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Archive for June 9th, 2008

Internet Article Marketing and How To Increase Your Traffic

by James Comer

Internet article marketing is a type of advertising which businesses use to advertise by writing short articles which are related to their industry.

I’m here to tell you that internet article marketing works! Why do you think so many article directories are popping up all over the internet the past couple of years? Internet article marketing is a great method to get tons of traffic to your website without breaking the bank by spending your hard earned money on advertising services like Google Adwords(tm), Yahoo Search Marketing(tm), or Microsoft adCenter(tm).

Depending on how competitive your niche is, the costs can begin to add up very quickly. Often times you end up with a negative return on your investment. This can be easily overcome by using internet article marketing.

With article marketing, it’s very easy to become known as a subject matter expert in your chosen niche.

When you employ internet article marketing, you’ll soon have lots of quality back-links to your website.

Internet Article Marketing - How Does it Work?

As you are aware, the WWW is made of many websites. All of these sites contain “content”. People are usually searching for content around a specific subject. This information is found usually by the use of a search engine. Search engines go out and crawl the internet, visiting each page. The search engines then digest this content and index it by using the descriptions and content found on each page.

The search engines give you the best information that they have about the subject you are interested in. They do this by carefully cataloging and arranging the information that they found when they were crawling the web. This information has to be accurate, and be closely related to the term that you searched on. If they are written well, articles are considered a very valuable information source from which to learn.

In order for visitors to keep returning to their websites, webmasters must provide their visitors with timely, interesting, and accurate information. This is very important for someone who maintains a blog on a daily basis. For the blogger to climb to and maintain high in the search results, he must make posts to his blog every day.

As you may know, posting to your site everyday can take up alot of your valuable time. The webmaster can supplement his content with high quality articles which were written by other people as long as the author’s resource box is left intact with the links. The person running the site finds these articles on article directories.

Tell Me What An Article Directory Is

Article directories are websites that have alot of articles stored in one large database. The articles are arranged by their different topics. Authors are encouraged to submit their articles there. Bloggers and other webmasters (a.k.a. Publishers) can find free articles to post on their own website so long as credit to the original author is kept intact. Article directories have volumes and volumes of information on just about any subject that you might be able to think of, probably some that you haven’t even thought of.

Some article directories only accept articles written on certain niches such as computer technology, or internet marketing or even particular health issues. All that you have to do is read their submission rules and see what is allowed and what is prohibited. At most large article sites you can submit your article on just about any subject as long as it doesn’t promote hate, put down someone’s religion, or sexual orientation, or advocate violence. Other than that, the world is wide open on what you can write about.

How Do I Benefit In Return For Submitting My Articles To The Article Directories?

After the last paragraph in the article, there is a place where the author can place their author’s resource box. This resource box usually contains a couple of sentences about the author and another sentence or two with a link embedded pointing the visitor to the blog or website of the author.

Submitting your articles to an article directory has many benefits. You not only get free marketing from it, but you get lots of exposure. You can turn yourself into an expert. It creates a win-win situation for both you and the publishers that get to use your articles.

Research is Important

Like any leg of internet marketing, internet article marketing is not any different. You’ll do some research on the topic area of the articles that you intend to write. This research is very easy to do. Visiting forums and visiting websites which center around your chosen subject will provide you with alot of information from which to write an article of between 250-750 words.

Ok, Now That I’ve Written My Article, What Next?

First thing to do is to post your article on your website or blog. Wait a couple of weeks to a month until your article has been indexed in the search engines. You’ll be able to tell by searching for your article title in quotation marks. After you find it, it’s alright to submit it to the article directories. This is the way to do it in order to minimize chances of any duplicate content penalties.

Wait a month? Are you Serious?

There is a new way right now of writing and submitting your articles to your own website or article directory, as well as about 700+ as of this writing. Each article directory is submitted a unique, well written version of your article. This provides well written , non-duplicate versions of your article eliminating worries of duplicate content. This is called the Unique Article Wizard, and right now it’s so confidential that I can’t tell you about it here. I had to sign an agreement with the creator promising that I would not discuss the methods in detail. Check my resource box for more information.

