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dolartree
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# Posted: 2 Nov 2007 01:10
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How to advertise your website or blog for free
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# Posted: 2 Nov 2007 08:25
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I've posted this list before:
SEO for organic
articles
press release
message boards with a sig link
free classifieds
comments on other's blogs with link
Yahoo directory - $300/year
Dmoz directory
multiple websites of your own - linking back to the target website
your blog links back to your website
Search engine registration
ask for a review from a high traffic blog owner ($100-$500)
figure out ways to get a linkback from a higher PR site
That should get you started.
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pcwork
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# Posted: 2 Nov 2007 11:05
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How effective are articles?
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Hemjoe
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# Posted: 2 Nov 2007 12:18
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Article can very effective especially if they get indexed in google and appear high up the list
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# Posted: 2 Nov 2007 12:27
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Quoting: pcwork How effective are articles?
They are very effective if the author is good.
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Success100
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# Posted: 5 Nov 2007 11:50
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Quoting: Newbie Shield Quoting: pcwork How effective are articles? They are very effective if the author is good. Newbie Shield
I can agree with that 100%. I always suggest writing articles that are helpful to the type of audience that you are trying to reach. I also strongly suggest search engine registration as well.
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ibw13
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# Posted: 7 Nov 2007 20:57
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Articles are very good and produce a target audience for you. Probably the best article sites can be found by doing a search in google for article sites.
I would post articles to 4 or 5 different article sites and then review your website traffic and see where the clicks came from.
Thanks
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jlyn12
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# Posted: 7 Nov 2007 21:17
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Can anyone provide a lead to free classifieds. Several sites would not allow MLM, affiliate, etc. and rejected. Even a home work classified rejected. I succeeded in getting 2 ads placed (usfreeads.com), but wonder if there are any others you can recommend that would take GPT advertising.
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farid3136
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# Posted: 8 Nov 2007 03:38
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You can use mybloglog and blogcatalog for traffic diversion and promote your site
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pcwork
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# Posted: 8 Nov 2007 13:51
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Quoting: jlyn12 Can anyone provide a lead to free classifieds
Try Craigslist, post in the services section
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# Posted: 10 Nov 2007 05:25
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I think that posting helpful, thoughtful comments on high PR blogs is effective. You might not get direct link juice, since most have "no follow". However, a certain percentage do have "do follow" and if you post at enough blogs, then you are bound to hit some of these eventually.
In any case it's worth it, because people will click to your blog, and blog owners who like what you write may end up linking to your blog. Also, commenting is a great way to generate, formulate and hone ideas that you can then post on your own blog. (It's worth doing for that alone, I think.)
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pcwork
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# Posted: 10 Nov 2007 19:35
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Quoting: matthemattrix I think that posting helpful, thoughtful comments on high PR blogs is effective
I agree, but it is usually very time consuming
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jlyn12
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# Posted: 16 Nov 2007 08:24
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Thanks for the suggestions! You guys are great.
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bestmoneymaker
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# Posted: 28 Feb 2008 05:55
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Content, popularity and links are 3 factors that will get you a good ammount of traffic. There are so many directories that you can submit to as previously mentioned. The good thing about directories is that you can get a decent ammount of targeted hits by placing your link in one of the catagories relevent to your site.
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Breanne
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# Posted: 28 Feb 2008 12:08
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Personally I make videos (like ones on YouTube). Because I believe more in Attraction Marketing, then I will try to add value and useful information in my videos. i always give out my website link but never push it. So the idea is to make videos relevent to your business w/o advertising it. Videos are free to do as long as you have a camera.
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gamesofskill2
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# Posted: 9 Mar 2008 17:54
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I have heard that social bookmarking your blog has come to be a very effective way of sharing your blog with people. Posting Free ads through Classifieds has also been effective in bring traffic to you website or blog.
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mmstory
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# Posted: 12 Mar 2008 08:23
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Quoting: wannaliveright go to Blogger.com to get a free account. When you update your Blog you must Ping it also to get it to the search engines and out to the web faster.
I use Wordpress. Could you please explain a bit more how I can Ping it from there? How do you compare Blogger with Wordpress? Thanks.
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# Posted: 12 Mar 2008 11:41
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i personally love article marketing. I have articles I wrote several months back still generating traffic for me daily. It is very easy to do and anyone can typically get a half decent article out once a day. Even if you do 2 a week in a years time you're looking at over 100 articles...
Hey Newbie, When are you going to put that list on a website...or better yet make a lens about it
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Kesha
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# Posted: 27 Mar 2008 23:23
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Breanne, how is that working for you?
