In actual fact, this month’s King is a Queen. Liz Canham submitted 39 articles and scored 774 points for them. Points are awarded via the site’s moderation and rating system which was put in place to maintain a high standard of articles throughout the site.

The King competition is on-going and is always based on articles submitted within the previous 90 days, so as time passes, older articles will no longer be counted.  This means that anyone new to article marketing or generally submitting articles to article sites can be in with a chance of becoming King if they consistently submit good quality articles to the site.

Obviously, some authors, such as Liz, have a head start, but if you start submitting articles now, you could be in with a chance to win the September 2009 King contest.

There are many valuable benefits to becoming King of the site, and as promised in a previous post, all future articles written by the King will be syndicated to this site, which will provide additional back-links to the articles.

Congratulations go to Liz Canham, whose article RSS feed has already been added to this site.

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Unfortunately, we are no longer a revenue-sharing article site, but Article Content King is. If you want to submit articles, and take a share in the revenue earned by the site that displays your articles, head on over to Article Content King now and sign up. It’s free!

Every month, starting in August 2009, one lucky author on Article Content King will be crowned King (or Queen). There are many benefits to being the King, so if you’re into Article Marketing, or are about to get started in Article Marketing, why not sign up for a free account and submit your articles.

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If you become the Article Content King, your articles will be syndicated onto this blog, giving it even more coverage.

So don’t delay! Get your free article marketing account at Article Content King

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As you know many people tout article marketing as one of the best and cheapest ways to get your name out there, get known and get links to your websites. This is true, however, over the last couple of years the results have diminished for the standard methods. Once upon a time, just 2 or 3 years ago internet time, you could post articles that got syndicated to many article directories and you would just get traffic to your website. But now there are so many articles out there that your article is just another ad page for directory owners in the vast sea of pages on the Internet.

And, as you also know, the Internet is constantly changing and so must you if you want the best results for your marketing efforts. What once worked very well in not working so well now. With the increased popularity in blogs and in social networking it is evident where the attention is going. If you want to get under the noses of potential customers and clients, you need to be where they are. Sure, many people still find what they are looking for through search engines, but they are also spending a lot of time in blogs and social networking sites.

Now you should be looking to get your presence in all of these areas in order to have the best chance at getting in front of the specific people you want to see what you have for them. You can, if you haven’t already, set up your own blog with proper SEO practices and get involved in many of the social networking sites in order to get your message out there. And if you are trying to do all this you know how much work it is. And if you are not yet doing these things, you have realized how ineffective old-style article marketing has become.

There is a new system that has popped up that combines all the newest aspects of the web that the masses are flocking to with article marketing, and has shown phenomenal results particularly for being so new. This new article marketing system is in its infancy and just as the overall web, is growing and developing all the time. The great thing about this new system is that on top of integrating the nets currently most powerful aspects, it is designed to continuously change with the overall Internet environment, helping to keep your efforts producing the results you want.

Many new articles are showing up on the first page of search results and many at number one, just days after posting. When was the last time you had your article show up on the first page of a search? The way they do it is to offer much more than a traditional article directory.

Did you know that the reason article directories really want your content is so they can place ads on those pages from which they generate income. Now that in itself is not so sinister as we all realize that the directory operator needs to generate income somehow when they don’t charge us anything to post an article. But on the other hand we really don’t get much from the post, just a page online with little to no linking or socializing power. Plus, when there are ads all over the page your article is on many of the readers take off through an ad link without clicking on your link at the bottom of the article. So you gave the reader a little information and they went elsewhere to get more, not to your site.

In this new system, they allow you to have full control over the adspace on your articles page. You can put your own ads on it, your chosen affiliate products ads, you can sell the adspace or you can set it up with no ads, so your site link is all that is there. So, you get control of the revenue generated the page and the outgoing links.

Another aspect of this new system is that the article directory is a blog, not a static site. You know that blogs are getting a huge amount of reader attention plus they get much favorable attention from the search engines. On the net today, a blog page has become more powerful than a standard web page. So without even having your own blog you can now realize the power of a blog where readers can interact easily with comments, and you can comment back. Interaction with your readers has proven to be extremely valuable because as they get to know you they are far more likely to take you up on your offers.

