Article Marketing Works Wonders
Once you set up your site, you need a plan of action to get your site noticed. It does not matter if its a personal blog, a niche blog, e-commerce, or even an affiliate marketing site. All of them go nowhere without traffic, whether you are looking to make money or not. While there are multitudes of tools that can assist with this, the fact is search engines are still the single largest source of free traffic to your site. One of the best ways to move up your ranking in the seach engines is through writing articles and posting them to many types of an article directory.
On average, you will need to create about 20-40 different articles about your niche. Meaning you want to cover all aspects of your website’s topic, and cover the top 5-7 keywords that you are trying to get ranked for. Do not make the mistake of trying to get ranked on too many keyword phrases all at once, you need to focus your energy and article writing on a few key ones until you start getting some traction. Once you have your niche articles written, you will need to have a tool to help you spin the content.
For those of you who are not familiar with this, spinning simply means that you have several variations of sentences both in structure and content that are randomly varied as the article is posted. So for example, your sentence might be “The dog is brown”. If you wanted to change this around, you could also say almost the same thing with “The dog has black fur”. So the end result is almost the same, but its uses slightly different words. The reason for this is most of the search engines will impose a duplicate content penalty at some point, this is to keep someone from posting 10,000 copies of the same thing all at once all over the web to get links - essentially gaming the system. Where this cutoff is, that is a gray area and protected by all the seach engines. In general, even with spinning, I try to never post more than 20 identical copies of the same article to sites on the web.
One great tool for distributing your articles and spinning the content is My Article Network. You have access to over 10,000 blogs, covering thousands of unique IP addresses. The publishing of your article is totally automated once added and the simple spin tools are used to add additional relevant content. Another bonus is that its totally free for those looking for site content, and it automatically posts the content you approve. This is probably hands down the best tool I have ever used for article marketing, and its super easy to learn to use.