Last Chance to Buy The Best Spinner Tool for Half Price

Posted by JR in Article Marketing, Blogging, Content Spinner, Internet Marketing, Webmaster/Website Optimization, Website Tools

Just a quick reminder that the Best Content Spinner is on sale until this Friday, Feb 5th at half price for $47 per year, this is a great price and a value for all that you get with this revolutionary spinner tool. After Friday the price will go up to to $84.

Update: The Spinner Free Trial Period and Discount Half Price Offer Has Ended, but you can still try it for $7 for 7 days and when you fall in love with it and want to keep it, the $77 balance will be charged, still a great bargain for $84 a year.

And of course there is a 30 day money back guarantee.

Also learn more at my previous post The Best Content Spinner.

Features

1. The most comprehensive Thesaurus with words and phrases

2. Easy drop down menu selection for synonyms

3. Creates syntax coded spin, for multiple versions of one article AND a replacement option for single rewrites

4. All spin coding syntax added automatically

5. Unlimited nested spinning

6. Edit article manually while in the content spinning console

7. A cool find utility to quickly locate words in the coded spin

8. Easy save within software and one click save to clipboard

9. Uniqueness percentages and word count

10. Supports English, French, Spanish and German spinning

and a whole lot more…

Learn more, watch a video demonstration and get the Best Spinner

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Greatest Content Spinner Tool – Last Chance to Try for Free

Posted by JR in Affiliate Marketing, Article Marketing, Internet Marketing, Webmaster/Website Optimization, Website Tools

I recently let you guys know about a great new tool for webmasters and MMO from Johnathan Ledger in my post at: The Best Content Spinner

I wanted to remind everyone that the The Best Content Spinner will leave Beta this Sunday night at midnight so you still have the weekend to try it for free: Try Best Content Spinner

As of Monday, February 1 it will go on sale at half off till February 5, which at $47 a year is still a great deal. Other spinners cost more and give a lot less.

Truly The Best Ever Spinning Tool Created

Unlike other spinner tools, this one has a fantastic and very comprehensive Thesaurus with both words and phrases.

It is really amazing, for doing multiple spins, as well as single rewrites of PLR articles or any content to make dozens of completely unique versions, this is the ultimate must have tool for money sites.

The other main attraction that unlike other tools, where you have to think up your own synonyms and add them in manually, this provides a neat drop down menu and 1 click insert or replacement of words and phrases.

Automatically goes to next word or phrase in content once finished with previous ones which make spinning a breeze.

and tons more.

And, this week Johnathan announced that the Spinner now supports German, Spanish and French language rewrites as well.

I really like that Jonathan, the developer is actively in the forum, personally addressing any issues us beta users are having with the product, and fixing all bugs. His customer service skills is another reason this product ROCKS!!!

Learn More and Try Best Content Spinner

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24 Outsource Writing Sites for Site Content & Article Marketing

Posted by JR in Article Marketing, Internet Marketing, Webmaster/Website Optimization

In the world of Internet marketing our plates are pretty full, with all we have to do, like link building, keyword research, website promotion, etc… there just is not enough time in the day. Probably the most time consuming task is writing content. Not only for our niche sites but also for article marketing.

Now, before the flagship bloggers start screaming this is not meant to replace your beautifully and thoughtfully written posts! This is meant more for the money sites.

Outsourcing is a great way to save precious time and brain cells by hiring others to write content and articles and especially for those of us who have several niche sites where writing content becomes an overwhelming task.

Here is a list of the best content and article outsourcing sites for content management on your websites and blogs.

Because these sites provide original content that is copyrighted to you, you can use them for on-site content development, as well as for article marketing and submit using Article Marketer, to Ezine Articles and all the other article sites without being penalized in any way.

You can also use Copyscape to check the content for originality, all though these sites guarantee originality and copyright to you.

Some of these writing outsources are really expensive and some are quite cheap, depending on your needs there is something for everyone.

