News and information about internet marketing!
New Article Underground Training Video
I just released a new training video for Article Underground members and Words Equal Money Newsletter subscribers. The video is called “Real Content is King”.
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10,000 PLR Articles Special Deal on Article Underground 1 Year Membership
Loads of content to help you get more traffic!
Do you need more keyword optimized articles to help reel in that huge holiday and 1st quarter traffic???
We have a few options to help you take advantage of the busy months of December and January by adding more great content to your web sites!
We still have a few of the 1 year deluxe bonus packages left for $699., which include 4,800 bonus articles from the period Feb. 2006 through Aug. 2006.
As of this time there are still 22 available. Once the 22 are sold, the 1 year deal will NOT include those 4,800 articles! (It’s still a good deal as you get 12 months of Article Underground for only $699. - but hey - why not get your hands on those 4,800 articles! You can build massive sites quickly and with great content perfect for the holidays and the new year!)
You can find the 1 Year Special Deal with the big bonus at:
http://www.articleunderground.com/special-offer/1year-special.html (continued - read more of this article…)
Secret Article Profits - Submit and Get Rich!
Secret Article Profits - Submit and Get Rich!Secret Article Profits is an eBook package by Dylan Loh. If you do not already have it, I suggest looking at the sales page and considering if it is right for you.http://www.articleunderground.com/secretarticleprofits
I’ll preface this by saying if you are thinking of buying the Secret Article Profits eBook and going for Dylan’s approach to making money with articles, you’ll need to be prepared to do some writing.
If writing comes easy to you, or you don’t mind spending a little time rewriting PLR articles such as those from Article Underground, then this Secret Article Profits eBook is worth the 47 bucks.
Have a look at the Secret Article Profits web page and judge for yourself. I personally found a number of great insights which have already inspired me to look at article submissions in a new way. http://www.articleunderground.com/secretarticleprofits (continued - read more of this article…)
It’s a numbers game!
I often get emails from members of Article Underground, or from susbcribers of my marketing newsletter. Occasionally I will include them here on my blog.
Here is a message I got today and the response. It may be helpful for others.
“I would like to ask your advice. I am doing a website on KEYWORD PHRASE. I know this is a massive market but I took your advice and used a mis spelling hoping to get traffic through the back door. I am on the first page of google for this term, but am still not getting a lot of traffic. I have got about 13 articles on there and intend to put lots more on. I am currently going back over the mistakes I made when I first joined AU. EG. changing titles, duplicate posting and link text as I thought this may be the reason. I have also set up 2 other web sites on this theme and 2 blogs which all point to the main site. My main concern is that the market is too broad anyway. I’m not niave enough to know that 13 articles is going to get me hoards of traffic but I wanted to ask your honest opinion if you think I should stop now and just write it off to experience and concentrate on tighter niches or do you think I should carry on? I don’t want to waste time flogging a dead horse as time is precious and I am already working into the early hours of the morning every day. If you think I should carry on, could you tell me at what stage the traffic should start to flow in more. EG. How many articles need to be on my website and how many articles on average I should be posting on that website per week. I am so focused on making this work, so if I have to start again I will. I just want to get it right and not just be a busy fool!”
Unless you are #1 for “credit card” or “music” you really can’t count on an overwhelming amount of traffic for one keyword. One page or even 10 pages is simply not enough data to make any real conclusions about.
It’s a numbers game!
The key to going after top rankings and free search engine traffic is to put a lot out there. Especially when you are new as many of the larger return traffic phrases need to be earned. It’s a major accomplishment for any new site to get any traffic immediately.
If you are you are on the right track! Search engines reward sites they trust and you earn trust by establishing a track record. So keep putting fresh content out there and earn some respect! Traffic will increase with time. I’m sure if you look at your stats and study the traffic graph you’ll see as you add more pages the trend will be up. That is your goal - always keep the trend up.
Also, some pages will go up - some will go down. Fluctuation is normal. So never rest on one page ranking high as you need to have more aces up your sleeve to slip into place when pages naturally drop. Also - watch your stats so you can catch pages that are dropping and get them back on top by adding more words to the pages (freshness) and also getting the pages more quality text links with the words in them. (continued - read more of this article…)
PLR Articles: Similar Content or Exact Duplicate Content???
