Here's the harsh truth of article marketing: Thousands of articles are published on a daily basis. 90% are getting little to no traffic.

Most people write their articles and forget about them. Like throwing mud at the wall and hoping it sticks - once it's published they forget it ever existed. 10 articles a day and you'll be rich in no time?! This might have worked 5 years ago, but now this strategy sucks. It's a great way of wasting your time - there's simply too much competition now.

What are you going to do so that your articles always fall into that 10%?

Here's some figures for you...

I have a number of articles out there that I published a little over a month ago and every one of them gets over 100 views per day. Let's assume an average click through rate of 20%; this means that I get 20 visitors per article to my money site every day.

I have 10 articles. That means 200 qualified visitors are hitting my money site. Would you like that kind of traffic from 10 articles? If so, read on...

The Secret To Making Your Articles Stick...

If you want top results in the SERPs from your articles then you need a backlinking strategy.

Unlike backlinking for a new domain, you can get away with backlinking your articles far more aggressively as your SEO efforts are shielded by the trust factor of the domain of your chosen article directory.

Whereas if you sent one hundred backlinks to your newly purchased niche domain you may face some kind of penalisation from Google, you are usually fine with Ezinearticles, Goarticles and the other major directories. For the time being, these domains are trusted - although it must be mentioned that since receiving a major slap in July 2007, Squidoo seems to have less of a "shield" and I have experienced instances of over optimisation for certain terms, so be careful working with them - I never liked squidoo anyway!

Within a few weeks of a newly published article on ezinearticles, you can easily rank in the top five for some pretty damn competitive terms, and this can sky rocket the traffic that you get to your site or affiliate links.

Having spent the last two months writing like crazy and logging everything in my spreadsheet, I can now give you a comprehensive backlinking strategy that will have your competition wondering how on earth you jacked them off the top position. I was actually thinking of making an information product out of this methodology - and still might - but for you guys it's free...so listen up:

First things first - What is a solid backlink strategy?

Any SEO project should contain a wide variety of links from different places in an effort to protect yourself from algorithmic changes and to look as natural as possible. That's why I get links from a wide variety of different locations.

In particular you want to get as many of what is known as "editorial links" - these are links that you'd see in articles or other forms of extended writing rather than the simple two word anchor in a menu. The reason for this is to protect the longevity of your backlinks; at this moment in time, there's no evidence to suggest that menu hyperlinks are discounted, however it's important to realise that Google updates its algorithm over 300 times a year and Matt Cutts' anti spam team at Google are most certainly working on new ways to determine spammy links. In my opinion, profile links are almost certainly on the way out - especially as backlink packets have spread like wildfire recently and more and more webmasters are having their sites spammed through this method of link building.

Here's the Fundamentals...

You have to do the following for every article you publish without fail. This will put you heads and shoulders above most people.

1. Submit your article to Ezinearticles.com (we'll assume that this is your main directory)

2. Once approved, user pingler.com to ping it for indexing
3. Take the same article and submit to other article directories but with the resouce box link pointing back to your ezinearticle - making sure to include the anchor tags that you are targeting. I definitely advocate using an article submitter for this.
4. Socially bookmark your main article with the major social bookmark directories. The best free way of doing this is by going to socialmarker.com and submitting your site to the list they have there.
5. Take the URL of your article, go to feedage.com and generate a feed. Now you need to submit this feed to all the RSS directories out there. Here's a few directories to submit to:
   
   1. feedster.com
   2. syndic8.com
   3. pubsub.com
   4. popdex.com
   5. scenda.com
   6. rsshut.com
   7. rssfeeds.com
   8. search4rss.com
   9. yourfeeds.com
   10. easyrss.com

Having done this your article already has a huge number of backlinks and will rank better than the majority of your competition.

What Does This Mean For Keyword Research?

With traditional bum marketing methods you are instructed to search for keyword phrases of less than 20,000 when wrapped in quotes and for search volume of greater than 300 or 10 per day.

Personally, I think this is redundant now. I've experimented extensively with this data. Your efforts are far better spent chasing more competitive terms of around 5,000 searches per month and following the above backlinking strategy to get your post right up there. Usually it takes around 4 weeks to get decent listings, but trust me - it certainly works.

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