My article marketing strategy: Thanks for The Input

Careful, docstoc seems to like original content, only. Otherwise, they'll delete your document if they can find it elsewhere on the web, without asking you if it's yours or not.

Post it to docstoc first, and then to ezine. Ezinearticles won't care as long as you can prove it's yours.

And Scribd, heard it's hard with them these days and hard to include links. Try if you will, but that's what I've heard.

I like it, But (don't you love that word) here is what I suggest:

1. I will build a blog. I am going to optimize the blog to my main keyword in the niche as well as a number of keywords related to my main.

2. I am endeavoring to find 8 to 12 kws per niche, (makes your site more focused for that specific targeted niche, you will find the search engines will eventually fill the holes for you based off of you content on their own)

3. I am going to write 2 unique articles per night until you have 12 articles, one keyword optimized for each of your 12 target keywords that you have chosen. Title them as such MAIN KEYWORD - KEYWORD you optimized for (i.e Internet Marketing - How to use Video Marketing as an Internet Marketing Strategy) Internet Marketing is my main keyword, Video Marketing and Internet Marketing Strategy are two of my others.

4. I am going to post the EXACT article to ezine articles and wait till it is accepted, Save you the COPYSCAPE issue you will get from Ezine if you already have them on your site.

5. Post the 12 Articles on your site.

6. Use the ping services to ping your articles. THEN create a feedburner account, input your feed, then ping that feedburner feed at all the ping services.

5. I am going to take the ezine article and upload it to scribed and docstoc (also consider posting your articles to create Squiddo, Wordpress.com and a couple other HIGH RANKING free sites, more backlinks and perhaps some natural traffic to your site)

6. I am also going to post the same contextual article to the other " top directories" (only post your EXACT article to the high PR article sites, there are only ten or so of any real value anyway.)

7. Using a service to spin my article and submitt them to the other directories for back links (don't waste your time with this, get a better benefit just staying with the high PR directories)

8. Book mark my ezine articles

As an add on remember, create your 12 articles and put them into ezine, then link back to the article you posted on your site, that article on your site will link back to you money page. DON'T link to your money page in you ezine resource block.

What I did is created (actually had a writer do it) 12 1500 word articles for posting on my site. Condenced them a bit for ezine and submitted all twelve there, then in the resource block let the article flow into it with a transition like "Learn more about XYZ by reading the full article at"

And I know what your thinking when I say EXACT article. Duplicate content, am I right? Well since you are only posting on the HIGH PR Directories, and Social Netorking/Bookmarking site and not 100's of garbage article directories that may or may not even list your article, don't worry about it, I don't.

Regards,
Clint Butler

Hi cpalounger,

yes, that's a great method, but factor in how much time you're going to spent vs you're going to make. I'd say you would make more money outsourcing repetitive things then focus on your strengths like product creation and marketing etc.

So, I should in fact post to ezine first, but my goal is to build links to my post on my blog .....correct

What I mean, The post is more important in the long run, I am using eza to get another source of content and a high quality back link and some direct views.

I believe that you may be on to something! I am doing something similar but on a bit bigger scale.
Might I ask how you intend to monetize all of your traffic?

Also, I would suggest that you place a static email opt-in form on your blog so that people that visit can join your list. Write a good report that revolves around your niche and give it away to subscribers. Make sure that you provide LOTS of value in your report as well as all of the emails that you send to your list.
Focus on treating people BETTER then you'd like to be treated and I can guarantee that you will see some sweet results.

-James

Front end monetization: posts on my site will link to my products ( cb products )

CPA banner Perhaps on site

Back End : Build list, market new and bigger things in the niche as I build trust etc and garner leverage

Hi
I am quite new to the whole Internet marketing and SEO thing and I would really love to make marketing online a full-time job. But I am honestly so overwhelmed right now. I have read that article marketing is the best way to market my websites, but how exactly do I go about doing this?

ezine vs your own site I just spent an hour going over this amazing thread, and it really helps work out the copyscape issues.

I have to say, my opinion is to go on my site first.

Please follow this through and keep us all posted on how it goes.

Your plan sounds good. This is what I am doing currently and it is working for me. The key is to stay motivated and keep pumping out articles daily. Try to start with one a day or more if you don't get burned out. Eventually you will be able to pump out 5 to 10 articles in a short time. Once you get the hang of it you just rinse and repeat for another niche.

It's certainly better than what many people do.

There are a couple of little things I'd suggest you think about slightly altering:-

Spinning may have some benefits, for some people, but there's no conceivable, possible backlink benefit. If you're doing this for backlinks, there's absolutely no point in bothering to spin them. A syndicated article in Google's supplemental index and a totally spun "100% original" article in Google's main index both get exactly the same backlink. Of course, one may get traffic, too, where the other can't, and so on - but that's a completely different point. If you're doing this for backlinks, don't spin. There's no harm in it, but not bothering will certainly save you a lot of time and effort, and that's time and effort with which you can be writing a new article for your own site instead!

A mistake here, to be blunt. Not so good to build links to other people's sites (though I'm sure EZA would be delighted with the idea!). Build them to your own site.

Don't let EZA, in the long term, outrank your own site for your own keywords.

Tempting, I know - because there's a short-term traffic benefit to doing this. But in the long run, it can damage your own site's (and therefore your business's) SEO and prospects. A slight re-think needed, on this point. You might decide it's much better, in the long term, to do the bookmarking just for your sites, not for anyone else's. It's exactly the same principle as the one explained in this post.

Good luck!

1. Build a blog and optimize it to your keywords.

2. Find 15 to 20 keywords irrespective of competition in your niche. Moderate competition of 1000-5000 links per site is good. More than that, you might have a tough time cracking early on.

3. Create 15 articles(1 per keyword)(A set) exclusively for your site. Make sure that these articles presell your visitors. If you are putting an affiliate link, make sure that you add the no follow tag to the link. Doing 2 posts a day is good.

4. Write another 15 articles(B set) and post it on your blog as well. These should be targetting the same keywords you are targetting with your main articles. Make these articles link to your site as well.

5. Get yourself Article Marketing Robot and then submit these articles to 100s of directories using AMR. Your B set articles need to be submitted. Link to B set articles on your site as well as A site articles on your site with these articles.

6. Go to top 20 social bookmarking sites and bookmark all your site's pages with them. (Do it slowly).

7. Also bookmark your articles you get from the live links extract feature on AMR. Most sites do not accept EZA bookmarks.

8. Create a blog on 10 sites powered by Wordpress MU and post your B set articles to them with bookmarks.

9. Submit the feeds of your blog.

10. Get a normal site map with wordpress - Dagon Sitemap Generator plus Google XMl Sitemaps.

11. Do a C Set with the same articles.

To avoid duplicate content issues, you might want to get an article spinner. Kind of a grey hat area but very effective.

I agree that you should rank the page first and not your Ezine. remember that even if you're ezine article has high PR, it's still better if they will see yoru site first to check it directly.