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OTHER ARTICLE DIRECTORIES
As you may already know, we have set up a new article directory at: http://www.techcentralpublishing.com
We have several article directory platforms under development. We are striving to develop a platform that Google finds more attractive, so that our authors can benefit more from placement of their articles on our websites.
Our original article directory platform at http://www.thephantomwriters.com continues to have the largest search engine footprint of all of our article websites. You can get a feel for our level of success with that directory, by viewing our yearly statistics, made public at: http://thephantomwriters.com/statistics/year-by-year.html (If you are curious, there is no way to submit articles to this directory for free. The directory supports our paid article distribution service.)
With 95,000+ search phrases delivering traffic to The Phantom Writers website, you can only imagine how many top ten rankings the website has in Google.
It has been our goal for some time to develop a public-release article directory software that can match these kinds of numbers. With our other five article directory software platforms, three of them are hitting about the 50% level in comparison, while two of them are barely scratching their true potential, but one of those is brand new.
In our various databases, we have more than 130,000+ articles, in order to play with the various article directory platform rollouts. When we are satisfied that we have an article directory platform guaranteed to bring success to its owners and authors, we will be making that platform available to the public, and we will let you know here in our newsletter.
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MAKING MONEY WITH TELESEMINARS
Over the years, we have learned a lot from our customers at The Phantom Writers. Our article distribution customers are generally people who are already making a lot of money on the internet, and we help our customers reach new publishers / customers.
At The Phantom Writers, we have millionaires on our customer lists and we have people making $20,000 per month online. So I pay attention to what they have to say. When you want to be the best, you should make it a daily habit to learn from the best.
Kathleen Gage is one of my clients. She has released a new program as of this morning, from her Street Smart Marketing program. She had dabbled in teleseminars from time-to-time, but she was not getting rich doing it.
She had been very successful with another home-based business, and she mistakenly believed she could pick up and move her and her family across country and duplicate the success she had previously known. She was wrong.
After moving from Arizona to Oregon, she found that she could not duplicate the business in Oregon that she had built in Arizona. Struggling to find a new revenue stream, she took a second look at teleseminars.
Her first and second teleseminars failed miserably. But, she learned some valuable lessons that she applied to future endeavors.
Her third-time out with a teleseminar, she started to make money. And then one of her closest friends found herself in dire financial straits when her husband became permanently disabled. Kathleen thought she could help her friend, so she drew out a step-by-step guide to success for teleseminars.
Within just a few weeks of reading and implementing Kathleen’s roadmap to success with teleseminars, her friend began to earn a considerable amount of money using teleseminars.
On that initial success, Kathleen began to expand on her teaching tools and massage her lessons.
Now, several years later, Kathleen has tested her system with dozens of people. And with a multitude of successful students behind her, Kathleen is now making her step-by-step guide to making money with teleseminars available to the public.
Kathleen says that by using her formula and techniques that you can easily start to earn an extra $5,000 to $20,000 per month, depending only upon your level of commitment to your own success.
Learn more here: Make Money With Teleseminars
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EXPAND YOUR MARKETING REACH WITH VIDEO ARTICLES
During the last week of December 2008, we were ready for public release of our new program.
We had been working with our supplier for more than three months getting ready to bring this new service to the marketplace. By mid-December, we had our first batch of samples ready for viewing by our customers.
With the astronomical growth seen in the online video industry, we knew that there had to be a way to tap into that market to find new customers for our services.
Reflecting on the success we have always had with Article Marketing, we wondered if we could translate our articles into video format to achieve the same kinds of success.
In March of 2008, we tried the Do-It-Yourself video article, but it went very badly. I have worked in radio, so my voice is not that bad. But the production value of the video sucked. I showed the video to a few of my mentors, and then after viewing the final product a few weeks after having completed it, I pulled it off the Internet for the last time. It was truly embarrassing. If you saw that video - I am truly sorry. 
So we set out to find video production specialists and voice-over specialists who could help us bring this dream to the marketplace. In late August of 2008, we found the people we wanted to work with to bring this service to our customers.
We rolled out several generic video articles over the fall of 2008, and we saw strong levels of views and traffic to our websites from those generic video articles.
After counting the successes we were seeing from our generic Video Articles, we jumped into the fray with branded Video Articles. Our first public-release, branded Video Article - completed the week of Christmas 2008 - has been viewed thousands of times on YouTube alone, but we have placed that video on dozens of online video websites.
