Social-Viral Article Marketing Secrets
“How to Use Your Articles on Your Blogs and on Social Networks.”
Welcome everyone to Viral Article Traffic Secrets, our bonus call. We’ve done our three modules, and this is our bonus call. As requested, the topic is, “How to Use Your Articles on Your Blogs and on Social Networks.” This is Jeff Herring, and we are broadcasting live from our virtual studios here in Atlanta, Georgia, as I look through the French doors of my office into the great room, and I watch my sons playing Guitar Hero even as we speak. We are on page 1 of our Action Guide that you can get at the following address if you’re not already there or don’t already have access to it: www.ViralArticleMarketingStratesties.com/bonus. You’ll want to download and print out that Action Guide or have some way to take lots of notes on the powerful strategies that I’ll be showing you tonight. I’m excited about sharing these strategies with you, because this is only the third time I’ve taught these particular strategies. The first two times were inside telecourses as a faculty member for Podcast Secrets with Paul Colligan and Alex Mandossian, and then as a faculty member with Alex Mandossian’s Internet Optimization University. So I’m bringing some pretty powerful stuff to you in the next few pages.
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The title and topic tonight is:
Social‐Viral Article Marketing Secrets
“How to Leverage Your Articles & Social Marketing” (Blogs, Twitter & Facebook) It almost sounds like something you need to take penicillin for. Hang in there with me. You are going to learn how to leverage your articles using all three of these for a tremendous amount of extra traffic. I’ll be giving you a link during the call that’s not in your Action Guide that will take you to some instruction and some video about how to link up all these things we’ll be talking about tonight. On page 1 of your Action Guide, there are two Quotes of the Call: National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway. ~ Tim May In other words, www stands for World Wide Web and what you’re learning how to do in this course through modules 1, 2, 3, and now this bonus module, is reach from wherever you are ‐ whatever city you live in, whether you work in an office or your home – you’re able to reach all over the world with what we’re talking about in this course. Now, just for fun, a second quote by one of my favorite comic columnists and writers, Dave Barry: What, exactly, is the Internet? Basically, it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is
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Now you have to think back to the early days of internet. Remember when you had to call in and it was done through your phone, and there was that fun little beeping sound. Remember that sound? It was a pleasant sound, though, because you were connecting to the world. Page 2.
equipped with a device called a "modem" can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo. ~ Dave Barry
In this Bonus Module of Viral Article Traffic Secrets, you will learn & discover:
Traffic Triangles Traffic Diamonds. How to “Twitter‐Launch” Your Articles Bonus Special And of course, a Whole. Lot. More We’re going to do a little traffic geometry tonight. I like that term. I just said it for the first time ever. Give me a moment while I write that down. Traffic Geometry. The bonus special will give you a way to continue your education with me, learning even more about this kind of stuff. Page 3.
1. Traffic Triangles
This is why you really need your Action Guide tonight, folks. There is an actual blue triangle looking at me from my computer screen. I hope it is from yours or in
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front of you on your Action Guide, as well. If not, folks, picture a blue triangle. If you’re driving, make sure your eyes are on the road while you picture a blue triangle. We’re going to talk about Traffic Triangles first. The Traffic Triangle is composed of three points. And someone asked me, “Jeff, give us a bonus on what to do with our articles on our blogs, Twitter, and Facebook.” Here it is, folks. Three components: • EzineArticles.com – We’ve talked a lot about them in modules 1, 2, and 3. • Twitter • Facebook Now, the “how to,” the technical set up of what I want describe to you in the next two pages, can be found at the following address, so write this down. If you email me later and ask me for it, I’m going to give it to you, but I’ll say, “I told you to write this down.” Write this down: www.EzineArticles.com/blog. In the search box in the upper right hand corner of that blog, all you have to type in is the word Twitter. You will get a whole series of blog posts about how to do this. The first one will give you instructions on how to set it up, how to go from EzineArticles to Twitter, and how to go from Twitter to Facebook. I’m going to tell you the results and how to do it, and then those videos and blog posts will give you the details of how to set it up. Alright, that’s Traffic Triangle. Next we’re going to do Traffic Diamond, and then I’m going to show you how to Twitter launch your articles. This will be a short call tonight. We may go as long as half an hour. That’s all we need to deliver these very, very powerful strategies.
