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	<title>Business Today &#187; Marketing</title>
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		<title>Payment Solution Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a very natural when we do business and transactions in cyberspace. When doing business in cyberspace, we need various kinds exchange is quite practical, simple and easy to use. We often experience payment difficulties which occur in cyberspace. If that happens, you do not need to worry because www.acceptcreditcards.me has provided a solution for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s a very natural when we do business and transactions in cyberspace. When doing business in cyberspace, we need various kinds exchange is quite practical, simple and easy to use. We often experience payment difficulties which occur in cyberspace. If that happens, you do not need to worry because <a href="http://www.acceptcreditcards.me">www.acceptcreditcards.me</a> has provided a solution for those of you who want to sell or transact on the Internet.</p>
<p>This Company accepts payment by credit card. Many kinds special offers in here. Their services can help you secure lower rates than you are currently paying, and can get you set up with the equipment you need to continue processing transactions in an easy, secure way.</p>
<p>They have service promises to assist merchants from all industries, both high risk and low risk. They have been successful at finding inexpensive, reliable card processing accounts for even the most difficult of ventures, including gambling, adult entertainment, and travel agencies.</p>
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		<title>3 Main Ways to get Instant Traffic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Traffic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have seen in our previous topic, how to increase your traffic. In some circumstances, you may need to increase your traffic immediately or to boost it in order to spread a new product or an offer or or simply to implement your viral marketing. Well there is  3 easy to do that and we [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We have seen in our previous topic, how to increase your traffic.<br />
In some circumstances, you may need to increase your traffic immediately or to boost it in order to spread a new product or an offer or or simply to implement your viral marketing. Well there is  3 easy to do that and we will explain them now. You can: Buy targeted traffic to your site, email to your list, or make a Joint Venture(JV).</p>
<p>To buy fast and immediate traffic, you will need to go to google or one of the other  alternatives like overture from yahoo..<br />
You may need to know how to use google adwords first, there is excellent ebooks on this subject, that will save you a lot of money, and avoid your ad to be deactivated.<br />
That type or advertising is called Pay Per Click advertising. You will set a daily budget for your campaign, and you will only pay when some one make a click on your link. You will be able to see your ad on the right table of the page, when you search for specific keywords.<br />
You will need to track your campaign.<br />
For example, you can buy 3 different advertising sources, pay the same price for each, then track with a software which advertising gives you more results.<br />
Then go on, like that you will save your money.<br />
The second way is to email to your list. You must understand the sale process. In a nutshell, visitors  are surfing they fall on your site, but they probably won&#8217; t come back except if you offer them an incentive, or newsletter, something that will bring them back:<br />
You can send a promotional email, twice a month or once<br />
Send valuable information between the promotional offer.</p>
<p>The last tip for immediate traffic is Joint Venture.<br />
You have to get other websites to send email to their list, place your link on their website, and you will pay them only when they process a sale.<br />
Pay them 50% or more.<br />
And make the sale easy  for them, prepare for them  the subject and body of the emails, prepare the affiliate link they will put on their websites, and any other material you can use.<br />
And who knows, you will maybe find some good friends out there.</p>
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		<title>Business Web Directory</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blogwalking to the many blog is one way for bring traffic into your website. This way is effective and has been proven. In addition, we also have to constantly update our content with a fresh article. This is the most preferred by search engines. Another way we can register our site to some web directories. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Blogwalking to the many blog is one way for bring traffic into your website. This way is effective and has been proven. In addition, we also have to constantly update our content with a fresh article. This is the most preferred by search engines.</p>
<p>Another way we can register our site to some web directories. The <a href="http://dir.yahoo.com/">Yahoo! Directory</a> is one of the most common of the Web Directories being used by online business owners through out the globe. There are other online business directories resources such as the <a href="http://www.dmoz.org/">Open Directory Project</a> and Directory Archives which can go a long way in helping you get hold of the links that you are seeking. It is the big one.</p>
<p>If you want to put your website to the some web directories, you can select the category related to your site. Fill out the description and title of the web as good as you can. After all the necessary information filled in, please submit your website.</p>
