Online Businesses and Their Overlooked Top Secret Weapon – A Professional Squeeze Page

August 23rd, 2010

One of the main concerns of any Internet Marketer today resides in driving targeted and quality traffic to their business or product website on a daily basis. There are lots of ways through which they can achieve that, but most entrepreneurs will agree on the fact that having a professional and effective squeeze page is the starting point to building their prospects list exponentially.

A Squeeze page or landing page, as it is called by some people, is a single web page with the sole purpose of capturing information for follow-up marketing, to finally create a large client list. Although it seems like a simple thing, where interested people will basically input their name and email address in fields provided on that page, it should contain a few key characteristics in order to work properly:

1. A big, attention-grabbing logo – take a look at Google, eBay, Yahoo and all the other web giants today, and the first thing you’ll find on their pages is a BIG, colored logo right in the middle of the website on a white background. That same principle should apply to your squeeze page. It has been proven that graphic elements, specially a trustworthy logo, will inspire customers to share their contact information with businesses and their offers. It is not a mandatory thing to follow though, since there are lots of color schemes and design templates that are just as effective, as long as they are planned correctly.

2. Oversized and well design buttons – top online businesses have to make it clear to possible clients that they want them to take a specific action, which is to input their information in the submission form at the lower part of the webpage. An oversized well designed Submit button is eye catching and will send that message clearly to the visitor and his or her subconscious. So start thinking BIG.

3. Use audio and video – statistics show that there is a 300% increase in the conversion rate of browsers into buyers, when Internet marketers make use of video and audio resources on their squeeze page. When done in a professional way, you will be enticing the use of the visual and auditive senses, which makes a gigantic difference to the number of people that will finally join your list and possibly purchase a product from you.

4. Concise and convincing title – it is no secret that when a squeeze page has an exciting title or headline, visitors are driven to read through the rest of the information and are naturally taken to the lower portion of the page where the graphically interesting input field is. And this is the whole point of having a landing page. So be informative, concise and creative with your headline. Clearly state your unique selling proposition here.

The second part of the overlooked top secret weapon of businesses today, which are capture pages, is called the Sales Letter. Just as the name implies, this is where you actually describe the service or product you market, and finally develop a pleasant, natural and creative sales pitch. It should contain specific information regarding what users signed up for and its benefits. And that is crucial! Because useless information will most likely distract users, causing them to lose interest and click-away to a different site.

The sales letter, just like your Squeeze Page, should always detail what the subscriber will be receiving and describe the privacy standards offered by the company to avoid their fear of spam. Always include a privacy disclaimer right beneath your submission form. Also, make sure to present visitors with multiple BUY NOW links consistently throughout the page; it is recommended to have at least 10 of these links in total. Remember that users might read something as they go down the page that may cause them to buy a product right away, so always have a BUY NOW link nearby.

After sorting the Sales Letter, you will need a professional Auto Responder service. And what that is basically, is a series of automated messages sent to each user that submitted their information to your business and became a subscriber to your service, with the sole purpose of convincing prospects of the advantages of the products you offer and finally generate sales. There is an excellent option when it comes to auto responders called aWebber. Google it up. There are specific tutorials on their site, explaining what it is and how to set it up and get it up and running with your business right away.

Keep in mind that when sending messages via auto-responders, try to reach your prospects on a daily basis, or every 2 days. If you write them well you will definitely stay away from the spammer tag. That way, the excitement of your offer will always remain fresh and they will be reminded each day of why they chose to be part of your list. Write smart messages, avoid spam and ALWAYS link back to your sales site.

The last part of this secret process is the Thank You page. It is a webpage designed to express how valuable your clients are to your business by simply saying thank you and goodbye in a professional manner. This builds credibility for your business and loyalty on their end, giving them the importance they deserve. Remember, the most important part of marketing and any business model known to man, are customers.

So here is an overview of the exact steps in using the secret weapon that is a professional sale process starting with an effective squeeze page:

- A well designed Squeeze Page or Landing Page.

- An informative and convincing Sales Letter.

- A profesional auto-responder service.

- A friendly thank you or goodbye page.

