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Add You - Article Marketing Case Study: Questions from Readers Answered
The simpler answer is yes! Whether you consider it to be an investment for your own family's pleasure or a necessary expense in order to increase your property's selling price and your return on investment, remodeling your place is certainly a venture you will consider at some point in your life. Remodeling is in fact an excellent way to improve, create, or introduce a feature into any room or garden area and considerably enhance your current living arrangements.If you are planning to undertake a major remodeling, you should stop and consider your investment in relation to your property's future buyers. Especially if you are not sure whether or not you are going to keep this place forever, you have to take into account the views of others; people who do not belong to your close family members. If visitors, friends and neighbors also think that your idea to add a pool at your beautiful backyard is as good as you would like it to be, then go ahead and realize it. But, if the views are considerably apart and debates break out not in relation to the addition's features but its actual usefulness, then your idea s
Question: Are you consciously changing articles from posts on your blog to avoid duplicate content penalties?
Answer: No, I’m not. That would be way to time consuming for me. I queried Chris Knight, who manages perhaps the number one article directory on the net (EzineArticles.com), about duplicate content penalties.
My question to him was: **To Whom It May Concern: I would like to ask Mr. Knight a question about being penalized for submitting the same article to many director
Garage remodeling and repairs are common among many homeowners. Garage doors, garage storage cabinets, garage floors, these can encounter problems along the way in that require repair. A garage homeowner might have to replace and buy another set of torsion springs and roller bars for garage doors which can experience excessive wear and tear due to constant use. Flooring may have to be re-coated. Some homeowners may need to make adjustments to re-configure added digital controls. For whatever reason, a garage homeowner is likely to experience some two or three garage repairs, replacements or maintenance in their garage’s lifetime.Some homeowners will definitely opt for a professional help in repair, remodeling or garage parts replacement. However, there are also some homeowners who would like to try their skills at home improvement with a do-it-yourself garage maintenance and reparation. For the latter, important safety precautions in repair and maintenance must be considered to help them maximize all the benefits that their garage can offer.Read the Manufacturer’s Safety Recommendation. Wheth
I’d read so much about it and had used it to promote past businesses with some success (a little bit of time yielded pretty good results). So, from October 18th thru November 18th, I decided to study article marketing in detail to learn as much about it as I could.
For details on the beginning of the experiment, see the 10/26/06 post on InkwellEditorial.blogspot.com. Following are reader questions about my findings to date.
QUESTIONS FROM READERS ABOUT ARTICLE MARKETING
Question: Since your site has been around a while, do you think that's why you've been so successful with your experiment. My site is new, what do you think my chances are?
Answer: I’m sure my site’s popularity has something to do with the success of the case study, however, I think it has more to do with the topic and the in-depth information provided.
I think the following three things have been the main reason for the success of this case study:
1. In my opinion, any time you undertake a venture that no one else has put significant time into – and it is a fairly popular topic that a lot of people want to know about -- it will garner interest.
2. The internet makes it easier to reach a wide audience quickly; and
3. It is a “live experiment with instant results.” We live in an information age where people want to know – and they want to know TODAY.
Question: How much money are you actually making? Can you give specifics?
Answer: The Google Adsense program prohibits giving specifics, but as I said in one of my recently published pieces, I was making basically entertainment money (barhopping with friends kind of cash), car payment money, etc. My earnings have a little more than doubled since I started this experiment.
What I want everyone to realize is that the more money you make, the harder it is to double that. So, it’s not like I what I was making was terribly difficult to double – I’m just surprised that by pumping in a few extra hours per day that I was able to see such a big difference.
The whole point of the experiment is to see if this was viable – if article marketing was really what the experts were touting. It’s taken a good deal of work, but I needed to know if it would be worth my time to pursue it to any degree. So far, I have to say that for me, it definitely is.
Question: Can you recommend any article submission software?
Answer: Nope, not at this point. I’m manually submitting articles to the directories. BUT, I will be purchasing some article submission software once this experiment is done. I have my eye on a couple, but as I haven’t used any, I hesitate to recommend any. Spend a few days researching this on the web before you put out any money. And if anyone has any feedback they can pass along, I’d be happy to share it.
Question: Are you consciously changing articles from posts on your blog to avoid duplicate content penalties?
Answer: No, I’m not. That would be way to time consuming for me. I queried Chris Knight, who manages perhaps the number one article directory on the net (EzineArticles.com), about duplicate content penalties.