I just got an email asking if there was any profit potential with Article Underground PLR Articles because of “duplicate content penalties” causing problems with getting traffic.
Ahhhh…. looking at the galss half empty instead of half full… As I have said before - it’s all in the way you look at things.
When you change the way you look at things - the things you look at change!
Absolutely there can be profits using PLR articles! You can use the articles in many creative ways that will snag you targeted traffic that buys products or clicks!
You need WORDS on your web pages and lots of them IF you want lots of free search engine traffic! PLR articles can be a great way to build up web sites and create high value real content pages that people will want to visit!
PLR articles are great inexpensive tools you can use to build web pages that will bring your web site(s) more targeted traffic!
Not ALL PLR Articles are crap! Article Underground articles have real value to visitors. That’s what you should be concerned about. Will people be happy when they visit my web site?
It’s how you use PLR articles though that can help you get more traffic than the other guys who may be less fond of working. It’s not hard work even - it’s smart work that makes your web pages better than the Average Joe’s!
Using a PLR article on a web page is not in itself going to get you #1 on Google! It’s how you use the article to build a web page with good profitable words and real value for the visitors - you need to find your audience. You need good quality links pointing at the page!
There are variables that make one page better than another. Variables that make one web site more powerful and authoritative than others.
The best of us will find ways to make our web sites better.
So - what about duplicate content?? Isn’t it a problem?
There is a big difference bewtween SIMILAR content - such as pages incorporating PLR articles - an EXACT DUPLICATE CONTENT - such as identical pages.
I’ll share some info that you should find helpful and at the bottom I’ll include links to some further discussions. Dupe content is a hot topic!
First off, Article Undeground members join for a number of reasons. The articles may be one of them. There are many other features that are worth the price of the subscription. Links in the blogs may be enough! Also great research and tutorials and a killer private forum.
AU Members see value in many of the benefits. That is why I still have many members from back in Feb. of 2006. They stay members because they keep getting value.
Not all of the 350 AU members actually download each months zip. Generally it is about HALF.
Current - as of today - 24 days after the current sets were released - downloads are as follows:
April 16, 2007 Article set 1 - 127 of 350 downloaded
April 16, 2007 Article set 2 - 108 of 350 downloaded
And of those 108 that downloaded set 1’s 400 articles - not every member will use each one of the 400 articles in the zip. Even if they use MANY of the articles there is a good chance they will modify the articles at least a little. It pays to spend a little extra effort on tweaking.
Even if they do not modify, tweak or creatively use the articles (they do) - a duplicate or “syndicated article” does not in itself cause problems with Google. It depends on the application as to whether Google will want to index the page.
Also, there are a million and one ways to creatively use the articles. It’s too easy to midify them and make YOUR web pages more unique. It is a rare chance that 2 members will use an article in exactly the same way. It is rare that 2 web pages are identical. AU offers tutorials on how to customize articles and create unique web sites that have YOUR PERSONALITY stamped on them.
Duplicate Content can be looked at in several different ways. It’s not a death sentence in itself to have an article that someone else has on their web site - in fact - there is no reason to worry about posting a PLR or syndicated article on your web site - that in itself is not a problem. It’s SIMILAR CONTENT not an EXACT DUPLICATE web page.
That’s how newspaper sites do it when they syndicate their articles. There is no penalty as such against that.
So what kinds of so-called “duplicate content” are there out there???
1. Similar Content - PLR Articles - News Syndication - Original Articles on more than 1 site - (parts of a page are the same as pages on site or on other sites)
2. Exact Duplicates (same web pages 100% as others on site or off site)
3. Public Directory Article Syndication (when 1,000’s of people use the same exact articles unmodified and with the same author box and external text links - as in the case of goarticles.com and ezinearticles.com)
I’ll give you my take on each:
1. In the case of similar content with PLR articles or articles you have written and use on more than 1 site - there should be no concern. Use your own template or design your own web page for each site that will include an article. (continued - read more of this article…)
I’m Going Web 2.0 with Squidoo
I’ve been quietly studying “web 2.0″ in the shadows, but am now coming to the surface and ready to add social bookmarking and web 2.o tactics to the training I provide here on my blog and at Article Underground and other projects in development.
