Blog Marketing

These are my top 28 selected article directory submission sites. These sites are selected based on a variety of things including page rank, reuse of articles, traffic of directory, etc.

If submitting to 28 article is to much (believe me it is for me) then there is some softw3are created that will automate the process. I have 2 different products I actually recommend, both do the same jobs, just include different directories to submit to.

The first one is called article control. This includes two programs, First is an article spinner. This allows you to spin various articles with relative ease. The cool thing about this program is the more you use it the more the article spinning is customized to your needs. The article submission part submits to 17 of my listed directories.

The other program is called article submit auto. This is an all in one program, meaning it does both the submission and the article spinning all in one little program. The downside to this program is that its entirely web based. However the upside makes it far more worth the money in my opinion.

The upside is rather simple. It submits to 30+ directories and each of the ones I have listed below are included. Also unlike article control, you don’t have to load up each article one by one as it gets spun, it just submits the next on the list.

Either way if you are serious about article marketing this is the way to go.

Top 28 Article Directories:

Free Traffic System
EzineArticles
Go Articles
Article Dashboard
Easy Articles
Article Alley
Idea Marketers
Article Cube
Bharat Bhasha
Amazines
Article Cat
Article Biz
Article Directory
Free Article Directory
Article Snatch
Article Feeder
Add Me
Article Nexus
Free Seo Webmaster Tools
Patant Consult
Wisdom Extract
Article Online Directory
More Free Information
Upublish
Exba
One Unites
Article Web
Approves Articles

So I have been hanging out a lot on the freenode IRC network lately. For those who don’t know what that is, it’s a giant Internet chat that gives support for all sorts of topics. I get help with HTML, wordpress, php, and a great deal of other things. I also share my knowledge with others and hopefully balance out the advice I give and the advice I receive.

A couple of days ago I was in the chat room known as #web and I got into a discussion with some people about get rich quick scams. Now I am the first to bash on get rich quick scams because ultimately I know they are fake and never pan out. However you wouldn’t have thought so from the conversation I was having.

It started off with someone asking for some SERP advice. For those who are not so fluent in the ways of the web, SERP stands for search engine results page. This is to say, the page number your website ends on when doing searches for various search terms in search engines.

A ways into the conversation it became apparent what this person really wanted was a straightforward how to written out for him on how to get top search results. He wanted shortcut methods.

Instantly other people from the chat who were also giving this person advice, started telling him things like “there are no shortcuts when it comes to SEO” and “shortcuts are scams, don’t use them”. I was the only one to ultimately tell these people they were wrong.

Let me tell you the backlash I got from that. Its funny how when people don’t understand something it becomes a scam. The fact is though, six months ago I would have believed nearly any and all shortcuts to be a scam and would have joined these people in bashing me.

However some shortcuts are not scams and I am going to prove it to you right now! See I am going to tell you how you can get free money! This isn’t a scam and this will work. If you read this, you’ll be laughing by the end at just how easy this easy and wondering why more people aren’t doing it.

I am going to tell you a secret that some call a scam, some don’t believe, and hardly anyone is utilizing. The secret is so simple that most truly are overlooking it.

Ironically you have probably heard all the things I am saying before on an advertisement for this very product and thought exactly as I did at first, yup another scam. The problem was none of the other articles proved it the way I am going to.

What am I talking about? I am talking about a means of getting your website listed on the top Google results for any search terms you want, in under 15 minutes! Think I am kidding? Not at all! Keep reading I will tell you how this works, and why this works, and how you can get in on the practice.

You see every single day Google gives out 10s of 1000s of dollars in advertising money to customers across the internet. To get the money all you have to do is know how to apply for it. Then you can use this money to mass advertise your website across the net. And what’s better you can keep doing it over and over again and it will never cost you any money at all!

First you have to understand Google adwords. Google uses an advertising solution they label Google adwords. The way it works is you signup for an account and select various keywords to advertise your website in. You set a bid price based on a per click value. Sound confusing? Its really very simple.

For example: the front page of this website uses the search terms “blog marketing”, “blog advertising”, and “blog coach”. I log into my adwords account and add my 3 selected keywords to my web page. I set a pay per click price of $.20 That means every time someone clicks my ad on google, I pay $.20. Its very easy to use actually.

The great part, as I just explained, is that honestly I am not paying $.20 I am paying $0.00 because Google gives me the advertising money.

You are thinking yeah right? Let me prove it to you.

I will show you how spending less then $5 you can get over $300 in Google advertising.

First You need to go to this page and signup to create a new adwords account (the first $250 only works for new accounts).

Simply by using the provided link and following the directions on the screen, google will send you a promotional code for $250 free in advertising. This promotional code can only be used within the first 15 days of creating an account so if you already have an adwords account this won’t help you.

