Yesterday I added all the active article feeds to feedagg.com to help drive more traffic to your articles. If you have not checked out feedagg.com yet, you should. It’s a pretty cool site where people go to find information. By adding your website feed(s) there you can get more visitors to your website and subscribers to your RSS feed.

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

I was chatting with R Michael Stone the other day about winning the King contest and his website marketing in general and we got on to traffic. I asked him what other forms of traffic he has used, other than Article Marketing. He told me that he had tried Pay Per Click with Google Adwords, but after failing to get any real traffic from keyword bids as high as $2 per click, Google actually suspended his Adwords account.

This is not uncommon, in fact it is more like the norm. Google obviously do not rate the quality of Michael’s landing page. It’s a “lead capture page” or “squeeze page” as they are sometimes called.  The page itself is backed up with links to some very high quality articles and there is some great information on the site, but Google it appears do not want Michael advertising this page through their Adwords service… even though Michael was willing to pay through the nose for traffic.

He would not have a problem with any other search engine, as all the others allow the highest bidder to take the most traffic, but Google are different. They want the most relevant ads to the best offers to get the most traffic and they don’t want pages that they feel do not meet the cut there at all. Google treat ad rankings more like search engine rankings. This is great news for you as an article marketer as it makes it possible for you to pay a LOT less for traffic that your competitors AND get more traffic than them… if you know what you are doing.

So what do you need to do?

Let me put it this way. Links to your squeeze pages fit perfectly in the resource box of your articles and your articles fit perfectly with Google’s “landing page quality score rules”.

• If you promote an article on an authority site rather than a sales page or a squeeze page in your Google Adwords PPC campaign, you will pay a lot less per click. FACT!
• If you promote your squeeze page in your article resource box, every reader of your article will be ready to subscribe when they click. (A lot more ready than they were after they read your Google ad).

If you run Adwords campaigns to your articles published on authority sites, instead of the sales pages of your own websites you may find that you make a lot more money a lot more easily. You’ll pay less per click, but get more targeted visitors through to your squeeze page, (fewer more targeted visitors of course).

There appears to be a  rather nice side effect to doing this too. You will find that the article that you are promoting begins to rank better in Google too. Thus you end up getting the traffic that you are paying for, for free! Google deny that this is the case, but test it for your self.

Tips for doing this effectively.

1. Keep it short and easy to read, you want everyone to get to the bottom of your article where the link to your squeeze page is. (no more than 600 words).
2. Provide real value in the article. You want people to feel like they owe you when they click to your site.
3. Don’t push! Be helpful and make people want to know more of your “secrets”.
4. Use bolded subheads containing the keyword phrases that you want to rank well for. (Be mindful of SEO but do not compromise the article for it).

The speed at which your visitors  read your article and how much they like what they read will determine how many people will click through to your site… ready to subscribe.

Try it and work out the cost per subscriber when you do. I think you will be pleasantly surprised. Or win the King contest and we will do it for you . The prize for winning has changed to $50 cash and $50 PPC traffic to your best articles. (Starting next King).

Submit articles here

It’s true that we do charge a fee to submit articles at Article-Content-King, but we also offer both Basic Membership and Silver Membership levels.

Free members can submit articles, but they must add their “author badge” to a web site. Not every web site that they want to link to in their articles and on their author profile page, just one web site.

Free members can also moderate articles and earn advertising credits for doing so, but free members can no longer use their advertising credits until they upgrade their membership.

The members first 5000 advertising credits earned can be used to pay for an upgrade to the “Basic” membership level.

Basic members get full access to submit articles under as many pen names as they like. They do not have to add their author badge to any web site, but if they choose to, they earn extra advertising credits which can be used to display their Google Adsense ads across the site.

Basic members earn 1 credit every time one of their articles is viewed and 2 credits when their profile page is viewed. (Visits only count once from the same visitor in a 24 hour period).

Basic (and free) members also earn 0.1 credits for views of  articles submitted by any author that they referred to article content king. This continues down 10 levels so the advertising credits can really build up. (Full explanation is in the members area).

• Silver members earn credits at double the rate of Basic members
• they get full control of the ad space
• and can set their ads to appear only in specific categories.

