Here’s proof that article marketing works. I found your 15 Tips on ezinearticles and clicked the link in your resource box and here I am :) Great article – not sure if I can do 100 in 100 days. I’ve done 0 in 7 days LOL.

I wish you luck and I’ll be checking up on you. Glad I found your blog through your article :)

Gwen

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I’m pulling for you (“&remember to keep your stick on the ice”) quote stolen from the Red Green Show on PBS. Blog on!

Great idea. I have been using article marketing for years and it works!

A great way to organize one’s process is to brainstorm a list of possible topics your market would be interested in. From there, break each topic into subtopics.

Then write 3 – 5 tips for each topic and subtopic. Then create a paragraph or two for each tip.

Kathleen

Hi Susanne,

I agree that getting links is very important for SEO. And links from EzineArticles.com are relatively easy to achieve.

But a 100 links from one domain, i.e. http://ezinearticles.com, carry less weight than 100 links from various domains.

The good thing about EzineArticles.com is that they don’t “nofollow” links in the resource box. You may wanna submit your articles to other article directories that don’t “nofollow”.

I still don’t think this type of article marketing SEO is suitable for a generic blog. I think it’s more suitable for niche websites where you would want to rank for specifically defined keywords.

It may be good for generating a bit of traffic. But if traffic is the goal, there could be a better way to achieve it.

For example, get incoming links from various directories and other websites to increase the PageRank (i.e. trust) of your main domain, http://affiliatetreasurechest.com, then the high PageRank of your root domain will trickle down to your sub-pages thus increasing their rank in the SERPs, which would result in direct traffic to you.

I’m just brainstorming with you here to see where this type of effort can be best applied. But I’m sure that taking action is better than succumbing to the paralysis of analysis.

Best,

Mohammed

How is everyone doing with the article writing? I’m one behind so far but should be able to catch up today by writing and submitting two articles.

Susanne

I’m not saying that submitting an article to Ezinearticle.com is better than posting something on my blog. I’m saying that I’m doing both. If my blog is out there all-by-itself on the web, it doesn’t do me any good. I need links pointing to it so it can be found both by people and by search engine spiders.

I’m also a big believer in seo and a huge part of seo is building incoming links. Writing and submitting articles is one of several ways that accomplishes that (in addition to driving traffic to my site directly via the resource box link).

Friday night at 10pm – finishing my article for today. How sad is that?! :) It will pay off more than beer at the pub will though, right?

I’m impressed! That is a very ambitious goal, but I like it. I’ll be following along :)

This is a great idea and I’m going to join you! I haven’t decided on my specific number of articles yet, but you’re right that this effort will pay off for years if completed!

Thanks for the motivation….I’ll be back to report on my progress and to keep me honest! :)