there is an email function there....I just want to simplify things...

Please be gentle with me....hahahah!!

Thanks so much

Yoan
#article #question #syndicators
  • Profile picture of the author RayWhittaker
    Hello Yoan

    I'm not sure I've understood your question correctly so apologies if I've gone off at a tangent here...

    Contacting people who have used your article isn't really necessary; or usual. Do you have some way of tracking people who use your article? Article directories don't (can't) usually track that information.

    If you know who's used your article and the site they've used it on, the easiest way to contact them is use their own contact page. But I can't help wondering why you want to contact them?
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    • Profile picture of the author Meonthe
      Originally Posted by RayWhittaker View Post

      Contacting people who have used your article isn't really necessary; or usual.
      It is. It really is
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      • Profile picture of the author RayWhittaker
        Originally Posted by Meonthe View Post

        It is. It really is
        Why would you want to contact people who have used your article on their site; assuming you could find them all?

        The only time I've ever wanted to contact someone who has used my articles is when they omit the backlink to me (or even attribution in most cases). When that happens, I don't email them I put a comment on the article pointing the omission out. That way I get a backlink anyway.

        But I've never spent my time trying to track down webmasters that have used my articles. My time is much better spent in posting new articles.
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        • Profile picture of the author drmani
          Originally Posted by RayWhittaker View Post

          Why would you want to contact people who have used your article on their site; assuming you could find them all?
          For the same reason you'd try to sell more to those who are already your
          customers - these publishers LIKE and TRUST you enough to re-publish
          your content. They are more likely to do it again than a relative stranger.

          All success
          Dr.Mani

          P.S. - With Google Alerts set up for your article titles or unique phrases in
          them, it is infinitely easier today to find those who syndicate your content
          than it used to be.
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        • Profile picture of the author Meonthe
          Originally Posted by RayWhittaker View Post

          But I've never spent my time trying to track down webmasters that have used my articles. My time is much better spent in posting new articles.
          But my time is better spent in promoting my already written articles. Writing so many articles and just sitting and hoping will not get you any major results. It's hit or miss kind of thing for me.

          I like to leverage my time and efforts by marketing my articles throughly. By that I mean I search for every possible way to get my articles published in as many good places as possible. Plus, I contact webmasters who have syndicated my articles before to make them repeat syndicators instead of one-off syndicators. It's all about leverage and efficiency.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by RayWhittaker View Post

      Contacting people who have used your article isn't really necessary; or usual.
      With apologies for the dissenting tone, Ray: it's absolutely essential, and fundamental. That's the underlying basis on which article marketing businesses are built.

      It's explained in detail in this thread (see paragraph (v) of the post linked to).

      There's not much point in making your articles available for syndication in a directory if you're not going to follow up with and build relationships with the people who syndicate them: that's where most of the money is, in article marketing!
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      • Profile picture of the author Meonthe
        Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

        There's not much point in making your articles available for syndication in a directory if you're not going to follow up with and build relationships with the people who syndicate them: that's where most of the money is, in article marketing!
        Ya, that's like building a list and after getting a couple of sales from the first promotion, thinking that's enough and then killing that list already

        BTW, thanks for the tips in that thread. They were nice additions to my basket of knowledge.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by ymest View Post

    I have a quick question regarding how you actually send your emails to the people who have picked up your articles and placed it on their sites.

    Do you create an email address ie; hotmail, yahoo etc for each Niche?
    Not hotmail or yahoo: they don't look very professional.

    You need an email address for each niche, because you'll (presumably?) have a different pen-name for each niche. But you also need a domain for each niche, because you need a website and to build a list for each niche. So you can be pen-name (at) yourdomain.com each time.

    Originally Posted by ymest View Post

    I am VERY TECHNICALLY CHALLENGED
    Surely not as much as I am?!?!

    Nobody     here is as incompetent and technophobic as I am! :p
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  • Profile picture of the author drmani
    Originally Posted by ymest View Post

    I have a quick question regarding how you actually send your emails to the people who have picked up your articles and placed it on their sites.

    Yoan
    When I started, I didn't know much technically either.

    Here's what I did:

    * created a folder on my desktop, and named it by niche
    * opened a text document and saved it inside the folder
    * each time I found someone who had syndicated my article,
    I'd add their name, email address and website URL where the
    content had been syndicated

    When I had fresh content that might interest them, I would
    copy and paste the email address into a new message, and
    send them the message that I had a new article they might
    want to re-publish, considering that they have earlier used
    my article at (website URL here).