The interesting thing for me about “web 2.0″ tactics is that it brings me back to the earliest days of the web (in 1995 for me) when the goal was to publish a web site with real valuable content. That was before we figured out that ranking on top of the search engines for a word could bring us boat loads of money.
Back then it was just TOO EASY to get top rankings than to have to be concerned about creating “valuable content”. As a result time shifted from writing to creating pages with the intention of ranking.
Ironically here we are 11 years later and the trend now is to go back to the basics and provide REAL VALUABLE content and “become an expert”. I’m happy that’s the case!
And you should be too as I’m certain that you are an expert on something!
In the days ahead I’ll be covering the new trends in traffic generation as well as unveiling some interesting projects. I can’t wait to tell you about them.
One of the most exciting Web 2.0 sites I have found is SQUIDOO (how do you say squidoo?).
I’ll be setting up more lenses in the future but for now added one on the Article Underground Content and Traffic System. (continued - read more of this article…)
Relevance Rules! More Powerful than PageRank?
Relevance Rules!
But is Relevance more powerful than PageRank?
Linking your articles properly on your own web site can make the difference between getting a good amount of traffic and getting jumbo sized boat loads of traffic from top rankings for all kinds of keywords, even the more competitive ones!
SECRET WEAPON REMINDER: MATCHING TITLES with LINK TEXT is very powerful!
I was recently asked by an Article Underground member how they can organize their sites so that visitors can find all the articles.
The first suggestion was proper use of CATEGORY MENU PAGES and proper use of article excerpts.
But does linking for a visitor and linking for a search engine have the same requirements?
Yes… more than you’d think!
This prompted further discussion on what kinds of text links are the best.
It made me realize once again that while PageRank is important and will help a page get top rankings, what is perhaps even more important than that is the surrounding text and relevance of the words on the linking page.
Google rewards for RELEVANCE!
It makes sense! Links from pages with the same/similar keywords should be counted as MORE RELEVANT links than a say an unrelated link for a TACO RECIPE coming from an ANTI-SPYWARE site.
Yes, it makes sense!
You can use this to help you organize your site so your visitors have a better experience with the bonus effect of showing Google that your linked pages are RELEVANT and deserve top rankings because if the linking page’s REPUTATION.
Ahhh…. yes, the text link and the relevance of the page that is linking it… it is the SECRET WEAPON I have been telling you guys about it for some time. (continued - read more of this article…)
Are You Getting the Most From Christmas Holiday Traffic?
Getting the Most From Christmas Holiday Traffic
Make more money this holiday season! It’s easier than you may think!
Well, it’s that time of year again. The annual Christmas holiday season is here and things are getting pretty crazy.
Where I live, in Newport Beach, California, USA, it is getting pretty difficult to go out and do even the most basic of things.
Everyplace is so crowded. That can be fun, but it also makes everything take so much longer than it should. It’s no wonder more and more people are shopping online! Shopping can be a hassle at the mall!
But time is running out! It’s the last few days that you can order online gifts and expect that they arrive in time for Christmas.
Actually it is pretty risky at this point, as today is Monday and we only have 4 more “business days” before Christmas weekend is here (Christmas falls on Monday December 25). (continued - read more of this article…)
Article Underground Openings & File Names for October
2 days ago on the 16th - Article Underground members were treated to 3 all new sets of 400 articles. Each existing member gets their choice from among 3 sets of 400 articles every month on the 16th. Now - how’s that for having a choice!
Look below for th file names from the 3 sets… wicked!
Also, right now AU has a very limited number of openings.
If you have been considering a membership to the Article Undergrund Content & Traffic System - now is your chance! Stop by the site - subscribe to my newsletter and join if you want to be a part of the membership!
Here are the 1,200 file names for the 3 sets of articles available now to AU members!
