One Tactic I Learned About Successful Blogging...

Thanks for the great tips!

So am I.

I mean "so do I".

32 articles is 11 months'-worth of articles for any of my sites. They get an article only once every 10 days each. But those articles then get republished in front of tens or hundreds of thousands of targeted readers.

Article marketing isn't about publishing them just on your own site and waiting for people to find them (and especially not if they're just people coming from search engines!): it's about taking your articles to where the already-targeted traffic is already looking. It isn't about how many articles you have: it's about who reads them.

Oh really?

Show me the evidence.

James Schramko does close to 10 million dollars a year, and he publishes content daily. So do I.

Take a look at any successful website, and whats the recurring theme?

They publish content consistently.

Watch this. In particular from 2:50 where Rand talks about the importance of consistent publishing and how the seomoz blog helped build their community.


Then take a look at his blog here

Take note of how often he updated his blog - almost daily.

That business is now worth tens of millions.

Question - if new and fresh (regular) content isnt important, then why arent you at an internet marketing forum that has 12 members?

Absolutely agree, then I often find that the article is a few years old. Read these articles is a waste of time then, when it contains old information. The worst thing is that Google often provides such old articles in the search. It's funny, when Google offers articles with links to sites and these sites no longer even exist.

john - I usually agree with your comments, but I have to make an exception here

in all fairness - Rand also says he posted daily for 4 years w/o success.

Then he spends the rest of the video talking about viral content - infographics, etc. I reckon that viral content is fairly important to their eventual success

Just because they post every day does not mean there's a cause/effect relationship. I'd wager that the high quality viral content wasn't/isn't posted daily


that depends on how you define a "successful website".

I made over 50k per year just from one 3 page site that was nothing more then a squeeze page, oto and download page

I duplicated my email content I used in that endeavor as posts to blog, posted all at once, and while it made less then the 50k from my squeeze, it still made a few grand month - and the only work after setting it up was logging on to see if my checks were being deposited every month Not millionaire stuff, but very much autopilot income from a very lazy approach.. it was so hands-off that i didn't even realize the domain had expired until I saw my direct deposits drop off

I built a site for a local client that was 20 or so pages, and they sold over $100k in vehicle service contracts per month from it from organic search - no 'publishing consistently' there

The internet is full of 'successful websites' that have nothing to do with publishing tons of content all the time..

A critique of your traffic-generation methods (whatever they are?!) would perhaps be much more helpful, to you, Pavster?

I've used OPP. I think I recommended it here a couple of times.

I stopped using it, though, because regular blog readers were complaining about the recycled content. They wanted new stuff. All OPP does is change the date on your articles.

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Yes, I totally agree with this. When Blogging, your content should be readable and understandable to your viewing audience. Absolutely. I totally agree with this. Blogging just for the sake of blogging is a shortcut to failure. Blogging to offer value to your readers is the ticket to success.