Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Are you a successful bum marketer? Whether you are a newbie trying your hand on bum marketing or you are a battle harden expert in the bum marketing method, there are some bum marketing secrets and tips here that might prove useful to you.
Assuming that you are working on the correct niche and product, these are some bum marketing tips and secrets that will give your bum marketing method a tremendous boost! I personally have used these to get my articles and lens on Page 1 at Top 3.
Bum Marketing Secret 1
This is the single MOST important factor that decides if the bum marketing method is a success or failure for you!
And it is …..UNIQUE QUALITY CONTENT…If you guessed it correctly, you are smart but sorry, there is no prize for you.
While you heard about “unique content” a thousand times, many people only focus on making it “unique” but fail to realize the “quality” part.
Rehashing poorly written PLR articles, or rewriting articles that you copied from EzineArticles, Article City and so on is not going to give you unique quality content. Garbage begets garbage.
Read my post on “7 Killer Tips to Create Unique Content in 15 Minutes” for some inspiration on how to prepare your articles.
Sometimes, sitting down and consolidating useful information from different sources like the internet, newspapers, books, and so on as material for your article writing can be a worthwhile investment.
Bum Marketing Secret 2
The next most important ingredient to make your bum marketing article work wonders for you is the keyword competitiveness.
For the best effect and potential to rank Top 3 in Google,
Go for a keyphrase that has low to moderate searches (at least 300 – 1000 according to WordTracker) and less than 200,000 in the search results (the lower the better).
Note: If the search count is too low, you may rank No.1 but still get peanuts for traffic.
Bum Marketing Secret 3
Another key ingredient is the keyword density. I said this before. Get a keyword density of around 1.5% and if you follow Secret 1 also, your EzineArticles article or Squidoo will stand a solid chance to be the Champion, First Runner-up or Second Runner-up for your keyword in Google.
Bum Marketing Secret 4
This is similar to Secret 2. Many people think that the more articles they submit, the more traffic they get. This is a half truth.
If you have a choice, go for quality in your articles rather than quantity. But if you can find both, great!
Over time, you will realize that only articles of excellent content and information will reign in the top Google search results.
I have experimented with hundreds of articles and lens over the past 1 year. Normally, I will write and submit a number of articles targeting the same keyword as a test. These are done using different methods like researching and writing my article, copying and rewriting articles taken from article directories and PLR membership sites and paying others to write.
At the end of the day, only Quality Content has the staying power! Some of my articles continue to reign in top spots without any shake up for an entire year!
Bum Marketing Secret 5
This is my favourite trick. I call it an ACE card for all professional cash pumping affiliates!
Did you know that your EzineArticles article or Squidoo lens is a web page?
So if it is a web page, it follows the basic principles of SEO. Good SEO practice tells you that you need good backlinking to your site.
Many people fail to realize that backlinking can be done not only to their websites but to their EzineArticles articles, Squidoo Lens and HubPages as well!
So go ahead and post your link in forums, blog comments, social bookmarking sites and wherever you can do so without spamming around!
Read my buddy Dylan Loh’s secrets for a successful bum marketing blueprint.
Posted in Article Marketing, General, Online Marketing Learning, SEO, Web Traffic | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
What are the most important or must-have bum marketing tools in your arsenal?
I talked about the bum marketing method in my previous post. Today, I want to spend some time to talk about the essential bum marketing tools that I use quite often.
1. Brainstorming for Niches and Products
In brainstorming for ideas or niches to target for my bum marketing efforts, there is one place you will love to go to.
CB Engine – it is quite simply one of the best tools to find hot products to promote. I like the feature that lets you filter off the search results according to your preference such as minimum commissions and commission payout percentage and so on. Personally, if the commission payout is lower than $20 per sale, I will ditch it.
From here, you can also get to see which are the market movers and what are the most popular topics. With the pro version, you get a full set of cool tools to use as a ClickBank affiliate.
One word of advice here – the “make money online” market is one where the buyers tend to be very well-informed! It may not be that easy to make money out of them.
While it is also such a huge market where tons of products are sold, it is not recommended for the newbie bum marketer. Target the other niche markets using your bum marketing method.
2. Keyword Research Tools
Once you decide on a market to target, it is time to do proper keyword research. A lot of people get this wrong by focusing on keyword research first before looking at the market’s profitability.
Some tools I use frequently include:
a. Google’s very own keyword research tool
This is a free tool to find long tail keywords. But it is not the best since you cannot figure out what is the exact search count.
b. Keyword Elite
If you have money, invest in Keyword Elite. It is one of the most powerful keyword research software I use to find the right keywords to target for the bum marketing method. This is hands-down one of the best bum marketing tools!
c. NicheBot
NicheBot is a super dynamo when it comes to churning out laser-targeted keywords for your bum marketing articles. I use the paid version which gives me detailed run downs on what are the exact keywords people are searching.
This bum marketing tool also suggests which “Jackpot” keywords you can use to dominate any niche market you are in. These are keywords and keyphrase where there is almost zero competition! This is perfect for my bum marketing method.
It is meant for more elaborate keyword research and ideal for PPC campaigns as well.
3. Writing Content for Bum Marketing Articles
I used to write all my articles for bum marketing traffic. But with a network of 50 over blogs, it can be extremely challenging to write all my content.
There are some tools and services that make things really simple for me.
a. Instant Article Wizard
This is my baby for the bum marketing method. The reason why I say that it is a tool made for bum marketers is because in the whole bum marketing strategy, pumping out articles fast is the key to win the game! And that is what Instant Article Wizard does.
Oh, do not simply slap an article together with the search. Well you can and chances are the article is highly readable, but I expect a lot out of my articles.
So I will normally use it to do my content research. Find all the necessary data and information and then write an original article altogether.
b. Hiring GhostWriters
Ghostwriters are so important if you intend to run a successful business. Outsource your writing to good writers. Pay them well enough and you are never in lack of quality unique content.
$5 for an article is quite reasonable. I often use GetaFreeLancer and DP Forums for my content writing needs.
4. Submitting the Bum Marketing Articles
Article directories are my main battlegrounds to charge up profits from the bum marketing method.
I rely heavily on article submission software and article submission services.
Article Post Robot is the ultimate well-invested tool I found. It has earned me many fold the one-time price I paid for it. With one click, my article is distributed to over 400 article directories including EzineArticles. So far, this is the only tool that can post to the correct article category.
Read this review about Article Post Robot to understand what it can do for you.
The next are the article submission services, Unique Article Wizard and JetSubmitter. Both are hands-free services that distribute my articles to well over hundreds of article directories. Read about these two services at this article submission service review site.
I love UAW more simply because it also posts my articles onto their network of blogs. So far, I have seen quite a number of my articles that are posted on blogs ranking Top 10 in Google. I consider this my secret weapon among the bum marketing tools I own.
I hope I did not miss out on any tool that is useful for bum marketing. Feel free to post your comments about your arsenal of bum marketing tools here.
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