Andy is donating 100% of the sale of this plugin to Asthma research.

Even better, he’s offering WP Syndicator for $10 from now through July 19th! He’s running this insane sale because he’s trying to reach $10,000 by the 19th.

OK, enough about the cause and the deal. Here are the details on the plugin:

WP Syndicator

The WP Syndicator plugin was created to very nearly automatically syndicate your Wordpress posts across 15 top Web 2.0 properties. What this means is that when you create a new post (or edit an old post) there’s an option to “syndicate” the post. When you click on that link, a snippet of your article will be posted to all 15 properties (or a subset of these if you choose). At the bottom of each snippet is a “Read more…” link back to your article/blog.

The good:

• First, each time you syndicate a post, that post gets 15 backlinks. Some are no-follow, but in the scheme of things, that’s of minimal importance.
• Next, many of these properties will bring in a certain amount of exposure in addition to the backlink. This means that they have the potential to bring in some traffic on their own. When this happens, the visitor is interested in the snipet, he clicks the “read more” link, then he sees the entire article on your blog. It’s a very normal user experience, so your visitors are happy.
• The plugin takes very little effort. Once you set up accounts at each of the properties (15 minutes if you’re SLOW), you simply click the syndicate link when you want to syndicate the article.
• The length of the snippet is configurable. If you want a longer/shorter snippet, just enter the number of characters in an option box.
• The plugin strips out all html formatting. I think this is good since I tend to place an image and an affiliate link near the tops of my posts. If my Blogger or Wordpress snippets contained an affiliate link, they wouldn’t stay up long.
• Again, you can choose which properties to sign up for and even which of those you wish to syndicate to for each of your posts.
• All of this is done through the properties’ API’s, so there is no captcha nor are they as likely to change/break as frequently as those programs that are trying to do underhanded things. Andy says that he’ll keep the software updated if things stop working.
• For the few properties that have odd requirements, Andy has linked to detailed instructions (video) to show what needs to be done. It’s easy, and Andy has made it even easier.

The not-so-good:

• The plugin doesn’t/won’t syndicate automatically. If you have scheduled posts or use an autoblogging tool, the plugin won’t syndicate your posts by itself. You have to click a link in order to syndicate. Andy made this decision in order to keep this program from being abused by spammy bloggers. I completely agree with the decision, and in the long term it will help ensure than WP Syndicator doesn’t get slapped by these properties. However, since it’s a nice-to-have feature, regardless, It’s a small negative.
• The links back to your blog post aren’t keyword-based-links. Again, that’s not a huge deal if you’re doing other backlinking. In fact, this will help your backlinks look more natural.

When Andy told me how much he was going to charge for this plugin, I was stunned. It’s a one-time payment for a plugin that you can use to syndicate all of your blogs to 15 web 2.0 properties. Really at this price it’s a no-brainer. The small negatives really both have an upside, so I highly recommend WP Syndicator to anyone who runs Wordpress blogs.

Get WP Syndicator Here!

Just a side note. The above links are “affiliate links” simply so that Andy will know who’s helping him with this charity effort. 100% of the sale of WP Syndicator goes to Asthma research.

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However, article directories can also serve two other important functions: authority and backlinks.

When you post a bunch or articles all surrounding your niche and each of these articles points back to your product (which is also tied to your name), you can build yourself as an authority in that niche. Obviously the articles must be informative and accurate. Done correctly, this can lend quite a bit of credibility to the claims you make in your sales copy. As with article marketing, the more people who see your articles, the better, so the larger directories work best.

The third use for article directories is to build backlinks.

For this purpose, not only is it good to post your articles on the higher-ranking directories, it’s also good to post your articles across many different directories. This gives your backlinks the IP diversity that Google prefers. Some people might claim that posting the same article to many different directories will lead to the “duplicate content penalty.” That’s just not the case. While many of the articles will show in Google’s supplemental results if you search for a phrase from the article, multiple copies of an article can and will show up as backlinks within the Google Webmaster tool.

The below list is a great group of article directories to post to. It’s a good spread of high and low PR sites so that the links look more natural. For those who are on a tight budget, you can post your articles manually.  For those wishing to automate, every one of these article directories are included within Article Post Robot. This program is a one-time purchase (unlike many of the subscription-based backlinking products), and it works very well. Click here for more information about Article Post Robot.

(The PageRank shown below indicates the rank of the directory’s home page. Some of this authority is passed down to your articles, but your actual article will be PR0 unless you build it through further backlinking.)

