We all have been in the situation where we submit an article to ezinearticles and waiting 7 days for them to approve it. After those 7 days we get an email that the article has a problem and they can publish it on their website. It happened to me only once in my last five years of marketing, but I really understand the mad people on the forums who are saying they want to drop EzineArticles from their marketing.
It’s so frustrating to write an article and spend your time and mind on it, and suddenly it’s getting rejected. It’s like being a singer for years and then go to American idol and get the hammer on your head from Simon Cowell. When you’re investing your time in something your mind is concentrating in the success of it, and when you get rejected you’re getting totally blown away.
So, is there a way to avoid all those article rejections from EzineArticles?
Of course there is. Here are a few ways to help your article to pass it’s way to freedom and get published.
1. Don’t do massive article submission – EzineArticle can see when you’ve submitted your article. When you mass submit you are getting suspicious and in most cases they will believe you have submitted PLR articles. With that I don’t say that you can’t use massive article submission but if you do, you have to do it smartly and make a pause between every submission.
2. Double And Triple Check Your Spelling – When submitting and article you have to double check your spelling and grammar. If you can it’s even better to triple check it. You can’t let such stup*id Things to get your article rejected. Some of us work on their article for 10 minutes and others for 5 hours. No matter how much time you’re investing in your articles, every minute of your time is money. When you’ll understand that concept you’ll also understand that you can’t get your article rejected for foolish reasons.
3. Make sure that your article is fully hand written – Don’t even try to use an article spinner or any of those software and services. If you want to gain creditability in your field and even most important to end your article rejection than write every article your create manually. When you’re writing manually you can personalize your article for your readers. You don’t make mistakes, and you know that your article is ready for submission.
4. Don’t order articles from someone you don’t know – This is the most common mistake people do when they first start ordering articles online. They visit a few forums looking for the best prices they can find for their article writing job. When they find the price of their dreams which is 2-3 dollars per article they jump on the train and order 10-20 articles. When they get the package they believe it’s perfect and they start submitting to article directories and EzineArticles is on of them. When their article gets rejected for duplicate content they bang their head on the wall. They still have 8-12 articles they they want to submit to directories but they can’t do nothing with them because the person who “wrote” them just stole them from another website.
When you order articles from someone you must pay only half of the price if there is no escrow service. After you get half of the article you should check at CopyScape if there is duplicate article of one of the articles you have. If you can’t find something similar than you can be happy that you’ve found someone professional to write your articles. Another thing to watch out is the price that you buy the articles. To low prices are strange because people are working on those articles, so don’t expect to get a quality article for so low price, maybe in rare cases you can but most of the time it’s unreal.
I can give you thousands of ways to stop your article rejection and write 100’s of pages on that, but the truth is that if you’ll only stop for a second and think before you make your article submission you can always find the things that might get you rejected. Be sure to check everything a few times before you submit and you’ll see that you’ll stop hating EzineArticles.
Blogging to your success,
Mike G
P.SPopularity: 99% [?]
Continue reading...12. July 2009
On the first post I’ve listed a few ways to build the logo on your own. On this post I’m going to list a few websites where you can hire someone to do it for you. If you hate computers or you just don’t have the time to build it yourself than try one of those sites.
Logo Design Guru’s – One of the best places to design your logo is the logo design guru’s. These guys are really professionals and they know how to serve a customer at the same time. When you order a logo design you will have to make sure that you get a high quality logo and a good support team. Logo design Guru’s have them both.
Guru.com – Guru dot come is the place where I go whenever I need to design a minisite for one of my product. You can find thousands of designers who are looking to work for you for low prices.
The Warrior Forum – This forum is not only great for your online success, but there are also designers who will create a custom logo for you for a dirt cheap price. While the price is low because the warriors are supporting each other, the designs are high quality and you can count on those warriors. The most important thing on the warrior forum is to read reviews of other people before you order. On every thread you will see people responding with “thanks” and “your work is great” and all kinds of reviews. If you see enough reviews than you can be sure that this warrior will create a high quality work for you.
There are a lot more places where you can hire people to design your logo, but those are the best of them as far as I know. If you want me to list even more of them just comment and ask for it.