<p>There are many web directory you can choose, may be you can try one of the free web directories below as the alternative choice.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jasminedirectory.com">Jasmine directory</a> offers many interesting alternative. We will find friendly web directory. All links are direct. All categories &amp; subcategories contain a detailed relevant description and an appealing image, in order to avoid becoming just another business web directory. Up to 5 extra links, you can submit extra 5 deep links which can be some of the most accessed pages of your website. Automatic thumbs, Jasmine web directory instantly collects two thumb shots of your website to visually enhance your listing. And many benefits you can get in there.</p>
<p>Another is <a href="http://www.maxdirectory.eu">Max directory</a>, you can also visit this one as a second choice.</p>
<p>If your site has registered to some web directories, these indirectly simplify the reader in finding your site, and also you get profitable traffic.</p>
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		<title>E-Bay Income Possibilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ebay Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever read an article about eBay, you will have seen the kinds of incomes people make &#8211; it isn&#8217;t unusual to hear of people making thousands of dollars per month on eBay. Next time you&#8217;re on eBay, take a look at how many PowerSellers there are: you&#8217;ll find quite a few. Now consider [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;ve ever read an article about eBay, you will have seen the kinds of incomes people make &#8211; it isn&#8217;t unusual to hear of people making thousands of dollars per month on eBay.</p>
<p>Next time you&#8217;re on eBay, take a look at how many PowerSellers there are: you&#8217;ll find quite a few. Now consider that every single one of one of them must be making at least $1,000 per month, as that&#8217;s eBay&#8217;s requirement for becoming a PowerSeller. Silver PowerSellers make at least $3,000 each month, while Gold PowerSellers make more than $10,000, and the Platinum level is $25,000. The top ranking is Titanium PowerSeller, and to qualify you must make at least $150,000 in sales every month!</p>
<p>The fact that these people exist gives you come idea of the income possibilities here. Most of them never set out to even set up a business on eBay &#8211; they simply started selling a few things, and then kept going. There are plenty of people whose full-time job is selling things on eBay, and some of them have been doing it for years now. Can you imagine that? Once they&#8217;ve bought the stock, everything else is pretty much pure profit for these people &#8211; they don&#8217;t need to pay for any business premises, staff, or anything else. There are multi-million pound businesses making less in actual profit than eBay PowerSellers do.</p>
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<p>Even if you don&#8217;t want to quit your job and really go for it, you can still use eBay to make a significant second income. You can pack up orders during the week and take them down to the post office for delivery each Saturday. There are few other things you could be doing with your spare time that have anywhere near that kind of earning potential.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s more, eBay doesn&#8217;t care who you are, where you live, or what you look like: some PowerSellers are very old, or very young. Some live out in the middle of nowhere where selling on eBay is one of the few alternatives to farming or being very poor. eBay tears down the barriers to earning that the real world constantly puts up. There&#8217;s no job interview and no commuting involved &#8211; if you can post things, you can do it.</p>
<p>Put it this way: if you know where to get something reasonably cheaply that you could sell, then you can sell it on eBay &#8211; and since you can always get discounts for bulk at wholesale, that&#8217;s not exactly difficult. Buy a job lot of something in-demand cheaply, sell it on eBay, and you&#8217;re making money already, with no set-up costs.</p>
<p>If you want to dip your toe in the water before you commit to actually buying anything, then you can just sell things that you&#8217;ve got lying around in the house. Search through that cupboard of stuff you never use, and you&#8217;ll probably find you&#8217;ve got a few hundred dollars&#8217; worth of stuff lying around in there! This is the power of eBay: there is always someone who wants what you&#8217;re selling, whatever it might be, and since they&#8217;ve come looking for you, you don&#8217;t even need to do anything to get them to buy it.</p>
<p>So you want to get started on eBay? Well, that&#8217;s great! There are only a few little things you need to learn to get started. Our next email will give you the lowdown.</p>
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		<title>Why Publish an eZine?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the Internet, it is very possible to make money without selling any product. One way of doing so is through starting your own eZine, also known as an electronic newsletter. In a nutshell, you send out your eZine issues on a periodical basis to your subscribers. The good part is that you have a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On the Internet, it is very possible to make money without selling any product. One way of doing so is through starting your own eZine, also known as an electronic newsletter.</p>
<p>In a nutshell, you send out your eZine issues on a periodical basis to your subscribers. The good part is that you have a flexible choice in automating the process of sending out your eZine issues for you or manually sending them on a periodical basis.</p>
