While catching up with launching a slew of new unique content niche web sites, after my long deployment to Iraq, I came across www.TextBroker.com.  All I can say is WOW! After working with numerous other web publishing agencies, freelance web sites and ghost writer services nothing even comes close to the speed, efficiency and professionalism of of TextBroker.com custom articles.

With 100+ domains sitting in my Keyword Discovery account, with anywhere from 500-1000 long tail keywords mined in each, it can be EXTREMELY expensive and time consuming to generate and launch so many quality unique content web sites…without a full time staff of authors.

In the past I would use rentacoder.com and a few others but the the time it took to set up a project, accept a bid and receive the end product often took more time than I was willing to spend. The beauty of TextBroker.com is simply this:

1. You generate individual article marketing projects for each of your domains.
2. You set the article parameters for each individual project which includes: completion time frame, article length; the long tail keywords you want used for each individual article; submit a quick blurb indicating the overall feel of the articles; and choose the professionalism level from 1-5 of the particular project (5 being most professional but a little more expensive).
3. Then you just sit back and let TextBroker.com tell you when an article has been completed by one of their 100′s of authors thus allowing you to focus on more keyword research, marketing, etc.

No more waiting for individual authors to complete your project.  With TextBroker.com you have an army of authors at your disposal to knock out even your most daunting article marketing campaigns.  And, when you find extremely good authors (I’ve found quite a few so far) you can add them as favorites and directly submit them a new project.

If you haven’t tried this ghost writer service yet I highly recommend you give them a try.  Their flat rate fees are:

What Makes Them Even Cooler?

• 100% US Based Authors
• Direct Author/Client Messaging
• Exclusive rights to your content
• Articles reviewed by TextBroker .com staff for quality, grammatical errors, etc.
• Internet copyright-check of articles verified by CopyScape

Go test their service out right now on a small campaign you already know is a profitable niche or just have them write up some fresh articles for your preexisting site(s) to see if you like the results.  After that I’m pretty sure you’ll be hooked. 

Seriously, what would you rather be spending your time on?  Auction sites are great for software, eBooks, applications etc. but for articles I can’t think of a better solution (besides a personal staff on payroll) than www.TextBroker.com.  Cheers!

Platform-A, http://www.platform-a.com, AOL’s digital advertising division, recently announced the launch of an affiliate marketing solution that links the buy.at affiliate network to the widget-based marketing tools of wildly popular Goowy Media, Inc.

If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years…Goowy Media, Inc. develops innovative online products and services that provide simple, intuitive tools for managing your digital life and expressing yourself on the web.  Their most popular products are yourminus.com and goowy webtop

This progressive move by AOL enables web publishers, like you and me, to generate additional revenue from a combination of affiliate, widget and viral marketing.  It will be exciting to see how Platform-A advertisers integrate/syndicate this new capability into their customized widgets for your blog, website, and even your desktop!  Very cool stuff indeed.

For more than a little while now I haven’t had too many good things to say about these blasted Widgets!  They seemed to just take up real advertising space and bleed my hard-earned web traffic.  However, I will gladly test these viral advertiser generated widgets out on my network of blogs/sites so my visitors and customers can snatch them up and redistribute them to the far corners of the Web.  Just think about the applications…MySpace, FaceBook, etc.

Lynda Clarizio, President of Platform-A states, “This solution combines the best of affiliate and widget advertising in a solution that benefits publishers and advertisers alike.  Publisher revenue potential, brand exposure for the advertiser, and potential conversions grow virally each time the widget is downloaded by a consumer.”

I agree Lynda!  Now this is what we collectively mean by the moniker Web 2.0 people!

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We all know that article marketing is a VERY effective way of generating long term web traffic and backend sales to your website or even brick and mortar storefront.  However, many online marketers take a shotgun approach to article marketing by blasting their articles off to every article directory on the planet.

Scott Allen from About.com recently did an interview with Christopher Knight, the founder of EzineArticles.com.  EzineArticles.com is the Web’s largest community and content distribution system for articles by expert authors, with over 2 million monthly visitors.  In this short interview Chris laid out some solid tips on how you can make the most of your article marketing campaigns.

Top tips from EzineArticle.com’s Christopher Knight

• The article headline will determine 90% of how much traffic and viral distribution your article will receive. Be sure to optimize this with relevant keywords that your potential reader will be searching for.
• Be sure to include at least two active URL’s in your resource box and make sure they include the full your-company-name.com format instead of an anchored text link – this will maximize your ability to get active links back from publishers who reprint your content.
• 100 articles distributed to 5 sites or ezine publishers will normally produce far greater results than 5 articles sent to 100 sites.
• Consistency is key. You market or advertise your business every month, right? So why not write articles and distribute them monthly also?

Be sure to read through the whole article marketing article HERE.

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