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Top Google in
Record Time in 2 Simple Steps!
By Michael Small (c) 2008

I got into search engine optimization back in 1998. It sure has changed a lot since then. Back in the day you could use invisible text, load keywords to the point of overflowing and fill META tags with anything even close to what you had on your page. And you could do well on Google, Yahoo, Alta Vista; all the biggies. Not anymore.

Today SEO is about a 75% / 25% split between links and content, with inbound links being the most important thing. Especially on Google. When all is said and done, you can get to the top of Google in just two simple steps. Seriously. I’ve done it hundreds of times and it’s easier than you’d imagine.

Step 1: Develop Great Content

Writing great SEO content is a snap if you follow this simple 5 step formula…

1.) Write naturally as if speaking with a friend. Record yourself actually speaking to a friend about the topic of your Web page and it will all come together automatically.

2.) Limit each page to 2 to 3 keywords or keyword phrases.

3.) Mention each keyword no more than 4 times per page and split the usage somewhat equally between paragraphs. Two mentions of your most important keyword in the first paragraph is the only real exception. And be sure you mention each toward the end of the page to show overall consistency and topic authenticity.

4.) Try to incorporate the first mention of each keyword into hyperlink anchor text. The link should lead to another page of your site. (Note: The keyword would then be the clickable text leading to your other page.)

5.) Have between 150 and 250 words of text per keyword. So if you have 3 keywords on one page, you will have about 600 words on that page, in total.

That’s the quick and dirty SEO content writers course. And believe me, it works!

Step 2: Link Like the Pros (Part 1; Strategize)

Linking is a bit more involved. The main thing to remember is that you want as many high quality, topic relevant links as you can get. And you want them all using the same exact URL since Google sees URLs that begin with “http://www” differently than links that begin with just “www”. In other words, even if you have 200 links to your page, if they are split between URL formats, you are not getting full credít for the links.
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And forget all that stuff about links to the homepage being “a must.” Sure, having inbound links go to your homepage is great but Google has smartened up. They figure your site overall is probably not that great if nobody bothers linking to your actual content pages. While it’s true that Google ranks pages rather than sites, they do still base each of your page’s worth on its supporting pages.

I won’t bore you with a bunch of techno babble. In short, if you keep this in mind, you’ll always be ahead of the game:

1.) Inbound links should be from pages containing relevant content of a similar nature.

2.) Links to your pages from outside pages with high Google PageRank (GPR) are most desirable. (Note: GPR is NOT the page’s position on Google. It is a value, from 1 to 10, that Google assigns to all Webpages.)

3.) Links from (not to) a homepage are typically most valuable, unless they have a higher GPR page to link from. Focus on the GPR. If you use software like that mentioned below, it will do all this automatically. If you do it all manually, get the free Google Toolbar. GPR is shown for every page (that has any) on the Internet.

4.) Inbound links to your pages should feature your keyword as the anchor text triggering the hyperlink (keyword is the clickable part leading to your page.)

5.) Do NOT use generic text for your link’s surrounding content. Make the sentence as relevant as possible.

6.) Use as many variations of your link’s surrounding content as possible so the search engines don’t view your inbound links as duplicate content.

Step 2: Link Like the Pros (Part 2; Do It)

As far as actually getting great links, avoid the automated script based reciprocal link services. A lot of these services link your pages to “gray barred” pages, which means your site can get kicked off Google as well. And to be honest, reciprocal links are not nearly as valuable to Google as they once were, especially the junk link pages most of these services create.

If you want the “set it and forget it” convenience of a linking service, but not the problems I just mentioned, you might want to try one like 3-WayLinks.com. Although I’m not a fan of any linking service, this one is the best I’ve come across so far. They set it up so your page links to another, which links to a third, which links to you. There is no direct reciprocal beeline back to your page and each link is counted as a one way inbound link by Google, which is the most valuable type of link.

Of course, natural linking is the way to go whenever possible. Google LOVES links that are part of page content (see the anchor text notes above.) And getting great links like this is easier than ever with the right software so don’t sweat the time or effort. Both are minimal.

The product a lot of SEO pros use (myself included) is SEO Elite. It works great as both a full function link building tool and ranking checker for all major search engines. Even if you don’t need the app, take advantage of the free videos on the site. They explain special linking considerations, like special reserved commands such as “allinanchor” and how to find Google “Authority sites.” You can still benefit from the information, even without the tool.

