Posts Tagged ‘Article marketing’

Well folks, it’s finally here…

It’s taken a fair bit longer than I anticipated it would, but it’s here. I’m proud to say that this is the 100th post on Adventures in Internet Marketing. Hurrah! [cue fireworks]

To celebrate, I wanted to create something special and above all, really useful for my readers. I was stuck for something to do, when I happened to have a chat with my Mum about ways to promote her website. She’s a very good writer (having been an English teacher for many years) and knows a lot about her subject, but as we all know, it’s not enough to reach the level of traffic you want.

She needs to share that info with the world. The best way I could think of to marry her writing with her knowledge was for her to write good, keyword-rich articles.

So, I set about planning a video course for her.

Thing is, I realised that many of you might benefit from it too. And as it’s the 100th post, I thought:

‘What better way to thank everyone and provide great value than by giving away an article writing course for free?’

So, here it is. All I ask is that you leave a message below if you enjoyed and used the info in the videos and that you share it with anyone you think might also benefit from it.

Here goes:

Video One – Introduction

Video Two – Keyword Research

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If you read my blog last week, you’ll see that I chatted a bit about the new plugin I discovered thanks to my friend Wayne Lambert. The plugin is called Pretty Links and helps you to cloak links using your own domain name. Very cool.

Well, I have an update for you…

I was writing some articles recently for Ezine and other similar directories and realised that they wouldn’t accept these cloaked links, even though I’d made them pretty. Incidentally, when I say pretty, I don’t mean that I’ve covered them in flowers and patterns. I just mean that they now have look like this:

mydomainname.com/pretty-link

instead of like this:

bit.ly/random-collection-of-letters

So, although the plugin is awesome for blog and e-mail postings, it doesn’t work for article links. However, what does work very well is using domain names to cloak the links. Basically, you buy a domain name, then set it up to forward to your affiliate link. Whenever anyone clicks on it, it takes them straight to the affiliate promotion.

Now you may be thinking: ‘Yeah, but isn’t it more expensive to buy a domain name every time you want to cloak an affiliate link?’

Yes, of course it is, but there’s a very good ‘up side’ to doing it this way.

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I was chatting to a friend of mine who has recently set up her own fashion and beauty magazine-style blog. She mentioned that – like many people online – she wanted to spread the word about it and build the amount of visitors to her site.

As usual, this got me thinking…

She’s already got writers who are creating great original and targeted content for her. All of these great articles are going straight onto her blog for her readers. I realised that she’s not making the most of this stream of information.

You see, if you’re a blogger, the articles (or posts) that you’re creating can also be published on article directory sites. There are several top sites (which you can see below) that get massive traffic. You can also have your article re-published by other people on their blogs, thus creating a viral effect with the same article.

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I’ve made this to show you a great SEO (search engine optimisation) technique to help you promote your business.

Watch this in Full Screen mode:

To put links into your resource box (in the same way I show you in the video) you need to use the following code. Feel free to copy it from here and change the bits in bold to your details:

Here you type a regular sentence, then include

<a href=http://www.YOUR-WEBSITE.com/>YOUR KEYWORDS</a>

by adding this code in. Simples!

You may also want to submit your articles to these top directories:

www.isnare.com
www.ezinearticles.com
www.ideamarketers.com
www.articlecity.com
www.articlehub.com
www.workathomearticles.net
www.articlesfactory.com
www.marketing-seek.com
www.netterweb.com
www.goarticles.com
www.article-emporium.com
www.article-directory.net