Understanding Spun Article Marketing

I wanted to dig a little deeper today into Spun Article Marketing. Spinning articles is nothing new, but the ability to quality spin has improved over time, especially with such fantastic tools such as the Best Spinner. Article marketing is not new either, but it too has progressed over the years thanks to the Bum Marketing method and the 30 Day Challenge program. Putting both article spinning and article marketing together, gives you the best of both worlds.

Now when I talk about spun articles, I mean over 70% or so uniqueness. Just because the Best Spinner is a great tool, still means you have to use it properly. This also includes spinning the titles as well. If you use a tool like Micro Niche Finder or Market Samurai, you can uncover low hanging fruit in the SERPS that you can attract with carefully researched article titles. Spinning this into different versions with just one spun article is like shooting 15 birds with one bullet.

I submit spun versions to my favorite article directories along with a spun syntax to both Free Traffic System and Article Ranks. Not only do those articles get posted there, they also tend to get syndicated by bloggers throughout the web as well. This can turn one carefully spun article into hundreds of backlinks over time. Sure 100 is high number, but I have personally had an article syndicate that much when it happened to find a hole in the niche. 25-50 is more reasonable and I never met a backlink I didn't like.

Spun Article Marketing does take consistent work like any other method though. Take your time and spin them thoroughly. This includes bio blurbs as well as carefully researched titles. Take your time and try to pound out 2 a week in your niche. It works very, very well as it is the major root of my own backlinking building process that I build my own empire on.

Blogger Now Has Pages

I am not sure how I missed this, but just noticed this morning that Blogger blogs now have the ability to add pages in addition to post. You can add up to 10 stand-alone pages such as an "About Me" page or even "Article" pages. Blogger only adds a "p" to the URL along with the page name instead of the year and month like the post URL's. You can also now add a "Add Page List" gadget to link pages on your blog as well.

While this is not a HUGE deal, it does make it easier for those that are technically challenged the ability to build more sites that are content based versus blog based. It is just a little addon per say. If you are still overwhelmed by Wordpress or simply can not afford hosting, Blogger is still an excellent way to get starting in affiliate marketing for free, while learning the business. If you do not think you can make a full time income off of Blogger, you are fooling yourself. I have always been intrigued by the Blogger platform and thus never moved this blog off it for that very reason. You would be very surprised at what kind of money this very blog makes. I also have 3 additional lucrative niche sites I have also built on the Blogger platform as well. Blogger sites also make great feeder sites as well. You can post a few articles on them and funnel traffic to a main site should you desire. Just because it is free, does not mean it can not be used in your favor.

If you want to learn more about the new Blogger page feature, go here.

Are You Doing The Work Consistently & Keeping A Journal?

Many of you know the work involved in ranking your sites higher for target keyword phrases in Google. If you are in that crowd, you know it takes some level of consistency to get the backlinks flowing in. Some keywords need more backlinks than others, depending on competition and quality of the competitors backlinks.

Those of you that think you know the work involved, choose to get gung ho on one day and sit and watch the results. Do not feel bad, I think we all go through that stage. If you have 1 or 100 sites, you need to set you plan in action to consistently do the work involved and track your work and ranking results.

Do you keep some sort of work journal or log for your sites? Do you document your work and results? I bet you don't! I bet you just check Google to see if you rank higher today. Are you using Google Analytics or some other analytics program to monitor your traffic from various keywords? I bet not.

You need to be doing the work consistently in this business and must be able to track where you have come from, where you are going and the stops you have made along the way. Once you do that, you can take your success sites and easily replicate a few patterns of what you know has worked in the past.

Working consistently is not one day of a mad rush of article spinning and article directory submissions. Consistent work is what it says it is. Consistent. Start treating your business like a business and you will get paid better. Also if you ever contact me regarding ranking help, be prepared for me to ask you for some sort of site journal. It is much easier to help you guys if I can see EXACTLY what you have been doing. I am not going to take the time to research what you have done and what you are targeting. You will be surprised at how well working consistent and keeping a site journal or log will help you. It will also help others help you.

