Strategic Marketing At Warp Speed

I get a ton of questions all the time about “What’s the best way of article marketing”? I don’t think that their is any best way. I actually sit one side of the fence with this. Yes there are two sides of the fence here. On one side you have the aggressive article marketer who usually has a plan and sticks to it. They realize the possibilites and effects of Parasite SEO (using authority sites to get link juice or piggyback their authority into a funnel to your site). When you have a general idea on what it takes to achieve a ranking for a keyword then you will have a better idea how to gear up your article marketing efforts.

Seperate branding awareness from niche marketing (affiliate marketing etc…). I personally gave up having articles written to promote products. You may ask why, and I am going to give you answer that may offend some but will most likely open your eyes if you have ever struggled in this arena. The reason I do not promote affiliate products anymore directly from my author resource box is because I now have the resources to generate 10’s if not 100’s of thousands of pages for a variety of affiliate programs. Their are so many Ebay, Amazon and other affiliate network API’s and datafeeds that can be used by affiliates that it is almost defeating the purpose of sitting down to write articles or have them written promoting affiliate products. Now I realize some of the more successful affiliate article marketers may argue me on this fact but I have a simple reply. All we really need to do is have a race.  Here’s why I would knock the snot out of you.

For all the whiners and crybabies wanting an explanation of why Google bitch-slapped them about a month ago and took away or degraded their pagerank, you should be happy to know that they have provided an official explanation.

Notice this:

Not all paid links violate our guidelines. Buying and selling links is a normal part of the economy of the web when done for advertising purposes, and not for manipulation of search results. Links purchased for advertising should be designated as such. This can be done in several ways, such as:

• Adding a rel=”nofollow” attribute to the <a> tag
• Redirecting the links to an intermediate page that is blocked from search engines with a robots.txt file

So it looks to be ok in selling links if you have the nofollow on them. I am sure this will stir up the blogosphere. Glad it is not one of my money making models. There’s just way to much bullshit to deal with.

This is going to be a really long post, and it is going to contain a lot of information. I am going to give you a surefire way to dominate small niche markets. The niche can really be anything you want, but I am a fan of specific sub niches of much broader ones. I can assure you though, that putting this traffic plan in motion, your almost guaranteed not to fail. I am going to assume that you can do your own keyword research. If your not up on it, please review the profitable keywords post. I am also going to assume that you can research niches on your own. With that said, I am going to hand over a surefire traffic plan that some lame-wad will probably steal and make a best selling ebook out of.

Without further babbling, here’s a traffic plan sure to make you happy in pants.

Step 1. Your site is all setup and your ready to receive traffic. The obvious thing to do is market and push traffic to it by submitting articles. There are many great places to submit to, but you only need to concentrate on a few things. First, your going to have to separate the articles you want to submit to Ezine Articles and then also set aside the articles you want to set aside for mass distribution. For mass distribution, I personally use Article Marketer as they will submit to over 800 sites and places on the net. Article Marketing is pretty basic, so I will assume you will know what to do.

It was not too long ago when I first started noticing certain terms in the Google Search Engine that were highly competitive were all containing front page results from the site 43Things.com. Terms such as “make money” and  ”start my own business” are just a couple. By surfing to their homepage and analyzing the tags being used by members, you can easily take those keyword phrases and plug them into your keyword research tool to find the amount of searches being made. You can also use them to analyze the amount of competition in Google.

It was not to long after I started noticing this, that I found out I was not the only one seeing it as well. A Warrior forum member posted a WSO (warrior special offer) and it brought a lot of marketers into the power that 43 Things can harness in the Search Engines. When the infiltration of marketers made their way to 43 things, they were quick to find out that it was not at all what they thought it to be. Do you know why? It’s because 43 things does INDEED harness great power in the Google Search Engine and marketers could not be open minded enough to look past the dollar signs and put a little
effort into it. Now, I hate seeing someone struggle, but watching the marketers attempt to “market” ( or as I like to call it…lazy ass spamming) I sat back every day and laughed. Let me enlighten on you on how to market effectively on 43 Things.

Today was one of those days where everything clicked.  After getting thru my initial stats run I found that everything was running great. I had an afternoon off for the most part. It did not look like their would be much monitoring today. So, I took the afternoon and put together another free guide located in my reports section.

The report basically covers a lot of ground on why most article marketers are not successful and it includes aggressive back-linking strategies I use to get my articles, ads and lenses ranking high in the search engines. Initially, I was using other tools but have had to adapt to the changes put in place by some of the directories.

Hope everyone enjoys and would love to hear any feedback or just your experiences with article marketing. The report is available here and as always is free. There are no strings attached to reading the reports in my section.

C-Ya,

At least it means it is residual as long as it keeps repeating. One of the key things that I had going for me during my Craigslist SEO Ad Posting days was that I was able to retain EVERY single client that I had provided a Consultation for. The Consultation was my “presell” method way of getting the Clients squeezed into to my optimization, link building, and overall ranking services.

The only reason I ever once lost a client was because I had to let a few of the larger companies go. The amount of information they were publishing was just too overwhelming. I initially intended to use my SEO Service as a way for supplemental income. Marketing was what I wanted to do, and SEO Consulting was basically a way for me to fund it, without enduring out of pocket expenses.

 The reason for my success in retaining repeat clients was really based around one thing –> An Autoresponder! I kid you not, my autoresponse service saved me so much time and was able to pull (and keep) so much business. It eventually got to the point where I had to stop, because I could not handle the amount of consultations and referrals I was getting from word of mouth. I know some people would love to have that problem, but I actually hated it.

I was able to consult many clients at once. All I would really do was provide support and training thru the use of broadcasts. The Autoresponder saved me a lot of time and it actually “bought” me a lot of time. Whenever I got behind, I could put together a broadcast enabling me to have a little more time to get caught up. In the end though, I turned my focus on doing my own SEO for my Marketing purposes.

 I will just make this kind of a next part to my Keyword Research Profitability post. I do not claim to be some SEO “Guru” or anything like that. If you want one of those then your best bet is to find anything written by Rae Hoffman or Brad Callen. I do not know if they even consider themselves as SEO Experts, but I have read just about everything I could find that they have written and both people have played a HUGE roles in me building up my SEO Consultation Clientele. Whether they know it or not, both have pretty much signified my SEO Services in leaps and bounds.

With that said, I really may have a different outlook on SEO than most. I never waste time with it. I always have used paid advertising with proper tracking to find out keywords that have brought me sales. In the beginning, I was shooting blanks in the wind. Nothing worse than getting a site up in the SERP’s and having 0 profitable keywords. It’s just wasted time and hard work and I could have made more pitching a lemonade stand in the dead of winter.

I have always had the approach of SEO in mind. Even when Consulting Clients, most of the companies never really cared about high Search Engine Rankings. They wanted sales and their services put out in plain view on the Internet. Try telling a company that spends millions of dollars a year on television advertising and gets instant sales, that rankings take time.

It’s just a big mind screw sometimes,
but the companies have stuck with me
and I have impressed them beyond belief.
Granted SEO Elite
played another huge part in automating
all the tedious work I had to do. Nothing better
than making 3-4K a month from each company and
all you have to do is get link partners for them.
There were various other tasks involved,
but link partners was a major focus in terms of
SEO and bringing other sites’ traffic to my clients.