And to add the icing on top, this new system does social networking for your articles. They help to gather viewers through various social networking sites to come to read your articles. If you can just get your arms around how powerful this is you will soon realize how even the traffic they bring in for another authors article also benefits yours in the same topic.

Of course if you add your own social networking efforts your articles will do even better, and in this system they show you how to do this as well, because it benefits the whole system. This is the closest thing I have found that is truly a win-win-win for everyone involved in the area of article marketing. If you understand how getting the most from your time and your money is of utmost importance in business and have been wondering how to get fantastic results in today’s online environment, this new generation advanced article marketing system may just be the answer for you. Have you been using article marketing as part of your Internet marketing business? Have your efforts evolved along with the Web? Have you notices how more complex it has become to get really good results? Article marketing can be very effective when done right. The question is how are you doing it? I want to tell you about something that seems to be working very well.

As you know many people tout article marketing as one of the best and cheapest ways to get your name out there, get known and get links to your websites. This is true, however, over the last couple of years the results have diminished for the standard methods. Once upon a time, just 2 or 3 years ago internet time, you could post articles that got syndicated to many article directories and you would just get traffic to your website. But now there are so many articles out there that your article is just another ad page for directory owners in the vast sea of pages on the Internet.

And, as you also know, the Internet is constantly changing and so must you if you want the best results for your marketing efforts. What once worked very well in not working so well now. With the increased popularity in blogs and in social networking it is evident where the attention is going. If you want to get under the noses of potential customers and clients, you need to be where they are. Sure, many people still find what they are looking for through search engines, but they are also spending a lot of time in blogs and social networking sites.

Now you should be looking to get your presence in all of these areas in order to have the best chance at getting in front of the specific people you want to see what you have for them. You can, if you haven’t already, set up your own blog with proper SEO practices and get involved in many of the social networking sites in order to get your message out there. And if you are trying to do all this you know how much work it is. And if you are not yet doing these things, you have realized how ineffective old-style article marketing has become.

There is a new system that has popped up that combines all the newest aspects of the web that the masses are flocking to with article marketing, and has shown phenomenal results particularly for being so new. This new article marketing system is in its infancy and just as the overall web, is growing and developing all the time. The great thing about this new system is that on top of integrating the nets currently most powerful aspects, it is designed to continuously change with the overall Internet environment, helping to keep your efforts producing the results you want.

Many new articles are showing up on the first page of search results and many at number one, just days after posting. When was the last time you had your article show up on the first page of a search? The way they do it is to offer much more than a traditional article directory.

Did you know that the reason article directories really want your content is so they can place ads on those pages from which they generate income. Now that in itself is not so sinister as we all realize that the directory operator needs to generate income somehow when they don’t charge us anything to post an article. But on the other hand we really don’t get much from the post, just a page online with little to no linking or socializing power. Plus, when there are ads all over the page your article is on many of the readers take off through an ad link without clicking on your link at the bottom of the article. So you gave the reader a little information and they went elsewhere to get more, not to your site.

In this new system, they allow you to have full control over the adspace on your articles page. You can put your own ads on it, your chosen affiliate products ads, you can sell the adspace or you can set it up with no ads, so your site link is all that is there. So, you get control of the revenue generated the page and the outgoing links.

Another aspect of this new system is that the article directory is a blog, not a static site. You know that blogs are getting a huge amount of reader attention plus they get much favorable attention from the search engines. On the net today, a blog page has become more powerful than a standard web page. So without even having your own blog you can now realize the power of a blog where readers can interact easily with comments, and you can comment back. Interaction with your readers has proven to be extremely valuable because as they get to know you they are far more likely to take you up on your offers.

And to add the icing on top, this new system does social networking for your articles. They help to gather viewers through various social networking sites to come to read your articles. If you can just get your arms around how powerful this is you will soon realize how even the traffic they bring in for another authors article also benefits yours in the same topic.

