I have was just watching the stream of messages on my Twitter account before starting to write this post and I notice a message that read: “rewrite and submit 15 articles to ezinearticles.com about our product and service…”. I am a contributor to ezinearticles and therefore I clicked on the link and I landed on site that was advertising a freelance job where you would be paid 2 dollar per article, long between 400 and 600 words, on a specific product. They will provide you with original articles, text links and keywords for SEO optimization.
Just two dollars per article.
They require the freelance to be member of ezinearticles and preferably to have obtained platinum status, which is gained after you submit a substantial amount of impeccable articles that get published with no correction. Therefore the freelance that would bid for this job need to have a very good knowledge of English, write in a way that is acceptable to the editorial staff that perform the screening in ezinearticles and still manage to advertise a specific product in 15 different way making a total of 30 dollars. Just the upload of the articles will probably take over 30 minutes. Read the rest of this entry »
Article marketing is one of the most effective tools for driving traffic to your site and for making yourself known on the Web, yet this tool must be used properly. There are software and sites that promote automatic article generation. They spin multiple articles starting from a single template so that the quantity “fools” Google into believing there is more original content than in reality. This approach can be effective as a SEO technique (search engine optimization) but you definitely cannot show this content to the public and you cannot present it to the main articles directories either.
On the other side, original content, written directly by you or by a writer that you trust closely, will always stand out and in the long run will bring steady and reliable traffic. Quantity is important anyhow. There are very many article marketers out there and therefore you need to pierce through the barrier of the competition. One way of doing it is to be consistent with your submissions.
If you decide to write and publish one article a day, be consistent and do produce one article a day. If you can produce only an article a week, at least stick with that frequency. Be careful to check your spelling and grammar because article directories are going to scrutinize carefully you product and also make sure you are not copying anybody else’s content.
There are also sites that allow you to submit to a number of directories at the same time. They can be a convenient way to multiply your coverage, but be aware of the fact that some of the sites touched by these automatic submission engines exist mainly for the purpose of stealing your content.
A good article length should be between 250 and 400 words. Actually the shorter articles are usually preferred. You will have to read the instructions given by the main article directories so that you don’t get rejections. The average article marketer writes only 10 articles, therefore you can beat the average in less then a month. The top article marketers range around 900 articles, which is basically the work of 3 years, producing approximately one article a day.
Referring back to the “Art Of Money Getting” by P.T. Barnum, rule number 8 says: “Learn something useful” and article marketing is definitely something you can use and that other people can easily benefit from.
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