Install a sitemap on your site. Wordpress has a plugin called GoogleSiteMap. It generates a XML sitemap for Google to crawl. If you have a website, then get a sitemap on there and make sure it’s one that search engines can crawl. A sitemap page is cool for a users but you what you really want to make sure you have something for search engine as well. After your sitemap is there go to Google’s webmaster tools and submit it.
Get verified by Google. The webmaster tools section has specific instructions. You’ll need an account to use the tools so just start one.
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You may not be able to article market all the time but you sure can bookmark all the time. You can easily bookmark post that may be too short to article market. Smallish, time sensitive posts are ripe for social bookmarking. Posts that go against the grain, excite or shock are great to bookmark as well.
GET SOMEONE ELSE TO BOOKMARK YOUR POST. If all you do is bookmark your own posts the site will ban you. Trust me, I know. Article marketing 2-3 articles a week will surely give your site a boost. However, if your new to writing, work full time job, or have a family, the process is daunting. Start with 1 week and work your way up. One good article/post of 400-600 words, on a subject you are knowledgeable about is doable.
PS if you have to do research to write blog posts, your in the WRONG niche.
Yea…you can have to many plugins. If you happen to see a plugin and go “that’s a cool feature”, leave it alone. Forget all about the cool factor and use plugins that fit into your profitable website/blog plan. The other plugin overload problem is activating plugins you don’t need to. Yes, there are plugins that are useful but only under certain circumstances. Wp-Cache and subscribe-to-comments comes to mind. Unless you’ve got a boatload of traffic theres no point to having these. Don’t get me wrong, Their great…but only if your blog/site is in a position to utilize them.
I found a gem of program called web2submitter. It’s just like article marketing software in that it logs you on to all the sites that you have an account with and set up, prefills all the fields with your article information then bookmarks the article. About 25 SBM sites are used. That’s 25 back-links and 25 opportunities to get traffic. Be careful. If all you do is is bookmark you own post you WILL get banned. I know. I’ve been banned form Propeller, Shoutwire and Digg in my time. They seem to be the most strict. I use the software to BM about 5-10 posts or pages b4 I do one of my own.
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Be aware of the article directories editorial guidelines
Some directories will take just about anything but Ezines is extremely strict with their editorial guidelines. They have a product review section where you used to be able to get away with just about anything. The product review section submitions go thru the editorial approval process as well. You can put product name in the titles in that section. Basically, play by the ruls and you won’t get rejected.
I always talk about Google as the search engine to optimize for but there are other search engines in the marketplace. Yahoo and MSN make up the rest of the the search engine marketplace that you should apply to your SEO strategy.
Go to http://www.webmarketingnow.com/ to find out how to optimize for the rest of the search engine market and much more.
