Backlinks are one of the few ways that you can improve how Google and the other search engines see your pages. I am sure that you have probably recognized this in the past and so it is a very good idea to make the most of your backlinks.

This strategy that I want to tell you about today is a good one for making more of your current fans, the ones that have linked to you.

One of the ways to pick up backlinks is by submitting lots of articles. Once these articles are picked up by others and then put on their sites you will be able to hopefully leverage them. You can do this by taking the first sentence of your article and putting it in quotes and then searching Google for it. something like this:

Google Quote Search


Do you see the quotes in there? The search should show up this article (If it is indexed when you read this). Anyway when you do this with your own article you will get the results that Google has found for this term and these should all link to your site, don’t worry that many people will not give you the linkback that they should – they won’t even if you complain.

Once you find this you can  automatically ping the page through Pingomatic by using a link in your Firefox Bookmarks. Grab the following Bookmarklet (just drag it to your favorites bar below the address bar).

Page Pinger

Once you use pingomatic to ping the pages that are linking back to you all the search engines should be takinig those links on the other pages just that much more important and this should help your rankings as a better backlink.

There is lots more to learn about building up backlinks but hopefully this will keep you a bit easier

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Article marketing is an extremely powerful way to market your website and gain traffic. In fact, many webmasters now rely solely on article marketing in order to generate website traffic and with wonderful results. There is no doubt that article marketing works. People love to read fresh new content and webmasters love to publish your articles, especially when they are interesting and of high quality. These 5 tips to make the most of article marketing will ensure your efforts pay off.

Quality vs Quantity
Some people swear by submitting 300 articles per week, but this usually results in low quality articles being published to article directories. It is much more preferable to submit one fifth of that many articles, but making them extremely high quality. This can mean spending more on outsourcing or just spending longer writing each article. Despite the time required, the results will be considerably better than thousands of low quality articles. Just 10 article submissions per week can bring massive amounts of traffic over time.

Submit Often
Submitting articles regularly will keep a steady flow of traffic coming in. Aim to submit 100 articles within three months. This will ensure traffic for many years to come.

Make Them Easy To Read
Articles should not look like essays. By breaking your article up into points, sub-headings and lists you make it easy for people to browse and read quickly. Most people just skim through articles online so make yours easy to read in order to retain the reader’s attention.

Great Resource Box
When submitting to article directories you should spend considerable time formulating a resource box. This is the paragraph at the end of the article where you can write about yourself (not recommended), your website (recommended) and the benefits for your visitors if you click through to your site (most important).

Your Website Articles
The power of articles does not end with submitting articles to directories. The articles on your own website must be of a high quality; after all you are aiming to send traffic there. Make sure your regularly publish new content to your website and ensure the articles there are even better than the ones submitted to article directories. This will result in your site becoming an authority site in a niche.

These five quick and easy article marketing tips will have you generating traffic in no time.

Article marketing has always been a favorite marketing method amongst frugal entrepreneurs. Offering ultra-targeted traffic at a price that no one can argue with (hint: it is free), article marketing has been used as a promotional platform for everything from expensive watches to online informational products. A mainstay of offline and online marketing, the rulebook for article marketing is hundreds of pages thick and as complex as they come.

The thing is, to succeed with article marketing, you do not have to follow every rule that is out there. Sometimes, all it takes is a little knowledge of the major rules, and you are almost all the way there. Before you embark on an article marketing campaign, memorize these five major rules and use them to guide your marketing efforts. Read the rest of this entry »

Well I wrote an article a bit of a ways back, actually back in January, about what I learned from my 100,000 Ezine Articles views.

Well now I am at 200,000 views on Ezine Articles and thought I would update on what I think are important points on getting seen and what the traffic is worth.

Here are the top level stats on my 200,000 article views 2,404 published by other webmasters and 5749 clickthroughs to my sites, this works out to 5.7% which I think is good but has a lot more room to improve.

I have to be happy with all of that “free” traffic that is for sure. Read the rest of this entry »

OK, one of the great ways in which we start on the path to building an internet business is by researching and learning on sites like Digital Point, Warrior Forum and Wicked Fire among others.

The trouble is that reading and ususally even posting to these forums is not in fact building a business and I want to show you why.

Don’t get me wrong I love reading in the forums and I always learn stuff but the trouble is that I never sell stuff in Internet Marketing forums so I try to limit my time there (except maybe the WSO section of Warrior Forum). Sure this blog is an internet marketing blog so you would think that I would be able to drag visitors from my signature at the forums but really this does not happen much from the Internet Marketing folks. The trouble with internet marketing forums is that there is too much noise. You see the same things over and over again and get used to seeing a pitch a mile away. Read the rest of this entry »

Today I received this lovely mousepad in the mail, and I mean our mailbox here not email, from Ezine Articles. I write a lot of articles and post them on ezinearticles.com and a couple of weeks ago I got an email from them asking for my home mailing address. I sent it to them and they sent me this.

