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.
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