Blogging for your success,
Mike G
P.SPopularity: 97% [?]
Continue reading...12. July 2009
When you’re starting an online business, you have to brand yourself with a professionaly designed logo. Your logo is going to be the face of your online company so you have to design it as good as you can.
There are lots of ways to design a logo for your company, and even if you’re not a computer genius you can still get it to look like you are. I’m going to list a few ways to get your logo done and you can choose any one of them. If you still feel like it’s better for you to hire someone to do it for you, than read the second part of this article which will be posted right after this one.
So here’s how you can create a professionally designed logo by yourself. There are software’s who cost more than others, but you should check the output of the logo to understand what the software can do before you buy it. The price is not always the issue, because if you are going to design the logo by yourself, you still want it to be in a very high quality.
The Logo Creator – This is one of the best software’s to design a professional logo with a click of a button. If you are a computer dumb than this software has been built for you. All you have to do to get a professional logo is to start the program, choose a category from a list of categories, choose your logo, write the name of your website or blog, and you’re all done. The software creates the logo for you in under 20 second and still, the logo will look like it was designed by a professional designer. When I first got started online I started with the Logo Creator, so you can be sure that it’s a high quality software.
AAA Logo – This software is also very powerful. If you want to design a professional logo with ease than this software is neat. The procedure is almost the same. You choose a template, change the font, and there you have a high quality logo design.
Online Logo Design – There are all kinds of websites who offer an online logo design service. Some of them will create a professional logo for you and other will not, but it’s always good to try those services and see if you get something good. When you do use those services be sure to check out the demo logo designs before you start building so you’ll know if the output is going to be something good or just a crappy logo. You don’t want to spend your time for nothing.
Do It Yourself – If none of those is good for you than you can create your logo on your own. You can always download Gimp and play with it for a few hours and I’m sure that you’ll design a good logo. If you don’t know how to use Gimp you are still able to create a log because you can find a lot of online Gimp tutorials. Simply search Google for “Gimp tutorials” and you’ll find tons of them.
As you can see, you are able to do almost anything on your own. The only thing you need is motivation. With all the tools we have online you simply need to be to lazy NOT to manage things on your own.
Blogging for your success,
Mike G
P.S
To find any of the software’s I listed above simply search Google for the title of the software and you should find it with ease.
P.SPopularity: 93% [?]
Continue reading...5. July 2009
There are loads of article writing out there, but can they really translate an article from start to end without any need for us to make chnages for it?
I have one aswer for that question. The most creative article writing software is you. There is no magic software who can do the magic and serve you the ready to publish article. The human brain is the most powerful tool which no machine in the world has, and I dout it if will be.
Instead of looking for ways to cheat your way and translate articles, sit with yourself and work on your articles. The fact that you don’t do enough for your business is that you are looking for shortcuts. a real business must be unique and give the world something different from all the other businesses if he wants to succeed. I want to give you 3 tips for fast and easy article writing.
Quality and not quantity -When you write your articles, be sure to write quality content for your readers. Writing articles just to get traffic will just not work, and even if it will work than the readers will not be useful to you and will not make you money, because when someone who visits your site is looking for something. If you don’t fullfil his needs for the high quality information he was looking, don’t expect that visitor to follow the link to read more about you, register to your website to learn more, click on an adsense ad, subscribe to your list, and so on. People need to get information to want to know more about you and your offer, and if you know how to treat your visitors and reders than you’ll probably succeed online.
effective keyword research – Before you rush to write hunderds of articles you must understand that you need to write what people want to know. Writing articles that you like to read is just not effective these days. If you want to get some traffic to your website than you should write about things that people are looking for. How to do it? Well, all you have to do is to find a free keyword tool like wordtracker and look for long tail keywords which have low competition and high search volume. If you don’t know what all that means, you can read the article I wrote about making money from long tail keyword.
Time managment – If you want to produce your articles fast you need to manage your time right. Managing your time is crucial for your article writing success, and if you want to produce as much articles as you can than be sure to split your time in a way that will enable you to concentrate only in your article while you’re writing. You want to dedicate yourself to your writing while not letting anyone to distube you. When you’ll work in a quiet room without any noise, and no one is enterupting you, you’ll be able to produce articles like an article writing software, if not even better.
