We have just made full article RSS feeds available to make it easier for you supplement your blog with articles from article-content-king. The feed(s) display the full article and resource box of the latest 5 articles in each category.

Benefits for Publishers

One of the main reasons why we run this article directory is to provide the Internet with content articles that they can use on their websites. The “article snippet” feed is there so that people can subscribe to our feeds in a reader, get a quick snap-shot of the new articles that are available to them, visit the site to read and get the code for the ones that they want to publish. (This is great for us, as it brings traffic to the site).

Now we have the full article RSS feed available, you can use a WordPress plugin like feedwordpress or Drupal plugin like Drupal Feeds to automatically publish our niche articles to your blog or Drupal site. (There are other tools available for other platforms).

Either set the articles to publish automatically or pending approval. This way you save the time it takes to check the feeds and grab the code for the articles that you want to publish. They can be delivered directly to the site that you (may) want to publish them at.

If you are not using articles to supplement your website with content yet, maybe now is the time to start doing so. Syndicating full articles will not hurt your website at all, it will probably greatly help it. The more pages you have more more traffic you can potentially receive. The more information you visitors have to read, the more likely they are to subscribe to your blog.

Check out the full article RSS feeds page, I am sure you will find a category suitable for your blog.

If you are into making “automatic Adsense income sites”  then I am sure that you will love this new full article RSS feed. Syndicating a “summary only” feed will make any blog look like a “splog”, providing the full article for your visitors to read is far better.

Benefits For Article Marketers

One of the biggest frustrations that you face as an article marketer is when people use your articles from article directories without giving you attribution! You spent the time to write an excellent article and was generous enough to allow other people to use it. They do, but they don’t thank you! (and they break the law by not giving you credit!)

The new full article rss feeds will help put a stop to this, because if someone syndicates your article from one of our feeds, all links and attribution is automatically included. — There is far more chance that the links will be left in tact because people can automatically publish with this feed (using required syndication tools).

And of course… because we are making it easier for people to publish your articles (automatically) they are likely to get published a lot more places! (Meaning more back links for you).

So it’s great news for everyone who read this far,  isn’t it?

Respectfully,

Dan Blackburn

P.S. One of the most important things to make sure of when you submit articles to article-content-king is that you select the most appropriate category for your articles.

Now that I have added the category RSS feeds for article content to feedagg.com, whenever we publish one of your articles it will update on the relevant page at feedagg.com. We syndicate our feeds to several feed aggregation websites, but thus far I have only created a dedicated page on the site for feedagg feeds. You can check it out by clicking here.

The reason I have done this is to increase the “feedagg score” apparently they will increase the feed score by 5 points for adding a link back… but I have not seen it yet. (maybe all the feeds will show a score of at least 5 by the time you click?). Increasing the feedagg score makes the feed rank higher at feedagg.com, which means more exposure on the site and potentially  more visitors and  subscribers.

If you want to help your articles rank even better… visit the feedagg feeds page, visit the your category of interest and give the page a rating. It’s likely got one of your articles on it! Better still tweet the page and add it to your favorite social bookmarking sites. Spend 2 minutes doing that now and you will help every article that you submit here in future get more traffic.

If you know of any other good feed aggregation sites like feedagg.com, please let me know by posting a comment below.

Respectfully

Dan Blackburn

The reason is simple, he is the highest ranked author to have completed his profile page and included an image.  There is no cash prize for winning the contest anymore, the main benefit is recognition through the home page of the site… It seems silly recognizing someone who does not want to be recognized, so Franto wins!

You can learn more about Franto by visiting his profile page here

As well as being recognized on the home page of the site as our “top author” for the month of July, Franto will also receive 10,000 adverting credits to display his own ads across the site and some extra promotion of his articles submitted to article content king.

If you want to win the contest next month, submit your best articles to article-content-king… but do make sure that you complete your author profile page first and include an image!

King For May

The top author of Article-Content-King for May is R Michael Stone, a well deserved “crown”. R Michael Stone writes truly excellent articles on the “Psychological Smoking Mechanism” and how to quit smoking for good. I particularly enjoyed reading this article about why Nicotine is NOT physically addictive.

Reading this article really surprised me and made me think that reaching for the Marmite instead of my cigarettes could be the answer. If you have any comments about this, leave them in the article above (not below this post).

