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You read countless articles and heard the advice from the “experts” and you realized that you are leaving money on the table by not having a opt-in list. So you finally decide to up that popup window and squeeze page on your website. Then it happens, you thought you knew everything there was to know about email marketing and you followed the advice others gave you, just to find out that you are not making a profit.

You have worked your list and did everything possible to offer great value to your readers to get them to buy. After months you discover when you search for your stats and sales that you are loosing money instead of earning money.

You may think you are doing something wrong since you see others succeeding and you have not yet found the same success. You may begin to question whether you have chosen the wrong topic or possibly an unpopular topic. It is important to not get discouraged and question yourself. You can revitalize an old list or get yours up and going by following the below tips and guides.

~*~ Building Trust With Your List And New Subscribers

The thing to remember first is to build a strong trust with your followers and your new subscribers too. Trust is a very important part of any business model that deals with customers. When you build your list, your customers will want to know that you are an expert of the subject.

* Join some article directories sites and create 30 or 40 articles based upon your topic and submit these articles to the article directory sites. Do not submit them all in a day, spread them out over a time period of several weeks. Make sure that you have a filled out author profile and that you utilize the author resource box.

* Next join some related forums based upon your topic and jump on in and start providing advice and helping where you can. Let others know that you are here to help in any way you can. When you join a forum be sure to fill out your profile and include a signature file and remember to be kind to other forum members. Do not try to hide anything on forums, tell them your name and how old you are and the state you live in.

Ask your friends if they would be willing to provide testimonials or reviews of your products. Testimonials should be authentic and no editing should take place, also make sure you link to the persons website. If you have a good reputation on different forums, you can ask your fellow friends to provide a review of your products.

~*~ Find The Proper Fix For Your Customer Problems

Find a product or create a product that can be beneficials to others. If you have a great deal of knowledge about a topic, you should not run into trouble creating a product on the same topic. You can also search google for affiliate programs under your topic and research some great products that your readers could use.

* Make sure that you do your research, even if you already know about the topic you have chosen. You can use places like Yahoo Answers to get ideas on what people are looking for and what solutions they need to fix what problems they have. Once you have done the proper research it could pay you back 10 fold.

~*~ Making Friends With Other Opt-In List Owners

If the list owners have already launched a successful list it would be helpful to you and your business. List owners will already have experience in the chosen venture and the experience is always the best teacher. Since list owners have already been through it all, they can provide you with the knowledge you need.

Making friends with fellow list owners may help you because they could become a joint venture partner in the future. A joint venture will allow you and the list owners to promote a product and split the commissions that are made. This is especially successful when the list owner(s) happen to be using the same or similar topic as you.

Building these profitable opt-in lists is not going to happen instantly. There is much research and time that needs to go into it and the prepartions need to be properly done. As your opt-in list grows make sure to maintain quality and treat your subscribers very well. Be sure to keep everything very organized and if you need help feel free to ask your list owner friends. Be sure your subscribers remain happy and satisfied and they will be willing to buy from you.

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Article writing is a great SEO tool because it provides you many keyword opportunities that apply directly to your niche. You can use the essential keywords in your articles if you already know them. The articles you publish with your keywords will get picked up by search engines and then your visitors who type in those keywords will see your website come up. You can rank high on search engines for all your keywords through the articles that you write and distribute on the internet.

Article writing brings life long results in SEO. All the articles you write will be stored at the article directories you submit them to. This means that all your articles can be read by anyone and can still drive traffic to your website. Unliked other tools for traffic generation, articles bring in long term traffic. 

Your articles create backlinks which in turn improve your overall popularity and will more than likely drive large volumes of traffic to your site. If you write high quality articles, your articles will get published by many websites and e-zines, thus increasing backlinks to your website. Having many links pointing back to your website is important as it improves the position of your website in the search engines.

Articles are an affordable SEO tool. When you write and submit articles it is not expensive. You may wish to write your own articles or you can also hire a ghostwriter. You can manually submit your articles or you can use some software to automatically submit your article to many directories. In most cases article marketing will be a great and affordable way to improve your rankings and positions.

You can increase the number of backlinks going to your site by following these easy steps

Ranking high in search engines for certain keywords can be easy, and this article will outline how to do it. There are several ways through which you can optimize your website for search engines and become visible and rank high on these search engines.

 * Write and submit press releases about your website. Once your press release reaches press release sites, those sites will submit your press release to major search engines. The press release you write may also be picked up by other publications such as websites and blogs which will further increase links to your website. All you really need to remember is that you must include your website’s URL on your press release.

 * Participate in forums and online groups that relate to your niche or topic. By posting your keywords and website URL in your signature, you create a way to increase your exposure whenever you make forum posts. Some of these forums have high popularity rank, so by having links to these sites, you also increase the popularity rank of your website.

 * Write product or website reviews, include your website URL and post these on websites that have high popularity ranks. This will increase the number of links to your website and will also help to bring in traffic to your site through other sites.

Writing, submitting articles, and following other steps in this article is clearly the best strategy for improving the ranking of your website on search engines. If you want to succeed in SEO and link building, it is essential that you use several strategies as outlined in this article.

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I have been using a new blog posting service, and so far I am impressed with the features.

I have so far submitted 18 articles in 13 days, and they have been placed on a total of 33 sites total between them already. If I can keep doing 1 article a day, this will be very viral.

The system has the built in article spinning system in place. You just paste in your article and title, keywords, and maybe a youtube video, and once you save it as draft, you can start using the automated spinner.

The auto spinner gives you a sentence from your post, and it gives you 10 more places to input alternate sentences. Using the auto spinner and giving each sentence an alternate sentence, each time your article is spun, it is over 100% unique or spun. Some of my titles are 900% spun.