PageRank 6

http://www.articlebiz.com
http://www.ezinearticles.com/
http://www.goarticles.com/

PageRank 5

http://www.articlealley.com/
http://www.articlecity.com/
http://www.articleclick.com/
http://www.articledashboard.com/
http://articleonlinedirectory.com/

PageRank 4

http://www.abcarticledirectory.com/
http://www.activeauthors.com/
http://www.amazines.com/
http://www.articleblotter.com/
http://www.articlelisted.com/
http://www.articler.com/
http://www.e-calc.net
http://www.easyarticles.com
http://www.homebiztools.com/
http://www.morefreeinformation.com/
http://www.premierdirectory.org
http://www.webpronews.com/submit

PageRank 3

http://www.1articleworld.com/
http://www.365articles.com/
http://www.a1-articledirectory.com/
http://www.a1-optimization.com/articles/
http://www.afroarticles.com/
http://www.articlebrain.com/
http://www.articlecompilation.com/
http://www.articleland.com/
http://www.articlepros.com/
http://www.articlerich.com/
http://www.articlesnetwork.com/
http://articletogo.com/
http://www.articletrader.com/
http://www.articlevista.com/
http://www.blogwidow.com/
http://www.businesshighlight.org/
http://www.depositarticles.com/
http://www.educationarticles.net/
http://www.gestbiz.com/articles/
http://www.goodinfohome.com/
http://www.greatarticlesformoms.com/
http://www.howtoadvice.com/
http://www.ideamarketers.com/
http://www.ireprint.info/
http://www.kravities.com/
http://www.leadershiparticles.net/
http://www.linksnoop.com/
http://www.mainstreetmom.com/
http://www.marketingarticlelibrary.com/
http://www.modirac.com/
http://www.qwesz.com/
http://www.reprintarticles.com/
http://www.series-of-articles.com/
http://www.talkinmince.com/
http://www.thecontentcorner.com/
http://www.theegarage.com/
http://www.therepozitory.com.au/
http://www.travelarticlelibrary.com/
http://www.upublish.info/

PageRank 2

http://www.articleassembly.com/
http://articlebook123.com/
http://www.articlecafe.com/
http://www.articlecastle.com/
http://articlechair.com/
http://www.articleco.com/
http://www.articledirectory.com/
http://www.articlefeeder.com/
http://www.articlefire.com/
http://articlegallery.net/
http://www.articlegold.com/
http://www.articleindex.net/
http://www.articleink.com/
http://www.articleintelligence.com/
http://articlemind.com/
http://articlemoney.net/
http://www.articlepile.com/
http://www.articleretreat.com/
http://www.articles2use.com/
http://www.articles4reprint.com/
http://www.articlesandauthors.com/
http://www.articlescream.com/
http://www.articleshowroom.com/
http://articlesmart.org/
http://www.articlesneeded.com/
http://www.articlewagon.com/
http://articlexplore.com/
http://www.blisspublisher.com/
http://www.bornasuperstar.com/
http://www.britisharticledirectory.co.uk/
http://come-and-read.com/
http://www.coralcourts.com/
http://www.electrictext.com/
http://www.euriskoarticles.com/
http://www.everyonesarticles.com/
http://www.ezarticles.info/
http://ezine-articles.co.uk/
http://www.ezinesarticle.com/
http://familyfriendsphotos.com/
http://www.farticle.net/
http://www.financemanual.com/
http://www.find-an-article.com/
http://www.germaines-luau.com/
http://www.gosubarticles.com/
http://hamazines.com/
http://www.hobbyarticledirectory.com/
http://www.hostmelive.net/
http://www.interesting-articles.com/
http://www.leadarticles.com/
http://www.liberated-press-releases.com/
http://www.look-4it.com/
http://www.marabe7.com/
http://www.mysmallbizarticles.com/
http://www.neoarticle.com/
http://www.newagelivingarticles.com/
http://www.pagequest.co.uk/
http://www.populate.net/
http://www.raz-sports.com/articles/
http://www.realauthor.net/
http://www.realestatearticles4u.com/
http://www.smallbusinessadvertisingarticles.com/
http://www.submittedarticle.com/
http://www.techcentralpublishing.com/
http://www.thatsmyniche.com/
http://www.thehealthmanual.com/
http://thoughtsearch.com/
http://www.tss-articles.com/
http://www.undercoverdemon.com/
http://www.uniquearticles.info/
http://www.webmarketingiq.com/
http://www.webmasterinfoandcontent.com/
http://www.wellnessarticlelibrary.com/
http://www.writerspenarticledirectory.com/
http://www.yourecommerceinfo.com/ecommerce-articles/