You can read the rest of R Michael Stones articles by following the links from his author page from here you can also check out his websites http://www.unlearnsmoking.com and http://www.rmichaelstone.com

We will hopefully be catching up with R Michael Stone later in the month to chat about winning the contest.

Changes to the King Contest

R Michael Stone is the last author who will win the $100 cash prize. Future winners of the King contest will be recognized on the home page of the site, and this blog.

John Halderman is a co-author of this book along with Jack Zufelf, Brian Tracy Jack Canfield and many more experts. It is a sequel Jack Zufelt’s to the #1 best seller “The DNA of Success” and it sure to be a top seller itself, it’s already receiving excellent reviews.

You can pick up the book at a great price at John’s site
http://thednaofsuccessstories.com/

I have yet to speak to John about winning the contest, and I was in two minds about allowing him to be “King”, as people may feel that this is contrived to help with the book launch, but it really wasn’t.

John does not work for Article-Content-King.com, he has never been paid for doing the interviews or helping out with the site, he does it because he is a nice guy. Really… no-one deserves to be King of Article Content King this month more than John Halderman. He has won because of his writing, and he wrote because of the book launch. It’s the members who decided, not me. I didn’t even rate his articles. So I would be totally wrong to say “Hey John, because you help out so much, you can’t be King”.

King of Article-Content-King is John Halderman. If you would like to interview HIM about winning the King contest, or just about his new book, I am sure he would oblige. You can read more about John Halderman by visiting his profile page.

Don’t forget to submit your best articles to Article Content King this month to have a chance of winning the prize next month.

All articles are rated by members of Article Content King, after 3 members have rated the article on a scale of 1 – 10 the article goes live with the accumulative score giving by all 3 moderators. 23 is a very high article score.

You can read more about Megumi and check out her top rated and latest articles by visiting her profile page. Megumi is looking for more contacts at LinkedIn. If you like what you read, why not check out her LinkedIn profile page and connect with her there?

As “King” of the site Megumi has won…

• $100
• 10,000 advertising credits
• Exposure on the Article Content King home page for the month of  March

And of course, if Megumi wants to be interviewed about her online business and article marketing success, she will unlock more benefits from winning the King contest.

Who will be King next month? Will it be you?

Click here to submit your best articles to article-content-king.com

His prolific article writing demonstrates Nick’s understanding of how effective Article marketing can be, and his enthusiasm for retaining the crown shows the value of the King title.

Please check out Nick’s author profile page here and read and rate some of his articles. You’ll find some great information, mainly on health and alternative medicine there as well as links to all Nick’s websites.

Submit enough high quality articles in February and you could be the “King” for march. It’s a title well worth winning.

On another note, today is the day that we stop accepting free article submissions* and increase the price to the “full” price, which rather than being $9.99 per year, is going to be £7 per year (yes that is GBP not USD). I don’t think this will cause any problems with people NOT in the UK not being able to pay as PayPal will do the currency conversion for you.

The reason why we are doing this is not because £7 is more than $9.99 and it’s not (really) because I live in the UK where we spend pounds and not dollars.  The reason is that more authors upgraded at the $7.99 price than any other price. Almost double the number who paid $4.99 one time. And get this… the only price increase that I did NOT announce is the increase to $7.99. It seems that 7 is the magic number, whether or not it needs to have a $ sign in front of it, I intend to find out.

*Everyone with more than 3000 unclaimed advertising credits on their account will be upgraded automatically this afternoon.

They will try to use the particular keyword phrase or phrases as often as they can in the article body, or perhaps they will go to great lengths to make sure that the keyword density in the article is exactly 4.9% or 3.7% or 6.8% or what ever percentage keyword density they read was the best to use when optimising articles for the search engines.

They will use bolding, italics, even BLOCK CAPS when they use the keyword phrase in the article in the belief that doing this will help their site (not the article) rank better for the keyword phrases that they want to rank for.

This is the WRONG approach to article marketing!

The problem is, that people with this mentality often care little for the quality of the articles that they submit. It’s stupid! Yes, stupid. The value of a well written article is worth infinitely more than a link in a junk article approved on an unmoderated article directory!

Article directories are not fantastic places to get SEO back links from anymore, they were back in 2007 but the Internet changes.