0 apr credit cards 03.txt
0 on balance transfers 03.txt
0 percent balance transfers 34.txt
1000 count sheets 16.txt
12 volt heaters 14.txt
50th anniversary gift 34.txt
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Your Domain’s Home Page is Like a Magazine Cover!
Think of your web sites home page as a magazine!
Your HOME page is the COVER or TABLE of CONTENTS and should get people to the pages that will make you the most money!
I would first try to build the sites front page so it accomplishes YOUR goals of getting visitors TO your most important ARTICLE PAGES.
So make sure you have nice TITLE LINKs and DESCRIPTIONs that point to those pages. Put as many as you can without looking spammy.
Then when you are finished type in that URL and analyze in AUKDAT Keyword Density Tool (continued - read more of this article…)
I’m Down on Cookie Cutter Adsense tm Web Sites
I’m down on Cookie Cutter Adsense tm web sites, but am I wrong about that? It’s just that it seems next to impossible for them to get any traffic…
With Article Underground I encourage members to make unique web sites that have their own creative touches and personal character sprinkled all over them. I show them many techniques to make sure their pages are not duplicates of others that are out there.
But an emerging trend seems to be people buying cookie cutter pre-made Adsense web sites that are completed and ready to publish as is.
Complete with articles and template and even links. Some even have the same ebook giveaways.
Did you know that Google and the other search engines originally developed DUPLICATE CONTENT FILTERS to filter out IDENTICAL and EXACT DUPLICATES???
They don’t care so much if many web sites are using the same articles, but they do care if MANY pages are clogging their indexes and the pages are IDENTICAL. (continued - read more of this article…)
Analyze Your Way to the Top!
Get More Traffic - Analyze Your Stats and Get More Top Rankings!
A friend of mine has been doing the AU thing in his spare time for 2 months (newbie) and I asked him how he was doing. He said ok, but he said he wasn’t getting as much traffic as he thought considering how many pages he put up.He had two sites - 1 was a mish mash directory type site and the other a cute little tighter themed fashion site with a nice look and good organization.
I asked him to show me his Astracker stats (AdsenseGold) and we walked through all the clicks he was getting and where they came from and he must of had 1,000 top rankings for his 75 or so pages on that one site.
That site was all stock unmodified AU articles. I showed him how to use his click stats from Astracker to get his rankings higher.
He had no idea he had so many top rankings and it was an eye opening experience to see where the traffic and clicks were coming from.
After looking at the stats he had a whole new perspective and felt like he had made some accomplishments and was on the right track.
Are you on the right track?
Do you study your stats to see where the traffic to your web site is coming from?
Your statistics present you with the most valuable information anywhere on earth! More valuable than my top tips! More profitable than any gurus best advice… Your stats can help you make what you have alreadyy done SO MUCH MORE successful! With very little effort!
The thing was, my friends site was cute looking and his site looked good but the pages were not optimized… he had bad titles, hardly any external text links (much of it WRONG) and still was getting decent traffic with that 1 site (the other site was just not happening).
Another reason to never expect 1 site to be a proper adequate testing ground.
I told my friend that for the length of time his pages were indexed it was actually good traffic and very encouraging to see how many keywords that the search engines were ranking him on… and this was on a PageRank 0 site! It was so new it didn’t even have PageRank yet it was all over Google.
I guess the moral to this story is that you sometimes have to take a step back to see where you are really at. In this case my friend was making decent money, decent traffic and had excellent reputation developing with Google. And he didn’t even do anything such as link campaigns to let them know what his pages were about.
Just a few strategic changes such as adding secondary words to his TITLES + finding words that are raning and adding more occurances to the pages, plus making text links for those phrases in the blogs, could mean the difference between his getting good traffic and turning that one site into a monster!
Funny but people, even smart people like my friend expect everything to just happen for them with no thought or input as to the direction they will go…. and the fact of the matter is without doing anything other than building sites with Article Undeground articles in xsitepro and linking a few in the blogs he already is getting what I consider dynamite traffic and decent click money for a new site with NO PAGEARNK!
A perfect stepping stone to a lucrative career in web publishing if he could multiply what he has already done. Why not make more sites like that?
