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When To Write Your Halloween Articles

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When To Write Your Halloween Articles For Optimal Search Engine Placement

Halloween is the BEST holiday for one of my favorite income streams – affiliate article marketing. While I do not spend a huge amount of time on affiliate article marketing, I do like to do some strategic affiliate article marketing on certain holidays and Halloween is definitely one because of the growing size of the market annually as well as the surge in popularity of all things supernatural (vampires, werewolves, witches, zombies, etc.) right now.

Halloween Affiliate Article Marketing

Remember Her Hairpins?

The time to start writing your Halloween articles for the season depends upon a few factors such as where you will be publishing the articles (on a PR1 vs PR 5 site?) and the traffic the site gets, etc. Your backlink juice matters when it comes to timely affiliate article marketing, so if you know you have an uphill battle ahead of you, it’s a good idea to get started with your Halloween affiliate article marketing in the summer — like mid to late June.

Now if you know of a few major sites that you can publish your articles on and get good PR power and traffic numbers from them – then you’re golden and can write as late as the first week of October.

People are often shopping for Halloween costumes, accessories, and party supplies up until the very day – so as long as you have some visibility in the market – you will get some hits and hopefully click conversions.

I myself like to write up to the last moment:)

SO – if you haven’t written your Halloween articles yet, you still have time, so get started. Here are a few articles that I have written in the past discussing good Halloween affiliate companies to work with, hot Halloween keyword phrases, and more info to get you going:

Top Halloween Keywords – Lisa Angelettie

Have You Written Your Halloween Articles? – Lisa Angelettie

Affiliate Article Marketing: Writing Halloween … – Lisa Angelettie

Halloween Affiliate Article Marketing – Lisa Angelettie

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Can You Use Ezine Articles On Your Blog?

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FAQ: Can You Use Ezine Articles On Your Blog?

Q: Can I use articles from the article directory EzineArticles.com on my blogs?

A: This question probably arises from a place of permission and/or duplicate content, which I think I can easily clear up.

PERMISSION
EzineArticles is a site whose purpose is to provide publishers with content. Years ago the main outlet for these articles was online ezines and newsletters. Now that has evolved into publishers seeking content for newsletters AND for their blogs. EzineArticles is aware of this and approves of this use. There are a few stipulations though, with frequency of publishing being a main one:

“Agree to limit the number of articles reprinted to no greater than taking 25 articles from our site per calendar year per unique domain that you own. In addition, for domain owners of many domains, you may not reprint more than 250 articles per year (10 sites x 25 articles reprinted per domain).”
Source: EzineArticles Terms of Service For Publishers

This part of the terms of agreement is there for a reason and the recent Google updates have shown evidence of that. It’s important to understand that you will only rank well in the search engines if you frequently feature high quality, original content. Using EzineArticles on your blog should be for fillers (because you were sick that day and didn’t want to write, because you are going out of town and needed a post to go up, because you wanted to add a post to your blog on one of the slow days of the week, etc.).

You do not want every article or even the majority of articles you publish to all be “reprinted” articles from any article directory source. That could and probably will raise some duplicate content filtering issues for you and plus it’s important to realize that the goal of blogging is to create a relationship with a group of people that may eventually want to pay you for your expertise. Using other people’s articles won’t achieve this level of authority for you.

Now if you’re an affiliate article marketer, it may be tempting to take more than your 25 articles worth for all your mini-blogs, but you will get penalized as a “Google Farmer” — so don’t do it. If you refuse tow rite original content, then try hiring inexpensive ghost writers or tweaking PLR content. You could also feature video content that you get from the various video sites to add content to your site.

DUPLICATE CONTENT
On another note, if you are wondering if you can publish the same articles to your blog that you have submitted to EzineArticles, the answer is yes for most of you and no to some. On one hand, EzineArticles has a WordPress plugin that enables WordPress bloggers to submit their blog articles directly to EzineArticles. So they don’t mind blog article submissions, and in fact are encouraging it.

