Article Marketing 101 | Little Known Secrets for Leveraging Content
This article is long overdue. The days of “Wizard of Oz” Mentality are over: things have shifted significantly even in the last year:
- User generated, user-filtered content now is the rule, not the exception
- The technology knowledge gap is closing
- SEO is all but completely dead: if you do not believe me, try to find a happy healthy SEO company that has been in business for any length of time: then take a good look at how outdated their prices are!
- By posting quality articles to the right groups on the larger social networks, and the right niche sites, ANYBODY can reach thousands or even millions of people with a few hours effort, and no money at all.
- By posting quality articles, with proper anchor text links back to a perfectly optimized site, in the right way, you will not only rank the target website for almost any organic search words you desire, you will also garner huge amounts of traffic from the hosting site, or group.
- You can post the same article in many places: you must however make sure that Google and the other robots know who the source is to do that.
- Then you can split your posts: “>>>Read more about
here - You can reach everyone n the whole world online: the newspaper is less and less relevant.
- You can feed Google much easier and less expensively than trying to fool them: get used to it: you are not smarter than them and you do not have more money!
- The world is flat: stop trying to steal, cheat, lie, circumvent: it is time to make a contribution to society!
- People are gregarious: the internet is not going away – it is the roar of us talking to each other.
- Do the RIGHT THING, and you will be rewarded: we are watching you, ALL OF US!
- AGAIN, WE ARE WATCHING YOU, YOU CANNOT GET AWAY WITH ANYTHING!
- Here is something you will not expect: all of you know something about something: it is the thing that you love: why not do that for a living! You can, you know:
- The new business model: A.) write about what you know form an optimized blog (website) property of your own; B.) Re-post partial articles to niche industry sites, news sites and social networks; 3.) put Google AdSense on your site and let Google put 75% of every click charge directly into your account.
Learn more about the new, “Flat world” here:
The Power of a Post | Ihomefinder Integrated with WordPress
What a nice way to start the day: I got up and looked at my email at 5:55 AM PST: the lead in my form mail from a Realtor in New Jersey said:
” Upgrade current website to WordPress and add blog and iHomefinder IDX intergation….call anytime after 9am EST”
I called at 6:10 our time (9:10 EST) and asked him the question i already had an idea of the answer to:
“How did you find me?”
Of course it was a two word Google search: “ihomefinder wordpress”; which yielded this March blog post:
http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/seemless-integration-of-ihomefinder-idx-into-a-wordpress-blog/
I have been trying to explain this to people who are buying PPC and lousy leads for years, since 2001: because of ActiveRain.com, some of you are finally starting to get it. Maybe this example will help 
(PS: It is about the content!)
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Actions you get NODs for
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2010 Top 50 Social Media Marketing Sites updated:
On may 29th, 2007 I published this article about 15 Top Social Media Marketing Resources which was picked up by Web-Pro news and got a lot of traffic and buzz: that was right after I reserved socialmediasystems.com (it was available then for under 9 dollars!) and formed Social Media Systems LLC in March of 2006.
Now, as is usually the case with me, there are a million copy cats out there claiming to be experts in ‘social media marketing’, as traditional SEO becomes outdated (related article: see The slow death of SEO).
Now, since things have changed so much again, that it is time to update the list: 50 Social Media Marketing Resources you cannot be without:
