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I’ve just taken a look at Mark Joyner’s Simpleology free blogging course which seemed like it might be of interest to you.

The main points covered are:

• What is a blog and why you should be blogging
• How to get traffic to your blog
• How to monetize your blog

Plus there are bonuses.

Leaving the bonuses aside for a moment (see later) this seems like a good course for beginning bloggers. It’s clear, concise and well presented. Once you get inside the members’ area, you have the choice of taking the course by video or PDF. The PDF transcript is 48 pages but there’s a lot of space around the text. I skimmed through it very fast.

The catch is that to get access to the course, you have to mention it on your blog. They give you the exact code to post so it’s very simple, but it means that you have to already have a blog before you can get in. And then they spend pages (or many minutes of AV) telling you what is a blog and why you should be blogging. Good stuff for newbies, but wait - you already ARE blogging, right? or you wouldn’t be there …

So I have to qualify my earlier statement here and say it’s a good course for someone who has just begun blogging without having a structured plan or reason for your blog. It might give you some traffic ideas or get you starting to make a little money from your blog, for example. But I think most people reading this blog are already beyond that point, so …

… let’s move on to the bonuses:

How To Create Interesting Titles

There are some good ideas here which apply to both blog post titles and article titles. You’ve probably seen them before if you’re a seasoned internet marketer but it’s good to have them in a handy list. I’ve condensed it down to one page and printed it out to keep by my computer.

How To Overcome Writer’s Block

Hopefully you won’t need to use too many of these tactics while writing one blog post, but they could be useful for those who do a lot of writing.

Which Blog Software Is Right For You

Gives you various options. As before, you already picked one, or you couldn’t have gotten into this course, but hey, maybe you’re looking round for a new blogging option.

Interviews With Well Known Bloggers

• Jason Cain
• Joel Comm
• Lynn Terry
• Priya Shah

All short and snappy and worth a read. And if you’ve never heard of any of these people but you’re interested in blogging, you definitely should get access to this course. Here’s the link:

http://www.simpleology.com/training/blogging

(That’s not an affiliate link.)

The bottom line: if you’re reading this blog, you probably know most of the information in this course already, but you might want to take a quick look at the PDF and bonuses. Don’t waste your time on the videos unless you really are a blogging newbie.

You also get access to Simpleology 101 once you’re inside. It’s worth checking that out too if you don’t know it, especially if you need to work on focusing, goal-setting and (more importantly) goal-achieving

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<== Click on the cover to pick up my new free ebook

Whether you think of yourself as a writer or not, if you are into internet marketing then you are almost certainly doing some writing and you surely know that you can make money with articles. The basic formula is simple: write an article related to your subject, include a link to your website and submit the article to directories.

However, there is one thing you must do before you start writing, and many people forget this. Take a few moments to consider how your article fits in to your overall marketing strategy, or you could be wasting your time. And time is money in article marketing!

This just means taking a moment to think about the article’s reason for being - in fact, its reason for being from two different points for view. First, what will be the reader’s reason for reading the article? And second, how does it fit in to your marketing, or how will it make money for you?

Maybe from your point of view, your only reason for writing an article is to make money. But if you do not appear to have any motivation that helps or informs the reader, they will be turned right off. The benefit to the reader must be very clear, and your make-money motives should be well hidden.

So keep in mind that the main reason for writing an article is always to inform or assist the reader. How it does this should be made very clear. Nobody should have to guess what they are being helped with!

If you are directing readers to a site where you are trying to sell them the answer to their problem, you probably don’t want to give away too much in your articles. But it’s easy to pick out one point, perhaps something that you didn’t cover in your ebook, or something that you did not go into depth about. It needs to give real value to the reader, so it should be both interesting and helpful in solving their problem or whatever need or wish they have that has made them read your article.