So if you are an emerging entrepreneur then you shouldn’t have any issues with duplicate content (submitting identical articles to your blog and EzineArticles). Even with the hit that article directories like EzineArticles took after Google’s recent updates, EzineArticle’s results will no doubt be higher in the rankings then yours based on their traffic stats, pagerank, domain age, and other seo factors.

If you are an intermediate or advanced marketer and have made significant traction in the search engines, then I wouldn’t submit identical blog and EzineArticles. Re-write them. Spin them. Change them. And then submit. That’s what I do.

Can I Post Magazine Articles To My Blog?

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After catching up on email over the past few days, I saw this interesting question about magazine articles from one of my favorite readers. I thought it was a good one, and one that I should clear up just in case you were thinking about doing this…

Q: Can I Post Magazine Articles To My Blog?

A: Remember when I told you in about a million other articles that the simple act of writing your content or typing your content protects you under U.S. copyright laws? These laws apply to everyone. So the same applies to articles you find in print mediums such as newspapers, magazines, journals, etc.

BUT what you can do, is this:

1. REFER to a portion of the magazine article that applies to what you are writing about and make sure to include appropriate attribution. For example, you can put the portion of the article in quotes or blockquotes and add an *asterisk symbol at the end of the quote which will refer to the author and publication of this magazine blurb.

Example: put your magazine chunk or blurb into blockquotes. *

*Lisa Angelettie – Article Marketing Strategies

You can also do this:

2. REWRITE a magazine article that you want to cover on your own blog. Make sure to include the magazine as a source for your article. This means that while you aren’t totally ripping them off, you are basing your article on information you gathered while reading an article in their publication. Again you’ll use the asterisk symbol at the end of the article with the source (*Source: Article Marketing Strategies)

This really applies to news related items. If you write a gossip blog and you read a article in US Weekly about Kim Kardashian and her new television show that you want to use on your blog – you can rewrite the news item and add US Weekly as a source for the article. (*Source: US Weekly)

It’s also a nice idea to link to the original article in your attribution footnote, but it’s not mandatory. It’s just nice to do for the publication.

The bottom line here is that you will not lose any credibility or cool points for properly attributing the source or the author of an article. In fact – you must do it or you will simply be a content thief and subject to copyright laws. So feel free to use magazine articles, refer to magazine articles, rewrite magazine articles – but make sure to give them their fair acknowledgment.

Submit Your Article

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Submit Your Article

This isn’t quite a review. It’s more of a overdue recommendation I think, because one of the most frequently asked questions I am asked by clients as well as visitors to my sites is “Is there an article marketing submission software you recommend?” Let’s face it, article marketing is a numbers game AND the more short cuts we can use to expose our content to the largest number of people is a high priority on the article marketer’s list. I have kept quiet for many years, and would randomly give my recommendations – but now I’m speaking up. The only article marketing submission service that I recommend to my clients is: Submit Your Article.

In the beginning of my online career, I would recommend services and software based on affiliate revenue. Like many newbie marketers, I wanted to earn money through affiliate marketing, so I would promote the latest, greatest article marketing software programs or services. Well as you can imagine – that was big mistake!

Practically every one of those services I recommended was overpriced and the software programs were horrible. They were janky, spammy, and did not do a very good job. I learned that because I also invested in these same programs to publish and promote content for my first site (GirlShrink), and was terribly disappointed at the quality and the results.

Over the years I have tried many and I do mean many different article submission softwares and services and have only found true results, accountability, affordability, and reliability with one service and that is Submit Your Article. And yes that is an affiliate link, but it is the only link you will probably ever see from me for a service of this type. I use Submit Your Article myself and I have no direct or personal relationship with the owner.

So Why Submit Your Article?

There are a few reasons why I think this is the only article submission software to go with after testing many different options…

1. Submit Your Article actually has a network of real and well ranked websites, ezines, and article directories that they will submit your articles to. They don’t use a huge network of 0 ranked homemade blogs, created just yesterday, for the sole purpose of publishing your articles to. That is what a lot of article submission services do by the way! So buyer beware.  Your submissions are a waste of time.

