Google's Front Page - Don't Be Over Awed

Google's Front Page - Don't Be Over Awed
By Jim Patterson

I was doing a little research for an article or two on my favorite Internet Marketing Tool (Google) the other day when I noticed something rather encouraging to my own self image as an internet marketer and copywriter.

The articles I was researching were on SEO techniques and the keyword phrases I ran searches for returned some pretty large numbers of sites returned. And yet after I read every one of the results from the front page of one very competitive phrase, I only came across 3 valid ideas/techniques/instructions. My mind reeled:

How can this be! This is the front page of Freakin' Google!!

Most of these pages were simply what I call AdSense fodder. Rich in keywords and no doubt backlinked within an inch of its worthless life. When people don't find anything useful the site owner hopes they will click an ad or two. I make it a point NOT to click any links on what a site owner must know is a site full of useless words...

My point (and yes I have one) is this:

It takes more than a little effort to get your page to the front page of Google for competitive keywords and keyword phrases. I do so regularly using a combination of High PR Backlinks and Article Marketing. It takes time and effort but is accomplished without anything resembling magic or witchcraft. So if you are going to go to the trouble getting there:

Then please have something worthwhile to say on the topic!

There is zero reason to feel inadequate to the task of having relevant things to say. The results are in, and whatever you have to add to the discussion is well worth putting in writing as so much of what is getting to Google's front page is drivel!

An article outlining someone's failures would have been preferable to the vast majority of what I read exploring these SERPs. At least someone reading that would have been aided in their own elimination process. If you know nothing on a subject, research it and put down what you learn before going about the laborious work of posting backlinks with anchor text and writing articles to promote the page. You will shine!

Even if you build a blog with the intention of posting articles on a subject from an Article Directory to promote affiliate products or for AdSense income you can be selective about the quality of the articles you select and be head and shoulders above the competition in most cases.

The lesson to be learned here is that there is still a huge opportunity to present good quality content in pretty much any niche you choose and become an authority and a force to be reckoned with. Your blog or website can become an authority site!

We have all seen the posts, threads and articles preaching:

Create Content!

Create Content!

Create Content!

Well another word is needed here to make it:

Create Relevant Content!!

Create Relevant Content!!

Create Relevant Content!!

All it takes is the effort to be sure that your content delivers some form of relevancy on the keywords that you choose to promote.

So don't let yourself be over awed by the idea of your words being on the front page of Google.

I mean hey! Nobody else is...

Jim Patterson

Read more about Internet Marketing Tools and SEO Marketing

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Boost Your Article Marketing With Video Marketing

Boost Your Article Marketing With Video Marketing
By Jim Patterson

Article Marketing remains the best form of Traffic Generation available online. Publishing articles creates backlinks for the search engines. Your articles will also create traffic directly from the article directories, blogs and websites where your articles are posted. That doesn't mean there is nothing new in the Article Marketing arena!

I've recently posted information on my own Article Marketing process, and the services that I use. There are a few new products though that add another dimension to your Article Marketing efforts via Video Marketing...

And no, I'm not going to use this space to pitch any of these software titles at you, as most people just don't need them...

The concept behind this product deserves our attention though. The idea is to create a slideshow with appropriate (or innocuous) images to play behind a voice reading your article. This turns your article into a video!

Now you can use a free service like Tube Mogul or a paid service like Traffic Geyser to upload the resulting video to video sharing sites like YouTube and Metacafe. Search Engines index these sites almost continuously so the videos show up in a few short hours.

IMHO, the best use for these is to post a link back to the article itself at EzineArticles.com as this will help you boost the article's rank with Google. You post a link by putting the full url in the description box the very first thing. This will make it a live link on most video sharing sites. Remember to post your article's keywords as tags.

You can of course, upload to each of the video sharing sites manually, but this is time consuming. The free version of Tube Mogul gives you just over 150 uploads/month so you may want to pick just a few choice video sharing sites to use it on. I generally upload to about 5 or 6 video sharing sites for each video uploaded.

All you really need to create these videos is Windows Movie Maker which comes free on most computers today, and software to record your voice reading the article. I use Audacity along with a microphone I bought for about nine dollars for this. Audacity is free and quite easy to use. You should also use the same title on your video that was used on the article.

