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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011Five Mandatory Questions You Need To Ask Before Submitting Your articles To An Article Directory
Sunday, October 31st, 2010My staff keep reminding me that I am one of the most prolific writers they have ever seen. I have a tendency to write 10 to 15 articles a day and a 300 page training manual in just 2 weeks fully edited ready for publishing which is a small freakish but I delight in writing and I delight in sharing my knowledge with people. One of the top ways of doing that on the Internet is to write your articles and submit them to an Article Directory but I have recently seen some very dark issues creeping in with articles submitted to some of the article directories.
This has really happened to me…
As a technology geek and yes I will call myself a geek produce that is what I am, I evenly write articles on technology subjects like how to use excel, how to build webpages, etc. But, when I submitted my articles to five article directories recently I found some really disturbing aspects to the way they do business and present my articles. One of the most disturbing issues was that if you had any domain names or links in either your webpage or in your Author Bio they stripped them out. If you had used keywords in your Hypertext, they removed your links and substituted their own to your competitions website. See, it seems some article directories are now using your work to make known other people air force within your articles.
When I saw this for the first time, I was flabbergasted. Not just because somebody else was using my work and saying that it was their, but more so, they were using my keywords to hijack my back links back to my website to my competitors. I had also found from these five article directories that they had licensed my work to others, so that they could place their names on my articles.
This one issue alone opens up a plethora of issues with Google, MSN, AOL and Yahoo?
The entire search engines above frown on duplicate material on websites and by somebody using your material without consent you could find that anyone of these Search Engines could ban your site. The really scary aspect to this is that you are not responsible for this and it really is a form of identity theft and more copyright infringement.
For all apart from one of the directories, I was able to overcome this problem by simply going in and deleting the articles to reclaim my work and stop my competitors from stealing my work but one of the directories did not have the capabilities to do this.
So from my experience I have written five mandatory questions you should be asking your directories so that this does not happen to you!
Q1. Do I Own The Rights To My Articles?
This seems pretty straight forward but I have found in the fine print of some article directory sites, it will say that by submitting your article to this directory that you agree that the directory now owns the intellectual property of this article. If you find that, then my recommendation is to run. Most feature directories do require you to give them a non-exclusive license to reprint or reuse or redistribute your article and this is reasonably acceptable as this is what you want, but you do not at any stage want to lose your rights to your articles, especially if you are not getting paid for it.
Q2. Can I Pre-format My Article with HTML
Some directory articles have rules that prevent you from including HTML in your article. What this means in many cases is that you cannot format the article the way you want. This can be a major problem for you if you have bulleted lists or numbered lists as you can sometimes find these lists are all on one line or not properly formatted.
I have even seen situations where, I have submitted articles to this type of article directory only to find that all my paragraphs are lumped together and the articles look terrible. The bottom line is this, select your article submission directories carefully and make sure you can pre-format the article in HTML. I should note that there are now many Article Submission directories that allow you to penetrate articles with full html including pictures.
Q3. Are You Going To Sell or Provide My Email Address To A Third Party?
Everyone that I know despises spam. Me in particular, especially since I get around 1,000 spam emails everyday! Be very careful though, some article directories have written into their operating agreements that they can pass your email address onto third-parties. This means, they could sell or supply your email address to anyone. Most article directories that I deal with, have very strict policies on protecting your privacy and your emails but some article directories involuntarily place your email address up on the article with your name.
This is as huge a problem as a name really selling your email address, as some spammers use tools called mail bots or email bots that look for the html tag mailto and then pickup the email address after that html tag. This is a huge problem for all of us, as this means the spammers know they have a valid email address, so ensure when you are choosing an article directory that they do not sell or provide your email address to any third party plus that they do not place your email address on the page your article is on.
If you are not sure, have a look at some of the articles in the article directory as that will give you a pretty excellent indication as to the way the articles and email addresses will be handled.
Q4. Do You Allow Hyperlinks or Domain Names in your Article Or Author/Bio Line?
The total reason for you or I writing articles is so that we can get our work in print onto the internet and promote our business whether it be through back links or from people reading your article and then deciding to stay your website. If you are not writing articles for this reason, then I hope you are getting paid a lot of cash produce if you are not getting links back to your website, then you will not get any traffic.
There are some article directories that do not allow hyperlinks in the main body of the webpage, where as others do allow it on special occasions. Some article directories do not even allow hyperlinks in the Author/Bio Line which as far as I am concerned means you may as well go elsewhere because if you are not getting at least a domain name shown in the Author/Bio Line then how are people going to know where your site is. If you are selecting an Article directory, make sure in their writing rules area that it specifies that even if you can have an committed domain link, that you can at least have an inactive domain link or web address link.
A sample of an inactive domain link is shown to the right – http://www.1-on-1.biz
What this means is that the reader of your article at the very least can see your domain and can copy and paste your domain into the address section of the browser. You certainly will not get as many people visiting your website if you are using inactive domain links in the Author Bio area but at least if people really want to see what you have to place forward they can get there relatively easily.
