Essential SEO Tools & Resources

Yesterday we discussed the importance of varying your anchor text when getting links from other sites to your pages. Anchor text variation is important because the search engines such as Google like to see natural linking patterns. When natural linking occurs, anchor text links appear as many different phrases. This is what you need to replicate as closely as possible.

You can read more about the importance of anchor text variation and natural linking patterns here.

One of the best methods I know for getting hundreds of inbound links with lots of different anchor texts is to use SubmitYourArticle.com to distribute your articles.

Here’s why …

Submit Your Article.com provides a service called “Article Leverage”, it’s a standard feature of your membership. What Article Leverage does is allow you to distribute multiple versions of your original article in just a few minutes. Your “multiple versions” can include lots of different anchor text links, which is just what we’re looking for!

Let me explain a little more how it works …

First, you write an article of around 400 – 600 words, with a bio box as well.
Next you copy and paste it into the SubmitYourArticle template.
Then you turn on Article Leverage.

Article Leverage first of all asks you for at least two variants of your article title. It then asks you for at least one variant of each paragraph of your article. Finally it asks you for at least 2 further variants of your bio box.

You can add more variants of each element, those quoted above are the minimum numbers. I always add at least 10 keyword rich Title variants, at least 3 variants of the opening paragraph and then at least one variant of the remaining paragraphs (keep your paragraphs short for the best results).

Adding all those variants doesn’t actually take long. What it achieves is a really high level of uniqueness to each article version spun by article leverage. Your original article literally becomes hundreds of unique articles! Now content spinners are not new, but the beauty of this one is that it actually submits the different versions to different article directories and ezines, so there is literally no duplicate content to worry about. Do this process just 8 times each month and you’ll distribute hundreds of unique articles all over the web!

Going back to anchor text patterns, I always try and add 10 “bio box” versions to the article as well. Your article “bio” includes a link back to your site. So by creating 10 or more variants, I can use different anchor text in each one, pointing back to different pages on my site. Or I can use the same anchor text twice say for my main keyword phrase, just changing the remaining text in the bio box.

Literally with a click of a button I can create hundreds of backlinks all with different anchor text. Plus I can burn my SubmitYourArticle RSS feed and distribute it to all the RSS feed directories, multiplying the number of inbound links even further.

I highly recommend that you take a look at the services offered by SubmitYourArticle.com … they offer by far the best article distribution service available on the net …

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Article marketing is touted by many internet marketing gurus as a great way to pull targeted traffic into your web pages … are they right?

Well my experience says yes and no. Outside of the internet marketing niche I would categorically say yes it works well, but within the online marketing niche I’ve had limited success with article marketing.

Take a look at the screenshot above … the article on EzineArticles.com occupying the number one spot in Google for the term “how to become incorporated” is MINE!

That’s right … my article has beaten 32.1 million other sites to Number 1! If that doesn’t impress you then how about this … it’s been Number One for 15 months!!

Not only that, it’s also No.1 on Yahoo and No.4 on MSN too!

So how much traffic does an article like this, in a very specific niche get when it receives a top ranking?

Quite a lot actually … 4,165 page views in 15 months!

Obviously not everyone who reads the article will click through to your site, but let me tell you … this one article has earn’t me quite a bit of Adsense revenue!

One of the reasons I targeted the keyword phrase “how to become incorporated” is that I knew from my keyword research that each Adsense click would earn me between 50 cents and $2 per click!

So you can quickly see that this one article has done very nicely for me! Very nicely indeed. All I need to do is replicate this example over and over again and watch the adsense and affiliate income role in!

So article marketing works … in the right niches it works really, really well!

Undoubtedly keyword research is the key to success with article marketing. Using Keyword Elite, I found a keyword phrase that I could rank well for, that would get traffic and at the same time would pay very well for Adsense clicks!

This one article that resulted directly from my Keyword Elite research has paid for the software multiple times over!

There are a number of reasons why this article has done so well for me. I’ll talk about them in a couple of days … but one question you should be asking yourself is “why has the article ranked so well for SO LONG?”

I will tell you but not today!

In the meantime … Go get yourself a copy of Keyword Elite … put your keyword research on another level … find out in minutes which phrases to target in articles to bring you good rankings and good Adsense income!

Keep watching over the next few days and discover how I keep my articles ranking well over time! (Subscribe to my FEED above)

Plus get a copy of “List Building Riches” above and see how I use Article Marketing in my rapid list building process!

