The Traffic Benefits of the New Approach to Article Syndication
I have some hard data to report, but first let me provide a little background with you. Almost fifty days ago, I made the smart decision to become a member of an article marketing service. While I don’t actually know the guy that designed this remarkable tool for online marketers, it seems to me as if I do, because I have bought so many of his products and joined enough of his membership services to have paid for a good part of his car. [He should at least offer me a ride in it
Due to my many prior experiences with this boy genius (well, he’s not really that young), I was confident that the service would accomplish for me what it promised: An innovative way of distributing my articles. I’m no different from any other online marketer, I’m always wanting more and more quality traffic, and who among us is not constantly looking for fresh one-way external links. My primary approach for achieving both of these goals is distributing content to article directories.
This service has some advantages over traditional submission to article directories, though. First, I am able to put contextual links into the body of the article. That’s something that most article directories don’t allow, but I know that it is more effective for both traffic generation and for search engine optimization. Also, rather than being filtered through an article directory, my articles in this system can go directly to a website that is specifically related to my niche. As with the previous benefit, that helps with regard to both traffic and SEO. Third, since some of my business involves affiliate marketing, with this service I can put an affiliate link directly in the article, if I want–another thing that the article directories don’t allow. Perhaps the greatest advantage is this: The system has a built in article spinner so that if I prepare my articles well, each website that receives my article can publish a unique version of it (essential for any SEO gains).
After almost fifty days, I thought that I would check to see what I had accomplished so far. I’ll present just a few of my results regarding my relationship with My Article Network.
Now the articles trickle out to the sites, so those I’ve put into the system so far are all at different points in their publication schedule. I have written not quite sixty articles for the system, so far–all very well spun. Unique versions of those articles now appear on over 1900 pages on the web. I have between one and three links in each article, so my conservative best guess is that my sites singled out for promotion through this system have received somewhere in excess of four thousand links. Obviously, it will require additional time for some of those links to be noticed by the various search engine. In other words, a lot of the work that I’ve put into this distribution already will reach the maximum benefit months down the road.
I started a new site in a very competitive niche about three months ago, and I have directed the links from more than half of my articles toward that site’s promotion. Alexa couldn’t even find that site when I first joined this system, and now it has climbed in the Alexa rankings more than two million positions. I’m a bit embarassed to admit it, but the new site gets more traffic already than some of my old sites that I have been working on for years. For example, I have done nothing to my oldest site (no pages added, no new SEO, only 9 articles in this system pointing at it), and it has jumped 120,000 positions. I can’t attribute that traffic growth to anything other than those nine articles–and the system that distributed them.
Okay, if you like those numbers, take a look at this. I didn’t even think of tracking the results of this program until six days ago–yeah, I know, I’m a slouch). In that one week (little less) the eight sites that I have directly promoted through the service have increased a cumulative total of over 5 million positions in Alexa. I realize that Alexa is not the finest measure of progress, but I still think that’s a very strong indication of getting my money’s worth and then some.
I became so enthused, I actually started four new blogs just to take advantage of all the free content that is available in this system. By the way, adding websites is free; maybe that explains why there are over 10,000 sites in the system ready to publish articles!
I strongly suggest that you become a member of My Article Network. Oh, and for you affiliate marketers, yes you can become an affiliate after you join as a subscriber.
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