Thank God! You Don't Have To Be A Guru To Succeed At Article Marketing.

[SMS]

Imagine if every morning you could wake up an hour earlier, and before you leave for work you have submitted over 50 quality articles to the top article directories, and they all get approved. Dreaming? Read on.

Article marketing for some reason is one of the most popular and contentious subjects on this wonderful forum. I don't really want to fuel the debate any further. Personally, I struggle with article writing, but recently I just had a glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel.

If you are an experienced hand at article writing and marketing, then this is likely to be old news to you, so please bear with me. I have written this with newbies in mind.

The greatest problem, IMHO, is finding the time. The second one is overcoming the chore.

I seriously seriously admire Steven Wagenheim. Not just because he is able to churn out article after quality article in the time it would take most of us to dream up a title, but because it is obvious that he enjoys writing. You can feel it in his writing. Oh, what I would give to be a cloned Steven .

Alas, in the absence of any forthcoming revolutionary technology, I have to make do with my own DNA. But I think I have found away to achieve stellar results inspite (not because) of my DNA.

One of the greatest debates about article marketing is the duplicate content penalty. Personally, I don't believe that many people outside Google actually know what the real deal is. From my own observations, I think Google lie somewhere in the middle of the two camps (i.e Duplicate Content don't matter Camp Vs Ofcourse, Duplicate Content matters Camp).

As an article marketer, my goal should be to achieve the maximum mileage with my writing without incurring any duplicate content penalties. And that brings me to another hot topic on article marketing - spinning. Suffice it to say that spinning deserves a thread all of its own.

The undeniable fact is this: spinning is the only way you can multiply the efforts of your writing. If you are Mr. Wagenheim then obviously you don't need to spin, because in the time it takes most of us to launch the Spinner, Steve would have penned 15 articles and counting .

Let's cut to the chase.

In just over ten minutes, I was able to come up with 20 short articles from just the one seed PLR article. The articles have over 40% uniqueness. None of the articles will win any literary awards. But who does article marketing to win literary awards?

The interesting thing is not so much that I was able to be so productive in less than 20 minutes. What really excites me is that anybody that can type can have similar if not much better results. The truth is that I am an agonisingly slow typist. Touch typists should be able to accomplish at least twice what I did in the same time.

The articles are fairly short - under three hundred words. Let's say that a 500 hundred word article will take the slowest typist out there 30 mins? So in just one hour a slow typist will have at least two seed articles of over 40% uniqueness. At the click of a button you can submit variations of each article to 25 quality article directories.

Faster typists will achieve spectacularly superior results.

[SMS]

Here are the sample articles:

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1st article:

Baby furniture will bring a quality to the home that reminds everyone who enters just how precious life can be. I would give anything to witness the joy of a parent admiring their baby's belongings.

A lot of time is devoted by parents to sorting out the rooms where their kids spend a lot of time. It's impossible to avoid the mess. It is a good idea to start planning your baby's nursery well ahead of it's arrival. It's not only the baby who benefits from a comfortable living environment afterall.

Most parents will benefit from the opportunity to design the baby's nursery together. You shouldn't really be thinking of the nursery as just another room. It is an extension of the love and support that the parents plan to provide for the child.

These days, you won't have to travel very far to find stores selling good quality baby furniture at reasonable prices. Kids love bright colors, so indulge them and make the nursery bright. Bright colors will also make the nursery more inviting. Another very good choice to use is the pastel range of colours, tehy are so calming. Let your imagination run wild when you wander through the aisles of your local retail store.

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2nd Article

Baby furniture has a way of reminding us that life is a very precious commodity. Any parent will understand the swell of joy you get when something reminds you about your baby.

Parents and family spend so much money and time organizing children's bedrooms, infant nurseries and playrooms. It is a good idea to start planning your baby's nursery well ahead of it's arrival. It's not only the baby who benefits from a comfortable living environment afterall.

Most parents will benefit from the opportunity to design the baby's nursery together. A nursery should mean more than just a room to you. The nursery is an extension of your child, and deserves every bit of care and attention.

These days, you won't have to travel very far to find stores selling good quality baby furniture at reasonable prices. Think like a child: hint they like bright colors like red and yellow. Pastels are wonderful shades to use in a child's room. Let your imagination run wild when you wander through the aisles of your local retail store.

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3rd Article

Isn't funny how the baby furniture can have such a huge emotional impact on parents? Seeing the joy on the faces of the parents is almost as beautiful.