24 Writing Outsource Sites

Textbroker – This is the one I use and it’s the best deal in town. Articles start as little as 0.o1 a word and you can pick quality levels that cost a little more up to the highly technical articles.

There are tons of excellent authors for every possible niche. Basically you post a job, give the details and then writers send you the finished product to review. Once the author sends you an article you can ask for revisions and deny the article if you are not satisfied or accept if you are. I have only rejected 2 articles out of the hundreds I have ordered.

Turnaround usually within a couple of hours and they are copyscape checked by the website.

Terry Didcott – Terry is a great guy and writes quality blog posts. 200 words : $12; 300 words : $18; 400 words : $24

SEO Content Writers – $6, $10, $14 etc. based on Word Count

Quality Online Content – Starting at $3 per article.

Article Writers - Niche Store Content – Articles starting at $3.50 for 200 words. They also have package deals.

Also offer a unique service that is really a great deal: Squidoo and HUB page creation for $20 each or 5 for $90
Includes:

1 Hub or Lens
Minimum of 800 words of unique content
Relevant Images
Keyword optimized
Bookmarked for Indexing by Search Engines

Articles and Beyond – Starts at $8, based on word count

Have Articles – Packages start at 3 200 word articles for $12 and get cheaper

Article Authors – Articles start at $8 plus they offer press release writing, custom ebook creation and ghost writing

SEO Article Writing Pros – Single articles starting at $13, plus package deals

Articles Alive – Package deals with articles starting as low as $0.023c/word

Website Content Writing – Starts at $10 for 125 words. They offer lots of services, like, technical writing, mini sites, ebook creation, movie reviews, press releases and more.

Pricier Writing Services

Your Article Writer – Articles start at $20. Also, ebook creation, website proofreading and editing.

Article Alley – Starts at $40 per article with package deals.

Article Base – Starts at $40 per article

Constant Content – Pre-posted articles by a variety of authors with various prices for usage, unique and full rights.

Niche Content – PLR and full rights articles, prices vary and can be pricey but there are good articles.

Informative Sources – Starts at $25 per article

Ghostwriter4you – Starts at $24 for 400 words. Specialties: natural health, alternative health, inspiration and Internet marketing

Freelance Writers – Promise well researched and SEO’s content. Starts at $15 per 500 words, package deals get cheaper

Deskins Writing Service – Quotes per order. They offer in depth research and you can buy content packages to build entire sites or blogs full of content that are well researched and SEO’d

Writing and Other Website Services Bid Sites

iFreelance – Freelancers bid on your projects

BizReef – 250,000 freelancers bidding on your project. Includes, writing, web design, graphics, photos and programming.

eLance – All services, writing, tech, programmin, logos, web design and more.

Rent A Coder

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1000 Free Quality PLR Articles and Free Duplicate Content Tool

Posted by JR in Article Marketing, Webmaster/Website Optimization, Website Tools

Is this you dealing with website content and article writing?

Then here are some really great goodies that will restore some peace and sanity.

As a follow up to my post 16 Website Content Ideas, here is a great resource to get 1000 Free PLR articles that I found when perusing the net, and since I am a cheap skate, I was looking for PLR that was quality and free and I found it!!

What is PLR?

Just to review PLR is Private Label Rights, PLR is usually sold or in this case given away and this is an article license that provides content that you can do WHATEVER you want with, including, edit, rewrite, take credit for and republish verbatim as your own, but DO NOT do the last one.

Goodie #1

1,000 FREE PLR ARTICLES – This PLR pack has tons of niches and topics and many of the articles have really quality information and are pretty detailed.

No Catches just 3 steps: 1. They ask for your email to send the PLR. 2. There is a sales page to some other products (actually look pretty good) that you can skip at the bottom of the page if you wish. 3. Get an email with your PLR download link, well worth that effort!

