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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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Now everyone understands that the the most essential element to receiving high rankings in the search engines is getting high quality links pointing at your web pages. Understanding that is the easy part. The hard part is how to get those good links back to your website.

I am not a believer in using just one method for getting backlinks, I like to use many strategies. But there’s no question that the linkvana tool is a good addition to my other link building strategies.

What is Linkvana? Quite simply, it’s a “blog network” where members can create blog entries to the network which includes a link back to their own site (links are only allowed to family friendly real “white hat” websites.) Each blog entry can only have one link.

This isn’t a blog network where one blog entry is posted to hundreds of blogs (which in my opinion makes that blog network way too obvious) but instead each blog entry is only posted once so there is never a duplicate content problem. Linkvana requires all blog entries to be entirely original hand written content. The entries only have to be a minimum of 100 words so it’s not too big of a deal. They also offer an writing service where they will have someone write your posts for you for only $2 per post.

One of the best things (and the first thing I noticed) about Linkvana is how good the user interface is. This is an extremely easy service to use. I only wish all of the services I use had such a user friendly interface.

The second thing I noticed is when I started to see backlinks showing up to my sites (I like to check in Yahoo Site Explorer) from my Linkvana posts is that they were coming from domains with a high PR (PR of 4 or 5 in most cases) and which were at least one year old.

If you are thinking about joining this blog network then I must recommend that you do it right now because they have a member limit of only 300 people. You definitely need to be one of the 300 members on the inside rather than one of the many thousands on the outside.

Technorati Tags: Link Building, Links, Linkvana, One Way Links, SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION, SEO