The Cheap Bastid» marketing articles http://www.thecheapbastid.com Learn to use online article publishing sites to earn money and get out of debt Wed, 10 Nov 2010 04:12:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 10 Easy Ways to Drive Crazy Traffic to your eHow or Bukisa Articles http://www.thecheapbastid.com/2009/03/10-easy-ways-to-drive-crazy-traffic-to-your-ehow-or-bukisa-articles/ http://www.thecheapbastid.com/2009/03/10-easy-ways-to-drive-crazy-traffic-to-your-ehow-or-bukisa-articles/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:01:54 +0000 admin http://www.thecheapbastid.com/?p=1529
They're all on the way to read your article!

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.

  1. Ping your article: After you publish, go here and ping it.
  2. Promote the article: Go here and sign up for every social bookmarking site and link your article.
  3. Go to Xomba and create one, two or as many Xomblurbs as desired, each targeting its own keyword and pointing to your article.
  4. Link from your website, blog, Squidoo lens or wherever else you can place a link.
  5. Find a related question on Yahoo Answers and answer it, of course placing a link to your article in the resource section.
  6. Post internal links from within eHow to your article
  7. Submit you article to directories here for quicker indexing.
  8. Ask a question on Yahoo Answers referencing your article. Guaranteed hits! (hint, Bukisa articles)
  9. Go back to the ‘blurbs in #6 and PING and PROMOTE those, drive traffic to the traffic drivers.
  10. 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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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.

  1. slashdot.org PR9 No Plugin This site is only for techie type stuff
  2. Digg.com PR8 No Plugin This site will ban you for spamming, no more than one link a day is recommended
  3. Technorati.org PR8 No Plugin  Technically only for blogs, but you can get away with one or two article links a day
  4. Furl.net PR7  No Plugin
  5. Backflip.com PR7  Plugin Available
  6. 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
  7. Mixx.com PR7  Plugin Available  Limit of 5 posts per day
  8. Connotea.org PR7  No Plugin  This is ONLY for medical links, period!
  9. Mystuff.ask.com PR7  Plugin Available
  10. Reddit.com PR7  Plugin Available I LOVE this site, much traffic from here!  One link every 10 minutes, there IS a timer
  11. Dzone.com PR7  No Plugin  This is only for software developers
  12. Folkd.com PR7  Plugin Available Another traffic producer!
  13. Multiply.com PR7  No Plugin
  14. Searchles.com PR6  Plugin Available Money Maker if you have a site to post their widget
  15. de.lirio.us PR6  No Plugin
  16. DotNetKicks.com PR6 No Plugin Techie stuff only, for programmers
  17. Plime.com PR6 No Plugin
  18. ClipClip.org PR6 Plugin Available You can add pictures to your links with this site, nice!
  19. LinkaGoGO.com PR6 Plugin Available
  20. Spurl.net PR6 Plugin Available
  21. Zlitt.com PR6 No Plugin Take care posting here, it’s 100% human edited and everything is read before approved
  22. IndianPad.com PR6 Plugin Available
  23. Tumblr.com PR6 No plugin
  24. MyVmarks.com PR5 Plugin Available This one allows screenshots of the page to be posted, nice!
  25. Bringr.com PR5 Plugin Available Women stuff only!
  26. Faves.com PR5 Plugin Available
  27. SpotBack.com PR5 Plugin Available
  28. MyLinkVault PR5 Plugin Available
  29. Linkatopia.com PR5 No Plugin
  30. Bookmarktracker.com PR5 Plugin Available
  31. A1-Webmarks.com PR4 No plugin
  32. 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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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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