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10 Easy Ways to Drive Crazy Traffic to your eHow or Bukisa Articles

admin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:01:54 +0000

They're all on the way to read your article!

We all know that more traffic equals more money. Here are some simple, quick ways to drive traffic to your eHow or Bukisa articles.

Ping your article: After you publish, go here and ping it.
Promote the article: Go here and sign up for every social bookmarking site and link your article.
Go to Xomba and create one, two or as many Xomblurbs as desired, each targeting its own keyword and pointing to your article.
Link from your website, blog, Squidoo lens or wherever else you can place a link.
Find a related question on Yahoo Answers and answer it, of course placing a link to your article in the resource section.
Post internal links from within eHow to your article
Submit you article to directories here for quicker indexing.
Ask a question on Yahoo Answers referencing your article. Guaranteed hits! (hint, Bukisa articles)
Go back to the ‘blurbs in #6 and PING and PROMOTE those, drive traffic to the traffic drivers.
Find related forums and make posts, put your article link in your signature.

There you go, 10 quick and easy things to do to get more traffic, and hopefully more money. Try them all and get some results.

Anyone know of any other way to easily drive traffic?

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A Xomba Day

admin — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:00:52 +0000

Today I’m going to spend some time promoting my articles and lenses on Xomba. The experiment I started yesterday is already paying off with those ‘blurbs getting 6 hits. Bukisa hasn’t updated earnings or views yet so I can’t tell if traffic ended up there.

On eHow I have two articles that are earning over 5 cents per view. One article has about 180 views with earnings near $10. I intend to do at least 5 ‘blurbs pointing at this article today.

Later in the day I need to publish 5 articles on eHow to reach my monthly goal. I’m also going to start another lens over on Squidoo.

It’s nice to have a day off…

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Promoting Articles | The Bukisa – Xomba connection

admin — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:14:22 +0000

If y’all look up top you’ll see a new page titled ‘Blasting Bukisa’ .

I’ve started yet another experiment to increase passive earnings.

I invite all of you to read and comment on what you think of this.

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Marketing Articles | Where to get some powerful backlinks

admin — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:17:30 +0000

As promised here it is. My definitive list of 32 kickass sites that’ll give you some real backlink love (actually that doesn’t sound right…)

Each site is listed in PR order, I’ve also indicated if the site has a Firefox plugin and whether the site is also a paying site. If the site is subject specific I’ve noted that as well.

slashdot.org PR9 No Plugin This site is only for techie type stuff
Digg.com PR8 No Plugin This site will ban you for spamming, no more than one link a day is recommended
Technorati.org PR8 No Plugin Technically only for blogs, but you can get away with one or two article links a day
Furl.net PR7 No Plugin
Backflip.com PR7 Plugin Available
TreeHugger.com PR7 No Plugin This is only for GREEN posts, don’t link your article on How to Add a Supercharger to a Hummer
Mixx.com PR7 Plugin Available Limit of 5 posts per day
Connotea.org PR7 No Plugin This is ONLY for medical links, period!
Mystuff.ask.com PR7 Plugin Available
Reddit.com PR7 Plugin Available I LOVE this site, much traffic from here! One link every 10 minutes, there IS a timer
Dzone.com PR7 No Plugin This is only for software developers
Folkd.com PR7 Plugin Available Another traffic producer!
Multiply.com PR7 No Plugin
Searchles.com PR6 Plugin Available Money Maker if you have a site to post their widget
de.lirio.us PR6 No Plugin
DotNetKicks.com PR6 No Plugin Techie stuff only, for programmers
Plime.com PR6 No Plugin
ClipClip.org PR6 Plugin Available You can add pictures to your links with this site, nice!
LinkaGoGO.com PR6 Plugin Available
Spurl.net PR6 Plugin Available
Zlitt.com PR6 No Plugin Take care posting here, it’s 100% human edited and everything is read before approved
IndianPad.com PR6 Plugin Available
Tumblr.com PR6 No plugin
MyVmarks.com PR5 Plugin Available This one allows screenshots of the page to be posted, nice!
Bringr.com PR5 Plugin Available Women stuff only!
Faves.com PR5 Plugin Available
SpotBack.com PR5 Plugin Available
MyLinkVault PR5 Plugin Available
Linkatopia.com PR5 No Plugin
Bookmarktracker.com PR5 Plugin Available
A1-Webmarks.com PR4 No plugin
WireFan.com PR4 Plugin Available

That should keep you busy for a while, there’s actually about 2 dozen more I could post up, but they are getting into the PR3 and PR2 range and are barely worth the effort.