We analayzed his stats and I showed him a few examples of how to take it to the next level and now he is thrilled and so excited. He never realized that Google alone had him ranking on 200 + search queries.
So, with my friends permission I soon hope to make a video documenting what he has done so far and ofering suggestions on how to take it to the next level. That will be coming soon for Article Underground members.
The question of the hour is how do I help communicate to people who only want to do the simple things with minimal effort and brain power many of whom only want to push a button and make instant money, that if they spend just a little brain power analyzing their stats that they can really push it to the extreme???
I need to think about that a little! That is my challenge! Alot of people get it - but I need to pass on the kool aid so it snaps into gear with more folks!
As I have said before and my friend has helped illustrate “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
What he considered OK is now exciting and full of potential. All you have to do sometimes is look for the silver lining!
OK, if you don’t have stats you better RUN to this page and buy it now. Time is of the essence. The sooner you install it and tack your stats the faster you’ll info to double and triple your earnings agian and again!
http://www.articleunderground.com/adsensegold
Resource:
Power of Statistics Part 1 - In this video I show how stats will help you make more money. How to get more top rankings by improving what you already have got going for you. Web stats will show you the keyword phrases that are already bringing your web site visitors.
Have you signed up for my newsletter?
Just in case you haven’t signed up yet for the newsletter and 2 FREE PDF Special Reports - 1. Words = Money 2. Ban Proof Your Web Sites - I thought I’d entice you by reminding you of all the free videos you’ll be seeing…
Free videos??? Yes! As an Article Marketing Newsletter subcriber I will regularly send you links to special videos I have recorded in addition to the huge 3 hour plus libray of multimedia included with “words = Money”!
Here is a video I just notified subscribers of on Sunday. It’s pretty cool!
New exclusive video on “Your First 5 Sites”By popular demand I have created a new 30 minute video showing my suggestions for how to start your future as a web publisher! I’ve often been asked “how many domains” “what host do I use” and “which HTML editor is best” so I broke down and decided to do a comprehensive beginners video where I walk you through getting started with 5 domains.* how to quickly brainstorm and select the best domain names
* how to get hosting quick and easy
* how to set up your first pages and get them indexed fast by Google!
While the video is specially made for beginners, even the pros out there may discover a secret nugget or two as I reveal my personal strategies and methods.
“Your First 5 Sites” is available at the “Words = Money” Multimedia Library page:
It’s 34 minutes long and is intended to help beginners get a handle on how to get their first sites up and running.
It’s 34 minutes long and is intended to help beginners get a handle on how to get their first sites up and running.If you haven’t yet subscribed you can register at:
It’s 34 minutes long and is intended to help beginners get a handle on how to get their first sites up and running.If you haven’t yet subscribed you can register at:Article Marketing News
Article Underground is Selling Out!
Article Underground is Selling Out???
Yes, as in it will be SOLD OUT very soon!
Man, I can’t thank all you guys enough for trusting in me and the Article Underground Content & traffic System!
We are now up to over 1,041 current members with just a handful of spots available!
Thanks to everyone for helping me promote it and most of all thanks to everyone who has become a member! You have my pledge that I will do everything in my power to make sure you have a great experience and get everything you expect from the membership and more!
Happy article marketing!
Sincerely,
Mike Liebner
NOTE: AU Phase 3 has re-opened - visit Article Underground
Phase Three File Names - Article Underground Articles
I get a lot of questions from people asking about the articles and what they are about.
While I can tell you in a nutshell that they are about KEYWORDS that will very likely get you a lot of free search engne traffic, nothing does justice like listing the file names!
Here are the NAMES of the Phase 3 set being offered to new members right now!
400 articles August 1, 2006
12 step program 19.txt
1 month pregnant 15.txt
about seashells 04.txt
accent lighting 22.txt
accommodation in england 04.txt
accordion 04.txt
activated carbon 16.txt
address lookup 15.txt
adidas track jacket 04.txt
a digital camera 15.txt
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Is there such a thing as too much competition???
Is there such a thing as too much competition???