As a final note, this structure will apply to every single online business model, since this system has been tested over and over again by many successful marketers around the world. It does not take a long time surfing on the Internet to realize that 90% of businesses that are actually generating profit to their owners work this way, because it is an affordable and organized way of building an extensive client list.

That is exactly what it takes for you to start achieving the same success right away. Do things right once and you will enjoy quality traffic and a big number of sales on autopilot forever.

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Four Ways to Market Your Online Business Offline

August 23rd, 2010

Online Promotions Offline

I’ve always been impressed with those who could who could find ways of doing things other than the traditional ways. I’m referring to the promotion of an internet business or affiliate marketing business. No, I’m not going to discuss blogging, web 2, or article marketing, although they are excellent ways of marketing you online business. Some marketers are actually using offline marketing to promote their online business.

Two questions surface immediately.

1. How can offline advertising be as effective when online marketing can potentially reach many thousands more people than offline.

2.If offline promotions work, what do I do? How do I start. TV advertising reaches a lot of people. TV advertising is also very expensive. We probably won’t start our offline promotions with TV.

The first method of offline promotions and quite possibly continues to be the best is word of mouth. We still give a lot of credibility to what a friend says and tend to be more comfortable with a recommendation from someone we know.

Actually we are bombarded with hundreds of offline advertisements daily. If we watch TV we see ads, if we listen to the radio we hear advertisements. The news paper is full of ads as well as any magazines we read. If we park at a shopping mall and enter the mall there is a good chance we will be handed a business card by someone and then when we return to our car there may be a flier on the windshield. Driving home we see billboards calling our attention to a particular business asking us to visit their URL for more information. When we open our mail we see a postcard urging to us to visit a special site online. We open a envelope and find out how easy it is to restore our credit.

The reason we get bombarded like this is that ofline advertising still works.

Given the many forms of offline marketing, we will consider 4 ways we can effectively use offline promotions. Keep in mind that how you market and who you market too has a lot to do with the results obtained. You may not want to put advertising signs on your vehicle and park it at an old folks home.

1.The first way to consider promoting off line is with business cards. You will probably have business cards even if your aim is not necessarily off line promotions. A lot of information can be placed on a business. After listing the benefits of your promotion state that a free report can be obtained by visiting www.mypromotion.org and that would lead to your splash page.

2.Fliers are another excellent and low cost way of promoting your affiliate program offline. It is probably best to stay with the standard 8 ?X 11 colorful sheet. A lot of information can be placed on this size paper with room for some images. This may also be an opportunity to be creative. You want to attract enough attention for the recipients to look at it. If you intend to distribute the fliers to cars in a parking lot it is always best to find out if that is ok. Locate community bulletin boards in your area and place a flier there from time to time. With fliers you can keep the cost down by printing only the number you plan to use at that time.

3.Consider placing small ads in the local newspapers. The area I live in has several limited circulation news papers often directed to different interest groups. In some rural areas these free newspapers may be the only ones read. Using small classified ads it is important to find a way to track response. Different ads need to be test for effectiveness as a good ad can make a big difference. This holds true for all forms of advertising, test to determine which ad wording gives the best results.

4.Post cards are used by many offline marketers very effectively. A well designed post card sent to an address that could use the information will bring results. I know with printing costs, addressing and postage costs using post cards is more expensive than the other methods we have been discussing. Using post cards for your offline promotion you will need a mailing list. There are many list brokers available. Selecting a list is very important. Find out as much as you can. For instance, you would want to avoid sending to a list of people that did not have computers.

The above is only some of the ways offline promotions can assist your online marketing. You may not want to use all of these methods. Pick one or two that you enjoy doing and give you good results.

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Using an Autoresponder and an Opt-In Form for Lead Capture

August 23rd, 2010

Autoresponders with an accompanying Opt-in form is a critical combination to running a successful online business. These two tools, tied into a landing page, blog, or website provide the key ingredients to build a List and start communicating with your Market.

AUTORESPONDERS

Lets start with clearly defining what were talking about here. If you are in the habit of communicating with your prospects via simple email, such as by setting up a Group on Outlook, Eudora, or some other hard drive platform, then you are limiting yourself simply by the technology. You can only communicate to a limited number of people in this fashion.

