Ethical Internet Marketer – Make More Money Online… Ethically!

PART 2

4.) BLOG COMMENTS

Even though blog comments have received quite a lot of negative publicity in the recent past because of all the discussions about blog spamming and automated blog comment posters, it is still a viable way of getting one way backlinks quickly. But only if done correctly and if you adhere to certain posting rules. Then you will be able to use it as a way to attract exactly the kind of targeted visitors who are eager to buy your products.

How can you find those blogs?

Well, you can go to Google and type in “keyword blog” where keyword gets replaced by the keyword for your market e.g. “dog training blog”. If you take this one step further, you could add something like “Powered by WordPress” to this query and Google would find any WordPress blog which has been making posts about dog training.

You could do the same query in Technorati.com, a service which most bloggers are pinging to notify them of new content. Meaning, you can find posts related to almost any keyword there. Doing this for many websites and then also checking if these blogs have enough traffic and/or pagerank can be quite time consuming.

If you value your time as much as me then you need to automate this. Personally, I am using a tool called CommentHut to find these blogs and show me the pagerank of each result. There simply is no quicker way. You still have to make comments related to the blog post, though. CommentHut won’t do that for you. But its’ goal is not to spam blogs but to find the best blogs to post to. Not only on WordPress but also for 4 other blogging platforms like Typepad and even on WordPress.com itself. This means, you can get free backlinks from an authority site like WordPress.com because it also hosts personal blogs…

Not only can you get better search engine placement because of relevant blog comments but you also might get a lot of direct visitors if it’s a busy blog. Ask a provocant question there or doubt something the blogger is pointing out and you can see that it can cause quite a stir which also means more direct visitors for you! And your blog links are in the middle of highly relevant, keyword rich content. It cannot get any better.

5.) ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS

Article marketing has been a secret weapon in the arsenal of many super affiliate marketers. Not only for improving their search engine positions but also for direct traffic from their article resource boxes (the small signature file at the end of each article). Imagine getting one of your articles picked up by a newsletter which has a readership in the hundreds of thousands… That could be a marketing breakthrough overnight.

Then why are not more people using it? Every week I see article after article talking about the effectiveness of getting your articles published on other websites and in other people’s ezines. Are people too shy? Do they think they can’t write? Are they afraid they are making too many mistakes?

If you don’t do anything, you are not making mistakes – that’s true… But you’re also not making any progress. Most top marketers have become so successful because they were not afraid to make mistakes along the way. That is what Internet marketing is about: Learning from your experiences and improving upon them. If you’ll keep doing the same things, you keep getting the same (bad) results. I’m sure you’ve heard this saying more than once and it’s so true!

Take action and you’ll see results.

Writing your own articles can be so easy. Just do a little bit of research in those all important article directories themselves. Do a search for your keyword and see what others have written about the subject. Combine several of other people’s ideas and thoughts and write your own masterpieces in your own words. NEVER EVER COPY SOMEONE ELSE’S WORK!! This could get you in serious trouble. But rewriting ideas and thoughts is always allowed.

Whatever the reason is for not getting engaged in article writing, there is an answer to all of these objections.

Either outsource your article writing or use a piece of software called “Instant Article Wizard” which will let you write articles through a click and point process rather than having to come up with your own words. You’ll still need to polish up the sentences and the structure the software produces but about 80-90% of the work is already done by this article writer software.

Outsourcing means that you go to a website like Elance.com or Scriptlance.com ( my favourite) to get these articles written for you – for a small fee (usually something between $5-10 a piece).

With these articles you get to own something unique that you can use

a.) as content on your site

b.) as article for your ezine

c.) as vehicle to get your search engine positions up

d.) to get your name spread and build a reputation for yourself

All you have to do after you’ve created these articles is to submit them to article directories. It can be done manually if you visit a page where all of these article directories are listed e.g. here:

www.arcanaweb.com/resources/article-directories.html

But it can take you days if not weeks to get this done one by one.

Or you can use an article submitter. Personally, I like Jeff Alderson’s Instant Article Submitter because with his software, you can also choose the categories your article gets submitted to. This ensures that your article is assigned the correct category rather than submitting a generic format where 50% of the times, you’ll get declined by the article directory owner because of not having selected the correct category…

Article marketing is still one of the best and most cost effective ways to get your products sold, get recognized in your market and get better search engine positions – all from the power of articles. With article marketing or “bum marketing” as it has been called in recent times, you can even make sales if you have no website, no list and no JV partners.

With which other method can you achieve this so easily…?

CONCLUSION:

Generally speaking, the search engines seem to favor non-reciprocal links so try to focus on those and don’t overdo reciprocal linking. These two way links should not make up more than 25-30% of your total links in order to stay on the safe side.

Set up a schedule to check your ranking in the major search engines frequently to see if your link popularity has improved. Of course, this is not achievable in the blink of an eye. It will take some time and a good deal of work. There is no way around the labor-intensive quality of improving your link popularity, which is why search engines regard it with such importance.

By the way – make sure you have a great looking, content rich website or you will never persuade anyone to link back to you – not even free directory owners. Try to avoid having your website cluttered with Adsense and ads all over the pages before asking for a link. Once you have got enough links (when you have achieved your desired search engine positions for your main keywords or your pagerank), you can add your ads back and enjoy the profits from your hard work…

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