That’s a loaded question! Sometimes YES - sometimes NO!
I just got an email from a nice man that basically asked:
If Google shows 12, 14 or 27 million pages competiting for the keywords isn’t it impossible for me to compete with that many pages???
How SMALL should the number of other competing web pages be in order for me to get top rankings with reasonable time and effort???
Personally, I do not get caught up in how much competition there is for the most part… Granted I do keyword research which helps me find the easier words to rank on and make money with, but I do not ever look at how many PAGES are listed on Google and say THAT’s TOO MANY!
Several people have asked me this. For some reason there are folks out there that are afraid to spend time going after keyword phrases that have LOTS OF PAGES out there.
I’m not! And you shouldn’t be either!
This is what I wrote back to the nice man hoping to get his spirit up and his battle mode kicked into high gear!
Is there such a thing as an “impossibility” for ranking due to too much competition???
Response:
“Impossibility”???? Why would you think that???
If I followed that logic I’d never try to do anything that had a big payoff.
Do you want SCRAPS or a big RETURN???
My site is # 82 on Google for boots which has 122,000,000 competing pages.
Should I just give up and roll over because there are too many pages for boots???
If that were a factor I’d have no chance to get to #82 with 122 million pages as my competition.
OK, someone out there is going “82 - big deal! Who cares!”
82 is actually a big accomplishment for a popular one word phrase… it gets trafffic! Even on the 8th page of Google it gets traffic and makes Adsense clicks!But ok, let’s get more real… 8th page isn’t worth bragging about…
My site is #9 for the term
reality tv
There are 170,000,000 other pages with reality tv on them
Should I have given up and not try to rank for reality tv with 170 million other pages as competition??? And it didn’t take much time or effort! Don’t get me wrong - I did spend some time and I did earn that #9 spot, but in the scheme of things I didn’t spend a LOT of time. It happened because I earned it!My site has the right words on it! My site has the right links pointing at it!Here is another one:
One of the AU blogs ranks # 1 for announced articles
#1 with 195,000,000 other pages - that’s 195 million competing pages
OK, here is a brand new site. No more than a month or two old.
#1 for
article marketing news
I’m number 1 with 321,000,000 other competing pages.
That’s a relatively new site too and 321 million is obscene.SO WHAT! 321 million pages… is that too much to compete with???
And those are all ranked without quotes which is harder than ranking with quotes (exact search).
If you believe you deserve the results you desire - it’s really pretty attainable!
Not every time… but often enough!
How about this one!#1 for
news events media
That’s another AU blog
I’ve personally got hundreds, maybe even thousands of web pages with top rankings on words that you may say have too much competition.
**by the way - rankings go up and down - sometimes on a daily basis*
So how do I do it??? The same way I tell you guys to do it.
Build Pages! Get links!
You need to get past the DOUBT phase and start DOING.You can second guess me and doubt if the keywords are worth going after… sure - that’s an option… but you have got to belive in someone!
My keyword research may not be perfect, but I do believe it’s the best you can find!
So, the moral to this story is -
Don’t worry about your competition -
worry about what YOU ARE DOING and just do it the best you can!
When you change the way you look at things - the things you look at change!
Thanks to all of you for all the great questions. I understand how you guys feel.
Part of the secret to success, at least for me, is to think POSITIVE!
May I please ask you guys to consider a quote by the great Wayne Dyer.
“When you change the way you look at things - the things you look at change.”
I’d like to ask you guys to consider all the wonderful possibilities that 400 keyword stuffed articles would provide a member.
On the surface it may seem like 350 people will use the articles exactly the same way, however a big part of the Article Underground membership is showing and encouraging members how to use the articles to build tightly themed sites of all shapes and sizes by hand. I encourage members to add unique twists and make their web sites BETTER than the others out there!
There are a number of forum posts and videos for members showing how to make the articles “your own” by adding additional keywords, custom templates, resources, links, extra H1 tags and even breaking up the articles and much much more.
I could talk for an hour about this, but a short simple concise answer is that while a few members may submit the articles to directories (which they are encouraged to do ONLY if they modify the articles by the way), the majority of members use the articles as part of the ‘content toolbox”, not so much for submitting to directories.
