Article Marketing Mistakes + Myths
Filed under: Article Marketing, Article Marketing Mistakes, Article Marketing Myths
If you want to make it big in article marketing, you have to be aware of its many myths and misconceptions spreading throughout the web.
Below are common article marketing myths that need to be run to ground:
MYTH #1: Article marketing is not much of a help.
You get one-way backlinks to your site by writing articles and submitting them to article directories. This task is undertaken by a resource box where you to tell something about yourself and provide one or more than one URLs. The one-way backlinks you get with article marketing help you increase your link popularity and be a source of some of the most targeted traffic you can get. By writing and submitting quality articles you can help establish your expertise in your chosen niche.
MYTH #2: Submitted and reprinted articles do not offer your business any help because they only get indexed as supplemental pages.ny
As long as you write and submit quality articles and get accepted by a large ezine with half a million subscribers, there are bigger chances your articles can get a top 10 listing in major search engines, not just as supplemental pages.
MYTH #3: Submitting your article again and again creates duplicate content and search engines will penalize you.
One of the biggest article marketing secrets seems to be the truth about duplicate content and article marketing. According to Google, “Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content or are appreciably similar.” Duplicate content is two webpages that are around 70% similar, not two webpages that have similar text on them. It is those malicious duplicate content that WILL suffer a duplicate content penalty.
If you try to market yourself by following these article marketing myths, you’re likely to make some serious mistakes. Article marketing, when done correctly together with search engine optimization, can drive lots of free targeted traffic to your site and eventually generate sales.
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PPC vs Article Marketing – Shocking Results Inside
Filed under: Article Marketing, PPC vs Article Marketing
The following is an email I got from the guys over at 99centarticles.com.
I am using them to write some content fo rmy Adsense sites and also to use some of the articles they write for me to submit to Unique Article Wizard.
Naturally, the reason they sent this email to me is to reinforce the notion that article marketing does pay off and that I should (continue to) use their service.
Nothing untrue or untoward about any of that and good hype-free marketing.
Anyhow, here’s the email sent
BEGIN EMAIL:
Daniel,
Michael here from 99centarticles.com
A few months ago my team and I set out to figure out what is a more profitable and cost effective way of advertising, PPC or article marketing?
Many expert internet marketers would argue that PPC is quicker and a more profitable avenue of profiting online.
Well, the results we came up with were shocking but expected.
An aggressive article marketing campaign will profit close 300% more than a PPC campaign over a period of 6 months.
Why?
PPC prices change on a daily basis. The competition is fierce and you are constantly in a battle to get your advertisements to display for the best keywords in your niche.
With article marketing you can target literally every single keyword in your niche for a low cost. If you use a proper submission method you can gain just as much traffic as a PPC campaign would cost for a small one time cost. The cost of PPC is never ending…
The decision is easy. Follow a long term and profitable business model that is here to stay.
Check out all of our latest specials on our signature article packages below:
http://www.99centarticles.com/package.html
Talk soon,
Michael
99centarticles.com
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Unique Article Wizard vs. Submit Your Article
Filed under: Article Marketing, Article Syndication, Submit Your Article, Unique Article Wizard
Before you read this post I just want to let you know that I’ll be referring to Unique Article Wizard as UAW and Submit Your Article as SYA for easier writing.
Hopefully this makes for easier reading for you…
Recently, I was reading an article on Jack Humpreys Friday traffic report about article marketing syndication and in his post he basically says that the whole “spinning of articles to avoid dupe content penalties is “kool-aid drinker” type of thinking to paraphrase him.
He opines that you’ll never get 10 of your article titles to show up in the search engines no matter how much you spin them, and the real value to article syndication is getting other publishers to syndicate your content, not just having your article titles showing up.
He’s right, in a way…
You won’t get your titles displayed on thousands of sites no matter how many “unique” article spins you create, but SYA doesn’t really do anything different from what UAW does.
Submit your Article claims to create unique versions of your article to send out for syndication purposes, and I’m sure they do, but I seriously doubt that the quality of sites is an different from the quality of sites that syndicate your article via the UAW network.
As a matter of fact, I would even go out on a limb here and say that the publishers syndicating the SYA articles are also the same people receiving free content via the Unique Article Wizard plugin.
So what makes SYA better than UAW?
From what I can see, nothing, really…
What makes UAW better than SYA?
The ability to time your submissions and schedule them so your articles get syndicated and re-published at a more measured rate.
The ability to input/spin multiple urls into each article so that you can link to multiple urls from the same article.
In other words, if you wrote one article for UAW and SPUN the URLS portion of the article to include 5 or 6 different sites you wanted to link back to from the article, you can do that with UAW submissions.
This is yet another way to take full advantage of their spinning capabilities and no other services offer this feature.
In a previous post I reviewed some article submission services and you may want to read that post if you’re undecided on what article marketing/syndication services you should go with.
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Article Marketing MYTHS
Filed under: Article Marketing, Article Marketing Myths
If you’re researching what the best article submission services are, you probably already know that article marketing is very effective.
However, article marketing is a laborious task. This effective yet mind-numbing site promotion and traffic generation method can take up a lot of your time and you may get burnt out after you’ve done a lot of writing and submissions.
If you want to rank at the top of Google for your desired keywords you need to find great keywords that convert well, plus find what keywords people are searching for, with low, medium, or even high competition, then find a way to get as many eyeballs on your articles, then click your link sin your articles, then go to your site, read your other content there, then click on a link to a recommended product or join your list via a squeeze page.
The sales process is long and drawn out when trying to make sales via direct article marketing. The REAL value to article marketing comes NOT from the articles themselves, but from what those articles do; build backlinks.
Once you start building backlinks, your main sites will rise in the rankings in the search engines, and when this happens you’ll start to receive more diret traffic for free from the search engines.
When you have high ranked sites in the search engines, there is less of a process involved for making sales.
As mentioned previously, the people traffic generated directly from your syndicated articles has to go through a series of steps before they read your sales page or squeeze page.
Again, the reader may see your article syndicated somewhere else on a blog network or article directory then will have to read your article, click a link in your article, go to your site, read some more information, then make a decision on whether or not they’re going to click yet another link, and if they get this far, they’ll have to decide whether or not they’re going to buy anything from you or even join your list.
Whereas, if this person typed in one of the keywords you’re targeting and went directly to your site, then there is a higher probability of retaining the readers’ interest all the way through to producing sales or generating new subscribers.
Now, even though this post is making it seem like it’s hard to make sales with direct article marketing traffic you can and will make money with this type of method.
And in a way, i tmight actually be a bit easier to do because services like Unique Article Wizard allow you to put affiliate links in your articles, unlike other services.
As you can see on this blog I have a newsletter that reveals some very basic and extremely effective article marketing techniques guaranteed to make you money.
Issue #5 of my Unique Article Wizard newsletter shows you the article marketing formula that converts readers into buyers at an extremely high conversion rate.
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My Article Network vs. Unique Article Wizard
Filed under: My Article Network, Unique Article Wizard
In this post I’m going to compare two services that are somewhat similar to each other, yet worlds apart.
My Article Network is an offering from the Callen brothers that is pretty impressive for a lot of reasons and they are as follows:
- Their blog network is at least 10,000 blogs strong and this is the resource you’re tapping into, the potential to get backlinks from 10,000 places
- Their service has a very reasonable monthly fee of #47.00/month
- There is an area inside your login for creating outsourcer logins so you can create a seperate login for writers or other people you might have working for you, and this allows you to totally outsource the usage of this service.
- You get links (lots of them) and you can limit the number of links you get per article submission which is a good thing.
Now let’s compare this to what Unique Article Wizard has for benefits and features.
UAW offers time-released submissions which allows you to build up backlinks in a more measured and natural manner, something that is very important if you want to do link building properly.
UAW will generate thousands of backlinks via your article submissions and to prove this, they periodically send you updates on how many credited links you’ve generated to all your sites.
With Unique Article Wizard there is also the potential for viral marketing and syndication of your articles. Part of the syndication of your articles is dependent upon the thousands of site owners receiving unique content via the Unique Article Wizard plugin. One of the settings for this plugin is to publish the link for where your main article is stored. It is kind of like a respository for articles that UAW members has submitted and all the articles are stored here in case someone reads one of your articles somewhere on the web and wants to grab a copy of it and publish it again, themselves. This leads to a viral marketing effect for your articles.
There’s really only 2 things that make Unique Article Wizard a better article marketing submission and syndication service, and those are:
The article spinner- UAW’s article spinner is easy to use once you become acclimated to their way of writing articles. My Article Network’s article spinner has the ability to spin your article to whatever PERCENT % uniqueness you want it to be prior to sending out, but it is a very laborious task yet well worth the effort.
