Article Marketing

Exactly what I was going to say

Just like adwords, you need to make sure you pic your keywords correctly. If you don't do that, your almost wasting your time. Once they've been submitted and published, have someone rewrite them a little bit and submit them to 10 other article directories (vary the titles).

Then start backlinking the shit out of them. Angela's and Paul's backlink package works well, and there are a ton of ways to get other backlinks as well such as social bookmarking, blog comments, making video's out of them. Big Mike has a cool product out now that does this. Think outside the box a little bit and you can get some good traffic to them pretty consistantly.

If you want consistant traffic, you'll have to keep submitting until you get some ranking well. If the competition is low enough, you can take over the top slots for your keywords with the articles from different directories.

Once they are ranking though, you can move on to another niche and still get traffic to your original niche.

Ezine will give you a nice shot of traffic once they are published, but you will get even more if you can get yourself on the "most viewed for 90 days" or "most published" lists.

Hey George,

Here are 2 pointers that will help:

1. Always write with a keyword in mind. So make sure the people you outsource to knows how to optimize the article. (e.g. mention keywords once every 100 words)

2. Although article submission is important (e.g. which article directories you submit to), the main focus should be to get your articles to rank on Google through several techniques. Backlinking and social bookmarking are just some of these techniques.

And something that I've always recommended my subscribers to do is "Focus on improving your articles' SERPs before moving on to the next." Why? Because in order for the article to be viral and serve as a lifetime source of traffic for your promotions, you have to make sure it can be easily found by your target audience.

So the bottomline is that "keep submitting each day like crazy" is a big NO-NO.

hey GeorgeR, not sure if you are ignoring me or what, lol, but i've sent you 3 or 4 PM's in the last 3-4 days about your affiliate site quick. Just have some basic questions before I purchase it. Please respond if you get the chance.

Very true. And with that, I usually write 3 articles/hour. That's typing them up. If I use DNS, I can do 4 or 5 on topics I am familiar with. Just got to get organized, that's all.

TomG.

you can also use niche research software. Keyword Elite, Market Samurai, Niche Shark.

I think market samurai is the best of them all.

You go to the google external keyword tool to enter some main term, like "gardening" to get some ideas. And you write down some of your own, "bonsai gardening", "rose garden", whatever...

Now you use any of those keywords and run it through market samurai which will give you more related keywords.

Now you filter the results by analyzing each keyword.....you enter MAX SEOC something like 30000-40000 (maximum of competing sites which come up in Google for that KW)...and maybe 75 as MIN SEOT (minimum nr. of people who search for this term daily on google)

Then what is left is a list of highly searched keywords with low competition which are easy to rank.

You use those keywords for your article titles and use that keyword 2-3 in the article.

This way you get a higher chance of your article being ranked in google as opposed to some generic keyword like "make money".

Same with Keyword elite, where you sort by KEI, although i like Market Samurai since it takes it results direcectly from Google.

IF you find a really good search term (hundreds of searches PER DAY) and very low competition....its good you also make a landing page and optimize the page for it, hire some guys from DP forum and let them drop high PR backlinks for a few bucks. (Angela Method or Paul Method high PR backlinks ). This way you can also rank your site, independently from the article. Then make or let make Squidoo lenses and bloggers and interlink them to your sites and articles, bookmark all of this...etc...etc...

Its my firm belief that this is WAY better than continuing the "Adwords Spiel" with their stupid quality score and paying $0.50++ per click.

People call Article Marketing "bum marketing"...but done right i think it is highly, highly effective. The articles also help you rank your sites (with the links).

lol i dont like my name either j/k

I read their FAQ...it says that you cannot use affiliate links, and you cannot use SUBDOMAINS aka product.mysite.com or mysite.com/product.html

So..you always need a full domain like product.com and then you can do a redirect on domain level.

G.

I never spin my articles. I outsource some of the articles for my niche sites, and have had some good success. I write a minimum of 20 articles, 1 per keyword phrase and submit them to Ezine Articles. Then I outsource the social bookmarking for the articles. Try and optimize each article as much as possible, otherwise your article will only serve as a backlink rather traffic generation as well.

Don't worry about competition. Most of them don't know what they are doing. Just build a list and write more articles and you'll do well.

Franck