Of course if you add your own social networking efforts your articles will do even better, and in this system they show you how to do this as well, because it benefits the whole system. This is the closest thing I have found that is truly a win-win-win for everyone involved in the area of article marketing. If you understand how getting the most from your time and your money is of utmost importance in business and have been wondering how to get fantastic results in today’s online environment, this new generation advanced article marketing system may just be the answer for you. Advanced Article Marketing

John Halderman is an on-line marketer specializing in the areas of personal growth and development. This includes helping marketers tune their thoughts and actions to best support the business success they want and to streamline their business and personal life for increased happiness and satisfaction. If you want more information about the article marketing system discussed in this article - Advanced Article Marketing

Article marketing is one of the most widely used methods of promoting a website and making money online. It's not just those people submitting articles to article directories who should be considered to be an article marketer. Every hub on hubpages.com, every lens on Squidoo.com was put together by an article marketer. Whether they call themselves that or not.

Article marketing is changing rapidly with the advent of «Web 2.0», Social Media and social networking sites. What worked back in 2006 isn't so effective any more. But article marketing and marketing with articles will continue to grow in popularity and become even more powerful than it was back then.

Back in the day, you could submit an article to hundreds of article directories and everyone of them would give a reasonablly powerful «back link» to your site. For a time is was a marketers paradise, but you can see why the good times had to come to an end.

When something becomes «easy» it tends to become low quality. This is definately what happened to traditional «old style» article marketing.

What killed old style article marketing?

In my logical opinion, old style article marketing was killed by 3 things.

1. The proliferation of article directories on the Internet. So called «Internet Marketing Guru's» made it too easy for «wanabees» to own their own directory. This in itself would not have been so much of a problem had it not been for....

2. Automatic article submission software. These were the real killer. With all that spammy content being submitted to all those spammy directories, Google had to do something. The changes they made hurt even the good quality content and top authors. (Traditional article marketing is less effective for everyone as a result of this).

3. All the hype about making easy money with «Google Adsense» that has been stuffed down the throat of everyone in Internet marketing circles since 2005. Without this hype they would have been less people wanting to own their own article directory.

With all that unmoderated, duplicate, «spammy» content filling up the article directories, the «Big G» had to do something. So they stopped passing link authority from all but a handful of article directory sites. You can no longer use Article Marketing alone to increase your Google Page Rank and SERP's.

But that does not mean that you cannot get traffic from traditional article marketing or that it does not have it's place in your overall online marketing strategy you just need to be more selective about where you submit your content and more importantly, the content that you submit.

Dan Blackburn is the owner of the popular article directory article content king.

(c) Dan Blackburn. This article may be republished as long as all links are left in tack.

Categories: Article Marketing, Internet Business.
Tags: Article Marketing, online marketing, social media, web 2.0.

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1. The most obvious, they take all the money generated from the ad space directly. Having full control over the ad space, authors can even sell space within their articles privately.

The main business model of any article directory or «group content» site relies mainly on the revenue from ad space. Many sites are willing to share this revenue with the authors, but only one site (that I know of) gives full control over the ad space to the author... And ALL the revenue!

2. A less obvious benefit to the AdSpace articles model is the «elimination» of competing ads in your content. This is usually the biggest drawback of article marketing to the author. They submit their articles to other sites and within their content are targeted ads.

Yes TARGETED ads, unless you are PAYING to advertise on the site, those ads within your content will no doubt be promoting your competitions website. Your hard work is making sales for them! Sure you might be getting a piece of the pie if the site is sharing revenue with you, but it's nothing compared to the money you would have made if the ad was making sales for you... or if you were the «broker» selling the traffic.

AdSpace articles give you full control over what does and what does not appear along side your content. You can even remove the ads completely if you so wish.

To get 3 free ad space articles visit here.

Categories: Article Marketing, Blogging, Internet Business.
Tags: Article Marketing, Internet Marketing, marketing system, online marketing, revenue shareing.

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Article marketing is one of the primary marketing tactics alive today. The best part about marketing with articles is that it is easy to do and it is very effective done properly.

That is what I want to talk about, Article Marketing done properly…

I own and operate Article Bay Home, a word press blog article directory. I also use article marketing to promote myself online.

As I see people submit articles throughout the web, whether they are in directories, social networking sites, or where ever, I am seeing a trend that is causing a lot of peoples efforts to be wasted. If we are going to spend our valuable time developing strategies and writing articles, we want to get the most value out of our time and effort.

Make your marketing campaign successful by being aware of some of the most common mistakes made. Don't do this.