Remember one thing, the human race inherently bone idle so if you do not make things as simple as possible your sales will never soar.
Q5. Do You Allow Hypertext Links in your Author/Bio Line?
A Hypertext link is one of the most vital links on an article page. Essentially what this type of link is, is where a person will see habitual text but when they click on the text it will take them to a particular webpage. For example I have included a Hypertext Link not more than –
How to Profit from a Direct Sales Website
I have written the code for the link not more than. Note that I have substituted the for [ ] brackets simply for this article.
[a rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/outgoing/article_exit_link']);” href=”http://www.1-on-1.biz/dms.asp”] How to Profit from a Direct Sales Website[/a]
The link is shown in the a href section and the text “How To Profit from a Direct Sales Website” is the Hypertext. The reason it is vital for us to structure our links in this way as it tells the search engines that that page is related to those keywords. The more times a search engine finds those keywords and links on different websites, the more points you will accumulate for that page, and the higher the likelihood that search engine will rank you high when people use those key terms. I will say though, that SEO technology is more involved than just that one issue, but it is certainly an vital issue that can make the difference to your webpage being at the top of the search engine results or at the bottom.
What I mentioned at the start of the article was that 5 article directories I was submitting articles to were keyword hijacking my articles. Essentially when they were presenting my articles in the directory, all my links in the author bio line that contain the “a href” section were dropped and changed to my competitors simply because my competitors had paid for that service. Ultimately, when a user was to click on my keywords and my Author BIO line they were going to my competitors which I consider a dirty tactic. Keyword hijacking degrades an article directory because ultimately the article writers wake up to this issue and simply stop putting articles into the directory and the feature of the directory will die off so all I can say to those article directories that are doing this, I hope that you are making lots of cash, because this practice is not going to last.
The bottom line is this, if you are trying to build your sites traffic, then you are better off spending your time submitting articles to those article directories that allow you to use HYPERTEXT in the Author Bio lines. Very few that I know will let your get away with that in the main article and to be trustworthy, it can really get you banned from the article directory.
To close off …
Let us be frank here, it takes a lot of work to build successful websites and it takes even a lot more to write high feature articles, so why would you want to fleeting exchange yourself by submitting your articles to article directories that do not want to work as copy partners, because remember that whilst you are writing feature articles for the article directories, you are helping them build traffic to their website and build their PR ranking with Google. Both you and the article directory are in fact benefiting from your work.
Look the bottom line is this … make sure you check out and tick off each of these questions –
Q1. Do I Own The Rights To My Articles?
Q2. Can I Pre-format My Article with HTML
Q3. Are You Going To Sell or Provide My Email Address To A Third Party?
Q4. Do You Allow Hyperlinks or Domain Names in your Article Or Author/Bio Line?
Q5. Do You Allow Hypertext Links in your Author/Bio Line?
Article Marketing Distribution ? How You Can Increase Sales With Article Marketing Only On One Article Directory? ? Discover 3 Magic Tactics
Saturday, September 4th, 2010Article Marketing Distribution is an integral part of today’s internet marketing. The more articles you submit the more traffic and sales you get. Now would you like to learn magic tactics to increase sales with article marketing on one article directory alone? Read not more than.
Article Marketing Distribution – How to do Profitable Article Promotion on One Article Directory?
Many internet marketers believe that article marketing distribution means submission of different articles to tens or hundreds of sites. But did you know that you get the same or even more effectual results with article marketing on 1 content directory alone? Now I know what question you have in your mind:
How Can I get Maximum Sales With Article Marketing on only one article directory, without losing my time on others?
It is vital first to choose the highest traffic and high pagerank article marketing directory and to focus on it for a certain time.
You would work on a daily basis to publish on the site at least 3-5 unique and useful articles for your potential buyers. It will mean to get minimum 150 high pr, feature backlinks at the end of month.
Try to find out the top author/peddler in your niche and compete with him through intensive article marketing distribution. Try to beat him both with feature and quantity of your work. Then you will rank first both on Google and in this content directory for all main keywords related to certain niche.
Close:
Choose the right article directory to see real results from your article marketing distribution on a daily basis. The more articles you submit every day, the more traffic and sales you will get.
Directory Paid Survey – Five Secrets To Finding Great Paid Online Survey Directory Sites
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010Directory Paid Survey
Finding a fantastic directory of paid survey sites is not an simple job, there are a lot of terrible eggs in with the legitimate sites and it is really hard to pick out the excellent ones, so here is some invaluable advice to help find the golden ones the gooses lay.
(1) Take a look at the paid survey directory website – is it made using low-cost HTML, have lots of spelling mistakes, exaggerated claims or hype? If the site looks like it has been place up in a rush, it is likely to be a scam – stay away from it.