If they do, they must modify the article significantly.
I like to think of the 400 articles as a “toolkit for SEOE’s (Search engine Optimization Experts)” that enable us to build web sites and pages about words that have been researched to get traffic and make money. (continued - read more of this article…)
Duplicate Content is an Urban Legend
Duplicate Content is an Urban Legend… kinda!
Do you have web pages that are IDENTICAL to other pages on the web??? Identical as in EXACT???
I hope not! IDENTICAL is NOT GOOD!
OK, I have had many conversations with some of the top people in the business of internet marketing and we have come to some conclusions about why “duplicate content” is an overblown concern that just has too many implications to answer with a yes or no or black or white answer.
First off - everybody has a different idea in their head when they ask about it…
When people ask me about duplicate content they usually frame it in questions such as:
“Your system sounds great BUT how can 350 people all rank #1 with the same article?”
or
“Won’t Google penalize me if I have duplicate content on my site”
or
“If everybody else is using the same articles as me won’t I get penalized for duplicate content???”
The short answer is NO! NO! NO NO NO!
And I will elaborate on this so we can get some things clear.
DUPLICATE CONTENT should be a concern if you are STEALING an exact web page or article that you do not own.
In that case the copyright owner can ask Google to remove you from their index and they will. Not because it is a duplicate, but because it is STOLEN CONTENT!
Look at the phrase “DUPLICATE CONTENT PENALTY” and tell me what that means to you???
Is there a penalty???
Will they ban you???
Well, if there is a penalty there should be a Google webmaster guideline somewhere that says something like “NEVER use any content that appears on another web page or we’ll hit you with a penalty or ban your ass.”
Whoaaaahhh…. he said “ass” Chuckle…
If that were the case all the big PR 7 - 8 and up newspaper web sites would be purged from Google’s index for using all the exact same syndicated articles! That’s just not going to happen!
Also, think about it conceptually… STOCK PHOTO LIBRARIES - ROYALTY FREE MUSIC LIBRARIES, ROYALTY FREE CLIP ART and on and on…
The web is founded on the principal that people share good things… they share clip art, pictures, music and WORDS!
How many times have you seen a blog that will reprint a newspaper article or press release??? Are they getting banned???
The nature of the web lends itself to sharing.
So, if that is the case, why would Google penalize a site just because a web site has a page that may have some of the same words… did you notice how I said SOME of the same words???
SOME because almost every web page on the net has OTHER words than the ARTICLE it is publishing.
My point is that pages in real life are almost never EXACT DUPLICATES! They all have different templates, different author boxes and links, different bios, different navigation links, different advertisements… I mean c’mon! The pages should have some identity of their OWN other than just copying and pasting an article. That isn’t smart. Add something!
If you are so concerned about other web pages having the same articles - add your own twist! Tweak the pages! Add your own words to make the page your own!
It’s so easy!
Simply add an INTRODUCTION - a middle COMMENTARY - a SUMMARY or CONCLUSION in your own words!
Maybe even add an extra paragraph!
How about adding some personality to your pages and don’t just settle for copy and paste! It’s really easy! Add your own words and you will rise to the top!
OK, now that I got that out of the way… let me show you an EXAMPLE where DUPLICATE CONTENT can get you in trouble (maybe not a penalty or banned, but maybe points off…)
There is a trend among lazy webmasters out there to build these huge MONDO DIRECTORY sites that use articles from the PUBLICLY ABUSED article directories (such as goarticles.com etc.).
These webmasters have a program or use a script that simply takes the articles as they are and adds them to a web page. Usually their template is sparse at best, and usually has very few extra words other than category links… (NEAR Empty templates are not good - they leave footprints - especially when 100’s of other “button pushing” webmasters are making huge directories with the same sparse templates and publicly abused articles! Can you say FOOTPRINT? It’s like saying hey - look at me - I’m pushing a button too!)
Now this case is a problem… because the sites will have hundreds or even thousands of “me too pages” and they’ll all have many factors in COMMON - not just duplicate content.
