Free Newswires That Work

Posted on November 4, 2011 by marniep under Article SEO, Press Releases

A recent study by Vitis PR discovered that “IdeaMarketers.com, PR Zoom and Business Services UK were the best websites for building links, as they provided some free SEO benefit by providing links and allowing users to tailor the anchor text.” Click here for the report.

Not Seeing a Good ROI on Article Marketing

Posted on January 27, 2011 by marniep under Article SEO, Content

This question was submitted to me by a writer. “I tested article marketing for four months, from Sept – Dec 2010. I posted 24 unique articles (keyword optimized and obeying all the rules) in nine top article directories, including your own. Result: some 50,000 listings in Google. Looks good! But to date they’ve drawn just 107 [...]

Keyword Stuffing – Is It Worth it?

Posted on December 20, 2010 by marniep under Article SEO, FAQ

Q. How can an article stuffed with keywords attract readers? A. In short, it can’t! In the past keyword stuffing an article would get that article picked up by search engines for the phrase being stuffed into it, but sites like Google and others are getting smarter all the time. Still putting your keyword phrase [...]

Turning Articles Into Traffic to Your Site

Posted on by marniep under Article SEO, FAQ

Q. I’ve written and submitted over a hundred articles, but am seeing no increase in traffic. Help!

A. There are two common reasons for this happening. The first is technical, the other has to do with good marketing practices.

IdeaMarketers Writers’ Guidelines

Posted on September 28, 2010 by marniep under Article Admin, Article SEO, FAQ

We operate a G-rated site at IdeaMarketers and enforce it strictly. We do not accept gambling, porn-related, adult-related, or offensive content. If we wouldn’t want our kindergartner reading it, then we will pull it. We also insist that information entered be an actual article or press release and not an advertisement. Many people try to abuse [...]

Free Content

Posted on July 7, 2009 by marniep under Article SEO

If you ever need free content for your web site, newsletter, ezine, or print publication, IdeaMarketers.com has over a half a million articles on hundreds of subjects. You can use it in a myriad of ways — via our handy newsletter builder or through RSS feeds or PHP feeds that actually stream the articles into [...]

Article Submission Service Glitch – Part 2

Posted on February 17, 2009 by marniep under Article SEO

Michiel Van Kets of manual-submissions.com brought up some critical points regarding my last post. While I don’t agree with everything he said, he did make a good point about WHY submission services link back to the original article. They’re trying to tell Google that they had it first. They’re trying to protect against duplicate content [...]

Article Submission Service Glitch – Writers Beware

Posted on February 16, 2009 by marniep under Article SEO

Many people use article submission services to save time when submitting articles to article directories. And that’s ok. But there is one thing you’ll want to be aware of. It’s nothing malicious, but it is incredibly ineffective for you as the writer who’s working hard to churn out quality articles and then paying someone to [...]

Does Bidding Help You Get Syndicated?

Posted on February 6, 2009 by marniep under Article Admin, Article SEO, FAQ

Does bidding make a big difference in how much your articles get picked up and distributed or syndicated? Answer First, let me explain that articles on IdeaMarketers are sorted first from highest to lowest bidder and then by the expiration date of the bid (or the date the article was submitted if there’s no bid [...]

Meta Tags and SEO

Posted on February 3, 2009 by marniep under Article SEO

As the creator of www.IdeaMarketers.com, I’ve noticed that many writers neglect to take full advantage of three important pieces of information when entering their articles into IdeaMarketers.com: the summary and the keywords. Did you know that IdeaMarketers uses these four pieces of information to help you get better search engine positioning and build link popularity? [...]