Article Marketing 101 - Everything You Need To Know About Article Marketing In One Place!

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Hello my friends and fellow warriors,

I reached 500 posts yesterday so I wanted to post something worthwhile and give back to the community.

Article Marketing is now more popular than ever, the problem is most people don't understand the whole science behind it.

This method requires an entire systematic procedure (for which there are many variations), it's not just about submitting quality articles (although that's a big part of it).

People come here to complain about AM when they never did it 'right' in the first place. So I will show you 'right'.

Here's the deal, follow the methods I'm about to show you and if you DON'T get THOUSANDS of targeted visitors to your websites in a 1 month period after you have done this I will PAY YOU $100 USD. (To claim this you just have to show me all your work so I can verify you did it correctly.)

After this thread, there is NO excuse to start asking the daily 100 questions about Article Marketing, because everything will be here.







Step 1 - Keyword Research And Implementation

A lot of people, especially IM beginners or newbies don't get the entire concept behind the 'keyword(s)'. There are many types of keywords, for this method we will be using one known as long tail keywords or keyword phrases.

To illustrate the process, I'm going to grab a random niche, a highly competitive one to show you that competition can only be good (because there is higher demand). The dating niche.

Now, head to your favourite keyword research tool (I use Seo Book Keyword Suggestion Tool myself).

Here is where you will be doing all the research.

Your goal is to look for any long tail keyword related to the niche that has at least 10 daily search results (the more the better obviously) and LESS than 10,000 google competition (the less the better). Allow me to elaborate.

I typed the search term pick up in the keyword tool and a long list of all types of keywords displays, since we are looking for long tails it should be a phrase containing 2 or more words.

Here is one sweet talk pick up lines (yes that is ONE keyword) it has over 650 overall daily search results (an average between the top 3 search engines) and a whopping Google competition of 131 websites (note scarcasm).

Hint: There are many more profitable keywords in that list alone.

Some people are going to kill me for revealing that keyword, it has the potential of driving 650+ visitors to your website per DAY with ONE article.

How did I measure competition you may wonder? I went to Google and did a search for the keyword under quotation marks: "sweet talk pick up lines"

Step 2 - Source Research For Your Article

Naturally, to write an article around that keyword you need to know some sweet talk pick up lines, so you will want to do some research on it unless you are some sort of Casanova or VegasVince.

This is the most simple process, go to Google and type sweet talk pick up lines (without quotations this time), check about 5 sources, grab your favourite pick up lines and you are good to go.

Hint: A source can be anything from an encyclopaedia to an article.

Note that in this case, that was very easy research, sometimes you will need to do a more in depth investigation in order to pull out a great article.

For this you can talk to Bev Clement, I believe she has a very solid research process.

Step 3 - Writing The Article

You don't have to be a professional writer to pull off an amazing article, simply write the article as if you were speaking to a client verbally.

Don't forget to make the article short (350-650 Words is my criteria), you don't want the reader bored to death and leaving half way through (that accomplishes nothing) by making them read your college thesis.

The basic structure of an article is composed of 6 parts. In order:

1. Title or Headline

The keyword MUST go here, for example: Top 10 Sweet Talk Pick Up Lines To Capture Her Attention. Headlines are used to caputure the reader's attention, in this case it is also used to optimize the article for the search engines.

2. Summary

The keyword doesn't necessarily have to go in this one, it's all about writing an appealing summary of your article. The summary is what will most likely show in the search engines under the title/headline of the article.

3. First Paragraph

Again, the keyword MUST go here once (don't flood it). Make it interesting and appealing or the visitor/reader will leave.

4. Body

Add the keyword in this part once again and insert the sweet talk pick up lines you chose during your research.

5. Last Paragraph or Conclusion

This is where you close the reader. Add the keyword one last time and present a subtle lead to the resource box (where you promote your website).

6. Resource Box

The best article directories will only allow you to promote or advertise something in this space, it has to be appealing and it MUST have a clear call to action. This is where you add the link to your website (ideally in anchor text for a keyword you have your website optimized around for SEO purposes (mainly backlinking)).

Just as an example: "If you truly want to get the girl, go to this website now: [Insert Link in Anchor Text] It is the top resource on dating advice and tips courtesy of the leading dating guru."

Step 4 - Submitting The Article

Great! Now you have created a very powerful article, it's time to submit it. You can submit to as many article directories as you wish without any penalties (duplicate content does not apply unless you submit the same article under the same domain).

The leading article directory is Ezine Articles. Their customer support may not be the best, but no matter what people say it gives the best ROTI (Return Over Time Invested - It's Free) and each day they become more strict on what articles to accept, so you won't get away with crap articles (which is good, crap articles are useless).

After submitting to EZA and getting it approved, feel free to submit to as many article directories as you want.

Step 5 - Securing The Article's Position In The Search Engines

Securing an article in #1 position for a specific keyword using the criteria stated above is VERY easy due to the low level of competition, you just need a few backlinks.

There is software out there (and services) that submit backlinks to over 100 social bookmarking websites, providing you with enough backlinks to secure the article in #1 position. The key to using these programs is: DON'T SPAM, just submit 1-3 backlinks per day at most.

I don't want to mention the backlink automation software I use because that would be promoting a product.

When you do a backlink make sure it is linking to your article IN anchor text with the keyword used in the article.

That close to guarantees your search engine rankings because the competition for the search term(s) is low. Add a killer quality article to the mix and you will be getting backlinks from people you don't even know for free.

Final Step - The Numbers Game

After all the steps above are met, it becomes a numbers game. Submit 100 articles using this method. Don't panic just yet, let me show you why.

Let's say all your articles average 100 views per day and you have a decent average CTR of 20% (these numbers are very common). 100 Views X 20% = 20 Unique Visitors Per Article X 100 Articles = 2,000 DAILY Laser Targeted Visitors (AKA Potential Buyers) to your website.

That is just an example using a below average scenario, the numbers may vary and if you stop submitting articles the traffic may go down (unless the keywords used continue to get the same number of daily hits).

Well that's about it my friends. This works for every single niche out there. And not only are you getting highly targeted traffic to your websites but you are also branding yourself as an expert in the niche(s) you chose. Enjoy!

Best of luck,

Daniel Molano

PS: For more information about keyword research and implementation visit this thread now: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ion-101-a.html

PPS: To find if your keyword(s) have commercial potential (In other words, if people are looking to purchase something when using a keyword to do a search) use this free tool in cross reference: Audience Intelligence

PPPS: That was my two cents, there are many variations to this method. I would love to hear the input of other expert article marketing warriors like Wagenheim, Kelsall, Shanin, Sago, Graves etc... to make this the definitive Article Marketing thread.
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  • Daniel

    Thank you for sharing your insight.

    Best

    Jim
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    • It's a great post, stating about the essence of article marketing.

      I guess there will be many writing articles now and hoping to get your $100. That's an interesting deal.

      JTYS
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  • "sweet talk pick up lines" in Googles own tool shows nothing.

    I dunno why those tools show such differences in results, but
    I would personally follow Googles figures over other sources,
    for data specific to Google. If that makes sense...

    Not knocking your post however. It's awesome of you to
    share your experience and give step by step instructions.
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    • That is because the Google tool doesn't register keywords that long so fast, they don't have enough data yet for a monthly average. It clearly says "Not enough data". It never states "No results".