UAW’s spinner is easier to use and saves you a lot of time
Article submission rate control - With UAW you can control how quickly your submissions are going out unlike My Article Network which just sends your article out there to their network and you could get all your articles published in a week, and that’s not a good thing since too many links generated in too short of a time leads to overlinking and possible sand-boxing by the search engines.
UAW gets the nod here as well since you can limit your submissions to 10/day and this leads to a more gradual and more effective link building campaign.
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Article Submission Services Reviewed
Filed under: Article Marketing, Article Submission Services, Article Submission Services Reviews
Here’s a list of Article Submission Services that are pretty popular/widely known.
****** NOT included in this list is the crap PLR and MRR products that are one-time-fee purchases that supposedly submit to a lot of “quality article directories”…
ISnare – sends one copy of your article out to hundreds of webmasters. Articles need to be 500 words or more. With their platinum level membership for $69.95/month, you can Distribute 300 articles per month with lots of benefits for $59.95/mo. recurring. You’ll get a smattering of traffic from this and a decent amount of backlinks, if a good portion of the articles submissions turn into Published articles.
Submit Your Article – this is better than ISnare as it submits to EzineArticles for you… cost is $37.00/month, only allows you to submit up to 8 articles per month and supposedly has some back-end technology that makes your content unique for better syndication effects.
Here is a very basic overview.
After signing up, you go through an initial one-time process where you enter some key information, such as your name, email address etc., your log in details for a handful of major article directories (so we can log in to your account with them on your behalf and take care of your article submission – there is only ten or so of these), and so on.
This initial set up process is a vital part of our high-quality article distribution process. You only need do it once, and then for each article submission the process is very simple:
- You enter your article into the system.
- When you are ready to distribute it, you simply click the button provided to do so.
Article Marketing Automation, A.K.A. AMA and the same service as My Article Network - blog networks supposedly 10k-20k sites in size. Great for backlinks and referral traffic, cost $47.00/month.
The sites in the network aren’t of the highest quality, the links obtained aren’t very powerful, but you DO get a lot of backlinks and the service is very easy to use, albeit a bit time-consuming to write good articles and spin them.
Unique Article Wizard - blog, html sites, and article directories network. You WILL get hundreds or even thousands of backlinks per article here, plus a decent amount of referral traffic. cost = $67.00/month and worth every penny.
As a happy user of “UAW” I get my articles submitted to an AVERAGE of 800 directories per submission and I see the links coming in regularly and see a lot of my articles showing up in the SERPs.
SpinDistribute - Another network of sites types of service where you get links form other sites in network AND from other sources,like directories… They also offer to write, submit, and syndicate 7 articles/month for $77.00/month, and you would be hard pressed to beat that kind of value.
1WayLinks - another blog network -type of service, (1500 strong last I checked) and the network is full of sites that got turned into link-farm quality sites, the links are ineffective and it’s not worth using even if it were free. cost: $47.00/month
MyWayLinks - this is like a closed door membership site/service whereby you’ll only get links from quality sites. The network is small compared to what My Article Network and Unique Article Wizard have for network size. Cost; $47.00/month.
ArticleSubmissionServices.com - Their sales page has typos in it and grammatical errors so I don’t think I’d be using them to write articles for me, nor would I pay money to have articles submitted to directories for me when I can do a lot more than that with pretty much any of the services listed on this post..
SendArticles.com - their sales page is too brief, and doesn’t say how many directories your articles get sent out to. Don’t forget… a link from an article directory is only ONE type of backlink, and you want to have a variance of backlink styles for a well-rounded link building campaign.
FastSubmitArticles.com - They submit one article to 352 directories for you for$30.00! that’s expensive and you don’t get much out of it, links-and-directories-wise…
SEO Content Writers - very professional-looking site here, and they’re expensive, too so they must be delivering the “goods”…
HOWEVER,
It has been my experience that it is FAR more effective, and much less costly to you if you develop your own way of doing things by using leverage.
How do you use leverage when it comes to article marketing and article submissions?
By tapping into pre-existing networks that are waiting to receive and publish your articles for far less cost than many of the services listed above…
All you have to do really, is get a service like My Article Network or Unique Article Wizard for $47.00 or $67.00/month then get some great articles written for you at places like getarticles.com, who specialize in writing UAW-formatted articles…
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