Write more content, write more content, write write, write

I think it is true. There are several ways to drive traffic to a site despite building backlinks and waiting for search engine traffic.

If it helps, here's a quick, one-post overview of article syndication.

This post comments on how to write articles which other people will publish, and ...

This one explains how to find those places where the right people are already looking, and ...

This one offers suggestions on how to ask people to publish them.

And here are a few more threads on the general subject ...
Article Writing & Syndication Explained?
Really dumb article SYNDICATION question
Mass Article Submission and Article Syndication. Any Difference?
A question for Alexa Smith and MYOB
Does Article Syndication Works Like Wonders?

Please excuse my ignorance and curiosity, but what exactly is "the e-commerce niche"? I'm not trying to be funny: I honestly don't know what this expression refers to.

I don't know which site are you referring to. All I have in my sig is my offline business site and need not to be update as I already have regular customers here coming directly to my shop\ having their cars repaired. This thread refers to authority sites.

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I am outside of US but been there just 3 months ago. Those 2,000 posts are products that I have and some are not even found in US but found in UK. And those are physical products so I don't know about that fraud you are talking about. . All sellers are liars. They only differ on the degree of lying. If I said "I was able to boil eggs under the sun using this solar oven" but I didn't tried, its not fraud, because everyone knows that everyone can do that and that's the reason why a solar oven is made...It's lying but its not fraud. But if I said I make tons of money by doing xxx after 3 days selling that method for xxx but in reality I didn't, now that is fraud....

Internet marketers selling moneymaking products are terrible liars than internet marketers selling physical products.....

Being creative to sell physical products that already have dozens of positive reviews is not fraud... It's called hype and there's nothing wrong in doing a clever marketing strategy...

Adie, did you share this little tidbit with your acquaintance?

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post8344995

N4G.com does this perfectly!

It's just a different model... you'll find that monetization methods are limited by this though....adsense for example hates these types of sites.

Yes, it made me wonder how much of what he posted here is cut from the same cloth.

And if the blog posts he enumerated are of the same ilk, he just admitted to almost 2,000 acts of fraud...

How are you tracking how many rss feed readers you have? I've been trying to figure this out.

Rick

No one mentioned that the whole SEO industry is useless. Writing unique and seo-friendly content deals with SEO as well.. SEO is a broad topic and is not just link-building...

I agree Adie. I think it is hard for most people to come up with that much content and they opt for link-building which can sometimes be easier. Content is the way to go though!

Don't believe everything Google tells you, they want more natural links because it will give them better search engine results. However, their algorithm can't really tell a natural link from an unnatural one if they are done correctly.

True-true, seriousblogger!

It'd seem to me, that the main thing is to find balance between links and content.

Truth be told, I've had some experience with link building in the past, but truth be told, posting links around the web is f***ing stupid!

On the other hand, like you said seriousblogger, "it" is a machine and to "it" it's all math.

Come to think of it: when you talk about link building, what actions do you actually mean?

The best sellers develop long term relationships with their clients so they don't have to start over everyday. They are aware that lies eventually are caught and are honest with their clients. I spent 20 years in the hearing aid industry developing long term relationships with clients. They trusted me because I only sold them what would help them and told them not to buy when it would not. Because of this, things became easier after a while.

Rick

Not true some niches are harder to crack than others if you want to rank on page one than you'll have to do some link building and perhaps even use some automated tools.

(Mayor of Springfield says) Agreed!

Thank you. Some great inputs from the OP and other posters, some problems mentioned here have given me headaches a few times.

Or you can be LAZY (but smart) about it and just get that top shelf content in front of the right eyeballs at Twitter. You know, the ones with huge numbers of REAL followers who also have lots of followers. In short, get it noticed by the RIGHT PEOPLE. Internet marketing is just like the rest of life-only 20% of the people in it rake in 80% of the wealth, the influence, you name it. Instead of chasing the 80%, get your content noticed by the top 20%.

Well, please read some posts above and tell me if you knew nothing about content syndication and I'll tell you how if you are lazy to search google. Good luck

I'm trying to market my own products, not blog articles, and I'm trying to find a strategy.