      I'm talking about daily search results, the Google tool registers monthly averages, so they just don't have enough data for that yet.

      Just try the method, if it doesn't work remember I'll pay you.
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    • I don't pay too much attention to the Google tool when it says not enough data - have a look around in the other keyword tools too.

      I often find that some of the best untapped keywords are the ones that Google still say "not enough Data" for, which is probably why they're still untapped - because people leave that stone unturned.
  • Great post!

    ...and people, stop your wining about the given keyword phrase!
    Obviously it was just an example, it doesn't mean that you all need to use this phrase for your articles!
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    • We're not whining, we're trying to reproduce the example he gave us. It looks like a good essay, I'd like to go through all of it.
    • No problem kiev, they just have to understand how the Google tool works.

      They also have to understand that it is not smart to use a keyword which is now publically available to 90,000+ people, no matter how good it is.
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    • AMEN! Why do some turn a very helpful article into a rant? Go do your own stuff, apply, rinse, repeat. then let us know how YOU did.
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  • Thanks for the great post, Daniel!

    One thing I'd like to ask though and I've sent you a PM about it.


    You missed out Dean Shainin and Travis Sago ;D They're Bum Wizards too!

    Asher
  • Thank you Daniel for such an awesome post. I've been doing article marketing seriously for a few months now and have been looking for a solid system that works every time. I will follow your instructions and hope to get positive results.

    Thanks again.
  • Great post Daniel,
    I'm not a well known article marketer like the ones you mentioned but since you asked to make this the article marketing thread I thought I would add my two cents to this.


    Step 1 - Keyword Research And Implementation

    I try to go with at least 3 words, two just is not a long enough long tail for me.

    Step 2 - Source Research For Your Article

    Remember you are just using these places as sources. Always write the pick up line or whatever tidbit of info into your OWN words in your notes, so that by the time you write your article it will be even further away from the original source.
    Step 3 - Writing The Article

    1. Title or Headline

    If looking for better results directly from EZA, I find the longer titles work, why? Because the longer ones stand out in the lists of articles. Even if you can manage to repeat the keyword or part of it (since it is longtail) it is even better because more of the title will be bolded in SERP's. Of course, test this out per niche. Some this works with, others it doesn't.

    2. Summary

    Due to the fact that this is what the searcher sees first, don't just copy your first paragraph word for word. Make it something interesting that sparks thought and makes them have to know more.

    3. First Paragraph

    Try to make sure this leads into the next paragraph. you want to keep the reader flowing through.

    4. Body

    Nothing to add here.

    5. Last Paragraph or Conclusion

    Although I agree with Daniel, I also prefer not to have this one. I find that using my resource box as my final paragraph, pulls the reader to it more. Makes it more natural to continue than if you had just sealed the article here.

    6. Resource Box

    Anchor text your keyword as a building of backlinks. Ensure you have a strong call to action and forget about who you are and what crap you know. Seal the deal.

    "If you want to {learn sweet pick up lines} that will make all the women leave the club with you, you need {this site now!}" Just a quick example.

    Step 4 - Submitting The Article
    Since I have held more than one spot on the page for the same article at different directories I have to say, why wait, go ahead and submit to your fav directories (Personally I love website-article.net owned by our own Allen Greaves, much more directed at the article and getting people to your site, can include all sorts of extras eza doesn't allow)
    And that's it, for my two cents.

    Again thank Daniel for a great 500th post.

    Sylvia
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    • Great points and input to the thread Adam and Sylvia. Keep em coming guys!
  • What a great post, Daniel. Thank you very much for sharing it. I would recommend that anyone who wants this information copy and paste it into a document they can save on their computer. That's what I did.
  • Thanks Daniel. Very helpful.

    Why is there such a huge discrepancy between the SEO Book tool and the Google Keyword Tool?

    For example, the keyword "pizza"
    Google says: 453,333 daily searches
    SEO Book says: 7,335 for Google daily est.

    The keyword "types of pizza"
    Google: 43 daily searches
    SEO Book: 593 for Google daily est.

    Playing around with more examples, it looks like the SEO Book tool estimates about a factor of 10 higher than the Google tool for multiple-word keyphrases, and underestimates by a factor of about 10 for single-word keywords.

    I'm confused.
  • Great thread,i am surprised that none of u mentioned to check the authority of sites on first page of google.You may find keyword with good no of daily searches with low competeting sites but what if most of the site on first page of google is authority sites for that keyword,in this case its almost impossible for articles to rank on first page of google.
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    • If I'm not mistaken, the Google keyword tool is based on MONTHLY search results and the SEO book tool is based on DAILY search results.

      That would explain the discrepancy.

      There is truth to this statement but not completely. EZA is a PR6, most authority sites have a similar PR, not many go beyond that, so the chances of ranking are pretty even, add my backlink suggestion to the mix and you can have an almost guaranteed ranking.
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  • Maybe we are looking at a different Google here. Mine also says 13,600,000 monthly searches, which translates to 450,000+ daily searches.

    Data is for *last* month, of course. Can't believe that people's appetite for pizza fluctuates that much, though.
  • Pretty basic information here. And the thing is, that is the way it is done. Ironic that more people won't follow your instructions to get the traffic (and buyers) they want.
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    • You are right, it is pretty basic BUT a lot of people overlook it and never do it this way which leads to their failure and complaining.

      IM beginners don't know this neither, so I'm pretty sure it will be a lot of help for them.
  • Thanks for for great information that I will put to good use. I have had some success with article marketing but I have a feeling its going to get better.
  • Thanks for such detailed information. I have been driving traffic to my site almost solely with articles, but I haven't tried using such a detailed keyword method. I've had some success, but I believe this could really increase my traffic if done correctly. Thanks!
  • Hey Daniel, just curious, what social bookmarking software are you using? If you don't want to say publicly can you PM me?
  • I would be interested to know what backlink automation software you use (you can PM me if you prefer not to post publicly).

    Susan
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    • This is very true, can't believe I forgot to add it. I have used the keyword twice in the title effectively quite a few times as well.

      PM me for info on that.
  • Thanks for the insight We already use this method and get plenty of traffic
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    • I'll chime in here just to say that there are some posts in this thread that are just plain incorrect.

      There are some that are right on.

      There are some that are a very broad and blurry.

      And, as usual, most of them have no solid proof or testing results.

      Daniel, your OP is overall a good one and one that will help people to stay on track!

      The problem is that since about the middle of August, things have started to change very quickly and in some cases, dramatically.

      For instance, using your keyword phrase in your title twice. Well, that was a good strategy a year ago, but it's not working anymore. Well, unless your phrase is completely obsolete and has no competition. I know this because I sift through thousands of article stats every day and I see which Titles are ranking higher than others. The "twice in the title" trick has been thwarted by Google. (Still seems to be working well at MSN, though)

      What I am getting at is this. We are in the midst of some big changes here. Little tricks that used to work well are not going to be working anymore. Things that would kill an article's ranking in the past may work damn well tomorrow.

      Everything is changing and you should try your ass off to stay on top of what's going on. If not, you'll be chasing the competition instead of leading it...and there's a HUGE difference in the two.

      Just remember to run your campaign(s) with integrity instead of urgency. That is VERY important to remember.