Happy Easter & Video Easter Prayer

I wanted to take time out today and wish everyone a blessed and happy Easter. Please do not lose sight of the meaning of Easter on this day. This day celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, who died on the cross for our sins.

Here is a great Easter prayer that I also converted to video using the software I told you about yesterday.



Heavenly Father and God of mercy,
I believe that Jesus is alive and has
become the Lord of life.

From the waters of Baptism you have
raised me with him and renewed your
gift of life within me.

Increase in my mind and heart
the risen life I share with Christ
and help me to grow in your
wisdom and grace.

Lord Jesus, you appeared to your
apostles after the resurrection and filled
their hearts with joy when you said to them
"Peace be with you".

May the peace of your presence
abide with me and make each day you
give me the most beautiful day of my life.

Lord Jesus, you triumphed over death and
destroyed the power of death in me,
may I live only for you.

Risen Lord, you brought confusion
on the guards at your tomb but joy
to your disciples, grant me the fullness
of joy as I serve you in spirit and truth.

You promised to be with your disciples,
Lord, to the end of the world, stay with
me today and remain with me always.

King of glory, center of my life,
grant that when you come again, I may
be one with you in glory.

Lord, remember me as in my own way I
minister to your people, may my life
be holy and an example to your people.

Lord Jesus, purify my heart with your truth
and guide me in the way of holiness,
so that I may always do what is
pleasing in your sight.

Amen.

Big Mike Incansoft Easter Sale

Michalis "BIG Mike" Kotzakolios With His Trusty Sidekicks Diego Hernando and John Rogers are having an Easter software sale. Every single product in their catalog is at least 50% off using Coupon Code: BUNNY (all upper case). This makes each program of his $12.95. He only has these sales 3 times a year or so, so I suggest you get them now. The link I gave is not an affiliate link. I earn nothing for sending you there. Yesterday I purchased the titles below:

GFX Video Writer
VideoBot
PADBot
BlogBot

Before that I bought the ArticleBot. I have played with GFX Video Writer thus far and it makes turning articles into videos very easy. I also look forward to using the PADBot. I will dedicate more time to the PADBot in a future post, but get it as I will show how you can use it along with another free application to get backlinks to your niche sites.

Make sure you add these to your cart one by one and use BUNNY on each one before you checkout. Make sure each says $12.95. This is a great price on these tools and I do not know how long the sale will last.

Another Clean Wordpress Theme - Gridline Lite

Some of you seem to like these free, clean Wordpress themes I run across and today's offering is a great find as well. The theme is called Gridline Lite and I really like it. I am currently rebuilding an old BANS site with it as well. Gridline Lite is a free minimalist theme for Wordpress 2.8 and up with full sidebar and bottombar widget support that utilizes a CSS framework to help streamline development and customization. You can easily add a logo image at the top in place of the blog title and this theme can easily be turned into a different color with a few minor color code changes in the CSS file. If you are real adventurous, you can eliminate the bottom 3 widgets above the footer for a truer ecommerce site feel. That is what I did with my rebuild as I had no use for those widgets at the bottiom. This is a great theme, hopeful;ly you find it useful. Happy Friday, everyone.

EDITED TO ADD: Yes, I forgot to add you need to sign up for free to get this template. It is painless I assure you. Thanks to Earl for catching that.

Google Uses What They Want As An Index Description

This is by no means earth shattering news, but several of you still may not know it. Your meta description tag is not always used by Google in your index listing. Duh?! Perhaps you have seen this yourself. As Matt Cutts tells in the video below, Google reserves the right to list snippets of your on site text if it feels it is more relevant to the search returned.

The best way to TRY to get Google to use your meta description, is to write better description tags. Make sure they are the correct character length and are an accurate description of what is on site. Still try to use it as a "selling tag" as well to get the surfer to click your link instead of another in the SERPs. Regardless, Google will use what it wants to use and in due time, the description meta tag could go the way of the keyword tag. Just make sure your on page content is good and on target and your title tag reflects what is on page and what you are targeting. Write your description meta tags to the best of your ability and all will be fine.