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Fifty Days With a Content Syndication Service
I have some actual data to report, but before I do let me provide some background. Seven weeks ago I joined an content distribution service. I don’t literally know the man who owns this service, but I think he should let me borrow it for my next vacation].
Due to my many prior experiences with this boy genius (well, he’s not really that young), I knew that this new concept would give me what I was looking for: An innovative way of distributing my articles. I’m no different from any other online marketer, I’m always wanting more and more quality traffic, and who among us is not constantly looking for fresh one-way external links. My primary approach for achieving both of these goals is distributing content to article directories.
This service has some advantages over traditional submission to article directories, though. For example, I can now put my links directly into the body of the article rather than assigning them to a resource box. That’s something that isn’t allowed in most article directories, but contextual linking offers greater benefits in terms of search engine optimization and traffic maximization. Also, rather than being filtered through an article directory, my articles in this system can go directly to a website that is specifically related to my niche. Once again, great for traffic and SEO. Third, since some of my business involves affiliate marketing, with this service I can put an affiliate link directly in the article, if I want–another thing that the article directories don’t allow. Fourth, the distribution system has a built in article spinner, so that the version of the article that each website publishes can be unique.
Let me tell you what my membership has helped me achieve in the less than seven weeks that I have been a member. Here are just a few of the highlights of my experience with My Article Network.
You need to realize that the system gradually distributes articles to websites, so every article I’ve submitted so far is still yet to be published on some of its sites and other articles have just begun. I have written not quite sixty articles for the system, so far–all very well spun. Over 1900 web pages now consist of my unique versions of those articles. I am allowed to insert up to three links in each article, but I vary the number of links, so my conservative best guess is that my sites singled out for promotion through this system have received somewhere in excess of four thousand links. Of course many of those are so new that they haven’t been picked up by the search engines, yet. In other words, a lot of the work that I’ve put into this distribution already will reach the maximum benefit months down the road.
About half the articles are directed toward my newest site, which I just started building three months ago. From the first time I noticed it in the Alexa rankings (after I had joined this network) it has climbed over two million positions! In fact, it gets more traffic than some of my sites that have been around for quite a while. For example, I have done nothing to my oldest site (no pages added, no new SEO, only 9 articles in this system pointing at it), and it has jumped 120,000 positions. As far as I can tell, that additional traffic can be attributed only to this network and my measly efforts in writing content for distribution that is related to this niche in the past seven weeks.
Okay, if you like those numbers, take a look at this. Only six days ago, I decided I should just keep records of the results, so I set up a spread sheet. During that six day period, the eight sites that I have promoted using this distribution network have risen in Alexa a cumulative total of over five million positions. I realize that Alexa is not the finest measure of progress, but I still think that’s a very strong indication of getting my money’s worth and then some.
I became so enthused, I actually started four new blogs just to take advantage of all the free content that is available in this system. By the way, adding websites is free; maybe that explains why there are over 10,000 sites in the system ready to publish articles!
I strongly suggest that you become a member of My Article Network. Yes, you affiliate marketers out there, you can become an affiliate–after you join the article distribution service.