      Respectfully,
      Allen Graves
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    • Good post. I agree with Dean, finding the right niche is obviously a huge part of it.
    • article marketing brings results...i see it many times daily
    • I am totally new to Warrior Forum, but I have experience in Article Marketing. The beginning was hard for me, what with all the gurus and the way they explain things and advice from everyone and their mothers. However, if you follow Daniel's advice which is pretty straight forward and add some of the other "ingredients" from other warriors, you won't fail...you can't fail. I did it.

      My advice is to stick with it, even if you are not getting the results you want in the first week; keep going and TRACK everything you do and everything you submit. See what works and what needs tweaking; fix it and continue on your course. You will arrive if you are doing things right.

      One very important point: HAVE A PLAN!!! Put it on paper. Is it traffic you're after, is it an amount of money? Whatever it is, write your goal down and look at it everyday.
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    • Dan,

      Yep:p must've read my mind. I'm a total newbie to article writing and have just started searching for help. This is absolutely great!

      Thanks so much for sharing. And congrats on reaching 500 posts. Whew, incredible.

      Thanks again
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    • If you submit an article to a bunch of directories with links back to your site should my site have that same article as a blog post (if it is a blog) or should it not? Will this hurt or help SEO

      Thanks

      Lionel
    • You say to write 100 articles. Where could someone come-up with the amount of content to be able to write 100 articles. I struggle with being able to write a few articles at best. What content can a person use from the content research done in Google? I'm not really clear on this. If you cut and paste other peoples content, isn't that going to get you into trouble?
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    • Question... my articles have been disappearing from google, I want to know if it's normal or not?

      My girlfriend and I both wrote some articles... I wrote 8, and she wrote 2... both of us got some initial sales while we were on ezine front page, but then after being bumped off, traffic dwindled down so we got started building backlinks...

      used Social Bookmarking software, Linkvana, and a few blog comments to build backlinks to the best performing articles. They were on page 1 almost immediately (at the bottom) so we kept building a few backlinks... all in all probably did like 30 social bookmarks, 5 linkvana links, and only a few blog comments for these articles.

      Then, the best performing one disappeared overnight about 3 days ago, and has remained gone since. Then another one, and another, and now about 4-5 articles out of our 10 are completely gone from Google, and by gone I mean they're GONE, not just bumped down, because even putting in exact URL or quoted text match turns up nothing.

      They didn't all disappear at once, they disappeared one by one. I'm sort of expecting more to follow now...

      HAs this happened to you, or is it a known thing, or anyone know whats going on? Will they come back?
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    • I am a real newbie and have some questions:
      I don't have access to Clickbank since most of Latin America is excluded!
      Can you suggest me an alternative for digital products similar to CB?

      How do you choose your nich/product to presell: Do you go directly to CB, trough Google/ Amazon trends and the like, or what?

      If I make landing pages as comparative reviews of products, what is the role of the articles in those landing pages?
      Or are the articles independent and they just send the people from Article Directories
      through the links to my blogs?
      Thanks a lot
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    • Daniel thank you for sharing your article marketing 101 success strategies. I will be implementing your article marketing success strategies.
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  • Imagine if you wrote 100 quality keyword researched articles for your OWN website and got 100 bookmarks for each page....
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  • Daniel,

    Great post. Congrats on you 500th post as well. You've sparks some great conversation on AM Best Practices that'll help the new article marketers and re-establish some fundemetals that can get forgotten about by the more seasons AM'ers. Good luck on your next 500.

    Jason
  • Just for the record...I don't know of any article directory which has taken the lead out of EZA or is about to overtake them. But there are a couple that are poised to do it. Website-Articles.net gets nowhere near the traffic of EZA (of course), and we are debating on whether or not to limit our author base to just one or two thousand members.

    Fact is, as long as EZA has the Google love, they're the shit! And even if they lost their Google love, they would not disappear overnight. I think Chris is doing the right things for EZA to stay on top. Losing a few authors won't matter to them (IMO) as long as they stay on top.

    I'll shoot you a PM Daniel.

    AL
  • Hey, Daniel

    You mention submitting same article to other directories. But, when you do, do you change it at all? I know some prefer to change it, but is it a case you have to? If we want (out of, say, sheer laziness) to submit the same article to many directories, can we? Also, how would they verify that the other articles are, indeed, ours - if we've used pen names. Is it only possible if we direct resource box to same page?

    Also, what directories do you submit to?

    Thanks

    -WM
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    • If your article is good and unique, submit it as is to as many directories as you wish, there won't be a duplicate content penalty for that. No need to change it.
  • What a great post. I thank everyone for their input here! There's definitely some fantastic information in this post that is worth saving to the computer for later reference.

    Kind regards,
    Jullieanne Matheson
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    • Thanks everyone for their input and feedback.

      I wouldn't mind if Allen made the thread a sticky.

      There are like 10 article marketing related questions every day on the forum from beginners and this thread answers every single one of them.

      Basic, but powerful information.
  • Thanks for your excellent guide. Sure that I have learned something I didn't know.
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  • Hi Daniel,

    Congratulations on your 500th post and thanks for sharing these great tips!

    Is there any way for you to PM me the backlink software that you're using? I would love to get my hands on that


    Cheers,

    Irene
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  • Hi Daniel

    Thanks for the fantastic post, my article marketing was pretty poor and not getting much results will try and follow your guidelines and see how it goes.

    When i submit articles a few directories like article marketer always come back to me about hard line breaks and find it a real pain to find them and fix them.

    Anyone suggest a tool that i can write articles in to avoid this problem

    thanks again

    PG
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    • Well why don't you just write/type without hitting the RETURN/ENTER key? That's all there is to it. And obviously for a new para you have to hit return?
  • Are you serious? It is that simple, i have been using notepad but always cut off at about 65 characters. So i should just keep on writing and when posting article it will come out ok.

    Is that right??

    I feel so stupid

    Thankyou
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    • Yep, I think you can even set notepad to wrap around the screen so that you don't stretch the document and can then keep an eye on what you're writing.

      Yep, the words just wrap themselves around naturally when you don't hit return!

  • Thanks for this.
  • This is a real good post.

    Here is something that I personally do that can help
    anyone out with articles, that adds to Daniel's post:

    Slap Google Like a RAG Doll - a knol by Matt Bacak
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    • I love this response Matt...you've done another like it and it *STILL* raWKs...

      Great info for those that take it and use it...this stuff works, I've done variations of this on a much smaller scale and seen some pretty amazing results...so even if you want to get lazy with the formula he's laid out it's worth it.

      :thumbsup

      _S
    • That is exactly what I've been doing James, you completely read my mind man.

      Matt that is some amazing advice, talk about leveraging 1 single article. Great blog post right there. Excellent input to the thread.

      Add mass submission services to the mix (Like TubeMogul for video) and you got yourself not only A LOT of traffic, but a hell of a lot of backlinks also.
    • I read your article at Knol. there's a serious learning curve involved with this approach and I'd like to try this method.
  • Daniel MUY buen articulo e instrucciones. Felicidades!
  • I use adword analyzer for keyword research,
    but apparently I haven't been using it effectively.

