Articles

Be forwarned! There is no fast method for you to get top rankings and mountains of traffic to your site inside of ten seconds, like all of the other so called Search Engine Optimization Gurus who spam your email inbox claim. But then again, if you believe all of the hype that they spew, you might still believe in Santa Claus or that the earth is flat.

If you would like some honest information about how a sheer beginner established and marketed a profitable and successful website in way less than one year, then stick around. This article is about what has worked well at getting lots of highly targeted traffic to an ecommerce website that I own.

A year ago I was a complete amateur at this, and I didn't know what Search Engine Optimization, reciprocal links or article marketing was. Today I am the owner of a highly successful ecommerce website.

Now, I don't claim to be a Search Engine Optimization guru. But I can honestly tell you that in well under one year, I've been very successful at getting tons of traffic to my ecommerce website without paying a dime for it. My ecommerce website also has a much higher conversion rate than many other websites on the web do. In other words, my site is well in the "black" and making plenty of money.

Here is a little background on my experience: I've been in my own business for many, many years and I've had a great deal of success at it. Since about 90% of all new businesses fail within 3 years, and many established businesses fail on a regular basis, I believe that over the years I've learned how to rapidly adapt to a changing marketplace.

I decided to mold my existing business into an online business in February. So I installed a copy of FrontPage and I started creating a website. At the same time I started transforming my "product" for online consumption. In June, I was 59 and I retired from my business in order to focus full time on marketing my "product" via my website.

You might be wondering what my "product" is. My "product" is information. But I'm not going to disclose to you exactly what kind of information it is that I sell, and I'm not going to send you to my site because I don't want my competitors to know how I took a brand new homemade PR0 site, and advanced it to a PR4 site by Thanks Giving - a six month time span.

More importantly, I don't want them to know exactly how I got my homemade website to get to a first page ranking in the Google organic SERPS for a large number of very important keyword phrases, and on the first three pages of MSN, Yahoo, and Google organic SERPS for literally hundreds of different search terms. It has taken me way under one year, while lots of my competitors have been struggling at it for ten years!

I'll admit that I have wasted a lot of money and time on lots of Internet marketing software and lots of worthless information from the "Internet Get Rich Quick Gurus." At the same time I've learned which Internet software applications are beneficial and worth investing in.

HOW I FOUND SUCCESS ON THE INTERNET - ARTICLE WRITING AND MARKETING

Many people have used reciprocal linking to promote their website. I myself have traded links with others in my industry. However, I believe that writing articles and getting them published on thousands of competitor sites for free has had the most profound impact on my web site's search engine ranking and the amount of money that I've made. But beware: If you are not fully aware of the downside of article marketing, you can quickly drive yourself out of business.

WHAT MAKES ARTICLE MARKETING SO EFFECTIVE?

It's simple: 1. The quickest way to rank well on the search engines is to have lots of one-way links from other on-topic websites to your website.

2. When you write and publish a good article to another website, your "payment" for the use of that article is one or more links from that article back to your site. The more articles that you write and publish, the more free one-way links pointing back to your domain. The more one-way links from other on-topic websites, the better your site will rank in the organic SERPS.

3. If you write a good article, then you will set yourself apart as the expert in your field. A well written article will validate you in the eyes of the public. And a well-written article is one of the best ways to get qualified traffic to your site. That is because people will read it, and if you've built their trust through your article, they will click your link to see what you have to offer them.

NOW FOR THE MONKEY WRENCH - AVOIDING THE GOOGLE DUPLICATE CONTENT FILTER

If you want to be successful then you've got to get your articles onto hundreds or even thousands of other sites. None of the major search engines like duplicated content. So even if you have an article on hundreds or thousands of other sites, the search engines can find the identical articles and only give you credit for the links in one, or maybe a few of the published articles.

So in the real world, in order to get the most "bang for your buck," you have got to create a different well-written article for each website that it is published on. But nobody has that kind of time or talent, right?

Well . . . . Thanks to modern computer software, articles can be spun, spooled, or re-written automatically using software. And indeed, in 2006, article-spooling software began to make its appearance on the scene.

Unfortunately, most articles that are spun are worthless because the articles that the software creates on full autopilot are very often totally laughable. The grammar and syntax is very often all wrong. And people who read them usually think that they were written by a two year old. And because of latent symantic indexing, the Google algorithm can also pick out and ignore your articles as well.

However, if you create an article that has been well-written to start with, and then use the spooling software correctly, the software can re-write the article into hundreds or even thousands of unique, high quality articles that anyone would feel proud of. And most importantly, they will be more than unique enough to avoid the duplicate content filters.