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How Purchasing Used Cell Phones Benefits Consumers

by Chris Channing

If you are a person looking to buy a cell phoneone and are interested in a good price over how new or advanced the phone is on the market buying a used cell phone is for you. In the growing market of used cell phones you can buy reliable previously owned cellular phones at a much cheaper price than a flashy new phone.

People today see having the best or most technologically advanced phone as a way to show superiority over their friends and the people around them. Those kinds of social habits are not necessary in the eyes of the smart shopper interested in purchasing a capable phone at a good price. That is where buying a used phone becomes a big advantage to an intelligent willing consumer.

When looking to purchase a used cell phone rather than an over priced new phone, there are many advantages. The first of which will almost always be the price. With the market in today’s world a person can buy almost the same phone at a fraction of the price as to buying a phone brand new. Consumers who are interested in the capabilities that buying used cell phones has in the promotion of a better environment should look into used cell phones also. By purchasing a used phone you prevent the wasting of the energy used by the manufacturers, as well as the raw materials put into the phones.

In the United States of America alone there are much more than two hundred million phones in use at this very moment. With the modern output of new technology and the high demand for that technology there leaves a large amount of overturn with these products. This puts the advantage in the hands of the buyer.

If a phone is no longer the newest on the market it does not mean that it is no longer able to be used. A phone may only be the best on the market for a few days, this does not mean that the phones that are left behind do not connect you to the same people that they used to. That shows the fact that buying and selling used phones makes sense to the smart shopper.

The amount of people who have to have the newest and latest phone allows the buyer of a used phone an option of some of the best nearly new phones. Models that you still see advertised on television or on display at stores can be purchased with little mileage.

Some people might fear that when buying one of these new phones they might be at risk to buy a phone that has been damaged by the previous owner. This is a risk at a pawn shop, or with private affairs, but in some cases used phones can be bought with the warranty still attached. This means that is the phone stops working within a certain period of time you can return it to the company and receive a cash refund, or another phone.

Cell phones that are thrown away are nothing more than wasted. The materials put into the making of the phone, and the labor that was used in making the phone is put to waste. When a phone is passed down to a person who can continue to use it the phone can be used to its utmost potential. This is why buying used cell phones is the smart man or woman’s choice in purchasing cell phones.

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Site Rubix - Not Your Momma’s Website Designer

by James Comer

Awesome! Wealthy Affiliate’s new website designer software knocked my socks off. Now, I could stop here, but then I’d be doing you a disservice by keeping it to myself and not sharing what Site Rubix is all about. Maybe you are aware- or not- that Wealthy Affiliate has been quietly turning out successful graduates of Affiliate Marketing University quite awhile now. There is just so much information, support, and tools that are cutting edge that the space I have in this article doesn’t do it justice.

These days, one of the obstacles for affiliate marketers is website design. It’s not that easy to create a clean, professional website. To design a well organized website. Creating an efficient website can literally mean the difference between filet mignon or rice and beans. Speak with anyone who is a successful internet marketer and you’ll quickly discover that all you have is a couple of seconds to capture your visitor’s attention before they return to the search engine give the sale to someone else.

Your time is best served by focusing your efforts on the most crucial aspect of affiliate marketing. Introducing Site Rubix from the creators of Wealthy Affiliate.

Site Rubix is touted as a truly “all-in-one” tool for those into affiliate marketing to build professionally created websites designed to produce. Experience is not needed whatsoever. No need to be experienced with html, or even have any idea about hand-coding a website. This is a drag and drop solution. You can drag and drop formatting, and pictures all over your template and drop them where you want them instantly.

How much was Photoshop the last time you priced it? I’ll bet $500-1000 depending on the package you bought. Did you know how to use it? While a good program, you won’t need an expensive program like that in order to design and put together awesomely done websites.

Ok, you’ve got me excited, James. What else can Site Rubix do? How about you having the ability to duplicate pages that you’ve already created, or even full sites just by clicking your mouse? No need to reinvent the wheel. If you have a page or even a whole site that is working- use it again!

You can upload your own images and banners so that you can reuse them on many different sites. Site Rubix allows you to view, organize and manage your “media” in a very well laid out interface.. and it looks great too!

You’ll be pleasantly surprised when you checkout just what Site Rubix is capable of. I know of no comparison for true drag-n-drop website design. It won’t matter if you are designing landing pages or selling your own website creation services. Site Rubix has your back.

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