• No time to write original, high quality articles in your niche?
• Unable to create multiple versions of your articles to get many backlinks?
• Registering with 100’s of article directories in monotonous?
• Submitting every article to 10’s/ 100’s of article directories is tedious

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#2: Re-creates 500+ Unique Articles, To Increase Traffic & Back Links: You’ll be wasting your valuable articles getting limited traffic and back links, if you submit them to just one or a few article directories. Whereas, if you submit to many article directories, SEs (including Google) would discount such links as duplicate content. “1 Click Article Marketing” solves these problems for you, by re-creating your every article into 500+ unique versions that will pass SE duplicate content tests.

#3: Creates Logins For 500+ Article Directories In Your Name: The initial process of creating your login account is tedious and could take a week or more of full time work. “1 Click Article Marketing” creates your logins for the 500+ article directories for a nominal, low fee. Once created, you can use these logins for the rest of your life.

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If you have already tasted success from Article Marketing, you know it is one of the (if not THE) most potent and cost-effective forms of internet marketing. Informative, unique, and powerful articles can get you tons of free direct traffic. Every day, day after day, for years after they were initially posted. And, you’ll keep posting… , why not, when you’ve found an easy way to market?

As a bonus, your articles will also get you back links. The more links you can get from every article, the merrier, because your site’s chances of ranking higher in Search Engines (SEs) increases.

Can you ask for more?

There are many important secrets to learn about article marketing, which this blog discusses elsewhere. However, in this post, I’m now going to reveal 6 secret strategies for success in article marketing. Here we go:

Article Marketing Secret Strategy #1: Writing and submitting, to SEs, plenty of good quality, original articles.

Easier said than done. Can you (or your ghostwriter) write one article per article directory that you submit to? How else will your site compete with your competitors’ sites with 1000’s (or at least 100’s) of back links? If you submit the same article to more than one directory, perhaps all but one of your links would end up in the ’supplemental index’ of the SEs (like Google), thereby getting you no more than one credit for the article.

If you spin your article and submit, what your prospects read will be more amusing (making a complete mockery of your article) than delightful…. Click here to find out how a typical spun article reads! After reading this, do you think they’ll buy anything from you at all?

Yet, you should find a way out to Write plenty of good quality, original articles and submit to 100’s of article directories.

Article Marketing Secret Strategy #2: Creating 100’s of versions of the same article that read as good as the original.

Spinning of articles is time-consuming work. And every version of the article spun should be unique, and different from one another in the watchful eyes of the ‘content duplication’ software that SEs use. Additionally, SEs don’t quite like to see the very same article title and anchor text in your links. So, you need to make sure these are varied across your article versions as well.

Article Marketing Secret Strategy #3: ‘Drip submission’ of articles to directories.

Almost every article submission software submits articles in bursts. SEs (esp. Google) don’t like that; if your site does receive a flood of back links, SEs may, at worst, sandbox your site (and that may be the end of your SE ranking hopes),.. or at best, deny credit for your links. SEs like sites that get back links naturally, at a steady rate.

Article Marketing Secret Strategy #4: Submission to the right category in every directory.

Most Article submission software don’t bother about the category to which your article should be submitted. This is because, the directories don’t have a standard set of categories.

Article Marketing Secret Strategy #5: Creation of logins for several 100 article directories.
Don’t mind the pain, because it’s a one-time effort, that creates the opportunity for you to submit every one of your articles for years to come.

Article Marketing Secret Strategy #6: Tracking submissions, and resubmitting articles that fail during submission.

Some submissions will fail in the first attempt in some directories for whatever reasons. The failure rate will be higher when you submit using software. Most software submissions are not tracked by the submission software, and so, they wouldn’t even know if your articles got submitted properly. If the software gives you a report of the date and time of submission, you’re reasonably safe. And if the software is programmed to resubmit later, all the better.

Why you should seriously pursue these 6 Article Marketing Secret Strategies: True, there are many challenges in article marketing. But therein lies the opportunity. Precisely for the same reasons of these challenges, your competitors are more likely to give up or make many compromises. If you pursue all these strategies rigorously, you’ll be one up on your competition.

Whether you write your own articles or get them written by others, you need to have clear strategies for article writing. I recommend the following 5 secret strategies.

Article Writing Secret Strategy #1: Showcase your subject matter expertise as best as you can.

Ideally, you should be the subject matter expert, writing ezine articles on your subject. Or you should try to become one, asap. I strongly believe that such people pursuing their passion rather than trying to sell all kinds of things have the highest chances of resounding success. In such a case, you are sitting on top of a gold mine; your ezines will have a high potential to deliver, as they come from your heart. You could depend on both the power of your ideas and the power of your writing.

