Get 100’s of Links To Your EzineArticles

There's a terrific post on Improve Your Internet Marketing that talks about boosting your returns on article marketing. Specifically, leveraging the effort you've already made creating and submitting articles to Ezinearticles.

I've posted part of the article here; check out the rest of the post, as well as all the other excellent tips for maximizing your Internet marketing efforts:

This is a very simple trick I have seen many articles authors using but I have never read about it here or in any ebooks. EzineArticles.com already have a high PR and if you manage to get more links pointing to your particular articles, they will have more chances of showing up high in the rankings. You know the SEO part right?

Here’s how you do it:

Go to your expert author page where you see all your articles listed. The url is something like this:
http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Author_Name

Right next to the header mentioning your name and your author status, you will find an “RSS icon”. Simply copy the url the icon points to.

Now, use this RSS url and submit it to the large number of free RSS directories available of the web and you have 100’s of links pointing to your articles in no time.

Here’s a list of RSS directories to start with:
55 Active RSS Directories to Help Promote Your Feeds!
(not my site - got it from Google search)

I hope my above trick helps you in your Article Marketing efforts.

If you follow the above ‘formulas’, you will begin to generate traffic, it will build steadily, and your SERPs ranking will improve steadily.

Guaranteed.

Thanks to Zuber (http://ninecolour.com/) for this great tip!

Creating Your Own Product - Not From Scratch!

Creating your own product is perhaps the best, surest ways to build your Internet marketing business. Info-products can be the "simplest" route, but is only one way to have your own product.

Software, scripts, widgets, and the like can often command higher prices and differenciate you in the marketplace.

Developing your own software isn't as difficult as it might sound. One of the best ways is to begin with something already created!

Modifying an existing product or building on top of something is usually quicker than creating something from scratch. Through outsourcing, you can create your own products quickly and relatively inexpensively.

I did this with an Open Source program for creating Camtasia-like screen capture videos. I spent a few hundred dollars at Rentacoder to take the Open Source version, change the GUI or interface, add some features, and create a Website around it.

Here are some resources to help you get started:

Scripts, freeware, shareware, etc.

• Tucows = http://www.tucows.com/
• Cnet Download.com = http://www.download.com
• Freeware Files = http://www.freewarefiles.com/
• Free Utilities = http://www.software995.com/

Open Source

• The Free Software Foundation = http://directory.fsf.org/
• Source Forge = http://sourceforge.net/
• Open Source.org = http://www.opensource.org/
• OS Alt = http://www.osalt.com/
• Open Source Mac = http://www.opensourcemac.org/
• Open Source Windows = http://www.opensourcewindows.org/
• Apple Open Source = http://www.opensource.apple.com/
• Open Source Living = http://osliving.com/index.php
• Open Source Directory = http://osdir.com/
• Gnu.org = http://www.gnu.org/
• Freesoft = http://www.free-soft.org/

Article Marketing, Bum Marketing: Free and Effective!

Article marketing and Bum Marketing have become the most talked about strategies for Internet marketing lately. As one of the chief components in the bum marketing, and its newfound popularity is due to two significant characteristics: it's free, and it works.

Two significant advantages for Internet marketers are exposure and backlinks. Article marketing provides exposure, and generates valuable inbound links or IBL's.

As with most bum marketing techniques, article marketing is a numbers game. In order to be effective, it requires ongoing and consistent effort. One article submission may not do much for you, but one article submitted every day for two weeks provides an overall benefit greater than the sum of its parts.

To get the most out of your article submission strategy, it's important to focus on one indivudual keyword or phrase for each individual article. It's also very important to optimize each article, in much the same way you would optimize a website. Once an article is submitted, it becomes a one-page mini site.

Optimizing an article for the search engines is very similar to optimizing a webpage. Use your keyword or phrase in the article title, the first paragraph, the last paragraph, and as the anchor text in your link or resource box.

By following a few simple steps, you will gain maximum return for your effort. As part of a multipronged approach, article marketing becomes an extremely effective and inexpensive technique in your arsenal.

Test Your Niche Marketing Ideas FIRST!

Here’s a really simple, quick, and easy way to test your niche marketing ideas: run a brief Adwords campaign.

Many Internet Marketers put the “cart before the horse”, jumping into a niche, even creating a product before they know whether people will buy.

You’re not trying to sell yet, and in fact anything past the click doesn’t matter - yet. You just want to see if there is QUALIFIED interest. If you display a price and people click, you know there is qualified interest.

Create just a single ad targeted to the niche you’re considering, mention a product, and INCLUDE A PRICE. If you get clicks on the ad, you’ve got a winner. No clicks? You just saved yourself a whole lot of time, money, and frustration.

Tip For Successful Outsourcing

When it comes to outsourcing, the most important factor that will determine if the job get done exactly how you want it to is communication. In order for a contractor to do a good job and complete a task according to your standard, you need to be able to communicate in detail exactly what they are supposed to do. Sometimes internet marketers have difficulty doing this because the person they are outsourcing a task to live halfway around the world and English isn’t their first language.

An easy solution to this problem is using screen capture software to visually show the person what they need them to do. This is a far more effective way of communicating what needs to be done, and it works better than giving instructions by email or over the phone.

By creating screen capture videos and giving them to whoever you’re contracting the work to, it’s like they get to stand over your shoulder and look and your computer screen and you show them what to do – even if they’re on the other side of the world. If you’re looking to outsource any part of your business, screen capture software is a must.

Blog Commenting For Links May Not Be What You Think!

Getting backlinks by commenting on high Pagerank blogs seems like a straightforward strategy. You find high-PR blogs that don't use the "no follow" tag, make your comment, and now you have a high value IBL (In-Bound Link).

Unfortunately, it isn't as straightforward as it may seem.

Unlike traditional static web sites, blogs are dynamic. What's on the home page - the index page - today, may not be there tomorrow.

The problem is that for most blogs that have decent Pagerank, most if not all of that PR is on the home page. Sub pages generally have much less Pagerank.

So what happens when you comment on a high-PR blog post? Well first off, comments usually aren't on the same page as the post anyway.

More to the point, however, that homepage post will quickly roll off the home page. Hence, your comment will lose much of it's juice.

Blog commenting is a good strategy for building links, just make sure you understand it!

UPDATE

You can now purchase "The Ultimate IM Toolchest", the last Internet Marketing product you will EVER need - and it's only $27!!

What is SEO and How Does One Get Started?

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. It is one of the most popular free way of getting "traffic" to a site. "Traffic" meaning, getting interested people to click on the link of your website.

Internet Marketer's apply this skill because they want their products to be bought, so they optimize their site to show up on page one of the search engine page. SEO is not easy and needs to be maintained regularly in order for a page to stay on top.

How does one get started in SEO? Simple; you have to write interesting, relevant content that would want people to link to your website, since that increases your important and consecutive page number. The end goal is to create a site that contains words for which people will likely search when looking for information such as that contained on your site.

SEO is an extremely powerful tool and should be used wisely!