An article a day... who knew!

PavelBecker: not everybody realizes that "video" does not necessarily mean an actual video that was shot with a video camera. It can be a slide show as well.
That's really good to know, thank you. Never would have occurred to me

mr127500: always start with the longtailed keyword search...
Sounds like a great system. I have used most of those techniques here and there, but now I think I have a little more focus. This thread has taught me to have the mentality of dominating the keyword and really hitting it hard every time.

Im very new to article marketing...pretty much just done forum marketing. I have been thinking about writting articles but not sure of the whole process and where to submit them.

Go to Ezinearticles or Goarticles.com for submission. Very simple

If you have no clue what to write about try generating some ideas by reading others' articles. Make sure you toss your website or affiliate links into the signature, but NOT in the body of the articles.

Do some keyword research for sure, and try to include that in your keyword box, title, and throughout the article if it's possible. Most people will tell you the keywords are the most important step, and you really do have a fair chance at finding your way to the first page of Google if you choose the right keyword phrase.

Articles should be at least 400 words -- it's all about pleasing the search engines. If you can afford it, automated article submitters and spinners are very useful to save time and blast the web with your content, but they're usually pricy...

Tons of people us article marketing to earn free cash without ppc ads or anything

Talk to NewbieShield on this forum if ya get the chance --- very helpful to me!!

larslarson123: Talk to NewbieShield on this forum if ya get the chance --- very helpful to me!!

Is that my:



Or is that just a Star Trek thing?

Write an article that would excite you.

That is all, folks.

~Newbie Shield~

Great thread guys. Love the concept of keyword domination. Makes sense that this can get you a lot of traffic. I have been testing different types of marketing but this is one I will get into a lot more.

I have about 7 blogs but I will also now get into the key article sites as per the suggestions above.

And last but not least I liked the idea of an article per day and the concept of persistence and consistency. That is key to success in anything so you have hit the nail on the head there.

Thanks for all the valuable info.

Ron

im starting to feel the power of articles, and my first one isn't even live yet.
I've written alot already. But not an actuall "article."

Im definitely gonna add this to my arsenal.

Resistance is futile lol. The BORG...

I can finally do 4 in a day, but it does take me the whole day. I'm not a fast writer and research takes forever which is the preparation part. A lot of people outsource it and I may do some of that later if I can afford it and the writing is good.

Sonni,
Just wanted to let you know that you eased my mind. Still trying to get article writing down and it takes me hours to do one article. I was beating myself up because people say you should be able to produce an article in about ten minutes. I was no where close and it was starting to wiegh me down. Thanks for sharing that with us because now I realize that practice makes perfect. And thanks to lars on his new year resolution. That lets me know that if I can only get one article out a day, even if it takes hours to do, then I am still doing good. Thanks!

PavelBecker: I'm not sure what you mean, but I've discovered that not everybody realizes that "video" does not necessarily mean an actual video that was shot with a video camera. It can be a slide show as well. That's why I refer to them as "video files" with my guys. What you do is - you make a PowerPoint presentation using either only text frames or text frames and pictures (you can use your own and you can also find them for free on the net, google "royalty free pictures" or "...photos"). Then you save the slide show as JPEG format and it's going to be saved as a bunch of separate slides. After that you go to MovieMaker and put all your pictures into a movie. You can add music or your own voice-over after that and that would be a movie as well, just without any video equipment.
....this is VERY useful information.
Once you do have the video compiled where are you submitting it?

You can submit it to all the video submission sites, which is about 20 or 30 possible places. I'm using a software that does it automatically and also it converts the video into a pod cast and submits it to all the pod cast sites, plus it submits it to a number of social book marking sites.

But to give it a test drive you can try to submit everything manually.

The idea is - if you just want to express yourself and get your video published, you can do it manually, but if you use a software, you can actually dominate the first page of Google on your keywords literally in a matter of days.

So I take it you don't really run into a lot of issues concerning duplicate content then? And let me get this right to see if I understand it.
Step 1. Create a text powerpoint slide show Save as JPEG.
Step 2. Convert it to video with windows movie maker.
Step 3. Submit?

Oh and how does google recognize what's on it? When you're submitting to a video site do you have the option to tag keywords to it?

gridellas: I was beating myself up because people say you should be able to produce an article in about ten minutes. I was no where close and it was starting to weigh me down.
Don't do that! Always be kind to yourself.