Big Tip: When approaching other sites for links, try to get your link as anchor text in the actual page content, or a margin. Also do their link that way and explain the benefits and how much Google loves this type of natural content linking.

So there you have it; everything you need to get your pages on top of Google in record time. Best of luck. You’ll do great!

About The Author
Mike Small is a ten year veteran SEO specialist with thousands of top search engine rankings to his credít. He is the author of seven SEO books and founder of SEOpartner.com .

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A simple, easy, proven, legitimate way to get FREE traffic to Your Site!
Copyright © 2008 Abby Lawal

Generating non-stop website traffic is the sole of website and it is what determines the success of the site - website traffic is one thing that every online marketer can never have too many…

However, the competition to gain customer’s attention online is becoming so irrational that it has started creating a whole lot of concerns especially for newbie and people whose business are not well rooted - they are wondering where they really fit in or if they can ever get their own share of the traffic in this saturated market.

As if this is not enough problems to think about; the other side of the coin is the web surfers who has developed a thick skin to all the ads and are revoking against ads. They have become so immune to the sales tactics that a great deal of effort are required to get their attention - sales page has to answer all customers possible concerns before you can get them to think of you or your product twice.

So I ask you, if pushing a product or service to customers through the use of pop-up windows, direct mail and ads are not as effective as they used to be, what else can you do to survive online?

That was just a rhetorical question; I don’t want you to think too much.:

You need to know that there is a radical turn around in the way consumers respond to marketing now-a-days, it is called “educational marketing” - educational-based marketing is the process of doing something that will distinguish you as a knowledgeable authority and resource in the area of your expertise.

You see, even though people love to buy and they really want to buy something, yet, they don’t want to be sold - buyers want to make their own informed decision based on what they’ve learnt about your product/service and they want to do so on their own terms.

Consumers have taken back control of Internet!

They take control with the only weapon they have - they simply flex the muscles of their wallets - they pull money away from advertisers who annoy them and put it with those who meet their needs and are willing to go the extra mile to educate them.

The internet is now consumer-driven and pushing your product on someone does not work - not anymore, people want to know what’s in it for them and what they’re going to benefit from it.

It is your responsibility as a marketer to learn how to communicate better so that you can gain their trust!

I would imagine by now you must be saying to yourself, if what it takes to attract a potential customer to my site is educating them, how I can do that…

Before I explain how you can do it, I will first describe the characteristics of the person who may be willing to do it and what you would gain if you do it because going the extra mile is what separate the men from the boys - It takes…

**someone who is willing to impact other people with positive influence,
**someone who is willing to give without getting anything back,
**someone who is willing to invest their time and energy in their business, and
**someone who knows that long-term success and sustainability of his business is what
matters.

As you know that teaching people is not what everybody can do and writing definitely does not come easily to most, yet…

The solution is writing and submitting articles to directories to educate consumers about your product. The biggest reason why article works is because it gives credibility and builds trust. It allows your readers to see you as someone who is capable of providing valuable information.

Each place you post your article is going to send you some visitors at a different rate. You never know which publication is going to give you the biggest traffic until you’ve tried them and track your result.

The whole point with article is to buy real estate all around the web through articles, newsletter, directories where people can pick up.

Articles are a great way of diversifying your source of targeted traffic. For example, if you have your article posted in 5 different directories and one of them decided to pack-up, you still have 4 different referral sources supplying your site with traffic. If all you have is only one source of traffic supply and that one decided to pack up or die - the chances of your website traffic dying with it is very high. This is why article publication is a better choice for your business.

If you happen to put up a great article, you should expect it to stay online for a very long time.

