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An Article Distribution Tip I Highly Recommend
For every article you distribute I recommend having a list of your favorite article directories on hand and target those directories first. For instance, if your niche is gardening then try to find an article directory that focusing on gardening articles. You can also add a general and popular directory like EzineArticles to your list. Choose 5 or 10 good directories that are perfect for your kind of article and distribute your article to those directories first.
After that, send your article through iSnare for a wider distribution. iSnare will send your article out to thousands of websites and directories at once. Of course, many of those sites will reject your article because it won’t fit into their niche. That’s OK. There will be some that will take your article and that just gives you more coverage online and distribute your article in places you might not have thought of.
The reason you want to send your article to your favorite directories first is because if iSnare sends your article first and your favorite directories accept it then the directories will place your article in a file categorized for all iSnare articles. It won’t go into your own profile. While it will have your name and author resource box attached, you won’t be able to track any results from the article whereas if you submit the article yourself to the directories then you can log into your account and view how many people have clicked the links in your resource box, how many publishers have published the article, etc. You have greater visibility on your article that way.
By distributing your article in two waves this way you can take advantage of tracking capabilities and see your article get a wider distribution. You have the best of both worlds.
Cover Your Ass – Double Check Your Work Before Submitting Articles
I spent most of this weekend updating one of my side-project websites. To be frank, it is a site I built with HyperVRE. While the HyperVRE product is pretty good, it is not ideal for big websites. So long as you are sticking to 10-page websites, this is a good product. But the site I have working on is a 500-page website.
The problem with the HyperVRE comes to light when you are working sites in excess of 20-pages. It takes a long time to compile large sites, and updates and template changes can be very painful and time-consuming.
This is where I have been with my 500-page website, that I built in just a couple of days using the HyperVRE package. It simply takes too long to update with minor changes. What I did was to decide to hand-repair the site and convert it to my own operating system platform, so that future repairs and tweaks could be implemented easily. (If you are wondering, I believe that this may someday become a stand-alone product, but I am a bit too busy to aim for that just yet.)
So, my adapting of the website has been made much easier with my php knowledge. But, I am still having to edit each article display page and put it into my new template system. I have cleared about 100-pages in the last 12 hours, so progress is good. I only have 400 pages to go….
So here is my point.
I have been looking at each of the individual articles, as I am morphing them to the new system. Far too many of these articles from a wide variety of article directories have lots of problems. I am going to document for you here the major problems I have seen, so that you can prevent yourself from getting caught like a lot of these writers have been caught – fluttering in the wind, with their article marketing campaign in ruins.
Resource Box – General Notes – The whole point of putting articles into circulation is to get your link out on the web, in newsletters and on websites and blogs. Don’t forget to put your links in the authors’ resource box!
Resource Box – Link Specific – Make sure your links work! Far too many of these articles have inoperable links, because the HTML for the HREF tags are seriously hosed. Noted Tips: 1) Put a space between the A and the HREF, between the HREF and TARGET tags, etc.; 2) Make sure there are quotes on each end of the URL or not. The HREF tags will work, with or without quotes around the URL, but putting only one quote around the URL breaks the link; 3) Make sure to include a http:// version of your link in addition to your embedded keyword links; 4) Don’t put punctuation at the end of your URL, unless you are including just the domain name, with no deep links (links to pages within your website). Even if you are linking just your domain name, I solidly recommend that you do not follow the URL with any punctuation.
Use The ENTER Key Sparingly – You should only use your ENTER key to break paragraphs, and then use it twice, to put a blank line between paragraphs. DO NOT hit ENTER after every type-written line. It will hose the proper display of your articles — and it is really hard to fix at the webmaster end. (I actually did just delete some articles, because they were so full of mistakes that I did not want to invest the time to fix them.) If you absolutely have to… hit ENTER at the end of each type-written line (strongly recommended against), make darn sure that you hit the SPACE key before hitting the ENTER key. Some directory sites will strip your extra ENTER keys out of the text, but those same sites will fail to put a space in there for you at the end of the line. The result is wordsthatrunintoeachother. This is damn annoying to the webmaster who has to choose whether to delete your article, OR fix your mistakes.
Sub Headings
When you are including a sub-heading in your text, you should make sure that you do two things: put a blank line between the subhead and the next paragraph, and always cap the first letter of every word in your subheading. Extra Note: If the directory will let you include BOLD html, then be sure to bold your sub headings.
If you are going to put a numbered list in your article, please put a space between your number and the first word that follows it. It looks like crap if you don’t.
If you are putting an unordered list in your article, please separate list items with a blank line between them, unless you are going to include the LIST ITEM html coding.
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If you are using an article distribution service to get your articles out onto the Internet, then you generally have three kinds of choices:
- Do-It-Yourself Software;
- Low-cost and mostly Do-It-Yourself distribution service;
- The Phantom Writers Article Distribution Service – full service.
