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Despite being a relatively new industry, around for only 10 years or so, SEO tends to move so that trends come and go so quickly, that what seemed fresh this year is now “passe”.

Those oldies amongst us will remember when META tags were all the rage, and now the debate is not around just how much benefit they provide, but rather whether they provide *any* benefit at all. How times change.

Article submissions are another hot topic. For many SEOers, submitting articles has been a staple of their link building. After all, some of the larger article repositories certainly rank well and (the assumption is) must provide a high quality link.

Others SEO professionals argue that once a method gets adopted en-masse, its effectiveness quickly dissapears and article submissions are certainly mainstream now.

So is it worth submitting articles for the purpose of SEO?

There's no hard and fast answer with this. It really depends on your own resources and just how much benefit you think you'll get. Article repositories certainly provide incoming links, and speaking from personal experience, I’ve still had success in getting a totally new site indexed and ranking moderately well from just one powerfull article link, from just one site.

Just because it’s old hat doesn’t mean you should totally discount article marketing, for both SEO and traffic generation. My advice would be to test the waters, and if you find you can get good results, then stick with it.

The ideal way to test this scenario is to expirement and try it on a relatively new website, then you’ll be able to get a much better idea of the sort of ranking improvements and traffic improvements without all the noise.

Of course there are always other factors involved when it comes to SEO, so as usual, your mileage may vary when it comes to article submission. If you’re after a place to submit articles then there are certainly enough websites on the net which are totally free to try out the theory.

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Making money online doesn’t need to entail scams, or even starting a new business. If you can put a few sentences together about something other people might like to learn about, that’s a good start. Writing articles is no longer about getting the latest stories into the latest editions of the local newspapers, all written by well paid reporters. Things have really changed now with the internet. You don’t need to be a big name pro to get your writings accepted and recognized. Writing is a now a marketing tool. Learning about external links and article marketing can help grow your business.

There are many ways to write for the internet. “Article” no longer means a front page news story. It can include anything from consumer product reviews, blogging, news group information, forum postings, website content, and even content for “real” web based publishing houses.

Essentially there are two ways to get noticed online writing articles. You can get paid, or you can do it for free. Each has pros and cons.

You can submit to sites that don’t pay you but they do give the opportunity to talk  about your services and your business; not in a salesy kind of way, but as a kind of expert  on the topic. At the end of your article you should place a link to your own website for the  readers to either get more information or turn into paying customers. This is where the payoff comes in article marketing.

Pretend you make gift baskets. You could write articles on how to make your own gift baskets and give readers ideas on how to decorate them and sell them. Or if you happen to be a dog trainer you could write a series of articles on tips  to train your dog. At the end of each article you should have your bio (”Alec Wensel has been a  dog trainer for twenty years in the Chicago area…” and so on). Then, add your  website. If people like what you have to say, you’ll get customers!

Some sites will pay you for your article. You may or may not be given a byline. Each paying site has different rules.

Not many people get rich writing. Even Edgar Allen Poe died a bitter penniless man. With article writing, it’s all about marketing yourself and your business. However, writing for the internet isn’t about getting rich writing, per se. It’s all about advertising what you have to offer. Try some viral marketing with your emails, too. Put a link at the bottom just like Hotmail has done for years, and direct readers to your site or at least your phone.

Anyone can do this. Are you a stock broker? Hair stylist? Computer repair tech? There’s nothing like adding external links on your emails with either special promotions or a link to your website.

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Getting articles written and then submitted to article directories can use up time you just do not have. Trying to go through this same procedure each day is not time efficient. This is, though, the most successful way of getting visitors to your site in order to make some cash. But there is a solution to this and that is: Mass Article Control.

Mass Article Control - How Does it Work?

Using this Mass Article Control program can help you submit approximately one thousand articles to various directories at the same time. It is actually a spinning program which can take one piece of writing and spin it to produce 1000 articles in 30 seconds by using your exact keywords and phrases. Thanks to the software involved it can give you all the high quality articles you will need in order to make as much money as possible from your software.

As soon as all the articles have been produced for you, all you need to do is click a button on the program and it will submit all your new articles to the top directories on the web. Doing this will seriously cut down the work you have to do. The program has a list of the top directories on the internet for submission and you can add others if needed. Once you have entered your passwords and usernames, everything else is automated.