    I appreciate your sharing...your post helped me
    to see the error of my ways!
  • great info Daniel.Apreciate.
    I have some question
    1. you said that we can submite 1 same article to as many as article directory. let say I have 1 submite article on EZA and get aprovement and then it np to submite to other article directory? I mean what if the other directory find that that article has live at EZA so get caught as duplicate and they will decline. also does same article at so many place isn't make get penalty as duplicate by google ?
    2. about submite 100 article, it mean we create 100 article from each long tail keyword or 100 article from various keyword on 1 niche? I assume we must dominate on 1 niche but write many article on 1 long tail keyword is not easy I think.

    thank for answer and sorry for my bad gramatical
    also can you pm me about your software to generate backlink?
  • hey Daniel:

    nice post. just wondering if you have any idea how to track sales from article marketing?

    Say you wrote 10 articles all link to 1 landing page, how do you tell which article generates sales?

    thanks.
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    • 1. Most article directories accept articles that are already live in other article directories, with the exception of a few (such as EZA, which is why I said to submit there first).

      2. Yes 1 long tail keyword PER article. And no it isn't hard, I have found thousands of long tail keywords for some niches.

      As far as I know you can't tell which article generated the sale. You can however tell how many visitors each article has sent to a specific landing page through CTR and Google Analytics if set up correctly in the landing page.
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  • Fantastic thread. Thanks for taking the time to put this together and grats on 500 post. Can't wait to see what you bring out for 1k ;-)
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    • Thanks and that would be correct. But don't get stuck on the learning process.

      The biggest mistake most IM beginners make is that they stuck themselves in the learning curve, buying the next big how to product and never taking action. If you don't make that mistake you will find yourself making money in no time.
  • Good post with specific steps to take! Rock on
  • Outstanding post Daniel. Between your post and Matt's a marketer in a good niche could literally build a full time income just by following the steps you guys have outlined here.

    Article marketing works. I charge $10 to $20 for a 500 word article on Elance and I have clients that use my services like clockwork every single month. Some of them pay me more money a month than some people pay for their RENT. Why would these clients continue to pay me money to do something that doesn't work? Plus there's hundreds of other article writers on Elance all having clients paying them to do the same as well.
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    • Yeah Matt's post is definitely a golden nugget, amazing way to leverage lots of traffic from 1 single article.

      And I hear you, I started joking about how much I charged per article once hordes of people started PMing me about it (I said $75 per 500 words) and your jaw would literally drop if you knew how many actually went for it, I didn't accept though, but yeah...
  • Hey I found a keyword with 1470 daily searches but 12,400 google competition, does an extra 2.4k competition matter much?
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    • Go for it, with enough backlinks you can rank easily for anything below 60,000.
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  • RE: "duplicate content does not apply unless you submit the same article under the same domain".

    I am not quite sure just what you are saying here. Could you explain this in a different way? I appreciate it!

    Rick
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  • This is great information. I need to start using this method
  • I remember in the in the other thread you previously said it was 100 daily searches out of a competition of 10,000, and now its only 10 daily searches? Or did you misspelt that?
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    • Hey Teo,

      It wasn't a mispelling, that is my method, but you can bend it however you see fit and whatever works for you. There is NEVER only one way to do things.

      In fact, you can go for at least 10 daily search results and less than 60,000 Google competition if you want to go for a wider margin.
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    • Excellent post.

      The only thing I would suggest is to build your list in the process.
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    • Hi Dan, great info.

      What if, when I send off my 10 EZA articles, all aout the same niche, to the other 10 directories, rather than have a link to the same article on EZA I included a link one of the other similar articles. Each of the 10 with a link to one of the others.

      That way if someone does happen to click on the EZA link they are not taken to the same article because we might lose them if they do. The similar article on EZA might hold their interest until they reach the resource box. But the 10 EZA articles still have the same amount links to them to boost their position in Google.

      Would this be better or am i missing something? Its all a bit new to me and this curve is pretty steep.
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  • That is a very good idea Mike. You can transform any outsourced article into an SEOd article powerhouse that way.

    Just give them the keyword list, point them to the thread and after you receive the articles do the backlinking.
  • Nice article you broke down in steps.

    I got some free software that finds commercial intent of buyers called google cash compass.

    It has a compass to tell you if keyword is worth pursuing
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  • thks daniel for the post.
    really put me back on track. i guess i must have read lots of AM techniques and tricks since i started IM late last year, but as a newbie, we are always overloaded with tons of information and dunno where to start and how to do it.
    i did try out article marketing before by posting a few articles but after that never really continue doing and i just fade off.. zzz
    guess i need to focus now.
    about the social bookmarking technique, i do know that its is a powerful technique and i am using a software to bookmark now (but only to about 20+ sites) and its a monthly recurring fee (think i have to reconsider it although the software do have other modules as well )
    u mentioned only to create 1-3 backlines with the social bookmarking sites per day, does that mean we only bookmark to 1-3 sites for each article per day? if i have 10 articles, can i bookmark all these to the 1-3 social sites at the same time too (per day basis)?
    is it better for us to bookmark the article or better to bookmark our website (means our landing page)? or bookmark both?

    i would also like to know the bookmarking software you are using too
    can you pm me the info too.. thks..
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    • Yes that would be fine.

      When I said 1-3 I meant 1-3 URL or pages to all the social bookmarking sites. But lately I've been doing 10 with no problem.
  • Great post Daniel! This will definitely help all the newbie marketers out there and also motivate seasoned marketers to continue article marketing. I will definitely recommend this post to other people.

    Daniel, has anyone taken up your challenge yet? How many $100 dollar bills have you had to give away?
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    • 0 so far.

      If this doesn't work for anyone I'll really put my money where my mouth is.
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  • Article Marketing takes persistence for sure, but for free traffic and the credibility that comes with quality articles, you just can't beat it. I know an internet marketer who advises that you always write your own, (he sells a book on how to do it fast) because that way you keep the quality high and don't pay for inferior articles that ruin your image. Some of what you pay for is really disappointing, so why not write it yourself?
    Ben Curtis bens-marketing-magic
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    • Thanks Daniel, There's definitely no shortage of material on the net. I've heard of software that can re-write (re-spin) content and change it to become your original content. Is there any of these products that anyone in the thread has personally used and had superior results with? Or is it one of those rumors that's best left alone? I have access to a lot of PLR and MRR material but really have no experience with using this stuff. Anyone have thoughts and/or input about this?
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  • Hi Daniel,

    I just can't get enough of your article. I've read it a few times and still manage to pick up something new each time I read it not to mention improve my understanding of what you're saying.

    Just what thing I wasn't sure of that I wanted to run by you. What exactly do you mean by Inser Link in Anchor Text as below? How does this help and what exactly does this do? Do we need to leave any spaces in between?

    Would appreciate your word on this.

    Cheers & thanks again mate!


    Chirag


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    • Thanks Chirag, I'm glad you're liking it.

      Anchor text is used for SEO purposes. Let's say in your landing page you have optimized it for a specific long tail keyword.

      If we use the same keyword as in my post's example it would look like this: Sweet Talk Pick Up Lines

      What I did is add the link to your landing page with the keyword your landing page is optimized around.

