Making Money Article Marketing – Submit Your Articles Or Host Your Own Article Directory
Making Money Article Marketing – Submit Your Articles Or Host Your Own Article Directory
Article marketing has long been a favoured part of our Internet marketing and affiliate marketing activities around here, and we’ve published about 100 articles at EzineArticles alone. We’ve used articles to promote our websites, promote blogs, drive targeted traffic to our affiliate links and mostly to brand ourselves further. Turning some of those articles into podcasts and videos has added even more branding and traffic generation, so article marketing has definitely been a profitable area for us all along.
Then earlier this month, we found a way to profit from the other side of article marketing – hosting our own article directory. We took one of our existing sites, Articles-and-Content.com, and converted it into an article directory for some of our own articles and so that other authors could submit articles too. It’s been up for less than a month and we’re approaching 100 authors there, with about 150 articles posted and a bunch more waiting for me to approve them currently. Needless to say it took some promotion on our part to get it to that level that fast, but it’s still growing much faster than we had anticipated.
Most importantly, less than 25% of the articles are our own, so 75% of the content has been supplied by other authors – a great way to continually get fresh content for free. And since search engines love sites that are regularly updated with new content, we’ve got high hopes for the site as it ages and grows. Currently it’s monetized with Google AdSense and the links at the bottom of each of our own articles, and as time permits I’ll add more income streams through banner and sidebar advertising.
The beauty of it is that the site, although it doesn’t look it, is powered entirely on the WordPress platform, set up like any other blog. It doesn’t look that way, because of the theme and plugins used to operate the site. Yet approving an article is as simple as publishing a draft post on any blog – in fact the whole setup was so easy – I simply watched a series of videos on what to do, then set it up in one evening. (Remember, though, I publish over a dozen blogs currently so I’m extremely familiar with the steps involved in setting up WP blogs – in fact I teach it in my coaching as well. So allow maybe a day to set your own article directory up or maybe two evenings. And be sure you have your free blog installer too.)
And speaking of free, you can imagine my surprise when I found out the blog theme and plugins required were free too – in fact they were included with the videos I downloaded. The whole system was so simple and easy to install, I picked up the resell rights to the videos and files so I could make them available to you and the rest of our online family too, though our site at Your Article Profits.
We’ve made the step-by-step how-to videos, theme and plugins all available in the one bundle, and kept it under $10 so that it’s within reach of everyone.
So what you need to do today is:
- Get over to www.Articles-and-Content.com and submit some of your articles, and
- Stop by Your Article Profits and get your own copy of the how-to videos so you can begin setting up your own article directory right away.
Article marketing will always be a mainstay of online marketing because people come online looking for information, and it’s the articles you write that provide that information and then point them to further related links. And now, assuming you take action on this, you’ve learned how to make money article marketing by using both sides of the milieu – as both author and publisher of articles! Get the most from your article marketing efforts starting today by setting up your own article directory following the Your Article Profits video instructions.
Technorati Tags: article marketing, make money article marketing, article directory, Your Article Profits, Articles and Content, submit articles, make money, how-to videos, video instruction, WordPress blogs