PageRank 1

http://www.00articles.com/
http://www.109b.com/artdash/
http://www.111articles.info/
http://www.123article.org/
http://www.123articleonline.com/
http://www.5star-articles.com/
http://www.affiliates-surveys-marketing.com/
http://www.archivedarticles.com/
http://www.article-avalanche.com/
http://www.article-bank.com/
http://www.article-searchengine.com/
http://www.article-syndication.info/
http://www.article4submission.com/
http://www.articlear.com/
http://www.articleauthority.com/
http://www.articlecamp.com/
http://www.articlecell.com/
http://www.articlecounty.com/
http://www.articledirectorylive.com/
http://www.articleextreme.com/
http://articlefame.com/
http://www.articlehighlight.com/
http://www.articlerampage.com/
http://articlerealm.com/
http://www.articleresourceindex.com/
http://www.articles-about-travel.com/
http://www.articles-central.info/
http://www.articles2know.com/
http://www.articles4meandu.com/
http://www.articles4y.com/
http://www.articlesauce.com/
http://www.articlesbymoms.com/
http://www.articlescream.com/
http://www.articleseer.com/
http://www.articleserve.net/
http://www.articlesfeed.com/
http://www.articlesinsight.com/
http://www.articlesmatter.com/
http://www.articlesrightnow.com/
http://articlestars.com/
http://www.articletrunk.com/
http://astonishingarticles.com/
http://www.babyboomerarticles.com/
http://www.best-articles-online.info/
http://www.biggerbetter.info/
http://www.blogticles.com/
http://www.bluegrasssolutions.info/
http://www.chiltern-capital.co.uk/
http://www.cleido.com/
http://www.coachingarticles.net/
http://www.contentsgeek.com/
http://currentarticlesabout.com/
http://www.didarticles.com/
http://www.ebusiness-articles.com/
http://www.elistz.net/
http://www.explorearticle.com/
http://www.firstratearticles.com/
http://www.free-wedding-articles.net/
http://freearticlepublishing.com/
http://www.fsb-media.com/
http://guides-and-tips.com/
http://www.hallofarticles.com/
http://www.haveinfo.net/
http://www.home-based-profits.com/
http://hqarticles.org/
http://www.httparticles.com/
http://www.itechnoworld.com/
http://www.keywordbeast.com/
http://www.lydiasarticles.com/
http://www.mintswords.com/
http://www.moneyarticlelibrary.com/
http://myarticlemall.info/
http://www.myarticlesonline.com/
http://www.myarticlevault.com/
http://www.natural-health-directory.com/
http://www.netarticleshack.com/
http://nigerianewsjournal.com/
http://www.purearticle.com/
http://www.qualityfreearticles.com/
http://www.resourceschool.com/
http://www.superarticledirectory.com/
http://www.textcafe.net/
http://www.thearticleworld.com/
http://www.tihson.com/
http://www.toprankarticles.com/
http://www.urarticles.com/
http://www.wellnessarticles4u.com/
http://www.writerdatabase.com/