Using PLR Effectively:

Always, Always rewrite PLR. Keep the substance but regroup sentences, change common words, rewrite in your own words, etc.. to make the articles unique. Remember that you don’t know how many others have used the PLR and they should not be used as exact duplicates but used to make life easier not having to write content from scratch.

I found a couple of articles that I actually cut up and re-pieced together to make a great page of content for my computer niche site.

As long as you rewrite it, PLR can be used for Article Marketing as well as website content.

Hell of a lot easier than writing from scratch!

Goodie #2

Free Duplicate Content Checker

DUPE FREE PRO – Compares articles side by side and gives you a percentage of the duplicity between articles so you can check your original PLR with the rewritten for duplication percentage.

1. Copy and paste original and rewritten article into separate areas

2. Hit the COMPARE button – Bam! the software gives a percentage of duplicity, VERY COOL!!

It even highlights the duplicated phrases for easy changes.

And, this tool calculates keyword density for any phrase or keyword you put in!!!

I would suggest you get your free copy of Dupe Free Pro NOW, I doubt they will be giving it away forever, frankly I am surprised it is free now.

Now, I honestly cannot advise on the ideal percentage, but I shoot for anything below 15%, if anyone disagrees with this number please feel free to comment and give your input.

What do you guys think?

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4 Tips for Writing Effective Articles for the Internet

Posted by JR in Article Marketing

When I first started doing article marketing as part of my Internet marketing

efforts I made the typical newbie mistakes. I spent way too much time and effort creating what I thought had to be masterpieces.

I had previously discussed the huge benefits of article marketing, like backlinks and targeted traffic in Article Marketing 101 and the Huge Internet Marketing Benefits and I wrote a detailed guide to article content and clickable titles in Are You Writing Garbage? Here are some more tips for effective article writing.

4 Tips for Writing Effective Articles for the Internet

1. 350 – 600 words is best. Remember that you want your reader to get to the resource box where your link is and you don’t want to risk them splitting on you because the article is too long.

2. This is Not Shakespeare - You do not have to write detailed, sophisticated, epic tales for the Internet. Remember that your target audience are Internet surfers and by definition they are looking for instant gratification and quick information. It is a fact that 80% of Internet article readers don’t read every word but actually scan the article to get main ideas.

Tips to Make Article Content Scannable:

Write short paragraphs
Discuss only one idea per paragraph
Use subheadings to divide article into sections so that things do not run together and get jumbled.
Use bullets or separate any lists within the paragraph, do not run them all together.

3. Keep It Simple - Write in simple English, that is easy to understand, do not risk anhialating readers with fancy words.

4. If you get an inspiration DO NOT let it get away. Many times when I least expect it I suddenly get an idea for an article and if I don’t jump on it right then and there it can easily get away. So if you get inspired either do a quick outline or if possible write out the article right then and there. Those inspiration articles are some of the best and easiest I have ever written.

Remember, that simple and direct makes better articles and the more likely that other webmasters will republish them on their sites with your links, good for SEO!

I know that article writing is stressful, but believe me after doing it for a while you will find your flow and it will become second nature and you’ll be busting out articles easily.

I also eliminated a lot of stress by signing up with Article Marketer, they submit for me to over 5,000 sites versus me doing manul submission, which is a total PAIN!!

The most important thing I learned in my article marketing journey is not to stress them. Outline some good info, make them easy to read and submit. BAM! These days, if I stress anything it is my website content and not the articles.

Better Article Submission

Make sure to check out Unique Article Wizard, the all time best article marketing submission service, that eliminates manual submission and creates unique version of your article for better rankings and stronger backlinks!

What do you guys think? What are your article writing tips? Do you stress article writing?

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The Death of Some Quality Backlinks and a Great Traffic Source

Posted by JR in Article Marketing, Link Building

By, JR

Very bad news for those of us with BANS stores or any auction sites. Ezine Articles is no longer allowing backlinks to auction sites in the author resource box. The much cherished quality backlinks as well as the large amount of targeted traffic from Ezine’s readers is gone forever.

