What's your investment in article marketing

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How much money do you spend in buying articles per month? What service / software (spinner or article distributor) do you use? How much money do you spend per month on that service / software?

I hope that's not much too ask
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  • Profile picture of the author shuvo
    I never spend a penny for article marketing.I usually uses free article spinning software like spinnerchief and sometimes I manually spin my articles for article marketing.
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    • Profile picture of the author paal
      Like Shuvo, I don't spend any money on article marketing. I do some manual spinning from time to time. However, I have considered posting articles on SEOLinkVine, which would cost me a few bucks a month.
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      • Profile picture of the author chilidawg
        I don't spend a dime either. I write my own content, then put it on quality (my opinion I guess ) sites like Hubpages and Selfgrowth. I do spin some manually because I don't think spin programs can provide any quality.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by goodmast3r View Post

    How much money do you spend in buying articles per month?
    A fortune, in terms of time taken and "opportunity cost", which is my business's biggest "expense" by far - but none in terms of actual financial outlay because I do it myself - I wouldn't have been able to do it any other way, when I started.

    I write about 25/26 articles per month (give or take) and spend over 3 hours on each, on average. At about $100 per hour (which my time's certainly worth) that comes to about $8k per month of opportunity-cost (what I could be earning working for others instead of for myself). Fortunately, that work now produces much more income than that, though, and growing.

    Originally Posted by goodmast3r View Post

    What service / software (spinner or article distributor) do you use?
    Nothing. I wouldn't dream of spinning (I understand the difference between duplicate content and syndicated content) or mass-submitting (I'm an article marketer, not an article directory marketer).
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    • Profile picture of the author myob
      Considering that a typical syndicated article of mine will generate $3,000-$7,000 per month in revenue (and often much more), the investment is comparatively negligible. This leaves a lot of wriggle room in getting the articles I want. Consequently, I have a staff of full time writers and researchers who are paid quite well. I am also a heavy article promoter - selling my articles to high authority outlets.
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    • Profile picture of the author peter gibson
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      I wouldn't dream of spinning (I understand the difference between duplicate content and syndicated content) or mass-submitting (I'm an article marketer, not an article directory marketer).
      That ^^^ deserves a quote and a round of shots at the pub.

      For me, I had to stop writing when my site count passed 16, which was a few years back. I'm at 53 sites now and growing, 18 of which don't need regular content updates. If I was still writing at the rate I started - I'd be in a padded room already, bouncing off the walls and getting "special" pills.

      Still do around 20 articles a month, but that's mostly for new sites, launches, and soft-sell sequences in the autoresponder.

      The amount of money I spend is not worth mentioning, but to give a sense of scale it's in the thousands of dollars. Pretty much every article pays itself back within a day of being published or promoted and goes on to net me heaps more than I paid, so it's an expense I gladly pay. Articles cost me lowest 35.00, highest 120.00, and that's only because the writer and I have an awesome working relationship.

      Spinners are for a different kind of marketer than myself, I don't want to game the directories or expand the written word past it's original message. As Alexa said, I'm also an article marketer, not an article directory marketer.

      I'm of a mindset that says spinning does nothing but hurt your article's intrinsic value and ends up making you look foolish one way or another, at some point. The value of spun articles is negligible for my style of business. The content - as it applies to my niches - is extremely important to my success, so "cooking" the words is not an option. Don't get me wrong, spinning works for many, though I do believe the days of successful spinning are fast coming to an end.
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Let's see...

      My first site went online just shy of 15 years ago. I've spent less than $1,000 total for things that I ended up using in my article marketing.

      Although many of the tools I've paid for were not intended for article marketing. That's just the use I put them to.

      For example, I use one of the projects in SEOElite to help me find potential authority sites which may be open to syndicating my stuff. Before that, I used the Zeus marketing robot, which was originally designed for finding link exchanges.

      I've also invested in some educational materials that have helped me step up my game as far as the actual writing goes. Books (the dead tree kind) on things like story-telling, script writing, public speaking, etc.

      Beyond that, my main investment has been what Alexa calls 'opportunity cost' and which I call 'sweat equity'...
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      • Profile picture of the author sonic74
        I buy about 10-15 articles per month and submitting to the 4 top article directories and Isnare !

        I know, it's not a lot of articles but I'm going to icrease this number !

