“TRAFFIC SURGE”
By Greg Mulac http://www.GregMulac.com
“Traffic Surge”
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INTRODUCTION: Everyone in the world will give you advice on submitting an article to the different directories, but no one actually takes the time to do anything other than give you a list of sites to submit to. Well as you may have noticed, we like to do things a bit differently here. What we are going to do is take you step-by-step through signing up to some of the different article directories, creating your signature file and posting your article to achieve maximum benefit for your Business. First, let’s take care of the things we need in order to get started. These things would be an article and a Signature file. The dreaded article. There is only one thing you need to know here and that is that you are not trying to win a Pulitzer Prize for literature here. You are writing an article that will be picked up by sites and directories world wide and will supply you with visitors to your sites, blogs and affiliate promotions for years to come. We’re not going to take a lot of time on this, just sit down and gather your thoughts related to what URL and subject you want to promote and write about 600 words on that subject. It’s a lot easier than you’re thinking it is going to be. Stop overanalyzing and being critical of yourself and get it done.
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Here is a quick tip for those still believing they can not write an article. I never start off to write an article, I began with what I believe would be a very informative blog post and then after I have used that part for content on my blog I revisit it, change the title and expand on a few things in the post and before you know it there’s a 600 plus word article sitting in front of you by accident. Here is an article I put together just for this demonstration. It is shorter than you would need for submission, but gives you a starting point. Feel free to take it and expand on it for your own article or blog post. I am also using it here to drive the point home about how important I feel this subject is.
Using Articles to Drive Traffic to a New Site If you are not using article submission to drive traffic to your new sites, you have two options at this point. You can either start writing them and begin to learn what you need in order to get them posted on an article directory or you could delete the site and give up. There is nothing else that you have more control over than this one simple step to help you get more readers to your site. It can be as easy as taking the content you have on your site and turning it into articles for submission, or just sitting down and taking what you know and turning it into a well informed, well written article that grabs the readers attention. By getting the reader interested in what you have to say, you now have someone that wants to read more of the information that you have written about and will look to see what else you may have available by following the link that is in your author bio back to your site. Wow! Traffic to your site that you created. The internet is also full of content starved web masters, newsletter publishers and ezine operators that are always looking for a good article to add to their publication that will increase its value to their readers. You now have someone else promoting your information and by giving credit to you as the author, you have a new source of free links back to your sites. If you feel that you are not ready to start on this process, spend some time looking around the various article directories on the internet. The first thing you will notice are the types of articles that people are writing and looking for. I believe after looking at a few you will come to realize that it is not rocket science. You can do this! The first one is going to be the hardest but, then it becomes like an addiction.
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You will begin to want to share everything that you know with others. Start by taking your subject and write down whatever comes into your mind about it. Remember, you do know something that someone else does not know and will find interesting to read, so get that first article written and posted to at least one directory. After you have gotten approval to have it published, you will then know that you have met the basic criteria for publishing articles. If your article is rejected, take note of the reasons you are given, correct them and then resubmit it. The most common reason will be links within the article or self-promotion. There are limits and basic rules so check with each directory before posting your article to them. Once you understand the basics start writing and posting. You will be pleased when you start to see the traffic begin linking through your articles. Good luck and I look forward to seeing your articles out there on the net.
In the resource section I will be giving you a lot of places to get fresh monthly PLR to use for your articles. PLR is a great source of content, especially if you are experiencing any sort of writers block. One thing to remember any time you are writing a document for submission is that you will want to try to come up with at least 5 keywords that you are targeting with your article and weave them into the document. Once you are finished writing, we will add an article summary. This consists of at least 2 to 3 sentences that will get the searchers attention. Next, we need to have a signature file. To me, this is more important than even the article itself. This will be how someone will find your site on the internet after they have read your article.
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As an example of what I’m referring to, this is a signature file that I use for my passion, my Lost Treasure Hunting sites.
Greg Mulac traveled the globe 25 years pursuing Gold Prospecting / Treasure Hunting passions. Today, retired from an IT Career, he thrives in SEO and Internet Marketing ventures.
