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Brad Callen’s Article Marketing Thoughts
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Check out EzineArticles expert Brad Callen’s Article Marketing thoughts here or in PDF form.
I don’t personally know Brad, but he makes a “case for adopting a personal approach to article marketing” that I agree with… meaning, don’t blindly blow your articles to the wind, but rather have a syndication strategy that favors large sites for the traffic and themed sites for the quality of the link / traffic.
 Posted by Christopher M. Knight on May 17, 2006 at 1:54 pm | Views 574 | Comments (2) |
RSS Feeds For Human Readers
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In the last 10 days, the search engines started including RSS feeds in their regular search results. At first, I was upset because I thought how foolish the search engines are to deliver a code-looking XML file to a mass consumer user who clicks on a search result only to find XML code garbage. It was then that I discovered that I was the foolish one. Check out the RSS paradigm-shift innovation we made this week with our XML Files:
| Posted by Christopher M. Knight on May 17, 2006 at 9:40 am | Views 589 | Comments (1) |
CoachU E-Publishing SIG Teleclass
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Recently EzineArticles expert author Ellen Mossman-Glazer & Sam Berman invited me to speak for the CoachU SIG group (E-Publishing) where I discussed some of the basics of Article Writing & Marketing. I recorded it, took 5 pages of notes and asked permission to share this with you. :) Click Here For The Audio Replay and My Private Notes
| Posted by Christopher M. Knight on May 16, 2006 at 11:21 am | Views 563 | Comments (0) |
Recent Referrals to EzineArticles
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Ever wonder how many of our authors find us? It’s thanks to thousands of loyal members and fans who promote EzineArticles.com on their blog, ezine, forums, and personal recommendations. Here’s a list of the most recent top referral sources (the yellow star 
indicates that they are an EzineArticles author also):
Mike Litman’s Success Coaching - Michael Cheney - Crea8asite forums - DigitalPoint forums - Brian Clark’s CopyBlogger - Matt Bacak - Derek Gehl of MarketingTips.com - marketingprofs.com - Joel Comm, Dr Adsense - Jim Daniels - Jim Edwards - Joan Stewart, Publicity Hound - Ali Brown, EzineQueen - Dan Janal, PR Leads - Brad Callen - Yanik Silver’s conference - Jason Potash’s ArticleAnnouncer - John Reese Newsletter - Jeff Mulligan, CB Mall - Carl Galetti
The LARGER font sized names in the above referral cloud had a higher proportionate level of referrals.
| Posted by Christopher M. Knight on May 16, 2006 at 10:06 am | Views 548 | Comments (2) |
Article Writing Barter
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In a recent teleclass, EzineArticles expert author Jeanette Joy Fisher mentioned to me that she often will barter her article writing skills for services or products she needs. I thought, cool…! how creative. :-)
| Posted by Christopher M. Knight on May 15, 2006 at 3:48 pm | Views 750 | Comments (12) |
Writing Articles in Your Sleep
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Expert author Dorothy writes, “OH my gosh! This is getting serious. I am now writing great articles in my sleep–Really! I woke up at 3:30 a.m. with an entire article written. I am typing as fast as I can to get it on paper.”
This is by far the easiest way to get into ‘flow’ when writing articles. When you figure out what you want to write about, just start thinking about it a few days in advance and let the article write itself. It’s rare when I sit down to write an article that I haven’t already written it in my head… Most authors must do the same thing whether they realize it or not, eh? :-)
| Posted by Christopher M. Knight on May 12, 2006 at 9:07 am | Views 1,339 | Comments (9) |
Google Trends for Authors
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Google released a new product this week called Google Trends - It builds on the Google Zeitgeist to help you find trends related to Google usage around the world. How can authors use this research tool?
| Posted by Christopher M. Knight on May 11, 2006 at 9:41 am | Views 938 | Comments (18) |
EzineArticles meets the X-Men?
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The movie series, X-Men, the audience gets behind the mutants rights to survive… the human mutants with special skills are the underdogs against the norms of society (including those who fear them and their mutant powers).
Every day, someone asks us to add a feature that would make us look like a mutant…meaning, it would be a feature we could add, but then it would transform us into something we are not. Example: We could add audio to our articles, but then are we an article directory designed for niche-perfect reprints or are we an content destination site for end users only?
| Posted by Christopher M. Knight on May 10, 2006 at 8:28 am | Views 672 | Comments (14) |
Article Title Mis-Spellings
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A handful of authors purposefully mis-spell their article TITLEs with the hopes of gaining traffic from humans who commonly mis-spell the title when they are searching for things. Our position has been that we do not allow article TITLEs that are not spelled right as a matter of quality control. (Continue Reading…)
| Posted by Christopher M. Knight on May 8, 2006 at 6:09 am | Views 664 | Comments (32) |
Article Comments Kick
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Earlier this week, I mentioned how you can get more traffic via one-way links by adding comments to any of the more than 100k+ articles in our site. You may have been one of the several hundred this past week that added a comment to an article to test our new system that makes it easier to add a comment.
What we didn’t count on is some of the confusion when an author doesn’t like one of the comments placed on their article. Currently, only our editorial team can approve, reject or remove comments… but that will be changing shortly as we’re working on giving each author the ability to remove any comment at any time that they don’t like.
| Posted by Christopher M. Knight on May 5, 2006 at 7:20 am | Views 1,309 | Comments (37) |
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