PageRank 0

http://www.100biz.net/
http://www.101-articles.com/
http://www.321articles.com/
http://a1-articles.net/
http://www.a2zarticleslibrary.com/
http://absolutearticles.com/directory
http://www.acmearticles.com/
http://addictionarticledirectory.com/
http://www.addondashboard.com/
http://www.adletz.net/
http://www.advertisearticles.com/
http://www.alivearticle.com/
http://www.allbpi.net/
http://www.allentrepreneurinfo.com/
http://www.alleyarticles.com/
http://www.allthebestarticles.com/
http://www.allwebcontent.com/articles/
http://www.americanarticles.com/
http://www.arsharing.com/
http://www.article-corner.net/
http://www.article-dashboard.com/
http://www.article-directory.us/
http://article-free4all.vjad.net/
http://www.article-internet-marketing-tips.com/
http://www.article-knowledge.com/
http://article-submission-directory.com/
http://article.webdirlinks.com/
http://www.article2008.com/
http://www.articleadventure.com/
http://articleanvil.com/
http://www.articlearchive.co.uk/
http://www.articlearmies.com/
http://www.articleassets.com/
http://www.articlebase.info/
http://www.articlebin.com/
http://www.articleblender.com/
http://www.articlebliss.com/
http://www.articleboard.findabook.com/
http://www.articleboard.info/
http://articlecat.com/
http://www.articlecitydirectory.com/
http://www.articleclone.com/
http://www.articlecube.com/
http://articledad.com/
http://www.articledevil.com/
http://www.articledigger.com/
http://www.articledirectoryunlimited.com/
http://www.articlee.com/
http://www.articleexpose.com/
http://www.articlefair.com/
http://www.articlefarm.com/
http://www.articlefriendly.co.uk/
http://www.articlegarden.com/
http://www.articleguides.com/
http://www.articleguild.com/
http://www.articlehotline.com/
http://www.articleinfo.org/
http://www.articleintray.com/
http://www.articlejumbo.com/
http://www.articlekingpro.com/
http://www.articlelibrarian.com/
http://www.articlelisters.com/
http://www.articlem.com/
http://www.articlemaniac.com/
http://www.articlemarketing.org/
http://www.articlemixx.com/
http://www.articlenexus.com/
http://www.articlenic.com/
http://www.articleopus.com/
http://articleoyster.com/
http://www.articlepowerplant.com/
http://www.articlepress.org/
http://www.articlepro.co.uk/international/
http://www.articlepyramid.com/
http://articlerack.com/
http://www.articles-and-info.com/
http://articles.bluenoserlinks.com/
http://www.articles-book.com/
http://articles-for-all.com/
http://www.articles.howrank.com/
http://www.articles-inc.com/
http://articles.sites4.info/
http://www.articles2go.co.uk/
http://www.articles4free.com/
http://www.articles4sites.com/
http://www.articlesbridge.com/
http://www.articleselections.com/
http://articlesense.whiteseobiz.com/
http://www.articleshmarticle.com/
http://www.articleshome.org/
http://www.articlesite.co.uk/
http://www.articlesite.info/
http://articleslide.com/
http://www.articlesofinformation.com/
http://www.articlesology.com/
http://articlesplurge.com/
http://www.articlesriches.info/
http://www.articlesto.com/
http://www.articlestoblog.com/
http://www.articlestomp.com/
http://www.articlestoreprint.com/
http://www.articletalent.com/
http://www.articletitles.com/
http://www.articleviral.com/
http://www.articlewarehouse.net/
http://www.articlewide.com/
http://articlewild.com/
http://www.articlewisdom.com/
http://articlextra.biz/
http://www.assemblyofwords.com/
http://www.awesome-article-directory.com/
http://awsome-articles.com/
http://www.azarticles.com/
http://az.co.cz/article-directory/
http://www.bestarticles.com.au/
http://www.bestwrittenarticles.com/
http://www.bigfreearticles.com/
http://www.buy-wyse.co.uk/articlesite/
http://bytepoweredarticles.com/
http://www.clickarticles.com/
http://www.cliochang.com/
http://www.content-syndication.org/
http://www.contentarticles.net/articles/
http://www.digital-women.com/
http://www.dk-article.com/
http://www.dummiesguideto.com/
http://www.e-zinearticles.info/
http://www.easycontentpro.com/
http://www.ebookstoyou.co.uk/articles/
http://www.ehealtharticle.com/
http://www.elgreenonline.com/article/
http://www.emiule.com/
http://www.entrepreneursoncall.com/articles/
http://www.epublishersresource.com/articles/
http://essaystreet.com/
http://www.essentialrelease.com/
http://www.everythingabout.co.uk/articles/
http://www.expertarticles.net/
http://www.ezine-articles-planet.com/
http://www.ezine-submission.com/
http://www.firstclassarticles.com/
http://www.forarticle.com/
http://www.foundarticle.com/
http://www.franharrisonline.com/articlesms/
http://www.free-article-directory.caven.org.uk/
http://www.free-article-directory.com/
http://freecontentarticles.com/
http://www.freemoneysolutions.com/
http://www.freewebcontents.com/
http://www.fresh-article-directory.com/
http://www.gcyarticles.com/
http://www.goarticlesubmit.com/
http://www.healthandwealth4you.com/
http://www.ho9.info/
http://www.home-business-source.com/articles/
http://hostcontent.net/
http://hostflex.net/
http://www.hotsitecontent.com/
http://www.howto365.com/
http://www.indexed-articles.com/
http://www.indiaza.com/articles/
http://www.indoarticles.com/
http://www.isysi.com/
http://www.itempad.com/
http://jdapublishing.com/articles/
http://www.justarticles.net/
http://www.kalingar.com/
http://www.littleyams.com/
http://www.local-list.us/
http://www.lotsofarticles.com/
http://www.mainlyarticles.com/
http://www.makearticle.com/
http://www.marketersclub.com/
http://www.marketingarticlebank.com/
http://www.marketingtheweb.ca/
http://www.matrixsearches.com/
http://www.myaddirectory.com/
http://www.myarticlezine.com/
http://www.naturalbeautyarticles.info/
http://newarticlepro.com/
http://www.newworldproducts.org/articles/
http://www.notepad.in/
http://online-business-articles.com/
http://www.onlinearticlesource.com/
http://ontopicarticles.com/
http://www.organicgardenarticles.com/
http://ourarticlesource.com/
http://www.pinearticles.com/
http://www.proarticles.net/
http://www.profoundarticles.com/
http://www.realtyreferenceonline.com/articles/
http://www.redhotinfo.org/
http://www.reprint-content.com/
http://www.richestpeopleinworld.com/
http://www.rightbiz.com/
http://www.rssarticle.com/
http://scripthorizon.net/
http://www.search4allinfo.com/
http://www.searcharticles.net/
http://sellingwitharticles.com/
http://www.seo-tool-box.com/
http://www.seositemanager.com/
http://www.share.onlypunjab.com/
http://www.smesmart.com/
http://spiritualentrepreneur.biz/articles/
http://stargate12.net/
http://www.submitarticles.com/
http://www.submityourarticlesnow.com/
http://www.thearticlenet.com/
http://www.thearticlepool.com/
http://www.theninelines.com/
http://theoriginalarticle.com/
http://www.thesmilingplanet.com/
http://www.thisarticle.com/
http://www.tntarticles.com/
http://www.topics4all.com/
http://www.tropicalzooband.com/
http://truearticles.com/
http://www.tuitionplace.com/
http://www.update.pk/
http://www.w3articles.org/
http://www.wackum.com/
http://www.web-article.com/
http://www.webmasterarticledirectory.com/
http://www.whatsjew.com/articles/
http://www.writedot.com/
http://www.zippedarticles.com/
http://zogol.com/