I know it's practically impossible not to make comparisons between ourselves and others. We do it subconsciously all the time. But allowing other people's perceptions (or our own) to threaten our value and self worth is not healthy.

"You can only begin from where you are, with what you have!"

If I want to become a doctor and my medical knowledge is limited to administering first aid, it does me no good to feel inferior to, or intimidated by, the surgeon.

However, if I take stock of my situation (start from where I am) and realize that I've got to go to med school, do an internship and all the other things required to become a surgeon, then it could happen for me.

Where writing articles is concerned, time is certainly an important element, but so is quality. Finding the right balance between production and productivity becomes a necessary consideration. Your articles will represent you forever once they are published.

So compete only with yourself. If it takes an entire day to write 4 articles now, challenge yourself to produce the same amount in half a day, and then cut that down to 2 hours. The more often you write, the easier it will be to write. You'll soon spot ways to simplify and expedite the process without sacrificing quality. You'll develop YOUR system.

And when you get it working just the way you want it, that's it. Even if it always takes you more than ten minutes.

Hermas

I agree with the more you write the faster and better you get. Since I wrote my last comment I can now do 6 articles in a day.

I can remember when I could do only one and it made me a nervous wreck. I would start thinking about who would read it, is it good enough, how stupid will I sound and on and on blah blah blah...

Now I think something like this: I don't know these people, they will most likely never see me, I'm doing the best I can, I got other work to do- blah blah blah lol...
Sonni

That is so true to what you both said. I look at writing articles in a completely different way. I am going to be concerned with quality first and quantity will come in it's own due time.

opendomain: Oh and how does google recognize what's on it? When you're submitting to a video site do you have the option to tag keywords to it?
I should have been more detailed, apologize.
Each video, when you submit it, has following attributes: the video itself, name, description and tags. That's how Google recognizes it.
You have name, description and tags to place your keywords in.
In my practice, video gets indexed by the search engines immediately and through automatic video submission it's absolutely normal to get to the first page of Google literally overnight. I should specify that it's possible with niches where the amount of search results does not exceed 1,000.000 results. Ideally - within a few hundreds.
I've never had any problems with duplicate content with video submission. The matter of fact, since you brought it up, by slightly adjusting the length of your video or changing the format you will make it unrecognizable for the search engines and therefore you can submit it again with modified name, tags and description and achieve pretty impressive results with populating the first page of Google. I've done a few projects for different businesses so far and in the best cases my videos would get all positions on the first page of Google.

PavelBecker: Ideally - within a few hundreds
I meant few hundred thousand. In order to narrow down your niche to this amount of searches you have to target "long tail keywords" for your promotion. For example not "photographer" but "wedding photographer in Jerk Water".

People make marketing much harder then it has to be. What many people fail to realize is that staying consistent is the key to the game. As long as your doing whatever type marketing you need to do on a consistent basis then you should be fine for the most part. If you have a good product and believe in it and your putting it out there the right way then everything else should just fall into place.

hello to all at the work at home forum,
i am knew to the net just 2 weeks in, i am a mum of 2 children, i work as a front of house waitress working nights and just wants to work at home and spend time with my children. ive spent nearly 3 whole days trying to work out how to start my own home bussiness, without buying packs, i have no credit card!
and dont know how to make a pitch page on clickbank? they say anyone can set it up, but i cant at all.
can any one please help me, my eyes are getting sore!

The simplest way to work with Click Bank is, to my opinion, through video submission. You can sign up for TrafficGeyser.com and learn from them how to promote products from Click Bank. They have tons of helpful information and instructional videos. First month is free. You can try it out and see if it's something for you.

joanna: hello to all at the work at home forum,
i am knew to the net just 2 weeks in, i am a mum of 2 children, i work as a front of house waitress working nights and just wants to work at home and spend time with my children. ive spent nearly 3 whole days trying to work out how to start my own home bussiness, without buying packs, i have no credit card!
and dont know how to make a pitch page on clickbank? they say anyone can set it up, but i cant at all.
can any one please help me, my eyes are getting sore!
Hi Joanna,

Give the free 30 Day Challenge a try to get a nice intro to online marketing here:

www.thirtydaychallenge.com

Enjoy,

~Newbie Shield~