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At the apex of this triangle, and that’s probably all I remember from geometry, you see EzineArticles.com. We talked at length about EzineArticles in the last three modules, module 1, 2, and 3. We talked about how you can get your articles in front of 15 million viewers a month when you get them on EzineArticles. This is where you start. That’s plenty of traffic all by itself and all the other places your articles end up because of how you craft them with the over 60 secrets and strategies we learned and talked about last week. Now, we’re going to amp it up even more so. You need an account at Ezine Articles, Twitter, and Facebook – and all of these are free. EzineArticles.com is free. Twitter.com is a free account. Facebook.com is a free account. It’s amazing. In your EzineArticles account, you take your Twitter use name and password. You go to your EzineArticles account, go into your Profile Manager and click on Edit Author Bio, and on that page there’s a place to enter your Twitter user name and password. Once you’ve done that, every single time you submit and an article is approved and published at EzineArticles, EzineArticles automatically auto‐tweets your article into your Twitter screen. It creates a message for you on Twitter that goes out to your followers. So we’re moving from the top of the triangle down to the bottom left hand corner. Now, that same article – the title, the announcement, and the link (yes, the link) is broadcast on Twitter automatically. Once you set this up one time, it’s done every time automatically. But, that’s not all – to borrow from the late night infomercials.
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You can also set up your Facebook account to automatically suck up from Twitter every new tweet that’s put out by you or automatically by EzineArticles on Twitter. So what happens is, now that you’ve set this up, every time you put a new article on EzineArticles and it’s approved and published, it’s auto‐tweeted to Twitter and then automatically goes from Twitter to Facebook. Once you set this up, it’s all done automatically every time you submit an article. Are you getting to understand why it’s one of my top priorities to submit an article nearly every day? It’s because of the traffic that comes in. Again, for the “how to” of this, you can find step‐by‐step instruction to do this at www.EzineArticles.com/blog. Type in the search box Twitter. That will take you to a series of blog posts that will explain this for you and show you step‐by‐step how to set it up. I’m already seeing this happen. All my Twitter friends out there that like to tweet and send Twitter messages about our calls, please continue to do so. Use #VATS, as you tweet about this call. Thank you. So that’s a Traffic Triangle. Once you set it up, it automatically happens each time you create, submit, and have approved and published a brand new article. Now as if that wasn’t powerful enough, let’s move from page 3 and Traffic Triangles to a new shape, page 4 and Traffic Diamonds.
2. Traffic Diamonds
At the top, you see the same thing we just did, it’s just a smaller version. EzineArticles to Twitter to Facebook. Now, the second half of the diamond, or the
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upside down triangle, if you will, stats with your blog. See where I have Blog written at the bottom of page 4 of your Action Guide. When you take your article and repurpose it on your blog, on a WordPress blog, you can set it up for two things to happen automatically. One is it can automatically be sent to your Twitter account, and there’s an automatic announcement that you have a new blog post. Because every new tweet coming from you or automatically from your blog or EzineArticles is sucked up by Facebook, there’s also a new blog announcement put over on Facebook. Even better with your blog, each time an article and a new blog post is posted on your blog, it also automatically goes to Facebook. The curious thing is when it comes from Twitter, it’s posted in one form and when it comes from your blog, it’s posted in another. So follow me here. Again, all the inner workings and set‐up steps are at EzineArticles.com/blog. In the search box, type in Twitter, and you will have step‐ by‐step instructions for you to set this up. Now, here’s the strategy I’ve been using to use this Traffic Diamond. Let’s say you have a premium account at EzineArticles, and you get your articles approved within hours. Here’s what I do with this. Let’s say on a Monday, I submit an article to EzineArticles. It’s approved and published. It shows up on EzineArticles, and now I’ve got access to 15 million unique viewers a month, and all the other traffic – OPT, other people’s traffic – as they take my article and use it on other people’s blogs, websites, and newsletters.