      This will help your landing page rank higher in the search engines for that specific keyword. The more you do it like this the better.
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  • I was just wondering if it is necessary to use a program for back links in order to be successful or if you could just rely on the ones you pick up from your articles.
  • It means that the penalty won't hurt you unless you have duplicate articles on the same website.
  • Excellent post, this thread has alot of helpful information for beginners. What would be considered a good view to click my link in the resource box ratio for my articles. Knowing that would help me figure out if I should make tweaks or not.
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    • You need to write a new article altogether. Or what you could do is submit to the article directory first and then to your blog.

      A decent CTR would be an average of 20%, although it varies depending on the niche you are targeting.
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  • Thanks for the post Daniel.
    I especially liked the tips on how you need to write the article.
    this was really helpful.thanks!
  • I enjoyed this thread and learned something new - about repeating the keyword in the title! Awesome tip! Can you pm the software you use, please? I would like to know also. Thanks so much for sharing this.
  • Daniel, this is an excellent post.

    There are a great many places online to get these types of backlinks from too, and because "somebody said" that Google doesn't give them much value (even if the site carries a High Page Rank), they won't use them. Social bookmarking sites are one of these. Forums are another. Both of these are excellent places to get a High Page Rank, anchor text backlink from.
  • Great information. Thank you.

    Shirley
  • thanks Daniel very good information

    but i still don't get what you mean by duplicate content on same domain? i always thought that duplicate content apply on different domains too?
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    • Daniel is correct. The only "duplicate content penalty" there is is that if you have two of the exact same pages on the same domain, Google will index one and not the other. It has absolutely nothing to do with your articles on different websites, no matter what the rumor may be.
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  • Hi Daniel, thanks for the insights. Also interested in your backlink automation software and social bookmarking software.

    Be grateful if you could PM with some details.
  • Couple Q's

    1) Why are you only targeting one keyword phrase per article?



    2) What is the program you use for linking?




  • Thanks for the blueprint to follow. Would you agree with the statement one made about this being just as effective with 10 to 30 articles as 100, especially before you know whether it is a hot topic or not? Thanks for the advice!
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    • Simple, because the single most important factor the search engines take into account is the title. Slamming more than 1 long tail keywords that have 3 words or more in the title is not viable. Sometimes you will be able to insert 2.

      Don't bother targeting other keywords in the actual article, there is where you write for the people, not the search engines.

      And the backlinking software I use is SocialBot.

      Not true, the more you submit using this method the more traffic you will receive.

      But yes I guess you should test your niche first with 10-20 articles before going all the way.
  • First, thanks for the great info!

    Second, I have a question. Over the past couple weeks I've written approximately 20 articles for my niche. I haven't submitted any of them yet because I wanted to have them all written before I started the campaign (it's a psych trick on myself to make sure I don't leave this half done).

    How quickly should I submit these to the directories, and how many directories do you suggest I submit to?

    I thought about signing up for Article Marketer, but I've also heard a lot of positives about Article Post Robot and Article Submitter. Should I submit all 20 articles at once or spread them out at 1-2 per week?
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    • Yes, he is. I've purchased his book twice for two friends who are struggling financially. His program gives some of the best info for newbies that I've ever seen.
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  • Thanks for such a great step by step. It takes AM down to a very do-able method of business.

    I was especially BLOWN AWAY by step 4 - submitting your articles. I had no idea that you can submit to other directories without a dupe penalty. One question though, does that go for Squidoo and Hub pages also or only article directories?

    Thanks Again.
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    • Yes Peter, that also goes for Squidoo lenses and Hubpages.

      As long as you don't have the same article in the same website it's ok.
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  • just to clarify, dupe content does not apply unless we submit the same article under the same domain name such as ___.com or is it the same content on the same website?
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    • It would do better if you stay away from duplicating content in both cases. Other than that feel free to submit your articles to multiple article directories and to your blogs as well.
  • Thank you Daniel... I've got to try your suggestions for my blogs. I still work for corporate full time so glad to have this to help me get the article writing accomplish faster.
    Debbie Kay
  • Thanks for taking the time to post that. Your post is alot more detailed and more valuable than alot of information on article marketing that I've paid good money for.
  • First thanks for the amazing post Daniel.. This is a very long thread and I hope this question has not been asked already ...

    Is there anyway you could go into more indepth detail on this please...

    Do you mean we should be providing the Articles url to the bookmarking services and only do like 3 bookmarking services a day ?

    If you do not want to post the url of the bookmarking service you use, would you mind sending me a PM with the link ?

    Sorry for the questions just a little confused on this part..

    Thanks for any help...

    James
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    • Hey James,

      The software I use is Social Bot from Incansoft and yes you need to target the article URL.

      This software provides 120 instant backlinks from several Social Bookmarking websites. This has proven to "bump" the position of my articles in the search engines for specific keywords. But it is by no means a long term approach.

      If you want a long term approach you should do some manual backlinking to your articles from high PR websites.

      I hope that explains it,

      Dan
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  • Hi Daniel,
    Appreciate the response... Just making sure I was doing it right..

    So great just now to get more bookmarks done ..lol

    James
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    So I also put same original article (the one we submit to articles diretories) in our website article directory then using back link method with anchor text link point back to my own website article directory where is the original article..? Please let me know

    Thanks Daniel Molano Good Information
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    • I can answer this one for you arshi. The idea behind using Article Directories is that many of them are High Page Rank and have thousands and thousands of backlinks already. Articles you place on them already have the benefit of the Search Engine Optimization of the Article Directory itself.

      When you do a backlink campaign, you want to go out and use the URL to your article when placing links. Any place that allows it, you want to embed your article's links inside of anchor text. Use the URL for your article always in the anchor text, whenever you are placing a backlink. Doing this gives your article a HUGE shove up the Google index.

      If your article is on page one of Google and people come to your website and buy your products because of that, then you've been a successful article marketer.
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  • hey daniel in the newbie blueprint you said that you wrote 280 articles and got about $3000 that month was that submitting your articles to only ezine? So lets say you stop there and don't submit anymore articles how much more money will those same 280 articles bring you on a montly basis? Im just trying to figure out the avg of how much each article is worth to see if it will be worth it if i was to outsource some of the article writing.
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    • Hey man, I replied to your e-mail. You can expect around 50% or more from that passive residual income for at least 1 year.
  • I think that a fantastic approach is when you get links to your articles to pump them up, which in turn strengthens the link in the article pointing to your main site.

    This degree of separation allows me to build lots of links for an article without fear of hurting my main site.
  • Although it depends on the niche, I would say a CTR of 20% is quite optimistic for most niches.

    Article Writing & Marketing Insights - EzineArticles Blog

    By far too optimistic is to assume each article will get 100 views a day. The average article gets not more than 50-250 views in a total two week period.

    Gunter
  • Nicely done bro, good post.

    Thanks Allen for setting us right about the double keyword trick.
  • If you get a front page spot with ezine articles then open another account with ezine articles and target the same keyword with a new article..

    Pop the same keyword on a squidoo lense and a few other web 2.0 properties and aim to dominate a few spots on that front page.

    Build some backinks and you'll have a few of the top ten spots on that first page.

    Make it impossible for anyone not to click on your links by owning the first page of google for your keyword.

    Just my penny worth..
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    • Great Ideas Kenny!

      What other sources can you use (anyone) use other thank squidoo and hubpages using this method?

      You mention other "web 2.0 properties", but not all sites get google love.

      Where are some good places to post?

      Thanks
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  • Excellent post on AM and I saw it from Sylvia's report which I bought!