Children's rooms are always messy, and it is always down to the parents to do the tidying up. Do not make the mistake of waiting till baby is born before you start thinking about organising the room. Both mother and baby will have a far better time in each other's company when efforts are made to make baby comfortable in her surrounding.

The opportunity to design a nursery is very special, and parents should not take it for granted. The nursery is much more than just a room for the baby. Make every effort to invest the love and attention you have for your child into the nursery.

Baby furniture can be found in most large-scale retail stores or in specialty baby stores across the country. Think like a child: hint they like bright colors like red and yellow. Another very good choice to use is the pastel range of colours, tehy are so calming. The whole idea is to be inhibited. Don't think like an adult. Think back to when you were a child.

[k8spy8]

Not guru but I think efficiency in article is the main thing. It play the vital role in article marketing. In article marketing you need to be more updated in topics selection and more fluent in word choosing that's all you need to do.

[SMS]

I hear what you are saying. I think you are talking about keyword research and SEO. However, you can be brilliant at those two things & still be overwhelmed by the production process itself.

What I shared is a way to make article production a snip. That has been the case for me, anyway.

Thanks for your comments.

[Barry Walls]

Interesting. Which article spinner produced this?

[Waterways2k8]

hhmmm... nice idea here, thanks for the advice as I never thought about using a plr seed article than once

[ragnartm]

Do they make you any money? The articles, if they don't make you any money, unless they're only supposed to build traffic. I don't see 50 daily 40% unique articles that serve no purpose to be successful so I hope you're making money or getting vast amounts of traffic

[SMS]

That's an interesting question, BigJock.

I wish an article spinner existed that could spin that all by itself. I'd pay millions (if I had that much dosh) for such a tool. And that brings us to the debate about spinners that I so want to avoid .

Unfortunately, I had to use my brain to come up with the sentence variations. The article spinner just automates and speeds up the random combinations of the variations.

The genre of spinner I used is the JetSpinner type (i.e curly braces). Power Article Rewriter is very good in making this transparent.

Milan's Automatic Article Spinner also does a decent job, but is not very polished yet (as far as the spinner is concerned, IMHO). The beauty of AAS is that for just a few more dollars than PAR you also get what is in my opinion the bestest article submitter software to boot.

Originally Posted by bigjock

Interesting. Which article spinner produced this?

[SMS]

Hiya,

If you are using a PLR article only once, then you are leaving so much juice on the table.

Also if you don't make chages to the article, your article is going to be the same as literally hundreds if not thousands out there. Take any PLR article and do an exact phrase search in Google for any sentence in the article and see what comes up. The vast majority of these articles will be in the supplementary index, and that is where yours will be very likely to end up.

There is actually a PLR report on using PLR articles I can send you if you are interested. Just PM me.

Take care.

Originally Posted by Waterways2k8

hhmmm... nice idea here, thanks for the advice as I never thought about using a plr seed article than once

[Barry Walls]

Originally Posted by SMS

That's an interesting question, BigJock.

I wish an article spinner existed that could spin that all by itself. I'd pay millions (if I had that much dosh) for such a tool. And that brings us to the debate about spinners that I so want to avoid .

Unfortunately, I had to use my brain to come up with the sentence variations. The article spinner just automates and speeds up the random combinations of the variations.

The genre of spinner I used is the JetSpinner type (i.e curly braces). Power Article Rewriter is very good in making this transparent.

Milan's Automatic Article Spinner also does a decent job, but is not very polished yet (as far as the spinner is concerned, IMHO). The beauty of AAS is that for just a few more dollars than PAR you also get what is in my opinion the bestest article submitter software to boot.

Thanks fro clearing that up...spinning gives the impression of being done by an automated tool.

What you seem to have done is rewritten it yourself.

Is that correct?

Also, if you have rewritten it yourself...why do yo need to buy PLR.

Why not just rewrite any old article?

Have I missed something?

All the best

Barry

[Droopy Dawg]

You should consider spinning the articles and changing the name of your article (using another keyword-rich title) and submit to other article directories (goarticles, isnare, others). Be sure your articles are already published on EZA before you do this.

You can also submit each "spent" article to Associated Content... sure they only offer pennies for articles nowadays, but at least you'll make SOME money off of them, and you also get ANOTHER backlink, and they will also rank in SERPs if you do effective keyword research.