Our video articles have already generated respectable sales and brought us more prospects for our other services as well.
One thing that we knew going into this project was that we needed to be able to produce a video product that has high production values. It was important to impress our viewers with the video that accompanies the audio that serves as our Video Article.
If you have articles that have done well in the Article Marketing arena, you owe it to yourself to have the best of those articles converted to the Video Article format for public distribution to the online video websites.
If you see even a fraction of the success we have seen with video articles, the service will pay for itself in no time at all.
Learn more here: Video Article Production Service
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THANK YOU FOR READING
Bill Platt - owner
Articles4rerpint.com
ThePhantomWriters.com
Tags: article directories, article directory platforms, article marketing, online videos, success tips, teleseminar, teleseminars, video, video articles, video marketing
Hello again. This is Bill Platt, owner of http://www.articles4reprint.com
You are receiving this mail because you are a registered and verified member of our website. In order to have become a member of our website, you registered at the website and verified your intent to be a member by following the prescribed steps in order to double-optin to our article directory. (If you believe to the contrary, we have on record the IP address of the computer that registered your account and verified membership. As well, we have a timestamp on your registration.)
In this email, we are going to provide information to you in three sections: NEWS, RECOMMENDATIONS, ADVICE. So, let’s get to it.
NEWS
News Item #1:
If you write Travel related materials, we have two new websites that accept content from the public:
- http://www.americantravelideas.com/blog/ - We want to provide link-heavy overviews of cities and local attractions in those cities.
- http://www.bnbna.com/blog/ - BNBna stands for “Bed and Breakfast, North America”. Our goal with this site is to provide overviews of single Bed And Breakfast establishments, or an overview of several B&B establishments based on location, style, features, or other binding concepts. Once again, we like providing information in a link-heavy fashion, pointing to several pages at a Bed And Breakfast website and links to local attractions.
With both programs, we allow up to three self-promotional links with every article, even with the anchor text of your choice attached to those links. With both programs, we do reserve the right to edit your content as necessary to stay within the context of our goals, but we will retain all of the links to your website, so long as there are no more than three “self-promotional” links attached to the article(s).
Both websites have a substantial promotion campaign running right now and the traffic to the websites are growing pretty substantially and pretty quickly. In addition, with the American Travel Ideas blog, we have already arranged a deal to advertise the website directly to 15,000 people intimately involved in the travel industry as accomodation providers and 200,000 travel consumers. This additional advertising is scheduled for delivery in December, 2008.
With both travel websites, all you have to do is to register an account through the WordPress configuration and once registered, you will automatically be labeled as a “Contributor”, subject to post moderation. Our editors will moderate all posts to make sure they match our theme and editorial preferences.
News Item #2:
If you haven’t done so yet, you can register at our other Article Dashboard website at: http://www.techcentralpublishing.com/. This article directory accepts content on most any topic except for gambling, sex toys or sexual drugs.
Although not owned by us, we also recommend http://www.articlestars.com/, which is also operated by the Article Dashboard software.
News Item #3:
If you are interested in operating your own article directory, please consider our offer for the advanced purchase of our new article directory software, which will soon be completed and ready for public release: SEO Friendly Article Directory. We are offering a 60% discount to those individuals willing to pre-purchase the software, before we complete the programming.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Recommendation Item #1:
If you rely upon Google Adsense for a portion of your online earnings, you owe it to yourself to pick up your own copy of the Adsense Spy Software. Before I got this software, I was trying to figure out how Google would show me which web page of my more than 20,000 web pages generated the click, but since I only have my Adsense tracking codes set to page location and not individualized to page, I could not find out what I wanted to find out. In all of my websites, I have about half a dozen pages that generate clicks in excess of three dollars each, some of which generate in excess of seven dollars per click. I wanted to know which of my pages were generating clicks of that magnitude, so that I could turn on the link building juice for those individual web pages.
Unfortunately, Google has a problem with showing us which pages help us to make more money with my Google Adsense placements. But, I knew that there had to be a way. In fact, I did know that there was a way. A few years back, Joel Comm had released a software that enabled us to put google friendly javascript on our pages and track which ads generated clicks, but his way required a monthly expenditure.