Finally, please note that there are hundreds if not thousands of article directories. This is simply a large, sorted selection of them.

A side benefit for those of us with our own websites is that RSS feeds can be submitted to RSS directories. These directories are meant to be a way for people to find relevant feeds.

They are also a source of good, quickly-indexed backlinks.

This is all fine if you use a platform such as Wordpress that creates an RSS feed for you. However, what do you do if you’d like to create a feed for a static website – or even a feed with a list of pages you’d like to do some linkbuilding for?

WebDevTips has a site that lets you manually create an RSS feed from any page(s). I’ve even heard of people using this little trick to get forum profile pages indexed very quickly (Angela’s/Paul’s/Terry’s/etc.). Since there are a couple of errors with the procedures they have on their site, below is a step-by-step for those who need it.

• First, visit this site.
• Choose the number of links you need in your feed then fill in the information. The intent is to create a feed for a site with sub-pages, so you’d normally use the root URL in the “Site” area then the URL for each of your sub-pages in the other sections. If you’re using this technique for something different, you can just place a different URL in each block.
• Fill in details for each page on the list, then click the “make the code” button.
• Following the instructions on that page, copy/paste the code into a new file named your_filename.rss. Please note that when you’re editing the file, you’ll need to change the following text:
• At the top of the file, replace

http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd

with

http://www.rssboard.org/rss-0.91.dtd

• Upload the file to your server, then validate the feed by entering its URL at http://feedvalidator.org.
• If all is good, you can now submit your new feed to RSS directories. Feel free to use whatever method you normally use, or if you don’t have a list of RSS directories, check out my list.

If you’re following XFactor’s Adsense method and using XSite to create your mini-niche sites, this is a great way to get an RSS feed “out there” so that the spiders will quickly find and index your site.

Click here to see the WSO!

With the Tweeder Method you can target a specific group of people and market to them on Twitter with laser accuracy. There’s no need to try to get thousands of followers nor will you have to send sales links out in endless updates.

The Tweeder Method is a very non-intrusive yet effective method of marketing via Twitter.

Now with version 2.0 it’s even more hands-off. The new module handles all of your tweeting for you on full autopilot. The combined system will continually pull in interested buyers and present your sales message without being the least bit “spammy” to your potential customers.

Click Here to see the Tweeder Method 2.0

Good keyword phrases allow us to compete in the heavy-hitter niches without having to go head-to-head with the heavyweights. The big niches have a wide selection of affiliate programs, content, and even graphics that we can use to build our websites. When we narrow the niche through the use of keywords, we’re still part of the big pie, we’re just working on a smaller slice.