My question to him was: **To Whom It May Concern: I would like to ask Mr. Knight a question about being penalized for submitting the same article to many director
If you have started you your research into what the best health car plan for you and your family is then you've more then likely hit a few roadblocks. Don’t be alarmed, that's actually a common occurrence for many consumers looking to find the best deal for their health care insurance needs, especially when trying to determine the best health care coverage for your loved ones. You may have noticed that some health care plans differ in the amount of coverage they provide, the amount you pay as a premium, your co-payment amounts and even your deductible amounts.One of the major differences in many of today's health care plans is what services and medical treatments they will cover, especially with many health insurance companies taking the high road of offering better benefits towards routine treatments and preventive health checkups in an effort to reduce illnesses, major medical emergencies and hospitalization requirements. You can expect a medical pre-screening or physical along with a lengthy health questionnaire in order to identify any current or pre-existing medical conditions that could eliminate yo
Answer: I’m sure my site’s popularity has something to do with the success of the case study, however, I think it has more to do with the topic and the in-depth information provided.
I think the following three things have been the main reason for the success of this case study:
1. In my opinion, any time you undertake a venture that no one else has put significant time into – and it is a fairly popular topic that a lot of people want to know about -- it will garner interest.
2. The internet makes it easier to reach a wide audience quickly; and
3. It is a “live experiment with instant results.” We live in an information age where people want to know – and they want to know TODAY.
Question: How much money are you actually making? Can you give specifics?
Answer: The Google Adsense program prohibits giving specifics, but as I said in one of my recently published pieces, I was making basically entertainment money (barhopping with friends kind of cash), car payment money, etc. My earnings have a little more than doubled since I started this experiment.
What I want everyone to realize is that the more money you make, the harder it is to double that. So, it’s not like I what I was making was terribly difficult to double – I’m just surprised that by pumping in a few extra hours per day that I was able to see such a big difference.
The whole point of the experiment is to see if this was viable – if article marketing was really what the experts were touting. It’s taken a good deal of work, but I needed to know if it would be worth my time to pursue it to any degree. So far, I have to say that for me, it definitely is.
Question: Can you recommend any article submission software?
Answer: Nope, not at this point. I’m manually submitting articles to the directories. BUT, I will be purchasing some article submission software once this experiment is done. I have my eye on a couple, but as I haven’t used any, I hesitate to recommend any. Spend a few days researching this on the web before you put out any money. And if anyone has any feedback they can pass along, I’d be happy to share it.
Question: Are you consciously changing articles from posts on your blog to avoid duplicate content penalties?
Answer: No, I’m not. That would be way to time consuming for me. I queried Chris Knight, who manages perhaps the number one article directory on the net (EzineArticles.com), about duplicate content penalties.
My question to him was: **To Whom It May Concern: I would like to ask Mr. Knight a question about being penalized for submitting the same article to many director
The number 1 reason why most articles don't get published, besides not following the posting guidelines, is the article is full of spelling errors.Just because you don't have to worry so much about correct grammar in your article, it doesn't mean you can slack off and not proof read and spell check your work.The easiest way to do this is to first write your article in Word or another program that has a spell checker. Heck, I sometimes write them in Lotus Notes so I can check the spelling. However, even if you don't have a spell checker program on your computer, there are some free web based ones that you can also use.http://www.spellcheck.net/ http://www.jspell.com/jspell.htmlAnd if you are having trouble with one or two words, why not try http://www.dictionary.com. This is also a great resource when wanting to find the meaning of a word. Plus there is a great link to a thesaurus to help you find any synonyms to make your point clearer.You will also want to make sure your article flows properly and makes perfect sense. I know sometimes I write one word but mean another. Like
3. It is a “live experiment with instant results.” We live in an information age where people want to know – and they want to know TODAY.
Question: How much money are you actually making? Can you give specifics?
Answer: The Google Adsense program prohibits giving specifics, but as I said in one of my recently published pieces, I was making basically entertainment money (barhopping with friends kind of cash), car payment money, etc. My earnings have a little more than doubled since I started this experiment.
What I want everyone to realize is that the more money you make, the harder it is to double that. So, it’s not like I what I was making was terribly difficult to double – I’m just surprised that by pumping in a few extra hours per day that I was able to see such a big difference.
The whole point of the experiment is to see if this was viable – if article marketing was really what the experts were touting. It’s taken a good deal of work, but I needed to know if it would be worth my time to pursue it to any degree. So far, I have to say that for me, it definitely is.
Question: Can you recommend any article submission software?
Answer: Nope, not at this point. I’m manually submitting articles to the directories. BUT, I will be purchasing some article submission software once this experiment is done. I have my eye on a couple, but as I haven’t used any, I hesitate to recommend any. Spend a few days researching this on the web before you put out any money. And if anyone has any feedback they can pass along, I’d be happy to share it.
Question: Are you consciously changing articles from posts on your blog to avoid duplicate content penalties?
Answer: No, I’m not. That would be way to time consuming for me. I queried Chris Knight, who manages perhaps the number one article directory on the net (EzineArticles.com), about duplicate content penalties.