On the other hand, if you utilize an automated email communication service, an Autoresponder, then you set yourself up mentally and practically for unlimited capacity. These online services allow you to send and track unlimited emails, with high deliverability. This is the mindset for building a huge List.

As for autoresponders, you dont want just any autoresponder. We recommend starting with the tools you can use to build a very successful online business, which is an integrated system of autoresponders, shopping cart (to accept orders) and affiliate management (to leverage your time by letting others promote your products). This is NOT an area where you want to try to make do!

Our favorite (and weve tried many) is KickStartCart (the same as 1ShoppingCart). Even if you already have a different autoresponder or shopping cart, youll want to check out KickStartCart, for its many time (and money) saving features. You can find out more in the link we provide in the Resource section.

OPT-IN FORMS

Additionally, if you have a website and arent collecting the contact information of people who visit, you are throwing away your time, effort, and money. Even if you dont force people to opt-in to your list (OK, not force. Ethically bribe!), having an opt-in box or form on your landing page, website or blog is a critical and necessary step in building your online business.

Autoresponder services provide you the code that you can simply insert into these communication tools to create the Opt-in Form? which enables you to capture the name, email address, and perhaps other important information from your prospects.

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The 2 C of Email Management: Communication

August 23rd, 2010

Once you start building a list, you need to communicate with them on a regular basis. A great way to do that is by using your autoresponder.

You want the people on your list to grow to know, like and trust you. Thats the basis of community-building.

Write Your First Autoresponder Emails BEFORE You Have A List

Timing is a key here. You cant wait to write your first few emails to put into your autoresponder until you have a reasonable sized list. Your first subscriber needs to be greeted immediately by your welcome email, and then recieve regular communication from you.

One of the worst things you can do to a person who has asked to receive information from you is to ignore them.

So start by writing some emails, and THEN put up your opt-in page!

What Should You Write in Your Email?

Most importantly, you want to deliver great content that is on the same topic your subscriber is expecting.

Every so often, talk about a product or service for sale. But dont just make every email a sales pitch!

Remember that your list is made up of a whole bunch of individuals. Personalize your emails with each subscribers first name, and write to one person at a time.

Each email should ask for one action, or Most Wanted Response. Dont confuse your reader by asking them to check out a number of sites, or decide whether to click to your blog or to the sales page for a product you are offering.

Do you have time-sensitive information for your list? Breaking news theyll want to hear? Thats when you do a broadcast email that goes out on the day you select rather than in a pre-programmed sequence (like the emails you put in your autoresponder sequence).

Remember that the people on your list are your most valuable resource in your business. Appreciate them, give them great content, and stay in touch with them.

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The Third C of Email Management: Community Building

August 23rd, 2010

It seems that more, now than ever, people are looking to be a part of a like-minded community. To chat with people who have the same interests. And to share knowledge, dreams, and fears with people who understand.

And many people look for this same community-minded spirit on the internet.

You can use your autoresponder systems to help to create a community for your prospects and customers.

Using Your Autoresponder System to Create Community

1. Start a dialogue with your prospects and customers. Ask questions in your email sequences, and invite your readers to answer, and also to ask you questions. Then select some of the responses or questions (with permission of course) and go deeper into them in your emails.

2. Create a survey around a topic of interest to your market. Invite people to respond to the survey questions, and then share a summary of the answers with the group.

3. Ask open-ended questions from time to time. This will allow your prospects and customers to use their own language and express themselves; to tell their own stories.

4. If someone poses a particularly good question, or shares a great success story, you might ask their permission to include that question or story in a future email or on your blog.

5. Invite people to visit your blog and make comments related to the posts. Then respond to those comments and start a conversation.

6. Ask people if there is someone else they would like to hear from in your market. If there is, invite that person to be a guest blogger, or create an event featuring that person. Its a win-win-win all the way around.

7. And, from time to time, fire up your personal email program and send a more one-to-one email to someone on your list. Thank that person for trusting you by allowing you to send him or her information. Let them know they are valued.

Can you think of additional ways to use your automated systems to develop a sense of community in your business? Wed love to hear from you.

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The 4th C of Email Management: Conversion

August 23rd, 2010

When you are building a business on the internet, it is all about Conversion. And Im not just talking about sales conversion. There is so much more you need to consider.