<p>As an eZine publisher, not only can you easily achieve the benefits a conventional newsletter publisher enjoys without having to chop down several trees in the process, you can easily and conveniently spread your marketing influence and expertise to your base of subscribers from the shoes of an ordinary individual.</p>
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<p>In other words, you do not have to invest in expensive printing equipment, brick and mortar business, and hiring staff just to run your own newsletter publication, resulting in a lot of time, money and effort saved.</p>
<p>Basically, all you need to start your own eZine are an auto responder and broadcast feature to go with, enabling you to reach out to your massive subscribers whom you can regard as your prospects, too.</p>
<p>All in all, if you do not have the commitments of creating your own product for sale, then publishing your own online newsletter can be one of the wisest decisions you will ever make, given the benefits of impressive marketing power and influence it can offer to you.</p>
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		<title>3 Things All Affiliate Marketers Need To Survive Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Affiliate Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every affiliate marketer is always looking for the successful market that gives the biggest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magic formula that is readily available for them. Actually, it is more complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication. There are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Every affiliate marketer is always looking for the successful market that gives the biggest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magic formula that is readily available for them. Actually, it is more complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication.</p>
<p>There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and is continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of today. With these top three marketing tips, you will be able to able to increase your sales and survive in the affiliate marketing online.</p>
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<p>What are these three tactics?</p>
<p>1. Using unique web pages to promote each separate product you are marketing. Do not lump all of it together just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each and every product and nothing more.</p>
<p>Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have an initial understanding on what the product can do to those who buys them. Also include testimonials from users who have already tried the product. Be sure that these customers are more than willing to allow you to use their names and photos on the site of the specific product you are marketing.</p>
<p>You can also write articles highlighting the uses of the product and include them on the website as an additional page. Make the pages attractive compelling and include calls to act on the information. Each headline should attract the readers to try and read more, even contact you. Highlight your special points. This will help your readers to learn what the page is about and will want to find out more.</p>
<p>2. Offer free reports to your readers. If possible position them at the very top side of your page so it they simply cannot be missed. Try to create autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect.</p>
<p>Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: closed sale or the prospect leaving the page and never return again. By placing useful information into their inboxes at certain specified period, you will remind them of the product they thought they want later and will find out that the sale is closed. Be sure that the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. Do not make it sound like a sales pitch.</p>
<p>Focus on important points like how your product can make life and things easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines in the email. As much as possible, avoid using the word “free” because there are still older spam filters that dumps those kind of contents into the junk before even anyone reading them first. Convince those who signed up for your free reports that they will be missing something big if they do not avail of your products and services.</p>
<p>3. Get the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product. Just think, if the person who visited your website has no interest whatsoever in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and never come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications that is focusing on your target customers and what you have put up might just grab their interest.</p>
<p>Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day.</p>
<p>Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the average statistic.</p>
<p>The tactics given above does not really sound very difficult to do, if you think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan on your part.</p>
<p>Try to use these tips for several affiliate marketing programs. You can end maintaining a good source of income and surviving in this business that not all marketers can do.</p>
<p>Besides, think of the huge paychecks you will be receiving…</p>
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		<title>Excellent E-Commerce Solutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ecommerce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you have a small home-based business, and are basically just starting out, there are many great ways to make a large leap ahead. One of these great methods is to sell online merchandise. An online store can be set up relatively easily and e-commerce has been proven to be quite successful. There are many [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you have a small home-based business, and are basically just starting out, there are many great ways to make a large leap ahead. One of these great methods is to sell online merchandise. An online store can be set up relatively easily and e-commerce has been proven to be quite successful. There are many sites online these days that make e-commerce an excellent decision for your business.</p>