Now my own voice isn't exactly James Earl Jones but it does the job, and so will yours. Personally I prefer the sound of anyone's voice to an electronically generated one, so don't panic about this...

It generally takes a few days time for an article to get through the review process on Article Directories, so you have some time to get this together. After the first time or two, you'll be surprised at how fast you can get it done. The important thing is to make it a part of your Article Marketing routine.

The resulting videos have several uses:

• Blog Posts



• Squidoo Lens Modules



• Website Content



• Affiliate Product Promotion



• Direct Traffic Generation (add your sites url to the slideshow)

With a little thought you can come up with a lot more ideas yourself.

This is a very useful tactic to add to your Article Marketing arsenal. You can do it completely free yourself as well. There really isn't any need for any software unless you are in a niche where a slicker production look is needed.

Try it for a month and I am sure you will be pleased with the results.

Jim Patterson

Article Marketing Tips and other Website Promotion methods are discussed further on my Internet Marketing Tools Blog

For More Information on Automating The Article/Video Marketing process visit: Article Video Robot

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Article Marketing Strategy - Selling High Ticket Items

Article Marketing Strategy - Selling High Ticket Items

Having had several emails asking questions about
article marketing, I started looking for info concerning
selling high ticket items online.

There is some great info by a gentleman named
Sean Mize. His articles garner quite a bit of attention
and rightly so. He is brief but his writing serves it's
purpose.

I found it interesting that he is very open about not
really worrying about how many people read his
articles, as he is mostly looking for added Search
Engine results.

Here is a sampling of his work:






Floyd Bogart

Article Marketing - Nothing To Be Afraid Of

Article Marketing - Nothing To Be Afraid Of

My own first foray into the world of Article Marketing
was fraught with anxiety, and needlessly so.

The idea of publishing articles alongside the Internet
Gurus that I had learned from made Article Marketing
seem like I was assuming way too much about my own
knowledge.

So I did what many did and rounded up a bunch of PLR
stuff and spun the content, and voila'! I was an Article
Marketer!

Of course I didn't get the results that I'd read about in
all of the reports and ebooks on Article Marketing I had
read either.

That was then, and this is now...

Article Marketing is something that anyone endeavoring
to make an online income needs to be doing. Maybe our
words are not as noteworthy as a Mike Filsaime's or an
Alex Mandossian's but they have an inherent value that
cannot be ignored.

Why is that?

When you put your own experience into words, that has
a power that can be gotten no other way. Marketing
with Articles that contain your own struggles, victories
and yes even your defeats will motivate people to look
at your sites because they are real.

If you think that your grammar or punctuation are not
up to par, and that will make your articles look less
professional, then write them in Word and watch the
prompts. Your Articles will look sufficiently professional
to get visitors to your sites.

It is also not really necessary to submit your Articles to
hundreds of Article Directories. In most cases I just
submit to EzineArticles.com. This is the most widely
accessed Article Directory by far, so it's reach is sufficient.

Okay, if you really want to use more of a shotgun
approach you can get your Article submitted to over 600
Article Directories at ArticleMarketer.com.

Article Marketing allows you to build traffic, links back to
your site, and a reputation as someone to listen to in
your market.

Article Marketing is a vital part of your Web 2.0 activities.

Article Marketing builds links back to your blog, website,
Squidoo Lens, HubPage or any other webpage you are
promoting.

Article Marketing builds your reputation within the online
community of your niche.

Article Marketing is something you need to begin doing
now...

Floyd Bogart

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BUM Marketing - How To Get Your Listings To Stick Like Glue

Here is an article that I think will be useful to
all of you Article Marketers, and BUM Marketers
in particular...

Now if you are unfamiliar with the concept of Bum Marketing, then
before you try applying the following you should learn the basics here:

The Bum Marketing Method

And a useful PDF can be downloaded HERE

Now you can go ahead and learn about getting your listings to stick...

BUM Marketing - How To Get Your Listings To Stick Like Glue

If you have been using the Bum Marketing Method for any amount of time you
quickly realize that the key phrases you get listed for is brilliant only to go and
check back a few days later and find out that your listing can not be found!

In this post I am going to show you not how to stop this from happening as no-one
can control Google, but once it does happen and your listings drop exactly what to
do to get them back!