Blogging for your success,
Mike G
P.SPopularity: 52% [?]
Continue reading...2. July 2009
“I have 33 articles published at Ezinearticles but they never made me money”
“I worked so hard for a week or so to produce 25 articles, I uploaded them to all the article directories I could possible think about, but I still don’t see any sale”
Does it sounds familiar to you?
Well, you are not alone. Most of the newbies to Internet marketing think that they can just write an article about any topic that comes to their mind and they will make money online in a snap. That’s absolutely not the case in the real life. If you want to make money online from your articles you have to write what people want to know, and not what you want to say.
a good friend of mine started Internet marketing 3 years ago. One day he came to me and cried that he spent over 18 days to create 67 articles about one niche that if my memory is not misleading me was the dating niche. He submitted his articles for 2 days writing a special resource box for every chunk of articles to test what’s the best approach to that niche. You’ll be surprised that from all those articles, from all that hours of working he made only two sales for a period of 6 months.
Why do I tell you this story?
Because I want you to understand that the quality is more important than the quantity. You can produce one thousand article for ONE niche but there will still be a chance that you’ll not get a single sale. Well, maybe one but not more
The thing is, you have to make a proper keyword research for your articles. When you’re producing articles about what you have to teach others that great, but it will not make you money. You need to look for search terms people type on search engines and create your article upon those search terms. We all know that if someone who is looking for quality content to learn something, and you lay it all down for him on the table with a good presell, you have a very high chance to make a sale from that person.
Create Your Content With The Best Quality You Can And The Sales Will Follow You Wherever You Go
That’s for sure. When you create a high quality peace of content, let it be an article, a sales page, or even a press release. When you put yourself into it and give your best, your results will be the same. When someone is reading the content you have created he has two options.
Option one : He will ask himself who is the crazy man who wrote this article and close the page. In some cases he will even remember the website name just to make sure not to come back to it. People hate invaluable content, and from the other hand, they will always get back to a reliable and valuable content.
Option two : The reader will be very impressed from your knowledge. He will feel like he knows you for years if you only know how to create that feeling in your writing. He will also be sure that you are an expert in your field and will probably check to see what else you have to offer and who are you from a deeper angle. When you reach to that stage with someone, that’s a 75% to get a sale out of him. Of course the sale can be made in all kinds of ways like from your resource box if it’s an article, an email campaign if you’re promoting an opt-in page, and all kinds of other ways you have in mind.
As you can see, creating unique content is crucial for your online success, and if you want to make money online, be sure to produce good content and your readers will reward you for it.
Blogging for your success,
Mike Hersh
P.SPopularity: 29% [?]
Continue reading...2. July 2009
We all have the same problem. We want to make a lot of money, but not all of us are in a mood to do all the dirty work. What you don’t really understand is that the people who are making money from articles are those who have hundreds of articles submitted to the best article directories out there. You can’t expect to make a whole bunch of money without putting all your effort into your article writing and marketing.
One of the best ways to create a bunch of articles is to decide when you are going to create them, and how much time you are going to invest in them.
You Need To Create a Plan
Motivation is a really crazy thing which comes and go whenever you are feeling good or bad about yourself and about your environment. That’s why you have to create a plan and decide when you are going to sit on those articles, how much articles you are going to produce, and about what they are going to be.
The best way to create your plan is to take a pen and a paper and write your plan. Be sure that you are not deciding on a time where you are busy in other things. You should invest time in your articles if you want them to be high quality, so be sure that you have all the time to invest in them.
Don’t Decide To Create More Than You Can
The most common reason to article writing failure is that people decide to create 100 articles which of course is only a dream. That dream is getting you frustrated even before you got started. Setting up a small goal as a start is a good idea. Try to create 5-10 articles in a weekend as a start. After you have created those articles try to create a higher goal of 10-20 for the next weekend. You have to understand that when you have a goal in mind, you’ll create your articles a lot faster than you usually do because you will concentrate in your goal and you’ll not be distracted by other things.