    It is good for anyone to print it out, remember and apply it if he/ she is serious about AM!!!

    Thanks again, Daniel!

    John
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    • John,
      Glad you enjoyed it and yes one of the links leads right back here to Daniels great post since afterall he is a contributor.

      Bryan,
      You should always try to build a list to sell on the backend, it makes every word you type in article marketing that much more profitable.

      As for anyone showing you their landing page I would say for the most part that that is highly unlikely. Very few will bite the hand that feeds them and if they reveal their exact landing page they will end up competing against many similar ones. My advice is to look at other sites in your niche, type your target keywords into Google and see the sites it comes up with and then test, test, test till you find which ones work just right for you.

      Sylvia
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    There is software out there (and services) that submit backlinks to over 100 social bookmarking websites, providing you with enough backlinks to secure the article in #1 position. The key to using these programs is: DON'T SPAM, just submit 1-3 backlinks per day at most."

    What backlink programs? Could you please provide the name of a reliable software? Many Thanks!
  • It's a cool post and these seo techniques do work but not quickly. For speed nothing beats ppc if you are clued up on the subject. Much depends on the keywords and keyword tool that you use and of course googles algorythm alchemy. Well done on your 500th post!
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    • I agree. Use PPC and with the profits outsource your article marketing for $2-$5 an article.
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    I did have a question for Daniel or anyone who wants to answer. I have written about 35 to 40 articles, and I have made two Clickbank sales from those articles. I made both sales in the same day when one of my articles was featured on another website. I got over 100 hits on my article that day, and two people bought the ebook I was selling. There are normally about 3 to 5 PPC links that show up in my keyword searches. With this information, does it sound like that my niche passes the "test" to see if this is a good product to promote?
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    • Hey Kevin,

      Thanks for the kind feedback. And I would say maybe, that niche passes the test. It all depends on the conversion. How many hops where there to get those 2 sales?

      - Dan
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    this is just what i'm looking for. i understand evrything except the bit about backlinks, whats that. if you or anybody else can explain that would be great
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    • mayfairpearl,

      Backlinks are a way to make your sites or blogs rank higher in the search engines for specific keywords.

      Basically, what you do is link from third party or external websites that you own to the site you want to rank higher.

      Of course, the better the authority of the site is (PR for example) the more powerful the backlink is.
  • when you say write 20 articles do you mean to say write 20 articles with the title "sweet talk pick up lines" but obviously different ones ? Cant imagine writing that many one one topic ?
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    • You can write 20 articles on the same topic, but obviously not using the same exact keyword.. There are other related keywords to use which makes writing 20 articles on the same topic easier..

      James
  • Daniel you say the following here:

    "I typed the search term pick up in the keyword tool and a long list of all types of keywords displays, since we are looking for long tails it should be a phrase containing 2 or more words.

    Here is one sweet talk pick up lines (yes that is ONE keyword) it has over 650 overall daily search results (an average between the top 3 search engines) and a whopping Google competition of 131 websites (note scarcasm).

    Hint: There are many more profitable keywords in that list alone.

    Some people are going to kill me for revealing that keyword, it has the potential of driving 650+ visitors to your website per DAY with ONE .

    How did I measure competition you may wonder? I went to and did a search for the keyword under quotation marks: "sweet talk pick up lines" "


    Daniel my question is when you go to google and type for instance the key word sweet talk pick up lines you get one set of results for the keyword when you don't use quotations and one set of results if you do use quotations.

    I understand that using quotations tells google to find the specific phrase. The search results that google returned when you used quotations state that phrase had 650 daily search results and only 130 competing websites.

    When you just type sweet talk pick up lines in the search engine without quotation marks you get as of right now 262,000 competing websites.

    Once your article is submitted and people type the phrase sweet talk pickup lines. Wouldn't your site fall under the results with the 262,000 competing websites which would make your site virtually unable for people to find?

    When I search for something in the search engine I have never used quotation marks to find it. I don't understand why this wouldn't be the case for almost everyone else when they searched for that term.

    Please give me your expertise on what I'm missing!
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    • Good line of questioning.

      Some folks that are more savvy with searching online OR know exactly what they're looking for AFTER typing in the broad search (withOUT quote marks like most people do) do end up using the term WITH quotes IF they don't find what they're looking for after typing in the broad term initially.

      Moreover, finding results using quotes is a way to "hone in" on more of your "true competition" if you will in the sense that the <TITLE> tag (along with any other attributes of the page(s)) of these results have been optimized a bit better.

      A step further, typing in allintitle:"KEYWORDPHRASEHERE" just as so will hone in on your competition (or optimized pages even further. And although we both know MOST folks don't search this way either, it is a way to further find your "true" competition when in the researching phase of finding a niche to tackle.

      I haven't been following this thread post for post, however, so please forgive me if my answer here could also be a bit off-topic simply because it goes more into the technical side of SEO itself.
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    • Hi there, if the keyword is "sweet pick up lines" i agree you can write many articles on the same topic but if you say that not using the exact same keyword then wouldnt the user be getting a different search result ? Aint the whole point the user reads the article with "sweet pick up lines" I don't quite understand that, could you someone please elaborate.

      I also have anothe question. How do you determine whether you can top a search result ?
      I say this because:

      I have keywords that gives 31,000 search results in google.com
      383 when you put it in quotes
      SEO Book keyword tool give me 120 daily overall search results

      Would you say this is a good niche ?

      Many Thanks
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      But, almost everytime there is a new post it's some crap like "hey, great thread" OR "thanks for the info" and


      When I see that a new post has been made in this thread I want to see if there is anything I can learn or if it's something I can respond to so that someone else can learn but this thread is being taken over by people trying to build up their post count by posting one liners that don't add any value.

      If you don't have anything to add or a good question to ask, DON'T POST. It you just want to thank someone use the damn button in the lower right corner of every post. You know, the one that says "THANKS".
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    • There is software out there (and services) that submit backlinks to over 100 social bookmarking websites, providing you with enough backlinks to secure the article in #1 position. The key to using these programs is: DON'T SPAM, just submit 1-3 backlinks per day at most.

      This may sound dumb, please excuse
      Does that mean if there are 100 social bookmarking sites

      Day 1
      social bookmarking site number 1
      social bookmarking site number 2
      social bookmarking site number 3

      Day 2
      social bookmarking site number 4
      social bookmarking site number 5
      social bookmarking site number 6

      Look forward to the replys
      Thank you

      Michael
    • Gringo,

      It sounds like you are experimenting with some ideas you have picked up. Which is fine, but I have done my fair share of experimenting without much luck and a lot of wasted time and effort. I now implement methods that others have had success with. I implement them to a T without adding in my own experimental steps. This is working really well. Google Josh Spaulding and find his $5 mini site formula. It's free and it's a proven system. There is no need to wonder if it is going to work. It WILL work if you implement it. It's a pain in the a$$ and time consuming, but it works.

      Why try and reinvent the wheel when there are already methods that are proven.

      I wish you the best of luck.

      Jonathan Higgins
  • what a great post bro....I love article marketing and will be using a lot of these tips you mentioned in your post.

    Thanks for sharing man.


