Adapting Your Pitch For New Years Resolutions
If you have a product or service that will improve someone’s
- health
- appearance
- lifestyle
- bank account
- business
- self esteem
- child’s well-being
- pet care
- sporting abilities
- outlook on life
then there is no better time to promote it than at the start of a new year. Read the rest of this entry »
What Does Your Client REALLY Want?
Excellent service providers and consultants work really hard to provide the very best to their clients, and this doesn’t just happen by accident.
Particularly in the case of new clients, where no prior relationship exists, it is really important for both parties to have a clear idea about the expected outcome of a project. By clearly spelling out what is required, how it is to be accomplished and when it will be completed are the basics, but the type of project will dictate other requirements and outcomes. Read the rest of this entry »
Keywords Are Search Engine Magnets
There is one statement to which all who are successful in online business will nod their heads. Its not the old chestnut that ‘Content is King’, or that ‘The Money’s In The List’. Rather it is something that is so fundamental to the business (and yes, it is decidedly unsexy) that overlooking has spelled categoric failure to those who ignore it.
It is no secret either - internet marketing leaders have tried to drum it into people for years. It is quite simply ‘Keyword Research’. Read the rest of this entry »
The Difference Between Web Page Copy And Articles
Powerful Articles For Your Website
I am often asked by clients to write SEO articles for their websites – something I enjoy immensely. Original articles are a great way to add quality content to your websites – when they are relevant, with correct keyword placement – search engines love them.
Once you have posted them to your site, you can then submit them, or variations of them to directories and networks. You can repurpose them into various Web 2.0 incarnations like Squidoo lenses or Hubs on HubPages.
On niche or affiliate blogs, they can make up the bulk of your content as posts.
Website Pages Are Different
Articles, however, should not be confused with authority website pages e.g. your static landing page (Home), Product or Services Pages, About, Privacy Policy etc. Read the rest of this entry »
The Shocking Truth About Internet Marketing
Why is it that I feel the need to provide an explanation when I tell people that I am a Writer and Internet Marketer. The writing bit they get, but adding the ‘internet marketing’ results in one of two optical responses:
* eyes glazing over, or
* eyes averted in embarrassment
The first reaction tells me that they have no idea what I’m talking about. The second tells me they are thinking of either (a) porn, (b) scams or (c) both. Read the rest of this entry »
The Changing Face of Working From Home
(This post is more information to listeners following my interview with ABC Radio on Wednesday 14 July 2010)
I remember when my mother used to work from home. She was a seamstress, and every week a clothing manufacturer would deliver her the components of dresses which she would then assemble. It was called ‘piecework’, and she was paid a pittance for the long hours she worked.
Her big industrial sewing machine would be whirring when I got up in the morning, and when I went to bed a night. There was great excitement for we kids when she was delivered pieces with sharp pleats – there was always pleated tissue paper involved, which made soft landings for somersaults and crude facsimiles of hula skirts. Read the rest of this entry »
Document Sharing Sites For SEO
All internet marketers want as many links to there sites as possible, and from as many different sources as possible. Here is something to try as an alternative to the usual suspects when publishing articles.
Document Sharing Sites allow you to add articles in PDF form, as slide presentations, or even Word documents. And most of them allow you to include live links within the body of the articles. Read the rest of this entry »
Duplicate content myths quashed with ezinearticles.com WP plug
Here is some nice news from ezinearticles.com regarding the publishing of your SEO content on your site and with them – and proof they they don’t consider this ‘duplicate content’.
After testing it in Beta mode for a while, ezinearticles.com’s WordPress plugin has now gone live.
After installing this pluging you are able to publish your blog posts to EZA as articles – so those confused about whether EZA sees your site content as duplicate content can now rest easy. Read the rest of this entry »
Why Kyle Tully Is My Client
Over the last few years I have had the good fortune to meet and work with some of the most exciting internet marketers. Exciting? Yes, because when I met them they were just starting out on their IM journey, and today they are some of the most highly regarded internet marketers in the world. They are the people who are setting a new standards, raising the benchmark when it comes to new product innovation.
One of these is Australian, Kyle Tully, who through his Consulting Tycoon program, is teaching hundreds of smart people how to become consultants to offline businesses. Kyle has learned the value of article marketing and is one of my ongoing clients for SEO Content. It is sometimes difficult to explain to (particularly new) internet marketers why they should invest in quality content, when they can by cheapie articles elsewhere. Here is Kyle’s take on this:
SEO Articles – The Two Types You Need
I am often asked why I have two price points for my 400 word SEO articles, so I thought I’d clarify why this is so, and why it is necessary to have two different types of articles for successful internet marketing campaigns.
1. Authority SEO Articles
These are the articles that you would want to put your name (or your client’s name to). They are well researched, and provide valuable information on your topic. Keyword placement is at the level to make it acceptable by article directories like ezinearticles.com.
Now this keyword thing can be a bit tricky. Let’s assume that your keywords are, for example, “learn about internet marketing”. When writing an article on this topic, it is only natural that the words “internet marketing” will appear often, without you even trying to stuff them into your article. Regardless of intent however, some publishing sites will reject such an article because of overuse of keywords. So to avoid this, limit your keywords to the heading, first and last paragraph and once more in the body.
Substitute Words
In our example above you might find that words like “online marketing”, “IM”, “online business”, “e-business” and “e-commerce” can be substituted if you need to reduce the number of keywords used. I find it best to write the article as I think it, and then go back and replace keywords if necessary.
2. Backlink Articles
While these articles should make sense when read by a human, chances are they won’t be read at all. These are the articles that you will send to article networks and blog networks. These networks offer your articles (with links intact), to members, for use on their sites. The members need content for SEO – that is the benefit to them. But the benefit to you is that all of those sites will have links to yours – and the search engines will see this and rank your site as an ‘authority’ for your keyword.
With these articles you are able to use your keyword a little more generously, but most networks will restrict you to three links for a 400 word article. Because they are so powerful, it is good to have a second keyword in these articles, or link them to a second page within your site.
Save Money
It is important to have both types of article as part of your internet marketing plan. A cost effective option is to write or purchase a set of quality, well written “Authority” SEO articles, and then have them rewritten to create the backlink articles. Many of my clients do this.
There are many more ways to use your top quality articles – and this is a process that I am taking my SEO Content Coach students through right now.