This is upsetting news, as Ezine is one of the premier, if not THE premier articles sites on the web.

How will this affect your link building efforts? Well, it probably won’t break any of us, but it will certainly hurt Article marketing efforts to no longer have those backlinks and it will definitely hurt not having the high amounts of traffic that Ezine can and does bring to our sites.

While a moment of silence may be over dramatic, the reality is this is a sad day!

What do you guys think? Will this hit you hard? Do you care?

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Articles, Duplicate Content – Myths & Facts…Here We Go Again

Posted by JR in Article Marketing, Google, Internet Marketing, Webmaster/Website Optimization

Yes, another article about duplicate content, I know, you guys may want to strangle me right now, but there is so much hype and misconception out there about duplicate content and the duplicate content Google slap that I just had to go there and since Google blogged about it last week, I figured now is the perfect time!

Over and over duplicate content is mistaken and distorted into something it isn’t. Some of the biggest myths are about article marketing and duplicate content. One of the biggest article marketing secrets seems to be the truth about duplicate content and article marketing because the BS just keeps propagating on the web.

ARTICLES AND DUPLICATE CONTENT – FACT AND MYTH

MYTH: You have to use some article spinner software, to change your articles around or you will get slapped by Google for submitting the same article to different article sites.

FACT: Totally UNTRUE and doesn’t even make sense. I can and do all the time, submit the same article to thousands of sites and they always show up in search results for the keywords, some rank higher than others, depending on the article site, but they will all be there.

MYTH: Google will slap you for submitting the same article to different article sites.

FACT: Umm, okay how would they do this? In reality, logistically there is no way that Google can penalize the author even if they wanted to, which they don’t.

If, in reality, Google penalized for duplicate articles the logic would follow that G would have to penalize the article sites for publishing the duplicates and that would mean that there would be no article sites left since they often feature the same article submitted by the same author that is also published on other sites.

And, then would it also follow that if same articles were considered duplicate content, the millions of sites that syndicate and disburse articles and news feeds, such as that from the Associated Press, would have been banned long ago.

FACT: Duplicate Content has nothing to do with the submitting the same article. Duplicate content refers to the significantly noticeable duplicated content within the SAME domain or across multiple domains.

THE REAL MEANING OF DUPLICATE CONTENT

Really there are two forms of duplicate content, the malicious and non malicious types.

Non-Malicious Duplicate Content

Same exact content repeated across the same domain, usually because of the CMS design and without malicious intent by the webmaster.

1. Same content across the same domain, such as such as two versions of the same page, for example, a readable and print version on a website.

2. Blogs – By design blogs and CMS apps generate duplicate content, such as the same content falling under archives, tags and new posts listed on the home page.

Both of the above can be handled by indicating on your robots.txt file to block the search engine from crawling and indexing those pages.

Example of Robots.txt commands:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /tags/
Disallow: /archives/
Disallow: /print page/

Learn more ways to address such non malicious duplicate content on your sites at GWT on Fixing Duplicate Content Issues.

“Duplicate content on a site is not grounds for action on that site unless it appears that the intent of the duplicate content is to be deceptive and manipulate search engine results.”
-Google Webmaster Tools

Malicious Duplicate Content – The Real Penalty

Malicious duplicate content is the true culprit and WILL suffer a duplicate content penalty and basically applies to: Substantially same content placed on multiple pages, subdomains, or multiple domains to deliberately manipulate the search engine rankings, and get more traffic.

Last week Google posted a very comprehensive post about duplicate content on their Webmaster Central Blog that will hopefully crush the myths forever and end the constant barage of hype that exists about duplicate content, read it at: Demystifying the Duplicate Content Penalty

What do you guys think? Sick of duplicate content yet?

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Article Marketing Backlink Techniques

Posted by JR in Article Marketing, Link Building, Search Engine Optimization

I have received several emails from readers asking specific questions about articles, so I am going to answer these questions throughout several posts.

