Hi,
If you are going to spend some money on article marketing, where should you put your priority?
I'm thinking this way:
1.article submitter
2.autoresponder (list building)
3.social bookmarker
4.web hosting
5.PPC
Pls tell me what you think

Rgrds,
Stefan

Before answering your question, let me explain how I got the idea which is the answer.

I am still trying to figure this all out. One of my sites was a PR 4 and got demoted to PR 2 with the last shake up. Then I tried my current strategy and the only barometer I have at present to measure is the Alexa ranking. I understand it is not accurate over 100K. However, having been under the 100K mark, I am finding that it is creeping that way once again.

How is it done?

Well, have you ever seen a guy in the circus spinning plates. He will have several spinning all at the same time.

This is what I am trying and it seems to be working.

I am not using an article submitter. I tried Article Post Robot which I installed for a customer. It had so many spammey sites, after I was done entering all the information on 400 sites, it turns out only 180 would even be ones I would want to post to. As to traffic, it was negligible.

No benefit noted as to links either.

I am not quite ready for an auto responder either.

As to social book marking, blog posting, and putting up a new page, these are at least weekly if not daily tasks.

I also submit to at least one and usually two PR3 or better directories if they are free.

Since my main site and blog are seasonal, I am gearing up for the next season.

So I try to do each of my various tasks every day. To write a page for a site may take a few days. If it takes too long, it is left behind and an extra blog post is put up.

I am trying to post two articles a week on the article sites. I am limiting it to initially one, then once live there, I will post it manually on about 10 others.

The auto submitter is so wonderful when it is working for you. But I am not aware of one for macs at this time other than the I-snare system.

It is doing all that seems to help.


Best wishes.

I understand what you've said about article submitter really well. I've tried unique article wizard and it has gives me almost NO traffic at all after I spent $180 for subscription and article rewrites. It mainly submit to directories that ranked around 3million to 6million in Alexa ranks (my site is rank around 370k in Alexa and only get around 5 visitors/day so I can't imagine how those sites can give me traffic)

Anyway, how do you get PR 4 with only 2 articles/week?

I am focusing on three things.

1 Keywords that have a lot of traffic. Then the article is keyword focused and optimized.
2 Writing the article that will be unique enough to get read but not so much that they do not need to come to my site to get more information.
3 Only posting to the top article sites. They are listed elsewhere on this forum.

Remember, this is only one of the plates that has to keep spinning.

Hi Guys:
I got caught up in your conversation and couldn't help but to add my two cents. If I were going to spend money on article marketing here is what I would do.

1. Keyword research: What are the highest paying and most searched for keywords. I would use this information to title my articles.
2. Then I would spend my money on Article Marketer and allow them to distribute my article to hundreds of sites including all the big sites like ezinearticles.com. The primary reason I would use this service is to save time, get hundreds of links back to my site and massive distribution.
3. I would purchase an auto-responder with Aweber or iContact
4. I would invest in design and copy for a high conversion landing page.

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@Steelworks: well, I think the 2nd point is the hardest part.. By posting on the top articles, do you mean you post it manually?
So far, most of my traffic comes from ezine articles, some from others too, but not too significant.

@Bob: Hi Bob; Do Article Marketer have function to make each article unique? Is it submit to other major article directories such as goarticle or article base?

Hi Stefan:
No, Article Marketer does not make each article unique. I've never understood why you would want to do that? The most recent article I uploaded to Article Marketer was distributed to 179 sites. It is true that sites like EzineArticles get many more reads and leads for me than the majority of the other sites, but I do get a lot of keyword rich links back to my site this way.

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Hi Stefan16,

Unfortunately, I do only post manually even though it is a killer. It is so cool to watch the automatic submitter burn through submission after submission in mere moments.

Some of the submitter programs do have a feature that allows the title, category, teaser and bio to be altered so that you can end up with several versions of those. Perhaps your concerned with duplicate content. Once it is spidered by the first site that gets it, it is duplicate. It would take too much time to make enough versions, even with variations to totally get out of the duplicate content rule. In the end, even with the changes, it would basically be the same thing.

I only get traffic from an article that is a hit. Otherwise, I am looking for links. The higher the PR, the better the link. As I understand, the spiders only count one link from each site as a vote for yours. So once you are posted, the link that you get from another site picking up your article is the value to you.

If your site offers value, then you will keep getting others to link to you.

I am conducting several experiments on this right now to see what works. So far, it is only a bunch of little things that I have discovered. Now they need to be duplicated to see if they truly work or not.

Steeleworks

Hi Steelworks:
I would love to see the results of your experiment. Please keep me informed.
Aloha, Bob

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Yes, with so much posts and articles about goggle penalties and duplicate content, I'm a little concerned about using Article Marketer (even if it is highly recommended) and end up using Unique Article Wizard (I'm quite disappointed with the result though )

So you're saying that we shouldn't bother altering our articles since it basically the same and will get penalized anyway?

When you're talking about high PR link, are you refer to web 2.0 such as Hubpages and social bookmarking sites as well?

Personally, I found that StumbleUpon gives me more traffic than any other article directories (except ezinearticles)

Bob, I've checked your article submission directories. It looks like the PR are not that good, but at least the Alexa rank are quite good (6digits). Do you get lots of traffic from them?