Okay so there is $250 of the $300 I promised. What about the next $50? Well this $50 is credit you can use even on an existing account. There is only one little catch the $50 cost $4.95. How so? You see the web hosting company host gator gives you a $50 voucher code when you sign up. You can use this code, then cancel (or not renew) the next month of the hosting plan. That’s a total of $300 for less then $5.00.

Do you think these are the only 2 promotional codes on the net? I can assure you they are not! In fact my friends, this is only the beginning. You can actually run a 100% free (or very minimal fee based) google adwords campaign and drive traffic to your affiliate sites, blogs, websites, or virtually anywhere. There is almost an unlimited supply of advertising money to trial and error what works and what doesn’t with Google.

So how do you go about finding all these free vouchers? That’s the tricky part. There is a program based around this entire task called “get Google ads free”. This is actually where I learned of the free voucher method and that’s actually not the only method of getting free ads for Google. I actually HIGHLY recommend you check out the program. Its one of the best investments in my opinion a person can make for marketing online.

A lot of people are seriously either misinformed or somehow came to some wrong conclusions about links and thats what I want to talk to everyone about today.

One of a search engines biggest factors when determining a websites search rankings and search terms is based off other sites linking in. Now in the days of old when this was first discovered, people are starting to everyone and anyone the could and started negotiating trades anywhere possible.

Because of this link trade sites started popping up everywhere that would give you snippets of php and javascript code to automatically trade links with others. As this progressed the value of search engines started to deteriorate. Why? Because people were flooding it with irrelevant link terms pointing to their websites.

So search engines made a few rules to stop this from happening. The first rules they put in place were that link trades must contain relevant links. They based relevancy upon the content surrounding the page in question. The problem with this method is the link information would spread quickly around a small group, and then become stagnant.

For example 15 blogs all suddenly link to a new website all around the same time frame, each copying the link from the blog before until it gets back to the originating poster. Now that new site has an instant 15 hits, but then what. On top of this was the fact that it isn’t always fair to only base links off relevant content.

Take a personal blog for example. The owner may have an interest in nascar and cooking and want to link to both sites from his blog, even though he really only blogs about his personal poetry. So search engines started to fix things even more.

The newest implementations say that one way links are the best way to measure a sites relevance. This means the number of links coming into a site which isn’t linking back. These types of links are the absolute hardest to get. I mean how easy is it to say to someone, I can’t link back to you but would you link to me?

Okay so some people know of the a-b-c link where you say to someone, hey I will link to you from this website if you link to my other website from yours. These link trades are actually highly effective but are also very hard to negotiate with people.

Well honestly before now there was no real solution for this problem but I have come up with one. I call the solution the viral link exchange. The way viral link exchange works is that first a user goes to the website and see’s 2 lists, each list contains a series of links and link codes to other websites and blogs.

The first list on viral link exchange is the paid inclusion. From this list a a user selects 3 link codes (the link codes are displayed with the links) which they will add to their website or blog.

Then they select two more link codes from the viral link exchange free inclusion list. They add these two links along with the three links from the paid inclusion to their website.

This means the visitor of viral link exchange has added 5 links to their blog, three from the paid inclusion and two from the free.

At this point they can submit their own link into the listing. After I verify all five links have been properly added to their website, I approve their link and it goes live.

All free sites within the system get 10 return links and are then removed! That means they get twice as many links back as they add to their website from viral link exchange. However that’s not all.

If you are paying attention the way the viral link exchange system is set up, the 10 return links are going to be from 10 random website, not the ones the visitor added to their blog. That means 10 one links for the price of 5.

I ensure each free link submitted to viral link exchange gets fair and evenly distributed links by adding all new links to the bottom of the list, then rotating each link back to the bottom when someone links to it.

Now as for the paid inclusion. First of all let me just say paid inclusion means you don’t have to link to other sites to have your site added to the system. It also means your link is not removed after it receives 10 links, instead it is displayed for one full month no matter how many links it gets. Also the list of paid links are displayed in random order each time the page is loaded to ensure paid links are evenly distributed.

So where does the viral part come in? Well that’s whats so great about this system, its so embedded into the system itself, no one even realizes its happening. Basically its simple. One of the paid links, is a link back to the viral link exchange.

This means people are constantly linking to viral link exchange and bringing new people to the site. New people, means more links in the system and more reason to add your link over and over.

Also be sure when you are checking the website out to notice I have started an affiliate program for the site through paydotcom that pays out 25% on all sales!

Now my last piece of information…. I have had a few complaints that viral link exchange looks like a scam site, doesn’t look automated enough, or simply doubters that think this won’t work.

If you are one of those who checks out the page and thinks there is no way this could work, let me tell you, try it just 1 time. You’ve wasted more in life on less I am sure. This takes a few minutes of your time, costs nothing, and ultimately what have you to lose? Come on! So again, go try the system out now, you will be very impressed!