Keep in mind that there are some people submitting articles to directories who have no money-making motive at all. They simply want to put across their point of view. This applies particularly to people writing about subjects they strongly believe in, such as religion or politics. So imagine how you would write your article if you had nothing to sell. Then simply add a link to your site at the end.

However, do not try to stuff your article with all the information you can think of. This only confuses the reader. One point is enough if you can develop it well; three points is certainly all that you would need. Remember that the aim is to leave the reader wanting more.

At the same time, keep your own money-making reason for writing the article in the back of your mind. This is usually either branding (building trust in your name), sales (sending readers directly to a sales page) or lead generation (sending readers to a squeeze page where you can offer them more information). As a general rule, where your article is very closely related to the product you are selling, you can link straight to a sales page; less closely related, link to a squeeze page; and only broadly related, link to something like a blog that promotes you as an authority.

So before you submit your article, consider the thrust of the article both from the reader’s point of view and from a money-making perspective. Do the two purposes go together well, or do they conflict? You may have written other articles leading to a squeeze page, but would this one be more effective if it went directly to a sales page, or to your blog?

Don’t miss your chance to pick up more money-making tips. Before you submit another article, check out my free ebook 5 Fatal Bum Marketing Mistakes. It’s short, it’s new and it’s well worth a read!

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Unique content for blogs posted automatically for free … am I dreaming?

No, it is actually possible!

Remember that I wrote recently about Unique Article Wizard and their article submission service that creates unique versions of your articles and submits them for you to hundreds of directories? Here is my previous post:

Unique Article Wizard article submissions

Something that I did not mention is the way that you can benefit from UAW for FREE if you have a blog. You can grow your blog automatically with ‘unique’ content, because they will submit fresh versions of members’ articles directly to your blog for you.

* You do not have to be a paying member - any blog owner can benefit from this - it’s free *

How does it work? Well, I told you that members of UAW use it to produce tons of unique articles which are then submitted to tons of sites. Some of these are article directories and some are blogs (could be yours!)

This is different from article scraping in one important way - the version of the article that you receive will be produced especially for your site. It will not be the same as the versions on all the other sites. So you get ‘unique’ content.

http://mwpmarketing.com/a/uaw

Note: it will not be 100% unique - it’s a new version of the article, not a completely new article - but it should be plenty different enough to satisfy the search engines.

To give you an example of how this works, I have a WordPress blog about Forex (foreign exchange currency trading). I don’t know anything about Forex so I used to copy and paste articles out of directories to it, but of course it takes time. So after a couple of months I lost interest.

This is a big problem with a blog! You have to keep on posting. If people look under Archives and there is no entry for the current month, they will just click away! And my Forex blog had no entries for the current YEAR …! So it was about as dead as a blog can be.

But now I have set up this blog to accept content about Forex automatically from UAW. It just took a couple of minutes and I have content coming in most days. Best of all, it’s not identical content to a million other sites, the way that it used to be when I took it from a directory.

I’ve also set it up to have it send me an email before it adds an article. That way I can check that the article is appropriate to my site and that it is going into the right category on my blog.

So if you have a blog that is dying, or taking more time than you want to give it, you may want to have UAW post to it for you.

Remember - you get this content for free. Go here and scroll right down to the bottom where it says “Directories/Webmasters”:

http://mwpmarketing.com/a/uaw

After you reach the FAQ page, don’t use the “join here” link - that’s for paying members who want to submit articles. Just go down to the blue box where you can download the plugin for your application. Instructions are inside the zip folder that you will download. My blog is Wordpress and it was simply a matter of uploading and activating the plugin.

It works for WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Blogspot, and also if you have an article directory based on Article Dashboard or other popular applications. If you have another type of blog or a static site you can still receive content by email and paste it in. For this, click on “sign up to receive content by email” on the FAQ page. But automatic is simplest!

This could really help you if you don’t have time to constantly write new unique content for your blogs yourself. And a lot of us are in that position, I think!

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Well OK, maybe not really Top Secret, but I do have Portal Feeder information and I don’t think you will be hearing about this from a lot of people.