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May 19
Another lesson in having a proper backup routine
Hardware, News, Personal, Software

I have shared my personal troubles when working with a server that is not on a proper backup routine. I also talked about another blogger who had similar problems not too long ago. Today, however, I read a truly sad story of how things can go really wrong when you don’t take backups seriously.
It started out pleasantly enough. I was just catching up on John Chow’s trip to China. Now I don’t read John’s blog regularly but I like to scim his RSS feed for interesting headlines. Well I found one today, “Hunting Pandas At The Shanghai Zoo“. Turns out it was just a video of him and his family at the zoo but the real gold was in the link to the “true life account” of how John had a rock fight with Pandas.
That was a funny post to read. I’ll be laughing about that one for a while. What about the backup post you promised? Just hold on, I’m getting there. I promise.
I decided to check out Carl’s blog (the third guy from the Panda story). Alright, here you go. This is the point of my article. the first post I see on Carl’s blog is an explaination that the data recovery company he sent his hard drive (after a server crash) was not successful in recovering any data.
So what is the magnitude of this loss? HUGE! He says he has lost 5 years worth of data for his personal blog as well as 10 years worth of data for his Surreal-News forum. Ouch! Among other data lost was sites of friends and family. That is a tough loss to take.
What can we learn from this? Carl says it himself. “never really intended to run many important sites from my server. I really should have set up RAID regardless.” That’s how it usually goes. You don’t intend to store important data but eventually it creeps onto the server and before you know it you’ve lost important data.
I wish Carl the best of luck in the future and hope he does imlement RAID like he says. You should setup up some nightly backup (at least weekly) software onto a seperate harddrive. Doing a weekly or monthly offsite swap (take a copy off site) is always good when possible.
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Make Extra Cash Using Your Computer
This is not a surprise to learn that the thought of being able to earn a lot of money right at home, using a computer that you already own captures the attention of many. With a computer and net access, people have discovered that making money online is actually very possible.
When you are getting started, use the tool that you plan to work with for making money online the easy way- your computer. The net is overloaded with information so that you can learn ways of making money online the easy way.
Once you have done some reading and have weeded out what sounds like the scam websites from the good ones, you will find piles of tips geared towards making money online the easy way.
The Main Key is Marketing:
Once you have come up with an idea for what you want to do to start making money online the easy way, get the word out there on yourself, your company and whatever it is that you are doing to make money online the easy way.
You can of course pay for advertising and this is something that many people opt to do. However when your start up, if money is tight, there are different websites that will actually allow you a small amount of space where you can promote yourself for free.
If you do have a few dollars to spend, you can put out the money needed for making money online the easy way.
Affiliates:
Affiliate programs are quickly becoming a popular way for making money online the easy way. Basically, an affiliate program in a sense is a way of scratching someone else’s back while they scratch yours.
In most affiliate programs you can sign up for free and then you promote a certain website or products on your own website. If visitors go to your site and click on the links to your affiliate’s site and then in turn purchase something off of that site, you have the potential to make money.
Therefore, if you have interesting pictures and wording on your site and generate traffic that appeals to visitors needs to visit your affiliates site, you may find yourself making money online the easy way very quickly.
Making money online the easy way often does not require you to put out much if any money of your own at the start. If you have always wanted to have your own online store for example, but do not have the money to purchase inventory, you may want to consider drop shipping.
Drop Shipping:
When it comes to creating a drop shipping store, it really could not be easier. In most cases, you advertise a product, put up pictures that are supplied to you and then when customers place an order on your website, the original company sends out what you need them to.
This allows you to earn money on your product without having to keep stock on hand. This is an excellent choice if you do not have the cash necessary to get going in your business.

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Simple Steps To Get Your Hands On Cash
Get rich quick is a motto for many and they are constantly on the look for a plan to make money the easy way. Fortunately, there are many make money the easy way ventures that you can try your hand at.
If you are not sure where to start when it comes to a way to make money the easy way, you might find that a logical first step is to tap into a fountain of information- the net.
Use your computer to do a simple search for make money the easy way tips and you are bound to find a wealth of ideas right at your finger tips. After that, it is up to you which tricks and tips you want to attempt in your goal to make money the easy way.
As with anything in life, people are most productive when they are working at something they enjoy. Therefore, if you can find a way to put your hobbies at interests to work for you in the quest to make money the easy way, you’re bound to have even more success.
It goes almost without saying that virtually everyone has an opinion on things that they come across and are knowledgeable on certain subjects. So many people make money the easy way through writing an online blog.
There are many different blogging networks that you can sign up for and with a little time and only a slight amount of effort you will find that before long you may just have found a make money the easy way plan for yourself.
You do not have to make money the easy way online exclusively. There are numerous ways to make money the easy way offline as well. You can use many different avenues in your goal towards making easy money.
Visit your local library to see if there are books that you can check out that will offer you simple money making tips. You can also scan through your local newspaper to see if there are any ads that are offering ways that you can make money the easy way.
Often times, when you do find a way to make money the easy way, the cash returns are not large, however, if you are willing to put in the time the rewards can grow in the long term.
Creating your own website, especially if you choose to build with a site that offers you space for free can allow you to make money the easy way as well. All that this option requires is a bit of your time and little investment.
You can look into placing ads on your site that will over time generate you an income if visitors click on various links found within your website. If you keep your site informative and fun, repeat visitors will come and check out what you have to offer.
The more people that hit up your website, the better the chance that they will click on the ads that are meant to earn you easy money.