        First I bought from a ghostwriter via oDesk and I was not very satisfied with the

        quality....and now I buy articles only from trusted Warriors with a lot of reviews

        about their writting skills !

        I don't use any spinning tool
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  • bearing in mind not even 13,000 PR 1 links can get you a PR ranking of 5. What does this mean? 1 PR 5 link is worth more than 13,000 PR 1 links.

    Which would you rather do? Spam directory links, or have your articles syndicated on higher value pages.

    takes between 10-20 PR 5 links to get a PR of 5. I know that Google doesn't bother with PR anymore, but using PR is a good indication of how much weight a link carries.

    2-4 PR 6 links carry the same weight as 13,500-14,000 PR1 links. So how much weight do you think PR 0 links really carry? I would suspect needing links in the upper five-figures to six-figures for it to have much influence. Even if you can spam 10,000 links a month, only 1-3 k usually stick and so forth.

    Now who do you want some links from?
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    • Profile picture of the author PabloVTB
      Originally Posted by Jason Perez O'Connor View Post

      bearing in mind not even 13,000 PR 1 links can get you a PR ranking of 5. What does this mean? 1 PR 5 link is worth more than 13,000 PR 1 links.

      Which would you rather do? Spam directory links, or have your articles syndicated on higher value pages.

      takes between 10-20 PR 5 links to get a PR of 5. I know that Google doesn't bother with PR anymore, but using PR is a good indication of how much weight a link carries.

      2-4 PR 6 links carry the same weight as 13,500-14,000 PR1 links. So how much weight do you think PR 0 links really carry? I would suspect needing links in the upper five-figures to six-figures for it to have much influence. Even if you can spam 10,000 links a month, only 1-3 k usually stick and so forth.

      Now who do you want some links from?
      You're throwing out really exact figures there.. care to share where you based your research on?

      I use TheBestSpinner to spin my articles and send them via ArticleMarketingRobot. Pure automation. It may not be everyone's approach, but based on my results, it's still worth it despite Google's changes.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by PabloVTB View Post

      You're throwing out really exact figures there..
      On the contrary: he's giving only approximate figures, and isn't pretending to do otherwise.

      And he's right.


      Originally Posted by Jason Perez O'Connor View Post

      2-4 PR 6 links carry the same weight as 13,500-14,000 PR1 links. So how much weight do you think PR 0 links really carry? I would suspect needing links in the upper five-figures to six-figures for it to have much influence. Even if you can spam 10,000 links a month, only 1-3 k usually stick and so forth.
      I strongly agree with all of this.

      This matches (a) my own experience; (b) the reported experiences of others I trust (that's not many people ); and (c) the experience and beliefs of Peter Kent (the highly respected author of some well-researched, commercially published and bestselling books closely connected with the subject).

      For myself, I'd say (regarding the specific question asked half-way through the above quotation) that although it varies a bit from niche to niche and from keyword to keyword, of course, "six figures" would be a fairer overall approximation than "high five figures".

      I've said it before and I'll say it again - on one thing you can rely: when people switch - as I did myself - from the "quantity-based approach of non-context-relevant PR-0 backlinks" typified by spinning and mass-directory-submission to a "quality-based approach of context-relevant backlinks from better sites", they don't switch back.
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      • Profile picture of the author PabloVTB
        Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post


        And he's right.
        Care to elaborate?

        I've heard similar figures before, but I can't tell if it's based on testing or some conceptual "theory"
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        • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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          Originally Posted by PabloVTB View Post

          Care to elaborate?
          Perhaps Jason will comment further ... I can't elaborate much more than I have done above, except perhaps to refer you to this excellent bookthis excellent book which contains a lengthy, detailed, well-reasoned, well-justified exposition of the whole subject. It's based on more than "conceptual 'theory'."

          (That's the forum's affiliate-link showing above, of course, not mine).
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        • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
          Originally Posted by PabloVTB View Post

          Care to elaborate?

          I've heard similar figures before, but I can't tell if it's based on testing or some conceptual "theory"
          Pablo, some authorities I trust believe that the PR value used in calculating rank is not a 1-10 scale, and Google itself has confirmed that the PR value shown in the toolbar is a rough approximation of the actual value on the day of the last update. Until the update a few weeks ago, it had been around 9 months without an update.

