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Article Submissions for High Link Value and Organic Traffic

March 10th, 2010

Max

Much has been made recently about the need for alternative forms of SEO for gaining some organic traffic to your blog or application web site. Years ago the common form of gaining some traffic was to post a few comments on some high PR (Page Rank) blogs and instantly you got some link juice and traffic. Those days have come essentially to a close. With millions of blogs and sites added on a daily basis, those types of SEO tricks are no longer valid.

Google and the engineers that make the algorithms for search have changed the game. The one last true and tested method for gaining organic traffic and link juice is Article Submission.

It almost goes without saying that being able to write a few words about what you are working on and submitting that to multiple streams of readers is the way that natural SEO works. The proper method steps of working on an article and then submitting that should always include the list of sites that you can also place the content on. Now be certain that you need to do some work with this method. You cannot just re-post the same article over and over without getting a duplicate content hit.

Make sure to change the title and at least 10% of the article in order to make it more suitable for the type of site that you are submitting to.

I found this really great list of Article Submission Sites for you to look over. Each site has a page rank following the site for informational purposes only. Let’s be clear that the page rank of the submission site does not necessarily translate to a higher rank for your submission. Go to each and look over what they have to offer and the terms of submissions.

Good luck with the Articles!

Prnewswire .com 7
Allbusiness .com 7
Prweb.com 7
Ryze .com 7
Bpubs.com 7
hooverwebdesign .com 7
marketwire.com 7
sitepoint .com 7
advisor.com 6
contentdig .com 6
ezinearticles.com 6
isnare .com 6
sbinformation.about.com 6
thewhir .com 6
goarticles.com 6
isnare .com 6
prlog.org 6
PromotionWorld .com 6
resources.powweb.com 6
articlesbase .com 6
pr.com 6
24-7pressrelease.com 6
news.thomasnet .com/submitpr .html 6
nanotech -now.com/submit-press.cgi 6
newswiretoday.com 6
pr-inside.com 6
articlebiz .com 5
new-list.com 5
Activeauthors .com 5
E-zinez.com 5
new-list.com 5
Pressbox .co.uk 5
webdesign .ittoolbox .com 5
Webreference.com 5
Weeno .com 5
1888pressrelease.com 5
a1articles.com 5
articlealley .com 5
articlecity.com 5
articledashboard .com 5
Bharatbhasha.com 5
brint.com/write.html 5
Buzzle.com 5
Constant-Content.com 5
FreeSticky .com 5
PowerHomeBiz.com 5
prleap .com 5
prolinkdirectory.com 5
SearchWarp .com 5
Site-Reference.com 5
webproworld.com 5
work911.com 5
presszoom .com 5
pressreleasepoint.com 5
bignews.biz 5
openpr.com 5
bestezines.com 5

Adsense Alternatives

January 5th, 2010

Max

Great Google AdSense Alternatives

It can be said that greatness is deserved by virtue of hard work. Google has proved that both hard work and a considerable investment produces greatness. This has been the bane of all web designers trying to monetize a web site. Google AdSense is the King of monetizing websites. Many alternatives have entered the advertising online space.

The list below is a partial list of some of the alternatives available for web designers and Internet Marketeers. I have personally only used a handful of the companies listed below. My experience has shown that while some are very good at creating wealth, they pale in comparison to AdSense.

I encourage you to give some of them a try. While they will most likely not generate the income that AdSense produces, they are all viable and important in keeping competition alive in the advertising world. Some other factors to consider when choosing an ad serving program is the specific need. What I mean by that is that the ads generally shown by AdSense are closely related to the topic in which you are writing about. This could be a great thing or not so good.

If you are creating content in which you don’t want someone to possibly click on an ad to a competitor then AdSense might not be for you. Most of the others do not serve ads that are too close to the topic of specific page. Some such as AdBrite will just serve advertising that the advertisers in the network want to show. In other words, you don’t have too much say in what is showed. This means that you could have a topic on Travel and AdBrite might serve advertisements on your page about Insurance or Weight Loss.

Don’t discount these ads. Some people actually might be interested in those subjects and at least the click will not send the reader to a competitor!

Weigh in on the list and post some comments below. If you know of Ad Serving companies please let me know so that I can update the list.

Social Network Spam or Marketing

August 19th, 2009

Max

I recently read an article from Search Engine Journal that caught my attention. The story was about using Social Media for Marketing purposes by virtue of Google. The search goes as following:

Linkedin

site:linkedin.com inurl:in “social media expert”

Bebo

site:.bebo.com inurl:profile inurl:bebo “social media expert”

CafeMom

site:www.cafemom.com inurl:cafemom.com/home/ “stay at home mom”

Facebook

site:facebook.com/people “led zeppelin”

Flickr

site:flickr.com/people “@gmail”

Twitter

site:twitter.com -inurl:statuses -inurl:status “social media expert”

MySpace

site:profile.myspace.com inurl:myspace inurl:fuseaction “go to nc state”

YouTube

site:youtube.com/user “social media expert”

Using the aforementioned search in Google results in a list of users / or members that have an interest in the searched topic. This seems like a great way to find people to send a message for purpose of marketing to them.

The one thing that I question is the spam issue. If you do this research and reach out to Social Users, this is in my mind considered spam. I have received unsolicited messages on LinkedIn and other Social sites and I did at the time consider this spam.

What do you think?