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 SEO ARTICLE

Top 10 Search Engine Positioning Mistakes
 
By Sumantra Roy
When it comes to web site search engine positioning, there are certain common mistakes that I see people making over and over again. Here’s a list of the 10 most common mistakes that I see people making. By avoiding these mistakes, you can avoid a lot of anguish and frustration in the long run.

1) Optimizing your site for the wrong keywords

The first step in any search engine optimization campaign is to choose the keywords for which you should optimize your site. If you initially choose the wrong keywords, all the time and effort that you devote in trying to get your site a high ranking will go down the drain. If you choose keywords which no one search for, or if you choose keywords which won’t bring in targeted traffic to your site, what good will the top rankings do?

In order to learn how you can choose the correct keywords for which you should optimize your site, see my article on this topic here:

http://www.1stSearchRanking.com/t.cgi?2139&keywords.htm.

2) Putting too many keywords in the Meta Keywords tag

I often see sites which have hundreds of keywords listed in the Meta Keywords tag, in the hope that by listing the keywords in the Meta Keywords tag, they will be able to get a high ranking for those keywords. Nothing could be further from the truth. Contrary to popular opinion, the Meta Keywords tag has almost completely lost its importance as far as search engine positioning is concerned. Hence, just by listing keywords in the Meta Keywords tag, you will never be able to get a high ranking. To get a high ranking for those keywords, you need to put the keywords in the actual body content of your site.

3) Repeating the same keyword too many times

Another common mistake that people make is to endlessly repeat their target keywords in the body of their pages and in their Meta Keywords tags. Because so many people have used this tactic in the past (and continue to use it), the search engines keep a sharp lookout for this, and may penalize a site which repeats keywords in this fashion. Sure, you do need to repeat the keywords a number of times. But, the way you place the keywords in your pages needs to make grammatical sense. Simply repeating the keywords endlessly no longer works. Furthermore, a particular keyword should ideally not be present more than thrice in your Meta Keywords tag.

4) Creating lots of similar doorway pages

Another myth prevalent among people is that since the algorithm of each search engine is different, they need to create different pages for different search engines. While this is great in theory, it is counter-productive in practice. If you use this tactic, you will soon end up with hundreds of pages, which can quickly become an administrative nightmare. Also, just imagine the amount of time you will need to spend constantly updating the pages in response to the changes that the search engines make to their algorithms. Furthermore, although the pages are meant for different engines, they will actually end up being pretty similar to each other. The search engines are often able to detect when a site has created such similar pages, and may penalize or even ban this site from their index. Hence, instead of creating different pages for different search engines, create one page which is optimized for one keyword for all the search engines. In order to learn how to create such pages, see my article on this topic here:

http://www.1stSearchRanking.com/t.cgi?2139&keyword-rich-pages.htm
5) Using Hidden Text

Hidden text is text with the same color as the background color of your page. For example, if the background color of your page is white and you have added some white text to that page, that is considered as hidden text. Many webmasters, in order to get high rankings in the search engines, try to make their pages as keyword rich as possible. However, there is a limit to the number of keywords you can repeat in a page without making it sound odd to your human visitors. Thus, in order to ensure that the human visitors to a page don’t perceive the text to be odd, but that the page is still keyword rich, many webmasters add text (containing the keywords) with the same color as the background color. This ensures that while the search engines can see the keywords, the human visitors cannot. The search engines have long since caught up with this technique, and ignore or penalize the pages which contain such text. They may also penalize the entire site if even one of the pages in that site contain such hidden text.

