Niche Marketing With An Article Directory

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Believe it or not, there is money in owning/running an article directory. The key is to niche it out and promote it with the marketing tools made available on the internet today.

Here is how I do it with Moxie Drive Expressions:

1. I approve an article, or series of articles on the same niche with a major category like Iphone.

2. I only bookmark a couple of them heavily at the beginning. I call it fishing. I use about 30 "dofollow" bookmarking sites and a few "nofollow" bookmarking sites. This is what I did with my first couple of Iphone download articles in January of 2008.

Believe it or not, I do not use Digg or Propeller for Moxie Drive Expressions because of their tendency to ban sites at the blink of an eye. And I just do not like their politics.

3. I use every single word in the article that I think could be included in a search phrase. Use single term keywords when bookmarking for the greatest effect. The search engines worry about putting these together for the long tail phrases that are actually searched for. I do not use any keyword research tools other than Google.

4. I wait for the results to show up in Google Analytics. The articles that peek their little heads up and get the most traffic are in the niches that I pay 20% of my time doing some major bookmarking and blogging to corner the niche and make some decent money with. I do not bookmark everything. Only productive niches. Once I get caught up on the articles that I already have, I just sit back and wait for the next to come in and bookmark it heavily. This is what I did and continue doing with the Iphone niche. Moxie Drive Expressions gets between 400 and 700 visitors a day for Iphone related organic searches.

I have since been fishing in the ipod, movie, music, automotive, computer, health, hobby, makeup and skin care, motorcycle, and the Pets and Animals niches. I discovered a process that works, why not repeat it. Moxie Drive Expressions is also #1 in Google for the keyword phrase free ipod songs, a new niche for Moxie Drive Expressions that I am promoting heavily.

If they are not productive, I either delete the category and all of the articles, or at the least, not pay a lot of attention to it when it comes to my bookmarking efforts. Sorry, I am not in it for the author, I am in it for the income. An article directory has got to support itself somehow.

Then I go find another category. As the articles come in, and the productive ones become obvious, I split off a sub-category with at least 10 related articles, make sure they are all bookmarked, and bookmark the sub-category page as well. I also start a Squidoo page for the subcategory. I may enlist the help of some friends to vote and bookmark the articles. This is not a paid activity, so I offer my PR5 profile in Mixx.com as compensation, but only for those articles that I am interested in. I do not just go out and bookmark everything under the sun.




Do make sure you have either a 728X90, 350X250, or 336X300 Adsense ad placed prominently above the web page fold. Then one at or near the bottom of the article text. These are the most effective placements. I do not mess with the 468X60 as the click thru rate is not very high.

That's it. That is how I make the most money with the Moxie Drive Expressions article directory. Let's just say that I am making enough today to keep the wife satisfied for the time being. I will be satisfied when I reach the 10k mark per month. I can see this happening.

This can be done with a blog or a web page as well.

Simple, huh?
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Niche Marketing With An Article Directory was posted by BartTheBear 6/26/2008 08:42:00 PM

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