    Omar!
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    As I'm doing keyword research I am finding many keyword phrases that get less than 10 daily searches but that have very little competition, Like 5 searches per day and only 2 google results of competing sites (using parentheses in searching the phrase to get SEO targeting competitors).

    I'm wondering if it might be worth the time and effort to write articles for these as well. Granted, the daily searches are low but there are so many like this for the niche I'm trying to target. Seems like it would be worth the effort. Anyone tried grabbing the low daily search keyword phrases and found it worthwhile?
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    • That's going to depend on the niche and the conversion rates. As a general rule, items with few searches are items with few buyers, but there are exceptions to every rule. If you have a "buying phrase" for some unique niche product where each sale generates a couple hundred dollars in your pocket it would certainly be worth it. If the item you're selling nets you just a few dollars, then it wouldn't be worth your time.
  • Thank you for the article post. This is really helpful.
  • Thanks for the great post. Anyone wanting to write good articles should print a copy of this post.
  • Thanks Daniel, That was about as in depth as it gets. I'm gonna work on it right now.
  • Very helpful post and a really active discussion. I had never heard of the tools mentioned for a start. It's definitely going to make my article marketing a lot better and more profitable. Thanks for sharing!
  • Thank you for the great info. I will start using your method this weekend.
  • I would say thanks for such great post .
  • Thanks for the layout, it definitly gives me a map to follow!
  • Great post about article writing basics!
  • Thanks for all the great info - It's nice to see there are some people who genuinely care about the success of others.
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  • Article Marketing is a lot of work..and I get tired just thinking about it....lol.

    Thank goodness for spinners
  • I don't think it's fair that people are ruining this excellent thread. This information is some of the best you can get here. I am glad there are Warriors watching out for it.
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    • I would agree, but there is a lot of good information to be found here. I am new to the forum, so I appreciate all the information that many share and looking forward to learning much to add to what I may know now.
      Being a noobie at many things, you have to start somewhere.
      Thanks to everyone for some valuable information where it is given.
  • Cheers for the info..Great post
  • Hey Thanks for sharing this thread Daniel, it was very informative! The only thing that I would like add is that it would be wise to not only include anchor text link in the resource box - but also a plain url link. Why? Because it is a fact that some people who republish articles will do do it in text version, and if all you have is anchor text then many readers will never see your website at all. It will all be just text. But if you had your url shown in text as well as least you'd be left with some type of credit. So Bottom Line: Include anchor text and a plain url link in your resource box an added safeguard!
  • Thanks. Its very helpful. Really I come to know about article marketing in one place. Nice post and great information.
  • Daniel,

    What a great post. I'm an IM newbie and this helps tremendously. So many things were learned in this one post, absolutely fantastic!
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    • Excellent thread, I have learned sooo much. That guy must be absolutely fuming by now cos of all the thanks posts.

      Anyway, I was wondering if someone knows much about this. The people that view articles directly from the article directory eg ezine. Do you think many of them are people wanting to know about the subject or a large% other IM marketers and publishers.

      The reason why I ask is because, I don't have a backlink automatom (I submit to ~20 socialbookmarkers manually) so I am not hugely high up in ranks. So I would like to know if my visitors are genuine potential customer.
      I know no one can say for sure, it's just I don't know anyone who actually looks in article directories for info, they just do a google search.

      P.S I got my very first clickbank sale, I can't believe it
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  • 500 - well done. And - Thanks.
  • Great post Daniel,

    Like you I used long tail key words and found three differn't sets with No competition,
    I found them useing SEO Elite ( thanks Brad )

    There was no pages at all on Google but get this there was 46.581 seaches last month, didn't check Yahoo or MSN.

    By the way this was for a new web site, followed Brad Callen free SEO course on how to optimize the web pages ( thanks again Brad ) used Google tools to get a bit of code put put in my index page and up loaded to my server.

    Google spider the web site with in 30sec ( Beat that Brad Ha ) and told me I was listed @ 1.2.3 for one set and the same for the others.

    This may be a one off, I don't know but you know what I will being doing tomorrow, hunting for those long tail key words.

    This is for long term growth, will be adding more optimized pages over the next few months plus getting back links...

    Ken.
  • Thanks Daniel for sharing, it is really nice to see people helping each other!
  • Hi Dan,

    Please comments on this article "Why Article Marketing is a Waste of Time"
    www[.]killerincome[.]net/why-article-marketing-is-a-waste-of-time
    what do you think of it?
    Is it true? I'm so confused.


    Robin
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    • Sorry to say this but that guy has no idea what he is doing when it comes to article marketing so no wonder the reaction.

      1. He is not leveraging the PR6 of EZA which can be used to rank high for any low competition long tail keyword with high daily search results (of which there are thousands for every niche, ESPECIALLY the dating niche).

      2. No keyword research and implementation. No mention of it, no anchor text, nothing related to it.

      3. His whole theory is based around the 1 way backlinks from external sites to your sites/blogs. THAT IS NOT the point of article marketing. If that was the point it would be useless, I agree, but it's not.

      4. The whole point of article marketing is massive targeted traffic from the search engines, branding, preselling and 1 way backlinks from authority article directories such as EZA (PR6), NOT from random sites who use the articles.

      5. He obviously has little knowledge of SEO and has never heard the term slave pages/sites, which is pretty much what an article is when it comes to backlinks.

      6. I have generated thousands of visitors with article marketing alone for that specific niche (dating). And I know people who generate hundreds of thousands of visitors with article marketing alone for that niche. So no it is not useless, he just doesn't have a clue about what he is doing.

      I could go on, but *sigh*, what a waste of time was it reading that post.
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  • Great post! got a lot of insights here
  • Thank you so much Daniel, very comprehensive! Covers all the questions I've had recently and more! Thank you!
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    • There is not such thing as a dumb question, only dumb people.

      The only way to get information is to ask questions. I'm enjoying the post any little bit of info I can pick up is great. Keep putting out those articles and good things will happen.
  • Hi Daniel,

    Thanks for writing such a detailed post and sharing your tried and tested methods with us all. I will certainly put this to the test, i'm sure i will get some positive results from them too.
  • A great post, Daniel. Thank you very much for sharing it, a great summation about the basic essentials of article marketing in a very concise format. I've saved to my hard disk for future reference, anyone with thirst for new knowledge should definitely check it out too!
  • Can you verify this?

    Thanks

    Azim
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    • Me too because I don't know about that. Some article sites only want original content exclusive to their site only. Therefore, there may have to be some rewriting involved. If I'm not mistaken EzineArticles is one of these sites.

    • I can verify from personal experience. I have submitted the same article across a plethora of article directories and have had at least one appear on google's first page.

      Duplicate content is only posting the same stuff on the same domain
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  • This is a great outline for Article Marketing, and certainly worth following.

    But I know, that as a new marketer, the idea of having 100 articles posted seems daunting. No one can individually write 100 articles in a short period of time and get them posted rapidly, then suddenly get 2000 visitors per day.

    Of course, as a new marketer, you may be thinking that I can't afford to outsource this either, so what can I do? I don't have time to write 100 articles, and I can't afford to pay for 100 articles.

    PLR articles are great resources, but they all have to be re-written, too!

    So, is this strategy out of the question?

    No.

    You can do this, but stop worrying about having all your articles indexed by Google. Indexing them is not what get's you traffic. What you need is to get them posted to many, many directories.