If you don't like writing articles, don't have the time, or you don't have the expertise, don't worry. You can purchase PLR (private label rights) articles and spool them! But you are always better off if you can write your own articles.

I've used desktop article spooling software that I paid about $200.00 for, to create spooled articles, and it works great. As I write this page, I still do use this software for creating articles that I submit to article directories. The upside of this is that each directory gets a unique version of the article, and this version won't get filtered out by the duplicate content filters. The down side is that as other webmasters take these articles from the article directories and publish them on their sites, most of these re-published articles will get filtered out. But they will still increase the traffic to your site as people read them and click your links.

Published articles will usually produce far more referrals if they are published directly on your competitor's website! But it is somewhere between very difficult and impossible to recruit other competitor webmasters to publish your articles. So that relegates you to submitting only to article directories.

HERE IS SOME GOOD NEWS!

Now there are some affordable websites that allow you to use their article spooling software right on their websites, to create dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of unique articles. You can even try some of them out for free. It is amazingly easy to learn and to use their software. And the benefits of these services are almost too good to be true. Let me tell you a little bit about these services.

First off, the best part about these services is that they take your article, and they can spool an unlimited number of unique versions of it. Then they place a different unique version of your article on hundreds of on-topic sites. These articles are so unique that a duplicate content filter will not filter out these articles. So you will get the benefit of all of your back links for ranking purposes.

This is real power. We are talking about the ability to get your well-written articles published on hundreds of your competitors and your peer's websites practically overnight. To sweeten the pot, when these services publish your article on another site, they won't publish that Webmaster's articles on your site. This eliminates reciprocal linking and nets you hundreds, or even thousands of one-way links.

And unlike most article directories where the number of links you can place in the article are very limited, these services allow you to put up to 5 keyword rich links in each of your articles. It's best to have each of those back links go to a different webpage on your site, not just to your home page.

You should make the links appropriate. So if your story is about baby furniture, and you are talking about cribs, you'll want to link to a page about baby cribs on your site. If you are talking about playpens, you'll want to link to a page that features playpens, etc.

The plans for the future on some of these article spinning sites are to publish your unique articles to thousands of on-topic blogs, and into hundreds of article directories automatically. And remember, every submission will be unique as far as the duplicate content filters are concerned.

Make no mistake; this is not a ten second cure for the huge job of writing hundreds of unique articles and submitting them to hundreds of article directories and thousands of peer sites. If you believe that something like that exists, then you probably believe that the earth is flat.

You will still have to put a great deal of effort into creating well-written professional articles. And then you must be ready to put effort into creating the synonym words and phrases that the software will use to spin or spool your article. But believe me, you could not do in a year by manual means what these services can do in a matter of mere hours.

As an example of what can be accomplished: I wrote four completely different articles on different kinds of information that I have available for sale. After only twelve days with one of these services, my articles were on two-hundred-forty-two different peer site on-topic web pages.

You can do the math! With five links in each article, one to my home page and four to different deep linked product pages on my site, that's nine-hundred-sixty-eight links in twelve days! And I began to see some of those links indexed by the major search engines within that same time period. A little mathmatical extrapolitation will tell you what will happen after a month, 3 months, a year, etc.!

JUST HOW HARD IS IT TO SPOOL ARTICLES USING THE ONLINE SERVICES?

It's so easy to use the software applications that it's a breeze. You will learn to use it within minutes.

Some of these services will let you try out their site and their service without charge. Most give you a 30-day money back guarantee. You will get to try the software for a full month to see how much it can help your site to improve its rankings before you have to pay for it. I highly recommend this type of online service and you will be happy that you gave it a test run!

==============================

Albert Weiss is a novice at SEO. He is NOT one of the thousands of self-proclaimed SEO Gurus that inhabit the Internet. However, as a novice, he has built a very successful and profitable ecommerce site in well under one year. His site is successfully competing with the other top producing ecommerce sites in his industry, many of which have been on the Internet for ten years!

Mr. Weiss has documented the steps he took to get tons of free traffic to his site to make it successful by using article marketing, as well as how using several other aspects of Search Engine Optimization can make a site a success. He built a Free SEO Site just for you! So go to www.ArticleSpooling.com now.

Albert Weiss is an amateur at Search Engine Optimization. He isn't one of the thousands of self-proclaimed SEO Gurus that inhabit the Internet. However, as a novice, he has built a very successful ecommerce site in well under a year. His website is successfully competing with the other top producing ecommerce sites in his industry, many of which have been on the Internet for ten years or more!