Article Marketing

Stop Planning and Start Doing

Planning is easier than working. Photo by ERB64 (Wikimedia Commons).

I am one of the world's great planners. I can spend hours-days even-looking at fabric swatches or yarn samples or blog templates and planning the skirts and sweaters and beautiful blogs I'm going to make. And then not making them. Because, after all, it's the planning that is the fun part. The rest is just...work. I've decided to take up the challenge placed before me and the rest of the Mom Masterminds members by co-founder Kelly McCausey, who said, "I want to double my income in about nine months...and I believe I can do it." She absolutely can do it, and so can I. I am One of the Hungry … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Internet Marketing Tagged With: Affiliatenaire, Article Marketing, Mom Masterminds

All About Anchor Text

Google "click here" and see what comes up in the top spot. Go ahead. I'll wait. Now why do you suppose Adobe Reader shows up in that very first spot for the search phrase "click here?" Think about all the times you've downloaded a PDF file on the internet. The page always says something like, "This report is a PDF file. You will need Adobe Acrobat to access the file. Click here to download a free copy." "Click here" in the example above is anchor text, which simply means the phrase is linked to a URL. In this case the URL is http://get.adobe.com/reader/. Since there are many millions of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: SEO Tagged With: anchor text, Article Marketing, content, keywords, link building, SEO

Getting Started With Article Marketing

Article marketing, sometimes called bum marketing, can be one of the most useful (and least expensive) forms of internet marketing you can engage in. Submitting your original articles to directories across the Internet is a great way to get your name "out there" and to drive traffic to your website. How Article Marketing Works The basic idea of article marketing is to improve your site's visibility by riding the coattails of a more visible site. If your business is pizza, the likelihood of your new website being found in a Google search for pizza (146,000,000 results) is slim. You simply … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Article Marketing Tagged With: Article Marketing, keywords, resource box, squeeze page