I have been thinking about this for a while.
Many of us do article marketing for just one reason – building backlinks over time.
Some of us do article marketing for real human traffic – they actually sell stuff from their article pages on the directories.
Well, a blog network gives me both of these things. Of course I get backlinks and I see this as the primary reason for using a blog network. But it goes further.
If I submit my content to a blog network then I am going to have loads of content that is indexed and should expect to see some real human traffic. I can not help but think that an article on a themed blog is roughly equivalent to an article on an article directory when it comes to folks buying stuff.
As article directories move to a payment for submission model (they will and are doing so right now) then blog networks will look ever more cost effective and a well run site will get traffic and eyeballs.
Of course, if we add our own sites to networks then we get double bubble – links to any of our sites that we control, links to any of our sites from the rest of the network AND revenues from the visiting eyeballs due to the inflow of content.
I can foresee that over the next 12-18 months that the article directory landscape is going to look a little different. Fewer directories, more blog networks and less need to use the directories – particularly the low rent majority.
Are any readers here using blog networks and seeing real revenue from their content submissions OR their own sites in these networks?
Post a comment and let me know how you are getting on with blog networks.
Filed under Blog Promotion, Blogging Tools, Ideas and Tips, Internet Marketing, Making Money by on Sep 2nd, 2008. Comment. 
One of the ongoing issues with our online businesses is that of finding decent quality content to place before our readers. Sometimes we need to provide more than we can write ourselves. Sometimes we want to NOT write anything at all.
Since 2006 I have been researching the field of content and how to get it onto my sites and the sites of my clients. Well, right now the market is getting interesting. 
Two new services have popped up at almost the same time, I will write about just one of them today.
Syndicate Kahuna is a new offering from the guys behind PortalFeeder and Traffic Kahuna and it builds on both systems to provide blog owners with a very cool way to get unique, fresh content onto your niche blogs.
Filed under Blog Promotion, Blogging Tools, Ideas and Tips, Internet Marketing by on Sep 18th, 2008. Comment.
In the worlds of internet marketing and SEO there is one theme that stands out above all others. It has been around for years and will be around for years to come.
The concept is called the "Big Red Button" or alternatively the "Big Green Button". To put it simply, a lot of folks just want an easy one step solution to their problem.
Over the course of internet marketing history there have been many tries to make such a tool. An enabler so that people can make a large amount of cash with their skills and knowledge but with minimal work.
Some readers might remember Traffic Equalizer, some may have used PortalFeeder, others probably tried many of the less successful imitators.
So now it is Peter Drew who has a tilt at the target. The question is this: Has he got what it takes wrapped up in the form of his Brute Force SEO system?
To be honest, at the moment we do not have much to go on but what we do have seems positive.
Firstly – and to my mind (because I am a little big headed) he is doing stuff that I have already done and know works. That means his toolbox simply has to deliver what he claims because the strategies and techniques DO work.
I'll explain… Over the past few years, I've developed tactics that have allowed me to earn very good money from certain types of product launches. My results filled the search engine rankings for the search terms that I was certain would be used by prospects and buyers of these products. I was showing colleagues results where I was getting 16 of the first 20 results in Google for absolutely key terms. If you wanted info on a product in which I was interested then you were coming to one of my pages!
My system was time consuming and almost entirely manual, but very profitable.
Then, a while back Pete Drew started selling a set of tools that duplicated some of the stuff I was doing by hand. I bought them as they came out. All the time I was wondering when he’d get around to packaging them all up as a single toolkit.
Finally he did it. It is called Brute Force SEO
Anyway, gotta go.
Next post we will start to look at just what Bruteforce SEO has to offer us.
Filed under Blog Promotion, Blog Setups, Blogging Tools, Ideas and Tips, Internet Marketing, Making Money by on Sep 19th, 2008. Comment.
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