<p>Microsoft now offers a great service known as Bcentral, and is offering great deals on server and hosting packages that run on a monthly scale, or basis. This is a great tool for the individual that is looking to delve into the e-commerce field. If you have an idea for a catalog, and need tools to get it up and running such as templates, and logo creators this could be your solution you’ve been waiting for. Not only will you receive the templates and the graphic creators, but also you will receive the quaint shopping cart in the top right hand side of the page. Having the opportunity to track and control orders and sales is made very easy as you will receive automated conformation through your e-mail. Being able to become a member in the PayPal system is also a good idea, as you can never have enough payment options attached to your site. This just increases your chances of sales. You will also be given the opportunity to keep track of customer traffic to your site as well. This makes for a very handy service indeed.<br />
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Another great service is provided by Ebay, the stores offer a very popular alternative and have a sliding fee scale to fit most businesses needs and budget. The basic service is for the smaller of the businesses that have a smaller volume of traffic. This does not mean that you will not have access to some great tools for your site,but you will not be able to keep track of the flow of traffic or sales with this service and there is a very limited directory, yet it is still a good service for someone who is just starting out. The next level of the ebay service will provide more for the business that may be needed as time goes on. It places your priorities in relation to the product you are trying to sell; knowing exactly what the consumer is looking for makes it easy for them to adjust your targeted areas. You will get some traffic reports and sales figures, but not many. The third and final level of the ebay store program is exactly where you want your business to be placed. This is the premier spot or the center stage. This is the place where the bulk of the strongest traffic will be located. This will give you a much stronger shot at making those sales.</p>
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		<title>3 Free Website Marketing Ideas &#8211; Easy And Quick</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 04:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Online marketing is not cheap. You can spend thousands of dollars on Pay Per Click (Google Adwords) and thousands of site-targetted dollars (AdBrite), and you can spend thousands just buying text links from individual sites. Trust me, I&#8217;ve spent thousands on advertising. However, my favorite form of marketing is the free kind. Anything free I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Online marketing is not cheap. You can spend thousands of dollars on Pay Per Click (Google Adwords) and thousands of site-targetted dollars (AdBrite), and you can spend thousands just buying text links from individual sites. Trust me, I&#8217;ve spent thousands on advertising.</p>
<p>However, my favorite form of marketing is the free kind. Anything free I like, especially if it helps my websites make more money without increasing my advertising costs.</p>
<p>Here are three easy and quick ways to market your website at no additional cost.</p>
<p><span id="more-74"></span>1. Free Business Cards</p>
<p>Free business cards are a staple in my advertising arsenal. You can leave them everywhere and give them to anyone. The best part is, they are free! Use them where you want, when you want, and as often as possible. That is the motto I live by whenever I get a shipment of free business cards in the mail.</p>
<p>2. Link Exchanges</p>
<p>Link exchanges are a great way of spreading Page Rank, but also of sharing visitors. Most people who like a site will bookmark it. After they have read everything they want, they will read the site that you link to. You get the visitors, and share the visitor through a link exchange.</p>
<p>3. Business card networking</p>
<p>After you have received your free business cards, use them to network with other people. Everytime you meet someone, hand them one of your free business cards. After that, ask for one of their business cards in exchange. If they don&#8217;t have one, make sure you mention what you do, and the website address that is also listed on your free business card. Free business cards make a great networking tool if you will put them to use. Never forget, they are free, and should not be used sparingly. Use them in any situation you can think of. People will take them home and visit your site when they pull your business card out of their pocket.</p>
<p>With those three free website marketing ideas, your website will not only be more successful, but you won&#8217;t have to spend any of your hard earned money on marketing!</p>
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		<title>Article Marketing Myths And Facts</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now everyone has heard of article marketing and so many people out define it in so many different ways there that it has become hard for people new to article marketing to understand.

First of all, most of the SEO Gurus caught on to article marketing late in the game, then scrambled to create their own definitions of it at the last minute so it didn’t appear they were ever not aware of the power of article marketing.

In general, article marketing is where you write a...