Article Marketing has a few benefits, one of which is more website traffic and more important is the unlimited potential of well targted anchor text backlinks.

This post will be about keywords for the anchor text and how to place backlinks to your sites within articles.

Whether you are using Unique Article Wizard as I do to submit your articles automatically or you are doing manual submission, keyword anchor techniques for backlinks to your site within articles are the same.

Home Page Links and Deep Links

I always put two backlinks in the author resource box, one to the home page of my sites and another to a sub page, for the deep link.

Deep links are links to website pages other than the home page. Deep links are often overlooked because we are so focused on optimizing for site wide home page keywords, however, remember that we are not just looking to have our home page rank number one in the SERPS, (search engine rank position/page position) we want all our website pages to rank for the those pages respective keywords and to do that, we need to build backlinks for those pages.

And articles serve this purpose very well, because even the strictest of article sites like Ezine Articles, allows 2 self serving backlinks in the author box, so one should be for the home page with the main keywords in the anchor and the other should be a sub page with that pages keywords as the anchor text for the deep link.

Example of Resource Box: Learn more about Internet marketing with step-by-step and hands-on techniques at: JR’s Internet Marketing Strategies. Read lots of guides about link building, affiliate marketing and get a List of 195 Keyword Suggestions.

Home page links and deep links not only help you with your link building strategies, but also are helpful in getting direct traffic as you are showing the articles readers more of what your sites have to offer.

You can change it up with each article, one article use page X and Y for deep links and the next article use page A and B.

Make sense?

Beyond the Resource Box – Backlinks Within Article Content

There are three great article sites that allow for hypelinks within content and not just confine them to the author box as the usual guidelines, and they are do-follow. By the way these sites are also great for the viral effect of Article Marketing as explained in Best Submission Sites to Make Articles Go Viral.

Amazines
Article Alley
Articles Factory

So, when you are submitting to these sites, add a variety of links within the article content to your sites with the different keywords you want those pages to rank for, you can link to home pages with all your different keywords and deep pages. (Don’t over do it)

Then at the end of the article add your resource box summary, Learn more… , Browse…, or Get… etc… with yet more different keywords that you have not used yet.

If you want to save time and submit articles automatically the best service for this is Unique Article Wizard, it’s the one I use and recommend.

HTML CODE for HYPER LINKS:

Some of these sites you need to add your links with html code, so here it is, just replace yourdomain.com with your actual domain url and put your keywords where it says keyword anchor text.
<a href=”http://domain.com/”>Keyword Anchor</a>

What do you guys think? Anyone have any link tips for articles?

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Search Engine Optimization – Are you Dominating the SERPS?

Posted by JR in Article Marketing, Internet Marketing, Keywords and Niches, Search Engine Optimization, Web Site Traffic, Website Promotion

How cool would it be to have your websites ALL OVER THE SERPS? (search engine rank positions also known as search engine result pages).

Thanks to article marketing this is fairly easy to achieve. Article marketing brings direct traffic and provides quality one-way backlinks, for search engine optimization and lots of them, if like me, you are using Article Marketer for article submission.

BUT, did you know that article marketing provides the unique opportunity for a large amount of exposure to your websites by dominating the SERPS?!?!?

Doing comprehensive keyword research is crucial for the success of websites, not only for search engine optimization, but also to hone in on popular niches and what people are searching for. Website keywords play a crucial role in gaging demand and facilitating success in the Internet marketing world.

While, many of us spend a lot of time on keyword research for our websites, we do not always do the same for the articles we write, or we just use the same keywords for articles as for our websites. This is a big mistake!

First, if you are using the same keywords then you are basically competing against yourself. Second and most important, you are limiting your website exposure within search engine page results (SERPS), which should always be the goal of any search engine optimization campaign.

Article marketing provides the unique opportunity to be all over the SERPS by using different keywords for each article, and thereby giving searchers access to your sites from within the articles.

