When we talk about Article Marketing, the first name which comes in our mind is Ezinearticles.com. Most of you submit articles in ezinearticles, Some of your articles get good no. of views and some get less. Have you ever thought why this happens? Why one of your article gets thousands of views and other don’t even manage to get dozen views?

See, Once the article gets approved; first it gets traffic from Ezinearticles viewers and second from search engine (In case the article is well written with a good keyword density and you manage to achieve the ranking in search engines). But have you noticed why one of your articles don’t get good ranking in search engine and one gets really great ranking in spite of having the same keyword density.

The Answer to all the above questions is Timing; when your articles get approved in ezine. Suppose One of your article gets approved on Monday Morning Ezine Time and category of your article is “Energy Efficiency”, There is high possibility that the article will not get much views as after the morning, there will be lot of articles in your category and if you check any category of Ezine articles, they allow only 30 articles per category page so if more than 30 articles get approved after your approval, you will not be on Category Top Page and there is high possibility that your article neither get ezine traffic nor search engine traffic.

Suppose your article gets approved on Friday Evening and you may be knowing that ezine works on Monday to Friday so if you manage to get your approval just 1 or 2 hours before ezine closure time, There is high possibility that your article will be on top or at least top 10 results of category page. This way you will get ezine traffic. Also ezine has one more functionality of “Other Recent Articles” so you will be on all the article pages of that particular category and this way you will get thousands of back links because all the articles of that category will show 14 most recent articles, though that would be just for 2 days but that is enough to get good ranking in search engines for your targeted keywords. This way your articles will get lots of views during weekend and some of your articles might get “Most Viewed Articles” status, this will also give a great exposure to your article.

But now question arises how can you get your articles approved on Friday. There are 2 ways: One is to get Ezine Articles Premium Membership that is too costly(I would not recommend it to newbie marketers and those who submit less than 10 articles per week) and second option is to do split testing. Yes try to submit your articles at different times and see how much time ezine takes your articles to approve and once you find the best suitable timing, Submit all of your articles during that time and your articles will get approved at your desired time and will get great exposure in terms of ezine traffic as well as search engine traffic and more traffic you get, more chances to earn money.

I hope you enjoyed reading my post, If you  got confused any of the terms described above, Please leave a comment. I would be happy to answer your questions.

In my next post I will show you how to do keyword research before writing the articles.

Note: You can do Social Bookmarking of your recently approved articles, I have published a post on good social bookmarking sites, You can read the post from Here.

There are many Link Cloaking softwares, The one which i use is Free LInk Cloaker. It is Free to use software for cloaking your Links. Some of the Features Includes:

• It is not limited to One Domain Only, You can use it for Unlimited Domains
• It keeps track of the number of times each of your cloaked links has been clicked on.
• People won’t be confused by your affiliate links and can’t chop off the affiliate id.
• No one can replace your affiliate ID with their own because it’s not shown in the link you give them

Your Link would look like http://www.yourdomain.com/recommends/keyword

They give you 2 options to use, Either you can use it directly from their server (I personally don’t recommend it) or you can download the software and install it.

Visit Free Link Cloaker Website

Though there are some restrictions like you can not have more than 3 pending articles and you can have only 1 Resource Link but If you manage to get good search engine ranking for 10-12 articles a week, i think this is a good thing to keep going your work along with Ezinearticles Submissions.

I would say Buzzle is not alternative of Ezine but it is add on as ezine is no more approving location specific articles, Homebrew Articles, P2P Related Articles and Buzzle can fill that space in your article Marketing Strategy.

Visit Buzzle Article Directory

It just requires some images to create a great video. I did this experiment for our own Clickbank Product WiiFixGuide

It took me 30 mins to create the video as i searched out some related images in Google Images Website and put it in the tool. I was able to create lengthy videos as i have taken the yearly membership. but you can always use it for free of cost, the only limitation is that it allows only 30 seconds long videos under free membership.

Check out the video i created, at side bar of this blog under Featured Video Category. Let me know how you like it. I am going to create a lot of such videos in coming days. Video Marketing has similar potential as Article Marketing.

I used this Website http://animoto.com/ to create the Video

Many of you must be using Google Adwords tool for your Keyword Research, which seems to be the best Keyword Analyzer tool so far. As part of my Clickbank Experiment, I started PPC via MSN Adcenter along with Adwords and YSM. I had to give $5 for signup at MSN Adcenter. I would say It has really a great functionality of Keyword Research. It gives exact no. of monthly searches( occured during last month in msn search) along with CTR (%) and Avg CPC. This tool also provide suggest keywords data. In case you don’t want to use MSN Adcenter PPC, I would say just activate it  for $5, This MSN Keyword tool is worth that  money.

Wordpress is really a great blogging platform and gives a lot of inbuilt functionality. There are lot of free Wordpress themes and also very easy to customize. I generally prefer Wordpress blogs as landing page, i usually get higher ranking for my blogs then the HTML designed website.

I would appreciate your comments, how you like the new design?

An Article should have a good and eye catching title so that users should be tempted to check it, I have experienced sometimes, Users don’t even check better ranked site in google search and go for the sites which have lower ranking but eye catching titles. So the titles should be in a way, users should give our title priority on other titles of same topic.

Below is the example of Bad Titles: (I am taking the example of some of famous niches of Clickbank)

1. All About the Xbox 360 Red Light Messages (As Red light is the problem of Xbox so users looking to solve this problem will hardly check this article)

2. What Are the Xbox 360 Three Red Lights? (Red lights problem is well known among Xbox Gamers, the information they are looking for is actually, how to solve this problem so this title is also not so appealing.