Develop Your Pyramid of Profitability

You will need to be effective at conversion everywhere along the line if you want to move people up your pyramid of profitability.

Youll want to convert at the following places:

1. Searchers into visitors
2. Visitors into prospects
3. Prospects into one-time buyers
4. One-time buyers into second-time buyers
5. Multiple-time buyers into raving fans who want everything you have to offer
6. Raving Fans into members of your continuity program
7. Your best customers and fans into affiliates and business partners

The good news is that you can accomplish most of these steps automatically, using your autoresponder and integrated systems.

And here, an integrated autoresponder/shopping cart can be your best friend.
You can program your automated systems to basically be your well-trained sales force. And you can have your BEST salesperson operating for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year.

14+ Conversion Steps that You Can Automate

1. Encourage a visitor to your landing page or site to sign up for your list
2. Send out a welcome email to your new prospect
3. Develop a great relationship by developing solid content
4. Make relevant and valuable product offers to your prospects
5. Make your first sale easy for your prospect
6. Offer an upsell or related product when they place their order
7. Deliver the product instantly (if it is a digital product)
8. Suggest additional products that complement and support their purchase
9. Provide customer service after the sale through how to get the most from your purchase emails
10. Send followup emails offering content and additional products related to product that was purchased
11. Invite people to join you in business and become affiliates
12. Provide training and support to your affiliates
13. Invite people to join your continuity program
14. Deliver the continuity content
15. and more?

Imagine for a moment the power of setting up automated systems that will do all of this for you.

You create the email sequences once, set up the products, and the system manages it from there.

Now your job is to get people into the beginning of the sequence ? to opt in to your list. Then the system takes over and moves people through your sequence.

Be More Efficient, More Effective and Have More Free Time

If you are a busy entrepreneur who has difficulty finding the time to do everything you need to do within your business, you probably are already realizing how this system makes total sense.

Because if you dont have to spend your valuable time on numbers 1-14, you have time to do the things that will bring you new visitors. That will build your list.

And you will even have the time and freedom to spend quality time with your family and friends!

And arent having quality time and freedom some of the main reasons you want to have an online business in the first place?

Yeah.

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The of Email Management: Continuance

August 23rd, 2010

Building an email list doesnt usually happen overnight. It takes consistent effort on your part. OK, lets face it – it takes work.

The work can be fun, but work it is. Consistent effort.

So, once you have developed a list of people who are interested in who you are and what you have to offer, you want them to stick around!

You dont want a bunch of tire-kickers? just ho-hum followers who never read or buy anything from you, but are too lazy even to click the unsubscribe button!

You want raving fans!

People whose needs are so well matched to your products and services that they want everything you produce. The perfect win-win.

Seven Secrets to Creating Your Own Raving Fans

Here are some no or low-cost techniques you might incorporate into your business relationship with your prospects and customers. They may not all be perfect for your market and business, but some of them will work great.

1. Offer great content. OK, I know this one isnt new, but it is so important that it gets a mention (again) here. You can take this a bit further and get into a conversation about what your market wants – and then provide it.

2. Drop someone a personal email, or pick up the phone and call them. Just to tell them how much you appreciate them. Or to see if they have any questions about the product they just purchased.

3. Send them a surprise bonus. Out of the blue, just email them a link to a free report or audio that will be of great value to them. Or you might choose to send them a physical product, but remember that digital products cost you nothing extra whether you give it to 2 people or 2,000 people, once you have created the product.

4. Reward your customers with special benefits or Gold Status. Can you create a special members only section of your blog, where you provide higher value content for your customers? Or maybe send them a coupon they can apply to anything you offer on your site.

5. Offer Subscriber-only Teleseminars. While offering free teleseminars to anyone who signs up are amazing for building your list, providing targeted, content-rich teleseminars just for your subscribers or customers also has huge value. Then after it is over, repurpose it and sell it as a product.

6. Share the wealth. Since your intent is to create dynamite content, products and services, your best customers can become your best marketing as well. Create an affiliate program and invite your customers and subscribers to join with you in marketing your products. There is nobody who can promote your material as powerfully as someone who paid money for it and loved it!