    There are a number of ways to do this.

    * Be a member of an article submitter - most even have ways to "spin" your article for creating unique content, though the spinning may leave your article sounding, well, stupid.

    * Or, do it by using a site like iSnare. For just $2.00, you can get your article distributed to thousands of directories without having to pay monthly fees.

    I suggest using the iSnare method, it is easiest, and brings me the best results.
  • very good content alot of information that is going to help with article marketing
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    • Daniel,

      As always, another awesome post and your follow ups have been informative as well.

      My only spin on this topic, which hasn't been addressed is this...and I'd like to get your feedback, or that from any other long term AM here as well:

      After you've done your initial keyword research, determined that 'buyers' exist in the perspective market, and have analyzed the competition, before you start jumping on the bandwagon of writing articles and submitting to EZA is to consider this..

      Every article directory allows you at least one, if not two, text link opportunities withing your article for you to link back to your 'domain', whether that 'domain' be a blog or web site. Therefore, it makese sense to FIRST create a long version article, say at least 500 to 600 words and get that uploaded to your own blog or web site...then rewrite it and get that 2nd article down to about 300-400 articles...so when you do submit the article to EZA or any article directory you decide to go with, you've actually got something to 'link back to'...


      Thanks,


      Ray
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  • A very comprehensive guide Daniel! You've answered many questions that I've had over the past three months, so thank you! I like the way you've laid it out in laymans terms and given a nice step by step process. Many thanks!
  • Daniel,

    Thanks for the detailed info on Article Marketing. I have been proscratinating too long on writing articles. However, after reading your post it time to "Take Action".

    Thanks Again,
    Chris
  • Great post, I love article marketing and use it everyday in my business and find it to be quite useful to generating income... thanks for the post
  • thanks for the useful information Daniel!
  • I like the detail you have on the structure of a good article and how it is extremely important choosing the right niche. Some articles can suffer from "keyword overload" and be banned or canceled from the submission site, so its always a good idea to proof read and double check every single aspect of the list you mentioned before submitting thats for sure. A great post Daniel, and thank you for the tips!
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    • Hi Daniel,

      thanks for this great post.
      What I find little difficult is a keyword research as I think that none of the keyword research tools are accurate. You can use them only as a guide to show you some "estimates".
      Also you can't gain clear picture about the competition as every time you submit the same keyword to google it will bring different results and the difference is not that small.
      Let's say for keyword "current fashion trends" if you submit it 10 times one after another it will show the numbers of websites between two hundred thousand to million. So you can make your guess what is your competition but you can't be sure.

      I'm not trying to go against you and your strategy in here just bringing out the point I stumbled upon.

      Take care
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  • Hello Daniel,
    great post, I am new to AM, will try your suggestions and see how it goes.

    Thanks,
    Simon
  • I would be grateful if somebody could confirm whether I have grasped the essence of this thread. My understanding is thus:

    - We have our niche site, which has decent keyword search volume and reasonable competition. Getting high ranking for this keyword in itself is tricky.

    - We write an article based around a related keyword to our main site, which has lower searches but also lower competition. It is thus easier to achieve a higher page ranking on this more obscure keyword. Our article contains a link back to our main site. We submit the article to directories.

    - We promote the ARTICLE, not the MAIN SITE, through bookmarking or whatever to gain backlinks. By promoting the ARTICLE, this will in turn lead to more traffic to the SITE through its embedded link.

    - We can repeat the process with numerous articles centred around various low competition keywords related to our main keyword, all of which will drive additional traffic to our main site.

    Is this the correct gist of it? Many thanks for any confirmations/corrections.
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    • You have got the essence.

      One main additional point the forum posters have emphasized is that you have to identify and work with those keywords that have a commercial value, i.e. searchers using those keywords are buyers. So you test after 20 or 30 articles whether your articles are converting into sales, before going ahead and writing the "full Monty" of 100 articles.

      Gopinathan

      P.S. Daniel's s one post that is practicable for those who are willing to work but does not have a "budget". Many thanks.
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  • Great post Daniel! Article writing follows a formula for sure, and you've certainly covered each aspect very thoroughly! It certainly clears up any of doubt I've had on the keyword research part of the process. Many thanks for your post, and I'll think I'll get back to work on some new articles!
  • Daniel...I am new to this and wanted to let you know I keep this post in my favourites and refer ti it often...Thanks
  • Out of curiosity has anyone had success using an article that resource box points directly to the sales page?
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    • Yes it actually works quite well, but in the case of EZA you need to use your own domain and redirect it using your affiliate link.

      If you pre-sell properly in the article and rank well for the respective keyword, you basically have an entire 250+ word advertisement working for you, FREE.

      Provided the above criteria is met, it beats PPC any day (considering PPC attempts to pre-sell with like 1 sentence, which makes it pretty much cold selling for which you are paying for).
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  • Wonderful advice for noobies and old timers alike ;-)

    All the best!
  • Thanks for a highly informative post Daniel. I use Ezine as well and find them good to work with.
  • Just wanted to take the opp to thank you for all the info..I am feeling a bit overwhelm as a newbie
  • Hi Daniel,

    Thanks for the great post. I am a writer and website owner and I have many of my articles ranked on page 1 or 2 of Google over millions of results by using carefully selected keywords.
    So I understand how to use the keywords for articles...

    but I am not exactly sure for the websites... I had been optimizing for a certain set of keywords for each site. One set per site. Should I be optimizing for several sets of keywords per site?

    Lets say I am have a website on nails and the main theme of it is "nail art design". I pick a bunch of different keywords to write about for ezines to link back to my site for ..."pretty nails", "do it yourself nail art" etc.

    My goal is to write alot of articles for each of my keyword selections so that article gets to the top of the google pile and gets more views for potential sales correct?

    How many articles is it best to write for each set of keywords?

    And most importantly do I change my anchor text to the keywords for each article.
    So for example if my article was How to Get Pretty Nails instead of using "Nail Art Design"(the main theme of the website) for my anchor text would I use "Get Pretty Nails"?

    Thanks so very much!
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    • Daniel is spot on about keyword research. In the course of my work, there are many marketers who don't bother about keyword research. So they end up optimizing for terms that probably nobody ever searches about. But still, they enjoy the link juice that comes with the links. Over time, the sites started showing all over the search results for various different terms. That's still traffic, but there could be more when keyword research is done right.
  • Hi,
    Thank you Daniel for such an awesome post. I will follow your instructions on article marketing and hope to get positive results.

    Thanks again..
  • Daniel,

    In addition, you say 2 to 3 BM links a day. How many do you find it takes considering the keywords are not competitive? 10 to 20 or 20 to 40?

    Jonathan
  • Thank you so much for your great tips and advice. I have been writing articles for awhile, but with your great breakdown it'll help my articles get noticed better by search engines!
  • Thanks for the post. I'll give it a try, still like learning a foreign language tho
  • I think article marketing combined with proper social bookmarking can dramatically improve your results
  • I think people should focus more on these 3 things :

    1) submitting articles in the right quantity (most are simply not submitting enough articles to get noticed)

    2) learn how to write enticing titles and resource boxes (most titles and resource boxes are so boring that nobody wants to read that article or click through)

    3) use the right keyword as backlink (most people focus on too competitive keywords and get never ranked anywhere)

    Gunter
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