I wanted a cheaper option than Joes Comm’s solution, so I shopped around and located a software package that I could set up to monitor Google Adsense clicks across ALL of my websites, and I could get that software for a one-time low price. Once I had found, purchased and installed the Adsense Spy Software, I was able to start collecting tracking data immediately. Just today I received a click that generated $3.35 for one click, and now I know the page that created that click. I have already social bookmarked that page today to see if I can bring some more traffic to the page.
Recommendation Item #2:
If you talk to people who own websites, here is an affiliate program for web hosting services that pays 100 dollars for each new customer you send the company: Two-Tier Affiliate Program for web hosting. The thing I find so interesting about this program is that your customer can order a package that costs less than 100 dollars per year, and you will still get the 100 dollars for getting them to sign up. How can I afford to tell you about this? If you sign up as an affiliate using my URL, I will earn 5 dollars on every sale you make.
ADVICE
How To Successfully Get Links Into The Body Of Your Articles
Most article directory owners prohibit article writers to include links in the body of the article, BUT there are others who don’t care if you have links in the body of the article. In fact, as an article directory owner, I am among the group who does not mind links in the body of an article, although I believe that one should never go overboard with links in the body. I recommend that you exercise great care when inserting links in the article, so as to not overdo it.
Number One Linking Mistake
As an SEO Provider, I know that most new writers make big mistakes when they try to include links in the body of an article. The number one mistake new writers make is to assume that they can code the same link several times with different keywords in the anchor text, in the same article, to improve their search placement results. I wrote an example-heavy tutorial about this in February of 2008. If interested, you can read that tutorial here.
Rather than to force you to go to that blog an read my tutorial, I will give you the short-and-sweet here. When GoogleBot spiders a web page and it sees more than one link pointing to the same URL, Google does not apply the keywords for every version of that link to their algorithm calculations for your website. Nope. Instead, Google grabs the first instance of a link to a particular URL and whatever anchor text is attached to that first link will be what they attach as a descriptive of your web page.
So, if GoogleBot sees the following:
<a href=”http://www.yourdomainurl.com/target_url”>Non-primary keyword</a>
and then GoogleBot sees:
<a href=”http://www.yourdomainurl.com/target_url”>Primary keyword</a>
GoogleBot will only apply the first anchor text to your target URL. If that first link is anchored with your Non-primary Keyword, then GoogleBot will not even see your Primary Keyword, as you had desired for them to do.
So, what you need to know is that if you want to set up more than one anchor text link, each of those links should point to different URLs.
Links In The Body Of An Article - The Less-Effective And The Better Ways
The second thing you will want to know is that while many publishers are willing to accept links in the body of the article, most of those individuals refuse to permit you to include an affiliate link so long as they are aware that those links are affiliate links.
I was published one time in a huge newsletter and was very excited to have my affiliate link exposed to half a million readers. When scanning the article, I realized that the publisher trimmed my affiliate link from the affiliate website URL. The company I was promoting got the benefit of my recommendation, but I did not get the benefit of affiliate commissions for referred sales. I was pissed. But what could I do, except to do it in a way that would not hurt me the next time around.
From that day forward, I always put affiliate links behind a redirect URL from my own domain, and then I included that redirect URL in my article. That was the last time anyone has ever trimmed my affiliate link from my article.
One article I wrote has an affiliate link in the body of the article, which is hid behind a redirect URL on my server. That one article has generated more than 6000 dollars in affiliate commissions over the last four years.
An article I wrote this past September had four affiliate links in it. That article has already generated 500 dollars in affiliate commissions in the past three months.
Willie Crawford is the pro at this technique. When he signs up for an affiliate program, he registers a new domain name, sets that domain name to redirect to his affiliate link, and then references the new domain in his article as a third-party resource.
Here is the genius in Willie’s approach. Webmasters and ezine publishers don’t like articles that link directly to the writers’ website from within the body of the article. They don’t mind articles that point to third-party resources in support of the article, but many do mind if you point to your own website. In Willie’s resource box, he is pointing to his primary domain WillieCrawford.com, and all of the links in the article body are pointing to other domains!
From the point of view of the webmaster or publisher, those links in the body of the article appear to be third-party links, which are favored, so the publisher is more likely to publish an article with all article body links intact and unchanged.
