ABC Article Directory Blog

By: David Skul  

Blogs are an integral part of Web 2.0. Companies who were once skeptical about the effectiveness of web 2.0 are quickly acknowledging the value of blogging on the internet.

While setting up a blog is relatively easy, many companies struggle with ideas on how to make their blogs grow.

Here are seven simple steps that will help you increase your blog readership:

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By: Jim Pretin 

We’ve all had this experience:  You login to your email account, excited to read messages from friends, relatives, co-workers, or your girlfriend perhaps.  You view the link to your inbox, and it says you have five messages.  Fervently, you open your inbox, your heart is racing, you sit up in your chair a bit, leaning forward closer to the computer as you get ready to enter a new dimension.

What do you find when the page finishes loading?  Well, you see a spectacular cornucopia of diverse, informative topics referenced in the “subject” for each email:

“Erectile Dysfunction?  Look no further - Viagra, 90% off!”

 ”Get a 200 year mortgage!” 

“Reverse the aging process, regress back to infancy!” 

“Make 10 million dollars per hour stuffing envelopes!”

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By: FrankBauer

 Quit some time ago, I don’t remember where exactly, I read about a technique to stop receiving spam for good which worked very good for me and it will soon work for you as well.

Here is the quick run down

1. Stop using any email address that currently receives spam. Yeap it’s tuff and harsh, but will 100% sure kill all your current spam.

With any body that you want to stay in contact with, give them a unique email address of yours as described below in point 5.

The next step is to setup a system to protect you from future spam. Note that the following instructions all have to be followed in your servers cPanel area.

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 By: Adrian Kennelly

Article marketing can be a great way to promote your site and product. Unfortunately, many articles these days are written solely for the links they have in their resource box, and are poorly written for actual reading. The content may be fine, but it’s not really readable. Here are some steps you can take if you want to improve the chances of your article being approved by the article directories.

Poorly Formatted Text

There are a number of ways an article could be poorly formatted, and will likely cause rejection.

The first is the use of hard breaks. This is where, at the end of every line, the return key is pressed instead of allowing the text to naturally wrap around onto the next line. As, in many cases, your article will be viewed at a variable width, depending on the resolution of the viewers monitor, this casues the article to look very poor.

For example:
This text has had the return key
pressed at the end of every line
which causes it to look poor and be
difficult to read.

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By: Paul Easton  

Top ranking the search engines, is a daily battle and one that’s ongoing on a daily basis with a top Google ranking being the number one target.

There are whole business models build out of getting a top ranking in Google and to a smaller extend, the other major search engines.

You could say Google has unknowingly created billions in business turnover, from others trying to outwit them.

In the battle of getting rankings which has turned to the power of links, has launched full services around this concept. Its not new just more obvious now especially due to the explosion of blogging.

Some of theses services buy and sell focused text links. In the same way ebay does, it’s a matter of bringing together buyers and sellers. Now link pricing has be set in several ways: a single purchase cost using services like payperpost.com and reviewme.com blog post services, or a pay per month option which is used by other services such as text link brokers and many other providers.

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By: Emmanuel DeFreitas 

Are you a keyword stuffing moron?

I just finished rejecting an article that was submitted to my article directory, by an author that just does not understand why he is writing articles in the first place. I felt compelled to write this article as a warning to potential authors with self destructive tendencies. This particular article in question had a keyword repeated so many times throughout the body of the article, that it made it painfully unreadable, by a human.

 I added “by a human”,  at the end of the last sentence to emphasize a point. It is agonizingly obvious that this particular author (who shall remain nameless), was not writing to attract the attention of people. He was seeking the attention of search engine bots. He somehow got the idea that by stuffing his article with the same keyword, over and over again, he would place high in Google, Yahoo, Msn and any other search engine that happened to notice. Even if this became a reality, which I doubt, upon further analysis, what would be the eventual outcome of this article’s inclusion in the major search engines?

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By: Tiva Kelly 

Writing articles is the easiest way to advertise on the Internet. Frequently posting content articles that directly relate to the nature of your products or website results in increased page visits and, ultimately, increased sales.

Why Use Articles for Marketing?
Content articles are often used to boost sales and promote websites because it works.
* Posting many quality articles on the same topic allows you to present yourself as an expert on that topic. The goal is to become the go-to person for advice on a specific subject to secure repeat traffic.
* Using articles for marketing is directly related to increased sales.
* Writing articles for marketing is an easy way to get back links and create a higher page ranking for your website.
* Articles continue to provide a positive and long-term growth effect, long after their initial publishing.

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by Victor Ross

Google’s PageRank system was designed to calculate the ‘popularity’ of a page based on the number of incoming links. The higher the number of incoming links, the more popular a page and the higher it’s PageRank; however, this is not how the PageRank system works anymore. Apart from the number of incoming links, the PageRank of each incoming link is also taken into account. For example, let’s assume there are two pages both receiving exactly 1 incoming link, both pages should theoretically be equally popular. However, Google also takes into account the PageRank of the page that is linking to the pages; this means the link from a page with higher PageRank is more important. The above mentioned example reveals the first flaw in Google’s PageRank system; it is not democratic at all! In a democracy the vote of a janitor is equal to that of a senator’s.

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By: Philip Yaffe  

“I know that half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. The problem is, I don’t know which half.”
 

This succinct resume of the advertiser’s dilemma is often attributed to John Wanamaker, the department store pioneer. Some people prefer to give the credit to Henry Ford, the automobile pioneer, or other favourite business giants. Whoever said it first, it is certain that it has been said thousand and thousand of times since.
The significance of the observation is nothing short of astounding. These are people whose business is investing and harvesting financial assets, yet when it comes to advertising, they freely admit to wasting at least 50% of their money!
Fortunately, we have moved on considerably in the century or so since the statement was first uttered, in large measure thanks to John Caples’ book “Tested Advertising Methods”, first published in 1932 and endlessly reprinted ever since.
It is called “Tested Advertising Methods” because over a 50-year period Mr. Caples actually conducted scientific experiments to find out what really works . . . and what doesn’t. Some of his findings are very surprising and in fact explode a number of myths about advertising.

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By: Mitchell Dowdy

What does it take to make an article powerful enough to succeed? Will the pinpoint accuracy of a grammar girl take you there? Unlike the rotten neighbor that posts a good title and no content, I propose to present to you the single most key element to web article writing and challenge you to success.

What could be considered the first element of successful article writing. The street view is for articles to have content, humor, purpose and meaning. Publishers focus their efforts on keyword density to bolster search engine report position. Both of these have merit as everyone who has ever been on, or will ever be on the internet will seek a profit.

Profit does not have the same meaning for all.

Profit for a student is to gather the appropriate information to finish a report. Profit for a retiree can be gathering enough information to protect their investments or save on medications. High demand professionals booking their itinerary in minutes as opposed to hours, profits by the conservation of time. The purpose you choose to write an article seeks a profit. What that purpose may be is solely defined by you.

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