Article marketing is a numbers game and has proven itself to be one of the most effective link building strategies available to Internet marketers.
For every article you submit to a directory, you get to insert at least one link back to your website in your resource box.
Most article directories will allow you to submit at least two links in your resource box, and an additional text link in the body of your article for every 500 words or so.
If you submit only one article to 100 article directories, you receive 100 back links to your website, provided the article is approved.
Now consider for a moment just how many article directories there are on the Internet! Thousands, would probably an underestimate.
Since article marketing is a numbers game, think about your response rate if you submitted 5 or 6 articles to the same hundred article directories. You could potentially realize 500 or 600 back links to your website.
The more fresh, genuinely unique articles that you submit to a large number of article directories, the more back links you will generate to your website.
And, since article marketing is a numbers game; using this strategy will generate back links from article directories with high, PR4, PR5, and occasionally PR7 page ranks.
Having several links to your website, from a website with a high page rank, significantly boosts your search engine rankings.
This premise applies only as long as you remember to include your website link in the resource box at the end of your article, and a text link in the body of the article.
The only reason I even mention this, is because of the number of articles that I have seen approved and published without an ‘Author’s Box’.
You would not believe how many articles I have come across, when searching the article directories, that do not have an active link in their resource box, or that don’t have a resource box at the end of the article.
Submitting Duplicate Content
Submitting the same article to 100 article directories or more, will not get you penalized for duplicate content if you do it right.
The search engines assume that the articles submitted to the article directories are your original works. This is because the article directories are all high ranking websites, and they edit the contents that are submitted for publication.
Most article directories don’t care to be characterized as repositories of junk content; which is why they reject articles loaded with self promotional links, affiliate links, and PLR articles.
Their credibility is at stake, and they religiously avoid articles having these problem areas. This is why the search engines will assume the submitted content is your original work.
PLR articles WILL definitely create a DUPLICATE CONTENT problem with the article directories and the search engines.
DO NOT USE THEM unless they are severely rewritten to become your own original content.
When you first post an article on your website or blog, and it gets indexed; after a few days, you can then submit it to the article directories without fear of being penalized.
However, if you post your article to the article directories first, the search engines will assume that your article originated from the article directory, and it will be flag your article as “duplicate content”.
Your article could then be de indexed from your website, however; your website itself will probably not be de indexed.
If you follow this procedure, you can submit your article to as many article directories as you want without fear of “duplicating content”.
Again, article marketing is a numbers game that can generate gobs of traffic and higher search engine rankings for your website.
When implementing your article marketing strategy to build organic traffic to your website, there are several tactics you can employ to get the attention of Google’s search engine.
Make a habit of getting the original content articles to your main article site, out to a few different Article Directory sites on a regular basis.
Try submitting your original unique article content about once a week, or more per week if your are able. The more articles you submit, the more your website url will be found on the web and the more one way links you are likely to generate back to your site.
Your goal should be writing 3 articles per week to at least two article directories.
Submitting your own unique original content is preferred however, you can use a Private Label Rights (PLR) article, edited to be original content, if you run into writers block.
Implementing your article marketing strategy gets faster, once you become established as an “expert author” with any of the article directory sites.
Some sites will require that you submit 10 articles or more, before they step up the number of articles they will expeditiously approve for you, and others will require less.
Ezinearticles.com is highly reputed, and if you are using only one article directory for implementing your article marketing strategy, this is the one to start with.
Submit at least one article per week to ezinearticles, for at least 6 to 12 weeks. Then switch to another article directory site, submit a couple of articles, and then return to ezinearticles for a month or so.
Set up a submission pattern with 3 or 4 article directory sites, and continue using it. Every other day, submit an original article to one of the article directory sites
Depending on how much time and energy you have for implementing your article marketing strategy, you can make up any cycle you want. Just remember that the more aggressive you are, the better your business will grow.
When implementing your article marketing strategy to build organic traffic to your website, remember to DEEP LINK from your resource box to different pages of your website using link text.
Instead of only showing the plain URL of your website, use it along with text links. This way you can deep link to two or more different pages of your website using the same article.
Always try to tie your article into the blog post it is linking to.
The goal is to have the longtail keyword phrase in your article link, pointing to the same longtail keyword phrase in your blog post.
Some article directories allow you to add links to your website, in the body of the article, if it is done naturally. You need to be careful not to over promote your website or your article submission will be rejected.
When implementing your article marketing strategy with Ezinearticles, you need to be on your toes. They, and some of the other article directories, don’t allow links in the article body that go directly to your website. They only allow resource site links that contribute to your article.
There are several list building systems you can use to get your first 300 subscribers but they all work if your stick with the program.
A good proven way to get your first 300 subscribers is through article marketing, SEO, and the other list building systems you have learned about online. However, these list building systems take a relatively long time to work.
It usually takes 120 days or so to get your first 300 subscribers using these methods.
A list building system that works much faster is to do giveaways.
Of all the giveaway list building systems, the fastest and most reliable way to get your first 300 subscribers is with JV giveaways.
The JV giveaway list building system works like this.
A marketer advertises for several other marketers to pool their resources, by contributing and giving away a free downloadable gift.
All the contributions are then placed on a single website, where almost everyone that contributed a gift, sends traffic to that giveaway site.
For this to be effective, you should have at least 100 contributors sending their traffic to the site.
All the traffic that they send to the giveaway site, can then download all the free ebooks, training programs, scripts, software, or whatever else they choose as long as they sign up for that person’s list.
It’s actually pretty simple, you contribute a gift or two, and for a decent giveaway, you can get 50 to 100 or more subscribers.
Of all the list building systems that can get your first 300 subscribers, this one is fast and reliable but, it is still NOT THE BEST WAY to build a list.
I say this because the people who frequent free giveaways are not the highest quality subscribers you can generate.
In addition, you will have a lot of competition using this method, because the people that sign, up will usually sign up for multiple lists.
When you start out building you list trying to get your first 300 subscribers; you won’t necessarily have the best quality targeted subscribers, but again you won’t need them. You will need the fastest and the easiest.
A small list of subscribers will open up the window to the adswap list building system. That’s where the really fun things begin to happen!
Because free giveaways require that you have a free gift, a squeeze page, a thank you page, and a download page; many Internet marketers don’t take advantage of this list building system.
However, don’t let this stop you from doing so.
Most free giveaways allow you to use other people’s gifts along with giveaway rights, so you don’t even need to buy any stuff if you don’t want to.
Only use the free gifts that have giveaway rights, for use in these JV list building system giveaways, and then use the list you build to get into the adswap game.
This is how to get your first 300 subscribers.
