In this post I will go through the steps of adding an article to the Free Traffic System (free version).

I will assume that your article has already been spun. For more info how to spin you can look at the video tutorials on the inside of Free Traffic System. Just be sure you are using these tags: [spin] and [/spin] and using a pipe symbol (above the Enter key), which looks like: | to separate words and phrases within your spin tags.

Each "spun" version of the article must be 450+ words. The free version of Free Traffic System allows 2 free links posted on 30 blogs.

1) Sign up for your free account at Free Traffic System.
2) Go into the 'New Article' screen.
3) Add your keywords (anchor text) and URLs.

You can use as a good number of keywords for each link. The keywords must be interchangeable because FTS will be randomly choosing one and adding it to your content.

You may also add more than one URL for each link that gets created. In general you will probably be using just one but this is handy if you want to create backlinks for a bunch of Web 2.0 properties for example.

4) Next paste in your "spun" title. You can click the 'Check' button to be sure your spins aren't broken and to see how many unique titles will be created.

5) Paste in the article body including the tokens. The tokens are placeholders where you want the links to show up. You can use %LINK1% and %LINK2%. Since these articles will eventually be syndicated onto blogs the links can be anywhere within the content. However, if you are bringing your spun content over from a different distribution network used for article marketing, you can also paste your resource box in at the bottom if you wanted to. Then just replace the URLs with the link tokens so FTS knows where to use a random keyword for the anchor text, and a random URL (assuming you used more than one in step 3) for the link.

EXPERT TIP: If you are in fact pulling in spun content from another article distribution network you can also bring in the article summary (which is required on those networks) and use it at the top of the body of your article in FTS to get the word count over 450 if necessary.

6) Add a tag for your article. Only 1 tag is allowed for free users.

7) Now it's time to find the 30 (or less) blogs that you want to post to. This is kind of where things get a little clunky. The first step is to enter several words (separated by the pipe symbol) and click 'Get Blogs' and the system will look for blogs (that you can post content to) matching those words.

It will then display a list (sometimes quite large) of all the blogs matching your request. It will show the title of the blog and all of the categories of the blog below it. The categories all have check boxes next to them. I really think that they should be option buttons because you are only allowed to choose one.. but the system will pop up a javascript error if you pick more than one catgeory for a blog. If that happens, just lick "OK" and move on.

Important: Don't let your article get rejected because you'll have to start all over. You see... even though a catgeory may seem relevant be sure to look at the title of the blog also to be sure it is relevant. They can (and will) deny your article if you try to post to an irrelevant blog... which is great to maintain integrity of the system.. however the system is still flawed. First, they don't send you a message telling you it's been declined and you have to manually request that they delete the denied article from the system and then you have to start all over. Learn from my mistakes and take time with your submissions.

Once you choose all the blogs you want to submit to (the system will tell you if you picked too many so you don't have to keep count), then press Enter. I've found that the submit button at the bottom doesn't always submit when clicked for some reason, but I have never had a problem when using the Enter button.

After that the system will start spitting out the article and generating backlinks for you! Any questions you know what to do...

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There are content networks that exist that offer free, unique, automated content to anyone interested.

The way it works is, marketers with a monthly subscription, will submit content to the network, usually in the form of 2-3 articles merged together in a special format. They will include links back to their sites within the content with whichever anchor text they want (depending on the network, the links might be in the resource section at the end of the article, or they might be within the article itself).

Well, with the content submission, there are easy to use tools at the network that assist in magically creating unique versions of the content. I can't discuss exactly how the system works on the inside but know this, it does not create machine generated junk, it generates quality articles from the merged document that was submitted. Sometimes in the neighbourhood of 100's to 1000's of unique, quality content is created! OK, so that's the paid end of the system in a nutshell, now for the free content...

If you have a blog, or in some cases an article directory, and in fact, with one of the networks it doesn't matter your platform, then you can sign up to the free end of the system to start receiving unique content automatically for practically any niche.

