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Article Marketing Update

admin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:32:00 +0000

I have a few articles published on various article directory sites. When I am viewing my analytics I see a few referrals from these sites. I think that the most consistent traffic (subjective not objective) comes from the site Buzzle.com. This may be due to the content of the article there (I have only posted one article there). This is a library site, not a reprint site.

Ezine articles gives a very complete article analytics page to each author. This page tracks views, reprints, and comments among other things. The pattern that I see emerging for most of the articles that I have posted there is that one is likely to see several views by passers by while the article is on the first page of results for the category, but few will click through. Then, later in the article’s life, the targeted audience will come upon the article, probably through an article search. These viewers are much more likely to click through to the offer site.

This makes doing your keyword research even more important. You want your article to show up for your target audience when they do a search on the article site. Keywords need to be incorporated into the article title in a sensible manner. They also need to be worked into the article a few times. This will help to get your article in front of your target viewer.

My primary sources of clicks have been Buzzle and eZine. I have a few articles up on Go Articles with little direct result. I do see a trend toward more traffic to all the sites that I have supported with articles. My conclusion is that there is still value to article marketing. The best approach would be through volume and consistency. I think that sticking with the higher quality sites is probably the best plan for direct visitors, but shear number of backlinks may improve the organic traffic more.

Deep Link Engine Update Update

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:31:07 +0000

I went back to the download page for the Deep Link Engine and checked things out again. It does state that you can select the blogs to use with your post. I have been unable to do that in practice. I have been able to add tags, but tags that I have deleted still appear to show up in the blog search.

I read through a couple of pages of comments on the page. There were a couple of users who had noted the same problem that I see. I wrote up my experiences in a comment to add to the list. I have not yet checked back to see if the developer has replied to the comment. He has replied to a couple of comments that I have seen, but these are primarily for installation problems.

I have installed the plug on several blogs and the installation has been no problem. The plug-in does search and find blog posts with relevant tags, although that does not always mean that the post is actually relevant. If I were able to actually select the posts to which I wished to link I would think this is a great plug. I have seen some traffic as a result of the few times that I have used the software and the effect could build with further use.

I have thought of a possible work-around and am trying it with this post. If it works I will let you in on my secret sauce. If not I will hope for an update to the plug-in that will make it perform in the way the site states that it should work.

Have you checked this plug-in out yet? What has your experience been?

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A New Feature for the Site

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:12:14 +0000

I am adding some reprinted articles to the site. When I run across some good information in one of the article directories that may be of interest to my visitors I am adding them in the Reprinted Articles section of the nav pane. This will add to the information available and will be filtered to insure relevance to our site topic.