Friday, December 10, 2010

One Article, Five Different Ways

Social media has become a huge part of the SEO and Internet Marketing game. When I first started my SEO journey almost ten years ago, all you had to do is optimize your META tags and place a few of your keywords on your web site. Now the game has changed and depending soley on SEO makes as much since as depending on your feet to walk themselves!

This secret is known by few and missed by many. But it is effective to not only build quality backlinks to your web site, it also places your content infront of interested readers. So here we go!

1. Write a blog about anything that you desire. Make sure that the post is at least 300 to 500 words. Once you've optimized the post, you are now ready to submit it to the different blog directories found online. This is a great list of blog directories to choose from.

BlogCatalog
BlogHub
BlogTopList
Blogorama

2. Take that same blog post and format it into an article. You'll want to also change at least 40% of the content so you won't run into any duplicate content issues and get flagged by the major search engines. Using a free article spinner software will help you to achieve this. once you've created different articles with the article spinner, you can submit them to the different article web sites online. Here are some great ones to choose from.

Knol
EzineArticles
ArticleBase
GoArticles
SubmitYourArticle

3. Press releases are some of the most read forms of informative content on the Internet. Not only do web users pay close attention to them, the search engines favor them highly. What you want to do is take that same blog post you turned into an article and re write it in a press release format. As I said before, you want to change at least 40% of the content in the body of the write up. Prepare at least two different forms of your press release and submit it. These are great places to place your press release.

1888PressRelease
PrLog
I-NewsWire
24-7PressRelease
FreePressRelease

4. This is a twist to the social media marketing game but a great one to use. Video web sites like YouTube have gained massive attention in the past decade. If Internet surfers can find inforamtion in the form of a video, they will choose it over written content almost 80% of the time. One of the best ways is to put the writing in the form of a news report. You can even create your own make shift news cast! Here are a few places to you can submit your news video to.

YouTube
DailyMotion
MetaCafe

5. If you've never heard of Suidoo, then you have now!Squidoo is a web site that allows you to create free pages filled with text, image and video content about whatever you want to talk or write about. When you create a page on Squidoo, you will creating what they call a Squidoo lens. Once you create an account, you'll be able to make as many as you want, when you want. This is great place to create quality content that's favored by the search engines and many online users.

This is a great way to get your content in front of many online users using different avenues with one article. It's not only a great way to expose your content, but it helps to build quality backlinks to your web site as well. it may take some time, but the effort will be well worth it! HAPPY WRITING!!

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