Articles vs. Blog and Ping

I think it?s time for many Affiliate Marketers (AM) to reconsider their methods for building their web sites Search Engine position. I have been using Blog and Ping techniques for about a year now, but blog and ping is slowing loosing its effectiveness because so many AM?s are using the method.

If you?ve been living on the dark side of the moon, then you may not know what Blog and Ping is all about. Well, in a nutshell, blog and ping is a technique for increasing your websites position by creating blogs and using software that automatically posts to those blogs along with links back to your main website. The blogs then ping Blog services to notify them that some new content is available. The ping services then attract Search Engine spiders and before to long, you?re website is spidered.

This solution worked like wonders about a year ago (2005), but is loosing its effectiveness because all the blog and ping tools create mediocre content that is all based on Search Engine scrapes or RSS feeds. You end up getting a blog site full of useless information with links back to your web page. The Search Engines have caught on and they are able to filter out the bad content. In fact, it may actually be hurting your website. There?s no proof yet, but I would expect that all the SE?s will soon start penalizing websites that are trying to boost their position through blog and ping techniques.

That brings me to articles. About four months ago, I wrote an article and posted it to ArticleCity. After I submitted it, I forgot about it. Just yesterday, during a moment of boredom, I thought about that article and decided to do some research. Had anyone picked it up? A quick search on Google showed that the article has been published on 802 different websites! I also noticed that after Google?s last update, the Page Rank (PR) of my affiliate marketing website went up nicely from 3 to 5.

This was with just ONE ARTICLE submitted to just ONE ARTICLE SITE that I put together in :30 minutes. I was floored.

Considering how much time I?ve spent configuring blog and ping software, how many unneeded domains I?ve purchased to make traffic all look like it?s coming from different directions, how hard I?ve worked trying to find content for the B&P software, etc?. I would have been much better off just writing good, informative articles.

Another huge reason to go with Articles over Blog and Ping is content longevity. Your article will be posted onto many websites. Perhaps hundreds of websites. That content is real and meaty, just like what Google and the others are looking for. It?s not bogus content that will get yanked by the SEs. This means that algorithm update after algorithm update, the articles that point back to your website will remain within the search engines. This is HUGE.

Over the last few months, Google has made several updates to their algorithm which resulted in TONS of websites loosing their rankings. My site, which relied on ONE ARTICLE and no blog and ping actually went up in the rankings.

So if you?ve been using Blog and Ping to promote your site and you?ve been unhappy with the results, now is the time to consider writing articles and publishing them on the Article websites.

Writing an article and posting it to one article submission site is easy. Writing an article and posting it to hundreds of article sites is time consuming and difficult. For this reason, I recently purchased some software called Article Submitter Pro which automates the entire process. Article Submitter Pro can submit to over 700 article directories and is a snap to set up. If you want to try articles to promote your web page and you want to make the process as simple as possible, then I highly recommend that you check out Article Submitter Pro to make the whole process as simple as possible.

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Do you believe that someone without any internet marketing experience can make money online in less than a week?

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And as a matter of fact, I get annoyed when anyone asks me a question like…

“Can you teach me how to make money online in a week?”

In my mindset, its ‘hard’ to make money online for a newbie and it’ll take at least 6 weeks to get on the right track. I even think that it’s already ‘wrong’ in the first place to have that kind of silly hope.

**BUT**… I realized how I’m shutting myself and my client’s possibilities because I’m being a Smart Alec. I’m being ignorant. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to make money online without spending the time to learn and putting effort, AND wanting to see income in your Paypal within a couple of days.

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The only concern is this– you just got to know how to differentiate a real business and the process of making money online.

An internet business is a platform to make money online. But making money online does not mean you have an internet business.

When you want to make money on the internet, there are two ways to go about it.

The first one is to build a real internet business as mentioned earlier. In this method, normally, you’ll select the niche market based on your current expertise, what you like or if it’s your hobby. The strategy for this is to dominate the sub-niche of the pursued niche market and grow it ‘deep’.

Or build an internet business based on your million-dollar idea like the next facebook.com or something.

The other one is to break the ‘rule’ of building a real business by setting up as many ‘income generators’ as you can on the internet. For instance, putting up ads to promote affiliate programs. As you can see, this is really quick because it doesn’t require any product creation or even a website.

The game for this is simple too– the more you can put up on the internet, the higher the chance of success and the richer you’ll be. The internet marketing game is very simple to play- the more ‘presence’ you can have on the internet, the more money you’ll start to see.

The good thing about this method compared to the first one is you have minimal risk and you’ll start seeing income as you go along.

BUT THERE’S A PROBLEM– you desperately need speed. If you don’t use software or hire people to do the mechanical work for you, you just can’t put up enough ‘income generators’ on the internet. My point is, forget about this option if you’re going to do manually – it’s just too much work.

But the ultimate business strategy is to combine both options.

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