Unedited PLR Articles

While there is absolutely nothing wrong with PLR Articles, submitting them without editing them is not good practice. Many people will submit a plr article just as they received it. The problem you will run into is article directories, in most cases, do not allow duplicate content. You risk your submission being deleted, or your membership banned. Is it worth it? No… Edit your article and put it in your own words. After all, you are the professional.

Too Many Too Fast

Slow down! Be patient. Stop writing an article and then submitting it to numerous directories at once. So many people do this and they shouldn't. Doing this so quickly will cause a spike in your back links. This spike can be seen by the spiders as they pass through the web and they can mark these back links as questionable. All back links don't come from just directories any way, they will also come from those looking for good content for their websites. Webmasters search for good content. So take it slow and easy and let the webmasters help build your back links for you.

Automated Duplicate Content Software

Duplicate content software is great to use, however, automatic software can leave your article making no sense and unprofessional. You are a professional and you want your information displayed in a legible and professional manner. Go ahead and use automated duplicate content software spinners as much as you like, just do yourself a favor and go back and insure the quality of your content. Spelling and grammar go a long way. The best way to do this is to do it yourself.

Duplicate Content Same Site

Don't submit the same article to the same directory or social network. Need I say more?

Affiliate Links – Spam

Article directories and its readers do not want to be spammed! Do not submit an advertisement as an article. Advertisements have there own place. Article Directories are just that, a place to submit stories, news, educational information, reviews and more. Submitting this information loaded with affiliate links is against most directories policies. Doing so can get you banned from submitting your information. You can also create a bad name for yourself to your peers. Don't take that chance.

Poor Grammar and Spelling

If you are submitting articles, even just one, that makes you an author. Your article submissions go a long way in not only bringing traffic to your websites and publications, but also as branding your name with authority. Insuring that your work is well written and clean with correct grammar and spelling enhances your readers desire to continue with you. A poor grammatically written article can surely detour your readers and detour webmasters from using your articles as content reducing back links for you. Be a professional, write with authority.

Poor Content

In writing an article, if is important that you use content that is informative to your readers. Your readers will be reading your articles for multiple reasons. They may be looking for information to learn from. They may just enjoy reading about certain things or they may be looking for quality content to use on their own websites. It really doesn't matter why your readers are reading your content, if you do not know what you are talking about, or your work is poorly put together, you may loose some or all of your readers. That would be devastating. Know what you want to say, research it to know it and display and portray it well. You will have readers that come back for more!

Randy Wood
www.articlecontentking.com

Randy Wood is an online marketer providing Tips, Tools and Training in various methods of marketing and self promotion. Visit Randy Wood at JRandall'sWeb.Com. Randy Wood is also passionate about Diabetes, as having been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes himself. He promotes Diabetes-And-Me to help others be informed about life with diabetes and have a place to interact with others.

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You'd be surprised at how many authors write articles but fail to do any keyword research whatsoever.

If your article doesn't have suitable keywords relevant to your article's subject it's unlikely to be picked up by search engines like Google for real people to find when they search online.

If you're not sure why keyword research is necessary then you'll find this article really helpful as it's purpose is to look at how keywords are recognised by Google.

For example lets consider the keyword «Article Marketing». You'll notice it's in the heading of this article, the first paragraph and also used elsewhere in the article.

As an exercise I'd like you to go to the main page of Google and enter the keyword «article marketing» in QUOTATION MARKS into the search box. It's important to put your keyword in «QUOTATION MARKS» as it keeps all the words in your keyword together making sure they're searched for together rather that getting results for each word separately.

When I did a Google search for the keyword «article marketing» the results showed there are 4,160,000 different websites displaying this keyword. What did you get when you ran this search?

Perhaps your immediate response was... FOUR MILLION COMPETITORS... it's not worth my while trying to compete with that many for the keyword «article marketing».

But, what if I was to tell you that all is not as it seems?

Supposing I was to tell you that you only have 897 competitors (number shown in Google at the time of writing this article).

As an author producing articles for article marketing... Do you think you can do better than 897 competitors to get your article ranking highly in the search engines for such a popular keyword? I bet you do.

But, I need to prove to you that you only have 897 competitors before you'll believe me... Right?

Here's what you do.

Close down all your browser windows... and then open a browser showing the Google main page.

