Traffic, SEO, and Auto-Article Submission

By Kathleen Krueger/MarginsXs

Like so many others, finding time to post has been a challange. I've been learning and writing, and I think I have some cool stuff to share.

Cool Newsletter: Site Reference newsletter, or Site Reference: Internet Marketing, Design, Programming and SEO Help, http://www.site-reference.com/, is my latest big-time read and one I would highly recommend. On my sidebar, I have subscribed to an RSS feed. If I were living in a perfect world, what would have been is that I would have built and designed my own webpage. In the process I would would have become a Webmistress Supreme. Instead, I learn what I can in spare time, always enlightened by those who have knowledge, skills, and expertise into the brass nails and tacks of building a good internet interaction. Additionally, I have admired their format. My newsletter is a fledging production, and behind the scenes, I'm still knocking out its overall format. I am inspired by Site Reference.

Cool Blog (s): Dosh Dosh is a great internet marketing Blog. I have spent hours there. And I'm sure anyone interested in ways to make money on-line will too. The Friday Traffic Report, by Jack Humphrey, in another terrific post.

I installed an automatic article submitter on my computer, fighting up-hill all the way, to find time to dinker with it and use it. For some reason, dispite my extensive reading, I've never come across a "Nay" in using one. Below is just that "nay" and from Site Reference:

"Automated link building software and article submission software might get you a few quick hits but it'll leave you out in the cold when winter comes..........................

I would concentrate on the article submission stuff - it get your site seen, and should encourage a more natural inbound link pattern but, again, automating it can do you harm.
If you blast out your article to hundreds of places at once, the links you get back are of a lower quality than if you han picked the places to submit them.

True, an article submitter and a reciprocal link request/manager will speed things up but use them with care or loose your site!!!"
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Site Reference, SEO Techniques and Tips
» Link Building and Article Submission - Software
Entry 5/30/2007 Response from Northie

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Do? What? Who? Or why Write, Submit, and to Who.

If you want to promote your website, you can do this in several ways, but the most effective way is to write. Write about what you do, keep it interesting, and submit. Below is a brief about what you are in for:

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Do? What? Who? Or why Write, Submit, and to Who.

Author: Kathy Krueger/Marginsxs

Time and time again, I hear website owners should write articles. I also hear “build the list”. Manually, I click on emails saying “drive traffic to your site…..get this free report”. I’m told to link things here, and back link there, send out newsletters, get a solid product, get google adsense, buy ads, and have affiliates…..wow! So, blinking through the multitude of meaningful advice, I ask myself what is the one thing do I need to do, if only one thing, mindful of task at hand, clean and simple, do I do? Or, try it this way: In order to increase traffic or business to my site/product, what one thing do I do that works? Answer: “Write”. What do I write? Answer: “Articles”. And to who do I give these articles? Answer: Article publishers, such as “Article Marketer” or other ezine article publishers.

I’m going to assume I just finished my first article, and know if my guts it is a good article. Now what? Keeping it dead-on simple, I know need to submit after finding sites that will accept my article. First, I can look for a publisher, for example, at NetMastersSolutions (http://www.netmastersolutions.com/subject.html) which is a free ezine directory. In pursuit of a publisher, I can also look at TopEzineAds.com. Finding a publisher, preferably publishers, and submitting my article is a daunting process requiring Time. I need to go to these sites, enter my name, get a username, password, login in, and copy/paste according to their guidelines. Let’s say I’m interested in 25 ezine publishers. I see the light right before me: before my first submission, I’m searching the web for software that can do this for me! Or I consider my alternative. I use a service such as Article Marketer ( http://www.articlemarketer.com/?a_aid=2f9bd09d ).

The advantages are dramatic. Thinking beyond my article, I see I can post several articles at once, obtain a reasonably priced subscription allowing unlimited submissions, and request distribution over my chosen time frame. There is an article review and submission process, and auto pilot distribution feature, and tips on how to write good articles. The affiliate program is a nice bonus. In thinking back on what I ‘should’ being doing, if I am serious about traffic for my business, I should be serious about quality and the integrity of the article submission and process services. Consequentially, I save time and energy to spend it, no, not at the beach, but investing in doing what I’ve been told I should be doing all along: “writing articles”.

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