So let’s begin…

Article Writing

I assume if you are using the Bum Marketing method you must know about how
to write your articles so they get listed but here a few points that may help you
get them listed higher.

Firstly do your keywords research following the Bum Marketing Method, which you
should already know.

I search for keywords that get more than 30 searches a day and that have competition
of no more than 15,000 when put in quotes!

Here are a few quick pointers of how to get your article listed higher:

1. Always have the title as the key phrase – So if your key phrase was “Dog Training” your title should be “Dog Training – 7 Secrets The Pros Use” or something to that effect!

2. Always start your article with the key phrase, this is important because Google’s Spiders sometimes do not read through an entire page and it will get indexed faster.

3. Mention the key phrase about 2-3 times a paragraph depending on the size of the paragraph of course!

4. Most important in your author’s bio box make sure you mention the phrase again and also put an Anchor Link for the key phrase.

So you would have something like your author bio and then your call to action would be “To Find Out The One Real Secret Of Dog Training Click The Link Below”. The Anchor link is made like this:

Dog Training

 Obviously put your site instead of the URL above and it will make a link that
says “Dog Training” for people to click on!

 Follow those pointers above when writing your articles and you will see your
listings soar!

Now on to the main report on how to get your listings to stick to Google.

The main reason that Google removes articles and ads and you notice your work
there one day and gone the next is normally because you do not have enough
back links! 

Here Is How To Get Your Listings And Articles To Stick to Google Like Super Glue!:

First off you can use this for any article or US Free Ads or Squidoo Lens that
you want to get back into the listings:

Step 1:

Go to Digg.com – Digg is a social bookmarking site where people submit stories
and reports and is best used to get your articles bumped up or your squidoo
lens back in the listings.

Unfortunately you can not use Digg for US Free Ads but I will tell you how to do
that later…

So once you are at Digg.com sign up for an account if you need one and then all
you need to do is submit a new story!

You can go Here to do this and the button is in the top right of Digg’s Homepage.

Enter the article or squidoo lens address into the box and click on submit.

Here all you do is enter a quick overview about what your article or squidoo lens is about. I have used the Dog Training example.

Also remember to lay it out as I have done in the screenshot above and use your key phrases a few times a paragraph.

Also note that Digg are quite strict on Spamming so do not over do it! You should be linking through to articles or squidoo lens with good content so you should not run into any problems!

Step 2:

Go to http://www.onlywire.com/ this is another social bookmarking service that enables you to post to multiple social bookmaking services all at once!

You can also use this one for your US Free Ads as well!

Once you get there you will need to click on the link that says “Start Using It Now” and create a username and password.

The first thing you need to do on this page is at the top where it has a link that says “Save Page (std)” you need to drag and drop this into your tool bar which is normally where the links are to Windows marketplace and so on.

Once you have done that you need to click on the links in the picture above and sign up for an account at each one. This is tedious I know but it will sky rocket your listings.

Then come back to this page above and enter your username and password in the boxes above and remember to click on “Save My Logins” at the bottom.

After you have done all that go back to the squidoo lens or article you submitted to digg and while on the page, Click on the Save page link that should now be in your toolbar.

This will take you through to a page similar to the one on digg and you should write you bookmark in much the same way.

With the key phrase as the title and the comments and notes using the key phrase a few times every paragraph!

After you have followed the steps above you should see your listing come back into Google within a few days, although most of the time it is a lot quicker!

If All Else Fails:

If you still can not see you’re listing after a couple of days go to

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/

And submit a listing in exactly the same way as you write the bookmarks above into the small biz ads section on this page.

Also bear in mind that craigslist gets you indexed super fast although do not use the service more that once every 24 hours or they will just remove the listing.

If you are still not listing on Google at that point (you should be!) you should write an article containing the key phrase and submit it to http://www.goarticles.com/ and another article with the key phrase with different content to http://searchwarp.com/

That’s all there is too it!

I recommend following the steps above on your Bum Marketing listings that are making you money that suddenly drop, although you could use it for each of your articles and Squidoo lens if you wanted and totally dominate Google!

Floyd Bogart

Writing Your Own Articles - For Profit & Traffic

Here are some articles by Steve Shaw of SubmitYourArticles.com
to help you get started writing your own articles.






Insane Traffic To Your Site Using The Magic of Article Submission...