Answer: When it can be turned into 8 different things!
Did you know that an Article is a very valuable thing?
It is not just 400 or anything up to 1500 words printed on paper with a 2-3% Keyword Density that you have shelled out good money for.
I mean it can be used for so many things.
Today, I thought I would let you know what I do with my articles.
Firstly, I dig deep and select long string keywords in my niche and have an article written for each keyword – mainly about 500 words, 2 to 3% keyword density.
I then do the following:
Submit to the Article Directories – I don’t just limit to 2 or 3 or the bigger ones, I submit to them all, this provides for more back links to my site and helps page rank when people search that particular keyword.
Make a Squidoo Lens – Takes less than 30 minutes – I LOVE Squidoo, as you can make lenses that really Promote your site, they can become real advertisements if you want.
Does not have to be fancy! Just get the Squid out there! Example -
http://www.squidoo.com/AdvertisingLessonsforMassageTherapistsOnline
Make a Hub Page (be careful with HubPages – they do have strict rules, you may have to change a few things) but well worth while.
Make a FREE Weebly Site for each Article
Example: http://crystalhealing.weebly.com
Use them as Blog Posts (after each Submit Post I use a FREE RSS Submitter)
Make each one into a Press Release and submit to all the Press Release sites.
Turn each one into a Podcast – and submit to all the podcast directories
Turn each one into a video using the podcast recording as your background music and a few nice pictures pertaining to niche as slides or do a power point. Nothing fancy – then submit to all the video directories.
Could this be classed as Duplicate Content? No, duplicate content means the same content twice on a site.
Don’t forget when you have made your lenses, hub pages, Weebly, etc to Twitter, dig, stumble and so on – SPREAD the word to EVERYONE!
I would love to learn if you do more with your articles!
Until Next Time,
I cheer you On!
Maggie
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Hey Maggie,
Excellent ideas, especially the podcasts and videos – it’s so easy to make PowerPoint screen captures or just audio podcasts by reading/paraphrasing your article, and those things really draw the traffic these days!
Thanks for the reminders!
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Do you recommend any press release sites? I thought most of them were subscription based. Thanks for the ideas.
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hi maggie, nice tips
i prefer to use onlywire.com to spread my article into many social bookmarking sites
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Excellent stuff. WOW backwards to you. I give you a 5VG. 5 out of 5.
Simple, precise… I will be bookmarking this post and sharing it with others.
Mike
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Hi Maggie,
Thanks for your comments in my blog …
Your ideas here are very useful and definitely works as I have been doing all those methods all the time …
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@MasterKeith
Thanks for that. good to see you are getting value from your Article. Plus people don’t realise that this methods works very quickly as well to drive traffic and get a better standing with Google.
@Michael Hartzell
Michael, many thanks for that. I have also sent others to read you post, on who do you listen to, as I think the lists is fabulous!
@”tips”
Awesome, thanks for that tip, Another thing to add to the list of tools and a great time saver! Well done.
@Chris
Hi Chris, there are many. many free press release submission sites. I search through Firefox, here is the page link! go for it! http://www.google.com.au/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&q=Press+Release+Submission+Sites&meta=&btnG=Google+Search
@Bill Romer
Hey Bill, many thanks for that, yes, it is so easy, plus I find it really enjoyable to do. Maybe I have just a re-incarnated radio ham! HAHA
Best of Luck.
Maggie
Great advice in this post. Article writing is well worth the effort. Great ways to spread the original work into many different areas!
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Hey Chris…
I just happen to have a few at this location:
http://www.rejuvenateyourrestaurant.com/Free-Press-Release-Options.html
They are names of companies. not the links. But a starting list?
hope this helps!
Maggie.. I am going to find out the secret!
Mike
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Thank you for the tips Maggie! I’ve used article marketing for my static sites, but haven’t taken the time to do it for my blogs.
Jake
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Super Post Maggie.
I need to up my video and podcasting activities. Always getting interrupted by my kids , so night time is the best time for me to create podcasts and videos.
Thanks for reminding me about bookmarking – I always forget!
You can also twitter some important points in your article .
keep it up!
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Great post Maggie!
These are all great options for articles we write.
Stopping after submitting to article directories is one of the biggest mistakes an article marketer can make
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I totally agree Eric! You know you can even turn your blog posts incto articles and start the whole ball rolling again!