How To Add Audio and Video To Your Blog
Posted on August 15, 2008
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If you have a niche site that gets a moderate amount of traffic - but doesn’t have thousands of people kicking at the door to get in every day - delivering your posts in more than one medium can greatly increase the amount of time your visitors spend on your site. And, of course, the longer they stay on your site the greater chance you have of getting them to buy something or click on your affiliate links or ads.
There are membership sites all over the place, and new ones popping up every day, that offer to guide you through the process with one button set-up, but you don’t have to sign up with expensive services to do this. Here are two ways to do it for free.
If your site is a Wordpress blog, you can use any of several free plug-ins to post Youtube and other videos on your site. Two that work well and are easy to use are EasyTube and Smart Youtube. You can also find a host of plug-ins for all types of video in the Wordpress Plugin Directory.
Creating a podcast out of each post is another way to help keep people on your site. You can find a list of user rated WordPress plugins for adding podcasts here. There is also a very good open source (free) podcast generator script called, appropriately, Podcast Generator that is full of easy to use features including a step by step wizard for creating audio player buttons for your site and the capacity to keep statistics for your podcasts. For creating and editing your podcasts, it is hard to beat Audacity which is available from the same source.
How To Earn $10,000 USD or More From Article Marketing
Posted on August 13, 2008
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Let me share a short, but true story:
Earlier this week, a new author sent in 15 articles to our article directory, EzineArticles.com.
Those 15 articles received 400 page views within the past 24 hours.
Assuming that rate held constant, that author would receive 12,000 page views per month or 144,000 page views per year without lifting one more finger, not including the distribution potential of our site.
The average person clicks 3.3% on the resource box based on seed articles that we track the CTR (Click Through Rate), give or take .6% either way. Let’s use 3% for easy numbers.
144,000+ page views annually x 3% CTR = 4,320 targeted clicks by someone who is already pre-qualified to be interested in your product, service or website because they just read your article.
Average CPC (Cost Per Click) ranges from .05 to $1.25.
Let’s pretend that you buy clicks from your favorite PPC (PayPerClick) provider for $.40 cents per click.
Those 4,320 clicks that EzineArticles sent you for free just saved you (4,320 x $.40)= $1,728 USD.
Send in 30 articles, and you could be seeing $3k worth of FREE advertising or more.
My best example are the chart breakers like one of the health and beauty authors who sent in 35 articles and has over 212k page views in the last year. Recently a handful of authors received over 20,000 page views in their first month with only 3 articles that mentioned current events topics as part of their content. Your results may vary.
Which brings me to this question:
If you knew without a shadow of a doubt that you could get $10k-$25k+ in free advertising for 1-2 weeks of work submitting 85-200 articles, would you do it?
Obviously, if you have to invest your time and labor to produce the articles for the first time, this adds to your cost… but most folks already have 100+ articles in an archive somewhere.
Should you stop PPC advertising now because of this? Absolutely not. Let article marketing supplement your targeted traffic buying campaigns, not replace it. For many entrepreneurs who have not started to buy advertising on a PPC basis, this is a great way to begin thinking about it.
Lastly, did I mention that your articles keep selling for you, day after day, month after month, and year after year? It’s true.
Get a plan together; submit 15, 150, or 1,500+ articles this month to the major article directories and specialty niche sites that accept your quality original content, and then sit back and watch your traffic results climb while your advertising expenditure budget gets a little relief.
About The Author:
Christopher M. Knight invites you to submit your best quality original articles for massive exposure to the high-traffic http://EzineArticles.com/ expert author community. When you submit your articles to EzineArticles.com, your articles will be picked up by ezine publishers who will reprint your articles with your content and links intact giving you traffic surges to help you increase your sales. To submit your article, setup a membership account today: http://EzineArticles.com/submit/
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Marketing In A Bad Economy
Posted on July 31, 2008
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How long do you wait to go to the bathroom once you realize you have to pee? What the heck does that have to do with marketing in a bad economy? Answers to these questions and more can be found in Sean D’Souza’s latest excellent post on Copyblogger entitled “Why Urgency Succeeds Like Nothing Else In A Bad Economy“.
And here’s how to find a hot niche market so you can get a head start on building that urgency.
Traffic Secrets: Submitting to Blog Carnivals for Targeted Traffic
Posted on July 16, 2008
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Discover how to get new traffic and links back to your website by submitting to blog carnivals.
Create Payment Buttons On Videos!!
