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Can Automated Software Submit Your Articles?
I’m not a big fan of automated software. Sure, it has its uses. Autoresponders are nice to have. WordPress plugins are cool. But for article submissions, I’d rather do it myself. I may use a service like iSnare, but generally not automat...
How Important Is Article Analytics?
Is analytics for articles a necessity? I think it can be important, but we don’t want to blow it out of proportion. It’s nice to know how many people read your article, how many clicked the link to visit your website from the article dire...
Can Free Content Make You Money Online?
Every now and then I read an article that is so astoundingly off the mark it’s incredible that someone took the time to write it. Today’s featured article is such an article. Here’s a real gem with my commentary: Make Money With Fre...
Article Marketing Ain’t What It Used To Be
Article marketing isn’t what it used to be. The search engines are treating links from article directories as non-existent and have clamped down on duplicate content so that most articles are indexed only once no matter how many times they are ...
How Many Article Directories Should You Submit To?
Everyone does article marketing differently. Some people find one article directory they really like and submit only to that one. Others submit to all the article directories they can. Then there are a few that submit to a lot of article directories ...
Is Google Penalizing Article Marketers?
Every now and then I get a question about Google’s policy of discounting links from article directories. Is Google penalizing article marketers? The question stems from a fundamental misunderstanding about article marketing. Article marketing ...
How Long Should Your Articles Be?
It’s difficult to tell someone how long an article should be. The correct answer is it should be as long as it needs to be to drive traffic to your website. But because every article directory has their own guidelines for marketers sending arti...
Should You Submit Articles To Niche Directories?
Article marketing is a time consuming activity if you do it right. But there can be some big payoffs. Should you spend your time researching and submitting articles to niche directories? Yes, I say you should. But understand that very few niches have...
Article Directory Review
Article Content Provider would like to thank Directory Blogger for his fair and honest review of the ACP directory. There needs to be more sites like this that give good an honest reviews of article directories and other directory and content service...
13 Article Directories You’ll Find On Twitter
We decided to go looking for article directories on Twitter and found out there are quite a few article directory owners who use Twitter. EzineArticles, the most popular article directory online, sends out a tweet every time one of its members publis...
Does Google Have A Duplicate Content Penalty?
There is still some confusion about Google’s duplicate content penalty. The truth is there is no such penalty. Google’s policy states that it will index the first instance of specific content on the web, but not the same content at multip...
5 Niche Article Directories For The Committed Article Marketer
Anyone who has done any marketing at all knows that targeted marketing achieves the best results. If you do article marketing then you may have been led to believe that all the article directories are general directories, but it’s not true. Her...
Article Marketing Mistakes You Don’t Want To Make
Here’s a great article on article marketing from an article marketing pro. You’ll do well to follow this advice. 7 Most Common Article Marketing Mistakes Made by New Marketers By: Gen Wright Although article marketing is one of the easi...
Article Directories: What Makes A Good One?
How do you know which article directories to submit your website to? Believe me, it’s not easy. I’d be real careful about submitting to every directory out there. Some are better than others. But there is one criteria that is often cited ...
The New Article Marketing
Is the new article marketing any better than the old article marketing? First, let’s define what old article marketing is. I think Carl Ocab does a pretty good job on that definition, but I’ll rehash it. You write a search engine optimiz...
What Is Article Marketing?
New Internet marketers may not understand what is meant by article marketing. Article marketing is the practice of using articles to promote a business, product or service. There are many ways to approach article marketing and some are more effective...
Should You Use The Same Articles For Marketing That You Have On Your Website?
There are two ways to look at this question: Should article marketing articles be the same articles you publish on your own website? In other words, is it OK to publish it on your website first then distribute it through article directories? One scho...
The Best Way To Market Through Articles
I was asked recently if I thought article marketing is dead. No, I don’t. But it has changed and will continue to change. In the print world, if you want to get published then you write an article specifically for one publisher and send that ar...
ArticlesBase Has Added New Categories
If you use ArticlesBase to distribute your articles through then you might be interested to know they’ve added 11 new article categories. Here’s the list: Business-> Franchise Home and Family -> Fathering Health -> Vision Hobbies -> Craf...
Let’s Hear From Article Marketers With Success Stories
I’d be interested in knowing which article directories people like the most. Do you use more than one article directory? Do you submit to article directories every day? Do you use automatic submission software? Share your successful article mar...
If Article Marketing Is Dead, Who Killed It?
Every now and then you’ll hear someone say that article marketing is dead. I’d like to know who killed it. Actually, it isn’t dead at all. And the only evidence I need that article marketing is still alive and well is the long list ...
Use Your Author Resource Box To Build Links
It seems that everyone and their pet rattlesnake has an article directory now. Here’s a new take on the article directory: AdSense share. I’m just not sure about it. Nevertheless, this article writer understands how to put together a good...
Attention Article Directory Owners: Partner With Us
If you are an article directory owner, we’d like to partner with you. I’m not talking about some cheap here today, gone tomorrow partnership. I’m talking about a real live long-lasting partnership. Something that will be mutually be...
Should You Submit To Just One Article Directory?
Some owners of article directories would have you submit your articles to them and no one else. But is that wise? Consider this: If one article directory goes under or loses all its content and that directory is the one where your articles are locate...
Should You Use A Pen Name For Article Submissions?
Many writers prefer to submit articles under a pen name to protect their privacy. Is this a good practice? According to EzineArticles owner Chris Knight, articles written under pen names achieve less in the trust department. It’s easy to see wh...
Make Your Keyword List, Check It Twice
Before you start writing articles you should do a little keyword research first. You want to come up with a good list of keywords - at least 200 or 300. That’s because you’re going to write a lot of articles. You might as well have your l...
Article Marketing Killers
The following article marketing practices, if you engage in them, can kill your article marketing efforts. Engage in these practices at your own peril: Write articles that are obviously blatant advertising messages. Articles are not to be straightfo...
The 2 Ways To Go About Article Marketing
There are two ways you can make the best of article marketing opportunities. The mass marketing way and the quality backlink way. There are pros and cons to doing it either way and I recommend them both depending on your own personal goals and the na...
The Problem With Automatic Submission Software
Do you use automatic submission software to distribute your articles to article directories? There is a huge problem with this software, namely, that you run the risk of your articles being rejected by a number of the directories that you submit to. ...
What Constitutes Fair Use?
Is it fair use to use someone else’s article on your website? If done correctly, yes. There are two ways to make sure that other people’s content can be used for your website. No. 1, you can ask for their permission. If they say it’...
