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March 27th, 2007 — Traffic Building, Website Promotion
There is great debate over which is better: manual or automatic submission services? There are pros and cons with each of the different choices, but, in the end, there is only one choice that is the best. Here there will be presented points for each side that will culminate into a realization that one is clearly better than the other.
Time
This is the main argument for automatic submission services. Many people talk about how much time is saved with the automatic article submission service. There is one problem with this: spam. Many article directories will mark automatic submission services as spam, and will dock them negatively. Therefore, the time that is saved with the automatic service is actually reversed and it is harmful. In the end, it seems that manual article submission services will actually save time because the articles will actually be used and not be marked as spam.
Flexibility
With an automatic article submission service there is no way to alter the article for each individual directory site. However, with the manual article service an article can be changed to fit for each individual article directory site. So, to get the most from an article submission service, manual seems like the best choice.
Quality
When considering an article submission service consider the differences in quality that each offers. It is with the manual article submission service that the highest quality submissions are found. You’ll see better results with a human behind all the work.
March 27th, 2007 — Search Engine Optimization, Traffic Building, Website Promotion
Article marketing is a sure way to increase the amount of traffic that is going to a site. It is a simple process that leads to exponential growth in the amount of traffic that comes to a site. Article marketing is for people that want to get more traffic coming to their website, but it needs to be done correctly. Make sure you entrust your article marketing efforts with someone who will be able to deliver good results.
Article Marketing and the Resource Box
With article marketing, a writer provides articles to other web sites, blogs, eZines, and many other places. The author, in turn, is given a resource box at the end in which to put personal information and, most importantly, a link back to the author’s site. Make sure the
link back to the website is anchored with a targeted keyword. This will build the link strength for that particular keyword among search engines.
The link in the resource box is important because this is how the traffic will start to flow back to your website. Article marketing is perfect because of the extra exposure it gives your website. An effective article marketing campaign will spread your articles through many channels. This is important because you want many people to read your articles, and hopefully a couple webmasters will pick your article up and republish it elsewhere. This further builds links for your website, as they will include your resource box when they use your article. Ultimately article marketing leads to an increase in website traffic from many different places.
Article Marketing Will Improve Search Engine Rankings
Article marketing will increase a person’s search engine rank and then, because of this, traffic will increase to the site. This is very important and is a crucial benefit of article marketing that some fail to take advantage of. Remember to use targeted keywords as your anchor keywords when linking back to pages within your website.
Article marketing is the most cost-effective way of expanding the popularity of a site. The only real cost is your time, basically you’ll have to write the article plus submit it to a handful of quality directories. The overall process is also quite easy.
March 21st, 2007 — Traffic Building, Web Content
Everyone is talking about link baiting. This is a word that is flying around the SEO world and is a way to attract more attention to a blog or site. It is a process of posting something startling or contrary and making people discuss and link to the site because of the shocking content that it contains.
Link baiting utilizes a “hook” to work. Usually this involves the content to have a viewpoint contrary to what is commonly believed, but it is not an attack. An attack could produce more harm than good because people may not read any further content.
Why link bait?
Link baiting can be very helpful and make a website extremely popular if done correctly. There are several ways to create link bait. Here are some link baiting suggestions:
Humor can help you link bait.
Humor is an easy link baiting technique to use. Everyone appreciates humor and this is an easy way to get many links and lots of people talking.
Get them talking.
Controversy is probably the easiest way to link bait. This link baiting technique relies on the fact that people are drawn to controversy and will talk about it. This can be accomplished by exposing a scammer or by disagreeing with an authority. It can even be done by making up a slightly ludicrous theory and backing it up with facts. It is all about making something that people will talk about, link to, and keep with them to think about and come back to the site again and again.