If you’re not the subject matter expert,… it is still possible to do reasonably well online. Your articles could still get published and get you good traffic and back links. For example, you may be selling an affiliate product, or angling for some adsense income. There may be no original ideas in your ezines/ articles; your articles may be a rehash of content from elsewhere on the net. Of course, the words stringing the ezine article together could still be original. Here, you have to depend mainly on the power of your writing, and the fact that the reader may be a newbie in your market, and your content may be useful to him/ her.

Whichever be the case, your first goal should be to write the article (or get it written) as best as you possibly can, for your readers first, and only then for the SEs.

If you have your own distinctive style, follow it. ‘How To’ articles are the most liked ones. If you could add an element of humor/ sensation/ romance/ drama/ thrill/ intrigue/ sarcasm/ suspense,… all the better.

If you use shared articles, don’t publish them as such. Make sure they are rewritten. Powerfully enough, so your original words make up for the lack of original ideas.

If you get your articles written by someone else, it still helps you to understand the subject well, and decide what gets written. You could give a good brief and ‘how to’ tips to help your writer to write exactly what you want written.

Article Writing Secret Strategy #2: Just Tell. Don’t Sell.

Article directories are not ‘ad columns’. They are not publishing YOUR articles just because YOU want back links and traffic. Article publishers have THEIR OWN agenda. They want to appear to their readers that the articles in their sites are ‘pure’ content with lots of useful tips, not somebody’s propaganda material. So, they want you to completely cut out your self-promotion in your articles, limiting your publicity to the ‘Author Bio’ (also called ‘Resource Box’).

Also, articles get maximum traffic to your site when they are useful and interesting (even if incomplete). They should appeal to the emotions/ intellect of your target audience, identifying with them, creating a rapport, and making them drop their defenses. Your articles should make your audience look up to you as the guru they’ve been searching for. This is exactly what article publishers expect too, not your sales pitch. So, write such that you give away content, including at least one useful tip they may not know. Get the readers to read your Author’s Bio and visit your site. In other words, write articles, not ad copy.

Article Writing Secret Strategy #3: Edit.

Articles that contain typos, written with scant regard for grammar, present you and your site in poor light. Preferably, get your article edited/ proof-read by someone who’s good at English, unless you’re 100% sure of your spelling and grammar.

Article Writing Secret Strategy #4: Write compelling/ appropriate collaterals.

Though your article body is important, its collaterals are important too. Write a compelling Article Title, Author Bio (Resource Box), and Summary, and identify appropriate keywords and Category. When you publish your article, each of these plays an important role too. Pay more attention to your Author Bio than your article.

Article Writing Secret Strategy #5: Re-create your article (Don’t Spin).

Even a great article, when spun, becomes junk, usually. Don’t just spin. Re-create your article with more effort than when you first wrote it. Re-create not just the article body, but also the Title, Author Bio, and Summary. Add varying anchor text to all the links. Make sure you include the right long-tailed keywords, and the right LSI, with the keyword mentioned aptly (just 3 to 4 times, once in the title and once at the very start), and links to different pages of your site, all of which will get your article good SE placement.

Why you should seriously pursue these 5 Article Writing Secret Strategies: If you enjoy writing articles and have built your business around your own articles, you know the value of Article Marketing. You’re doing just fine. Follow these 5 strategies.

No doubt, Article Marketing is tedious and time-consuming for the busy/ uninitiated. Because you have to churn them out, day in and day out. Particularly if you are very busy otherwise (may be minting money managing your online/ offline business, or may be in a day job). Or if you are too lazy to write. Or if you lack the skills and/or motivation to write.

Whatever your reasons, don’t avoid Article Marketing! It is too good an opportunity to pass up. Outsource this service from a good vendor, whoever you think measures up to your expectations. And make sure your vendor follows these 5 article writing strategies.

A few words about Article Directories: No one knows precisely how many article directories are out there. You can get your own article directory (anchor text), if you want, right now; that will add one more to the list. So, how on earth can one anyone know their count, at any point of time?

Also, some article directories are defunct; many others have never been updated for ages. There’s no point in submitting to such directories or counting them in your submissions; if you do, you’ll only be fooling yourself.