          Some authorities believe that the toolbar PR is actually a logarithmic function of the real PR value. If that's so, and it makes sense to me, then a PR0 link (like the kind you get from a directory) is worth one point (10 raised to the 0 power, or 10^0 = 1). A PR6 link would be worth 10^6, or 1,000,000.

          So if PR were used 'raw', then a PR6 link would be worth a million PR0 links. Using Jason's figures, the actual multiplier would be around 0.014.

          Obviously, there are many other factors taken into account. All it means is that obsessing over PR isn't going to be particularly helpful unless you're selling links...
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          • Profile picture of the author PabloVTB
            Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe View Post

            Pablo, some authorities I trust believe that the PR value used in calculating rank is not a 1-10 scale, and Google itself has confirmed that the PR value shown in the toolbar is a rough approximation of the actual value on the day of the last update. Until the update a few weeks ago, it had been around 9 months without an update.

            Some authorities believe that the toolbar PR is actually a logarithmic function of the real PR value. If that's so, and it makes sense to me, then a PR0 link (like the kind you get from a directory) is worth one point (10 raised to the 0 power, or 10^0 = 1). A PR6 link would be worth 10^6, or 1,000,000.

            So if PR were used 'raw', then a PR6 link would be worth a million PR0 links. Using Jason's figures, the actual multiplier would be around 0.014.

            Obviously, there are many other factors taken into account. All it means is that obsessing over PR isn't going to be particularly helpful unless you're selling links...

            Thank you for your insights, appreciate it. Heard some similar things from Jerry West as well.
            And Page Rank does not seem to have the same weight it had when it comes to ranking sites.
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    • Profile picture of the author goodmast3r
      So you are saying that we should write quality articles and hoping the article in syndicated to high PR sites? And if we use article distribution service, it means that we are distributing in lots of PR 0 site?


      Originally Posted by Jason Perez O'Connor View Post

      bearing in mind not even 13,000 PR 1 links can get you a PR ranking of 5. What does this mean? 1 PR 5 link is worth more than 13,000 PR 1 links.

      Which would you rather do? Spam directory links, or have your articles syndicated on higher value pages.

      takes between 10-20 PR 5 links to get a PR of 5. I know that Google doesn't bother with PR anymore, but using PR is a good indication of how much weight a link carries.

      2-4 PR 6 links carry the same weight as 13,500-14,000 PR1 links. So how much weight do you think PR 0 links really carry? I would suspect needing links in the upper five-figures to six-figures for it to have much influence. Even if you can spam 10,000 links a month, only 1-3 k usually stick and so forth.

      Now who do you want some links from?
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      • Originally Posted by goodmast3r View Post

        So you are saying that we should write quality articles and hoping the article in syndicated to high PR sites? And if we use article distribution service, it means that we are distributing in lots of PR 0 site?
        Yes, now think about this.

        What is the opposite of quality? Now do you want to be providing your users with that?

        If you look at any successful businesses, the reason they succeed is due to the focus on improving customer experience. Articles are no different.

        MYOB (his real name is rob?) has stated that you can find good publishers through ezines, finding good relevant websites to publish on, or through the publishing of your Articles from the directories. Hopefully the webmasters who do publish your content become long-term partners. you provide them with free content, and in return you get good relevant links. Not to mention lots of eyes.

        I'm sure he does a lot more interms of syndication and his reach is far more greater than said above, but I've not gone over any post where he explains in detail his complete method. Maybe he has, but I havn't seen it.

        Directory submissions do work... But like I said, you are simply creating very limited PR0 links. And if those pages link to other places too, then you are splitting the PR juice even moreso..

        Remember the PR of the TLD has no affect on ranking its pages. The secret is in the name 'Page rank'. For example, when you do product searches, do you not realise that most Amazon links go to pages that are a PR of 0?

        I do use PR 0 link building.... But only because when I start with a website I begin attacking terms that only require a small number of PR 0 links to beat the competition.. as the site progresses I move away from this and rely on quality links to rank for better terms.

        At this point I usually stop building lower quality links, but rather look for others to provide me with good links, and also build up a few of my PR 0's into higher PR pages too (very rarely though... so much more work than finding suitable publishers)

        When I say finding suitable publishers, I don't nessecarily mean the publishing of my article. I've only recently began using this model. Previous to this I would find other reasons for webmasters to provide links to my pages.
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        • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
          Jason, if your posting is an example, your English is pretty good even compared to many so-called "native speakers".