2. They use something called ArticleLeverage ® to help you create unique versions of each article you submit. This is optional of course and yes there are other services out there that offer something similar, but I find this is the easiest to use and does a good job of creating unique versions of your articles.

3. The price is right. This is an affordable service for the average marketer.

New Submit Your Article Gold Level

Submit Your Article is about to unveil their new Gold Level membership which will include some new and exciting features and functionality for creating and publishing unique content to the web and other publishers. As well as powerful link building! I don’t know the details yet (you know how marketers love to build up anticipation:) but I’m sure that it’s going to be features that are going to really enable you to create many unique versions of your articles and publish them to high quality publishers in a very efficient way. I can’t wait:)

The great news is that you can lock in your rate as a Gold Level member, but paying at today’s rate. So if you join today, you can start submitting your articles to their powerful league of publishers AND you can lock in your Gold member status just by joining. So if using an article submission service is something that you have been thinking about, and you were finally waiting for me to give a recommendation, this is it. Go learn more about it – Submit Your Article.

EzineArticles: New Article Categories

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Placing your articles in just the right category will ensure that ezine and newsletter publishers find your articles, publish them, and send you qualified traffic. Here are the latest new niches and category additions made to the highly-trafficked as well as my favorite article directory on the web – EzineArticles.com.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

  • Arts-and-Entertainment: Music-Industry – Articles about/concerning Music Industry, Record Labels, Producers, Studios, Engineers, Publishers, Genres, Music Stores, Music Venues and Promoters, Famous Musicians and History.
  • Arts-and-Entertainment: Music-Instruction – Articles about/concerning Music Instruction, Online Music Instruction, How to Become a Music Teacher, Music Lessons, Music Teachers, and Influential Music Educators.
  • Arts-and-Entertainment: Short-Fiction – Articles about/concerning Short Fiction, Flash Fiction, Short Stories, Writing Formats and Length, Sketch Stories, Journals, Storytelling, Themes and Settings, Popular Authors, and History.

AUTOMOTIVE

  • Automotive: Classic-Cars – Articles about/concerning Classic Cars, Antique Class, Modern Classics, Automobile Restoration, Custom Cars, Vintage Cars, Muscle Cars, Values, Parts and History of the Automobile.
  • Automotive: Hybrid-Energy-Efficient – Articles about/concerning Hybrid Vehicles, Electric Cars, Tribrid Vehicles, Benefits and Prices, Engine Types, Environmental Impact, PEV, Hybrid Vehicle Emissions and Efficiency Energy Use.
  • Automotive: SUVs – Articles about/concerning SUVs, Four-Wheel Drive, Off-Road Vehicles, Light Trucks, Crossover SUV, Military Vehicles, Compact SUV, Mini SUV, Popular Brands, SUV Parts and Accessories.
  • Automotive: Vans – Articles about/concerning Vans, Caravans, Minivans, LCV, Full-Size Vans, Semi-Trailers, Cargo Vans, Wheelchair Accessible, Campervans, Panel Vans, Cutaway Van Chassis, Used Vans and Safety.

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Book-Reviews: Magazines – Articles about/concerning Magazines, Periodicals, Fashion Magazines, Celebrity Magazines, Online Magazines, Sports Magazines, Popular Publishers and Online Magazines.

BUSINESS

  • Business: Interviews – Articles about/concerning Interview Tips, How to Prepare for an Interview, Common Interview Questions, Phone Interviews, Communication Skills, Focus Group Interviews, Body Language and Dress Code.

FOOD AND DRINK

  • Food-and-Drink: Home-Brewing – Articles about/concerning Home Brewing, Home Brewing Supplies and Kits, Instructions, Recipes, Home Distilling, Carbonation, Brewing Culture, Microbrewery, Brewing Process and History.

