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Blog T.L.C. – Part 4
Posted by: | CommentsIn this series of articles on Blog Consulting we are talking about the three big factors of a successful blog, time, links, and content. In our last article we started talking about link building. We are going to continue that discussion in this article by talking about building links by using article marketing.
There are a lot of blogs and websites that are desperate for content. They will publish articles on their sites that you write and in return they will allow you to include two or more links in your article back to your site. There a lot of these sites on the Internet. Here are a couple of examples:
Article City (articlecity.com)
Ezine Articles (ezinearticles.com)
The only drawback to article marketing is that it takes a lot of time to submit your articles to all of the different sites. The way I cut down the time of this process is by using a service provided by Article Marketer . I just submit my articles to Article Marketer and they submit them to hundreds of other sites. They offer a free service which has a partial distribution, but I pay for the full service because I feel like I can make better use of my time than hand submitting each article to the various publishing sites.
The way the process works is that you write an original article about a topic that is in line with your blog. Do not duplicate articles on your blog. The best thing to do is write an article just for this process. If you cant do that, than do a thorough rewrite of one of your own existing articles. When you submit the article to article marketers, you can include two links back to your site in the author’s box. As part of the agreement for publishers putting your article on their site, they have to publish those two links as well. This does two things, it will give you traffic from people who read the article and follow the links, it will also count as two links. With Article Marketer your article has the possibility of being published on hundreds of websites. Do the math, two links times hundreds of websites, equals hundreds of links. If you can write two – four articles a month and submit them to Article Marketer you can generate a lot of links over time. Take some time to check out some of the various article marketing opportunities. Article Marketing can be time consuming, but it is a great way to build good links for your blog.
How do I get Traffic to my Blog – Part 1
Posted by: | CommentsOnce you get your blog going you will want to build some traffic to your site. One of the best ways to start building traffic is article marketing. Article marketing is taking articles that you write and submitting them to be published on the Internet. When you submit your articles you are allowed to put two links back to your site in the Author bio at the end of the article. This is good not only for SEO but will also bring people to your site.
There are a lot of sites that are set up to publish your articles. Many of them are free. One of the best free services is EzineArticles (www.ezinearticles.com). There are some guidelines you need to follow to submit an article, but once you figure out the process, it is easy to get your articles into the right format.
Personally, I use a paid service to publish my articles called Article Marketers (click here to find out about the services offered at Article Marketers). The advantage to using Article Marketers is that they take the articles I submit and then work with a lot of different publishing sites across the Internet. This saves me a lot of time which I can devote to working on my blog. It is not unusual to get one article published hundreds of times. Each time your article is published you get two links, and you get a little more traffic.
Here is the way I get articles together for Article Marketers. When I finish writing an article for one of my sites, I take the article and rewrite it. I keep the same ideas but I change the words, the headings, and the order of things. This gives me an original article to submit for publishing. You never want to submit an article that you have posted on your site without doing a rewrite. It may take you a few tries to get the article format figured out at Article Marketers, but they are really good to work with, and once you figure it out you will be very happy witht the results. We will be looking at other ways to draw traffic to your site in future Blog Consulting articles.
