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Embedding Videos in Your Articles on IdeaMarketers

marniep — Tue, 10 May 2011 14:37:13 +0000

As far as I know there aren’t too many content directories online that will let you embed your videos into your articles, but not only do we allow it at IdeaMarketers.com, but we encourage it. It’s always a good idea to give people multiple ways to consume your information. Some people would rather read what you have to say, but others would prefer to watch a video or listen to an audio.

For example, I’d rather watch a video or listen to an audio most of the time. I can do that while I work on something else that is mindless, but that needs to be done. In this video I’ll show you just how simple it is to add video to your articles on IdeaMarketers.com.

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Not Seeing a Good ROI on Article Marketing

marniep — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:56:22 +0000

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 click-throughs to my subscription site leading to one conversion to sale – worth $70 per annum. A dismal ROI!”

“Question: if I continue at all, I’m faced with two options. I can take Steve Shaw’s advice at SubmitYourArticle.com and dribble out just two articles per week. Each will be massively spun, of course, to yield more potential variations than there are atoms in the brain of Bill Gates. At four levels of syntax, each will take two days to spin, even using spinner software.

“Or I can go the Sean Mize route and post 20+ different articles per day, spun quickly and somewhat less ‘unique’ – and hope that Google won’t ignore too many of them. I don’t care about coming top of the search engines. I want click-throughs, quickly. ‘What doth it avail a man if Google loves him – but he maketh no money?’ Which route should I go?”

Answer: It sounds to me that the problem here is conversion — or lack thereof. Before you go either route, you need to get a compelling call to action in your articles that makes it a “must click” for the person to go to your site. Poorly created spinner articles (in any quantity) are never going to help you do that. Well-crafted articles that engage the reader and make them want to go to your site for more are what you need. Work on increasing your conversion rate from article to visit to signup to purchase, and then go from there.

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Hands-Free Content Management System

marniep — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:33:09 +0000

Want more independence in keeping fresh content on your site without all the work? Articles can update on your site while you eat dinner, while you sleep, or even while you vacation for weeks on end! All you need is IdeaMarketers Publisher’s Toolbox PRO.

You just put a little code on your Web site and from then on, articles from any given subcategory will instantly appear on your site and update automatically!

This means if you want to stream ten Life: Inspirational articles onto a page and have those articles change in a hands-free manner, then you can do that in a snap. Any time new Inspirational articles are added to IdeaMarketers, they’ll automatically update on your site. You set it up once and it updates all on its own from then on! Or if you’d like fifteen Business:Entrepreneur articles, you just put a snippet of code on your site, and they’ll appear and update on their own. There are over 200 subcategories to choose from and you can choose how many articles to display – 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 . . . 50!

If you’re a PRO subscriber, you can learn more about how this works by logging into your Publisher’s Toolbox PRO account and selecting the link that says "Stream 100+ Subcategories onto your Web site!" If you’re not a subscriber, learn more here.

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