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23rd March 2007
Having read Andrew’s “Niche Marketing on Crack”, I’ve decided to combine it with a more traditional approach to bum marketing and leverage the power of article submissions and Squidoo lenses to hopefully create an affiliate marketing monster. I’ve picked out a niche (dealing with IM, actually - yes, I know it’s very competitive), and despite being quite sick managed to write and submit a few articles to three article directories (EZA, GoArticles and ArticleDashboard). I wrote 2 articles and submitted each one to three directories - I know this isn’t the recommended way of doing things, but I’ll see how badly - if I all - I will be penalized by Google for it before I jump to conclusions.
A Blogger blog with direct links to the product I’m marketing is now awaiting its first visitors (I already got some through Digg and Reddit, but that was mostly for list-building rather than genuine traffic) - I’ll keep my fingers crossed and see how it works!
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December 16th, 2007 at 5:57 am
Unique content is king! As a directory owner, one of my main concerns is duplicate content. I have found one company, Unique content wizard, that probably does the best job of all of the auto submission services.
February 14th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Well, yes, unique contant is king, without a doubt. But, lets be realistic about this too. You will either have to spend a lot of money having ghost writers doing content, or it is going to take you a couple years of writing your own content and submitting a new one at each article directory you can before you see the results you need to see.
Simply doing one article at the three top ranked article directories isn’t going to do enough for you to warrant the time you spent. You need to do more than that.
The smartest way of doing it is to make sure any content you use is at least 30% unique…. that is good enough to get by google for content duplication penalties. But there is more to this than meets the eye.
Having high pr sites backlinking to you is important, but with only high pr links pointing to you, there could be a loss of page ranking overall because 70% of your backlink strategies should include 70% non essential backlinks. This means article directories which don’t have as high a pr and other more organic type links from normal websites and .gov and .edu backlinks.
We have some articles on ArticlesBin that talk about some of this, or you could join our video article marketing membership and get trained on these things more in depth.
Anyway, best of luck in your online endeavors.
March 12th, 2008 at 4:55 am
Thanks JW.
Those figures are interesting.
30% of each article’s content should be original.
70% of your backlinks should come from general sources.
A handy guideline — thanks.
Gary Harvey
FindHotMarkets.com
March 18th, 2008 at 6:25 am
The bumm approach you’ve taken here has huge possibilities if done right. Using squidoo, a blog and 9 articles submitted to ezinearticles.com I was able to dominate my niche and pull in $7K in my first 60 days. It might sound like BS, but it’s not. In fact it’s well documented. The trick is to make sure you leverage the traffic you get to the fullest. For instance, most people write article for back links and fail to take advantage of the traffic aspect of a good article. During my campaign I just mentioned I had 4 articles on the “top 15 viewed list for the past 90 days” on ezinearticles (there is a trick to doing this too). This generated nearly 70 hits a day of VERY well qualified traffic to my squidoo lens. By sending it to my squidoo lens (as my landing page) I was able to keep my lens rank high which meant more walk-in traffic from squidoo surfers because I would appear high on the squidoo search results for any of my squidoo labels.
It’s all about leveraging traffic where it counts. Of course I had an opt-in list on my lens as well to capture the leads so I could reduce the cost of lead generation.
Anyway, the approach is viable as I have show many people now. There are nearly 1500 people who have come to learn affiliate marketing through my free course, Learn Affiliate Marketing : How I Made $7,000 Online in My First 60 Days.
It’s free, contains ALL the details of what I did and there are NO strings attached. I hope you will check it out before you abandon the bumm marketing approach because when done right it really can be lucrative. Many people have reported back to me about their success with the methods I’ve shown them so I know it’s repeatable.
cheers,
todd alan