    As the list grew bigger, I used a simple script or the
    feature in MS Word to perform a 'mail merge' operation and
    sent out the emails from my Eudora (or earlier Pegasus mail)

    Today, being more tech savvy than before, and as my volume
    of syndicated content grows steadily, I'd set up a list on
    my autoresponder, invite those who use my content to register
    for updates, and load them into the follow up sequence to
    go out automatically.

    Hope this helps.

    All success
    Dr.Mani
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    • Profile picture of the author ymest
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      Hi Yoan,

      Sorry, I posted quickly, earlier on, and I realise now that I didn't actually answer the "substantive question".



      Me too. I think there might be some way of doing this through C-panel but I don't understand this stuff and do it a much simpler (I think!) way, which I'll explain.

      At the registrar where I've bought the domain-name (Namecheap in my case, but they all have something equivalent), I click on "email forwarding" (at Namecheap it's under "manage your domains") and - just by typing my email address into the little box and clicking on "save changes" - set up a forwarding thing so that mail sent to "info", "admin", "support", "lexy", or anything else (at) thatdomain.com will be forwarded to my main email. And from there, I can reply so that the email will appear to be from "whatever" at thatdomain.com. I actually use fastmail as my main email address, and I can set up "extra personalities" and even "extra signatures" in my account there - and it's easy enough for even me to be able to do. (I don't know whether this can be done at hotmail or yahoo, though.)
      Originally Posted by drmani View Post

      When I started, I didn't know much technically either.

      Here's what I did:

      * created a folder on my desktop, and named it by niche
      * opened a text document and saved it inside the folder
      * each time I found someone who had syndicated my article,
      I'd add their name, email address and website URL where the
      content had been syndicated

      When I had fresh content that might interest them, I would
      copy and paste the email address into a new message, and
      send them the message that I had a new article they might
      want to re-publish, considering that they have earlier used
      my article at (website URL here).

      As the list grew bigger, I used a simple script or the
      feature in MS Word to perform a 'mail merge' operation and
      sent out the emails from my Eudora (or earlier Pegasus mail)

      Today, being more tech savvy than before, and as my volume
      of syndicated content grows steadily, I'd set up a list on
      my autoresponder, invite those who use my content to register
      for updates, and load them into the follow up sequence to
      go out automatically.

      Hope this helps.

      All success
      Dr.Mani
      Thank you very much for the info! Very good organization tips, will use them for sure!

      All the best

      Yoan
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Hi Yoan,

    Sorry, I posted quickly, earlier on, and I realise now that I didn't actually answer the "substantive question".

    Originally Posted by ymest View Post

    I have not ventured much into my wordpress/ hostgator Cpanel to see if there is an email function there....I just want to simplify things...
    Me too. I think there might be some way of doing this through C-panel but I don't understand this stuff and do it a much simpler (I think!) way, which I'll explain.

    At the registrar where I've bought the domain-name (Namecheap in my case, but they all have something equivalent), I click on "email forwarding" (at Namecheap it's under "manage your domains") and - just by typing my email address into the little box and clicking on "save changes" - set up a forwarding thing so that mail sent to "info", "admin", "support", "lexy", or anything else (at) thatdomain.com will be forwarded to my main email. And from there, I can reply so that the email will appear to be from "whatever" at thatdomain.com. I actually use fastmail as my main email address, and I can set up "extra personalities" and even "extra signatures" in my account there - and it's easy enough for even me to be able to do. (I don't know whether this can be done at hotmail or yahoo, though.)
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    • Profile picture of the author ymest
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      Hi Yoan,

      Sorry, I posted quickly, earlier on, and I realise now that I didn't actually answer the "substantive question".



      Me too. I think there might be some way of doing this through C-panel but I don't understand this stuff and do it a much simpler (I think!) way, which I'll explain.

      At the registrar where I've bought the domain-name (Namecheap in my case, but they all have something equivalent), I click on "email forwarding" (at Namecheap it's under "manage your domains") and - just by typing my email address into the little box and clicking on "save changes" - set up a forwarding thing so that mail sent to "info", "admin", "support", "lexy", or anything else (at) thatdomain.com will be forwarded to my main email. And from there, I can reply so that the email will appear to be from "whatever" at thatdomain.com. I actually use fastmail as my main email address, and I can set up "extra personalities" and even "extra signatures" in my account there - and it's easy enough for even me to be able to do. (I don't know whether this can be done at hotmail or yahoo, though.)
      Thanks Alexa!

      I went to Hostgator and chatted for a couple of minutes to one of the guys there, I have set up my email within my C Panel, very easily done but will check the other way too! Indeed, I thought hotmail and yahoo aren't professional and wanted to find out how the Syndicator superstars did it! Merci beaucoup!
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