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		<title>Article Traffic Magnet – The Art of Content Outsourcing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This section of Article Traffic Magnet explores the opportunities of alternative to content preparation, that is, the potential and process of <strong>outsourcing content creation</strong> to freelance writers.</p>
<p>The content on your site speaks volumes about your website. They portray the depth of your understanding of your site theme and your site’s offering. Articles and website content hence form the Spirit of your site and to a certain extent you make or break on them. But what if you do not have the time and energy to constantly churn out quality content for your <a href="http://www.businessfast4ward.com/category/website-traffic-generation/" target="_blank"><strong>website traffic generation</strong></a> purposes?</p>
<p><strong>The Eternal Truth &#8211; Content will Always be KING</strong></p>
<p>Consistently good website content serves as magnet to attract readers and keep them coming back. This is especially so when you are the expert on the subject matter and even more so if you are seen as sharing extensively on your expertise with your readers. And obviously, with more traffic, you get to generate more revenues and earn profits from your site. It is obvious henceforth, that the flow of traffic in your site eventually defines the amount of money you can earn from it.</p>
<p>Good content and great articles generate traffic for search engines which rely on the keyword and keyword phrases of a site to put it in their results list. If your content contains a good number of keywords and keywords phrases, it may become the top listed sites in the search result pages, enabling searchers to click through your high ranking links.</p>
<p><strong>Expert Writers Give Fast Content</strong></p>
<p>Most aspiring internet marketers may not be able to afford the time to learn web content writing and article writing designed for the internet. There are expert writers who have much experience in content and article writing and charge only a minimal fee to help get your website that coveted spot in the search engine rankings. Some of these expert writers are could provide your site with meaningful articles and content that can impress your website visitors and entice others to view your site.</p>
<p><strong>Great Content at Affordable Fees</strong></p>
<p>Many writers around the world charge a minimal fee depending on the type of writing job needed and the number of words needed in the content. Usually, a two hundred fifty worded article would cost from 4 to 8 dollars depending on the writers experience and ability. This is a small price to pay for content rich well-researched article.</p>
<p>There are also many sites that can offer you these services with their team of well trained and experienced writers. They offer many writing services to cover any writing needs. A writer can be based anywhere in the world and are guaranteed to offer good contents and articles. Each one are doubly checked, edited and proofread so that you get your money’s worth.</p>
<p><strong>In Search For That Great Writer</strong></p>
<p>It is not difficult to search for that ghost writer for your articles. Get onto any of the top 3 search engines, key in &#8220;freelance writer&#8221; or &#8220;article writers&#8221;, or &#8220;content writers&#8221; and you will find a good list of article writers. If you must have a few top notch sites that provide good writers, try Elance or Odesk. Very often, when you have used a few good writers over time, you will want to stick to them for the quality and meeting of minds as they tend to be familiar with what your needs and peculiarities are.</p>
<p>Shop around and ask for sample work as reference. Be specific when you brief your selected writers and test them with an article before committing payment.</p>
<p><strong>A Final Word Of Caution</strong></p>
<p>Ensure that you get the full copyright of the article you commission your writer for, do run copyscape to ensure originality of the article and finally, for peace of mind, run a check on the first 3 pages of the top 3 search engine to ensure that your article is not plagiarizing other articles already in the search engines.</p>
<p>This part of the Article Traffic Magnet Outsourcing with freelance writers ends here. I hope you are no longer intimidated by seemingly overwhelming task of <strong>outsourcing content creation</strong>.</p>
<p>You can visit <a href="http://www.businessfast4ward.com/category/article-marketing-2/" target="_blank"><strong>Article Traffic Magnet</strong></a> here for more article posts. And read more on <a href="http://www.businessfast4ward.com/category/website-traffic-generation/" target="_blank"><strong>Website Traffic Generation</strong></a> here for other ideas to <strong>drive traffic to your site</strong>.</p>
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		<title>Internet Marketing For Small Business – Article Marketing Is Dead!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Article Marketing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[article directories]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Yes, Article Marketing Is Dead! Or Is It … ?</strong></p>
<p>When it comes to <strong>internet marketing for small business</strong>, driving cheap or free traffic is imperative to the survival and growth of your website. And while social networks have been fast falling from favor and the Big G, <strong>Article Marketing</strong> continues to be the evergreen strategy in getting <strong>quality backlinks</strong> and <strong>potential traffic</strong> to your site and getting maximum exposure for it. You write articles to be submitted to article directories and once approved, the articles to be listed in the article directories for others to use. While the process is simple its nuances are not.</p>
<p><strong>Anatomy of An Article</strong></p>