I have been working with three of the biggest, well established content syndication networks, both on the free and paid end. My reviews for the free end of Article Marketing Automation, Syndicate Kahuna and Unique Article Wizard are posted below.

The quality of content on all of the networks that I reviewed are anywhere between "not bad" and "great". They are all pretty much equal in this regard, in my opinion. The good thing is, you aren't forced to auto-publish any content, so you can "reject" or remove an article or post and it will never see the light of day.

As mentioned, I get content from all 3 networks. They all serve a different purpose in a sense, and serve the same purpose in another sense. Also, picking a combo of either SK and UAW, or AMA and UAW to submit content to, you will be getting tons and tons of backlinks with your chosen anchor text (or random anchor text), in a slow, natural progression. You can submit unlimited content for unlimited domains on these networks. Some marketers say that article marketing and/or blog content syndication is all they ever do for SEO! With one of the combos mentioned above, you will be covering both article marketing and blog content syndication but with unique content across the web, rather than the same article posted everywhere with typical article marketing. The AMA and UAW combo is the cheapest package.

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Below I'm going to go through some of the different types of backlinks that you can get to your web sites. Just know, I'm not an authority on backlinking, I have never taken the time to test new backlink strategies and measure results, and I'm not an innovator in this area. I will only be discussing what I have learned from other people. Granted, I have used these methods and have seen good results. But for the most part, I just "trust" that this stuff is valid. I understand Google's goal as a search engine, and the information I have acquired about backlinking makes sense and is in align with my understanding of search engines for the most part. So, with that said, this isn't "cutting edge" material, it is tried and tested methods and descriptions that have been passed around the SEO circles for years.

Truly, the best method of getting backlinks that is 100% inline with what search engines want is to write good content and let people link to it on their own. But as we know, there are ways to assist in the process...

Backlinks From Different IP Addresses

It is generally accepted that backlinks to your websites from sites that are hosted on different servers other than your own, have more value. So, don't buy a shared hosting account that allows unlimited web sites and create a network of sites all linking back to your money site. It is easily detectable and not that valuable.

There are numerous ways to get backlinks from different IP addresses. These include (but are not limited to): Social Bookmarking, RSS Submission, Blog Commenting, Directory Submission, Video Sharing, General Article Marketing, Blog Content Syndication, Web 2.0 Property Building (Squidoo, Weebly, etc.), Press Releases, Guest Blogging, etc. etc.

Anchor Text Used In Backlink

The word(s) used that link to your site, the anchor text, is deemed as important. Change it up a bit and use related keywords as well. Just don't use "click here" all the time, be creative, or focus on specific keywords that you want to rank for.

Slow, Natural Link Building

Sure, it is often said that links should be built gradually and not just stop suddenly, that the same steady pace should, for the most part, continue, in order to be "natural". I really don't know about this one myself. What if you wrote something really newsworthy one day and it hit CNN and then suddenly 1000's of backlinks are being built inside of a week and maybe you even make it to Google Trends. Then, what if it suddenly dies down because it's old news? That defies the whole theory that slow and steady is the way to go. In fact the news blast seems more natural to me. So, I don't worry about this a whole lot myself, but it seems that the general consensus is to keep it slow and steady.

Education And Government Backlinks

Backlinks coming from web sites that have a .edu or .gov TLD are said to have more value. Makes sense.

Mixed PR Backlinks

Backlinks coming from sites that have a Google Page Rank of 10 are more valuable than a PR0 of course. Again, makes sense. Getting only backlinks from high PR's may not be the way to go though. It's probably good to get backlinks from a range of PR's, wouldn't you say? It would just be to obviously fabricated otherwise. I could be wrong of course, because getting backlinks from just PR8's only for example can occur naturally, it's just not likely in my opinion.

Deep Linking

Getting links just to your homepage isn't always best. Some of your best money making content may be at lower levels of your site. Also, you may want to rank some deeper pages for keywords on their own. I also read that if you say, add a page of content to Squidoo, and create more than 1 backlink to your homepage within that 1 page, the first backlink will be the one that is taken into account. The links further down the page won't pass any juice or anchor text.