Posted on June 21, 2008
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Introducing…
Video Direct Pay 2.0
Video Payment Button Software
With Built-In Movie Preview!
Kevin Burns has created a very easy to use piece of software to allow you to create UNLIMITED payment buttons and place them right over the top of your marketing videos.
The process is simple and only takes a few minutes.
The software lets you convert button images into flash buttons and then place them wherever you want them to appear on your marketing video screen!
Video Direct Pay 2.0 is Powerful and Easy to Use!
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Get Motivated to Create New AdSense Content
Posted on May 30, 2008
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By Jon Leger
If you’re new to AdSense, getting motivated to write original content can be difficult. Writing content takes time, and it also takes time to get the content advertised and get links into each page. If you still have a day job, it can be tough to make the time.
One way to motivate yourself to create the content and get the links is to calculate how much you are earning per page per year. Multiply that times any number of pages and you will have a good idea of how much money you are missing out on by NOT creating content and getting links.
Let’s take an example. Let’s say that you have 100 pages of content that are earning you $100 a month.
That means that each page is making you, on average, $1 per month, or $12 per year.
$12 per year may not sound like much, but let’s say that you created one unique article every 3 days and got a few links to that article with link exchanges, etc. 365 days in a year means that in one year you will have added and linked about 122 additional pages
of content.
122 pages of content times $12 per year is $1,464 that you are missing out on every year because you are not creating new content.
Now, let’s say that you can write and link one page per day. That’s 365 pages per year, or $4,380 per year.
Of course, if you focus on the high paying keywords, you are much more likely to generate more than $12 per year per page. If you focus on the right keywords, you could make as much as $100 per page per year or more!
Do the math with that number, and you’ll see that adding and linking one page ever 3 days will earn you an extra $12,200 per year. Writing one page per day will earn you an extra $36,500 per year!
And keep in mind that every year you will add additional content, which means that your earnings will grow and grow as time goes on.
The truth is, once you start creating a lot of quality content and getting just a few links to each page, the initial traffic you get will start to spread the word about your site. Next thing you know your site is getting hundreds of links from all over the place, and you didn’t have to ask for them!
Traffic will start to build, your search engine rankings will improve, and in time you will be earning sums of money that you didn’t dream of before–all because you took a few hours a week to devote to creating quality content and getting a few links.
So adopt a long-term AdSense vision, and in time you will reap the rewards.
Jonathan Leger is a well known AdSense and Internet Marketing guru. Get $371 in free gifts by visiting his AdSense Articles blog.
Quickly Create A Website With Profitable Action Keywords
Posted on May 18, 2008
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Here’s a very quick way to use Wordpress to set up a website based around “action keywords”. Very direct. Very simple and straightforward.
HubBlueprint - Free Download | Learn How To Build HubPages
Posted on April 26, 2008
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Here are just a few quick facts about Hubpages:
- HubPages Carry a PR of 6
- HubPages is Looked at by Google as Authoritative
- It has 56,000 Links Coming in From Yahoo
- It’s Alexa Ranking is 220
What that Means to You is….
- Instant Indexing - HubPages Get Indexed Very Quickly
- Google Loves HubPages - Need We Say More?
- Easy To Use - HubPages Are Pretty Straight Forward, especially with this Step By Step Guide
- Traffic–Traffic–FREE Traffic - Is there anything better than Free Targeted Traffic?
- Rss Feeds, Links, Videos and More - Lots of cool features that allow you to add your links and build hot looking Hubs that the search engines can’t wait to rank.
You can download this great guide to how to set up HubPages and get traffic
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7 Great Free Blogging Tools From Stephen Pierce
Posted on April 21, 2008
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If you’re interested in blogging, you really need to check out Stephen Pierce’s post on TalkBack Alpha today entitled “Use These 7 Free Tools To Make Money Online“. It is a 21 minute video but these free tools are really awesome and useful for bloggers in all categories.
15 Great Free Website Templates
Posted on April 21, 2008
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I know there is a big demand for nice website graphics and templates among those of us who are “graphically challenged”. If you are involved in building an internet business, at some point you just have to set up websites of your own. You can definitely get started without it, but to really break through you have to have some of your own virtual real estate.
A fellow member of The Internet Marketing Inner Circle, Robin Araoz (and by the way a top flight graphics guy) has just started a promotion where he is giving away 15 free great graphical website templates. He is also selling a really good membership where you get 3 more templates every month, but you don’t have to pay anything to grab the 15 free templates. So click on the links in this post and get your own copies.
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