So how do you find gret keywords? Here are three ways:

“Free” Method

Do a search on Google for “keyword research” and study the results. It will take some time. It’s worth it.

Make notes. Paper is fine. A simple copy/paste to OneNote is my favorite method of taking notes, but Wordpad works, too.

Practice what you’ve learned. This is a case when reading isn’t enough. Run through several niches looking for keywords. Again, make notes. If you find several related keywords that all look good in a niche where you might be able to make money, you’ve identified a good project.

(Note the word “free” is in quotes. There’s no such thing as free – you’re trading time instead of money.)

Almost Free Method

Register for the Thirty Day Challenge.  As part of this free course you’ll get a free 45-day trial of Market Samurai along with all the instruction you’ll need to get up to speed with it.

Market Samurai is one of my top 2 choices of paid keyword research tools, so this option is a no-brainer in my book.

This year the Noble Samurai team has added quite a few new features, so MS is really more than a simple keyword tool.

Paid Method

Sign up for Micro Niche Finder.

MNF is my preferred keyword research tool, and as you learn about keyword research on the web, you’ll see that I’m not alone in this. One successful campaign/page/product will more than pay for MNF, so in my book it’s a must-have tool.

The paid tools like MNF and MS do basically the same things as the manual searches. Their results might be a little more accurate, but even if that weren’t the case, they do the searches in a fraction of the time (MNF tends to be quite a bit faster than MS). This is important when doing keyword research because the more phrases you’re able to search through, the more likely you are to find the real gems.

OK, so we know how, but why?

With proper keyword research and identification you’ll be able to more quickly pull in targeted traffic.

If you use this information when you register your domain, when you build your content, when you write your articles, and when you build your backlinks, you’ll rank more quickly for the keywords that have good traffic and less competition. This means you’ll see results sooner with less effort.

Often poor (or no) keyword research is the key difference between those who succeed in IM and those who struggle without any successes.

Unfortunately, when you try to register a domain name, you find that the .com, .net, .info, .us, .biz domains are already claimed.

So you head to Squidoo, HubPages, Blogger and Wordpress, only to find that those domain names are claimed, too.

Since it’s very important to have your keyword phrase in your domain name, sometimes you have to get creative.  Occasionally dashes between the words are all you need to try.  Sometimes, however, you need a little more.

The list of prefixes and suffixes below can be combined with a keyword phrase to greatly expand the choices of available domains.  For example, if your keyword phrase is “underwater baskets,” you might choose something like, “underwaterbasketssource.com.”

If your favorite domain combination is also taken, you can always add hyphens to the combination: underwater-baskets-source.com.

Here’s the list:

Prefix:

123
1st
a1-
all
best
buy
classic
cool
cyber
daily
direct
e
easy
ever
ez
fast
first
free
fresh
front
geo
get
giga
good
goto
grab
great
hit
hot
i
inter
mega
meta
metro
multi
my
neo
omni
pro
quick
retro
rush
saveon
simple
simply
sleek
smart
solo
super
techno
tera
the
think
top
ubi
ultra
urban
vip
you

Suffix:

2u
4u
123
247
360
411
a2z
access
advisor
alley
atoz
authority
base
bay
beat
blog
board
book
box
buzz
byte
cache
cafe
camp
cast
cave
center
central
channel
city
club
coach
coast
connection
county
country
cove
data
deals
depot
direct
discounts
dome
domination
dotcom (best with one-word niches)
experts
fever
flow
focus
fun
future
garden
guide
guru
heaven
home
house
hq
hub
info
informer
insider
insight
journal
lab
life
link
load
loophole
market
mart
nation
net
network
news
nexus
now
online
park
place
planet
point
portal
post
pro
promo
pulse
ratings
report
reporter
resources
revealed
review
reviewed
reviews
road
scout
secrets
share
sight
signs
site
source
specials
spot
station
steals
story
street
system
talk
tech
times
today
tools
town
tracker
trends
valley
village
ville
vine
voice
warehouse
watch
web
wire
wizard
world
zone

Finally, if you’d rather use an automated online tool to suggest your domain name combinations, try one of the following sites:

http://www.nametumbler.com/

http://expert-marketer.com/cgi-bin/domains.cgi

If you have a favorite domain name prefix or suffix that I’ve left off of this list, please let me know!