7. And lastly, appreciate your prospects and customers, and let them know it! They are the lifeblood of your business.

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The 5 Cs of Email Management & Integrated Marketing

August 23rd, 2010

Effective and efficient use of your email management system goes way beyond simply building a list of prospects.

If you choose the right autoresponder system and plan for business growth, you can automate five key aspects of your business.

The 5 Cs of Email & List Management

1. Capture the names and email addresses of your visitors. This is the basis of building your list, and your list is a foundation of your successful business.

2. Conversation and your Communication. Strike up a conversation with people on your list. Communicate with them. Ask them questions. Listen to them.And offer them content of value. After all, they trusted you enough to give you their contact information, so show that you are trustworthy by providing information, products and services that they will find valuable.

3. Community-Building comes next. It seems that more, now than ever before, people want to experience a sense of community on the internet. Witness the meteoric growth of social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. You will want to foster a sense of community in your communication with your prospects and customers, too.

4. Conversion. You can use your autoresponder system to convert your visitors into prospects, your prospects into one-time buyers, your one-time buyers into multiple-time buyers, then into raving fans. And finally into business partners.

5. Continuity and Continuance. Your email management system and list of customers and prospects is an entry point to a much larger business picture, if you set your systems up the right way in the beginning.

Dont make the mistake of seeing your autoresponder system simply as a way to move people on and off of your list. It is so very much more!

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5 Things That Lead To A Profitable Home Business

August 23rd, 2010

A tough economy may be the best time to launch a work-at-home business. You probably have some friends and neighbors who are hoping to make money with multi-level-marketing schemes, or scheduling home parties, or trying to sell products to their friends, neighbors, and family. Yet, there are millions of other average folks using their home computers to make money on line.

Can you know in advance whether work-at-home programs are right for you? Here’s how to determine whether your dream is just a daydream or it can be made into reality.

Before you can decide if a work-from-home business is right for you, you need to evaluate yourself in 5 key areas. Answer these 5 questions and you will know if a work-at-home business is right for you and how to choose the right one that will ensure you will make money from home.

1. What types of home based businesses are available?

It is no exaggeration to say: “There are hundreds of thousands of Internet-based home businesses that run the gamut from get-rich-quick to product marketing to ebook and software sales. Just run a search on Google for “work-at-home programs” and you will be overwhelmed by the choices that are presented to you. You will find scams and top rated work from home opportunities.

You will see outrageous claims of overnight riches with most of the programs offered. Let me back you up a bit by saying, you have taken the right first step by reading this article. This article will save you from confusion while searching the Internet in order to evaluate the many opportunities available to you.

But, before you begin searching you need to evaluate yourself. Do you have what it takes to run a work-at-home business?

2. What kind of home based business are you suited for?

Maybe you are a talented writer. You might enjoy, and make money from, taking public domain books and rewriting them into specialized ebooks that you could sell online for a profit. Most Public Domain material can be used by anyone in just about any manner at no cost.

Perhaps you are an experienced network marketer but never thought about selling information to train others who want to get into the field of M.L.M. You can teach them what you know and make money from your knowledge.

Perhaps you always dreamed of buying products at low wholesale prices and selling those products at a nice retail profit via an ebay work from home business.

You might want to start a wholesale home business or find a wholesale dropshipping directory of suppliers and sources for drop ship mechandise. All can provide products at wholesale and many have drop ship services.

Many companies offer such programs but, be cautious, and read their fine print! Often these product suppliers are only interested in taking your money for outdated information on wholesale product suppliers.

While reviewing work from home home business opportunities that match your talents be sure to consider the next key in your quest to find that perfect work-at-home business opportunity.

3. Do you like direct sales or would want your own website?

If building websites seems like building a personal space shuttle, it doesn’t make sense to start a work-from-home business where building hundreds of websites is the only way to make money in your chosen business. Instead, you should consider affiliate marketing where the product owner gives you a website already built for you. All you do is promote the products and collect commission checks.

If you hate face-to-face selling, do not get into a home business that requires you to conduct direct sales in person. Why do something you hate that guarantees failure?