The real power is when you edit the spinning manually after all your sentences, or before if you choose. You also get another level of spinning that lets you substitute words for one another inside each of the sentences being spun, giving you even more uniqueness for each blog post, all with your 3 links.

The content you submit is treated like a blog post as opposed to an article. There is no authors box, and your can place up to 3 links in each post, and if you change keywords and links in your spun text, you can do some deep linking with this system.

The other part of the system is getting content for your blog, you can add as many of your own blogs to receive content, you have control over whether they get published or not, just leave the links intact. One cool thing that happens when you approve an article, you get to leave feedback to the author anonymously. This is a great feature, I was able to let 1 author know that his spun titles weren’t coming out so great (bad spinning, his fault), and I asked another author for a specific keyworded article for one of my blogs.

Whether or not they see my messages remains to be seen, but the system as a whole is really looking good for affiliate marketing, you can use it for backlinks, or just put in your affiliate links, its up to you. I have tried to use a mix of both, since I have 3 links per post.

I would recommend this to anybody that wants to get more exposure for their blog or affiliate links thru article marketing.

Join MyArticleNetwork Here , you can even submit posts for a month and if you don’t like it, you can request a full refund, and all your posts that are already out there will still be there.

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Most people who build a website eventually figure out that the only way to make anything, no matter how cool your site is, no matter how great the content is – is that traffic is king. Without anyone seeing the product you are offering for sale, there is no point even trying. Think of it this way, lets say you invented the next great widget – you know it will really sell and everyone you have shown it to agrees that it’s the best. If you advertise in the desert, it does not matter because no one sees it. If you spend your advertsing dollars in a busy city, you will have success because everyone sees it. The difference is traffic. Article directories are like a gateway to the city from the desert.

Submitting your original content to an article directory is very easy, but first you need to do the keyword research. While this may seem slow and boring (or even a pain), it really has to be done to get decent results from your work. Keywords are used in the article, and in the link back to your site from the article directory. The search engines use the keywords that link to your site as part of the analysis for the ranking formula. The reason you need to do research is there is a fine balance between useless (as in never used search terms), and super competitive ones where it will be too hard initially to try to get ranking for. So when you submit your articles to an article directory, you want the keywords to have decent search volume, but not massive so you can get the most bang for your time.

Your article will be displayed with thousands of others in the article directory. Users needing content for their sites come to article directories and then grab content to fill in their site. Additionally, people subscribe to the RSS feeds from article directories that have them to get fresh content via RSS when it is published. Sometimes an article directory is also considered an authority by Google and others, thereby getting a link coming from that site garners more weight than from other links that do not have this authority.

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Calling all publishers, editors, writers and freelance journalists. It is the time to breathe more life into your copy. Turn your articles into living pieces that spark measurable debate, get closer to your readers and engage their mind and soul – we’re talking revolution.

As it was in the beginning

Publishers have for many years relied on letters to get feedback from their readers and although email has opened up this method of communication it is still time consuming and difficult to monitor and process, and for the more popular articles, it is either a case of only a fraction of the received correspondence ever being used, or where online comments have been allowed, well written and good comments can be buried under poorly written and abusive comments.

As well as being an overhead for the publisher, to most people it is an unrewarding medium in terms of the amount of effort required and response received, just consider the number of letters that go unpublished and unread.

As it is now

With the Internet traditional methods of communications can be challenged and replaced or complemented with new methods of doing things. The Internet is now a mature technology, no longer the preserve of technical geeks but a technology that has been embraced by a global population, young and old allowing us now to re-evaluate the way things are done. There is now the opportunity for newspapers, trade journals, magazines and ezines to change the mental process.

Readers of any article often would like to comment, traditionally this has required them to feel strongly enough to write a letter, or now, with the convenience of the Internet, send an email or write a comment. Emails make communication easier but they still take time to craft and time for the majority, is what they haven’t got.

Although interesting a letters page or a list of comments are at best a snapshot of views or an endless unmanaged list of comments; a well crafted and well written letter on any given subject may hold the view of the minority, or the majority but due to the free text form it is difficult, or near impossible, to measure.

As it should be

Now consider the advantages of linking articles to online surveys where as a publisher you will have the ability to obtain valuable readership feedback in a form that can be properly measured. Just as important as you communicating with your readers is providing your readers with a channel to communicate with you; a method where they know it will count.

Do you want to deliver a snapshot of opinion? Did they like that article? Did the sentiments expressed in the article have the support of the audience or do the readers have a different view?

Now it’s easy

Historically surveys would have taken considerable effort to design and publish and altogether was a process too long winded and often reserved only for the niche and bigger topics.

However, using sites like www.surveygalaxy.com surveys and questionnaires can be created and published via the Internet by anyone who has a pulse. Professional looking questionnaires and surveys created in minutes make the perfect complement to articles that prompt opinion and debate.

The advantage over letters, e-mails and comments are that all the feedback gathered through a survey is managed and measured and sites like Survey Galaxy will provide you with a real time poll and charts that you can either keep to yourself or share with your readers.

It can even be complementary to sending an email

Linking articles to online surveys will not only extend the life of the article but will involve your readers in the discussion and in a way where that they know that their opinion will be counted.

You think people will still want to send an email? – no problem – include the facility within the survey and get the best of both worlds.

It’s quick, low cost, and easy to do; it will empower and engage the reader, provide first class feedback and having established a communication channel you then have the opportunity to promote other related articles.

Try it for yourself and record your view of this article here:- Readership Feedback Survey

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