Work In a Quiet Environment
This is the craziest thing ever. I see lots of guys writing their article when their children are near them screaming and playing. You don’t seem to understand how important it is to work in a quiet room. You’ll probably be producing x10 content than you are usually do in a place where you don’t have your time and mind to concentrate. I remember the day where I decided that I will never work again near my children. My luck was that my wife was with me in the idea because she always knew that I have to much on my mind, and that’s what was keeping me from making money online.
Don’t Let Anything Distract You While You’re Working
You can’t let anything to distract you from what you’re doing at any given time. If you want to create high quality articles which eventually will produce money for you 24/7 than you have to create them to be in a very high quality. When something distract you it’s very hard to get back to the place you were before it happened. Research show that it takes for about 12 minutes for your mind to get settled again. When you’re working on your articles be sure to turn off you phone, close your email software, and be sure to tell everyone in the house that you are working now, and you will answer only if what they have to say is really important.
Having your own space when you’re working on your articles, or even any other Internet job, is essential for your success. You just can’t make money online when you are always distracted from other things. When I felt that I need my quiet room to work on my projects, I simply talked to my wife and asked her if she wants me to make money by the end of the year or maybe 5 years from now. You probably can guess what was the answer, and from that day, my wife is going out with our children for at least 3-5 hours a day. I have to admit that if she was not a woman who understands my needs, I would hire a 1 room apartment for me to work on my projects. I have to work on my things in a relaxed environment, and a quiet room. If you don’t have the ability to have those, than you should start thinking how you CAN get them. You’ll never make money online if you’ll not have those 2 simple things.
Blogging To Your Success,
Mike G
P.SPopularity: 24% [?]
Continue reading...26. June 2009
Video is the latest trend. You know that because you can see all the videos on the so called guru’s sales pages. In fact, today not only the guru’s are using a video on their sales page. With the latest technology even a baby can add a video to his blog
Why you need a video on your blog?
Well, the best way to introduce yourself to your blog readers is a video recording of you saying hello. Recording a video will make our visitors to feel like they know you for a long time and trust you more. You can record a video instructions to help your visitors to browse your blog as you like them to do. You know your blog better than anyone else and you probably know where is a good start for your visitors.
Is it hard to add a video recording to my sales page?
Absolutely not! If you’re using a wordpress blog than you can install only one plugin that will set the video for you on the page you choose. Simply tell the plugin where to add your video, point it to the video file, and you’re done!
How can I record myself?
To record yourself you will need a web camera. The better your camera the better your video will be. Be sure not to make a fool out of yourself and record a video which is not professional enough for your visitors. If you’re already recording a video, make sure it’s looking good and that you have a good headset to record it.
The best software out there to capture your video is Camtasia Studio. I bet you’ve heard that name a least 10 times in your life even if you are online for 2 days
Camtasia Studio is a simple software which can capture your screen activity, and can capture your camera as well. All you need to do is to install the software on your computer and run it. When you’re ready to record you’ll have to click on the record button and the program will start the video session. When you’re done click on the button again. There you have it. Your video is ready for edit.
Editing your video
When you finish the recordings, you will need to edit your video. Be sure to add as much things as you can to help your audience understand exactly what is where and where is what.
That’s it. Now you can add videos to your website, blog, or even a sales page. By adding a video to your website you can expect a nice increase in your conversion rate. That’s of course if you created your video in a professional way like I told you.
Blogging for your success,
Mike G
P.SPopularity: 16% [?]
Continue reading...26. June 2009
There is a stage where you start to understand that a sales letter without something appealing to attract more people and convince them will just not work. There are a lot of things that you can add to your sales page, and the most popular today are audio and video on a sales page.
Adding audio recording of you explaining the benefits of your product can boost your conversion rate by up to 200%. People will get a feeling they can trust you when you’re talking personally to them in your audio recording. Having such a personal touch in your sales page will increase your sales and will get those buyers back to you again and again because they feel they truest you more.
So how you can add audio to your sales page?
There are all kinds of tools who let you add audio recording to a sales page. The first thing you’ll need to do is to record yourself. Next you’ll have to upload your recording to your hosting account (server) and get a flash player. You can find the best flash player which all the guru’s are using HERE.