Just a thought

[SMS]

I agree with you that the objective is to make money. Like I said in my first post, we ain't writing to win awards.

Have you read Tim Gorman's Article Bully, or sommink along those lines? In there he outlines a blueprint for using articles to become an authority in your niche. His blueprint involves using one article directory (EzineArticles), so pumping out spun articles won't work.

However, it shouldn't take a lot of imagination to tweak his blueprint and use spun articles to achieve authority status.

Additionally, articles are very good for link juice, and that is where spinning articles comes into its own.

Have a good one, Sir...

Originally Posted by ragnartm

Do they make you any money? The articles, if they don't make you any money, unless they're only supposed to build traffic. I don't see 50 daily 40% unique articles that serve no purpose to be successful so I hope you're making money or getting vast amounts of traffic

[Barry Walls]

Im confused by your use of the word spun.

Are you sure you don't mean "manually rewritten?"

All the best

Barry

[SMS]

Hey Big Jock,

It seems that usage of the term varies. In your case it seems that spinning means a push button approach (like Content Boss), where there is no human involvement.

For me, I consider any process that involves manipulating an article to produce more copies as spinning... whether or not software is involved.
So at one extreme, you'd have the Content Boss approach, & at the other extreme you have 100% human manipulation.

What I discussed in the OP is the middle ground, in that I rewrote individual sentences without combining them into an article, and then the article spinner did the combining (spinning).

Did I make sense? If not I'll post the rewritten but unspun article for you.

About using PLRs... I didn't have to buy them. They came as bonuses with other stuff I bought.

Some people use articles, and rewrite the articles. With articles, I tend to do more remodeling than rewriting, and that's more work... so I prefer PLRs. At the end of the day it's a personal thing really. Each to their own.

Let me know if you want to see the article before it was spun.

[Barry Walls]

Thnaks SMS

That makes sense now...I think.

All the best

Barry

[Damz]

SMS,
Why dont your share your article marketing experiences with us?
Earnings/How many articles/ Which directories/CTR...Etc..as article marketers we are itching to know your success...

[Allen Graves]

I don't want to sound negative. I really, REALLY enjoy your positive attitude on this!

But the problem with this approach is that although the words are different, the final product is exactly what you are not wanting to worry about...duplicate content.

There is a chance that all but one of these would be declined in an article directory...and a very good chance they would be declined on an authority website.

My suggestion is to get Dragon Naturally Speaking and produce similar results without even thinking about it or taking the time to rewrite anything. Just go by a simple outline and change up the outline bullet points each time.

Allen Graves

[Hackbridge]

Here's a free tool you can use. But on second thoughts if you want it I'd suggest you pm me because the mods may not like a url in this post. The software makes you use your brain, but it (the software) helps immensly. You'll see what I mean. 100% with no sign up - well not from me any way

[Glenn Leader]

SMS,

Congratulations on taking action, there are many
people who will sit there and bemoan the use of
tools that help you get your chores done quickly
and effectively. They'll tell us all that these tools
can't possibly work, or that they take too long to
setup.

What they forget it the time that will be saved over
a short period of time. This means that if you
continue to use the right tools to do the right jobs,
you'll have no option but to succeed. Don't let any
critics bring you down.

As far as content spinning software is concerned, or
as I prefer to call it, content creation systems, you
will need human control on what data is used,
otherwise you'll have to hand check every article,
and probably rewrite quite a few of them. There
will be some you might as well trash too

The formula is simple:

(the right tools+the right job)*application= success


HTH

Glenn

[SMS]

A bit of reality checking is always a good thing, Mr Allen .

I have to disagree very strongly with you, though regarding duplicate content. I've been doing this for a while & no way do I get dup content.

If you submit different versions of the same article to the same directory, then ofcourse the articles should get rejected. But that is not what I do.

I submit one and only one version of each article to each directory. But I will also submit different versions of that same article to other directories.

For the example article I posted earlier... they are three versions of the same article. So one & only one of them would go to EzineArticles, another would go to GoArticles, and yet another would be submitted to ArticleCity.

My articles don't get rejected, because there is no reason for them to be rejected.

I agree about Dragon, though. I've had it for quite a few years, but have never been able to achieve decent accuracy with it. It's sommink I keep at the back of my mind, because I know it will skyrocket my productivity even more. I'll have to find a way to get it to work with a spinner, though.

I've seen the future, & it's full of 'SPIN'... just ask Tony Blair .

