Building Links with Article Marketing

This is a totally different way to use article marketing. You will still be writing articles, but their purpose is different and how you use them is completely different as well. The purpose of these articles is not really to drive traffic, but it is about getting many many links point back to your site. For these articles you want to write quality content, but you want to focus on getting your keywords in the links in your resource box more than anything.

The big piece of this puzzle is quantity. The point of this process is to get a LOT of articles out so you have a lot of links pointing to your site. In the past this was done by just mass posting the same article to as many article directories as you could find. The problem with this strategy is of course, the Big G caught on. They no longer count all those links and many article directories carry little weight, so your links are pretty much worthless. The other problem with this method is you are sending out hundreds (thousands) of links with the exact same anchor text for your links, and sites are being penalized for this, so it’s actually counter productive.

The better way of doing this is by spinning articles or creating unique articles and anchor text and getting them out to as many sites as you can find. This gives you unique content and varied anchor text, but the you still have the same problem of the article directories aren’t weighted that heavily and it can take FOREVER to manually submit to all these sites.

The best way to do this type of article marketing is to get involved in a network where not only are your articles distributed to article directories, but people within the network have blogs where your content is posted. This gives you unique IP addresses, real blogs being posted to regularly. This is really the best way to go. It gets even better if the network you belong to is able to spin your articles and automate the submissions.

I’ve been testing out a variety of these services and networks over the last year and have found some to be great and some to be not so great. Here are two of the ones I like.

Unique Article Wizard

This is a service that will create unique articles for you and will send them out to many article directories as well as many blogs in the network.

Pros:

• You send unique articles and varied anchor text for all of your articles
• Your articles go out to blogs in addition to the article directories
• You can grab unique versions of your articles to use elsewhere (including EZA)

Cons:

• There is a bit of a learning curve to using the system
• It’s a monthly fee
• You can only put links in the resource box

1 Way Links:

This network is made up of blogs only. It is  set up to build links back to your sites from varied IP addresses, and the owner has done some great things to help those sites build PR so your links are worth more.

Pros:

• Your articles are actually blog posts and they only go out to blogs
• You have the ability to spin your posts and your anchor text for unique content and varied anchor text
• It’s really simple ~ basically the same as posting a blog post
• It works fast ~ you can see results very quickly
• You can have 3 links within the body of your post, you don’t have to do a resource box

Cons:

• You have to have a self hosted wordpress site you can donate to the network.
• You have to spin your own articles if you want them to be unique
• It’s a monthly fee

Both of these services do about the same thing ~ I recommend them both. Which one is right for you depends on your strengths.

On one hand with UAW you can get unlimited unique versions of the articles you submit, which is great because you can use them wherever you need content to build links. However, you do have to do MORE up front writing with that system.

At 1 way links you only have to write 1 article, and use some spinning for unique versions ~ but you don’t get any other unique copies you can use elsewhere.

I would go with 1 Way Links if you are familiar with hosting your own wordpress site, and don’t mind spinning your own articles or paying someone to do it for you.

What works faster?

In my experience the 1 way links network works quicker than UAW in terms of moving you up the search engine ranking because of the links you gained via the network.

So all in all it really depends on what you want or need:

If you need extra content to help build links elsewhere ~ go with UAW.

If you just need to get links fast and have hosting and an open domain name you can give up to the network, I’d go with 1 way links.

If you’d like to take a look at either or both of these programs here are the links.

Unique Article Wizard

1 Way Links

Understand this level of linking will probably NOT be necessary for your Christmas Cash product lenses, just because the competition level is so low, but if you find you’re not ranking with the basic link building you might want to try these services.

If you are doing niche sites or tackling more competitive keywords, these services can be priceless. I have used both of these services, and they both work well. Be advised if you buy through either of these links I will earn a little bit of money ~ which is what keeps all this great content coming your way.

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