HEALTH AND FITNESS

  • Health-and-Fitness: Pilates – Articles about/concerning Pilates Exercise, Pilates Health Benefits, Yoga, Joseph Pilates, Pilates Principles, Flexibility, Strength, Concentration and Precautions, Training and Certification.

HOME AND FAMILY

  • Home-and-Family: Adoption-Foster-Care – Articles about/concerning Adoption, Foster Care Adoption and Services, Adoption Laws, Parenting and Development, Open Adoption, Orphans, Disruption, PAL, HAL and International Adoption.
  • Home-and-Family: Baby-Showers – Articles about/concerning Baby Showers, Baby Shower Decorations and Themes, Diaper Cakes, Party Favors, Invitations, Food, Gifts, Games, Trends and Traditions.
  • Home-and-Family: Card-Games – Articles about/concerning Card Games, Poker, Online Card Games, Popular Card Games, Card Tricks, Rules, Genres, Collectible Card Games, Sports Cards, Solitaire, Spades, Hearts, Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon and Fictional Card Games.
  • Home-and-Family: Step-Parenting – Articles about/concerning Step Parenting Tips and Strategies, Child Development, Family Relationships, Child Safety, Classes, Legal Status, Cinderella Effect and Emotional and Psychological Issues.

LEGAL

  • Legal: Child-Custody – Articles about/concerning Child Custody, Child Support, Guardianship, Family Laws and Court, Joint Custody, Sole Custody and Visitation, Parenting Tips and Advice, Paternity Tests and Parenting Plans.
  • Legal: Family-Law-and-Divorce – Articles about/concerning Family Law and Rights, Legal Separation, Domestic Partnerships, Conflicts of Law, Divorce, Annulment, Lawyers, Property Settlements and Parental Responsibility.
  • Legal: Traffic-Law – Articles about/concerning Traffic Laws, DMV, Traffic Tickets, Lawyers, Suspension, Revocation, SR-22 Forms, Occupational Licenses, Driving Rules, Vehicle Code, Traffic Violations, Safety and Advice.

NEWS AND SOCIETY

  • News-and-Society: Anthropology-Sociology – Articles about/concerning Anthropology, Sociology, Study of Humanity, Social Sciences, Anthropologists, Sociologists, Archaeology, Human Evolution, Cultural Anthropology and History.
  • News-and-Society: Eco-Innovations – Articles about/concerning Eco-Innovations, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Development, Environmentally Friendly, Eco-Efficiency, Recycling, Global Warming, Technological Advancements, Green Banking and Ecological Restoration, Energy Saving Tips, Solar Power and Alternative Energy.

RECREATION AND SPORTS

  • Recreation-and-Sports:Badminton – Articles about/concerning Badminton, Racquet Sports, Badminton Equipment and Courts, Shuttlecock, Competitions, Tips and Strategy, Speed Badminton, Rules and History.
  • Recreation-and-Sports: Fencing – Articles about/concerning Fencing, Modern Fencing, Combat Sports, Weapons and Clothing, Fencing Schools, Olympic Fencing, Fencing Terms, Historical Fencing, Practice and Techniques.
  • Recreation-and-Sports: Greyhound-Racing – Articles about/concerning Greyhound Racing, Dog Racing, Greyhound Tracks, Trainers, Kennels, Guides to Betting, Greyhound Adoption and History.
  • Recreation-and-Sports: Softball – Articles about/concerning Softball, Pitching, Leagues, Softball Equipment, Uniforms, Gameplay and Positions, Coaching, Training Drills, International Competition, Rules and History.