Originally Posted by Allen Graves

I don't want to sound negative. I really, REALLY enjoy your positive attitude on this!

But the problem with this approach is that although the words are different, the final product is exactly what you are not wanting to worry about...duplicate content.

There is a chance that all but one of these would be declined in an article directory...and a very good chance they would be declined on an authority website.

My suggestion is to get Dragon Naturally Speaking and produce similar results without even thinking about it or taking the time to rewrite anything. Just go by a simple outline and change up the outline bullet points each time.

Allen Graves

[SMS]

You hit the nail on the head, Glenn. I use spinners as productivity tools, albeit dumb productivity tools. So junk in - rubbish out.

You've got to use the software between your ears to ensure quality control. Delegating that task to a dumb tool is a No No in my book!

Originally Posted by Glenn Leader

SMS,

Congratulations on taking action, there are many
people who will sit there and bemoan the use of
tools that help you get your chores done quickly
and effectively. They'll tell us all that these tools
can't possibly work, or that they take too long to
setup.

What they forget it the time that will be saved over
a short period of time. This means that if you
continue to use the right tools to do the right jobs,
you'll have no option but to succeed. Don't let any
critics bring you down.

As far as content spinning software is concerned, or
as I prefer to call it, content creation systems, you
will need human control on what data is used,
otherwise you'll have to hand check every article,
and probably rewrite quite a few of them. There
will be some you might as well trash too

The formula is simple:

(the right tools+the right job)*application= success


HTH

Glenn

[SMS]

Ben,

I thought I answered your Qs, but it seems to have disappeared.

mrkrabs,

This will also answer your own Q.

I said in the OP that I'm a relative noobie & far from a guru. So I'm not gonna tell you that I make X dollars every Y days from article marketing.

What I can tell you is that my productivity has increased several fold. On a typical morning, I can write & distribute 2 (sometimes 3) articles within an hour.

I write primarily for link juice as opposed to sales, and my results have been good. I have several pages on the 1st page of Google, for admittedly not very competitive keywords.

If you are looking for money & good CTRs, then Tim Gorman's Article Bully is right on the money .

I hope that answers your Qs.

[John Durham]

Originally Posted by SMS

I seriously seriously admire Steven Wagenheim. Not just because he is able to churn out article after quality article in the time it would take most of us to dream up a title, but because it is obvious that he enjoys writing. You can feel it in his writing. Oh, what I would give to be a cloned Steven .

I agree. In 2009 the "Wag Man" is my hero! He's like John Henry or something...super powers!!!

[Allen Graves]

Originally Posted by SMS

I submit one and only one version of each article to each directory. But I will also submit different versions of that same article to other directories.

That'll work!

Allen

[willz605]

wow....I understand how article marketing works but those spun articles are horrible. They hardly make any sense. How in the world can you build credibility with those other than to have backlinks (I guess that's the point.)

Now I know why I don't make money with IM.

[Glenn Leader]

Originally Posted by willz605

wow....I understand how article marketing works but those spun articles are horrible. They hardly make any sense. How in the world can you build credibility with those other than to have backlinks (I guess that's the point.)

Now I know why I don't make money with IM.

Not all article spinners are created equal. You need to
look into the ones that allow YOU to control what content
is used in the output. Get hold of one that will make you
use your brain.

HTH

Glenn

[willz605]

Originally Posted by Glenn Leader

Not all article spinners are created equal. You need to
look into the ones that allow YOU to control what content
is used in the output. Get hold of one that will make you
use your brain.

HTH

Glenn

agreed.....I was just commenting on the articles not the process or the software..

[Mr McDonald]

Have had some great recults from articles i have knocked up in 10/15 mins. I believe its all in the keywords and how you use them.

Good luck all.

[Barry Walls]

Originally Posted by Glenn Leader

Not all article spinners are created equal. You need to
look into the ones that allow YOU to control what content
is used in the output. Get hold of one that will make you
use your brain.

HTH

Glenn

Hi Glenn...

If someone put you in a corner and made you make a recommendation for article spinners, what would the top three articles spinners be?

All the best

Barry

[Glenn Leader]

Originally Posted by bigjock

Hi Glenn...

If someone put you in a corner and made you make a recommendation for article spinners, what would the top three articles spinners be?

