Part of my plan to push my earnings up to the next level and to start treating this gig more like a business is to build links to my already exisitng sites. For my newest sites I have researched my keywords, created some quality content and put a lot of effort into my on-site SEO but so far that isn’t cutting it and I need to get a lot of inbound links in order to make these sites pay off the way I am hoping they will.
Article writing is something I had signed up for ages ago and gave up on without even really giving it a chance. The idea is simple: write an article, submit it to an article submission site and put a couple of links back to your own site in the ‘author bio’ section. I don’t even remember which website I was registered with a few years ago but I decided that if I were putting in the effort to write an article, I would prefer to have it on my own website rather than an article site. I failed to realise the potential of those inbound links.
One of the reasons I didn’t have a lot of faith in article sites was because there are so many out there and I didn’t know which, if any, would really help me out. Nomadic Matt’s ebook suggested a couple of article sites including Ezine Articles and I decided to check them out. Knowing that other people have had success using them goes a long way towards motivating me to write submissions. I also know that Lissie is making money with HubPages after a lot of perseverance and my friend Mike has recently started to submit to articles sites including InfoBarrel and has seen an increase in Adsense earnings already (InfoBarrel allows the you to keep 70% of any Adsense revenue generated).
Seeing other people doing well is something that motivates me and knowing that these guys feel like making contributions to each of these sites is worthwhile makes me feel a lot more confident about spending time on posting articles. I have even joined Mike in an article writing challenge. He is aiming to have 50 InfoBarrel (of at least 450 words each), 80 articles on HubPages (he already has 50) and 10 articles published on Ezine Articles by the end of September. I love a good challenge and am going to attempt to produce 50 InfoBarrel articles of my own, 30 Hubs and I need one more article to get to 10 on Ezine Articles. With just over a month to do it in, it will be hard but this is the sort of stuff that gets me motivated and I’m curious to see how I do.
I’m even more curious to see what sort of impact writing these articles will have. I have a rough strategy in place for what type of articles I will write and where I will link them to and I will go through that in another post. But I am very new to all of this so if any of you are experienced in this sort of thing, I would love to hear your advice!
Ok… back to work. Three articles down, 78 to go. Yikes.
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