Why do I mention this? For one, I own The Phantom Writers. But, I am not mentioning this to brag. The reason I mention this is because with my distribution service, we actually provide a full-service operation. We will put your articles together for distribution, and our team of experienced people will ensure that everything is working as it needs to work. We make sure all of your links are formatted properly and working. We also make sure that all of your T’s are crossed and your I’s are dotted.
My point, if the people whose articles were in my automotive website were distributed by us, instead of someone else, the multitude of problems I saw today would never have been, because my staff would have made certain that your article distribution went off without a hitch.
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Bill Platt 405-780-7745 – 9am to 6pm CST
Article Marketing: The Most Important Thing To Know
(Source) The more articles you have working for you, the more chance you have of making a sale.
It’s a numbers game. The more articles you write and the more articles you distribute online to article directories then the more likely you are to drive traffic to your web pages and close sales. Of course, you have to have landing pages that close sales. But you also have to drive traffic to those pages and articles drive traffic. But one of the biggest mistakes that beginning article marketers make is they just write a few articles hoping to catch a wave of traffic. It doesn’t work that way.
Patience is the name of the game. Write articles. Lots of them. Kick them out in droves. Then distribute them wherever you can. Get them out there in as many places as you can as fast as you can. You won’t get a wave of traffic overnight. It takes time. Those articles sit in article directories forever. Imagine an article you wrote five years ago still sending traffic to your website. As more and more webmasters, bloggers, and newsletter publishers pick up your articles to publish them, the more likely you are to get new traffic. As that happens, your income possibilities go up.
Remember, two things: Patience, lots of articles. Time, lots of articles. Lots of articles over time, be patient.
Your Article Marketing Job Is To Impress Your Target Audience
People often argue that the only reason to write articles for the Internet is to gain that illustrious back-link for the purpose of influencing one’s Link Popularity with the search engines.
For years, I have been standing against this limited and short-term mindset, and I continue to argue against the Link Popularity crowd, not because I don’t want people to get their back-links, but because I realize that just aiming for a back-link is likely to leave real value and money on the table.
Here is the deal. Most people who aim “only for back-links” from their articles tend to not care about the quality or value of the article content. As a result, they tend to produce very low quality article content with no concern or consideration for the persons who will have to read the gibberish content they produce.
Here is how the low quality article marketer loses:
- Most publishers who want to use the article content, made available to them, personally review the articles sent to them and decide to publish articles on a case-by-case basis. Bad quality articles tend to be published far less often than good quality articles, even when the article is distributed through an article distribution service. Less frequent publication reduces the number of back-links that can and will be generated by an article.
- Article Distribution costs the same in time and money resources, despite the value or usefulness of the article distributed. If an article is published on only one website or fifty, the cost in time or money of distributing that article is the same. So, wouldn’t it make more sense to produce articles that are likely to be published more often, rather than less often?
- Articles are viewed by human readers as a testament to the company who produces it. Poor quality articles reflect badly on the companies who commissioned those articles. There is an old adage that says, “You only get one chance to make a good first impression.” If an article is the first exposure a potential client sees in reference to a company, and that article is poorly written, then the company who produced the article will have shot their first, best opportunity to attract a new customer to their website.
The difference in cost of creating a good quality article versus a poor quality article can usually be measured in an extra ten to twenty dollars, and it costs more for two reasons. One, it takes more time to produce a good quality article. And two, the person qualified to write that better quality article is usually a bit more skilled than the person who only writes gibberish.
Let me propose to you a scenario. Try this out for yourself. A lot of times, article marketers will spend $10-$15 to have an article written and they will spend another $5-$40 to distribute that article on the world wide web. For the average article marketer, the process costs in the range of $15-$55 to create and distribute one article. But the average low quality article will only generate 20-30 links. However, if one were to simply double their article writing budget, spending $20-$30 to have an article written plus the distribution cost of the article ($25-$70 to write and distribute an article), it is very likely and very realistic for an article to generate in excess of 50-60 back-links.
Yes, simply by doubling the cost of writing and paying the same amount of money for article distribution, the average article marketer can in fact generate at least twice the number of back-links to their websites. By paying double your current rate for having articles written, will only increase your overall costs of writing and distribution by a mere 27%, and yet the better quality article will generally produce double the number of links that the cheap article will produce.
Think on that.
Bill Platt – owner
The Phantom Writers Article Distribution Service
How A Ghostwriter Can Save You Money On Articles
I was reading an article on article marketing for the indie movie industry and it occurred to me that many small business owners are in the same predicament as indie movie producers. That is, their budget is small.
If you have a small budget then article marketing is the ideal marketing medium for you. If you write your own articles and distribute them then the only cost is time. If you have someone else – say, a ghostwriter – write your articles for you and you distribute them then your cost is minimal. You can have your articles written by ACP for half what it would cost you with most other content writers today.
If you don’t have the time to do your own article distribution, ACP can do that too for a very small price. Call us for more details (786-317-8774), or visit our website.