To the right of the Google search box you'll see three links... Advanced Search, Preferences and Language Tools... Click on preferences.

In the Google search engine the default setting for each page is set to show 10 search results on each page. But inside 'preferences' there is the option to change «The Number of Results per page» in a drop down menu to 20, 30, 50 or 100.

Select «100» from the drop down menu and click «Save Preferences»

You'll now be able to view 100 search results on each page instead of the standard 10.

Type your keyword «article marketing» in «QUOTATION MARKS» into the search box and click on 'Google Search'.

Notice in the top right side of your page the results will read «Results 1-100 of about 4,160.000».

Scroll right down to the bottom of the page until you see the «Goooooooooogle» sign with page numbers 1 thru 10 shown underneath each of the «o's» in the word Goooooooooogle.

Click on «10» taking you to the very end of the available 1,000 search results from Google.

When I did this at the time of writing this article the very last item was this...

* »In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 897 already displayed. If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.»

What does your's say?

So, as an author writing articles on article marketing do you think you can structure your articles skillfully enough to be included as one of Google's «Most relevant results» and them compete against only 897 competitors... not 4,160,000 to get a high ranking in the search engines?

That's why keyword research and structuring your articles to make full use of your keywords is so important.

Dave Mackay encourages you to submit your articles by going to Article Content King. Eager publishers are waiting to use your articles on their blog or website with your links and content unchanged allowing you to earn money from your sales so you can improve the quality of your life. There's even an opportunity to control all the advertising on your article pages. Sign up at Article Content King and open your membership account today.

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Why should we submit articles?

• Article writing can and will help you become branded as the expert. Becoming branded as an expert in turn will increase your web sites traffic, sales and ultimately your profit! If you are not promoting profit the information you are giving to the masses will also find its way to your targeted audience. That includes any program you are marketing.

• Submitting your articles to article directories and ezines provides a way to get free advertising through your resource box, increases page rank by having links pointing back to your website and increases website traffic by getting your articles to targeted readers.

• People also go to article directories looking for content for their own websites. When they get there and find yours, they may use it. When they do, you get further links to your website and more credibility as the expert.

Did I say POWER?

Yes, I said power. As you can see above, there are very valid reasons why one would submit their article to the article directories for free. Now let me say this:

Why would anyone submit their article to a directory and pay for the submission?

Well, I call it article marketing with a twist. Let me explain.

People run an article directory for a few simple reasons. The directory generates free traffic for their promotions. They use it to build their list. They make money through the ad space in the articles. They can also turn around and sell that same ad space to the public, allowing the advertiser to control the ad spot for a nominal fee. This can all turn into a very nice income for the article directory owner.

Running an article directory is not for everyone. If it were, the market would be so saturated that the extreme value of article marketing wouldn't even exist. Yet it does.

What if you could take on the rewards of article marketing and those of the article directory owner without the hassles and expenses of running an article directory yourself? What if you could control the ad space that would otherwise be controlled by the article directory owner? What if you could sell that very same ad space and keep the cash yourself?

Talk about power! Power Articles! Release the power of your article marketing efforts.

Article Content King has the Power.

1. Become a member and submit for free, as usual.

2. Pay to post individual articles and control the ad space yourself.

3. Pay to submit unlimited articles and control the ad spots on your article pages.

4. Pay to post unlimited articles, control that ad space and then get syndicated to a group of other related directories, and control the ad space on all of those, as well!

5. Pay to Post? You get to control the comments to your articles as well, allowing you to create your own social network.

Article-Content-King has scoured the web and created a huge collection of quality articles. Our database of authors is 14,000 plus and growing with submissions of 2000 plus articles per week. Our Power Article Directory is in a blog format, making promotion that much easier.

Would you submit free articles? Would you pay to post Power Articles? Visit us today.

Watch this feed as I will be following up with Tips, Tools and Training to help you bring Power to your Article Marketing Efforts!

To your success:

Randy Wood
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Randy Wood is an online marketer providing Tips, Tools and Training in various methods of marketing and self promotion. Visit Randy Wood at JRandall'sWeb.Com. Randy Wood is also passionate about Diabetes, as having been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes himself. He promotes Diabetes-And-Me to help others be informed about life with diabetes and have a place to interact with others.