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APRIL 7, 2011

» EzineArticles Says Keyword Density Is Important If you’ve been paying attention to the Google Panda update, you’ve noticed that EzineArticles – the largest article directory online – was hit and suffered a huge traffic loss. That’s a doggone shame. Chris Knight says he agrees with Google’s update.

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APRIL 20, 2011

According to an article on My Edmonds News website, small businesses stand to profit more from social media than big businesses or corporations. – According to an article on My Edmonds News website, small businesses stand to … [link] Log in to Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. I totally agree.

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APRIL 30, 2011

» Kudos To HubPages Anyone who has read my blog for very long knows that I am a strong advocate of article marketing. That is, I believe that writing articles and publishing off of your website with links back to your website is a good way to promote yourself online. Everyone wins. How can that be bad?

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JUNE 6, 2011

Article Marketing – Internet marketers were marketing with articles as early as 1991. Now, in 2011, article marketing is still a powerhouse despite the Panda update. Build yourself a website, then market it with articles and join a couple of forums. Still, it can be very effective.

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JULY 18, 2012

Duplicate content is when you have the same article published on multiple websites with no interlinking between them. It looks as if the publishers all want you to believe that they were the first to publish that article. That’s why article syndication is so important. This is bad. And what’s the benefit?

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JANUARY 21, 2014

Guest blogging is nothing less than another form of article marketing, which has always existed in some form on the Web. It was just like article marketing except that it was for mass production. It was just like article marketing except that it was for mass production.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

If you have a business blog or you need website content, or even if you do any guest blogging or publish articles at various places around the Web, you need a way to come up with constant content ideas. The next time you write an article or blog post, answer a question you’ve heard from one of your customers.

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MAY 18, 2011

Props to David Jackson for his article “10 Biggest Internet Marketing Myths Exposed.&# Article marketing is not as effective as it used to be. You might have to change how you do it a little bit, but article marketing is still effective. I’ll tell you why they’re myths.

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JANUARY 9, 2012

One tool that has helped many new bloggers and article writers is to create a writing plan. Your writing plan is a pre-scheduled list of blog posts or articles that you plan to write over the next month. First, note the date you want your article or blog post to be published. Next, include a one sentence summary of your article.

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

Add social icons to your newsletter articles – This is a no-brainer. Repurpose e-newsletter articles for social media – Take one article from your e-mail newsletter and share it on your Facebook page and your LinkedIn account. It’s likely something you’ve considered. Keep it short.

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AUGUST 3, 2015

Not every article necessarily, but don’t rely only on your own authority either. Optimize your content for search traffic – While you shouldn’t focus your article writing efforts on the search engines to the detriment of human readers, you should make an effort to optimize it for search traffic.

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DECEMBER 21, 2015

And their were places where business owners could go to publish their articles. They were often called article directories. There were directories where those websites could be listed. There were a few primitive forms of search engines. Eventually, pay-per-click advertising came along.

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JULY 26, 2011

Article marketing is still alive and well on the Internet. Do you ever wonder where you can publish your articles and build links back to your website or get the attention you deserve as an expert in your field? Here are 5 non-article directories that are great places for marketing your article content.

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JULY 10, 2014

How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will is a recent article on Wired.com by Kevin Poulsen and it made me think about how easy it is to lose business out of ignorance or indifference to our online presence. Have you heard of the lawsuit a restaurant owner filed against Google because of a probable hacking?

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AUGUST 31, 2012

Here’s an article that sums it up nicely in a cute little nutshell. The sad thing about the article is that natural writing on the Web is really nothing new. It’s usually done to make people believe it’s difficult work so they can sell more services. The truth is, it’s really not that difficult.

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OCTOBER 3, 2014

Online Marketing Articles content content marketing small business marketing' They need to trust you. Your content should work on building trust before it does anything else. Make your content as original as your business. There’s only one you.

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DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bing is the second most popular search engine, and according to a recent article on Search Engine Journal, Bing tends to be preferred by certain parts of the market. Some even can be considered exclusive according to the SEJ article. Who Are These People? households with children. households with incomes over $75,000.

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OCTOBER 8, 2011

You can write an article in one hour and publish it to the Kindle in ten minutes without needing an ISBN. Of course, that’s good for Amazon, but it’s also good for small business owners. The ease of publishing a book in Kindle format is phenomenal. You don’t even have to know any code.