This makes Silver members advertising credits worth a LOT more… perhaps as much as 10 times more.

Our Silver membership level is for people who want to get the most possible revenue from their articles published at article-content-king. If you are not interested in making money from your articles, then Silver membership is not for you. You can still submit articles free at article-content-king.com

It’s no secret that we add rel=”nofollow” to all the links in articles submitted to article content king and I have explained before why we do this. It’s to help you get stronger back links from the site.

Now I am going to tell you how to use this site to get stronger back links. If you follow this advice you will help to focus the content on this site into “tight niche hubs” and greatly improve the quality of the site, while increasing the traffic you receive at the same time.

As you know, the links that you put on the profile page do not contain no follow links, all your articles link to this page so all the “link reputation” of all your articles is focused on your profile page, and from there the reputation is passed to the sites that you want to promote with your articles. i.e. The links that you add in the “favourite web sites” section of the profile page.

If you create a profile page for each “tight niche” that you write articles for, each profile page becomes a like a targeted index page for your articles and the web sites that you want to promote.

This focusing of your content should help your articles to rank better in the search engines and better optimise the “back links” that you receive from this site.

See how that works? Let me give you an example.

Let’s say you have written 7 articles about article marketing and 7 articles about how to lose weight. If you submit all 14 article under the same author name, the profile page for that author does not have any real focus. Is it about weight loss or is it about article marketing? The two topics are totally unrelated.

If you set up a separate author alias for each subject, then you basically have two “mini sites” within article-content-king. One about article marketing and one about weight loss.

We have the “index page” which is your profile page. These profile pages contains relevant links and information about each topic and are supported by all the (relevant) articles that you submit under this author name. Thus creating a “mini site” about the topic.

Visitors looking for weight loss information can find your weight loss “mini site” and people looking for article marketing information can find your article marketing “mini site”.

If you focus your content in this way then you should start getting a lot more traffic from the site, especially if you add a few links into your profile yourself.

The only potential problem with this is that every profile page needs a separate “author alias” (pen name), I know that some people write more to brand themselves and their name than anything else, so this method will not appeal to them.

For everyone else, it’s important to note, that we DO NOT accept articles from keyword phrases, or author names with numbers in them. Even if it is not your actual name, it still needs to be a believable name.

You can set up new author names and sort your older articles if you wish, but do not do too many at once because your articles WILL be removed from the site and placed back in moderation if you edit them. That includes changing the author name.

Today is the last day that you can submit articles for free. Tomorrow the price increases again for the last time. Click here to submit articles to article-content-king.com

Authors often complain to me about the use of the “nofollow” tag in their articles submitted to article content king.  I decided to write this article to explain why we do this and how rather than hurting your search engine optimization efforts, it actually helps them!

Yes, that’s right… the fact that we add rel=”nofollow” to the links in your articles actually helps you get stronger back links from our site.

Don’t believe me?

Here’s why. It’s quite simple really.

If you know anything about SEO, you will know the importance of getting links from IP addresses in different C Classes. Some of the “Article Directory Lists” you will find while browsing the Internet will include the directories IP address with the listing and they will not list 2 directories that share the same C Class IP address. This is because getting links from different servers is important for SEO. It is thought that this is one of the ways that big search engines like Google determine whether link growth to a site is natural.

It is also thought that getting too many links from the same IP addresses can even be harmful to your web site’s search engine rankings . It can look like you are trying to manipulate your rankings and the search engines do not like that.

I have often read that any particular site can only “vote” for your web site once, any subsequent links you get from the site don’t really have much, if any benefit in terms of search engine optimization. Some would say that the search engines could discount all your links from a site if you get too many from the same places, if all your links come from the same source or sources.

Using this logic, it seems wise to focus all the traffic and link reputation that your articles generate onto one link to your site… the link on your profile page.  The links you add on your profile page do not have the “nofollow” tag in the links. Every article you submit links to this page which means that all the “link juice” of all the articles you submit is focused on this page. This makes the one vote that this site can give you count as much as possible.

If we didn’t do this, then which one link would be the one that counted? Would it be as good a link as this one?

