Article Marketing Blogs
What’s article marketing? Here’s Wiki’s definition:
In its simplest form, article marketing is a type of advertising through which a business writes short articles related to its respective industry. Once written, the business makes these articles freely available for distribution and publication in the marketplace.
Each article contains a ‘bio box’ and ‘by-line’ which include references and contact information for the author’s business. Well written content articles released for free distribution have the potential of gaining the author business credibility within his or her market, as well as new clients.
So, basically it’s about submitting articles to sites like ezinearticles.com, goarticles, etc, for extra backlinks and traffic.
I was thinking a few months ago about how dated those article marketing sites look (certainly Web 1.0) and wondering how they will evolve over the next few years (I’ve done this before)… then I came up with a novel twist: Blog for a Link
Here’s the idea. Instead of using dated article marketing scripts, use Wordpress. Create a network of blogs, one per niche, and allow webmasters to promote their sites by posting on the blogs which obviously includes backlinks to their sites – but only one link per unique post. So, effectively, I would have a network of user-generated content blogs.
I even built a prototype: it comprised several plug-ins and modification to the core code. So, alas, I can’t release it yet. However, I’ve since realised most of the code can be bundled into a single plug-in, which I’ll release sometime soon. Here’s some screenshots - submit-a-post & my-posts.
The business model behind this idea was build-to-sell. Build and promote the network, and after becoming established sell it to the highest bidder. However, I just don’t have the time so I’m sharing the idea with you guys just in case some-one is interested in pursuing it. Let me know if you do, I’ll feature your network on this blog.
Dude you must be rich. You come up with the coolest shit ever.
I’ve seen it done before but I can’t remember the link.. But i f you really want me to I could dig it up.
Man, this is the first blog I’ve encountered that I HAD to read every friggin’ post right away. Amazing info!
Brad
Great idea. If you wanted to build a network really quickly, you could also completely automate it by coding a script to allow the blog to accept syndication feeds from places like Article Marketer, etc. just like Article Dashboard.
One thing: can the script actually detect if there’s more than one link in the post? If not, then you might as well go with the “honor” system and just let people post manually and moderate everything (if you’re bothered about quality).
But nice … I like it. Feel free to send me the plugin and I’ll be happy to build an autoblogging network to sell. :o)
Would love to build such a site. Please shoot me an email; I’m very interested!
Is this like finding a winning lottery ticket or what??! The guy above me hit it on the head, I have to read every post! I have mixed emotions about finding this, part of me wants to show everyone that I have found the coolest blog ever, the other part says tell no one, too many people know already. I think the latter wins out. I want to be your friend…
im not sure i got it but sounds like liebner’s article underground