Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 
11th August 2014, 12:53 PM
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Views: 1,118 Re: PLR articles- still worth it?
What works? Extremely high quality, original content.
What doesn't? Cheap, spun or rewritten junk content. I'd say the majority of recycled PLR articles would fall under this category.
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
10th August 2014, 01:13 PM
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
4th August 2014, 12:58 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 531 Re: Tactics For Getting Traffic Through Articles
Wherever any potential already-targeted traffic in your niche might be looking. It's all about relevance. You want traffic that's interested in your subject, and already looking at someone else's...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
4th August 2014, 12:27 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 531 Re: Tactics For Getting Traffic Through Articles
For me, it's fantastic. My entire business is built on it.
With great respect to Jens, above, when he says that "article marketing isn't what it was", he's talking about things like putting...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
4th August 2014, 11:33 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 531 Re: Tactics For Getting Traffic Through Articles
Not necessarily. It's one possible option (but it's not what I do, myself, and I have absolutely no plans to, and I recommend that you don't, either, for all sorts of reasons).
When you want...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
30th July 2014, 10:21 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 364 Re: Thoughts on Content Syndication
All the webmasters who syndicate my content do so simply because they want to provide well-written content which their readers/visitors/subscribers haven't read before. It fills some of their...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
22nd July 2014, 12:09 PM
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Replies: 32
Views: 1,003 Re: How to get content for free?
Google has absolutely no problem with guest blogging at all.
What it had (and has) a huge problem with is "blog networks" which seem to exist for SEO purposes, i.e. "to manipulate the algorithms...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
15th July 2014, 04:56 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 859 Re: Tools for article writting and marketing
Your best tools are your brain, your fingers and your ideas. Use Google and any other sources of information BUT never use article spinning software. You're best doing it yourself because you'll...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
15th July 2014, 03:46 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 859 Re: Tools for article writting and marketing
Libraries are a tremendous tool. :)
You need to provide in an article some information that people can't find elsewhere online, and just a little bit of library research goes a very long way in...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
10th July 2014, 09:31 AM
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Replies: 15
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
10th July 2014, 09:11 AM
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Views: 785 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
10th July 2014, 03:55 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 704 Re: General Consensus on Press Releases?
If you're using press releases for Seo purposes then that's generally a bad idea.
You should use press releases the way they were intent to serve their purpose, which is to get published and...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
10th July 2014, 01:52 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 704 Re: General Consensus on Press Releases?
You can test this stuff for yourself easily enough - why rely on the random comments of many people with different perspectives - just found out for yourself if YOU can make press releases work for...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
9th July 2014, 03:09 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 785 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
9th July 2014, 10:55 AM
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Views: 785 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
26th June 2014, 03:19 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 704 Re: General Consensus on Press Releases?
If it's "news worthy" release it to the press.
If not, find a different route.
A truly news worthy item will get picked up by publishers, who are constantly on the lookout.
Screw what G...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
26th June 2014, 02:48 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 704 Re: General Consensus on Press Releases?
IMO Google doesn't just automatically penalize PR services based on the price they charge.
I believe that Google looks down on the practice of site owners putting out press releases that aren't...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
11th June 2014, 08:52 AM
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Replies: 49
Views: 2,124 What I've Learned After 10 Years Full Time IM
After 10 years as a Full Time Internet Marketer I've learned a lot, some lessons have been easy some have been very hard.
I thought I'd share some of what i'd learned here in the hopes that it...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
10th June 2014, 08:53 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 522 Re: Article writing idea, has anyone tried this?
If you do that, you're basically stealing someone else's content. Even if you don't have a problem stealing content, using Dragon to transcribe someone else's voice is not likely to have great...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
5th June 2014, 10:23 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,567 Re: Duplicate content used to run a huge site?
So what was the point of this thread if you already had your mind set? People clearly explained the difference between syndication and duplicate content, you just don't seem to want to accept it for...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
5th June 2014, 09:22 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 519 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
4th June 2014, 05:54 AM
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Replies: 104
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
20th May 2014, 11:09 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 1,589 Re: Content Creation Software
The 2 best pieces of software I have for content creation are MS Word and Scrivener. Both are powered by my own brain and guaranteed to be 100% original. No scraping or spinning.
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
19th May 2014, 04:47 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 1,589 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
13th May 2014, 04:30 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 800 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
9th May 2014, 02:35 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 710 |
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Forum: Email Marketing
1st May 2014, 12:50 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 2,769 |
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Forum: Email Marketing
1st May 2014, 12:43 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 2,769 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
19th April 2014, 05:58 PM
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Replies: 99
Views: 4,150 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
17th April 2014, 02:02 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 883 Re: What do you email to your subscribers?
Catherine,
What did your subscribers sign up for? What did you tell them would be the benefit of joining your list?
Most marketers are focusing on a particular niche in order to sell their own...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
14th April 2014, 03:48 AM
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Replies: 31
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
14th April 2014, 01:41 AM
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Replies: 33
Views: 885 Re: Question about Article Marketing
I dare you to send one of these articles to a high value blog for a guest post and see what reaction you get
Moral of the story: DON'T spin articles
Nuff said
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
10th April 2014, 09:09 AM
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Replies: 33
Views: 885 Re: Question about Article Marketing
ofesak, ncloud, gsinfovision,
Spinning articles is never the answer, regardless of how you do it, HTML or otherwise.