As you can see, I have hyperlinks in this one. A lot of sites will not let you do this. If you go to the Appendix and look real quick you will see I give step by step instructions on how to do Link Redirect and a location to go and get the one used in this ebook for free that all you have to do is edit and put on your server and use over and over. Now we have an article and we have a signature file. Now we need to place our article everywhere we can. Below I’m giving you but a small fraction of the sites that are out there. You will need to come up with a plan to do a new submission either daily or weekly and it will add up very quickly. To help you in this and to make your life easier in the future, let’s now create a folder on your desktop called My Articles. In this folder, we now have our first article and a separate document with our various signature files. The next document that you will want to create is one called your Submissions file. In this new document, you will enter four basic things, the name of the submission site, their URL and the username and password that you use to log in. This will be very helpful to you when you
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write that second article and want to do the whole process over again. Here are list of article directories that you can submit your articles to. Remember, after we have done these and you start to get excited that you site or blog is getting traffic, just keep going. Do a Google search and find some more. I will keep an updated page on my blog at www.GregMulac.com for article submission sites and you can find an updated and constantly growing list here: http://www.gregmulac.com/article-directories-for-freearticle-submision/ Many times people will tell you something but not do it themselves. If you see a link in this ebook or on any of my sites, all you have to do is search that site for my name and I guarantee you will find my articles there. I do not believe in recommending something that I myself would not do or use. To begin, we will start with my favorite and one that has sent the most traffic to my sites. Ezine Articles http://www.ezinearticles.com/submit/ This page is where you will set up your account.
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Below is the sign up page and you will notice the link to watch the video. Chris Knight has done a great job and by watching the video you are not only taken through the basic account set up but it does a fantastic job of explaining each part of the article process. The site also has a Play button next to each box that gives you information on just that subject. By starting here, you will learn everything you need to know about articles so that all of the other article submissions you do will seem so easy. You will be asking yourself, “Why did I keep putting this off?”
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After you get your account set up and log in go to the Articles Manager tab and select Submit a new article. The following screen will appear. Just enter the information as you learned in the video and you have your first article submitted and driving traffic to your site.
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Now submit to these directories using the same information you used in the previous example. Go Articles http://www.GoArticles.com Go to this link and enter your information http://goarticles.com/cgi-bin/add.cgi?submitmember=New+Member the screen will look like this:
Now enter your information and hit the “add me” button. After you have your account set up and have logged in you will see this screen.
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In this directory, you will see your user information and a place to add your picture and website info. When you are ready to add the article, click on the “add new article” button and the following input screen will appear.
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Now just enter your article and select preview. I hope you are finding this a whole lot easier than you thought it was going to be!
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Buzzle http://www.buzzle.com/ Go here to sign up http://www.buzzle.com/members.asp
Enter your information and Submit Buzzle is a bit different in the fact that you don’t have a Bio box, what you have is an author page and you get a link to one web site. To see mine go here. http://www.buzzle.com/authors.asp?author=5101 After you get your account set up, you will need to submit an application to become an author with Buzzle.
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You just need to fill in the form and submit it.
You will get an email from them when you have been approved. They say that the process could take up to three or four weeks. There are only six areas of the form that are required to be filled in and they are clearly marked as above.
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Once you have been approved as an author, you have your profile page and you can click on the “Add a New Article” link. You will get the standard article submission page shown below. Simply add your article and submit.
Add a New Article
Chapter: Title:
Please select the chapter this article w ill belong in:
Title optimization tips: -> 4 to 7 words recommended for title. Keep title length less than 65 characters (including spaces) -> Include keywords for which you want the article to get searched. Keywords and keyword combinations in article title play a vital role in determining your article’s search engine rankings. For better search engine positioning one needs to pay attention to the words that appear in title and the order in which they appear. -> Keep title relevant to the article content. Do not try to optimize title for irrelevant or very competitive keywords. -> Short titles are NOT recommended because more keywords increase possibility of rankings for more keyword combinations. Moreover short titles may conflict with Buzzle's existing and planned categories. -> For article series, instead of part 2, part 3, etc. in title (and remaining title same as previous article's), we recommend to use unique titles for each articles -> Do not include HTML tags in title -> Do not include single or double quotes, or other special characters. -> Do not include date -> Title and description are used to link to the article from other pages and search engines. Convincing title and description increase click-through rate. -> More tips and further reading
Description:
-> Please do not copy first para of article as description. Text in description should describe the article in short; preferably in 1 to 3 sentences. -> Include all main targeted keywords and others which could not be covered in title -> All content here must be relevant to the article. Please do not include urls or personal info. -> Max 450 characters -> Do not include HTML tags in description
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Article:
-> Recommended length 700 to 2500 words. -> Short paragraphs recommended. Max 3000 characters allowed in any one paragraph. -> No max length limit for article, but if greater than 2500 words we recommend to separate into different articles. -> When including links within the article, each must be unique. i.e. each link must have a different title and must link to a different Web page. ->
tags recommended for sub headings. Make sure to close the tags properly with . -> Apart from
any other tag should be avoided especially if you are not HTML expert. -> Do not use
tag as carriage return/line feed is automatically converted into
tag. -> As every carriage return/line feed is converted into break(
tag) when article is displayed, - be careful to format your article correctly - For HTML experts, remember carriage return may insert
within your other HTML. Especially if you use tag,
may get inserted between and tags or
and tags if carriage returns are entered between your tags.
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How many links will you be -> If links have already been included within the article, do not include including? additional links here.
-> Each link in this section must be unique. Include a poll with this article. Include an image with this article. (Do not use for submitting author image.)
Poll: Image:
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The next one that we will take a look at is one you can just submit to and does not require you to create a login or an account. HotLib http://www.hotlib.com/articles/submit.php
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Here are some more tried and tested article directory links for you to submit your article to. Remember also, there will always be an updated page on my blog at: http://www.gregmulac.com/article-directories-for-freearticle-submision/ Articles On http://www.articleson.com/ Article City http://www.ArticleCity.com Isnare http://www.Isnare.com Idea Marketers http://www.Ideamarketers.com *Article central http://www.ArticleCentral.com Article Hub http://www.ArticleHub.com Article Warehouse http://www.ArticleWarehouse.com Author Connection http://www.AuthorConnection.com
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*Zongoo http://www.Zongoo.com Content Desk http://www.ContentDesk.com *Article Emporium http://www.Article-Emporium.com Reprint Articles http://www.ReprintArticles.com Article Wheel http://www.articlewheel.com/ In closing, you just need to get started and do it. There is no magic in this business, it is simply a matter of having a plan and actually working it to be among the ones that enjoy success. So schedule yourself some time to both write articles and get them posted. Something as simple as one a week will still give you 52 in a year and that’s probably 10000 percent more than most people out there. Appendix So now you‘ve read everything about using articles as a way to promote affiliate products. While this can be a good idea, you should consider a few things first. Given the fact that your article will be picked up and be seen
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everywhere on the web, what will happen if the product disappears or changes? Wow. You just lost what could possibly wind up being years of progress. Let me show you how I have solved that issue for you. I hope you are sitting down because this will not cost you a penny. What we are going to do is promote a product that I know and use daily. I have already written my article saying all the nice things and I want to promote my affiliate link, (even though it is our own product through PayDotCom, they will still give you your own affiliate link) The product we are going to promote is www.brassringblogging.com . If it were yours, that is not a bad looking link to put in your signature file and you would only be hurt if I got bored and changed the link. Now, even if I would never do that I have seen it happen. Unfortunately, now my affiliate link looks like this https://paydotcom.com/r/9385/gregmulac/352098/ That does not look so good and it would probably not even be accepted in the article submissions. So what can we do? Well, I happen to have the domain www.gregmulac.com So I open my trusty FTP software, and under the gregmulac directory( Note this example is for a URL on a hosting account where multiple Domains are hosted. If you only have one domain on the account see the note below) I am going to create a folder called blog. What we have so far in the URL is www.gregmulac.com/blog
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That would almost make you think that my resource line is a link to my blog. Instead, what we need to do now in the folder called blog, is to create an index.php file. In case you didn’t know, when there is an index file at the URL you are going to, that is the first page that a browser will find and run automatically. If you are still having trouble making your own file I supply a link to the one used in this example below. In that index.php file, we want to have the following lines of code. (Hint: Just replace my link with yours and you have it.)
This now lets you control where that not so great looking URL points to. Even if the product that you are promoting happens to go away, all you have to do is find something else similar to promote and change the URL in the index.php file. Then all of the articles that you have, on as many as 5000 different web pages, are all still going to be automatically redirected to the index.php file when they click on your URL in the resource box. There are two final steps to complete before you are done. First, test the link and be certain that if you click on the www.gregmulac.com/blog you will end up at our Brass Ring Blogging product. Second and just as important, is to have a word file with the location of the redirect and the product that you are promoting. Then at least once a month and be sure to
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check all the links and verify that the product that you are working so hard to promote is still there. And if you are still looking for information to promote there is an affiliate link at the bottom of the Brass Ring Blogging page that links you to a lot of pre written information you can use. Note: If the domain were on its own hosting account, you would create the folder under the public_html folder on the domain. Note: If you open the folder that the PHP file is on in your desktop and select the PHP file and right click on it and then select open with and select your HTML editor it will work very well that way. Note: PHP file is in the link below to my free ebook download page off my blog the zip for the php file is on the line called redirect php zip and fell free to grab any of the ebooks on there that interest you. http://www.gregmulac.com/freeebooks.htm Resources and Content: Free Web Communities that offer great content: The Other 98 Percent Private Label Club
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Free Monthly Web Sites PLR Wholesaler Free Article Products for affiliate article writing: PayDot Revenue Loop Clickbank
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