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CSGWAHM
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# Posted: 28 Mar 2008 12:02 · Edited by: CSGWAHM
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I second articles and press releases. Excellent way to get traffic! My home business has video tutorials showing step by step how to market and where to market. Once I learned some tricks of article marketing, I landed on the front page of google in the number 1,2, &5 spot within 24 hrs using specific keywords. I write articles consistently and I couldn't stop the traffic if I wanted to. Best part about writing articles and press releases, they're FREE!
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# Posted: 1 Apr 2008 17:53
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In the beginning, I was not very excited to write articles..
One day, I just started!
My first article was accepted and I had found it published on other websites..I have a good amount of traffic from this.
Yes, writing one a day even would really add up, and hopefully generate sales for a long time to come.
Victoria
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BillyPilgrim
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# Posted: 1 Apr 2008 18:33
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I use article marketing exclusively. You never have to worry about a Google "slap."
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Rory
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# Posted: 1 Apr 2008 21:58
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BillyPilgrim: use article marketing exclusively
Billy, that seems to me an extraordinary achievement!
Congratulations.
Do you use software that produces 100s of articles for you on chosen topics? Or are you doing this longhand?
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What are the keys for ensuring your articles are picked up by search engines and folks needing your articles for their ezines?
Appreciate the insight.
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BillChechel
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# Posted: 1 Apr 2008 22:52
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When you guys submit articles where do you submit them and how many sites do you submit to?
Thanks in advance.
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# Posted: 1 Apr 2008 23:12
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It's not worth the effort of submitting to 500 article directories.
Go with just 5-10 biggest directories and you're good.
If you only want to submit to 1, go with Ezinearticles.com.
With properly researched keywords, good article, headline, and resource box, I get over 50 uniques per month per article from Ezinearticles alone.
BillChechel: When you guys submit articles where do you submit them and how many sites do you submit to? Thanks in advance.
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BillChechel
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# Posted: 1 Apr 2008 23:18
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Generally how long does it take for your article to get some real exposure assuming you take all the necessary steps?
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# Posted: 2 Apr 2008 03:33
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It's hard to say. I guess it depends on what you consider real exposure. I've had a popular blog pick up my article and gotten a flood of traffic from it (I define flood as 2000 uniques in a week) a few days after I posted it.
For the majority of them, they are just normal. The thing is, normal depends on both your niche and your personal writing style, so I can't say how many visitors YOU would average in a given niche.
But, it doesn't matter at all what your average response to your articles is (as long as you get SOME traffic from it). Once you've got a baseline, it's easy to just look at things as numbers:
If you get 5 uniques per week per article, and you know you make $50 per 1000 uniques. From there you know you'll need to put out 1000 articles to make $50 per week.
Don't let the numbers above scare you, those are ridiculously low unless you're just a horrible writer. Like I said, I generally 3X that in traffic and more than that in money per M.
What I'm saying is that you have to start a campaign before you can track it. Once you have your baseline numbers as high as you can get them (by improving your writing or your conversion rate on your website), then you've got a map laid out in front of you.
This makes things much simpler - you can say I make X per week per article, I want to make Y per week. then you know you just need to write y/x articles to get to your income goal.
The really good thing about article marketing is that it's long-term traffic. Articles you write today will still be bringing you traffic in 3 years (not as much, there's a shelf-life). As long as you make it a priority to be consistent with your article marketing I would venture to say it's actually impossible not to make pretty good money, and pretty probable that you'll make great money.
BillChechel: Generally how long does it take for your article to get some real exposure assuming you take all the necessary steps?
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# Posted: 2 Apr 2008 11:32
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I write alot of articles and press releases. When I submit them, I usually do that to a handful of sites, maybe 8-10 and that's it. Once I submit an article and it goes live, my article make it to the front page of google within 24 hrs and stays there. There's a few things you have to do to get it there, but once I was taught this in my current business, I started implementing this technique and couldn't believe it. It's a GREAT way to drive traffic and it's FREE!
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# Posted: 2 Apr 2008 12:21
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Thanks for all the help on this topic.
Can you also explain in a little detail what a press release is exactly and how you use it to build exposure to your businesses. Thanks again.
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# Posted: 2 Apr 2008 12:53
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Bill.....Press releases are used to announce something, whether it be you joining forces with xyz company, or the launch of a new company you're involved with, etc. In press releases you can put your links in the body a few times. With articles you can not do this. You can google any business and find several press releases, look them over, see how they're written. Here are a few sites I use to write press releases.....
free-press-release.com
i-newswire.com
prweb.com
Hope that helps!
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