Contextual Links

If you have a backlink created in the middle of a paragraph or article that is related to the content on your site, it is much more valuable than say, getting a backlink in the sidebar or footer that is part of a list or cluster of links.

DoFollow Links

A search engine may not give value to a backlink if it has a nofollow tag attached to it. A nofollow tag is essentially telling the search engine (particularly Google) that the backlink does not count as a vote for the linked site. The site the backlink is on is not vouching for your site so the search engine may ignore the anchor text, PR, etc.

What Are The Best Backlinks To Get?

Based on the info above it would seem you want backlinks with the following characteristics:

• from a range of IP addresses
• containing your choice of, and a variety of, anchor text
• perhaps created slowly
• from .edu and .gov sites on occasion if you can
• from mixed PR, high PR if you can
• to different pages of your site, not just the homepage
• within a paragraph of related content (contextual, rather than clustered)
• dofollow if possible

Now, if you can get backlinks like described in the list above you are on the right track. Of the backlinking procedures that I follow for my niche sites, there is one method that covers all of the backlink characteristics (except maybe getting links from education and government sites), and that's from blog content syndication. <- That's a link to a post I wrote on it a few days back.

With blog content syndication you can essentially get 100's of backlinks with the above criteria created slowly over time with just a couple hours work or less up front. Outsource it and it's just 10 or 15 minutes of your time. Some of my thriving sites, like the one described here where I have made almost $400 a month for the past few months, this is the only method of backlink building I put effort into. And for that particular site discussed, I only did 2 submissions.

A 3rd party company, Article Marketing Automation, offers a network of sites with different IP addresses to automatically post content on. The tools make certain the content is unique and lets you create backlinks with a variety of anchor text, even with just 1 submission. You are allowed as many submissions, for as many sites as you want. Last I checked, if you sign up for Article Marketing Automation's free blog content service they are letting you try the blog content syndication service out for free.

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I just wanted to put together a quick post to talk about a few different types of review sites that I use.

Also, I will give some examples and the tools that are needed.

You'd be surprised at how well these work. It takes a bit of work of course, but when they are up and running, you could potentially have a network of money-earners that run on autopilot.

Pick a type and go with it. They ALL work!

 

Typical 3-5 Product or Service Review Site; Still Works

1st you have the typical review site that you see all over the place. A marketer lists 3-5 similar products or services, gives a "review", or better yet, gives facts, about each one. Each review has links to an affiliate offer where the customer can make a purchase.

As an example, I built one of these sites about a year ago (I sold it recently) that did very well. I was simply running ads in the content network on Google to get traffic. Anyway, the site reviewed 3 software packages from RegNow.com that allow someone to convert DVDs into Zune-playable files. Here's the site: ZuneMovieConverters.com and here's one of the landing pages: http://zunemovieconverters.com/dvd-to-zune-review. The site just uses WordPress and I used an HTML table in the post to format the text properly. Make sure there is other content on the site besides the review and it will do better. That's why it's nice to use WordPress, it makes it easier to add other content.

Another review site that is apparently doing quite well... between $2,000 and $3,000 per month according to the owner is this one: http://www.specialonlinebusinessreviewauthority.com/

I'm not sure what the site uses but it can easily be done in WordPress if you know how to edit themes. The owner is trying to sell the site right now for $27,000! All sales come from organic traffic too! He used strictly article marketing to accomplish that. Do not underestimate the power of article marketing. To potentially accomplish the same thing (it'll cost you about $47 minimum per month), sign up with AMA, and submit an article or 2 per week for a year (1 article can translate into 100's of backlinks slowly over time). In the first couple of articles use the anchor text of your main keyword. In the rest, use varying anchor text. Find related keywords using the Google External Keyword Tool to use as the anchor text. Then sell your site for 10x monthly profit and break me off a slice!