REFERENCE AND EDUCATION

  • Reference-and-Education: Biology – Articles about/concerning Biology, Human Anatomy, Branches of Biology, Biology Terms and Definition, Biologists, Natural Sciences, Biochemistry, Evolution, DNA, Species, Homeostasis, Ecology, Zoology, Genetics and Research.
  • Reference-and-Education: Continuing-Education – Articles about/concerning Continuing Education, Further Education, Advanced Degrees, Independent Study, College Courses, Training, Online Certificates and Interactive Classes.
  • Reference-and-Education: K-12 – Articles about/concerning K-12, Kindergarten, Grade School, Careers and Courses, Schools and Programs, Elementary, Middle and High Schools, Grammar School, Student Resources, Curriculum Standards, Growth and Development.
  • Reference-and-Education: Mathematics – Articles about/concerning Mathematics, Mathematicians, Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Analysis, Logic, Probability and Statistics, Calculus, Trigonometry, Tips and Techniques.
  • Reference-and-Education: Special-Education – Articles about/concerning Special Education, Practices and Instruction, Learning Disabilities, ADD Assessments, Special Needs, Gifted Education, Autism Treatment, Teachers and Resources.
  • Reference-and-Education: Teaching – Articles about/concerning Teaching, Tutoring, Teaching Jobs, Careers and Salary, Curriculum and Lesson Planning, Instruction Advice, Distance Education, Technology and Training.

RELATIONSHIPS

  • Relationships: Cross-Cultural – Articles about/concerning Cross-Cultural Relationships, Communication and Analysis, World Cultures, Cultural Bias, Ethnocentrism, Cross-Cultural Studies, Marriages and Cultural Differences.
  • Relationships: Engagements – Articles about/concerning Engagements, Proposing, Engagement Rings, Fiancés, Arranged Marriages, Engagement Parties, Secret Engagements, Invitations and Ideas.
  • Relationships: Long-Distance – Articles about/concerning Long Distance Relationships, Communication, Email, Letters, Enhancement, Living Apart Together, How to Survive a Long Distance Relationship, Success Stories, Statistics, Quotes and Ideas, Tips and Advice.
  • Relationships: Online-Dating – Articles about/concerning Online Dating, Online Dating Services and Websites, Matchmaking, Online Compatibility Tests, Online Chat, Webcasts, Virtual Dating, Social Networking, Free Dating, Profiles and Advice.
  • Relationships: Reconnecting – Articles about/concerning Reconnecting Relationships, Long Lost Love, Relationship Enhancement, Reconnecting With Your Ex, Reconnecting Youth, Strengthening Your Relationship and Intimacy.

SHOPPING AND PRODUCT REVIEWS

WOMEN’S INTERESTS

  • Womens-Interests: Beauty-Products – Articles about/concerning Beauty Products, Cosmetics, Makeup, Hair Products, Fragrance and Perfume, Creams, Lotion, Lipstick, Ingredients, Cosmetology and Careers.
  • Womens-Interests: Self-Defense – Articles about/concerning Self Defense for Women, Self Defense Tactics and Weapons, Self Defense Classes, Martial Arts, Stun Guns, Pepper Spray, Tasers, Hand-to-Hand Combat, Advice and Preparation.

WRITING AND SPEAKING

  • Writing-and-Speaking: Creative-Writing – Articles about/concerning Creative Writing, Creativity, Imagination, Original Composition, Creative Writing Programs and Workshops, Collaborative Writing, Short Stories, Playwriting/Dramatic Writing, Strategies in Creative Writing, Resources and Ideas.
  • Writing-and-Speaking: Screenwriting – Articles about/concerning Screenwriting, Screenplays, Playwriting, Writing in the Entertainment Industry, Script Writing, Television Writing, Formats and Dialogue, Storyboarding, Script Elements and Scene Heading, Character Development, Production, Education and Resources.

EzineArticles Member Stats Feature

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There is a reason why I strongly recommend that article marketers should use EzineArticles.com as their primary article directory. Especially if you are new to article marketing. The reason why is that the team over there continually adds new features that tremendously benefits authors. The latest feature which they have introduced in beta is the Member Stats feature.

Ezinearticles has been providing authors with member stats for quite a while now, but they were distributing the information separately. Some of the info came via email. Some was in your author admin backend. What they have done now is combined all that information in one place which you can find in your admin backend and added some nice visuals (graphs etc.) that make it much easier to understand what your statistics are and what they mean.