There are many high-profit work-at-home business opportunities but, if you choose one that doesn’t match your talents and passions, you will just waste your time, energy, and money!

Evaluate your ability to run your own work-at-home business the same as you would when applying for employment. Think of it like this: You will, in fact, be hiring yourself to run a business.

There are jobs that you are a perfect match for; jobs that you have the smarts to learn as you do them; jobs that are simply beyond your talent or education.

Ask yourself: “Would I hire me to run a work-at-home business?”

When you accept what you have the ability to do and reject those businesses that would be a major aggravation or have a huge learning curve, you are on the road to a successful work-at-home business.

4. Can you really make money from home?

Many online marketers claim their product or service is the one and only way to make money}}} This is simply not true. The fact is, your best chance for steady income is to generate revenue from many sources or many related products.

It is a good idea to begin with one product or service but, as your business develops, you must add several other revenue sources. In this way, if one of your income streams dries up at any given time, which they will, you will be diversified by having many other sources of revenue and will not feel the income drop.

Making money in the online world fluctuates the same as the brick-and-mortar world. There really is no difference in this respect. Like the real world, many revenue streams are seasonal so hot and cold periods are to be expected.

The final step is the one step that many new home based business hopefuls dread because it sounds too much like working in the real world. And, it’s the one that is most responsible for failure.

5. Can you set business goals and follow a plan?

You cannot escape the fact that you need to set goals and work towards achieving them if you really want to be successful in life. Setting and meeting goals is the same process on line as it is off line, so, ask yourself:

a) How much money do you need to earn each month to grow your business? That amount of income is your first goal.

b) How many total sales do you need each month to meet your revenue goals? You need to determine the cost of your product or service, including advertising, shipping, handling, and refunds. From that, calculate your profit. This will tell you how many sales you need each month to reach your income goal.

c) What are the daily office tasks you need to carry out to reach your sales and revenue goals? This involves having a concrete set of steps that you will follow every day. It’s your daily marketing plan that will keep you on track towards your income targets.

You must answer the foregoing questions and set a daily plan to do whatever needs to be done to implement that plan. If you are new at this process, we only recommend work-at-home programs that lay it all out for you. The less work you have to do to figure everything out, the better!

Is there an upside to having a home business, besides the money?

I can tell you that it is both personally and financially rewarding. If you are a stay-at-home-mom or a stay-at-home-dad, you will have more extra time with your kids because you set your work schedule.

If you are retired, like I am, you will appreciate having additional income for vacations and luxuries.

If you are a single guy or gal, with nobody else to answer to, it will be an exciting adventure.

No matter your situation in life, you may simply want to quit your nine-to-five job and take control of your financial destiny. A work-at-home business that matches your talents and abilities can give you everything you desire.

This is not difficult to do. Millions do it every day. Be thorough in your research, remember your talents and your weaknesses, choose several revenue streams, develop your goals and work your plan, and you will achieve the satisfaction of becoming a successful work-at-home business owner.

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Which Is The Best Free Backlinking System?

August 23rd, 2010

If you just cannot seem to gain page rank in Google and other major search engines, may be a key SEO tactic you are likely missing. That tactic is one way link building. But, the way it has been taught makes it out to be a tactic reserved for search engine optimization experts. Here isthe right way to build hundreds of Google backlinks and Yahoo backlinks with a simple system

There is a new system that could be the answer to this problem, especially for article markters, one that guarantees hundreds of free one way permanent links simply by writing and submitting articles in a new way. They claim it is the future of article marketing. In fact, the creators claim it has no disadvantages! This review looks at the system to see if it is plausible.

The Plus Side of Article Marketing

The advantages of using article marketing to facilitate one way link building have long since been proven.

As article marketers, we know that Google, Yahoo, and other search engines need fresh quality content. They reward the writers of new, useful, and interesting content with better search engine rankings.

Embeded within that high ranked content are links leading back to the website or blog of the creator of that content. Each backlink to that highly ranked content is actually a vote for the creator of that content and gives the creator’s website or blog higher visibility.

Quality content with hundreds of one way backlinks will land you on the first page of most search engines. The result is a flood of targeted traffic leading back to you. This is how article marketing has worked.