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It’s automatically auto‐tweeted to Twitter, reaching my Twitter following of almost 20,000. It’s automatically sucked up by Facebook, reaching all my Facebook friends. And, by the way, if you’re not in any one of those groups on my list, you can go to www.JeffOnTwitter.com and follow me on Twitter, and go to www.JeffOnFacebook.com and follow me on Facebook, as well. So that’s automatically done on a Monday. Then I watch my stats at EzineArticles and see how many views and click‐throughs that particular article is getting. If it’s doing well, on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday, I will get more leverage out of that article by repurposing it over onto my blog. It will either be in a complete form with a Read More tag somewhere in the article, or I’ll break it into several blog posts and leverage the article even more. Every time I create a new blog post, it’s auto‐announced on Twitter, sent over to Facebook, and auto‐announced on Facebook in a different place. So, that one article has been leveraged for me all week, driving traffic all week long. Now some of you may be thinking, “Why do that twice over on Twitter. Aren’t people going to get tired of hearing it?” Well, some might but the heck with them. They don’t have to read it. Twitter is such a moving kind of experience, a moving platform, that people are in and out of there all the time. So you’re going to catch people who didn’t see it the first time as you post it on your blog. It’s repurposing your articles for even more traffic than you got with the Traffic Triangle. Now you’re using a Traffic Diamond. Do them both. That’s the strategy I use. One on Monday and one on Thursday or so. You can vary the days however you like. But it gives you more traction, more leverage, and more reach for each and every article.
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Now go with me from page 4 to page 5, and I’m going to show you how to Twitter launch your articles. This is one of those things where it’s good to do what I teach you and then also watch what I do. What’s happened here is, this is something I stumbled upon by just playing around and trying different things on Twitter. When I saw how incredibly powerful this is, I was so excited. So I’m going to walk you through this.
3. How to “Twitter‐Launch” Your Articles
You’ve heard about product launches and book launches, etc. This is how to launch each and every article on Twitter to get an incredible amount of even more traffic. You’re going to be just stunned with what I’m going to walk you through in just a moment. When I get ready to write a new article, just about every day in the morning, I will go to Twitter and type in something like you see here under #1. 1. “Starting a new article on “How to Get Found, Get Read & Get Traffic” on the internet ‐ Should be out on EzineArticles soon.” And you can fill in whatever you want on that line. I gave you those lines to fill in whatever information you want from each thing I say. So step 1 is I announce that I’m working on an article. What I’m doing there is building anticipation for the new article for my almost 20,000 followers at Twitter, at the time of this call anyway. People email me back and say things like, “I can’t wait. Let me know what it comes out so I can re‐tweet it for you.” I’m building anticipation.
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So then I go and I write the article, 20 to 30 minutes with no interruptions. Then I go back to Twitter and do step 2. 2. “ Just submitted a brand new article on “How to Get Found, Get Read & Get Traffic” on the internet. Should be out on EzineArticles soon.”
3:10 PM May 15 from the web
What I want you to notice about #2 is the time stamp for that tweet, 3:10 p.m. in the afternoon. Now look at #3, time stamped 20 minutes later. That’s one of the privileges you get when you have the premium account over there. Here’s what an auto‐tweet looks like from EzineArticles. They just give the title and the link. 3. “Practical Article Marketing Tips – How to Get Found, Get Read, and Get Traffic with Your Articles: http://EzineArticles.com/?i...”
3:30 PM May 15 from the web
So I built the anticipation in #1. I built the anticipation in #2. I get people saying, “Great. Can’t wait to see it, Jeff. I’ll re‐tweet it for you. Let me know when it’s out.” And #3, EzineArticles has auto‐tweeted it for me. 4. Here are two people who retweeted that article to their followers.
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The first one is Charlotte Howard. And Charlotte, bless your heart. If I know you, forgive me because I don’t remember you. I think this is just the power of Twitter. Someone you don’t know someone that’s following you, re‐tweeting for you. And there’s the link, 5:30, two hours after the article first came out. Now, earlier than that, at 5:11, here’s Pat, one of my high‐level coaching mentees.. She’s enhanced it a little bit the way I enhance things with the arrow there and then put in another arrow and put in an editorial comment. Thank you, Pat. Those are other people re‐tweeting my article and reaching all of their followers. Other People’s Traffic – OPT. 5. “How to Get Found, Get Read, and Get Traffic with Your Articles.” And there’s the link and then the hashtags I often use. That’s the next day, I believe a Saturday at 11:49 AM. So what you can do is: • Announce you started an article. • Announce you submitted an article. • It comes out. • People follow‐up and re‐tweet it. • And then you come back in behind all of that and reference your article again. You can also do it when you’re following discussions on Twitter, and people are asking questions that your article may answer. You do it just to offer them stuff.