To get a feel for the magic of Willie Crawfords approach to article marketing, read and study his articles here.
When you want to make tons of money like the Internet gurus do, doesn’t it make sense to emulate what the gurus do to make lots of money?
Indeed it does.
Bill Platt
owner of Articles 4 Reprint
FINAL NOTE:
As a rule, we don’t send out very many mailers. In fact, this is only the second mailing you have received from us since 2005.
But I will promise you two things.
1) We will not be coming to this well very often;
2) But when we do, we will bring helpful information to you when we come.
Thank you for your interest.
Tags: affiliate links, article directory, Article Marketing Tips, article submission tips, article writing tips, internet, making money, online
During the three years that our article directory has been operable (http://www.articles4reprint.com), we have never sent an email to our member writers, until this morning.
p.s. On the Article Dashboard CMS, learning the email system is a bit trial and error. Our first message was broken, but we set this message up on our website, just in case our email does not format correctly.
As a reminder, you can log in to submit articles at: http://www.articles4reprint.com/login.php
I wanted to touch base this evening on two points.
- We have opened a new article directory where you can submit your articles, which does not have as strict guidelines as Articles4reprint. The new article directory only has four rules:
- Minimum word count: 500 words
- No gambling articles
- No references to s-e-x toys or enhancement drugs.
- No Iframe content.
If your articles meet this minimum criteria, please consider submitting your articles also at: http://www.techcentralpublishing.com/
- If your articles have been rejected at Articles4reprint.com, I wanted you to know the most likely reasons why.
Out of our stated list of guidelines, we only actively enforce four of those guidelines:
- Minimum word count: 700 words
- No gambling articles
- No references to s-e-x toys or enhancement drugs.
- No Iframe content.
It may be helpful for you to also understand the economics of running an article directory. As with any website, we have a limited amount of hard drive space available to us. So, we must take action to manage our limited resources.
The first time this article directory was bumping against our account limits, we noticed that we had a database of articles, where more than 60% of the articles in the database had been rejected for violations of our content requirements. Out of +10,000 rejected articles, fewer than one dozen were corrected and resubmitted to us. Out of the eleven articles that had been resubmitted, nine failed to get approval on the second pass.
It was at this point that we realized that it was fully pointless to keep rejected articles in our database, since few people care enough to make appropriate corrections to articles, especially when they don’t show interest in getting to know the guidelines before submitting the articles. Keeping rejected articles in our database simply meant that we were using a lot of hard drive space on our server, for no good reason or purpose.
It was at this point that we changed our scripts to delete rejected articles at the time of rejection. If you don’t care to do it right the first time, we don’t care to chase you for corrections.
We would like to publish all of your articles, but our software checks the word count of every article when that article is submitted. If there are only 699 words or less in the article, your article will be deleted immediately. Sorry, but our article submission form shows you an accurate word count as you type in the box. This singular rule check has proven that 70% of the articles submitted to this website are auto-deleted, because writers seem to want to believe that we do not enforce our own rules. Sad, but true.
Why a 700-word minimum word count? Easy.
We have always felt that thinly-disguised sales pitches aggravate readers and publishers alike. We have also felt that the best articles are those that educate and inform their readers. We feel that the best articles tell a story to those people most likely to buy what you are selling, with the emphasis on “story”, “educate” and “inform”.
While some writers do a great job of telling an interesting and educational story in three- to four-hundred words, most people who utilize the shorter article format write junk content.
When we had a 300-word minimum count, 85-95% of all submitted articles were rejected. When we switched to 600-word minimums, our rejection rates dropped to 5-10%. Once we moved to the 700-word minimum count, our total rejections dropped to less than .1% (one rejection for every 1000 articles submitted to us).
This new higher minimum word count permitted us to manage this article directory in less than one hour per week, as opposed to the fifteen hours per week we had spent previously.
We really do want to see your articles in our article directories, but we have certain rules for the purpose of providing a more useful article directory to our audience of readers, publishers and webmasters.
If you can appreciate our approach to managing an article directory, then I am pretty sure that we can appreciate what you write enough to publish it on our article directories.
Thank you for your time today.
Bill Platt - owner
- http://www.articles4reprint.com
- http://www.techcentralpublishing.com
- http://www.thephantomwriters.com
Tags: article marketing, Article Marketing Tips, article submission tips, editorial policies