So what about linking keyword phrases in your articles to get better optimization for those words?

Am I telling you that everything you have learned about article marketing is false and it’s not a good search engine optimization technique at all? If you can only get one link that counts from any article directory, what is the point of submitting more than one article? Is it all just to help that one back link I get have more value?

If you are asking that question (and I know that some of you are) then I am afraid that somewhere along the line you have misunderstood what article directories are for.

Article Marketing is something that has existed since soon after the invention of the printing press, perhaps even before that, long before the Internet existed. There have always been “content repositories” available to publishers and authors; places where publishers can find content to publish to their readers, without having to write it themselves and where writers can submit their articles to get recognition of their work. The Internet has made this a lot more accessible and mainstream because there are a lot more publishers now, but the concept of article marketing was born long before the Internet!

Article Content King is a content repository. A place where you can submit your articles in the hope that a publisher in your niche will pick them up and publish them. It’s a place where you can use your content to make contacts in the industry if you use your profile page correctly.

It is our job to put your articles in front of people who are interested in publishing what you are writing about. We present your article in an easy to publish format through the publisher page (linked in all your articles). You’ll notice that the links here do not contain the “rel=”nofollow” tag. That’s because when someone naturally publishes your article from our site, you have naturally earned a back link to your site. This is not manipulative at all and you deserve credit for that link. The search engines would agree.

Article directories are fantastic places to build back links to your site, but it’s not the back links you get from the article directories themselves that count, it’s the back links you get from people publishing your articles, on different web sites and servers across the Internet that really helps your SEO. The more articles you submit, the more chance there is of this happening.

So as you can see, our intention when adding rel=”nofollow” to your site links on the article pages is actually intended to help you get stronger back links from our site.

You can create an many profile pages as you like, and add as many links to each profile page as you like. We add a link to the appropriate profile page inside every article you submit. All your efforts focus the reputation on the ONE vote that this site can pass to any one of your sites and if your article is naturally published from our site, you get a natural back link.

Is this really something to complain about?

Respectfully

Dan Blackburn

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

When your articles are viewed on article content king, you earn advertising credits. You also earn advertising credits when the articles of anyone you referred are viewed on the site too…  Down 10 levels of referrals.

The more your articles are viewed, and the more people you have referred, the faster your credits will grow.

You can use your credits to display your own Google Adsense ads or advertise your own web site in targeted articles. We pay up to 50% of credits generated to free members and up to 100% to our Silver and Gold members.

If you check the “earn money” page in the members area after reading this article, you will see just how lucrative our revenue sharing system could be for you. When you understand, you are going to love the new tool we have added to help you build your downline and get more traffic to your articles.

It’s called Affiliate RSS feed and with it you will be able to use this blog and your published articles to promote your article content king affiliate link. With just a one time, 5 minute set up you could plug your cloaked feeds into several “traffic fixes” and automatically promote your affiliate link forever!

Log into your members area now and check it out. If you do not have an account yet, click here to sign up and start submitting articles for free.

Respectfully,

Dan Blackburn

I have just discovered something quite fantastic… Google Friend Connect. For a while now I have been wanting to add the ability for visitors to comment on the articles published at Article Content King. Well now that can! All thanks to  Google Friend Connect. It took less than 5 minutes to implement accross the entire site and cost absoultely nothing.

How cool is that?

To leave a comment on the article you are reading, just click the “comments” link on the Google Friend Connect  social bar and leave your comment or type into the comments box on the article page.

You can even post links to you tube videos and other sites for further reading. It’s very tidy and really quite cool.  The latest activity appears on the Social Bar itself, site wide. When you comment, everyone visiting the site at that time gets to see it, but the comment itself is attached to the article you posted it on. You also get a link to your Google account profile in every comment you leave.

These new features have just been added to the site I am the only one in the sites community right now. It feels pretty lonely in there, so please visit the site now and join the comminity and comment on the articles you read. All comments are set to be approved instantly, spammers will be banned quickly.

I didn’t realise that MyBlogLog was not just for Blogs. There I was, creating a community for this blog, when I realised. I could add the feed from the article directory too.

