A Clever New Way to Syndicate Content Is Working For Me

23/02/2010 by FeedCrazy.

I have some hard data to report, but before I do let me provide a little background.  Fewer than fifty days ago, I made the wise choice of becoming a member of an article marketing 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].

Because of my past experiences with this guy, I was confident that the service would accomplish for me what it promised: An entirely unique, effective approach to content marketing.  Like any Internet marketer, I could always use more traffic, and is there anyone who isn’t on the look-out for a way to add external links pointed toward our virtual real estate?  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.  First, I am able to put contextual links into the body of the article.  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.  Second, the articles go directly to websites for publication, sites that are in my niche or a closely related niche.  As with the previous benefit, that helps with regard to both 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.  Unique versions of those articles now appear on over 1900 pages on the web.  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.  Obviously, it will require additional time for some of those links to be noticed by the various search engine.  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.

I started a new site in a very competitive niche about three months ago, and I have directed the links from more than half of my articles toward that site’s promotion.  From the first time I noticed it in the Alexa rankings (after I had joined this network) it has climbed over two million positions!  I’m a bit embarassed to admit it, but the new site gets more traffic already than some of my old sites that I have been working on for years.  Indeed on the oldest site that I ever built (that I still own), has received no attention from me in months, but I entered nine articles into this system and that site’s Alexa ranking has improved by more than 120,000 positions.  I can’t attribute that traffic growth to anything other than those nine articles–and the system that distributed them.

I’m quite pleased with the results so far, but I have been lax in my tracking.  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.  Not bad for six days.

I actually became so excited by the whole process that I have subsequently created four new blogs to join the over 10,000 websites that are eager publishers for the content that we writer-marketers provide.

I urge you to check out My Article Network.  Yes, you affiliate marketers out there, you can become an affiliate–after you join the article distribution service.

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