3. Tips For Gold Farming a Mage in World of Warcraft (Though this title is good but could be more appealing by adding an adjective before the title or the no. like great tips, 5 tips, proven tips)
4. Wind Generated Power - The Answer to Save the Planet’s Precious Natural Resources (This is also an example of bad title, because people looking to build wind generated power are not interested in saving planet, or else only 1-2% would be interested to save planet, all that they want to save money while generating electricity for themselves.
I would suggest that when you write such kind of articles, always use how, what, benefit etc.. So that people should see their interest in that Article.
5. Relationship Depression (People are not looking for definition for this kind of niche, they are looking for solution of their problem, so the title could be “How to get over Relationship Depression”)

Example of Good Title:

1. How to Deal With the Xbox 360 One Red Light
2. PS3 Freezing - You Can Now Fix the Problem on Your Own
3. The Xbox 360 1 Red Light Problem - A Technical Issue That Has Now Solutions!
4. Find the Right Solutions to Relationship Depression
5. How to Get Rid of Eczema?

Now we come to Author Bio Section:

Always try to write such an author bio so that it should not look like a piece of Advertisement, It should look like a regular part of Article and users should feel half knowledged without going to the given link. Try to put up a question and write in a way so the answer of that question lies in the given link, but don’t always use this question answer technique for all the articles.

Here are Examples of Good Author Bio:

1. So, best way to fix Xbox 360 blinking red light problems is to do the job your own with the help of an easy step by step guide, which is easily available at Internet. No engineering, technical or any other major qualification required for doing the job and if you can follow the steps, you can fix your Xbox 360 blinking red problems within one and half hour.

2. Are you suffering with xyz disease ? You may be surprised to discover that there are simple yet very effective ways to get rid of xyz disease. I have shared my personal experience at the blog Disease Cure.

3. Why panic if you can fix the 2 red lights problem of Xbox 360 console from your home? Without any technical expertise you can fix 2 red lights problem and many other problems by resorting to our tips provided in a DIY guide

4. Once you go through the DIY (do it yourself) guide, you will not only know about how to build wind mill but will easily make one for you. Website Name is a wind mill do it yourself guide that explains you building you own wind mill.

Examples of Bad Author Bio:

1. If you are looking for a good guide then please do visit Website Name to understand more details about the various Tips available. You will be presented with support through emails and other means to help you find the right techniques to do your best in this arena. (This is good author bio but looks like an advertisement, overly promotion)

2. Are you looking for help in Problem Name then one such kit which is reliable is available and for further details you can visit Website Name which will surely make things easy for you. At a very low price, you will be able to receive immediate success with your proceedings in this matter. (Don’t talk about the pricing, let sales letter do this thing)

3. You can find detailed information on football systems by visiting Website Name. You can also find several useful articles on football betting on the website. (This is common author bio, which is used by many authors, Avoid writing such bios)

4. Learn more about relationships, how to save them and why men and women leave by Website Name revolutionary get your ex back formula. (Stick to the one problem solving capability only, don’t generalize it. Always talk about the topic which you discussed in the article)

I hope the above tips will help you to write better Title and author bio. I wish you all the best for your upcoming articles.

1. Digg.com
2. Propeller.com
3. Reddit.com
4. Socialogs.com
5.  Indianpad.com
6. Slashdot.org
7. Getigadget.com
8. Furl.net
9. Wirefan.com
10. Bibsonomy.org
11. faves.com
12. Folkd.com
13. Linkagogo.com
14. Mister-wong.com
15. Connotea.org
16. Mixx.com
17. Upchuckr.com
18. Jumptags.com
19. Connectedy.com
20. Postonfire.com
21. humsurfer.com
You will find this kind of POST everywhere on WEB, Now my 2 Cents comes into picture.

a) I would suggest you to do these 21 social bookmarks in 2 slots, Otherwise google might punish you building so many links in less time and your site/blog/article may be sandboxed.

b) One you finish the above 21 social bookmarks for your article/site/blog, always check out the ranking of these Socialbookmarking URLs on Google for your targeted keyword and in case your socialbookmarked URL has managed to get place among google’s top 100 results (first 10 pages), you have a great chance to do that URL socialbookmarked again and i am sure once you complete it, you will may get a place among google top 10 results.

I know the above technique is very time consuming but this may be very beneficial especially when you are promoting Affiliate Products that gives good commission.

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Today i was surfing Twitter (My favorite time pass) and suddenly my eyes stuck on a profile GirlinYourShirt. I was so tempted to check the profile and got to know this amazing Website http://girl.inyourshirt.tv. This site is Owned by Jenaé Plymale, She is also the host of this Internet TV Show. I found this really interesting and innovative idea. I took no time to follow Jenae on Twitter.

This project was began to find a way to market web startups by wearing swag t-shirts and spreading buzz with online social media tools for pay but got popular in very less time also got listed on Internet’s most popular blog TechCrunch. This innovative way of marketing startup companies is very helpful to brand also it looks interesting when a cute girl brand your product/website by wearing your company’s T-Shirt. isn’t it?

There is a Free Semi Automated Social Bookmarking Tool www.Socialposter.com which saves a lot of time while submitting your site/blog to social bookmarking sites. You only need to do registration in those social bookmarking sites first time.

Check out the Tool at www.socialposter.com