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February 9, 2012

Article Marketing

Learn how to get traffic to your site by distributing your content on article directories.

The Death of Bum Marketing

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I think it is very likely that what has become known as Bum Marketing is doomed to die a dismal death in the near future. What is Bum Marketing? Bum Marketing is a strategy used to generate affiliate commissions through distribution of articles written specifically to rank highly for low-competition keywords. The method was promoted [...]

Squidoo Crackdown on Spam and Junk Lenses

Squidoo’s announcement in mid-June has a lot of affiliate marketers running scared – especially those who use article or bum marketing methods and rely heavily on Squidoo for free advertising. In the supplement to their Terms of Service, Squidoo plans to limit or remove lenses that include: Spam X-Rated or Porn Junk topics “Overly promotional [...]

Article Marketing: How to Choose Targeted Keyword Phrases for Higher Rankings

“How do I tell if the keywords I’m picking are low competition but high in popularity?” shalisha42 asked this question in the NPT Forum… I’ve written 100s of articles and have submitted my articles through Ezine Articles, GoArticles, Hubpages, and American Chronicle. I tried Squidoo and I NEVER get traffic. The topics are very popular [...]

Market Your Site with Press Releases

Press releases are a wonderful way to get free promotion for your website. What is a Press Release? A press release is a newsworthy story about your business that you submit to various media outlets ~ newspapers, magazines, website, radio, television. This is a wonderful way to get free promotion for your website. Any story [...]

Put Your Article Marketing on Steroids

Did you know that you can get ten times more reach out of your articles simply by turning them into different formats? Here’s how… Turn your articles into podcasts. With services like Feed2Podcast, you can translate your existing RSS feed into podcasts, which can then be submitted to podcast directories like iTunes. Other websites that [...]

Grab the Low-Hanging Fruit…

During the past week – when I wasn’t sacked out on the couch trying to protect my bruised/cracked ribs and watching the Summer Olympics, or attempting to stifle great guffaws at the Penticton Kiddies Day Parade, or blogging about the lousy local air quality and weather at Roamsters (where the new header graphic is a [...]

Can You Get High-Quality Content from a Cheap Article Spinner?

… promises of high-quality unique articles… Get ready for a good laugh. While I was doing article rewrites and submissions this past weekend, it crossed my mind to search Google and see if there were any new article spinners on the market. Although I already use Content Composer, I thought it would be great if I [...]