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

The Search Engine Journal ran an article today in favor of multiple tweets. I’ll have to agree with the general thrust of this article. The only issue I would have with the article, and it’s not really with the article per se, is that local businesses do not need to be concerned with multiple time zones.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Don’t plagiarize, and don’t use rehashed articles that have circulated the Internet for years. Go for quality, not quantity – Five great articles are better than 100 lousy ones or 50 mediocre ones. Here are 7 ways you can be sure to produce outstanding content every time. Your company has a style. Play it up.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Write some articles – Article marketing used to be about mass submission. Develop a social media presence – It doesn’t matter where you spend your social media time except that you go where your target customer is. Today it’s more about putting out unique content with a few content partners.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

Spun articles, poorly written articles, articles where every link is an anchor text link, a lot of self-promotion, and the list goes on. By the way, “articles” refers to blog posts too. If you examine link spam, you’ll see one common thread in virtually every type of link spam online.

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DECEMBER 6, 2013

The links you get from guest blogging are usually in your author bio, which is published at the bottom of your articles when you get them published. From there, you can begin contacting them with article ideas. Be careful that you focus your articles on quality content no matter where you publish them.

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JULY 21, 2014

There’s an interesting discussion going on over at the Moz Blog in the comments of Bill Sebald’s article, “ Building Better Content By Improving On Your Competitors.” Competitive Intelligence has always been a useful tool for improving your content strategies by looking at what others in the same market are doing.

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MARCH 14, 2014

There’s a raging debate in Internet marketing circles about long vs. short articles. There are benefits to having more pages ranked in the search engines and there are benefits to having long, in-depth articles that have to potential to dominate a keyword in the search engines. Quite possibly, you could do both.

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JANUARY 10, 2014

Listicles - Let’s say you want to write an article. You can use your list items as subheads for each section of this article. This way, your list looks more like an article than a list, and you can even include images with your listicles to enhance the content.

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OCTOBER 30, 2015

But here are the ways you can use long-form content to supplement what you are doing with short articles: Blog posts – Anything over 2,000 words is considered long-form in blogging. You can package your long-form content in the way of a newsletter or as a standalone e-mail article that you send out between newsletter issues.

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APRIL 21, 2011

Article marketing – Article marketing is not dead. It’s different than it was ten years ago, but articles still are a good traffic source. It’s the best search engine marketing money can buy. Pay per click advertising – For a quick response, spend your money on PPC.

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JULY 2, 2014

Let’s talk about it… Online Marketing Articles business strategies digital marketing digital marketing strategies technological advances' I’m visualizing a surfer here, riding the waves by instantly adjusting to the situation. How have you mastered digital marketing in your business? Are you riding the waves or wiping out?

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AUGUST 28, 2013

The rel=author tag was intended for articles that are written by the same author. What has some people confused, however, is whether or not it’s a useful tag for when you are writing and publishing articles under a pseudonym, a mascot, or a persona representing your company. But you should know about it. Google says no.

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JULY 8, 2011

Article directories – Which articles are most popular? E-mail newsletters you subscribe to. Forums you’re a member of – What questions are people asking? Your own blog’s comments – What questions are people asking? Keyword research tool. Google or Yahoo! Q&A websites like Yahoo!

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JANUARY 2, 2014

Don’t click through and read the articles. If possible, use a related keyword to the one found in the original article. If you don’t click through and read the original article, you won’t be tempted to use any of the text. Scan the headlines until something jumps out at you. Then, rewrite the headline.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

” in his recent Entrepreneur article, I know that his opinion is worth listening to. He looks at both sides of the question, and like he says, “This article could go viral if I started off with a “HECK, YES!” When an online marketing expert like Neil Patel asks “ Is Paid Search Ineffective for Online Marketing?

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APRIL 4, 2013

Google Panda virtually killed article directories. As such, they suffer from some of the same weaknesses – weaknesses that killed the article directories after Google rolled out Panda. Some of those article directories bounced back, but not all of them. Press release distribution sites are directories for press releases.

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MAY 9, 2011

Tags: article marketing , blog marketing , internet marketing , mobile marketing , newsletter marketing , Pay Per Click , search engine optimization , social media marketing , website design This entry was posted on Monday, May 9th, 2011 at 11:04 am and is filed under Small Business Internet Marketing.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

If you’re struggling with how to encourage more tweets and retweets for your blog and website content, then I highly recommend reading these two articles, both of which were written by social media icons and veterans of the field: Twitter Share Buttons Bring 7 Times The Return. In the second article, Rand Fishkin goes into more detail.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Write articles and distribute them around the Internet. The same thing applies as with articles. Make a big impression with your videos by using a persona. Don’t overdo the persona thing on your off-site content. Make it light to draw in new fans, then drive them back to your website. Guest blogs. Social media.

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