<p>The article structure and format that you write for submission includes your title, the introduction, a few paragraphs of content addressing the issue(s) you wish to discuss, and conclusion. This is deemed the &#8220;give&#8221; section of your article, which you literally give your best perspectives of your topic and most articles should not include links here as most <strong>article directories</strong> discourage the distraction.</p>
<p>The additional components required for <strong>article submission</strong> to the directories include a short summary, keywords, and your resource box, where you market your website with links. This is the &#8220;take&#8221; section of your article which is where you are allowed to market your website and include relevant links. Most article directories allow a maximum of two links and anchor texts but some do allow three. You have now created a very convenient process to submit your article to article directories.</p>
<p><strong>Do You Really Need Multiple Article Directories By The Hundreds?</strong></p>
<p>In order to ensure that you generate the best article backlinks, contrary to the common view, you may not want submit to multiple article directories by the hundreds. The main reason is that many less robust article directories either go out of business suddenly, or do not even get crawled by spiders often enough. It defeats the purpose and efforts spent on <strong>multiple submissions.</strong></p>
<p>Rather, your focus should be not be quantity but <strong>quality article backlinks</strong>. Simply choose the <strong>Top 10 articles directories</strong> and you are good to go. In fact, you may not need to use <strong>article marketing service</strong> which automates the submission process unless you are managing several authority sites requires constant <strong>article backlinks</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Catch Readers’ Attention With Unique Super High Quality Content</strong></p>
<p>The beauty of article marketing lies in the fact that the traffic it drives to your website is FREE, and it only costs you time and effort to write the articles, that is, if you do not outsource your article writing projects. That said, the good old adage still stands. You need to create super high quality content these days in order to capture the attention and interest of your readers. Run off the mill information will never get you the desired click-through rates your need to drive decent traffic to your site. And I would suggest that you change the title, first and last paragraph for each article directory that you submit to as a precaution, although not doing so is not critical to the outcome.</p>
<p>Article contents continue to be a staple in the <strong>internet marketing</strong> fraternity. As it will continues to feed the incessant needs of PLR content creation, automated blogs and even scrapers. Many will take your articles, links and all, and post onto their sites, thereby enhancing the number of your backlinks. The more your articles chosen by them, the greater is your exposure.</p>
<p>So if you think that Article Marketing is Dead, think again…</p>
<p>Check out <a href="http://www.businessfast4ward.com/category/internet-marketing-for-small-business/" target="_blank"><strong>Internet Marketing for Small Business</strong></a> and <a href="http://www.businessfast4ward.com/category/website-traffic-generation/" target="_blank"><strong>Website Traffic Generation</strong></a> for more information here.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">When it comes to <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">internet marketing for small business</span>, driving cheap or free traffic is imperative to the survival and growth of your website. And while social networks have been fast falling from favor and the Big G, <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">Article Marketing</span> continues to be the evergreen strategy in getting <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">quality backlinks</span> and <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">potential traffic</span> to your site and getting maximum exposure for it. You write articles to be submitted to article directories and once approved, the articles to be listed in the <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">article directories</span> for others to use. While the process is simple its nuances are not.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">Anatomy of An Article<br />
</span></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">The article structure and format that you write for submission includes your title, the introduction, a few paragraphs of content addressing the issue(s) you wish to discuss, and conclusion. This is deemed the &#8220;give&#8221; section of your article, which you literally give your best perspectives of your topic and most articles should not include links here as most <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">article directories</span> discourage the distraction.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">The additional components required for <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">article submission</span> to the directories include a short summary, keywords, and your resource box, where you market your website with links. This is the &#8220;take&#8221; section of your article which is where you are allowed to market your website and include relevant links. Most article directories allow a maximum of two links and anchor texts but some do allow three. You have now created a very convenient process to submit your article to article directories.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">Do You Really Need Multiple Article Directories By The Hundreds?