However, the problem with this is that the search engines may often end up penalizing sites which did not intend to use hidden text. For instance, suppose you have a page with a white background and a table in that page with a black background. Further suppose that you have added some white text in that table. This text will, in fact, be visible to your human visitors, i.e. this shouldn’t be called hidden text. However, the search engines can interpret this to be hidden text because they may often ignore the fact that the background of the table is black. Hence, in order to ensure that your site is not penalized because of this, you should go through all the pages in your site and see whether you have inadvertently made any such mistake.

6) Creating Pages Containing Only Graphics

The search engines only understand text - they don’t understand graphics. Hence, if your site contains lots of graphics but little text, it is unlikely to get a high ranking in the search engines. For improving your rankings, you need to replace the graphics by keyword rich text for the search engine spiders to feed on.

7) Not using the NOFRAMES tag in case your site uses frames

Many search engines don’t understand frames. For sites which have used frames, these search engines only consider what is present in the NOFRAMES tag. Yet, many webmasters make the mistake of adding something like this to the NOFRAMES tag: “This site uses frames, but your browser doesn’t support them”. For the search engines which don’t understand frames, this is all the text that they ever get to see in this site, which means that the chances of this site getting a good ranking in these search engines are non-existent. Hence, if your site uses frames, you need to add a lot of keyword rich text to the NOFRAMES tag. For more information on the different issues that arise when you use frames in your site, see my article on this topic here.

http://www.1stSearchRanking.com/t.cgi?2139&frames.htm

Using Page Cloaking

Page cloaking is a technique used to deliver different web pages under different circumstances. People generally use page cloaking for two reasons: i) in order to hide the source code of their search engine optimized pages from their competitors and ii) in order to prevent human visitors from having to see a page which looks good to the search engines but does not necessarily look good to humans. The problem with this is that when a site uses cloaking, it prevents the search engines from being able to spider the same page that their users are going to see. And if the search engines can’t do this, they can no longer be confident of providing relevant results to their users. Thus, if a search engine discovers that a site has used cloaking, it will probably ban the site forever from their index. Hence, my advice is that you should not even think about using cloaking in your site. For more information on what page cloaking is, how it is implemented, and why you should not use cloaking, see my article on this topic here.

http://www.1stSearchRanking.com/t.cgi?2139&page-cloaking.htm
9) Using Automatic Submission Tools

In order to save time, many people use an automatic submission software or service to submit their sites to the major search engines. It is true that submitting your site manually to the search engines takes a lot of time and that an automatic submission tool can help you save a lot of time. However, the search engines don’t like automatic submission tools and may ignore your pages if you use them. In my opinion, the major search engines are simply too important for you not to spend the time to submit your site manually to them. In order to speed up the process of submitting your site, you can use our free submission tool which allows you to submit your site manually to all the search engines, without having to go to the “ADD URL” pages of the individual engines. It is available here.

http://www.1stSearchRanking.com/t.cgi?2139&submission.htm

10) Submitting too many pages per day

People often make the mistake of submitting too many pages per day to the search engines. This often results in the search engines simply ignoring many of the pages which have been submitted from that site. Ideally, you should submit no more than 1 page per day to the search engines. While many search engines accept more than 1 page per day from a particular domain, there are some which only accept 1 page per day. Hence, by limiting yourself to a maximum of one page per day, you ensure that you stay within the limits of all the search engines.

11) Devoting too much time to search engine positioning

Yes - I lied. There’s another common mistake that people make when it comes to search engine optimization - they spend too much time over it. Sure, search engine placement is the most cost effective way of driving traffic to your site and you do need to spend some time every day learning how the search engines work and in optimizing your site for the search engines. However, you must remember that search engine optimization is a means to an end for you - it’s not the end in itself. The end is to increase the sales of your products and services. Hence, apart from trying to improve your site’s position in the search engines, you also need to spend time on all the other factors which determine the success or the failure of your web site - the quality of the products and services that you are selling, the quality of your customer service, and so on. You may have excellent rankings in the search engines, but if the quality of your products and services are poor, or if your customer service leaves a lot to be desired, those high rankings aren’t going to do much good.

Article by Sumantra Roy. Sumantra is one of the most respected search engine positioning specialists on the Internet. To have Sumantra’s company place your site at the top of the search engines, go here. For more advice on how you can take your web site to the top of the search engines, subscribe to his FREE newsletter.

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Why is SEO required?