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Yesterday I told you how I’ve been busy writing articles over the last few days ready to publish, and “hopefully” generate some targeted traffic with. I mentioned that I’d been looking at a report by Jack Humphries and stumbled across a recommended web site in it called SubmitYOURArticle.com.

Writing articles isn’t a problem, I can write and type 400 – 600 word articles pretty quickly once I focus. Creating different versions from the original isn’t a problem either, I’ve got a spreadsheet that I use to slice and dice multiple versions from two to three copies of the original. The problem is the time it takes to submit the different copies to all the directories.

I’d started searching for article submission software to take my different versions and submit them to different sites to no real avail. Then I read Jack’s report on the off chance whilst looking for something else, and low and behold I found the answer in his report.

SubmitYOURArticle.com submits your articles for you to lots of directories or ezines, but their service has a difference. They help you create multiple versions of the article and then submit the different versions to different directories. Not only that but they check your article to ensure it has the best possible chance of being picked up and circulated! Exactly what I was looking for and found thanks to a chance reading of Jack’s report.

But was it chance?

Or the law of attraction in effect? Did my thoughts and needs for their service attract me to jack’s report? I really believe there is definitely something in the theory. I genuinely believe that you attract what you want or expect.

But it didn’t just end with Jack’s report!

Last night I put on a Trafficology CD in my car to listen to on the way home. It was an interview by Dearl Miller and Willie Crawford, discussing Willie’s favourite free traffic methods. I’ve had the CD a while, but haven’t had a chance to listen to it.

Well guess what … I could n’t believe my ears! The first method discussed was Article Marketing, and when Willie was asked how he distributes his articles, he said I use … SubmitYOURArticle.com … incredible!

Now that’s spooky! Having never heard of the site before, I’m suddenly bombarded by gurus telling me how great the site is … at the very time I’ve been looking for some one to provide the very service they do … the law of attraction definitely in force!

As soon as I heard Willie mention the site I was stunned. I stopped listening to the interview as subconsciously I started to think about these coincidences and the powers of positive thinking, in fact I spent most of the evening thinking about it.

When I finally got the kids to bed and had finished installing my new wireless router (nothing is straight forward), I sat down with a glass of wine and the remote control and flicked the tv on … to be spooked again by the programme that appeared on the screen … I spent the next 40 minutes watching a documentary about the “positive thinking” and “self help” industry! Unbelievable, they featured at least 4 of the books I own …

Today I’m trying to think and visualise none stop about 100,000 visitors swarming to my site tonight and signing up to my list!

I’ll let you know tomorrow if that one comes true!

Richard …

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Now I’ve finished my new report List Building Riches , I’m starting to turn my attention back to generating traffic (no point in having a report that no one reads ).

I’m going to ensure that I post virtually daily to this blog, as well as to some satellite blogs that I’ve got access to, plus I’m going to submit quite a few articles to directories over the next few days. I’ve written several for submission already.

Now in an earlier post I talked about the “law of attraction”. Well here is that law in action. I’ve been looking at ways of respinning the articles I’ve written to ensure they have a better chance of ranking (ie: respinning avoids any duplicate content penalties) … I’ve developed my own spreadsheet for the purpose of doing this, but its not ideal and every copy of the original has to be manually submitted … then today I found a report by Jack Humphries that recommended a site called submitYOURarticle so I took a look. I’ve read a lot of stuff that Jack Humphries has written and it’s all excellent, the guy genuinely knows a lot about pulling traffic to a site. When he recommends I always take a look.

And yet again Jack Humphries delivers! Within just a few minutes I subscribed to Submityourarticle.com. Their service automates the submission of yoru article to the top directories and to a lot of ezines, but what makes this service special is that it delivers “different” versions to each directory!

It takes about 20 minutes to submit your article, that includes the time it takes to create the new versions of the article. I’ve already submitted a couple of articles using the service. The only downside I can see is that you can only submit 8 articles per month per account! But I guess with this service those 8 articles become hundreds of unique articles, and thus links back to my site … so its a small negative …

I highly recommend you take a look yourself at submityourarticle.com, their service makes creating lots of inbound unique one way links easy!

It’s exactly what I was looking for … there is definitely something in the law of attraction, its really spooky that I read that report today of all days !

Richard

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