          If you want to improve your flow, my best recommendation would be to read a lot of different fiction. Anything from the classics to Tom Clancy, Stephen King or even those trashy beach romances (if your stomach can handle it).
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          • Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe View Post

            Jason, if your posting is an example, your English is pretty good even compared to many so-called "native speakers".

            If you want to improve your flow, my best recommendation would be to read a lot of different fiction. Anything from the classics to Tom Clancy, Stephen King or even those trashy beach romances (if your stomach can handle it).
            Noted.

            I really don't have any excuses, my mum is english and I've lived in the UK now for 12 years. My problem is that I did not practice enough or take my studies serious when I was attending school so my writing, formal or creative has taken a hit. Something I regret deeply because although I did not care for it before, I do now.

            anything I have learnt is through the constant use of the internet. I'm only now trying to suck up as much info as possible before age creeps up on me.

            I agree, my writing is on par or above the majority of native speakers. But being part of the majority isn't always desirable

            In-terms of beach romances, don't think I could go as far as to stomach those. I will though look into your other recommendations. I've seen the romance books my mother has, and if most are just like those, I couldn't do it to myself
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            • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
              Originally Posted by Jason Perez O'Connor View Post

              In-terms of beach romances, don't think I could go as far as to stomach those. I will though look into your other recommendations. I've seen the romance books my mother has, and if most are just like those, I couldn't do it to myself
              My wife has cartons of the things. Every so often, if I'm writing for a certain part of the female audience, I pick one up.

              Truth be told, I can never handle more than a few pages at a time myself...
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  • Profile picture of the author Reach Fame
    I heard that you cannot submit the same article to hundreds of directories because most directories will not accept any duplicate content.

    So my question is, if you want to submit to 50 top directories, do you have to submit 50 unique articles ? Can you really do it with any automated software or the best way to go is manual submission?
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by Reach Fame View Post

      I heard that you cannot submit the same article to hundreds of directories because most directories will not accept any duplicate content.
      I have good news for you: you were misinformed about that.

      First, it isn't true. "Buzzle" is the only article directory that requires previously unpublished content. Other article directores do accept "copies".

      Secondly, that isn't what "duplicate content" means, anyway, in this context: this would be "syndicated content", not "duplicate content". This thread explains the point clearly.

      Originally Posted by Reach Fame View Post

      So my question is, if you want to submit to 50 top directories, do you have to submit 50 unique articles ?
      No, you don't (with the exception of "Buzzle", but many successful, professional article marketers don't really count that one as a useful article directory at all, for this exact reason).

      The benefit in doing so, however, is small-ish. It would be a "backlinks only" benefit. And an article directory backlink, even from a "top directory" like EZA, is only a non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlink, and you'll need (at least) tens of thousands of them backlinking to your site to get anywhere worth talking about.

      "Article marketing" (to people who make a living from it) means a whole lot more than just "article directory marketing".
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  • Profile picture of the author nerrutis
    Originally Posted by goodmast3r View Post

    How much money do you spend in buying articles per month? What service / software (spinner or article distributor) do you use? How much money do you spend per month on that service / software?

    I hope that's not much too ask
    I would advise not to pay more that 5$ for a good article!
    Now 5 bucks for an article is common.
    For the quality which comes from Philipines or India - 3$
    Thank you!
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    • Profile picture of the author Greg1313
      Originally Posted by nerrutis View Post

      I would advise not to pay more that 5$ for a good article!
      Now 5 bucks for an article is common.
      For the quality which comes from Philipines or India - 3$
      Thank you!
      5 dollars for a well written well researched converting article is going to be a thing of the past, very quickly. Many warriors pay me 12-15 dollars per 500 word article and do so happily. They know when they purchase from me I will deliver words that are ready to post. there is no fluff, and i am sure they are converting as they would not continue to buy on a weekly basis. Yes you can get a 5 dollar article, but the good writers are the ones who will be in the greatest demand when marketers find out that their 5 dollar articles are being penalized now because of the Google overhaul. In fact several of my clients are requesting longer articles already because they are not seeing quite the same results they were with the standard 500 word ones. This is especially true for those who are affiliates of Amazon where the real players there are typically asking for 800-1000 word reviews as they are not nec. making for better SEO but the data is showing that a well written, in depth review are the ones that consistently lead to sales.