When you have designed and developed a website. The common question which comes in your mind is why SEO is required. Well, the simple answer to this is to promote your website. As more and more websites are being introduced every day in the World Wide Web, the competition is also increasing. It is not that simple to see your website in the topmost position in the search engines. Lot of efforts, ideas and innovations are required to see the distinct identity of your website from the rest. SEO is not that easy the way it seems, you need the services of web promotion experts to ensure optimization and high quality traffic in your websites.
An SEO expert can analyze and decide effective keywords to promote your website. He can provide you expert ides in different aspects like on page optimization, link building, off page optimization, keyword analysis, visitors analysis. It is certain that they understand better to provide you enough guidance on how to improve your search engine rankings.
Selection of an online web promotion executive can provide can provide your website these services.

On page optimization
Link building services
Define effective keywords for your website
Article submission and distribution
Quality content and article for your website
Writing and submitting press releases
Forums and blog postings
Thus Search Engine Optimization is very crucial techniques for online entrepreneurs who depend on their website to bring them business. Merely having a website online does not serve any purpose if it is not optimized in search engines. So looking at the necessity of this, all your efforts must be laid down to generate a well optimized site thus resulting in your online profitable business ventures.
So we can say that Search Engine Optimization is required-
Get your website in the top of search engines.
To give your website targeted visitors.
Optimize your website on the basis of keywords
Matching your products and services to generate high search engines rankings
Create your entity online to make you familiar in the World Wide Web.
Thus through search engine optimization you can give your website the required online exposure, get it read and indexed by search engines in an effective manner. All this can be possible by using good and white hat promotion techniques which are fair, legal and approved by major search engines on internet. Without it your website identity is just like an entity lost in the crowd with no recognition and lying in the dark without any guidance and goal.
Rajeev Guglani writes articles for SEO. He has vast exposure in writing for Search Engine optimization.He is working for NDDW. For SEO Services india,Internet Marketing,  and   Search Engine Optmization visit   www.nddw.com

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 ARTICLE MARKETING

How to Promote your Web Site by Writing Articles
By Oudam Em

Sharing knowledge on the web can be a very powerful way to establish your online presence and credibility. First, you write a thoughtful and informative article on an topic in your area of expertise. Then you submit it to e-zines to be read by the general public and possibly re-published on other web sites.

Appended to the end of your article is a resource box containing a brief promotional message linking to your web site. Webmasters who wish to reprint your article on their sites are required to include your resource box along with any live links to your site.

For example, an article written by me might have the following resource box:

Article by Oudam Em. Oudam is the webmaster of UnlimitedTraffic.net, a site that offers a wide range of effective and affordable website traffic building solutions. Visit his site for more free tips and tutorials on optimizing and promoting your site.

The benefit that you get from your article is two-fold. First, your article will be read by visitors to the e-zine site. If they find it helpful and interesting, they will likely visit your web site to see what else you had to offer. Second, webmasters who find your article useful to their visitors may re-publish it on their sites, giving your article additional exposure.

Every time your article is re-published on a web site, you gain an additional one-way link to your site through the live link in your resource box. This adds to your link popularity and ultimately increases your search engine rankings. As you can see, the true potential of your article lies in its ability to propagate virally in cyberspace.

For your article to propagate virally, it should appeal to both readers and webmasters alike. Keep in mind that your goal is hold your readers’ attention long enough for them to get to the resource box. If your article is boring and uninformative, few people will read it beyond the first or second paragraph.

Below are some pointers to consider when writing an article:

1. Give your article a catchy title.

Your title is the first and often the only thing that visitors see when they skim through a list of articles on an e-zine page. Put some thought into coming up with a title that grabs the reader’s attention right away. Words like “Secrets”, “Free”, and “Successful” tend to attract more attention than others.

2. Your article should not read like an ad.

Most people read articles to find information they can use, not to see a pitch about your products or services. If they see your article as nothing more than a shameless act of self promotion, they’ll get turned off and hit the “Back” button right away. Put yourself in the reader’s shoes. What benefits do you want to get out of reading an article? Cater to your reader’s interests rather than your own.

3. Offer lots of free, useful information.

Following on the last tip, keep in mind that your readers are looking for specific “how-to” instructions to help them achieve a certain goal. Offer lots of tangible information that is immediately useful to them. Do not lead them through hoops just to get to an order form for a $29.95 “Make $50,000 in 30 Days or Your Money Back!” e-book.