Customer Review Site

I love these customer review sites. I will be building more of these this year. You simply setup WordPress and write posts discussing facts or properties of several related products or services. You use a special plugin that will accept customer reviews in the form of comments. The customer can also rate the product based on any factor you wish. An overall rating will be shown next to the post. Here's an example of a site that reviews different hosting companies: http://www.awardwinninghosts.com/. I asked the author of the plugin the best way to get the reviews going initially and he said he just visits forums at the product/company web sites and, if allowed, asks other people in the forum (i.e. customers) to come over to the site and tell him what they think.

Check out the plugin site and you can see other cool examples.

Micro-Niche Review/Guide Websites

These sites are also very cool. They offer great value to your potential customer. You provide lots and lots of valuable content that the search engines will gobble up. The content will be guides, like "how-to" or "top 10" guides perhaps, and you will also add product reviews. The reviews will be for individual products that are available on eBay. You simple drop a few eBay auctions in the middle or end of your review of the product. Here's an example: http://forgedgolfirons.com/

These sites have long term earning ability. Don't expect any money too quickly. Wait a couple months and things should start picking up. And don't expect the money to stop flowing once it comes! Certainly, if you follow the plan in this 9-step guide you will have a well designed site that is ready for search engine love. The guys who wrote the guide have tried and tested the method and swear by it. They hardly do any marketing. They focus on content and site building and that's pretty much it. The tools used... phpBay and WordPress. You can get the exact details from this guide. I built about 5 of these sites since buying the guide last week. The way it's done is quite unique (at least from anything I've ever done). It's impressive. Also, try TextBroker.com for content. You don't have to worry about being stiffed by a writer on that site, plus you don't have to pay until you are satisfied. Had I known that last year I would've saved lots of money!

Have you used any of the above methods in the past? What do you think?

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I just found out, Article Marketing Automation is giving away a free trial of their blog syndication services. If you aren't sure what that is, I wrote a lengthy article about it the other day. Essentially, it involves getting possibly hundreds of do-follow backlinks (eventually higher rankings, more traffic, more PR) to your web site from sites in the same or a similar market (relevancy), slowly over time (natural link building). You only need 2 unique articles to accomplish this if you follow the steps I laid out in the post: Link Building By Way Of Blog Content Syndication.

All you have to do is sign up for AMA's free blog content service and they will send you the bonus of the syndication service as well right after you confirm your email address. I'm not sure how long it will last so don't get mad at me if it's not available after you signup. I only found out about it because I started a test account a few minutes ago.

You are given 2 weeks of the free bonus, plus the ability to submit up to 5 articles. I would take advantage of it ALL if I was you. That's a lot of backlink potential. Now, I'm not sure if the backlinks stop after 2 weeks (probably) or if you have 2 weeks to submit your 5 articles and they will run their full course which is usually a couple of months or more (probably not). If it's just 2 weeks of the automated backlink building, that is still pretty awesome!

Be Prepared Before Signing Up

You will need to fill in some "how-to" gaps by watching their video tutorials, etc. immediately after signup but there are a couple of things that you may want to do before starting your account. You should write (or have written) all of your articles ahead of time. Aim for 10. Follow the steps in my blog content syndication post for sentence matching and eventually merging. You could wait for the merging, and possibly the writing of the extra article, until after you signup because they have a tool that you can use. But remember, the clock is ticking. I would have 5 articles ready at the very least, maybe around 400+ words each.

Just so you know, AMA groups sentences with curly braces and separates them with a tilde. For example: {This is the original sentence.~This is the rewritten sentence which is supposed to mean exactly the same thing as the original.} This example is really the power behind spinning articles properly. Write your entire article like that (essentially creating 2 articles) and the spinning system has lots of sentences to work with to create random, valuable, human readable articles that are for the most part unique.

Use this link to jump right to the free AMA account area. I'm not sure it's accessible from the main page.

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If you have a niche blog or site, or even a Squidoo lens, etc. that you want to rank for a certain keyword, keep reading... I have discovered an amazing strategy that will save you lots of time and money.