One additional site I recomend is Xomba, even though the links are No Follow, it is a PR4 site and they do pay, and I get some good traffic from them.

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Marketing Articles | How to do it and why

admin — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:35:32 +0000

If you read my post ‘Writing Articles for Profit’ you already know that your work doesn’t end when you press the ‘Publish’ button, in fact, I believe that your work has just begun…

The easiest way to earn more money online is by getting more clicks on your eHow articles. Now, the best way to get more clicks is by getting more people to actually read your article.

Marketing your articles can make the difference between making a few cents a day or making a few dollars a day.

Marketing your articles has two benefits.

More people will see your links and head over to your article
The search engines will see the back links to your article and rate it higher in search engine results pages (SERP)

The higher your article comes up in search results means more people will click on it. More visitors = More money. It’s that simple.

Marketing articles means putting links up on the Internet for people and/or search engine spiders to follow.

There are two kinds of links

Do follow, which means the spider will follow over to your article and you’ll get credit for a back link
No follow, which, as you guessed, means the spider will NOT follow over to your site, you’ll get no back link credit but people can still click over.

There are also two places links can come from

Within the domain, internal links
Outside the domain, external links

From my recent post about the eHow ‘More articles from this author’ you know that links from one article to another article are internal links, and although they carry less Google weight than external links, are still relevant in large numbers. Witness the PR2 rating on my earliest articles..

We can add internal links at whim, when we publish (or edit) one of our articles we can add a link to an existing article through the ‘Related Articles’ area. I would use this sparingly, but I will always choose at least one of my articles. Do this for a month and you WILL see results, both in page rank and traffic.

Marketing articles isn’t fun, in fact, when it comes to writing articles I find it to be the most ‘work’ like thing I do. Nonetheless, it must be done if you’re serious about making money online.

In the next part, which will be published on Monday. I will provide my personal list of over 32 sites that allow ‘Do follow’ links, including the PageRank of the sites and whether or not they have a Firefox button.

I adamantly suggest, if you’re not already using it, to download and install Firefox and it’s associated SEO related add-ins.

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Using Xomba to Promote your Articles and Make Money

admin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:10:38 +0000

: Xomba for traffic and cash!

This is a site that I only recently discovered. In just one day not only did I make some adsense earnings but there was a visible increase in my eHow earnings as well.

The unique thing about Xomba is that you can post up not only original articles, but links to other articles, blogs or websites.

So for you eHow and Bukisa writers you can publish an article on one of those sites and link to it from Xomba for additional traffic.

Every page on Xomba, whether it’s an article or link has ads on it. Xomba shares 50% of the ad revenue with you when an ad is clicked. This is a nice setup, not only do you get some additional traffic, but you can earn some cash as well.

Xomba has a referral program. Basically if someone signs up using your referral link you’ll get 10% ad revenue from their clicks. The new user does NOT lose money, your cut comes out of Xombas 50% share, so it’s a win-win situation for both of you.

To earn money on Xomba you’ll need an adsense account.

First sign up with Xomba here, this is my referral link. Since it cost’s neither of us any earnings please use it to support this site

Then go to google adsense here and sign up using your Xomba profile page URL.

Once your adsense account is approved you can start earning money. It usually takes up to two weeks for approval, but in the meantime start linking to your articles for additional traffic using what they call Xomblurbs.

Here’s one of my ‘blurbs linking to my eHow article..

It took me all of 3 minutes to create this Xomblurb, but as you can see already 11 people have read it, and probably continued on to my eHow article. I’ll continue to post up a ‘blurb for all of my new articles, and eventually catch up linking my older articles as well. It should be interesting to see what my adsense income is after I finish linking all my new articles.

If you’re serious about earning money online writing articles I highly suggest using Xomba, it’s free, it’s easy and best of all you get paid to do it!

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