Article Marketing - How To Distribute Your Articles?
The mistake, which a lot of marketers are making is that they don’t submit unique articles. I mean they do, but not for every directory. For example, let’s say we are using 3 article directories (the big ones): EzineArticles, Buzzle and GoArticles. Now what I would do is I would write one original article for each directory, which will be likely to give me organic traffic in the future. If you target some long-tail keywords in your articles, you may be able to rank on top pages of Google for certain terms. That means free, organic traffic, which can also result in sales.
So let’s compare the above method with the one, which tons of marketers do, and which is wrong. Google doesn’t index everything right? Especially if it’s duplicate content. If you have an article on EzineArticles, and the other copy (same one) is on GoArticles, then Google will only index one of them. You see, what’s the point for Google indexing the same thing twice? There is no reason for that, is there? So basically what Google does, they choose the copy, which “seems” to be the first one, which appeared on the web, and they take that as an original article. The rest of the copies simply won’t do anything. Certainly, they will produce some “automatic” article directory traffic, when you first submit them, but sooner or later, they will be gone.
All I am trying to say here is that whether your goal is to rank for certain keywords or get backlinks to your website, in any case, you need original content. Google loves fresh, quality content, and if you can give that to it, then it will reward you by ranking higher. It’s all about giving Google what it wants. Just think about, obviously, Google doesn’t want hundreds of copies of the same article all over the web, does it? Writing and submitting unique articles might take you a little longer, but it’s definitely worth the effort.
If you are struggling writing your first article, or just don’t know what to write about, then I know a really nice ebook, which is written by Dylan Loh called Secret Article Profits. That is a perfect guide to writing articles, which both make you money and give backlinks. Click here to check out my review.
Best Article Directories For Internet Marketing
You will agree with me, that there are quite a lot of article directories on the Internet. However, which ones are the best to use, why do you think they are good? I’ve done a research online trying to find out the most useful and reliable directories, and below I will list my own top of article websites. Have a look.
1. Ezine Articles
There is no doubt that Ezine Articles goes on first position. They are one of the first article directories created online. They have thousands of articles, hundreds of thousands of authors and they keep growing every day. It’s very organized and well-designed website, which I very easy to use. I find it enjoyable to navigate through their pages, as the content is accurately placed around the pages. Regarding using it for IM purposes, it’s also great. Ezine ranks quite good in search engines, especially Google and you can expect nice SEO traffic.
2. ArticleBase
I may say, that here should be some other directory, but in my opinion article base deserves the second place. Certainly, every will agree with be that Ezine is the best, but there are lots of discussions going on regarding the second place. Some are saying it’s Article Base, others like Isnare more, but I would say AB goes after Ezine. I really like their design. It’s clean and readable. No fancy stuff, just nice articles. The problem with it is that they put text link ads in your article, which can make your readers click away. Ezine doesn’t do that, and that’s why I love it.
3. GoArticles
The third place gets GoArticles. Why I really like this directories is because once you have written and submitted your article, it goes live immediately. Plus they have PR6, which it a great factors in terms of getting backlinks from them or ranking in SEs. They don’t even care about affiliate links. You can do whatever you want in your articles. That sounds good, but some people are taking advantage of that, and that’s why their directory has some rubbish articles as well.
So now you know, which ones are the best article directories, but how you can use them to make money online? Good question and fortunately I have the answer - The Millionaire League. This guide is written especially for those, who want to make quick cash on the Internet or maybe even a million. Writing articles will definitely help you in achieving that. Click here to check out this guide.
Ezine Articles Premium Membership - Is it Really Worth It?
As you have probably noticed, Ezine Articles have recently introduced their new membership type called Premium Membership. It costs $97 a month, or you can choose alternative payment method, such as quarterly or yearly, and then obviously you will get some discounts. So what I want to do in this article is to talk about whether the features of Premium members are really worth the price.
Reviewing Speed
One of the features of Premium account is that your articles will be reviewed within 48 hours. Certainly, it sounds really good, especially if you are Basic or Basic Plus member. It can take up to 7 days to get your articles approved, if your status is not Platinum. However, if you have Platinum accounts, then I think this so called advantage of Premium membership becomes useless. I know many people, who have Platinum accounts and very often their articles are reviewed within 1-3 days. So unless you are Basic or Basic Plus member, I personally think you don’t really need this membership.