You understand that having links back to your site can improve your rankings in search engines right? You also understand that using varied related keywords as the anchor text surrounded by related information helps a great deal right? You probably have heard of and may even use article marketing techniques to help with your SEO efforts. It has been said that submitting UNIQUE content to niche related web sites with links back to your site will help your rankings climb in the SERPS. Well, let me tell you about a way that has been helping me rank for some high traffic keywords. I pay a lot less than I used to for content and it's also less manual effort saving me a ton of time.

The Process In A Nutshell...

I basically have 2 articles written from a ghost writer, merge them with some special formatting, submit them to a content syndication network and then rinse and repeat for other sites, pages, hubs, lenses etc. that I want to rank for my chosen keywords.

There are several ways that you can prepare your articles for submission but here I will describe the method that I have been using and that has been working well for me. I have someone write a 100% unique article for me on a particular topic. How many links it can contain depends on the number of words it is. 300 words or more will allow 2 links. You can go as high as 3 links. I usually pay a writer from the DigitalPoint forum around $1.50 to $2.00 per 100 words.

Then I have someone "spin" the article. Spinning the article involves rewriting each sentence and heading of the original article. The sentences should be around the same length and mean EXACTLY the same thing as the original, just using different words. Then I create a text file merging the 2 articles with special formatting. It's simple, you wrap the original and rewritten sentence in [spin] tags and separate them with the pipe "|" symbol like this: [spin]Original 1st sentence.|Rewritten 1st sentence.[/spin] [spin]Original 2nd sentence.|Rewritten 2nd sentence.[/spin]

I then submit the specially formatted file to the content syndication network and it does the rest. You will have to provide the list of keywords that you want to be linked and where they are to be linked to and then replace the keyword in your article with a special code. The system will replace that special code with a random keyword and make it a link. The system will also randomly grab a sentence, either the original or a rewrite, for each sentence, generating several unique versions of the article. You are left with 90+ unique versions of your original article ready to be gradually and automatically submitted to niche related blogs, with dofollow links back to your content! It's a gradual process making it more natural.

This is just a simple example, and really it is all I often ever do. But you could write several alternate sentences if you wish, it doesn't have to be just 1. Just separate them all with pipes. You can also show a random YouTube video and random lists in your articles among other things. There are clear instructions on how to do accomplish all of this in the support files of the network.

Picture it...you could have a 250 word article written and "spun" for around 5 or 6 dollars. Spend about 1/2 hour setting up the submission and you can have over 90 backlinks to your blog on auto-pilot over the next few months. Do that once a week and you have a crap load of backlinks coming in.. including deeplinks if you choose! With your paid subscription to Syndicate Kahuna you can submit as many articles as you want! No limits. Promote all of your sites and content pages. Some say it's ALL you need for SEO.

Stay tuned because I will be introducing a tool that I had written that makes the "spinning" process extremely simple and less prone to formatting errors (because it's done by the program rather than a human). It works like a charm.

Keep your receipt if you subscribe through my Syndicate Kahuna link, because I have a special offer coming up! Also, make sure you subscribe to get my posts by email so you don't miss it.

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Just last month I sold a new WP blog on SitePoint and my profit after the sale was just over $800.00. The blog that I sold I would normally get around $100-$150 but I did a couple extra things to make it much more valuable. I'll explain in detail below.

Create Some Quick Feeder Blogs

First what I did, which might change the way you look at it, is I created 2 extra blogs to add to the sale. But, truthfully, I put both of the extra blogs together in just a couple of hours. I didn't do any extras to them like I do on the main blog. They were used solely as feeder blogs to the main money blog. I dressed them up with a nice theme from WooThemes...and why not? It takes just as much time to add a premium theme as it does a free one. Actually, it's usually much quicker to configure a WooTheme using the built-in administration area, but you would only know what I mean if you ever used one.