Instinctively I would tend to agree with RockingLastsForever: I can make more products, and better products, but if very few people see them I'll probably get a little more traffic by word of mouth, but it is much more likely that my ideas will be "stolen" by a much bigger player who already has the largest share of the traffic. I might get some credit for it as being the original one, but I even doubt that.

And I think that it's the same for you content marketers. You can come up with that fantastic article, but if you just wait for it to find it's readers, you are taking the risk that the biggest players in your field notice it first and put out a re-worded version on their own blogs.

So as much as I agree on the need for quality content, I still think that you need a real strategy to get it in front of the right eyes.

By the way Glen Allsop alias ViperChill wrote an interesting piece on writing less but better. He listed a number of sites who make several 1000s a month in advertising while writing only 2 articles per week. Something to meditate.
Because it would make sense that it's not just about writing or selling better stuff, but also about advertising it efficiently i.e. getting it in front of the right eyeballs.

As Writeaway said, I think that the key is getting noticed and mentioned by those individuals who have a massive following, and try to get a kind of Oprah bump.
Would Gangnam style have been the hit it was if it hadn't been endorsed first by big name celebs on Twitter or picked up by sites like Gawker and Buzzfeed, etc?

So of course the content has to be great, and regularly released (plentiful? I think that's debatable), but if there is no strategy to get it seen by the right prospects, then there's a big risk in my opinion, and the big guys will probably reap most of the benefits.

But that is just my intuition since I'm a total noob in IM.........

Cheers

Why not do both? Quality VOLUME content. They don't have to be mutually exclusive...

I don't know how you could have arrived at that "takeaway" from me. In the article syndication marketing model, it is counter-productive and not necessary to modify content for different publishers. More often than not, niche publishers have similar article expectations and requirements. For any given commercially viable niche, there may be hundreds - perhaps even hundreds of thousands of potential publishers for syndication.

This is the advantage of article syndication over any other marketing model of which I'm aware - the virtually unlimited scalability for leveraging your writing efforts. And considering the amount of resources and time expended (often days or weeks for one article) in the production of each of my articles and the plethora of potential publishers available, there just ain't no way I'm gonna modify or customize articles for anybody.

Whenever (or if) I submit articles to EzineArticles, the links and annotations within the article body are stripped out as a personal preference for simplicity. The "requirements" for article submission to EzineArticles is minimal, and publishers generally don't have much expectations for article standards found in such directories. However, my source references are still available from the link in the article resource box.

Keep in mind that it may be distracting or considered pejoratively highbrow to use citations for some outlets or audiences. But for targeting prime prospects in my niches, this method seems to be a major factor in boosting conversions well into double digits. The best rule of thumb IMO for maximizing your syndication efforts is to follow the conventions of the niche market; write content up to the quality expectations of your targeted audience and within the publishing standards required by editors.

Even though we perhaps have very different writing styles and marketing funnels, the basic principles of generating targeted traffic through article syndication are essentially the same. By establishing a network of syndicated publishers, it really does not take many articles at all to generate massive amounts of highly targeted traffic. Writing articles up to accepted standards and marketing these articles to outlets read by your targeted prospects are fundamental. We both commonly recommend this classic ebook from Clickbank detailing the basics of this time-proven marketing concept: Turn Words Into Traffic, by Jim and Dallas Edwards.

Hi Terence,
First, you should not force yourself to write if your mind is not in condition to write. When I said "3 articles per day", it does not literally mean that I need to write 3 articles every day. It can be 1 to 6 depending on my mind's condition.

As for me, my niche and topics are already my inspiration. Picking a niche for the purpose of making money is not good at all. It is hard to make money with the things you are not acquainted and used to do. There are things in life you like right? How about thinking about those things you like and write about them?

I myself has a personal blog created since 2006 (not the site I am referring to in this thread)... That personal blog is full of thousands of articles in different topics (from politics, religion, daily life, music, entertainment, IM, romance and relationship, etc and etc)... and I did not experience running out of idea to write - not unless I am not feeling well or really feel lazy to write (which someones inevitable). That blog has been earning steady income through amazon and clickbank too for years now... It's like I post what I want to post....

YES if the content is high quality and well researched.

NO if content is written for robots.