Conduit Method sites are a specific type of review site based on individual product reviews on a group of products surrounding a niche. Conduit sites tend to work extremely well for products outside of the “make money online” niche. To see specifics and an example, check out Chris Rempel’s Conduit Method as well as his package of conduit-style templates/theme.

By their nature, Conduit Method sites pull in long-tail traffic very well. The more content (review pages) you have, the more long-tail results you’ll pull from. So for one of my sites I have been focusing on adding content (review pages) first. After I add a bit more content I’ll see how the traffic pans out.

So far I am finding that as I add content, the traffic for the site increases incrementally. Given the nature of these pages, I would expect that to be the case. All I’ve done for promotion on these pages is distribute the RSS feed when the site was created and throw out a few social bookmarks using SENuke each time I add a page. The bookmarking doesn’t seem to help the pagerank or SERP position for these pages, but it always helps get them indexed – usually within minutes.

For my other site (kind of a twin of the first site in a slightly different niche), I’ve only created 5 pages/reviews, and I’m focusing on a backlink campaign using the Triple Threat System as each new page is created. I’m finding that the traffic growth happens much faster working in this order. I create the review which is added to the site’s RSS feed as soon as it’s posted. Next I do a round of social bookmarking with SENuke. Finally I set up a Triple Threat module.

Eventually, assuming the Conduit site is built around a niche with plenty of products to review, a site promoted in this manner can’t help but becoming a sort of authority review site.

The best news about my testing is that the conversions are holding steady across both niches. This formula just works.

I’m a strong believer that review sites are the easiest way to succeed as a new affiliate marketer, and that Conduit sites are among the best styles of review sites.

What have your experiences been with review-style sites?

I’m putting the final touches on a linking strategy I’m calling the Triple Threat System. I put the system through its paces on Saturday and Sunday (hence the 60+ blogs), and I’ll know in a few days what the results will be.

I have a neglected site that’s been getting on average five visitors per day. I’m pretty sure that the results of this weekend’s work should push the traffic well over 100 visitors per day — perhaps much higher.

This system addresses a few specific things:

• Quality backlinks
• Quality visitor experience – I realize how strange that sounds when talking about mass-blogging
• Google-friendly
• Speed of implementation

While I was working through the system I was also creating documentation and recording screen captures. I’m pretty sure that with existing content (i.e. ghostwritten articles) I could work through the entire system in a day. That will be the next trial.

While the system isn’t fully automated, I did make use of two pieces of software that helped tremendously with the process.

First I used Incansoft’s RSSBot for submitting the various RSS feeds. I didn’t use my own RSS aggregating method because I want to have a minimal footprint. RSSBot makes this process very simple and fast.

Finally I used SENuke to bookmark all of the created sites. I made use of the spinner that’s built into the SENuke bookmarker and used quite a few new accounts — again to minimize the footprints. (I also used the article spinner that’s part of SENuke, but that’s really not a time saver since it’s just as easy to buy content.)

The Triple Threat System is a culmination of all of the backlinking research and testing I’ve been doing since I started in IM, and I’m pretty excited about how it’s turned out. I’ll keep everyone posted as I get close to completing the documentation.

But you have to start somewhere.

We probably all have sites that are just barely doing anything at all – sites that are part of our “stable” but nothing we’re proud of. This is a slice of the life of one of these sites:

A while back I started a new niche blog. This blog is targeting potential customers for a certain product. I set up a simple blog on Wordpress with a clean-looking template. I dropped an ad for this product in a text block on the sidebar and wrote a soft pre-sell article for the product which I made a sticky (using a plugin that keeps a specific post at the top of the main page).

I wrote 15 blog articles and 20 articles for article directories. I trickled the articles onto the blog at about one per week. I posted 10 of the other articles to Ezinearticles over two weeks, and I spun the remainder using SENuke and used them on Squidoo, Tumblr, Hubpages, Wetpaint, Blogger, Wordpress and a couple of other sites. Also using SENuke, I bookmarked everything.

I could have used more spun articles on all of the article directories built into SENuke (and still might – see below). I also could have turned these articles into Powerpoint videos and posted them to the video sites built into SENuke (I still might).

Since then I have been re-posting the Ezinearticles content one at a time to the blog every few days. Other than that, I haven’t worked on this blog.

Today the blog reached 1500 visitors (averaging 15-20 visitors a day). Not stellar numbers, and fairly low growth, but considering that I haven’t done any link-building beyond posting a few articles and using SENuke, it tells me what I need to know.