Anyway... I added a block of AdSense to the feeder blogs although I'm thinking now it might have best to leave it out. Also, I added the RSS feed of the main blog to a widget in the sidebar of the feeder blogs. Other than that I just created some basic red, white, black and blue text banners and linked them to the main money blog. I added one to the sidebar, 1 floating to the right of each post and one below the featured post. Really, using a WooTheme can dictate the placement of the banners, I just fill in the gaps. It's very simple. Oh, and for content, I used Syndicate Kahuna (or Article Marketing Automation) to get free, unique, niche specific content. Get the max allowed articles per day until you reach 10 or 15, then change it to 1 a day and your blogs are ready to go.

Install Geo Targeting So That Your Money Blog Is Monetized For Practically Any Country

The first thing I do to maximize the monetization to as many countries as possible is add a one page eBay store to the main blog using the phpBay pro WP plugin. Almost every niche has products being sold on eBay. Typically when I build a blog using phpBay, I break things down into categories and create one "post" per category. I use posts so that when I submit my RSS feed to the RSS directories, the auctions may be included in the listings. But for the niche blogs that I intend to sell, I simply add a one page listing using one generic keyword. Sometimes I have to add some negative keywords to filter my results. For the most part, this "upgrade" takes about 10 minutes.

Geo Targeting For CPA Offer Ad Placement

Ok, this simple addition to the blog is very powerful and adds quite a bit of value.

As an example of how I used this in the past... I was promoting a certain offer on my main blog which paid $35 but was only for U.S. traffic. The same product, but on a different CPA network paid $30 but catered to both U.S. and Canadian traffic. Then I found another similar offer paying $29 which catered to U.S., Canada and the U.K.

I could have simply chose the $29 offer which allowed me to promote to all 3 countries but instead I chose all 3 offers and used a custom geo targeting script so I knew which offer to show based on the customers country.

Here's how it works in a nutshell. I added one line of code to the very top of the "header" file in my theme. This line of code triggered a script (and since it is in the header, it is triggered on ALL pages) that looked at the IP Address of the visitor, compared it to a database of IP Addresses to determine the visitors country. The script stores the 2 letter country code in a variable. Now, if I want to place an ad in the sidebar for example, I run a simple if-test to say something like... if the country is "US" show the HTML for the US ad, if it is "CA" then show the HTML for the Canadian ad...and so on. It's actually very very simple to implement. I will be giving away my custom script (with instructions) later today or tomorrow to the readers of my newsletter, but you can get everything that you need for it to create your own from the MaxMind web site, specifically this page here.

MaxMind GeoLite Country Free IP Address to Country DB

Regardless of whether you use my script or create your own, if you use the MaxMind approach, you may want to keep your IP address DB up-to-date. It gets updated monthly. Personally, I don't sweat it too much. I might update it every few months if that. There is a DB that they offer for sale, as well as a free one. The free open source database that MaxMind provides offers 99.5% accuracy which is good enough for me :) I guess it returns "US" for all AOL users, but for my purposes that's fine.

Customizing The Ad For Each Country

A cool easy thing to do for your ads is to customize them for each country. For example, you might put something like "Now available in Canada..." and/or display a small Canadian flag on the ad for Canadian users.

What To Do When You Don't Have An Offer For A Specific Country

Obviously with the example above I am only able to present my offer to 3 different countries. What do I do with the rest of the traffic to squeeze out the money making potential? I do one of two things. Sometimes I display an ad promoting the auctions. Since the auctions are on a page and generally there is just one small link in the navigation bar pointing to it, it doesn't hurt to display an ad promoting the auctions to all of the "extra" countries. eBay allows you to promote to several major countries and with the geo-trageting in place in your phpBay plugin it will automatically show auctions specific to the country of the visitor. Incidentally, the free geo-trageting upgrade to phpBay uses the same MaxMind database discussed above.

Now, if you don't want to promote the auctions for whatever reason or your niche doesn't have any products available on eBay you can just display AdSense ads to all of the extra countries.

There you have it...those 2 things, I believe, increased the value of the blog(s) to the point where I could command a much higher amount. Hope this post helps you and gives you a bit of interest in blog flipping. Best of luck.

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