Article Marketing Automation is a hidden gem that I’ve only just discovered.
It has two sides:
- A system to publish quality articles to your blogs, either automatically or after you’ve approved them.
- A system to publish your articles to other people’s blogs.
Both are really easy to implement and you’re in control, so you don’t get rubbish on your site.
Publishing articles on your blog
Let’s look at publishing articles on your blog first:
This works with self-hosted WordPress blogs, Blogger blogs plus any blog that can be posted to using services like ScribeFire or Windows Live Writer. You can’t use it with free WordPress blogs due to their non-commercial nature.
Once you’ve told the Article Marketing Automation system your blog’s url, you proceed to select the correct category or categories to receive articles for. The list isn’t quite as wide as the one at EzineArticles but it’s pretty close, so you should be able to get a good match.
You then set up another author account – it’s in the Users section if you’re using WordPress – and give this “writer” a name and password. (Don’t use your regular password for this – use a service like Random Password Generator instead).
Then there are two tick boxes – one to auto-approve new articles, which I’ve personally unticked so that I get to check the articles before they are posted; one to open links in a new window.
There’s also a box to enter the maximum quantity of new articles you’d like per day. Set this at something “normal” so that it doesn’t look like an automaton is posting. I’ve set mine at between 1 and 3 per day. Experiment to see what works for you.
If you’ve got lots of different categories in your blog you can set the articles so they’re posted in the correct category.
That’s it, apart from checking and approving the articles if you’ve chosen to do that.
There’s no limit on the number of blogs you can have. There’s no page rank restriction. You could even use it to kick start a new blog to test an area before spending any real cash on it. The choice is yours. Or you can ignore this side of the system altogether.
Publishing articles on other people’s blogs
This is the flip-side. After all, the articles have to come from somewhere.
You can publish articles on as many different topics as you want. The category selection is the same as for the blog side of things.
Ideally, you should be publishing good quality articles. Either ones you’ve written yourself or ones you’ve had written for you. Some publishers (like me!) will check your articles before they’re published, so you stand a better chance of getting your article published if it’s written well.
The other plus on writing good articles is they’re more likely to get read.
Unlike an EzineArticles article, there’s no resource box. So you need to entice your potential reader to click the links in your article.
You’ve got three links to play with. You choose the keywords and where the links go to.
One thing to remember is that in the same way as links in ebook you have absolutely no control over the links once they’re on other people’s sites. So don’t put a regular affiliate link in the article unless you’re 100% positive it’s never ever going to change.
Instead, put a link to a file on one of your sites. A site you intend to keep.
Point the links to a php file on your domain. Just open a file in Notepad, save it as YourFileName.php (making sure that Notepad doesn’t add .txt to the end of it) and upload it to your site,
The contents of the file should look like this:
<?php
header( ‘Location: http://trevsreviews.com’ ) ;
?>
Change http://trevsreviews.com to wherever you want to send the traffic to. Then if the affiliate link changes, it’s a simple matter of changing it on your site.
Your articles will be drip fed to other sites in the network. So you’ll build up backlinks over time and start getting targeted traffic for the keywords you want to rank for.
The other thing you can do is offer up alternatives within your article. A bit like article spinning, except this actually turns out readable articles.
Once you submit your article, you’re given the option of adding up to 10 alternative titles. Take the time to add at least one or two alternatives here.
You then also get the option to add re-worded copies of each and every sentence in your article. Up to 10 alternatives again. So, if you’re dedicated enough, your article can have totally different versions out there.
This bit takes time. You don’t have to add alternatives – if you don’t, the sites that publish your articles may (or may not) get penalized for duplicate content if they don’t edit your article themselves.
It’s your choice.
You can also go really deep in “spinning” your articles – there’s a full tutorial with lots of explanations if you want to go down that route. It’s something you could always outsource anyway.
So, that’s the Article Marketing Automation system for you.
Well worth the low monthly subscription fee in my view.
You can trial it for 30 days with a money back guarantee, so check it out here.
Just a quick update.
It’s been a week since I started using the article marketing automation and my stats are as follows:
I’ve been offered 78 articles across 8 different blogs (various subjects) but have only had chance to review and accept 58 of these so far.
I’ve posted 17 articles in 11 different subject areas. So far, these have been published a total of 142 times, rejected 9 times (no issue – I’ve rejected other people’s articles when they don’t fit with the blog theme) and 16 are waiting for the blog owner to review them.
Google are finding the links – I’ve set an alert on one of the blogs to check this – and the links are making it through to the blogs untouched.
Another update: if you don’t want to submit articles, then you can sign up for a free account that will allow you to add blogs and post articles that other people have written. Which is a good way to get targeted articles to display on your website. I’d suggest that you review the articles and limit them to a few a day (most of my blogs are set at either 2 or 3 a day).