Do the article directories want spun articles? No. Never.
Do the search...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
10th April 2014, 09:04 AM
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Replies: 33
Views: 885 Re: Question about Article Marketing
Spinning articles is a bad idea because even people without much education see spun articles as inferior. People looking for information don't waste their time wading through mucky content. Business...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
10th April 2014, 08:47 AM
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Replies: 33
Views: 885 Re: Question about Article Marketing
Buddy, not sure where your getting your info. Spinning content is useless. The only way to get ahead these days is with quality content.
And having the same article on multiple directories is not...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
9th April 2014, 04:15 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 885 Re: Question about Article Marketing
Way #3 Don't spin your articles, write high quality articles and others will post them on their blogs/websites. This is a much better option and will give you much better results in terms of...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
7th April 2014, 01:24 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 1,235 It's all about the money ain't it?
Scuse me... pardon me... comin thru... thank you very much and now please allow me to be steppin up on this here soap box for just a moment...
Am I the only dadburn person who is sick and tired of...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
5th April 2014, 02:05 PM
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Replies: 45
Views: 1,511 Re: Starting an Article Writing Business
The kind of clients that will take those free articles will be very reluctant to pay for anything in the future. Further, why would anyone give their services away for free? I've never heard of a...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th March 2014, 12:59 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,030 Re: Is paying for written content worth it?
Yes, paying for good quality content is definitely worth it. If a person does not have the skill or the time it is well worth it to pay top dollar for top quality writers.
However, you also...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th March 2014, 12:39 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,030 Re: Is paying for written content worth it?
I'm a freelance writer and I have quite a few clients who have been paying me to write for them for years. If they weren't making money off my content, they wouldn't keep coming back.
So yes,...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th March 2014, 12:24 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,030 Re: Is paying for written content worth it?
I recently paid about $75 for some content. Less then a week after the site went live it's already earned about $150.
It's all about finding quality talent. Trust me, that's the hard part.
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th March 2014, 11:38 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,030 Re: Is paying for written content worth it?
Spinning and quality content are contradictory terms. Forget spinning, not because Google doesn't like it but because the end product is terrible.
Whether you write your own or pay for content...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th March 2014, 09:39 AM
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Replies: 92
Views: 3,238 Re: is 10$ for 700 - 1500 word articles too much
Ten bucks for 700-1,500 words certainly isn't too high. On the contrary, it's insultingly low, bottom of the barrel pricing. A decent, native-English-speaking writer will almost never work for that...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th March 2014, 08:03 AM
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Replies: 92
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th March 2014, 07:14 AM
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Replies: 92
Views: 3,238 Re: is 10$ for 700 - 1500 word articles too much
Lots of people here either not paying attention or need some remedial work on reading. The OP is buying the articles and trying to figure out if he's overpaying.
If you stick to pure economics,...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th March 2014, 03:43 AM
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Replies: 92
Views: 3,238 Re: is 10$ for 700 - 1500 word articles too much
Let's look at it this way.
We'll say that a 1,000 word article takes you one hour to write. Someone above suggested it'd take them two hours to write an article of that length but I'm feeling...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
23rd March 2014, 02:38 PM
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Replies: 53
Views: 2,315 Re: Can someone sue me for copying content?
A lot of writers don't share that view. Link or not, if someone used my content without permission, I'd go after them pretty aggressively.
But here's the kicker: if someone sent me a polite...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
23rd March 2014, 09:58 AM
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Replies: 53
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
23rd March 2014, 08:41 AM
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Replies: 53
Views: 2,315 Re: Can someone sue me for copying content?
Short answer? Yes, they can.
Can they win? Their chances just got better with this public admission of guilt. ;):rolleyes:
I've been away for awhile, but you could never tell from the content....
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
23rd March 2014, 06:09 AM
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Replies: 53
Views: 2,315 Re: Can someone sue me for copying content?
Yes, they can do that. It is a derivative of their work, whether you use different titles and images or not. You are better deleting the content and hiring people to create your own content.
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
23rd March 2014, 05:53 AM
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Replies: 53
Views: 2,315 Re: Can someone sue me for copying content?
In my opinion and in the opinion of may copyright attorneys and owners, spinning is one of the many ways copyrighted material is infringed.
Think about it: the author takes the time to research...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
17th March 2014, 06:41 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 329 Re: Who is using press releases for building list?
Press releases are really only effective if you have newsworthy content to share. Something new, something launched, etc. If it's just regular content you are sharing then that's just an article not...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
12th March 2014, 01:16 AM
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Replies: 17
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
11th March 2014, 11:16 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 627 Re: Getting articles syndicated for free traffic
Personally, I would never outsource nor use "software" for finding syndication partners. This marketing component of article syndication is so critical (more so than writing the articles), you really...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
9th March 2014, 10:14 PM
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Replies: 34
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
7th March 2014, 09:33 AM
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Replies: 33
Views: 915 Re: Authority Blog On Mutilple Niches?
Key is to focus on your audience - who will it be? Ideally the different subjects you talk about appeal to the same audience so you get some repeat visitors and loyal followers/commentors.
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