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  • As alexa says, they aren't exact figures. I've done several things to come to those conclutions. My own tests and have read others.

    Most notably of Courtney Tuttle who did a few case studies. I've also seen the corelation between several self-made charts by people who have tried to figure out the Google algo equation used to work page ranking out.

    The fact Google says you should not worry about PR is not 100% sound advice. Purely because, although Google does not rank a page based on its PR, or so they say..... They do rank a page based on the PR passed from others, and that way your PR builds up. This further clarifies the seriousness and popularity of your page as an authority. So I think PR still plays a huge part.

    So, to then further confirm this, I knew that achieving 10-20 PR 5 links would be very difficult for me (I did not accomplish this). However, I knew that achieving PR 0-2 was very possible for me, and if I followed the charts, provided they were correct, I should be able to rank for some terms.

    So going by charts, the start range for a PR 2 link was approximately 30. Now I've never been good with maths, so don't ask me the juice passed by a PR 0, but I know a PR 1 gives roughly somewhere between 0.34-0.40 PR. So for a PR0 I assumed between 0.10-0.15.

    Going by that, I figured I would need atleast 300 PR 0 links to outrank a page that I had found with a PR 2.

    Anyway, in the end I managed to send WAY more than 300 links. I never did outrank those pages with those PR 0 though.. But apparently the end range of a PR 2 is 164, which means my PR0 links might not have been enough anyway.

    So after a while, out of pure luck (I had given up on this project) I received a PR 3 link from someone who found my article relevant. I was writing about my experience with melanotan. a substance you inject into yourself to force melanin to act aggressively and appear more rapidly when exposed to sunlight (it did work at a minimum without direct sun contact), thus tanning you more than usual.

    Anyway my site did overtake this site eventually. What I then learnt is that, for every outbound link a page has its pagerank juice that it provides is divided. Meaning even though I was getting PR 0 links, for every other outbound link that page had, the page rank value that it passed divided.

    Now imagine getting links from Article Directories who provide several outbound links to a ton of its other partner sites. Not much value in their PR 0 pages now is there?

    Since then, I've pretty much reverse engineered my competitors backlinks and its outgoing links and usually have no problem outranking them.

    I still have a lot to learn, and since my maths isn't great, I can't confirm that those workings out are indeed correct, but they've done me well. And they've also done Courtney Tuttle well, and he's supposedly a good SEO.

    For example:

    Not to long ago, due to the discussions in the Google forum about the values of .infos, I was unsure of their ability to rank, something I asked alexa about. I do have a lot to learn, but everything I do learn, I apply logic to and come to my own conclusion.
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  • Profile picture of the author GooglesMostWanted
    Depending on the niche, I sometimes spend about $100 every couple months for 30 or so articles.

    Gives me some extra visitors / content on my websites.
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  • Btw, anyone who knows a great resource for learning how to structure your sentences properly and allow them to flow please do tell me. Help with grammar wouldn't go a miss either, I keep cringing when I re-read anything I type lol.
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  • or books even, I'm open to suggestions!

    *EDIT* I blame this on originating from SPAIN, obviously the first 10 years I spent living in spain are affecting my ability to write good English, clearly...
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    • Profile picture of the author MerlynSanchez
      Originally Posted by Jason Perez O'Connor View Post

      or books even, I'm open to suggestions!

      *EDIT* I blame this on originating from SPAIN, obviously the first 10 years I spent living in spain are affecting my ability to write good English, clearly...
      I highly recommend The Elements of Style Amazon.com: The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition...Amazon.com: The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition...
      It's a classic (only about 15 pages) and a must have!
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    • Profile picture of the author wenzel777
      Originally Posted by Jason Perez O'Connor View Post

      or books even, I'm open to suggestions!

      *EDIT* I blame this on originating from SPAIN, obviously the first 10 years I spent living in spain are affecting my ability to write good English, clearly...

      Jason,

      The Modern Language Association put out a simple, easy-to-follow book about editing and structuring your sentences. Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing. In my opinion, it's one of the finest books written on the subject.