My question to him was: **To Whom It May Concern: I would like to ask Mr. Knight a question about being penalized for submitting the same article to many director
Without a doubt, it's been proven that any successful website promotion campaign must incorporate a variety of interesting articles for visitors. This not only gives them valuable information that they can rely on, but it also keeps them coming back for more and more. Repeat visitors will often link to or share your site with others, also increasing your web traffic.You'd be hard-pressed to find a webmaster who doesn't want to drive more traffic to his or her site for a number of reasons. Obviously, if you're selling or pitching a product or service, you'll want to make sure you have plenty of new, as well as repeat visitors with fresh content for them to draw on and learn from. There are numerous ways of finding interesting, and accurate articles for your website. The first is to simply write the content yourself. After all, who else would know your business or the message that you want to convey on the site better than you?Besides, a successful proprietor of any venture, whether it takes place on the internet or not, must know the nature of their business inside and out. Producing informative conten
The whole point of the experiment is to see if this was viable – if article marketing was really what the experts were touting. It’s taken a good deal of work, but I needed to know if it would be worth my time to pursue it to any degree. So far, I have to say that for me, it definitely is.
Question: Can you recommend any article submission software?
Answer: Nope, not at this point. I’m manually submitting articles to the directories. BUT, I will be purchasing some article submission software once this experiment is done. I have my eye on a couple, but as I haven’t used any, I hesitate to recommend any. Spend a few days researching this on the web before you put out any money. And if anyone has any feedback they can pass along, I’d be happy to share it.
Question: Are you consciously changing articles from posts on your blog to avoid duplicate content penalties?
Answer: No, I’m not. That would be way to time consuming for me. I queried Chris Knight, who manages perhaps the number one article directory on the net (EzineArticles.com), about duplicate content penalties.
My question to him was: **To Whom It May Concern: I would like to ask Mr. Knight a question about being penalized for submitting the same article to many director
Website traffic proves to be an extremely difficult task for webmasters looking to get the word out about their site. I bet almost all webmasters would agree that their site would be successful or their idea would generate a ton of money if only they had enough web traffic. Well today is your lucky day because after you learn these five tips you will be on your way to generating web traffic to your site so you can make money or provide your visitors with what they want and expect from visiting your site.Tip #1: Article Marketing To generate traffic to your site write a minimum of 300 word articles that explain your site and how it will benefit the visitor or if you are selling a product set up the article to provide advice or techniques similar to those explained or facilitated through your product. After your articles are written, submit them to article directories (like ezinearticles.com, goarticles.com, articlesbase.com). You should write at least 5 articles initially then follow up with an article a day for the highest level of efficiency or at least a new article a week.Tip #2: Bac
Question: Are you consciously changing articles from posts on your blog to avoid duplicate content penalties?
Answer: No, I’m not. That would be way to time consuming for me. I queried Chris Knight, who manages perhaps the number one article directory on the net (EzineArticles.com), about duplicate content penalties.
My question to him was: **To Whom It May Concern: I would like to ask Mr. Knight a question about being penalized for submitting the same article to many directories. Specifically, if you do this, are you penalized by the likes of Google? Does it hurt your site's ranking?**
Christopher Knight’s response: To answer your question, unfortunately, I have no idea what Google will do or won't do. Me personally? I wouldn't submit to hundreds of directories because that doesn't seem like a good return on your time.
I know that it's better to submit 100 articles to 1 directory than submitting 1 article to 100 directories; especially when that 1 directory is EzineArticles.com! :-)
Try that experiment for yourself and I bet you'd find the same conclusion I did. The bigger issue is do you really want to manage 100 different trust relationships with your article or just a handful? Best of luck with the study. *End of response.*
I did a little more research and found arguments on both sides. All I can say is, from my efforts so far, the following has happened:
Google Search Results: A Google search of my name before this study returned 700-800 results. As of today, 11/6/06, it returns 15,100 results.
Alexa Rankings: My site's (InkwellEditorial.com) Alexa ranking was over 6,000,000 right before the beginning of this experiment (10/18/06). As of today, it’s 3,320,982.
PR Ranking: My PR ranking has stayed at 5, but I’ve gotten links from sites that have PR ranks of 6 (eg, www.entrepreneurs-journey.com) and 7 (http://problogger.net) – which, ostensibly, will only add to my PR ranking in the future.
Will I be penalized somewhere down the road for this? As I’m an SEO (search engine optimization) neophyte, I have no idea. I plan on doing a lot more in the way of SEO. This whole study has made me realize the importance of learning more about this.
Question: How do you decide what topic to write on?
Answer: I write what interests me, what others are asking about, issues I think need to be addressed, etc. I don’t have a process, so to speak, I just – write.
Question: An abbreviated version of a question a reader sent in is as follows: Wondering if I'd be able to pick your brains slightly. I write business plans for clients but at the moment it has been practically impossible for me to get any work . . . I would love to write articles but my problem has been:
Question a) Actually finding things to write about let alone a 700-900 word article scares me to bits! What sort of analysis tool do you use to find topics without much competition?
Answer: Angela, I don’t do any analysis to find topics to write about; I get ideas from reading other articles, questions from readers of my material, addressing issue that are bugging me (my reasoning is, if I’m having a problem with it, others are too – practically nothing under the
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