All the best

Barry

You wouldn't need to corner me. I'd happily recommend my own
product ArtiFact and James too, but would be hard pressed to come
up with a third option right now... I've not looked into them... Many
people swear by Power Article Rewriter...Having said that... ArtiFact
come in two flavours.... So technically, I've mentioned four

HTH

Glenn

[Star Riley]

Originally Posted by SMS

Imagine if every morning you could wake up an hour earlier, and before you leave for work you have submitted over 50 quality articles to the top article directories, and they all get approved. Dreaming? Read on.

Article marketing for some reason is one of the most popular and contentious subjects on this wonderful forum. I don't really want to fuel the debate any further. Personally, I struggle with article writing, but recently I just had a glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel.

If you are an experienced hand at article writing and marketing, then this is likely to be old news to you, so please bear with me. I have written this with newbies in mind.

The greatest problem, IMHO, is finding the time. The second one is overcoming the chore.

I seriously seriously admire Steven Wagenheim. Not just because he is able to churn out article after quality article in the time it would take most of us to dream up a title, but because it is obvious that he enjoys writing. You can feel it in his writing. Oh, what I would give to be a cloned Steven .

Alas, in the absence of any forthcoming revolutionary technology, I have to make do with my own DNA. But I think I have found away to achieve stellar results inspite (not because) of my DNA.

One of the greatest debates about article marketing is the duplicate content penalty. Personally, I don't believe that many people outside Google actually know what the real deal is. From my own observations, I think Google lie somewhere in the middle of the two camps (i.e Duplicate Content don't matter Camp Vs Ofcourse, Duplicate Content matters Camp).

As an article marketer, my goal should be to achieve the maximum mileage with my writing without incurring any duplicate content penalties. And that brings me to another hot topic on article marketing - spinning. Suffice it to say that spinning deserves a thread all of its own.

The undeniable fact is this: spinning is the only way you can multiply the efforts of your writing. If you are Mr. Wagenheim then obviously you don't need to spin, because in the time it takes most of us to launch the Spinner, Steve would have penned 15 articles and counting .

Let's cut to the chase.

In just over ten minutes, I was able to come up with 20 short articles from just the one seed PLR article. The articles have over 40% uniqueness. None of the articles will win any literary awards. But who does article marketing to win literary awards?

The interesting thing is not so much that I was able to be so productive in less than 20 minutes. What really excites me is that anybody that can type can have similar if not much better results. The truth is that I am an agonisingly slow typist. Touch typists should be able to accomplish at least twice what I did in the same time.

The articles are fairly short - under three hundred words. Let's say that a 500 hundred word article will take the slowest typist out there 30 mins? So in just one hour a slow typist will have at least two seed articles of over 40% uniqueness. At the click of a button you can submit variations of each article to 25 quality article directories.

Faster typists will achieve spectacularly superior results.

Thanks again for your witty injection into this Forum rarely do I find myself so educated and amused at the same time your information may be over the head and between the legs for a few but I'm starting to catch on ;-)

[makemoneygirl]

Nice heads up, SMS.

I have also tried spinning it with various article spinners in the market but was not really satisfied with the results. Its always devoid of something and I end up moderating it again taking so much time on my part.

Care to share what article spinners do you use?

Thanks,

Anne

[Habbit]

Find a good outsourcer to rewrite the articles copyscape them and your in business.

[Glenn Leader]

Originally Posted by Habbit

Find a good outsourcer to rewrite the articles copyscape them and your in business.

I think you've missed the OP original point.. He wasn't asking a question, he
was telling us how he's automated part of his work, and reaping the rewards.

HTH

Glenn

[SMS]

Will,

You may be right. Those articles were based on a PLR which I did not check for quality as I was just using it for an example.

The point I was trying to make is that one can turn out a huge quantity of articles by having the right process in place. Quality control is also very important, although it wasn't the objective of this thread. As they say: rubbish in; junk out.

Take care.

Originally Posted by willz605

wow....I understand how article marketing works but those spun articles are horrible. They hardly make any sense. How in the world can you build credibility with those other than to have backlinks (I guess that's the point.)

Now I know why I don't make money with IM.

[SMS]

Well said Glenn.

The problem with my example article had nothing to do with the spinning. It was just the fact that the original article was of poor quality.

I think the watch word should be, 'don't sacrifice quality in the chase for quantity'.

Originally Posted by Glenn Leader

Not all article spinners are created equal. You need to
look into the ones that allow YOU to control what content
is used in the output. Get hold of one that will make you
use your brain.

HTH

Glenn