4) Avoid gimmicks.

While it may be true that a sucker is born every minute, most internet users are sophisticated enough to tell what’s legitimate and what’s not. Write with the intention of offering something substantial to the reader. Be honest and forthright. Your article should not cause the reader to think, “What is this guy trying to sell me?”

5) Be succinct.

Get to the point quickly, preferably in the first or second paragraph. Avoid lengthy paragraphs. Use lots of white space to separate your paragraphs to make them easier to read.

6) Your article should not be too short.

Certainly, it’s possible to write a good article packed with useful information using just a couple hundred words. If your article is too short, however, some webmasters may feel hesitant to reprint it on their sites. They may, instead, borrow your ideas and write their own articles, gaining authorship without having to give you credit for your ideas.

How long should your article be? I suggest at least 500 words, preferably longer. Longer articles give webmasters the impression that you have put some time and effort into your work and, thus, are deserving of being reprinted on their sites.

7) Use live (clickable) links in your resource box.

Many e-zines permit clickable links in resource boxes. Yet, many authors forgo this privilege by simply spelling out their URLs. Whenever permitted, you should spell out your URL as well as make it clickable (e.g. http://www.unlimitedtraffic.net). The advantages of a clickable URL are, (1) readers can go to your site simply by clicking on it, and more importantly, (2) search engines will be able to record the ezine page containing your article as a link your web site, adding to your link popularity and search engine rankings.

Avoid hyping in your resource box.

Your resource box, while promotional in nature, should be brief and tasteful. The purpose of your resource box is not to sell your readers something, but to lead them to your website which does the actual selling. Your resource box should contain your name, your company name, a brief description of your products or services, your web site’s URL, and a clickable link to your site.

9) Put some thought and effort into your writing.

E-zines have varying standards for accepting articles, and some accept and publish all submissions without any human review at all. However, this does not mean you should write an article just for sake of having it published somewhere. If your article comes off as half-baked, readers may make a similar assumption about you and your business practices.

10) Submit your article to as many e-zines as feasible.

There are dozens of e–zines on the web that welcome submissions from independent authors. Ideally, you’d want your article to be exposed on as many of them as you can. But it takes time to register and submit to each one of them. Therefore, I recommend that you submit to only a handful of the more popular ones.

Below is a list of e-zines along with their Google PageRanks (PR). The higher the PR of an e-zine, the greater its online visibility.

Amazines - www.amazines.com - PR4
Articles411 - www.articles411.com - PR3
Article Alley - www.articlealley.com - PR5
Article City - www.articlecity.com - PR6
Article Depot - www.articledepot.net - PR5
Article Emporium - www.article-emporium.com - PR5
Articles Factory - www.articlesfactory.com - PR5
Article Finders - www.articlefinders.com - PR5
ArticleSubmissions.com - www.articlesubmissions.com - PR3
ArticleWarehouse - www.articlewarehouse.com - PR4
ArticleWorld.net - www.articleworld.net - PR5
AuthorConnection.com - www.authorconnection.com - PR5
Business Know-How - www.businessknowhow.com - PR6
BusinessCurrents.net - www.businesscurrents.net - PR4
BusinessToolchest.com - www.businesstoolchest.com - pr4
Buzzle.com - www.buzzle.com - PR6
Common Connections - www.commonconnections.com - PR3
Connectionteam.com - www.connectionteam.com - PR4
Constant Content - www.constant-content.com - PR5
Createonlinebusiness.com - www.createonlinebusiness.com - PR4
Digital Women.com - www.digital-women.com/submitarticle.htm - PR6
Ezine Articles - www.ezinearticles.com - PR7
Free Content - www.certificate.net/wwio - PR6
FreeTrafficTip.com - www.freetraffictip.com - PR5
FreeZineSite.com - www.freezinesite.com - PR3
Fresh-Articles.com - www.fresh-articles.com - PR3
GoArticles.com - www.goarticles.com - PR6
Home-Business-Directory.com - www.home-business-directory.com - PR5
HowToAdvice.com - www.howtoadvice.com - PR5
IdeaMarketers.com - www.ideamarketers.com - PR5
Infonexus.org - www.infonexus.org - PR4
isnare.com - www.isnare.com - PR5
Li’l Engine - www.lilengine.com - PR7
LinkSnoop.com - www.linksnoop.com - PR4
Main Street Mom - www.mainstreetmom.com - PR5 
NetterWeb.com - www.netterweb.com - PR4
Organic-Rankings.com - www.organic-rankings.com - PR5
Sales Masters World - www.sales-masters-world.com - PR5
SearchWarp.com - www.searchwarp.com -PR5
SmartAds.info - www.smartads.info/articles - PR4
SEO Today - www.seotoday.net - PR4
StoreBuilder.co.uk - www.storebuilder.co.uk - PR5
T & I Grafix - www.tigrafix.com/articles.htm - PR3
TheEzine.net - www.theezine.net - PR4
Top-Web-Marketing.com - www.top-web-marketing.com/article - PR3
Web Host Industry Review - www.thewhir.com/find/articlecentral - PR5
UniTerra.com - uniterra.com -PR3
upromote.com - www.upromote.com - PR3
The Warrior Forum - www.warriorforum.com/forum - PR4
Web Host Industry Review - www.thewhir.com/find/articlecentral - PR5
WebMomz.com - www.webmomz.com - PR3
WebProNews.com - www.webpronews.com - PR7
WebsiteFuel.com - www.websitefuel.com - PR3
zinos.com - www.zinos.com -PR6