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By now everyone has heard of article marketing and so many people out define it in so many different ways there that it has become hard for people new to article marketing to understand.</p>
<p>First of all, most of the SEO Gurus caught on to article marketing late in the game, then scrambled to create their own definitions of it at the last minute so it didn’t appear they were ever not aware of the power of article marketing.</p>
<p>In general, article marketing is where you write an article on a topic that is related to your website topic. Not a promotional article for your website, but an article about something that is informative to the reader. In the article you use keywords and phrases that relate to your topic as well, much like you would optimize a webpage. Your article when reprinted will be the text of a webpage or webpages.</p>
<p>In the author bio section at the bottom is some info about you and links to your website. It is suggested that you put in one link to your main page and one to an interior page that fits the article you are writing.</p>
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<p>If your article is submitted to websites that take article submissions and offers free content to webmasters, then webmasters choose to repost your article on their websites, the links in the author bio section become links from their websites to your website.</p>
<p>Now lets go on to the myths and facts about article marketing.</p>
<p>MYTH: Article marketing doesn’t really help you all that much.</p>
<p>FACT: Article Marketing can help you increase your link popularity and be a source of some of the most targeted traffic you can get.</p>
<p>MYTH: Reprinted Articles only get indexed as supplemental pages, therefore it doesn’t help enough to make it worthwhile.</p>
<p>FACT: Depending on where the article gets submitted to, the article itself can get a top 10 listing in major search engines and not as a supplemental page.</p>
<p>MYTH: Submitting your article everywhere creates duplicate content and the search engines will punish or discount those pages as a result.</p>
<p>FACT: If search engines punished duplicate content in the way that myth suggests then all rss feeds that cause a post in a blog to be reproduced to be discounted or published and they are not. The New York Times articles and CNN stuff is blasted all over the web and are not punished or discounted.</p>
<p>Duplicate content is two webpages that are around 70% similar, not two webpages that have similar text on them.</p>
<p>MYTH: The only way article marketing works is you write an article then submit it to thousands of article submission websites.</p>
<p>FACT: There is more than one way to make article marketing work for you. The way mentioned above works okay if you are looking to get a lot of links back to your website whether they are related or not and can be effective if you currently have very little or no link popularity at all.</p>
<p>Another way is to hand submit your article to article submission websites that only accept articles related to your topic. This is more difficult but the links help you more just through the submissions and it’s more likely that the websites that pick up and repost your article will be also related to your topic which can help you with better links and targeted traffic.</p>
<p>Yet another way is to write a very high quality article that you really take your time on and research. You then choose a very high traffic website related to your topic. One that has great PR and a lot of visitors.</p>
<p>Email them your article and offer them an exclusive if they will print your article with your links included in the bio. If your article is of good quality and they get an exclusive you have a good chance they will post your article there.</p>
<p>This one posting of your article can be more powerful than the mass submitted article method if you choose the website you submit it to carefully.</p>
<p>Last but not least, posting your article exclusively on your own website is a great way to add fresh content and if the article is good, people will link directly to the article increasing both traffic and PR for your webpage where you posted the article. But for this to work you need to already have some traffic to work with.</p>
<p>MYTH: You should always post your article in your website first, then wait to get crawled by the search engines before submitting the article elsewhere.</p>
<p>FACT: Adding articles to your own website is called adding content. Submitting those articles to other websites is called article marketing. With article marketing you don’t want the article indexed on your website first.</p>
<p>Yes you read that right. You do not want the article indexed on your website first. You are or should already be doing SEO on your website and adding fresh content to your website for the search engines to get traffic from them.</p>
<p>Submitting articles to other websites and having the search engines find it there first gives another gateway that people can find your website through.</p>
<p>If the websites that you submitted your articles to get crawled often, then having your article appear there with the links intact will get your website crawled as well.</p>
<p>If the websites you submitted your article to are getting indexed well by the search engines, then your article being found on their website first might get it in the top 10 results.</p>
<p>Placing it into your own website with no or low PR might not have gotten the article indexed at all.</p>
<p>I hope this article will clear up some of the myths about article marketing and that it has helped you understand how and why it works.</p>
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