I haven’t used a mousepad in a long time but I guess I will start using this starting today. It is a great motivator to remind me what is important and that is to get my products and sites names out there on a regular basis.

A month or so ago I was getting burned out from work and work at home and we decided to go on vacation. I took things pretty easy for the week before I left and committed myself to rejoining the Wealthy affiliate site ($30/month) as soon a I got back. This was one of those things that I like to do, make a plan for out in the future and then let time catch up to me and act.

While I was away my affiliate sales started to pick up, I got back and joined the Wealthy Affiliate site the next day and dove into reading the great forums and got involved answering questions. I seem to learn more from answering questions then I do from asking questions.

Wealthy Affiliate by the way if the all in one place pay site that I have joined and quit twice so far an now joined for a third time, more on why I don’t stick for too long below…

I really get caught up deciding on rejoining the Wealthy Affiliate site because reading is not doing.

I always get scared that I will get caught up in not creating and be the deer in the headlights not acting when I should be. Often I read posts and say to myself, “I agree, I already knew that”. But to move forward you have to have a plan and decide what is important to move your business forward.

I am now rejoined and am committing to a month of reading and learning but of course if my content creation drops too far at all I will stop the forums completely. It seems that I have much more control of this for myself now then I did a few years ago when it took me three years to put up my first site.

Check out Wealth Affiliate and see if it works for you. But, remember don’t bother if you are scared that it will take you away from the work that you need to do, instead the site should be a jump start for your business.

What I have learned from my 100,000 article views at Ezinearticles

A little while ago I hit 100,000 views of my articles on ezinearticles.com with a total of 138 articles posted over the last year and a half or so. The number is huge to me but of course ezinearticles gets lots of traffic so I should not be surprised. If only I got a dollar for every view…but maybe soon if I follow what I have learned. Here are some observations from my stats.

Headlines count for almost everything – I have found that writing an article is only good if the title is very specific to keywords. I wrote about six pack abs, Jenny Craig Diet and How to reload Windows XP and got thousands of page views but on the articles where I just described what I would write about it seemed I got very little traffic from the articles.

Most articles are only good for a week but some have real staying power – In all but a handful of articles I would get a lot of traffic for a week or so and then drop out of the serps completely. I wish I could see stats for all articles on a week by week basis but alas there is no tracking like that at EzineArticles. On the articles as above where I actually use good keywords in the title I would get lots of traffic and still do get lots of traffic for those articles.

Clickthroughs have everything to do with the bio box – In the early days I would just say “Bill is passionate about fitness, to learn more visit his fitness blog at XXXXX” I got about a 1% bio box clickthrough on that but now the last paragraph of my article is acutally in the bio box with a distinct call to action and the clickthroughs are around 15-20%. What a massive difference eh?

I have had bad conversions to sales as I still have been pointing at specific reviews on my blog but the “leak” from those pages seems to be terrible. I hope that over my next 100,000 article views that I will only point to actual review pages as Kyle and Carson have put on this site (I have only found them under downloads in the sitemap) and see if my conversion is better.

Many people, myself included use article marketing as a method to get backlinks to our sites and to drive traffic as well. Because of the popularity of sites like ezinearticles and goarticles there is a new type of article site that is closer to being a webpage then a simple artilce. I have written about Squidoo being this kind of site and now another, hubpages has caught my eye.

The idea with hubpages is that you create a page with an article and then there are adsense ads on that page with some revenue going to you and some revenue going to the owners of the site itself, very similar to Squidoo.  Some of the ways that hubpages rocks is that it allows porn article pages (porn pays big for affiliate sales although I have not used it yet), hubpages also allows you to do direct links to affiliate programs (no landing page needed), and hubpages is not as crowded as other sites.

Also Google likes Hubpages just like it likes Squidoo. Lots of love and high rankings with long tail keyword articles.

Who loves money is a new ebook set to launch on May 1st. I know that there are a lot of products that come out on what seems like a weekly basis but this product should be chockful of great infothat you can use. And the great thing is that most of these ideaare not being used at all so you can be at the head of the curve in your internet marketing business.

I am posting this information today so that you can have a chance to sign up for a presale set of emails at the Who Loves Money website that will give you ideas and tips to make money right away, now, even if you are not really interested in buying the ebook when it come out

“The Techniques in Who Loves Money can be implemented with ZERO Risk and without investing a dime of your own money.”

The creators of this book are Kyle and Carson for the Wealthy Affiliate site. When they showed the book to Travis, the creator of Bum Marketing, he wanted to buy the book right there and then. I expect that on May 1st we will see a lot of hype and a great product, Who Loves Money come out.

We’ll give you a little preview of just a couple topics in the book:

• How we earned $60 / Minute With A single Niche Market
• How to determine which keywords sell
• Niche Hunting Exposed – How we do it
• An In-depth look at Clickbank
• Penny Pincher Traffic techniques
• Kyle & Carson’s Slow Roller Technique (Yet to be exposed)