Article by Oudam Em. Oudam is the webmaster of UnlimitedTraffic.net, a site that offers a wide range of effective and affordable website traffic building solutions. Visit his site for more free tips and tutorials on optimizing and promoting your site.
Please feel free to re-publish this article on your website, provided that the above resource box is included at the bottom of the article and that all links within the box remain active.

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The Right Way to Mass-Submit your Article

Submitting articles to article directories is often a tedious process that involves author registration, proper formatting, and familiarity with the editorial guidelines set by each publisher. There are now hundreds of article directories that cater to both the general and niche markets. Because of the desire of authors to get their articles published on as many places as possible and the sheer number of article directories on the web, some authors have turned to automated submission software and third-party submission services to hasten the submission process.

The use of third-party submission agents presents an ethical problem. While some article directories don’t care how articles are submitted to them, as long as the articles meet their editorial guidelines, many rely on authors as a major source of traffic to their sites. They want you, the author, to browse their sites, read their submission guidelines, and become a regular visitor to their sites in return for distributing your article.

Any article directory that cares about the quality of articles they publish will spend some time to review each submitted article before publishing it. As an article publisher myself, I can attest to the work involved in reviewing, reformatting, and correcting minor errors of every article submitted to me. Since I get hundreds of submissions every day, I am forced to reject any articles that appear as if they’ve been submitted by a third party or through an automated submission process.

It’s not exactly rocket science to distinguish between an article submitted by hand and one submitted through an automated process. The software-submitted article may be improperly formatted, suggesting that the submitter never bothered to read the submission guidelines before submitting their article. It may be missing a required field, or it may be submitted to the wrong category. Different article sites stipulate different guidelines and requirements for what they accept. It’s not possible for an automated submitter to take into account all of these differences to allow you to submit to several hundred directories with a few clicks of the mouse button.

Many article publishers do not even allow manual submissions by third-party submission services. A common telltale sign that an article has been submitted through a third-party service is when a single author account is used to submit multiple articles with different resource boxes. Submissions from multiple author accounts from a single IP address are another indication of third-party submission.

Any software program that promises to “do 99% of the work for you” does nothing more than spamming your article all over the web. Some of these spam machines even post a link along with your article back to the submission software. This is a sure-fire way to get your article rejected and even get you banned from some directories.

Ideally, authors should submit their articles by hand. Meanwhile, there is an understandable need for a way to quickly submit to a great number of sites. An acceptable compromise between laborious manual submission and a completely automated process is a semi-manual tool that allows you to browse article sites as well as quickly submit articles to them. Article Submitter is an inexpensive semi-manual submitter that stores your article, personal information, and resource box as you visit each article site. When you’re ready to submit your article, the software auto-fills the submission forms for you, eliminating the need for tedious copying and pasting. The whole process is very much like manual submission, only a lot faster.

Oudam Em is the webmaster of www.DownloadEbooksNow.com. Visit his site to instantly download article submission software to quickly submit your article to hundreds of article directories.

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