Viral Link Exchange

One of the harder things to do is figure out exactly what type of affiliates and advertising will work best for different types and styles of blogs. Sure for some blogs it is very obvious, for example its fairly straight forward that if you visit my sons Ben 10 alien force blog you are going to find Ben 10 products and merchandising.

However what if you have a personal blog all about you. For example what if your blog is the type of blog that is filled with surveys about your likes and dislikes, contains applets for your favorite online games, and perhaps some sort of virtual pet.

What type of products would you advertise on this type of blog? This is a problem many personal bloggers face. A lot of them settle to just put google ads and similar pay per click advertising on their blogs and let the ad companies select the ads for them and this is fine. However there is not much to be had in the way of residual income this way.

Residual income is income that comes in monthly with little to no effort, or more likely, it requires a lot of work in the beginning but less and less as time goes on, but the money keeps coming.

If it sounds confusing just ask yourself this. If you are using google adwords to generate money, each month you get paid based on the number of clicks you get. If for some reason your blog goes offline for an entire month, how much money do you make? Nothing right? No one can visit your blog therefore no one can click on your ads. If no one can click ads, you can’t get paid.

With residual income its a lot different. With residual income you get paid on many different factors. For example you may get paid a certain percent of the income generated by others you bring into a program. Therefore if your blog goes down, you are still making money off others. This is residual income at its finest.

That’s what I want to talk to you about today. A unique fun way to make some residual income that is perfect for personal blogs. Please note this program is meant for personal bloggers and is not a get rich quick scam! If you read about it on other websites people often make false claims about how much can be made or has been made with the program.

The program is actually a two part program called trek pay and trek advertising. First trek advertising is an advertising and marketing solution for websites. The way the marketing solution works is that you pay for advertising, and trek advertising sends you the exact type of traffic you need for the exact type of reason you want.

If you are looking to increase clicks on you affiliate links, trek advertising sends you traffic that will click on your third part links (aka affiliate links). If you provide your own products and content, trek advertising sends you traffic that will seriously read and be interested in your products and content.

All you have to do is simply tell the system what type of ads you have on your website and then people will find your site using the trek pay search feature.

For those with affiliate advertising the way it works is members of the trek pay system visit your website, they are encouraged through the system to click your ads. When they click, your advertising revenue will sky rocket and the searchers find what they were originally seeking. The charge is $.02 per click. Therefor as long as your ads pay you more then $.02 per click, you are going to make GREAT money.

If you do not have 3rd party advertising on your website the trek advertising solution sends only those interested in your services. So they will only check out your own sites material and not advertising. This is quality traffic! Real people looking through your website!

What really makes trek advertising work is understanding trek pay. Trek pay is an easy system of generating extra cash. The more active a member is, the faster they get paid. A member is awarded credits each time they do one of the following:

1. When a member does a search and visits a client website, credits are given to the member.

2. If a member refers another person to TrekPay or trek advertising they are also awarded credits.

The idea is to build up as many credits in a week as you possibly can.
Each week trek pay puts a dollar figure on those credits based on the amount of advertising slots paid for and the amount of members clicking on various ads.

When trek pay does this, they replace your weekly credits with the dollar amount they are worth for that week. The more credits you have, the faster you can get paid and the more money you make. Using this system you can generate up to $50 a week (anything after $50 from the credit system will not be paid).

After the weekly $50 you can generate there is an additional way to earn. This additional method is based off sales commissions. When a member is credited with a sale from trek advertising they will receive an immediate deposit into their account.

This means its very important for trek pay members to advertise thier referral pages! A member may earn $50 dollars per week with their credit system. However, earnings for commissions are unlimited.

Currently trek pay will allow you a 12.5% commission rate on each sale directly to the original referrer. In order to request payment you must have at least $5.50 in the account and you must also have PayPal Account.

Joining trek pay is free and the more you use it and the more you get others to use it the more profitable it becomes. I spend about an hour a day on the site and bring in almost $85 extra a month just through this program.

Also by adding a link to trek pay on your website, when others visit your custom affiliate landing page and make a sale, you generate commissions.

Like I said in the beginning of the article, this type of advertising and generating money is not easy at first and its certainly not for everyone. However for those with personal websites and a little dedication, this is a great additional residual income. Just get friends and family to sign up and use it and you will be making some money very quickly.

By the way trek pay and trek advertising are both very new projects to the internet. They are actually in pre-release beta version still. However they are continuing to pay out every week! Whats even better is they already have over 53,000 members and that number is increasing by thousands a month (meaning there is still time to get in on this and make money).

I strongly encourage checking it out. There page is not very enticing or informative, but the program is good and does work. Best of luck!