Should You Submit To A Few Or Many Article Directories?: What counts is whether you’re submitting to a reasonably large number of genuine directories that are alive and kicking. If there are a good number of them with high PR ranks, that’s even better. Some of the low PR ranked directories may get to the top with higher ranks soon; so, it is not necessary that every directory you submit to should have a high PR ranking. (Incidentally, PR rank itself is not the best indicator of a directory’s value to you.) And your effort in mass-submitting to multiple article directories is the same, whether you submit to 5, 50 or 500! You know the huge advantage of submitting a unique version of your every article to many directories - you get tons of traffic and 100% credits for your backlinks that can get your site higher SE ranking, and still more traffic.

The Pain Of Registering With Article Directories: The more the article directories you want to submit your articles to, the more logins you’ll need to create, since almost every article directory requires you to register first before submitting. And, you will almost certainly discover that the username and ‘pen name’ (that article dashboard directories additionally want you to fill in) may be available for you to own in some directories, but are already taken by somebody else in others. So, you may need to use one or more alternative usernames and pen names.

How To Manage The Pain Of Registering With 100’s Of Article Directories: At an average of 6 minutes per article directory, registering with 500 article directories (which is what many service providers recommend now) should easily take you more than 3000 minutes (50 hours), which is more than one week’s full time effort, at 8 hours a day. This is a one-time painful exercise you can’t avoid. So, it makes sense to register to as many directories as you can, as quickly as you can, since the benefits far outweigh the efforts. Use the services of a third party service provider, if your time is worth more.

The Devil Is In The Details: Also, there must be a way for you to pass on these login details (including pen name) to your article submission software. Most submission software will accept only one login, not a list of them directory-wise; some will not accept pen names; definitely not multiple pen names in most cases. But you have such a list that your article submission software should know. And there must be a way to expand this list as you go along, adding and deleting directory names and login details.

The Last Word: Despite these challenges, it makes sense to register with as many article directories as you can, preferably several 100’s of them, since these directories are gold. Their value to you will only keep increasing over time.

Internet business owners (and even not-for-profits) write articles mainly for 2 purposes:

(1) to get the target market to find their articles through search engines (SEs), read them and visit their sites, resulting in direct free traffic to their sites;

(2) to get ‘back links’ and move up the Search Engine rankings.

Since there are 100’s of good article directories, article owners naturally want to maximize the impact of their articles by submitting to all of them (or at least, as many of them as possible), and get lots of free traffic and back links. If they submit the same (identical) articles, Search Engines like Google would credence to just one back link; also many article directories reject such duplicate articles.

Article spinners came in precisely to address this issue. Article spinners help article owners spin multiple articles out of one (or more) ’seed’ articles. Though the substance of the spun articles will be the same as the original, the wordings of the spun versions will be different. So, Search Engines may see the spun articles as being different from the original, if they are accepted as different by software that check for duplicate content.

Article spinning involves a 2-stage process:

(1) substituting words, normally using a software tool that shows synonyms (also called a synomizer), and

(2) using a spinner software to spin.

Are Spun Articles Good?: Both the quality of writing and the quality of the spinner software play an important role in determining the quality of unique articles spun.

Though you may spin and try to make SEs see the articles as different, you write articles for real people to read. (Unless your goal is merely getting links, and you don’t care about what people will think of you when they read your spun versions of articles that look like garbage.) It has been found that the benefit you get from people reading your articles and finding their way to your site far outweighs the benefit of back links. So, the quality of unique articles produced is very important.

Most spun articles are just garbage. (To read a sample of such an article spun using software, please click here. Courtesy: Warrior Forum)

Search Engines do not like spun articles; more so, the people who read them.

How will SEs detect spun articles? No one knows for sure, as they keep this (and many such things) a secret. But experts believe that they (esp. Google) use several techniques - from the simple ‘% duplicates’ using online/ offline software that work like ‘dupefreepro’ and ‘dupecop’, to the more complex checks for the structure of the article (going right down up to the structure of the paragraphs and even sentences). “Is it possible to do such a rigorous check of the millions of sites?”, you may wonder. They have ways of identifying only potential candidate sites for checking; they need not compare every site with the rest of the sites on the net. This is not as complex a task as it may seem.

SEs are only against spinning, the way it has evolved, not against genuine re-creation of content, because they want lots of original content. If they look for only the first (original) version of any content, the net would be one-millionth its current size (or am I too optimistic in my estimate?)

Rewritten articles will, therefore, be more acceptable to SEs and humans, since they will be as good as the original in every respect, including language style and grammar.

Article Spinning - My Strategy For Success: For your article to succeed, the secret strategy I recommend is ‘Article Re-creation’ rather than ’spinning’. Let me explain.