Now for what I’ve learned (in no particular order):

1. But I’m No Rembrandt

Don’t be afraid to make your own product image/banner. I wouldn’t recommend creating a unique ecover that doesn’t match what the customer will see on the sales page, but in this case, while the sales page looked good, the ecover was too plain and the banners they provide for affiliate use didn’t really do anything to encourage clickthrough. In 10 minutes I had a nice text banner that had a better chance of getting clicked. You don’t need Photoshop, either. Gimp will do everything you need and doesn’t cost a dime.

2. It’s Insignificant…

0.5% is often thrown out as the worst-case conversion number for affiliate marketing. In other words, if you aren’t getting a sale for every 200 visitors, something big is wrong. Obviously the goal is much higher than that, but 1/2% is a measuring stick for the beginning of the process. However, you can’t make this decision after 200 visitors. 2000 is a better number (statistical significance) . I’m making a change after 1500 – This site is at 0.26% conversion.

3. “But I Love ClickBank!”

Look at more than one marketplace before deciding on a product to promote. Today I found a product that’s a much tighter match with my readers/customers. They offer better much affiliate tools. The gravy is that the product is slightly higher priced and has a higher commission percentage. The end result is that even with the same conversion rate, I’ll make twice as much. If I get 0.5% conversion, I’ll be making four times as much as I did with my first 1500 visitors.

4. Made for Adsense

Adsense is easy, but do the math. In my case, I made $140 with 1500 visitors which comes out to roughly 9 cents per visitor. As poorly as this site is performing, it’s still likely miles ahead of Adsense. Does that mean that in every market it makes more sense to promote an affiliate product? Not necessarily. Does that mean Adsense doesn’t have a place? Absolutely not. Just make sure you run the numbers.

5. “Will You Be My Valentine?”

Don’t fall in love with your sites. If the change in products doesn’t make a significant change to this site’s performance after another 1500+/- visitors, I’ll flip it. With proven traffic and proven sales, it would sell well enough that I’ll get a decent return on my time.

6. *Thud* *Thud* *Thud*

Repeatedly planting your forehead into the wall gets you nowhere. While I completely agree that there is merit to sticking with a project/site full bore, I would rather do a burst of work, wait for actionable results, and then either tweak or dive in with heavy effort. Many believe that you shouldn’t pause like I did/do, but this type of effort just makes sense to me.

7. Still Writing…

Constant and consistent article submissions drives traffic, but it’s not the only free game in town. I’m also pretty sure that today you have to do more than just a bunch of social bookmarking in order to get lasting traffic (although social bookmarking works great for fast indexing). However, the number of visitors I’m seeing to this site is still rising (albeit slowly). A mix of backlinks is likely the key. If this site reaches a decent conversion rate, I’ll start a full blown backlink campaign including more articles (starting with the spun articles above), blog comments, and forum posts.

8. AdWords, Here I Come!

As poorly as this site is doing, it could still be a candidate for PPC. Crazy, I know. If I could get visitors for $.05 each and maintain the $.09 conversion, I’d make $.04 per visitor. Never ignore PPC.

9. http://someproduct.com/?page=sckrbrnevrymin&aff=007_r0f1_abc123_wwjd

Always use redirects for affiliate links. Always. It’s not just about making your links look pretty. It’s not even about cutting down on affiliate theft (Outside of the IM niche, most don’t know what an affiliate link is. Inside the IM niche, a cloaked link won’t stop them.). It’s about making your life much easier when you have to change products.

10. “I guess… I think… I hope…”

Track and analyze. If I hadn’t run the numbers, I might have just deleted the ad for the product I’ve been promoting, dropped in an Adsense block and moved on. If I’d done that, I would have been leaving money at the table, at best. At worst, I could have missed an opportunity of an “almost-there” money maker.

What’s next?

After this site gets another 1500 visitors, I’ll look at the numbers again.

If the conversion is still abysmal, it’s likely that either the crowd isn’t buying (not likely, given the niche) or that I’ve missed the mark with my articles and the pre-sell. In either case, I’ll flip the site and move on.

If the conversion has improved (I’m no oracle, but my best guess is that it will), I’ll post spun articles to a bunch of other article directories and begin creating new content for use on the site and at Ezinearticles. I’ll also begin a backlink campaign, working on both blog comments and forum posts. There are hundreds of other sites where I could build content pages. I’ll use spun content from both my old articles and my new articles to add more of these pages and will bookmark everything. Finally I’ll turn much of this content into videos and post them to multiple sites using SENuke with spun titles and descriptions.

Whew.

If I’m missing anything obvious, please let me know your thoughts below. I’d love to hear your feedback.