</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">In order to ensure that you generate the best article backlinks, contrary to the common view, you may not want submit to multiple article directories by the hundreds. The main reason is that many less robust article directories either go out of business suddenly, or do not even get crawled by spiders often enough. It defeats the purpose and efforts spent on <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">multiple submissions</span>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">Rather, your focus should be not be quantity but <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">quality article backlinks</span>. Simply choose the <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">Top 10 articles directories</span> and you are good to go. In fact, you may not need to use <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">article marketing service</span> which automates the submission process unless you are managing several authority sites requires constant <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">article backlinks</span>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">Catch Readers’ Attention With Unique Super High Quality Content</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">The beauty of article marketing lies in the fact that the traffic it drives to your website is FREE, and it only costs you time and effort to write the articles, that is, if you do not outsource your article writing projects. That said, the good old adage still stands. You need to create super high quality content these days in order to capture the attention and interest of your readers. Run off the mill information will never get you the desired click-through rates your need to drive decent traffic to your site. And I would suggest that you change the title, first and last paragraph for each article directory that you submit to as a precaution, although not doing so is not critical to the outcome. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">Article contents continue to be a staple in the <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">internet marketing</span> fraternity. As it will continues to feed the incessant needs of PLR content creation, automated blogs and even scrapers. Many will take your articles, links and all, and post onto their sites, thereby enhancing the number of your backlinks. The more your articles chosen by them, the greater is your exposure. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">So if you think that Article Marketing is Dead, think again… </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">Check out <strong><span style="color: blue; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">Internet Marketing for Small Business</span></strong><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;"> </span>and <strong><span style="color: blue; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">Website Traffic Generation</span></strong><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;"> </span>for more information here.</span></p>
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		<title>Making Money Online – To Niche or Not To Niche?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is an interesting tussle of views between <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>online mass marketing</strong></span> and <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>online niche marketing</strong></span> . Internet marketing traditionally began with information-giving and this has given rise to the perspective that the internet is appealing to the masses. And rightly it should. The extensive growth of e-commerce and affiliate marketing has however given rise to online niche marketing, and has become a very profitable topic of discussion at that too.</p>
<p>There is no right or wrong about which perspective one takes. It all boils down to the objective of the site owner and his or her trade, of which will determine what perspective he or she will take to catapult the site to the next level. For instance, a site owner representing a corporate entity would likely design the site with an information-centric perspective, whilst an avid online e-marketer will be <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>ecommerce-centric</strong></span>.</p>
<p>I would consider that every business is in a niche of its own. The main difference being that it’s either a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>broad niche or a narrowly-defined niche .</strong></span></p>
<p>While searching for business ideas, both traditional or internet marketing alike, we start off exploring a viable board industry, narrowing down to a digestible segment and finally specializing in providing a focused line of product offering.</p>
<p>So essentially, the extent of the niche depends on the breadth &amp; depth of your product range, your chosen target market(s), and the market needs to be fulfilled.</p>
<p>For example, you could consider an Aston Martin dealership selling a couple of Aston Martin DBS per year. Or you could also consider a Toyota dealership selling a couple thousands of Toyota Corrollas per year. The former is obviously a Super Niche while the latter is a broad one.</p>
<p>Similarly, in internet marketing, there is also need to niche both your product offerings and target segment. The reason being that as an internet marketer, you only have that much time and energy to ensure certain level of success.</p>
<p>Your<strong> <span style="color: #0000ff;">internet SWOT and viability analysis</span></strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"> </span>are much more skilled and technology-driven. You use keyword search tools, and supply search tools to measure the product’s potential viability. You use traffic-driving tools to route internet traffic to your site optimizing backlinks from social networking &amp; bookmarking, social media, article marketing, link-exchanges etc.</p>
<p>The smaller the niche, the greater the amount of effort to grow your product offerings separately, differentiate them, maintain your clientele base. Traditional brick and mortar businesses need to build-in the niche segments expansion requirements, be it from marketing or budgeting perspectives.</p>
<p>Internet marketers are able to achieve greater operational efficiency, sometimes at faster pace, by leveraging upon ready or customized technology-driven tools to manage the ever-growing number of niche offerings within a portfolio.</p>
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