Now, it isn’t really the CONTENT/ARTICLE that makes it so easy for Google to find these “machine generated sites” - it is the AUTHOR CREDIT BOX - ie BIO!
The AUTHOR CREDIT is required by the author of the article and may not be tampered with. It’s terms and conditions state that you can use the articles on your sites BUT you must leave the author box INTACT links and all.
So what happens???
Hundreds and even thousands of pages with the SAME WORDS all have the same IDENTICAL AUTHOR BOXES and same exact TEXT LINKS! Many of these text links even point at pages that are on domains banned by GOOGLE! (continued - read more of this article…)
How many web sites should you have?
Q: Article Underground articles are diverse and cover many different keyword phrases, therefor how many web sites should one get to use all of the articles properly???
I get this question a lot! Or some variation of it! Usually people will ask - do I need 400 web sites to use each article? Or I only have 1 site and domains are expensive - how many will I need?First off - domains are NOT expensive! They are dirt cheap! $8.95 a year works out to 75 cents a month! If you can’t afford to spend 75 cents a month for fear you will not make that back - this is not the business for you my friend :’>
Monkeys can make 75 cents a month with a web site. Yes, I know there are other expenses like hosting (which is also dirt cheap) but lets keep things in perspective here - Interent Marketing is one of the easiest businesses to start with hardly any major expenses. Hosting and domain names add up to hardly anything. Try that with any other startup business!!!
Ok, well enough of that… I suggest you stop thinking in terms of buying a domain or hosting as a negative. It’s an investment for you to make back 100 times over what you invest. Maybe even 1,000 times over! The sky really is the limit, so please don’t start nickeling and diming. If that’s what you gotta do - maybe this is not the right business for you at this time. Save up a few bucks and come back when you feel it is less of a risk.
So, how many domains??? Only a few… really! How about 5??? That’d be $44.75 a year or $3.79 per month.
I guess I owe you guys a bit of an explanation so we can put things in the proper perspective!
I understand why you might think you’ll need a lot of web sites to use all of the articles from an Article Underground membership. After all 400 each month is an obscene amount of content! And some members even buy TWO memebrships so they can have access to all 800 articles! (continued - read more of this article…)
Are you SKEPTICAL or OPTIMISTIC? Open or Closed?
Is your mind OPEN? Or is your mind CLOSED to possibilities???
Anthony Robbins says that people are motivated by ONLY TWO THINGS
1. Desire for Pleasure 2. Fear of Pain
Which are you motivated by more???
Which is greater??? Your fear of PAIN or your DESIRE for PLEASURE???
Looks like Article Underground is keeping Neil Shearing’s bloggers busy! And ruffling some feathers!
http://www.neilshearing.com/neil-shearing/2006/06/27/more-questions-about-article-underground/
What I don’t get (not just with Neil’s blog) is the huge level of skepticicsm about products with solutions to problems I see in blogs and in forums. There are so many haters out there!
>>> If they’d only put some of that nasty energy to good use, they’d be sucessful themsleves!
I realize that not everything deserves optimism, but why not focus on the good and the potential in things?
Is it wrong to be successul and make money? Isn’t that what we all want?
People who recognize problems and provide solutions are HELPING our fellow web publishers, not stealing from them… there is a reason so many people pay money for HELP!
They recognize value and appreciate being enlightened! But there are always going to be people who just don’t get it. They see the problems that will surely happen to them instead of the benefits.
These people FEAR PAIN more than they DESIRE PLEASURE!
No course in the world is going to help people who can’t believe in themselves! I mean, some people seem so eager to shoot down anything without really thinking rationally about it.
I guess a lot of people have bought products and feel ripped off because they never used the products or maybe even the products sucked.
9 times out of ten - people simply buy something and never use it.
I’m guilty of that and I bet you are too!
But I try to buy things with a more modest goal. I don’t expect products to change my life - I expect them to open up my eyes and help me think about things differently than I have before and help me with new ideas. If I can just have 1 or 2 really good ideas from buying a course or product - I am satisfied!
I say why not see the possibilities and potential in things instead of thinking negatively?