      Covers a variety of topics: basic grammar, baggy sentences, ill-matched partners, punctuation problems, etc.,
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by wenzel777 View Post

        Covers a variety of topics: basic grammar, baggy sentences, ill-matched partners
        They do relationship counselling, as well?
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        • Profile picture of the author myob
          Originally Posted by Jason Perez O'Connor View Post

          ....
          MYOB (his real name is rob?) has stated that you can find good publishers through ezines, finding good relevant websites to publish on, or through the publishing of your Articles from the directories. Hopefully the webmasters who do publish your content become long-term partners. you provide them with free content, and in return you get good relevant links. Not to mention lots of eyes.

          I'm sure he does a lot more interms of syndication and his reach is far more greater than said above, but I've not gone over any post where he explains in detail his complete method. Maybe he has, but I havn't seen it....
          Jason, if you feel like you're being picked on, you are right. But this is meant to be helpful. First of all my real name is Paul Uhl, as shown right above my avatar. I have no idea where you got that name "rob" from; certainly not even among any of my pen names or writers. Article Writing 101: get the name straight, especially when it is right in front of you, or it may brand you as yet another unprofessional amateur.

          In the syndication narrative, there are many ways of finding relevant outlets for articles, including detailed specifics regarding submitting to targeted ezine publishers. It is unfathomable to me why the syndication model has been such a hard concept to grasp; as outside of the WF and offline this has been considered to be among best practices for decades.

          Another book you might consider adding to your reading list is "The Associated Press Stylebook", the standard for writing articles among journalists. If you are serious about wanting to get your articles syndicated (online and offline), that is the level of writing that will open many doors of opportunity. Invest now in learning to write; it will reap rewards for many years to come.

          As I posted earlier in this thread, my projected revenue from a typical article can be $3,000-$7,000 per month or more. It is the gold standard which forms the basis of any new writing project. Thus writing itself has become an investment, with an extremely high ROI. Such is the real power of syndication, and the true potential of an article well done.
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          • Originally Posted by myob View Post

            Jason, if you feel like you're being picked on, you are right. But this is meant to be helpful. First of all my real name is Paul Uhl, as shown right above my avatar. I have no idea where you got that name "rob" from; certainly not even among any of my pen names or writers. Article Writing 101: get the name straight, especially when it is right in front of you, or it may brand you as yet another unprofessional amateur.

            In the syndication narrative, there are many ways of finding relevant outlets for articles, including detailed specifics regarding submitting to targeted ezine publishers. It is unfathomable to me why the syndication model has been such a hard concept to grasp; as outside of the WF and offline this has been considered to be among best practices for decades.

            Another book you might consider adding to your reading list is "The Associated Press Stylebook", the standard for writing articles among journalists. If you are serious about wanting to get your articles syndicated (online and offline), that is the level of writing that will open many doors of opportunity. Invest now in learning to write; it will reap rewards for many years to come.

            As I posted earlier in this thread, my projected revenue from a typical article can be $3,000-$7,000 per month or more. It is the gold standard which forms the basis of any new writing project. Thus writing itself has become an investment, with an extremely high ROI. Such is the real power of syndication, and the true potential of an article well done.
            Some-how, the way in which you have just worded everything makes me think otherwise that you are picking on me

            I knre trying to guess your name might come back to bite me in the ass haha, I usually go with MYOB because I rarely take notice to anything written below the username. My sincere apologies! For some reason I assumed I'd seen Rob somewhere... Don't ask me where from lol, I have no idea!

            Aside from that, in your second paragraph, is that specifically aimed at me or just a more general aim?

            I do plan to take on all recommendations given, as I really love to improve myself, especially when it comes to something very important to IM. Unless I outsource ofcourse... Something which I don't want or like doing. In which case I would like to learn.

            Unfortunately as an Article Writer, I am still an Amateur if even that at all But well noted, this is my first and last mistake! (I hope )
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  • Profile picture of the author aaronngoh
    It all depends on how many articles do you submitted a day and how many article directories do you submit to?

    These are the key factors that determine the cost of article marketing.

    I look at this as investment rather cost of marketing.
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  • Profile picture of the author westgateok
    I write all of my own articles, however, I am definitely no "pro" at it. Just getting started. My opinion would be that as long as your profit more than covers the cost of the article written for you, than it would be a win.
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