If you want to keep up to date with the latest articles at article content king or you want to help your own articles receive more traffic, please join the article content king MyBlogLog community.

Every article we publish will appear on the feed in this community, this creates more links and more traffic into every article we publish and the more members who join the community, the more traffic everyones articles will receive. (Same as with the Twitter account). Remember, every view your articles receive at Article Content King is converted into advertising credits to display your own ads on the site.

If you would like to be recognised in this comminity as an author, please message me (at MyBlogLog) with your MyBlogLog username and and your article-content-king.com author RSS feed URL.

Have a great day!

Dan

P.S. You can join the Article Content King MyBlogLog community by clicking this link

A couple of weeks ago I set up a twitter account to publish a daily digest of articles published at article content king. Doing this has been very successful, surprisingly so. Yes, you too, would (very) be surprised at how many people actually click though to read the article on the site, after seeing a link to it posted on Twitter.

Because it has been so successful, we have decided to take it to the next level and Tweet your articles as they are published. As well as publishing the daily digest, the article content king twitter account will now also publish a direct link every single article that is published.  That means that every article you have published on our site, will be Tweeted. Not only by the article content king account… but by a couple of friends too. They too have the feed plugged in to their twitter account to automatically publish links to the articles that we publish.

You can help to drive more traffic to YOUR articles from twitter, by following Article Content King. The more followers the account has, the more traffic we will drive to everyones articles.

Remember, at article-content-king, when your articles are viewed on the site… you earn advertising credits!

Get some free traffic from article content king & twitter  Just follow me.

It wasn’t long after Article Marketing became popular that Article Spinners appeared on the scene. Article Spinners are software programs that take the text of an article and replace words and phrases in it using synonyms found in a thesaurus. Some of the more advanced Spinners will also re-order paragraphs and sentences, or choose them from a selection of alternatives provided by the user.

Why Use an Article Spinner?

There are literally thousands of Private Label Rights (PLR) articles available on the Internet. Anyone can take them and republish them under their own name if they wish. Unfortunately, that means that several hundred identical articles could appear on article sites, all with apparently different authors. As Google and the other search engines started to spot duplicate content and penalise it, the use of PLR articles started to become pointless.

Enter the Article Spinner! Now, one hundred different article publishers could feed the same article into the article spinners, and each would end up with a unique article that they could publish with no ill effects on the search engine results. Furthermore, one article marketer could use the spinner to create 50 different articles which could then be submitted to different article sites.

Why You Shouldn’t Use an Article Spinner

Although Article Spinners generally have access to a huge database of synonyms in their in-built thesaurus, they have no concept of the context of the article on which they are working. There are many words which have totally different meanings, yet the spelling remains the same. When the Article Spinner is choosing a synonym for a particular word, you can not guarantee that it will select one with the correct meaning.

Here’s an example. The word “rose” has several meanings:

• A kind of flower
• The spray nozzle on the end of a watering can
• Part of a light fitting on a ceiling
• The past tense of “to rise”
• The design on the back of a navigational compass
• A pink colour

Now let us assume your article contains the following text:
“He rose from his seat and presented a rose to his wife”

The article spinner could completely misinterpret this and spin it into
“He spray nozzle from his chair and gave a got up to his spouse”

This is clearly meaningless nonsense.

Used correctly, an article containing such text would be rejected. However, looking at several article sites, this is not the case. Many users of Article Spinners simply churn out hundreds of articles and submit them to article sites without bothering to check them first.

And those users who do check the generated articles probably spend more time filtering out the rubbish, or correcting it, than it would have taken to rewrite the article by hand.

Reputation

If you submit junk articles created using an Article Spinner, your reputation is going to suffer.  People will see that your articles are nonsensical and or incoherent and will not even begin to trust you.  Your chance to build a relationship with your readers will be lost, and then you have lost your market.

Conclusion
On the face of it, Article Spinners sound like fantastic time-savers for the article marketer. In reality, they produce low-quality articles or even complete rubbish.
And on a final note, low quality articles created using Article Spinners submitted to Article Content King will simply be rejected. If you’re not prepared to put in the effort to use Article Spinners correctly, it is best not to use them.