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Now, there’s something I want to point out here that’s just crazy good. Altogether here, #1 through 5, there are six different tweets ‐ #4 contains two, one by Charlotte and one by Pat. The amazing thing about this and part of the power of this is I only wrote three of these. I wrote #1, #2, and #5. Each one took me maybe 20 to 30 seconds. That’s 20 to 30 seconds to do, and it has brought in a wealth of traffic. If you don’t think that’s powerful, we need to have a talk. Now here’s even more power and more excitement behind this. Article marketing is a small sliver of a niche. I’ve been able to build an entire six figure business around it, but it’s just a small sliver of a niche of internet marketing. Typically, before I discovered and created this process, I would be happy if one of my articles got 50 to 100 views a month. I just stacked articles upon articles, and it brought in a lot of traffic. Using this strategy that you’re looking at under #3, “How to Twitter‐Launch Your Articles,” that brings in for me – are you ready for this? This is crazy good, folks. This consistently brings in for me, with articles that I was typically happy with 50 to 100 views in a month – this process typically brings in for me 90 views in 90 minutes, and sometimes over 100 in 90 minutes. Do you think you should go use this stuff? I think you should. I think you should go hang up and go use it now, or use it while we’re talking. This is how powerful this is with your articles. If you don’t use it, I think you’re nuts. At minimum, you’re leaving a tremendous amount of traffic on the table. This is so powerful and so easy.
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Reviewing: • Traffic Triangle – Use it. Set it up. Again, the link to get the instructions is: www.EzineArticles.com/blog. In the search box in the upper right hand corner, type in Twitter. They will give you blog posts with instructions on how to set this all up. • Traffic Diamonds – EzineArticles to Twitter to Facebook, and your blog to Twitter to Facebook. • Twitter‐Launch Your Articles – 1. Announce that you’re starting a new article. 2. Announce that you submitted it. 3. It’s auto‐tweeted by EzineArticles. 4. People RT it for you. 5. You follow‐up as well. Now, turning to page 6.
4. 5 Factor Article Marketing TeleSeminar Club
Here is a way for you to continue your education. If you like this course – and I’ve gotten tons of emails and testimonials and I thank every one of you for it – here’s a great way to continue your education. We’ve focused on two parts of the five factors that we look at in the Article Marketing TeleSeminar Club – the 5‐factor blueprint. We focused on content creation as we created our articles, and especially focused on traffic.
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Those five factors are: • Content Creation • Traffic Generation • List Building • Marketing Messages • Product Creation Article Marketing in my model provides all five success factors faster, easier, and with less overall human effort than anything I know. For $51 you can try out the club. I’ve extended my birthday special through the month just for you guys. You can try out the club for a month, get access to all the trainings since January, and keep up with the current training through the end of May and all of June. After that, it’s $97 a month. You can drop out at any time, but it costs you to drop out, because then you stop building your audio replay library, your transcript library, your Action Guide library, and all your other bonuses. So there’s the link there on page 6. www.AMTeleSeminarClub.com. Members of the club get to come to my Atlanta Article Marketing Workshops for 1/2 price. You don’t have to come to that if you join the club. It’s just another benefit to do that for 1/2 price. Click that link. Go over there right now: www.AMTeleseminarClub.com. That $51 special is going to end very soon. I kept it up just for you guys, and this is the last call of that series. Come on, try us out for a month. Continue your education and learn even more of this great stuff. We’re winding down and coming to the end of the course here. I’m checking out our page for questions, and I see no questions.
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Here’s what I want you to do. I want you to go and use all of this stuff. Slowly work in and try all 60 of those tips we did. • Module 1‐ Looking at your key words, article title, and article description. • Module 2 – We focused exclusively on your article body. • Module 3 – We focused exclusively on your resource box. • The Bonus Module – Social viral article marketing secrets and how to leverage your blog, Twitter, and Facebook for tons more traffic. I especially want you to go and use the strategies you’ve used tonight. Go to that link: www.EzineArticles.com/blog and type in Twitter in the search box in the upper right hand corner. You’ll get all the step‐by‐step instructions. Try this stuff and watch the traffic pour in. I’m looking forward to seeing many of you in continuing your education with us over on www.AMTeleseminarClub.com. As always, always, always – we’re going to say it together in a moment; I’m going to say it, and then I’m going to get this call uploaded, and I’m going to go play Guitar Hero with my sons and watch them beat me, at least for now, so get ready…1, 2, 3 – Go Use This Stuff! And you go use this stuff because it works!
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