What they are fantastic places from which you can “spawn” back links, and great places to get highly targeted traffic and followers / subscribers. The links you get on article directories are fantastic, but it’s not because they are the foundation of your #1 rankings on Google, it’s because interested people are finding and reading your articles, then clicking through to your site or perhaps because someone is frequently using your articles in their newsletter and broadcasting them to their 10,000+ subscribers or twitter followers.

Even if you are getting #1 ranking for your web site solely because of your article marketing efforts, I’d bet my house that you are getting more traffic from well ranked pages that you displaying your articles on other web sites (like article directories, and the blogs and newsletters who have published your article from an article directory).

Google may be your top traffic provider, but when you add up all the traffic you are getting from other places publishing your article, I bet it’s a lot more.

If not, then you are definitely doing article marketing wrong. What? You think you can generate more traffic from Google to your 52 page web site than all the tens of thousands of web site pages that contain links to your site combined?

When you search Google, how often do you find links to articles on article directories or blogs? That is some of the best traffic you can get! Targeted by Google and framed by your article before they visit your site, ready to buy.

Above all, the quality of your article is paramount. If it is junk, even if the you are achieving the top rankings you desire (doubtful), you are sure to be missing out on a lot of traffic, no publisher worth their salt is ever going to publish a junk article.

Sure, your articles may get published on some of the lower quality the article directories, but it will never be picked up… and frankly, if an article directory does not moderate their content well enough, then the links you get from those sites are unlikely to have any affect at all on your traffic or rankings. Links from junk sites could even hurt you.

With this in mind, the first thing you should think about before writing an article is not which keyword phrase you want to rank for, but how you can write something that people will want to read and publishers will want to publish. Only then will you unlock the real power of article marketing.

Don’t disregard keyword optimisation completely, just make sure your focus is more on providing quality information and portraying yourself as an expert.

If you do that, people will want to follow you, they will trust you and they will buy from you… if they want what you are offering.

At article content king moderate every article submitted to make sure it is worthy of publishing on other sites, before we publish it ourselves. Then we automatically promote each article to an opt-in targeted audience. If your articles are consistantly good enough, frequent enough and as you get ranked on the top author pages, your articles will get published and promoted by others more frequently.  More so as people begin to recognise article content king as a great place to find articles.

Roseanna is a true expert in her field, with a degree in psychology and numerous qualifications in hypnotherapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and sports psychology, she is one of the leading practitioners of self-improvement in the world. Roseanna is Principal Hypnotherapist at the Analytical Hypnotherapy Centre of the Isle of Man.

Her website RoseannaLeaton.com which offers self improvement mp3 hypnosis downloads is full of testimonials from happy customers, from people who have lowered their golf handicap to people who have lost weight.

A keen 9-handicap golfer herself, Roseanna combined her knowledge of the game and the mind mechanism to create the acclaimed Golfer Within recordings that enable any player to lower their handicap. This is one of many mental skills ‘toolkits’ available from her website.

*Roseanna is in the process of phasing out her stock of physical cds in the GolferWithin range and  cd prices have all been slashed accordingly.  This provides a great opportunity to purchase cds for golfers; they make a really cool Christmas present which not only looks good, but greatly helps their game as well.

To celebrate winning the contest, Roseanna has decided to offer Article Content King blog readers  an additional 30% discount on the Golfer Within mental skills toolkit.

You will get an added discount of 30% with the code noted below on top of this discounted pricing. Grab your copy while stocks last. Enter discount code  – GOLF30 at the checkout. This offer is available until the 31st October. That’s someone’s Christmas present sorted if you act fast!

Next month we are making some changes to how to top author is calculated by taking the average article score of all article submitted in the last 3 months with a rating above 15. This will really open up the contest and increase everyone’s chances of winning. It will be the author with the most highly rated author that wins, not necessarily the author with the most articles.

We are also bringing in some big changes to the submission and moderation process, lifting the 2 articles per day limit for approved authors and fast tracking article moderation with approved moderators.

John Halderman chats  the winner of the “King Contest” Liz Canham about her online business, article marketing and winning the top author contest.

Since she was first introduced to computers, Liz has found them fascinating.  She is  retired now, but  still enjoys internet marketing and in particular, writing articles and creating websites and blogs based around her interests. Online Home Business, Asian Food & Cookery, Gardening, Travel, Cats,  Bird watching and many more.