Article on site or EZA first ?

[Havenhood]

Don't be sorry. eZine Articles.

[Allen Graves]

Originally Posted by Redagents

Sorry warriors but what is EZA

Here's a link (with an annoyingly long description)

EzineArticles Submission - Submit Your Best Quality Original Articles For Massive Exposure, Ezine Publishers Get 25 Free Article Reprints

AL

[scarter11]

Quick newbie question. I have 5 new articles and am going to create a new niche blog. Should I add them all to the new blog first, start promoting, or add the first, bookmark, submit to directories, then repeat for the other 4?

Thanks in advance.

[TheRichJerksNet]

Originally Posted by scarter11

Quick newbie question. I have 5 new articles and am going to create a new niche blog. Should I add them all to the new blog first, start promoting, or add the first, bookmark, submit to directories, then repeat for the other 4?

Thanks in advance.

Add them all to your own blog first.....

James

[Allen Graves]

Yea - in fact, don't add them to your blog first...just add them to your blog.

As you create more content over the coming weeks and months, decide which to use for your own site and which to use for your marketing purposes, i.e. syndication through other websites.

Allen

[ikelove]

Wow, great thread! I had to split reading this over a few nights but I'm finally done with all 456! First of all, much props to James, Keith, Jay, Allen, Peter for the amount of value you guys provided here. I'm waiting to the last day of the month to sign up with HostGator and put up my blog (I decided to wait to the end of the month so as to have a consistent time scale of when my bills are due, instead of having it all haphazard on different times of the month). As a newbie, you guys helped fill in a lot of gaps of understanding I had.

The first lesson I learned in Marketing 101 from this thread is that the reason why people make money hand over fist selling informational products that give info that could be found for free is that MANY PEOPLE DON'T APPRECIATE FREE INFORMATION. I saw how people stubbornly argued with EXPERIENCED marketers how they were right and also saw how people were too lazy through this thread to find out the info for themselves. This makes me feel less guilty about selling information products in the future because, truthfully, people are more likely to listen when they actually are paying for something (although this isn't always guaranteed either).....great lesson!

This leads to my question about keywords which can be considered a sub-topic of this thread. I understand that keywords are what people enter into search engines to search for a particular area of interest, I understand how you research a keyword to find out how many hits it gets per month, but I'm a bit confused about how a marketer particularly uses a keyword for a site.

1) This may sound like a foolish question, but is there a specific tag used in HTML for keywords so that search engines can pick up on them??

2) Also, I've read how people write articles/blogs with keywords in them...what do you mean by that? E.g. if someone had a keyword "dog training", do they then write a blog with the words, "dog training" in them that will also subsequently be in the articles they duplicate and add to the different directories?

3) Now, because they'd be using these keywords as their "niche" so to speak, do they have to subsequently insert these keywords in EVERY blog they put up on their site? Won't that make the blog a bit stale if you're writing blogs for the purpose of inserting your chosen keyword?

4) What if 5/6 or whatever months down the line you decide these keywords aren't really searched too much or are too competitive, are you then screwed because all the other blogs that you have written have had these keywords and you can't go back and change them?

5) Can a site subsequently have more than one keyword?

6) What is it EXACTLY that guarantees your site getting listed high in the search engines with your chosen keywords? Is it the blog that you've written that contains the keywords that's posted on your site and on directories and social bookmarking sites as articles? Or is it that the backlinks that you're using to link back to your site actually have your keyword as the hyperlink back to your site. For example, if "dog training" is your keyword, you turn it into a hyperlink that links back to your site.

7) I heard it loud and clear that you can insert duplicate copies of your blog to EZA, Articlesbase, and other directories without any problem just as long as you are the author. How do you guys deal with squidoo, hubpages, etc. Do you also post duplicates on these sites as well or do you prefer to abridge what you've written. (Hey, if my question about squidoo, hubpages, etc. was already answered, forgive me, this was a LONG post. )

Sorry if my questions seems confusing, that is because I'm confused...

[adamsad]

what a thread...i spent more than 6 hours to read the whole thread...a lot of information. Now I have a clear view of how to use article that dubbed as duplicate content by some people. I think jonathan leger also mention that duplicate content is a myth

[rabbithunter666]

I think article on site first is better. Then, you can add EZA to work as back link for your site.

[wiley1]

That's a really good way of doing things. Thanks for the good information.

By the way, I looked at your Word Press Tutorials (clicked on your signature link). They look very good. I'm going to be using them. Good job!
Thanks for being so generous.

[troy23]

I put it onto a hub page and then onto EzineArticles. Unfortunately Ezine asked me to prove it was mine because they had found the exact same article elsewhere. So don't post the same article to the web site that you post to EzineArticles.