Things You Will Discover In The Member Stats Area Include:

1. Number of article view per month

2. List of 5 most viewed articles

3. Keyword stats for those most viewed articles

4. Author stats which include how many people viewed your author bio/profile per month

5. How many people clicked on your url links

6. How many times your article was published

7. Several ways to view these stats (combined, just author stats, just article stats)

8. A link to download your articles and their stats in CSV format or the ability to print them

So What Do I Do With These Stats?

I’m glad you asked:) The reason why I thought the new member stats features was worth writing about is because knowing your article marketing statistics is vital to knowing what your next article should and will be.

These stats will help you learn what articles people in your niche read most, what keywords they used to find your articles during a Google search, and perhaps how interested those readers were in finding out more about you by clicking on your EzineArticles profile.

This is the type of information that people have paid big bucks for or that they use a website statistic program (like Google Analytics) for. Yet now you can write and publish your articles in front of a very large audience AND get this type of valuable information on those articles over at EzineArticles for FREE.

This means that you can write more content using keywords that should produce more results in the search engines. In other words, you will be that much closer to writing and publishing articles that both readers and Google loves:)

Where Can I Find This Feature?

In your author area home, look in the left hand column — it is in the third section down (account statistics). Should be the last link in that section “New Stats Overview”. Just click.

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Free Article Marketing Lesson

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Free Articology Lesson

Thank you for your interest in article marketing and writing articles. Perhaps you have been thinking about using article marketing as a serious strategy in your business or maybe you just want to learn a little more about it before you do.

Well, that’s why I’d love for you to try a free lesson of my Articology article marketing training course, so you can sample the absolute tremendous information and value you will receive with each and every lesson in the course.

Already ready to join? Great, you can sign up right here. Otherwise…

Please sign up to receive your complimentary Articology lesson via email using the form below:

*You will also receive a complimentary subscription to my weekly marketing articles. Enjoy:)

 

Ezine Articles WordPress Plugin

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Have you heard about the new Ezine Articles WordPress Plugin?
People who use WordPress as their blogging platform, do so for many reasons, one being that it has the unique capability of utilizing a variety of WordPress plugins that can do very powerful things — and all for free! Well, this new Ezine Articles WordPress Plugin doesn’t disappoint either. It’s powerful and a great time saver.

I had the advantage of testing the article directory’s WordPress plugin in Beta and while it was first quite “buggy”, I looked forward to the day when they worked out the kinks, because I saw the potential in a plugin that you could use to submit articles directly to Ezinearticles.com. It simply cuts down on the step of opening another tab, logging into Ezine Articles, and copying, editing, and pasting my articles for submission.

ezine articles wordpress pluginSo now the new version of the ezine articles WordPress plugin is released, and I honestly feel that it was worth the wait. This is how it works…

<== This is the control panel that you will see in the top right hand corner of the admin area of your blog. You write a blog post like you would normally would and use this to select the options you need to make for submission.

1. Pick your article category

2. Choose your pen name

3. Select and/or customize your resource box

4. You can choose to use the first two sentences of your article as the summary or you can edit it.

5. You can choose to use your post tags as the tags for the article over at EA.

6. If you are a premium member, you can choose to make a scheduled release of your article, otherwise it will publish once approved by the editorial team.

7. You can press the validate button (I love this feature:) to check and make sure that your content is suitable for submission. This will really cut down on reasons why editors would kick-back your article and get you published that much faster.

8. Then you click submit and you’re done.

What also makes this plugin a great time saver is the fact that after you’ve done that, you can tweak the article (add your affiliate links etc.) and somewhat refresh or rewrite the article and submit to your blog as a totally separate article. All during the same writing session.

So now that the bugs are all worked out, I highly recommend using this plugin to seamlessly submit your articles to EzineArticles.com. You will wonder what you ever did without it.

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