If you have been following this blog for 6 months or more, you may remember me telling you about the last time that Portal Feeder opened their doors in December 2007.

I wrote a couple of blog posts around that time that reviewed my experience as a Portal Feeder member. You can see one here:

Portal Feeder Review - What I Love And Hate About Portal Feeder

Note: I think Jason K read that review, because after I wrote it they CHANGED the boot camp that I hated so much! They took out a lot of time-consuming preparation to make it much quicker and simpler to work through.

They also introduced a massive traffic building co-op this spring. It’s called Traffic Kahuna and membership costs $147 per month, but it’s free for Portal Feeder members.

Here’s another review:

What Is Portal Feeder

And some FAQ answers:

Portal Feeder Questions Answered

I also offer a blatant bribe (oops - I mean ‘free bonus’) of 6 PLR ebooks from that blog if you sign up to the Portal Feeder free notification list through my link:

Portal Feeder Bonus

Note: you don’t have to join Portal Feeder to get the bonus - only sign up to their list.

So the news is:

** Portal Feeder will be re-opening their doors next week **

I am not sure of the exact date, but if you get on the list now you will find out all about it and you can also claim your bonus from me.

They usually only stay open for a few days.

Finally:

Although I have not used the site building side of it very much, what I learned from the Portal Feeder training, mentors and forum completely turned my business around from making a loss to making a living. I value my membership very highly.

I hope you will sign up to the notification list now. Then when it opens next week you can study the Portal Feeder information and consider whether this is right for your business right now.

Maybe I will see you inside soon.

Portal Feeder Bonus

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Following on from my previous post/email I Love Writing Articles, here is a Unique Article Wizard review versus a Content Composer review.

We will look at the benefits of each one and then I will give you the bottom line: how do they measure up?

Unique Article Wizard:
http://mwpmarketing.com/a/uaw

- You set it up to create a huge number of unique articles

- Push ‘Go’ and it submits them for you, submitting a different version to each directory automatically

- Monthly membership fee for an unlimited number of article submissions

- Walks you through your first submission one step at a time - you learn by doing an actual submission

- There are video instructions for each step, but it was so easy I didn’t need them

Content Composer:
http://mwpmarketing.com/a/content-composer

- Has research tools to help you if you are starting by writing a new base article yourself

- Then you set it up to create however many unique articles you need (one for each directory that you submit to)

- You submit them yourself, either manually or using article submitter software (not supplied)

- Even if you use submitter software you will need to paste in a different unique version for each directory

- One-off fee, then you own the software; upgrades are free

- Video instructions - it’s so powerful that there is a lot to get your head around, but it’s very user-friendly once you understand what it does

Review

With both of these methods, you can get the same result - different versions of your article all over the web creating backlinks, bringing traffic and improving your SERPS position.

If you use it to the full, Content Composer will work out cheaper for you because it’s a one-off fee but it takes time to submit all your articles afterward and I found that I simply did not do it. I didn’t have the time.

Mostly I would just write one version, submit it to Ezinearticles and stop. Now and then I would submit three versions. It was better than nothing, and it was earning me money, but because I was not putting in the time, I was not getting the results I’m seeing now.

Now UAW does both the unique versions and the submissions for me and it’s GREAT!

The bottom line …

Whatever method you pick, submitting unique versions of your articles to a ton of different directories is a VERY effective marketing method. So you can use UAW or Content Composer or you can even do it entirely manually by rewriting an article over and over, if you have plenty of time and no money. But be sure to do it!

Links again:

Unique Article Wizard:
http://mwpmarketing.com/a/uaw

Content Composer:
http://mwpmarketing.com/a/content-composer

Submit those articles!

It pays!!

Oh, and if you don’t like writing articles and you want to order
unique articles from a reliable source or have your PLR articles
rewritten, check out Need An Article:

http://www.mwpmarketing.com/recommends/need-articles

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