Senior Editors
The next thing, which I am going to talk about is people who review your articles. They are called editors. You know, it often happens, when these guys accidentally put your articles in problem status. Sometimes, they think you are promoting affiliate products, when you are simply reviewing them or providing some extra info. It also happens, when they give you a mistake regarding anchor text saying it’s too long, when you have only 1 or 2 words marked as hyperlink. So that’s the reason, why Ezine provides reviews of senior editors to Premium members. That means your articles will get reviewed by experienced employees of the directory, so you can avoid those mistakes. I would say this one is not really required, as you can usually solve the problem with disapproved articles pretty quickly. Certainly, it would be better if senior guys would review your articles, but not for $97/month. You know, what I am trying to say?
Messaging
Another so called advantage, which comes with Ezine Premium Membership is that you tickets (messages) get replied quicker. If you are a basic user, and sending a ticket, it says it takes up to 48 hours to reply. However, usually you get a reply in 4-5 days. That’s what my personal experienced has been. If you are a Premium, they are saying you will be likely to get a reply in 24 hours. Well, what can I say about this. If you love chatting to Ezine editors, and discussing with them everyday events, then yes, you may need this feature. However, what is the most common reason, that you write to Support team? Article problem or maybe account suspended? Whatever it is, it doesn’t happen often, does it? So I think, you can wait few days more until you get the reply from them, rather than pay $97/month for their “quick” service.
Without going further into analyzing the Premium Membership, it seems that there is no serious need of it, unless you have extra 100 bucks to spend every month on Ezine. However, this is my personal opinion about this, and you may have other thoughts. It’s up to you guys, what you want to do.
Regarding making money online with Article marketing, I would recommend you to have a look at Confessions of A Lazy Super Affiliate. The methods Chris Rempel is using are cost-free, but you can make really nice cash from home using his techniques. Ezine’s expensive Premium membership is not required at all, because there are lots of other great sites you can use. Click here to check out the guide.
How To Write Profitable Articles & Promote Products
Affiliate marketing is a huge opportunity to make money online, and nowadays one of the most smart and effective methods to promote products is by writing articles. The beauty of it is that they are quite easy to write, it doesn’t take long to bang a 300 word article and finally it works! So in this post I am going to tell you how you can make fast cash working from and just by using your writing skills.
So how can articles make you money? Well, honestly, there are lots of way, but here I am going to talk about specifically about Clickbank, which is the biggest affiliate network on the Internet, containing thousands of digital products. You can sell products there, you can promote, and you will still make money.
Ok, let’s get back to articles. Suppose, you are an affiliate and you want to promote some products from Clickbank to make money. What should you do? I would say - write an article! And then you would start asking me, how to write it, whether to submit and how it can make money, right? I hear this questions often on forums, and that’s why I am writing this post.
Basically, the reason you are going to write an articles is because you want to provide some value to the readers, and make him/her ready to buy a specific product or at least become interested in reading your review of the product. When you give some valuable information to the reader, he changes he’s opinion about you. He doesn’t think you are another scammer on the Internet, but a person who wants to help.
Key to writing profitable articles is providing your readers with useful content. Your articles don’t have to be long. You can keep them under 500 words or even less, but you can still write some nice stuff, can’t you? It doesn’t necessarily have to be 1000 words article. I would say that short articles are much better, because not everyone likes reading. Short and straight to the point = perfect article.
Once you got a nice article written down, actually you should have few of them, because one won’t be enough, you need to start promoting a product in your article. How you do it? Resource box/author box! Simply write some call-to-action at the end of your article and put a link to your review of the product or you can directly link to the merchant. Sounds easy, but there is a lot to be learned about Article marketing.
I would recommend you to have a look at Secret Article Profits, which is an excellent guide to Article marketing, written by Dylan Loh. Remember him? He’s the author of Clickbank Profit Machine and also one of youngest and most successful Internet marketers in the world. If you are interested, then click here to learn more about Secret Article Profits.
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