WARNING! There is no quick method for you to get fantastic rankings and lots of qualified traffic to your website inside of ten seconds, like all of the other so called Search Engine Optimization Experts who jam your email inbox claim. But then again, if you believe all of the hype that they regurgitate, you might still believe in the tooth fairy or that the earth is flat.
If you would like honest information about how a beginner created and marketed a very successful, profitable website in well under one year, then hang in there. This article is really about what has worked exceptionately well at getting mountains of highly targeted traffic to an ecommerce website that I own.
A year ago I was a complete amateur at this, and I didn’t know what Search Engine Optimization, reciprocal links or article spinning and marketing was. Today I am the owner of a outrageously successful ecommerce website.
Now, I don’t claim to be a Search Engine Optimization guru. But I can honestly tell you that in well under one year, I’ve been outrageously successful at getting huge amounts of traffic to my website without paying a dime for it. And my ecommerce website also has a much higher conversion rate than many other websites on the web. In other words, my site is well in the "black" and making plenty of money.
Here is a little bit of background information on me: I’ve been in my own business for many, many years and I’ve had a great deal of success at it. Since about 90% of all new businesses fail within 3 years, and many established businesses fail on a regular basis, I think that over the years I’ve learned how to rapidly adapt to a changing marketplace.
I decided to morph my business into an Internet based business in February. So I bought a copy of Microsoft FrontPage and I started creating a website. At the same time I started transforming my "product" for online consumption. In June, I was 59 and I retired from my professional practice in order to focus full time on marketing my "product" via my ecommerce website.
You must be wondering what my "product" is. My "product" is information. But I’m not going to tell you exactly what kind of information it is that I sell, and I’m not going to send you to my site because I don’t want my competitors to know how I took a brand new homemade PR0 site, and advanced it to a PR4 site by Thanks Giving - a six month time span.
More importantly, I don’t want them to know the processes that I used to get my homemade website to get to a first page ranking in the Google organic SERPS for a large number of very important keywords, and on the first three pages of Google, Yahoo, and MSN organic SERPS for literally hundreds of different search terms. It has taken me way under one year, while lots of my competitors have been working at it for ten years!
I’ll be the first to admit that I wasted a lot of time and money on a lot of Internet marketing software and lots of worthless information from the "Internet Get Rich Quick Gurus." At the same time I’ve learned which Internet software applications are productive and worth spending money on.
HOW I FOUND SUCCESS ON THE INTERNET - ARTICLE WRITING AND MARKETING
Many people have used reciprocal linking to promote ecommerce sites. I myself have traded links with others in my industry. However, I believe that publishing articles that I’ve written on thousands of Internet websites for free has had the largest impact on my site’s search engine ranking and my income. But beware: If you are not aware of the downside of article marketing, you can quickly drive yourself out of business.
WHY IS ARTICLE MARKETING SO EFFECTIVE?
It’s simple: 1. The fastest way to rank well on the search engines is to have a lot of one-way links from other on-topic websites to your website.
2. When you write a good article and put it on another website, your "payment" for the use of that article is one or more links from that article back to your site. The more articles that you write and publish, the more free one-way links pointing back to your website. The more one-way links from other on-topic websites, the better your site will rank in the organic SERPS.
3. If you write a good article, you can set yourself apart as the expert in your field. A good article will validate you. And a well-written article is one of the best ways to get qualified traffic to your site. That’s because people will read it, and if you’ve built their trust, they will click your link to see what you have to offer them.
NOW FOR THE MONKEY WRENCH - AVOIDING THE GOOGLE DUPLICATE CONTENT FILTER
If you want to be successful then you must get your well-written article on hundreds or even thousands of other sites. Google doesn’t like duplicated content. What that means is that even if you have an article on hundreds or thousands of other sites, the search engines can find the duplicate articles and only give you credit for the links in one, or maybe a few of the published articles.
So in reality, in order to get the most benefit from your articles and links you have got to create a different well-written article for each website that it is published on. But it is almost impossible to accomplish that, right?
Well . . . . Thanks to modern computer software, articles can be spun, spooled, or re-written automatically using software. And indeed, in 2006, article-spinning software began to emerge on the scene.
Unfortunately, most spooled articles are worthless because the articles that the software creates on full autopilot are usually totally laughable. The grammar and syntax is usually all wrong. And anyone who reads them will think that they were written by a three year old. And because of latent symantic indexing, the Google algorithm can also pick out and ignore your articles as well.
But if you create an article that has been well-written to start with, and then use the software correctly, the software can re-write it into hundreds or even thousands of unique, high quality articles that anyone would feel proud of. And more importantly, the articles will be more than unique enough to avoid the duplicate content filters.