Website Keywords vs. Article Keywords

Website Keywords

For example, if my website’s MAIN KEYWORDS are: buy digital camcorders, cheap camcorders, used camcorders and I have correctly optimized my site for these keywords then my website will rank in the SERPS for these searches.

Article Keywords

Then, for all my articles, I will research additional keywords and find: how-to buy a camcorder, camcorder review, top digital camcorders, camcorder buying guide, etc… And I will use these to write articles.

Following this technique will give your website massive exposure and allow you to DOMINATE THE SERPS! The more articles with different keywords you write the more exposure to your website!

The Advantage of Using High Competition Keywords with Articles

I advise in, Step-by-Step Niche and Keyword Research, that you look for lower competition keywords, as this will help your websites to rank higher and faster. But, because many quality article sites, such as Ezine Articles, rank very high in search results, you can safely go to for the more popular/highly competitive keywords, like 1,000,000 plus competition, for your articles, because you will piggyback on the article sites ranking ability.

Keyword Optimizing Your Articles For Better Ranking

The same as with your websites, it is crucial to help the search engines to relate your articles with the keywords you want to rank for, remember, it is not humans who crawl the web, but algorithms.

1. Make your article title interesting, engaging and clickable but be sure to have the keywords in it.

2. 3-5% keyword density throughout the article body.

3. Use the keyword at least once in the first paragraph and the last paragraph.

4. If possible, bold the keyword, maybe once or twice (at most) within the article body.

Following such simple search engine optimization techniques will lead to great Internet marketing success for a long time to come and eternal SERP domination!!

What do you guys think? Are you writing articles? Are your articles all over the SERPS?

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Best Submission Sites to Make Articles go Viral

Posted by JR in Article Marketing, Internet Marketing, Viral Marketing

Article marketing is one of the greatest and most effective Internet Marketing strategies and has 3 very strong benefits.

1. Article marketing is one of the best and easiest ways to get one-way backlinks to your sites for search engine optimization and link building.

2. Article marketing is a great way to get direct relevant and targeted traffic to your websites, by utilizing the correct keywords. Read the step-by-step guide to Article Marketing for Backlinks and Getting Direct Traffic.

3. Article marketing has a viral effect. Many article sites utilize what is called a Creative Commons copyright license, which basically means that anyone can reprint the articles you submit and then reprint on their sites, as long as, all content is retained, the credit is given to the original author, and the backlinks to your sites are kept intact within the article.

This creates a great viral opportunity for your websites because when your articles are reprinted your links are then spread all over the web giving you great exposure and traffic for your websites.

As I have always said Unique Article Wizard submission service is the best way to submit articles. Article Marketer submits my articles to over 5,000 sites and 14,000 publishers for a very low price, especially considering the exposure and the time/work it saves me. And, realistically how long would it take you to submit even one article to that many sites? I love Unique Article Wizard, I use them and strongly recommend them, for the most exposure, the most backlinks, optimizing your campaigns and as the biggest time saver.

While Unique Article Wizard submits to the top article marketing sites, I did want to let you know of three specific article sites that are more lenient, as they allow hyperlinks within the article body and not just in the “about the author section”.

These three sites are great for the viral effect because, as opposed to Ezine Articles, for example, that exposes your articles to a large amount of in-house traffic, these sites are highly used by lots of webmasters looking for free content for their websites.

Article Dashboard PR6
Amazines PR3
Article City PR6
Article Alley – PR5

There are many article sites that are primarily set up for submitting articles with the purpose of reprinting and I have tested many of them, but these three always get the best results.

Since submitting my articles to these sites, more than 25 of those articles have been downloaded by other webmasters between 20-40 times each and reprinted on their sites. This means MASSIVE exposure for my websites.

The key, of course, to getting reprinted is writing articles that have good titles and are well written, learn more at my post: Are You Writing Garbage – Keys to Writing Effective Articles.