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A New PageRank 3 Article Directory with Lots of Age

I have had eristoddle.com for a long time. Longer than this domain. Longer than the domain with my name on it. This was in the time before I just bought a new domain to put a new site on, so it has gone through some changes from a marketing blog to a forum to a writing links directory.

First: Why would you want to do this?

• Article Directories
• Guest Posts
• Content Sites
• Your Own Blogs

The Results from 4 Manually Written Articles

• 4 Unique High Quality Articles
• 40 Better Quality Articles
• 520 Good Quality Articles

Doesn’t It Make Crap Content?

• No all is done manually with a little help from a spreadsheet
• There is a diminishing level of quality starting with 4 manually written articles
• Just put the best quality results on the best quality, higher profile sites and tweak them necessary

Article Marketing has taken a lot of twists and turns over the last few years. I was marketing via articles before the term “Article Marketing” was used. It was a gold mine back then. Take one article, submit it to hundreds of sites and get links back to your own. Then repeat. There was much of an issue with duplicate content.

Now the landscape is a little different. Sending the same article to hundreds of different directories may not help that much. Once Google notices that they are all the same article, some of the pages containing these articles will be devalued. It won’t hurt you, but it won’t help you either. Your link won’t count.

For any type of site you want to get your’s listed on, there’s software for it. If you have your standard run of the mill site, there are a multitude of directory submission programs to choose from. If you have software to sell, you will need a software promotion program. If you have a blog, then it would be good to get a feed submitter. And if you want to try your hand at article marketing, you can buy an article submitter.

The funny thing about all these different programs is that they all do basically the same thing. They all submit forms in varying degrees of automation. The data is different. The algorithms similar.

My first exposure to backlink’s to was through the first ebook I purchased through Clickbank. I have purchased somewhere between ten and twenty ebooks since I started this whole business. Some taught me a lot. Some didn’t. This one did. Some had only a valuable paragraph or two, but each paragraph increased the income I already had. These books I purchased out of curiosity and still benefited. Once you get the concept, new techniques can be used more effectively and books that seem worthless to a newbie hold nuggets of gold for someone who has been around the affiliate marketing block a few times.