(2) Look for reviews of the directory site in question. You can do this by Googling the name of the directory in quotation marks and the word review i.e “Cash Surveys Only” Review. Obviously you will be on the look out for excellent reviews. You can also stay paid survey site forums, blogs and sites like Scam.com and Ripoffreport.com, to make doubly sure there is no mention of the paid survey directory in a negative light in there. Directory Paid Survey
(3) A further fantastic check for finding a legitimate paid survey site is to send them an email asking a general question about paid surveys that requires a human answer. Wait for the response and see if you are satisfied with it, if you are then that is a excellent directory site to subscribe to.
(4) Choosing a excellent paid survey directory site will save you a ton of research, so it is excellent to do your research on paid survey directory sites rather than individual survey sites.
(5) Your ultimate aim is to find a paid survey directory site that lists just cash surveys only, as this is where the real cash lies in completing paid surveys.
There are paid survey sites all over the Internet and the best way to find the excellent sites is to find a excellent, reliable directory that takes you by the hand, supports you, provides you with a decent (huge) list of paid survey sites and is not worried to answer any questions you have. Save yourself the search by following the link not more than . . . Directory Paid Survey
Article Marketing Distribution – How You Can Increase Sales With Article Marketing Only On One Article Directory? – Discover 3 Magic Tactics
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Article Marketing Distribution is an integral part of todayâ??s internet marketing. The more articles you submit the more traffic and sales you get. Now would you like to learn magic tactics to increase sales with article marketing on one article directory alone? Read not more than.Â
Article Marketing Distribution â?? How to do Profitable Article Promotion on One Article Directory?Â
Many internet marketers believe that article marketing distribution means submission of different articles to tens or hundreds of sites. But did you know that you get the same or even more effectual results with article marketing on 1 content directory alone? Now I know what question you have in your mind:Â
How Can I get Maximum Sales With Article Marketing on only one article directory, without losing my time on others?Â
It is vital first to choose the highest traffic and high pagerank article marketing directory and to focus on it for a certain time.Â
You would work on a daily basis to publish on the site at least 3-5 unique and useful articles for your potential buyers. It will mean to get minimum 150 high pr, feature backlinks at the end of month.Â
Try to find out the top author/peddler in your niche and compete with him through intensive article marketing distribution. Try to beat him both with feature and quantity of your work. Then you will rank first both on Google and in this content directory for all main keywords related to certain niche.Â
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Choose the right article directory to see real results from your article marketing distribution on a daily basis. The more articles you submit every day, the more traffic and sales you will get.Â
Secure High Pagerank Back Links with a Bidding Directory
Sunday, January 31st, 2010A link bidding directory provides a unique way in securing high PR links to your site. It places you in a spot to determine the page rank you require of your backlinks. As all internet marketers know, the feature and page rank of your back links have a large influence on your own pagerank.
The Search Engines constantly seek for high feature websites and one of the criteria used is site popularity. Excellent links provide this information. After all if lots of people consider a site worthwhile, they will provide a link for their customers to that site. It is a topic of providing the best solutions to your clients. Higher page ranking sites delight in higher placing in search engine searches and provide more traffic.
A bidding directory lists links in order of the highest amount bid for that listing. The link chief, i.e. the listing with the highest bid appears on all pages of the directory. This provides many links back to the listed site.
The top links are listed on the home page of the bidding directory, and also occupy the top a skin condition in their particular category. The top links thus get a link with the pagerank of the bidding directory! On most other directories, even if you bought a featured listing, you have no control over the residency of your listing, and you could be placed on a page with a very low pagerank.
Purchasing a listing in a bidding directory is low-cost compared to other paid directories. You can permanently add to your bid at any time thus controlling your spot on that directory. For this reason it might be worthwhile to list on lower ranking bidding directories to start with. A top spot won’t cost you much, and as the pagerank and popularity of the bidding directory increases you can add to your bid a small at a time to remain at the top.
The internet provides for fierce competition. It is thus not surprising that a bidding directory can also provide a lot of competition. This can be viewed in two ways. Firstly a healthy environment in which to judge your competition and see who your real competitors are. Secondly that it might become expensive to keep the number one spot. If you consider that the top 10 links normally appear on the homepage of the bidding directory, this provides you with some leeway in determining how far up the ladder you are willing to go.
A listing may not be in the top 10, but could still be a category chief providing a excellent page rank anyhow. This allows an opportunity to bid for the top positions in a specific category, without too much concern about the overall top positions of the bidding directory. This is very useful if you operate in a specific niche and want to be associated with the niche leaders.
Considering the way in which the bidding directories are structured, they are a excellent alternative to natural links. Especially for sites early out where excellent natural links take time to develop. Then the developing of natural links is also not guaranteed even with more mature sites. In fleeting a listing with a bidding directory could provide a excellent pagerank and valuable referral traffic to your site.