If you don’t like writing articles, don’t have the time, or you don’t have the expertise, you do not need to worry. You can purchase PLR (private label rights) articles and spin them! But you are always better off if you can write your own articles.
I’ve used desktop software that I paid about $200.00 for, to create spooled articles, and it works great. As I write this page, I still do use this software for creating articles that I submit to article directories. The upside of this is that each directory gets a unique version of the article, and this version won’t get filtered out by the duplicate content filters. The down side is that as other webmasters take these articles from the article directories and publish them on their sites, most of these re-published articles will get filtered out. But they will still increase the traffic to your site as people read them and click your links.
Your published articles almost always trigger many more referrals if they are placed directly on your competitor’s website! But it is usually somewhere between very difficult and impossible to recruit other competitor webmasters to publish your articles. So that relegates you to submitting only to article directories.
HERE IS SOME GOOD NEWS!
There are some very inexpensive Internet sites that allow you to use their article spinning software right on their websites, to create dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of unique articles. You can even try some of them out for free. It is easy to learn and to use their software. And the benefits of using these services are almost too good to be believed. Let me tell you a little bit about these services.
To start with, the best part about these services is that they can take your article, and they can spin an unlimited number of unique versions of it. Then they place a different unique version of your article on hundreds or even thousands of on-topic sites. These spooled articles are so unique that a duplicate content filter will not filter out these articles. So you will get the benefit of all of your back links for ranking purposes.
This is real power. We are talking about the ability to get your articles published on hundreds of your competitors and your peer’s websites practically overnight. To sweeten the pot, when these services publish your article on another site, they won’t publish that Webmaster’s articles on your site. This will eliminate reciprocal linking and nets you hundreds, or even thousands of one-way links.
Unlike most article directories where the number of links you can place in your article are very limited, these services allow you to put up to five keyword rich links in each of your articles. It’s best to have each of those back links go to a different page on your site, not just to your home page.
You should make the links appropriate. So if your story is about baby furniture, and you are talking about cribs, you’ll want to link to a page about baby cribs on your site. If you are talking about playpens, you’ll want to link to a page that features playpens, etc.
The plans for the future on some of these article spinning sites are to spin your unique articles to thousands of on-topic blogs, and into hundreds of article directories automatically. And remember, every submission will be unique as far as the duplicate content filters are concerned.
Make no mistake; this is not a 10 second "click one button" cure for the huge job of writing hundreds of unique articles and submitting them to hundreds of article directories and thousands of peer sites. If you believe that something like that exists, then you probably believe that the earth is flat.
You will still have to put a great deal of effort into creating well-written professional articles. And then you must be willing to put sufficient effort into finding the synonym words and phrases that the software will use to spin or spool your unique article. But believe me, you can not accomplish in a full month what these services can do in an hour.
As an example of what can be done: I wrote 4 completely different articles on different kinds of information that I sell. And after only twelve days with one of these services, my articles were on 242 different peer site on-topic web pages.
You can do the math! With five links in each article, one to my home page and 4 to different deep linked product pages on my website, that’s nine-hundred-sixty-eight links in only 12 days! And I began to see some of those links indexed by the major search engines within that same time period. A little mathmatical extrapolitation will tell you what will happen after a month, 3 months, a year, etc.!
HOW DIFFICULT IS IT TO SPOOL ARTICLES USING THESE SERVICES?
It is so easy to use the software applications that it’s almost ridiculous. You will learn to use it within minutes.
Some of these article spooling services will let you try out their software without charge. Many give a 30-day money back guarantee. So you get to try their service for a full month to see how much it can help your site to improve its rankings and its traffic before you are committed to having to pay for the use of the software. I highly recommend this type of software and you will be happy that you gave it a try!
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Albert Weiss is an amateur at SEO. He is NOT a self-proclaimed SEO Guru. However, as a beginner, he has built and marketed a very successful ecommerce site in well under a year. His website is successfully competing with other top producing ecommerce sites in his industry, many of which have been on the Internet for ten years!
Mr. Weiss has documented the steps that were taken to get tons of free traffic to his website to make it successful by using article marketing, as well as how relying on several other aspects of Search Engine Optimization can quickly make an ecommerce site a success. He built a Free Search Engine Optimization Information Site just for you! So visit www.ArticleSpooling.com right away.
Albert Weiss is a novice at SEO. He is NOT one of the thousands of self-proclaimed SEO Gurus that inhabit the Internet. However, as a novice, he has created and marketed a very successful and profitable ecommerce site in well under a year. His site is successfully competing with the other top producing websites in his industry, many of which have been on the Internet for ten years!
- Albert Weiss
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