In the past, “link love” from search engines towards backlinks from articles was the most successful free traffic generator. For many years, article marketers profited nicely even though the content they created only had to be of marginal quality. Quality content was not necessary because there was not much competition for keywords and search engine position. The truth is, backlinking was pretty much a method used only by SEO experts and some savvy marketers. They dominated the search engine rankings for years for their desired keywords.

The Negative Side of Article Marketing

Today, article marketing is a lot more competitive. Keyword research tools are readily available and there are hundreds, if not thousands, of courses teaching how to write quality content that is keyword rich. And, as if article marketing was not fiercely competitive already, content thieves have entered the scene and have added another twist that makes article marketing tougher that ever.

Some of these thieves will republish your article but they may delete your backlinks from your Author Box, claim authorship, or insert their own backlinks to steal your hard work and traffic.

This is a serious flaw with trying to get backlinks with articles the traditional way.

Once you have submitted your article to any of the article directories, you lose control over your article when it is published. You cannot blame article directory administrators. They are glad to have your quality content so they leave your writing intact should they decide to publish it.

One of the major ways your content can be stolen is by “scraping.” Article thieves are using software that automatically crawls through article directories to “scrape” the articles, by category, for republishing elsewhere. These software tools provide the thief with your finished article. Then, all they do is change the article Title slightly and the insert their own backlinks in your Author Box.

In addition to stealing your entire work from article directories and automatically altering backlinks in your Author Box, they use other kinds of software to skim just a snippet of your article. Many times they skim just the first few lines or a complete paragraph of your article.

They add your snippet to a list of many others so they can populate their sites with content to attract the search engines. Remember, search engines love fresh content. In this case the thief includes a link back to the article directory. This tactic is used to create so-called made-for-Adsense sites.

The site creator knows, when a visitor gets to the site and sees nothing but a bunch of snippets, they likely will click on one of the Adsense ads and the site creator makes money. These guys have hundreds or thousands of such sites and make a bundle with this tactic.

The “Free Traffic System” Could Be The Answer

The creators of Free Traffic System have a large number of member blogs in a wide variety of niches. They guarantee that their member blogs, where your writing is published, will retain your backlinks. You would think that such a claim cannot honestly be backed up. Well, as it turns out, Free Traffic System has found a way to virtually eliminate the problem of plagiarism.

Administrators of Free Traffic System monitor their member blogs. Those blog owners who modify backlinks will be deleted from the Free Traffic System and lose access to future quality content. Surprisingly, this has yet to happen.

What About The Duplicate Content Penalty?

The issue of duplicate content is debatable. Some SEO experts say there is no such thing. Others say there certainly is and it can cost you. Here is the argument for the duplicate content penalty. You decide.

The argument is: When your unedited article is republished on numerous sites, like article directories, Google quickly classifies this content as duplicate content because the algorithm reads that a large number of your backlinks are being linked from sites carrying your identical writing and linking back from them to you.

While there is no hard proof that Google will punish your backlinks, those who support the duplicate content argument claim that Google dramatically lowers the SEO value of backlinks built from duplicate content pages and lowers your page rank.

Rather than further debate the issue, I would rather be on the safe side and avoid it completely. The creators of Free Traffic System agree and have provided an easy way of spinning articles automatically for you.

The Mega Article Spinner

Free Traffic System has built in software that spins your articles to make each one unique enough, even if the article is republished on a large number of blogs, to be seen as one-of-a-kind content.

All you do is take your original article, do some simple editing, and Free Traffic System automatically creates dozens, even hundreds of versions, that make sense to the reader. These are not the kind of garbled spun articles you are used to. You know the type I mean.

In addition to spinning the Body of the article, you even have the ability to spin your Title and Author Box.

You determine the depth of editing and the content. You can dedicate 5 minutes or 30 minutes to get this done. It’s fairly simple and fully explained at Free Traffic System. The end result is that each of the articles will be seen as unique for Google and other search engines. And, this will instantly increase the value of your backlinks. Proof is provided by members to show how easy this system is.

To give you an idea of how powerful this is, one spun article can generate up to 60 one way backlinks. You do the math.

If you want to try a new way to boost your page rank through quality backlinks, check out Free Traffic System.

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