Don’t create variations of your articles using any automated software. Re-create unique articles by a process of manual (not software-driven) ‘word, phrase, and even sentence’ modification, based on the context. Use a good re-creation software that can work on not just the article body, but also on the article title, summary, anchor texts, and even keywords. So, you’re assured of very high quality unique (re-created) articles, and 100% credit for your back links.

Though the difference between article spinning and re-creation may appear small, it’s vital. It could be the difference between success and failure.

Article submission is, by far, the toughest part of article marketing. True, there are software products and services that appear to help in submission. But none of them takes into account all the problems of article submission, and addresses them successfully. If you set for yourself the following article submission strategies and manage to execute them well, you’re likely to stand much taller than your competition, and benefit from the increase in sales and profits.

Article Submission Secret Strategy #1: Submit Only Re-Created Unique Versions Of Your Articles.

Like all the other successful article marketers, you want to make the best use of your every article. How can you match your competitors and even better them? First of all, you can avoid article spinning. Create multiple versions of your article and submit one version per directory. Your article will be more unique, and get better SE recognition. It will also read well, and get you buyers from among from your article readers.

Article Submission Secret Strategy #2: Vary the article title & description.

This will help in the SEO process, similar to Strategy 1. Not only in establishing every version as unique and getting SE rankings for your site, but also in securing SE rankings for multiple versions of your article, thus increasing the chances of your article being read.

Article Submission Secret Strategy #3: Vary The Anchor Text.

Varying the anchor text in all the links, whether in the body or in the Author Bio, is critical, to avoid SEs like Google sandboxing your site or devaluing your links. Comply with all the rules of the article directories, esp. the ones related to permissible links. Pay greater attention to the rules of the more important article directories. It’s ideal to find the lowest common denominator of the rules of all the directories, and comply with them, so your site will have the best chance of getting many links.

Article Submission Secret Strategy #4: Submit To The Appropriate Categories.

Typically, most article submission software submit articles without bothering about the category to which your article should belong. Some of them simply submit to the ‘Others’/ ‘Miscellaneous’ category, presuming they are ‘playing it safe’ (which is bad, since your articles are getting sidelined, at best). This happens because article directories don’t have a standard set of categories. So, it is difficult to submit to the right category, even manually, as it is tedious and frustrating.

The ‘admin’s of most article directories may simply disallow your article if your article is submitted to a wrong directory. Many of them are finicky about it. From the angle of SE ranking also, your site would benefit most from submission to the right category. In addition, looking at it from the angle of the web searcher, your article stands a better chance of being discovered when submitted to the right category. So, it is in your overall interest that your articles are submitted to the right categories, always.

A good Article submission software should map every category correctly to every other directory, which is the only way to automate and manage this task.

Article Submission Secret Strategy #5: Drip-Submit Your Articles; Don’t Mass-Submit.

Don’t submit all the 100’s of Unique versions of your article in one go. Submit them in drips, for slow, natural back links to develop, to gain ‘full credits’ for your links. Most submission software mass-submit articles; this may land up your links in the supplemental index of SEs (like Google). True, article directories may take time to approve, but even so, you lose control once you mass-submit. And you’re likely to be suspected by SEs of using black hat techniques to get links.

Article Submission Secret Strategy #6: Track Every Submission.

“What cannot be measured cannot be controlled”, as the saying goes. Your submission software should give you a report of the article submissions, preferably with the date and time of each submission. Have a separate email account (say, Gmail) to get mails from these directories so that you know what’s happening in all these article directories, whether your article has been approved, or rejected for some reason, or they want to communicate something else to you. You can read these mails at leisure, and not permit them to clutter your main mailbox(es).

Article Submission Secret Strategy #7: Resubmit Articles That Fail.

There must be an automatic way for your submission software to do this. This will minimize ‘article leaks’.

Article Submission Secret Strategy #8: Include Your Article In Your Blog/ Site, And In Your Own Article Directory.

Add one version of the article to your own blog/ site, and even one in your very own article directory in your niche (which can be easily created and maintained). Content is king, as they say. Why waste it, particularly when you have 100’s of versions of your every article, and you can have one for your own site? Since, the versions are all unique, you will get maximum credit for every one of your articles.

Article Submission Secret Strategy #9: Include One Version Of Your Article In Your Newsletter.

This is again a no-brainer. This will act as a reminder to your list. (If you don’t have one yet, create one right away.) This need not be a solo mail, but include other communication you want to send out. Just include this in your autoresponder, appropriately. Don’t forget adsense, RSS feeds, amazon links, etc., if your newsletter is in ‘html’ form; else create ‘html’ links to include revenue earners like adsense, RSS feeds, amazon links, etc.

Article Submission Secret Strategy #10: Recycle Old Articles, Wherever Possible.

A cat has nine lives. Your article can have even more. But remember to rewrite them (particularly, update them based on any changes since you last wrote), before re-creating multiple versions and submitting.

Best Wishes!

There are some questions that always appear to beg answers:

“Since Content is king, should I sacrifice my valuable content to article directories?”

“If I first publish my content in my own blog/ site, and then submit to article directories, won’t these become duplicate content, and hence struggle to rank higher in Google Search? So, will web searchers find them through the article directories?”

“Will article directories like it if I always publish duplicate content in them? Should I not develop a healthy relationship with them, so they treat me and my articles with special preference?”

“But how many article directories can I develop a relationship with, also avoiding duplicate content?”

If you have followed my other posts in this blog, you should have 100’s of excellent ‘as good as original’ versions of your article by the process of article re-creation. Lucky, you! You can post them in all the 100’s of article directories, one unique version per directory, and also have unique versions of the article for your blog/ site. In fact, you could even post one version as a blog post and another as an article in your blog, but I personally recommend that you rewrite one for the blog, because you wouldn’t want your blog visitors to read two similar, though not identical, versions, would you?

Should you post in your blog before submission to article directories? This is not essential, since the versions are different; yet, I’d recommend that you post first in your own blog.

Now, you’ll get your article appearing in SE rankings through your blog as well as through article directories. And you’ll get plenty of back links from the article directories as well.

This way, you maximize the value of your article.

There are basically two types of internet marketers. The first type are subject matter experts (SMEs) in their respective domains; they’ve turned to the internet to gain a wider audience. They are in business for the passion of their subject,… whether their niche is an exotic pet, a fancy gadget, a farming technique, or a burning (or even not-so-burning) social issue. The second type are ‘internet marketers’ who’re always on the look out for any and every niche where they can make quick and easy money.

I propose specific but different article marketing strategies for the 2 types of Internet Marketers, in this post.

Content is never a problem for type 1 people. Because they know their niche inside out. They fear no competition. In fact, they get very friendly and collaborate with their competitors, also of type 1. They can churn out articles at will, every day, for years on end. Their quality shows in their content, even if the language is awful. No one will make a fuss about the language of their content; their writings are lapped up for their focus and depth. Their first love is their subject; any money they make is incidental. However, they are likely to make lots of profits, even if they take their time.

The people belonging to type 2 mainly get into ‘internet marketing’ for gaining financial freedom, with no subject expertise of their own, to start with. They’re always searching for new niches. Since they have less in-depth knowledge of their niches, their content isn’t likely to be original. Though there are many success stories in type 2, most of those struggling to succeed belong to this type.

These two types of IM’ers need different article marketing strategies.

Type 1 people, being highly focused, have lots of original thoughts and ideas to share with their audience. They don’t need shared articles. However, if their language skills are not up to the mark, they could hire good article writers and brief them, getting them to just present their points better. The first ideal destination for posting their article is ‘ezinearticles.com‘. They will get their back links and traffic naturally, in due course of time. However, to speed up the process of becoming an authority in their respective niches, they could consider re-creating their articles into uniques and drip-submitting them to 100’s of article directories, if time and/or budget should permit.

Type 2 people typically have multiple niches and domains to work on, simultaneously. They are less focused. Content, including articles, are not an end by themselves for them, but just a means to bring traffic to their sites and sell. Most of them don’t care about the originality of their articles, in terms of thought, but may realize the need to make the wordings their own. They may not mind completely relying on good article writers to write on their multiple subjects, simultaneously. Their articles must necessarily be re-created and submitted to 100’s of directories, again in drips, as that is the way their sites could get to the top in SE rankings. The sheer volume of work involved dictates that they may have to depend on high quality service providers like article writers, shared article vendors, and drip-submitters. Despite their handicaps, type 2 can also do well in article marketing, if they pursue these strategies.

Most newbies of type 2 may not have a budget for article marketing, and so can’t avoid doing their own things in their ameteurish ways, till they get to a point where they can afford professional assistance.

I have an another important strategy to suggest to type 2 ‘internet marketers’. Apart from the niches they may be working in, they should try to look within, and identify the subject they love most or have expertise in. Even if they’re not yet experts in the subjects they love, they could become SMEs, over time. And transit to type 1 at least in one niche, where they could increase their chances of success many times over.

Which type of internet marketer are you?