Mass Article Control - The Verdict

Mass Article Control is really user friendly and you should know the ins and outs in minutes. You are also able to do a search of the database to tailor it to your own preferences. Mass Article Control decreases your workload while increasing your output. While reproducing hundreds of articles which can be submitted to directories in seconds, you can ensure masses o backlinks to your sites at the same time. This will give you the desired backlinks which will in turn result in more traffic and at the end of the day, more money!

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Article directories help you in two ways - they get you ranked faster on new keywords and they help spread your marketing message. While you can write tons of articles about generic related content to your site, you can also write articles that are a review of your services, or are a promotional piece that links to your site. Article directories usually do not discriminate against such content unless the quality is poor or it appears overly spammy.

Some article directories such as Ezine have human editors that read and approve every article. An article directory like this does not allow links in the content other than would be required to understand what you are writing about. These types of article directories do allow you to have a signature area where you can place a follow link back to your website. For this type of article directory, you want your content to appear professional and unbiased, and most of all avoid sounding like a sales pitch.

Remember, any articles you submit with a link to your site will usually be associated with your brand (or remembered as such). So you always want to submit quality articles and not a lot of junk that does not read or make sense even if an article directory allows you to do so without anyone rejecting your article. If you want to have others help you create articles, make sure you filter them to keep quality high so your articles get redistributed more. Also, you should try to not submit multiple copies of the exact same text to different article directories. A few times is ok, but when the same one is distributed (and then redistributed by others who grab it) too many times with exactly the same text, you may actually get penalized by the search engines rather than the boost you wanted.

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Article marketing is probably one of the easier understood ways to actually get ranking on the search engines.  And more importantly, its totally above board when done right and you dont have to worry about getting blacklisted.It is often avoided because of the additional perceived "work" involved.Lazy people who are looking for 'shortcuts" avoid it at all costs.If you do it right, the hours and days you spend now will pay off for years to come.

A good first rule is to only write about topics you are very familiar with.It is just easier.  Most of the time people create sites or businesses around stuff they know (occasionally no).This really makes it simple as you are writing about what you know.  Of course you can easily do research too - just go to an article directory, pick your niche topic and start reading.It is really amazing how fast you can pick up basic information, and use that to create an article.Also, make sure you write in a simple to understand method.  There is no point in using fancy words - afterall the primary focus is the backlinks in the article.  This is not a doctoral thesis - you want to create an article in 15-20 minutes and move on to modifications and other stuff.

A second rule to follow is to make sure you write the article so that you can rewrite it with ease.  Why?? Well a few years ago you could just create a single copy, spam it 1000's of times all over the internet and get huge ranking immediately.  Now days, the search engines are smart enough to see that they are duplicate copies - a few is ok, but having 1000’s you will actually get penalized for.This is where a re write of the article comes in.  There are software tools out there that can help you - BUT do not let them do it for you.Most often the result is a bunch of illegible garbage.  The search engines are onto this too (they have semantics) and you will get penalized, plus it just makes your site linked look bad that such an idiot that cannot even write would link to you (readers would not know it was you who wrote it).  One of the best tools I have ever used for rewriting exists at My Article Network.  Not only can you completely rewrite articles with ease with the tools on board, but it then auto distributes your article across 10,000 blogs over time.

A good third rule is to try to limit your use of links in the article.  Most article directories limit you anyway but outside of that you can post on blogs and elsewhere with as many links as you want.Use common sense here again, the search engines are much smarter than that now.If one link is good, 200 is not better.  In general, dont use more than 1 link per 200 words or so.  In addition, you want to be consistent with your keyword links to get benefit.  Do not try to master 20 keywords at once by linking different ones each time.You will need some form of repetition to get any measurable boost at all.Focus on 2 or 3 keywords and move your ranking up on those first.Once you achieve ranking on page 1 or 2 on Google, then you can move on to other words to broaden the base.

A forth rule to remember is repetition makes it all work.For the first month, you should plan on 1 article every 2 days to get it started.  Even after you get higher ranking, you still need to pump in some linked articles at least once a week to keep it fresh.  The search engines look at the date of the posts that have the link - over time they decay the value of those links if they see nothing new coming in.You will want accounts at all the major article networks such as Ezine that you can post on- search google for a list.

Done properly, article marketing can be a central hub to other stuff you do to boost your overall site ranking and visibility.

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