The great thing about this player is that you can add it to a wordpress blog and to a regular sales page too. All you have to do to upload it is to add a few lines into your home page, and point it to the mp3 file of your recording. If you’re using wordpress than the installation is even easier. You simply need to install a new plugin that will take care of all the work for you. Go to your admin panel and activate the plugin, and BAM! Everything is in place.
Now you can understand why all the so called guru’s are using the audio recordings on their sales page. Every tool that can help you reach your visitors in a more personal way will increase your conversions. On the next post I will show you how to add video to a sales page or into your blog.
Blogging for your success,
Mike G
P.SPopularity: 14% [?]
Continue reading...22. June 2009
While I was browsing the web for new backlinks for my blog, I found a great website that offers you a list of do follow blogs to get your backlinks from.
Why you need backlinks you ask?
backlinks are by far the best way to increase your search engine rankings. While there are a lot of seo tools to use out there, backlinks is the strongest factor that determines the ranking of your blog or website on search engines. The more links you have on the world wide web pointing to your website, the more creditability you’ll get from search engines. Of course it will affect your pagerank too, because backlinks is your proof for providing quality content for the web, and when you create quality content for people to read and they point to your website, you gain better search engine rankings.
The website I found and wanted to share with you is:
http://www.seo-traffic-guide.de/
this website will let you add your keyword into the search box, add your email address, and they will send you a list of do follow blogs that you can get backlinks from.
The truth is I got a monster blog list and could not hold myself from telling you. I really care about your success so I share everything I know with you. The list I got was over 2000 blogs for the term “make money online” which is the keyword I target for my blog. The nice thing here is that you can find blogs in any niche, and that’s absolutely perfect.
How can backlinks make you money?
It’s really simple and I already said that. The better your search engine ranking, the more organic traffic you’ll get, the more free traffic you get, the more sales and money you make.
I really recommend you to visit their site, download your own list, open your Microsoft Excel and start working. Getting backlinks to your blog or website is by far the most important thing in an online business. a website without traffic is like having a store filled with goodies but with a closed door.
Blogging for your success,
Mike G
P.S
Tell me what you think about this tool by commenting down here.
P.SPopularity: 17% [?]
Continue reading...16. June 2009
There is a lot of buzz under the forex trading market in the last few years. The forex trading market is getting stronger from year to year taking a lot of new traders to the market. If you don’t know what is forex trading than you should read about it as fast as you can, because there is a lot of money to be made in that market.
Trading in the forex market is not difficult at all, in fact, after you get the idea you can trade in the market with ease. For those of you who don’t even know what is forex, here is a short explanation.
Forex is all about trading other currencies from all around the world. Forex is the short term for “foreign exchange” and a lot of people know it as FX trading.
So how you can make money online with forex?
Well, 2 years ago if someone wanted to trade currencies, he needed to stay tuned to the market and decide when he wants to sell the currency he has to another one that can make him more money. In the last 3 years, people who trade the forex market invented a special robot who can trade in the market for you. There are robots who can double or even triple your money in a very short time, and that’s really cool.
To start trading in the forex market and make money, you should invest a starting amount, and you start trading with your money. If you know how to manage your robot in a smart way, you’ll be able to make a lot of money. Those robots are really smart, I can even say that they predict the future using their own calculation. That’s why most of these robots really work and they are making thousands of dollars to their owners.
If you want to trade in the forex market with your own robot, you can get the latest edition of the forex robot which is called “the forex megadroid“. This is the latest robot that can triple your investment in the shortest time possible.
Albert Perri the co-founder of this forex megadroid robot had 38 years of experience in currency trading, so he took all his knowledge and build a robot that can trade in the market for you, which means that it’s exactly like having Albert sitting next to you and doing the work for you.
As Albert is claiming, and so do his customers, that this robot can make you $4 from every $1 that you invest. Today I browsed his website and there are a lot of positive reviews about the forex megadroid.
Always remember that you should never risk any amount of money that is coming from your family budget, but if you have a few dollars that you really can invest without having trouble than this thing is exactly for you. I heard a lot of people who made money from the forex trading market, so why not joining that success.
Blogging For Your Success,
Mike G
P.SPopularity: 18% [?]
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15. July 2009
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