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Article Writing And Submission For Pennies
Let’s forget all the other traffic generation tactics for now and just focus on article marketing. The question is is it for everyone? What exactly is article marketing? What does it entails? What are some of the benefits? And what exactly needs to be done? Is there any hidden costs?

These are some of the questions that must have occurred to any article marketer at some point. But the most important question is what is the return on investment? To answer that question we shall attempt to answer all the other questions and in the process derive the answer to our most important question.

First I must state that there is no such thing as free traffic. Even if you don’t pay for them. That’s because if you don’t buy your traffic chances are you’ll be spending time generating that traffic. Forum posts and article marketing are just two such examples. But the truth is time is the most valuable resource. So if you are going to have to spend a lot of time generating that traffic it’s probably not worth your effort at the end of the day.

And that’s what every article marketer should be asking themselves: Is the time and money spent on article marketing well invested? What is the return on investment if I am to spend X amount of time and dollars to write and submit a single article? To save you the trouble of having to test things out I have the answers ready for you.

From my own tests each article you write and submit will bring you an average of five to six visitors a month on a consistent basis. How many visitors each article brings you depend on many factors such as the quality of the article the keywords used and the directories that the article was submitted to. But on average my results show an average of five to six visitors a month. Notice that those figures do not look unreasonable and are certainly very much achievable for anyone.

So six visitors a month means six people clicks on your link to visit your website. If you are to buy those clicks how much would you pay for them? Depending on your niche clicks from quality search engines could cost as much as a dollar and up. As the market gets more and more competition the bid prices for bid will continue to rise. And at a dollar a click six clicks will be worth six dollars. If you consistently get an average of six visitors a month for ten months that’s sixty dollars worth of traffic for a single article. Now ask yourself how much did you spend creating and submitting that article?

Assuming you outsourced your article writing and submission for pennies your return on investment could be a thousand percent and up after just one year! And it doesn’t stop there. As long as your articles are still out there you’ll continue to receive traffic.

So don’t write off article marketing just yet. There are article writing and submission services that’ll take all the work out of your hands for just pennies.

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Article Submission Advises: Photo Video Author Logo

Article is not the same as photo or video blog where in internet blogging author is sharing impressions and emotions. Article is rather objective and is the vehicle of new knowledge: author experience known issues with something. However taking into consideration article format typically limited to one or two pages you should expect some generalizations and emotions in the article. If you are familiar with Science methodology then you should not expect the same level of accuracy in article genre. Now lets take a look at article future and such advanced or additional features as picture or photo addition and video

1.Picture files or simply say photo upload. Internet search engines are now turning around trying to scan pictures and rank them appropriately. However there are problems in reading the pictures for internet spiders. In ideal situation they have to read the whole picture and decide in google processing center if this picture is of good quality and really represents the topic of photo news. We are only in 21st Century so do not expect too much from the Technology. Internet spiders can only associate the picture with the surrounding text where it will try to categorize the picture relevance by text contents

2.Video News. The same should be said about video read paragraph above plus consider the fact that video rollick contains 30 small pictures in a second if we are talking about NTSC standard USA and Japan or 24 pictures per second if PAL Europe Brazil. Video standards are really complicated especially in international environment mostly related to television standards differences. However as HD TV is taking its positions and it is what it should be movie standards should be unified. Video article however should not abuse media portal HD capabilities limitation on hosting side and also internet bandwidth from internet surfer side

3.Where to submit. Our recommendation is to try champions of article publishing and also probe with new rising stars. Champions are easy to spot all you need to do is to submit query in google yahoo or MSN: submit article. To finds promising future players this requires advanced technique such as announcing yourself as articles author and getting bids or invitations to publish your articles on newly created portals

About the writer:  Andrew Karasev: http://www.pegasplanet.com Andrew Karasev is technical writer video journalist for Pegas Planet subdivision of Alba Spectrum Group: http://www.albaspectrum.com. Taisia Karaseva is Pegal Planet concept author and CEO you can write us: helpalbaspectrum.com and submit article press release or video news at http://www.pegasplanet.com/SubmitNews/SubmitNews.aspx

Article Marketing: We Can Do This The Hard Way Or The Easy Way

Wow what a month it’s been. I’ve spent the past several weeks researching and testing the waters with online article submissions.

Imagine yourself as a newbie in article marketing maybe this isn’t so hard to imagine for a lot of you!. Now imagine you’re submitting your first few articles to the various article banks and directories. You are quickly learning the hard way what’s allowed and what’s not. And you’re learning just how much time the whole process can take too.

Trial by fire I guess you could call it.

That was me a couple of weeks ago trying my best to get a handle on all the various publishers and their requirements. Who takes 500 word articles? Who wants longer pieces? Can I send in something with HTML or does it have to be plain text? What categories do they want? What topics? Yikes it’s a lot to remember. And my articles…well let’s just say the publishers weren’t showing me much love.

And I was spending waaaay too much time doing these submissions. Input each article format it just so choose the right categories which are different at each site tweak and poke and prod till I had it just right. Honestly I think I could have built and painted a billboard in the time it took me to get just a handful of articles out there. Surely there had to be a better way.

So I started searching. And I found several article distribution services out there including SubmitYourArticle.com ThePhantomWriters.com isnare.com and ArticleMarketer.com.

All of these services get pretty good reviews judging by the testimonials on their websites. Some offer “payperarticle” pricing and others offer unlimited submissions for one price. I like the idea of unlimited articles since I do tend to write…a lot!

I chose to buy a quarterly account with one of the distribution services to get started. And I have to tell you…automated article distribution is so much easier than manual distribution. What was taking me hours submitting to individual article directories and publishers now takes minutes. And I don’t have to keep track of which publishers want which articles and how to format them and categorize them. Automated article distribution takes care of all those details leaving me free to do the work I love!

My articles are getting picked up by more publishers than I could have imagined. My very first article ended up getting some great exposure one day I had more than 300 links on Google and 980 links showing on Yahoo!. It was even reprinted on a Chinese website! I could never have gotten this kind of exposure doing all these submissions by hand.

I’m convinced; automated article distribution is the way to go.

A few words of caution though which I’ve picked up from some very helpful people at a number of forums and blogs:

* Write for the right reasons. Submit articles that are full of good information not just keywords. It’s really about educating the reader not stuffing the search engines with keywords.

* Be original. Use your own thoughts and ideas not rehashed or gasp! plagiarized content.

* Offer the reader something they can relate to. Make it personal. If the reader wanted to learn from a textbook they’d go back to school.

* Have fun! Writing can be a joy and a great way to feel connected with your audience. If you hate to write it will show! Hire a ghostwriter to work with you and the tone will be improved by leaps and bounds.

If you are looking for new ways to increase your exposure and build traffic to your URL consider article marketing. Don’t worry if you don’t consider yourself a “writer.” Just write about what you know what’s important to you and what you think you’d like your readers to know. Then submit an article and watch it make magic. It’s really working for me and I know it can work for you too!

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