Subscribe To My RSS FeedYou Have Written The Article, Now What – Part 3
Sep 28th, 2009 | By CJ | Category: Article MarketingDo you think it odd that article marketing encompasses other forms of marketing? Or is it the other way around? At any rate, today’s step 3 is about Social Marketing. This aspect involves forum marketing, blog commenting and visiting sites like Yahoo Answers.
During each day, for just one product/project/campaign, you have been writing articles and posting them to the article directories. Using Pingler.com and Onlywire.com, you have been pinging and bookmarking the articles each day.
You should start seeing some kind of results soon, if you haven’t already. Have you checked Google for your keywords yet? Head for Google and do that. First do a broad match (placing the keywords in the box) and see if your page comes up anywhere in the first three pages results. If not, this will tell you you have more articles to write and more lenses/hubpages to create.
Remember, all your links in all the articles and lenses/hub pages should point back to the first batch of articles you posted at GoArticles.com. THOSE are the articles you are looking to find in a Google SERP.
The next action item to integrate into your campaign is hitting the trail, so to speak and doing some forum marketing, blog commenting and answering some Yahoo Answers questions.
But where? Head back to Google and type in, Forum: (YOUR KEYWORD HERE). In other words, if you are writing articles about iguanas, then a forum search term at Google would be “Forum: iguanas” and such (with or without quotes–doesn’t matter, in this instance. Try both ways, see what comes up).
Make note of each forum’s popularity and page rank. Write down (or Favorite) any that look interesting to you. These will be the Forums you will visit, a little later on. What you will be doing is creating a profile, with appropriate signatures, and then you’ll start posting. But only after you’ve gathered a list of Forums to visit.
Next, back to Google and type in, blog: iguanas (following our previous example). Just like your Forums list, make a list of potential blogs to visit. Then one more time at Google, type in, site: iguanas. Again, make note of sites with high PR and popularity. Not every website will have the capability for commenting (like having guestbooks and whatnot), but some do and it’s worth a try. That’s why you can also go back to Google and type blog: iguanas.
Make note of sites/blog that have potential for your needs. Why am I suggesting you only make note of these sites? I find that if I load up a SERP and start on that list, pretty soon, I’ve gotten derailed, looking at so many sites and searching each site for commenting sections. Before I know it, I’ve only hit one or two sites and I’m caught up in a chaos that bogs me down.
That annoys me. I find I need a plan of attack. So, I make a list of places to go, and then, I head out to do my commenting in a methodical manner.
Now you are set to get started. Head over to Yahoo Answers and do a search for any open questions that have your subject matter in the question. Find any questions you can answer and in the Source Box, create an anchor text link to one of your GoArticles articles. You may not find too many questions, but if you do this every day, you’ll start to become recognized, by the readers, as an authority on the subject.
Then get out your list of sites, and start commenting (NEVER SPAM THE WEBSITES). For the forums, of course, start registering and creating a profile complete with signatures. Then find threads to which you can make relevant posts. NEVER SPAM THE FORUMS.
You don’t have to do them all in one day, especially in the forums, where setting up profiles can be time consuming. But remember, you can’t eat an elephant all in one day, either, so just keep at it.
That’s the key to this whole darn shootin’ match. Just keep at it.
There are numerous other things you can be doing to promote your GoArticle articles, as well, and I’m sure you’ve got more than a few eBooks on your hard drive to teach you all about them. Point is, never stop promoting those articles.
That is, until it’s on auto-pilot and you’re making a decent enough income from it.
That’s my plan of attack in a 3-step nutshell. Goos luck to you all!
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If you already have a site that is ranking is it better to have all links pointing back to the “money-site” or would you still prop up the GoArticles?
I was thinking if I had a site that ranked pretty well, but wanted to do better or not lose ground that pointing all links to that site would be better.
If I wasn’t ranking at all then building up the GoArticles to pass on the juice would be the better way to go. What do you think?
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I am pretty new and your ideas seems as a gr8 guidelines for me. How much commenting a day would good? And while in yahoo answers when we create an anchor text to one of the GoArticles articles,can that anchor text be used for another article also or can we give the same anchor text to another article also?Can you please clear it to me?
Chris, you’re absolutely right, of course. And you certainly wouldn’t want the articles you wrote (with their accompanying link to the article directory instead of your site) competing with you for a spot on the first page of Google.
I started this series by saying, “You’ve Written The Article–Now What?” And I realize now, thanks to you, that nowhere in this series did I even mention having or not having a website in the picture. For that, I sincerely apologize.
This series teaches one method. Given the fluid nature of the Internet, EVERYTHING you learn can be molded and modified to fit one’s particular needs. So, yes, if you’d rather point the spotlight at a website rather than the GoArticles articles, by all means, you can do that!
This method is usable, however, as a very good article marketing process when one does not have (or does not want) a website. But I failed to mention that. My apologies.
Chris, I know you read the entire series and I appreciate it! Thanks for pointing this out to me, and most especially, thanks for commenting!
~cj
Gordon, thank you for taking a moment to comment!
You ask about blog commenting. My answer is to find your own stride. I guess what I mean is, how much time one spends at each of these tasks is very much dependent on how much free time one has. I know that many people are trying to get started with IM while still working a 9-5 and raising a family. Time is a definite premium for some folks. I’m retired now, and devoting my time to finding the easiest and/or shortest routes and sharing with everyone when I can.
We can’t eat an elephant all in one day. So, this is another great reason to make a list of all the possible places to go. You can’t do everything in one day, so, a list that you can track where you’ve been and where to go next, is invaluable.
I will hit as many blogs as I can, but I rarely go over 5, maybe 6 or 7 on a good day (and that might be very conservative, for some). It depends on how much more I’ve got to do that day. Same with the forums and Y. Answers.
As for anchor text… “Anchor text” is a link back to whichever article you want to point to, using your keyword(s) as the “click-able” text. So, you can basically use whatever anchor text you want to use, anywhere, with any article, even if you’ve used it somewhere else. I don’t think that really makes any difference.
Thanks for reading!
~cj
Well this is my first visit on your blog and this is your 1st article I have read and found very good, this article shows that your blog is full of informative stuffs specially stuff about article marketing.Now I have an simple question please guide me.
Q) Currently I am using forum posting(anchor text & link in signature) for promotion of my site, I have registered on 200 forums with same username and using same signature.Does it harmful for my site by using same username in 200 forums regarding google spider’s prospective.?
Thanks for stopping by! Glad your here!
As far as I know, there should not be any problem using the same username on all the forums to which you post. The only thing I would be concerned about about is if that many accounts were created and posted on the same day.
Google red-flags accounts when they notice an account has a sudden influx of hundreds of backlinks in one day. Hope you’re spreading your backlinking campaign out over a few days!
~cj