Sign up for the free service here
I hear for the first time about this Article Marketing Automation. What is that in a few words?
Hi Andrey
Two options:
Publish targeted articles for free on your blog or blogs
Submit your own articles for publication elsewhere
You can do one or both. The system works well and the articles get published with the links intact.
My updated stats are:
I’ve been offered 146 articles across 9 different blogs (various subjects) but have only had chance to review and accept 110 of these so far.
I’ve posted 48 articles in 20 different subject areas. So far, these have been published a total of 679 times, rejected 39 times (no worries) and 55 are waiting for the blog owner to review them.
Trevor
And will they give my money back?
They offer a 30 day refund policy, so you’ve got 30 days to try out the article writing side of things (the publishing side is free) if that’s what you were asking.
Latest updated stats are:
I’ve been offered 196 articles across 11 different blogs but have only accepted 135 of these so far. I’ve rejected quite a few as well – mainly those that haven’t been re-written (the dashboard now shows how much an article has been re-written).
I’ve posted 67 articles in 28 different subject areas. So far, these have been published a total of 1,457 times, rejected 75 times and 129 are waiting for the blog owner to review them.
Trevor
Big numbers trev. I would want to have the same numbers. What’s your experience in this field?
Hi Andrey
The articles are a mix of ones I’ve written myself and ones I’ve had written for me. I find it takes me about half an hour to spin a bought-in article or to write one and spin it (I know my writing style, so the spinning is easier!).
I’m getting traffic as a result of the articles. I’m also getting shown in Google’s regular results for the terms I’m targeting. So it’s definitely working.
Latest updated stats are:
I’ve been offered 411 articles across 11 different blogs but have only accepted 205 of these so far.
I’ve posted 107 articles (I’ve slowed down writing recently). So far, these have been published a total of 4,516 times, rejected 305 times and 417 are waiting for the blog owner to review them.
Trev
Latest updated stats are:
I’ve been offered 813 articles across 11 different blogs but have only accepted 336 of these so far (I’m fussy and don’t accept every article I’m offered).
I’ve posted 140 articles. So far, these have been published a total of 9,283 times, rejected 1,179 times (about 12% of the time) and 1,112 are waiting for the blog owner to review them.
Trev
Latest updated stats are:
I’ve been offered 1,094 articles across 11 different blogs but have only accepted 425 of these.
I’ve posted 140 articles (no change on last month). To date, these have been published a total of 12,639 times, rejected 1,390 times (about 11% of the time) and 1,717 are waiting for the blog owner to review them.
Trev
Latest updated stats are:
I’ve been offered 1,1288 articles across 11 different blogs but have only accepted 488 of these.
I’ve now posted 142 articles. To date, these have been published a total of 14,007 times, rejected 1,410 times (about 11% of the time) and 2,005 are waiting for the blog owner to review them.
I’ve also found another similar service called Free Traffic System, It’s similar except that there are no fees (instead, they get a link to their own site in some of the articles you post).
Trev
As I correctly understand after reading this you suggest your own system for promotion?
Hi John
It’s not a system I own, it’s a system I’m using. I’m getting nice results from Article Marketing Automation.
Latest updated stats are:
I’ve been offered 1,374 articles across 11 different blogs and have accepted 749 of these.
I’ve posted 275 articles. To date, these have been published a total of 19,337 times, rejected 1,855 times (about 12% of the time) and 2,912 are waiting for the blog owner to review them.
They’ve also now added an option to reject articles that aren’t rewritten by at least 30%, which essentially weeds out the people who can’t be bothered to rewrite any part of their articles.
Trev
Latest updated stats are:
I’ve been offered 3,515 articles across 11 different blogs and have accepted 913 of these. Yes, I’m fussy!
I’ve posted 402 articles. To date, these have been published a total of 23,443 times, rejected 2,223 times (about 11% of the time) and 3,349 are waiting for the blog owner to review them.
I had a spell where I didn’t post any new articles which is why the published number doesn’t appear to have grown in line with the number of new articles. Also quite a few of my articles a couple months ago were in some smaller categories.
Latest updated stats are:
I’ve been offered 4,7555 articles across 10 different blogs (I’ve dropped one blog from the system since the last report) and have accepted 957 of these. I’ve been slow on checking recently.
I’ve posted 830 articles. To date, these have been published a total of 30,722 times, rejected 2,628 times (about 8% of the time) and 8,231 are waiting for the blog owner to review them. Obviously I’m not the only person behind on checking.
The 30k figure only refers to blogs that are still in the system. Blogs drop out for various reasons. In total, my articles have been published 49,688 times although the 19k difference may or may not still be on blogs that are still in existence.