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Just popping in to thank you for coming to the Article Marketing Teleseminar I did with ArticleMarketer.com. Chris is an incredibly gracious host, and interviewing with him is like having a relaxing conversation, even though you know you have an audience and have only a 50% idea of what he’s going to ask.

It was wonderful of you all to come, and if you sent me a question via email, I’ll be honest and say it’ll be forever before I can answer any of them, and some of them I just won’t get to, due to the volume of email I get on a daily basis. You’d do better to leave the questions posted as a response to this thread. I appreciate all your comments though, and I do read as many of them as I can.

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But

1. I don’t actually hate it.
2. It’s totally summer.

It just annoys the crap out of me sometimes. I’m really trying to be on its team, and gave serious consideration to switching back to IE from Firefox. But when it does things like double post my Wordpress entries? Not so much endearing.

No. Not at all. And I hate when I can’t make a new tab, when selecting new tabs. Because no, I don’t want the content to load in this window. That’s why I clicked what? New. Tab.

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I’m sure you heard the other day about how you can make a public Google calendar that even people who don’t use it can read. Three uses that come to mind:

• Let people know when you’re available in the future.
• Use it to organize a Meme
• Suggest a blog or book reading schedule

Me. Likey.

But I bet ya haven’t heard this piece o’ news. According to the Inside Google Book Search blog, they’ve put together a newsletter for librarians.

So what? So librarians are using technology, kiddies. We’re getting closer to a day when good online resources may be given the same regard as books. Okay, not soon. But even more importantly, getting coverage for a real book you’ve written (or could write) can get even more publicity. Yay. I’m gonna take a month off and write a physical book one of these days….

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So you want free traffic, do you? So you want to know everything I could possibly tell you about article marketing? So you want it for free?

You greedy bastard, you.

Well, here it all is, because I really don’t feel like tagging all my imported posts from my old blog and putting them into categories. No sir. I don’t think so. Tinu suis sleepy. (8 years of French. What a shame.)

But in honor of tomorrow’s seminar at 11 am Pacific, even though I’ve gotten really used to the idea of working every other day, I have made this list for you. Why? Why the hell not - don’t you question my authoriatay!

(Too much South Park. Not Enough Sleep.)

14 Article Marketing Posts in This Here Site

9 Reasons Why Articles Don’t Produce the Traffic and Sales They Should

Linking Discussion about the Relation Between High Profile Article Marketing and Linking
How to Make Article Marketing Work for You Part One, Part Two

Latent Semantic Indexing and Article Marketing

About High Profits from Article Marketing

High Profit Exposure with Articles Part One, Part Two, Part Three

Traffic Thursdays: Sales from Articles : Parts One, Two, Three, Four, Five

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I’ve teamed up with ArticleMarketer.com tomorrow to do a totally free no-we’re-not-pitching-anything teleseminar on the most overlooked aspect of Article Marketing. It enhances the quality of your traffic in the short term, and the quantity of your traffic over the long term. It’s the concept that High Profit Article Marketing is based on. So I’m gonna do a whole hour of live speaking on why you want to use article marketing in your online traffic efforts, and how to do it in a way that pre-sells your reader and turns you into a Celebrity Expert.

And yes, this clout Does translate to offline publicity as well.

You Must register to attend, and you get to ask questions after. Go to this page on Article Marketer to get hooked up.

I’m going to do links to the article marketing content on this site. Then I’m going to take a nap and when I get up I’ll do that article marketing series I was talking about.

MMMMM… naaaap….

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I know what you expect me to say. You expect me to say “oh, all that tag and ping stuff is rubbish, I taught you that already and if you buy that package it’s rubbish and you’re wasting your money.”

But that’s not what I was going to say at all. And I did teach you about tagging and pinging in 2004 and early 2005.

And I’ve been harping on responsible pinging since then, and I told you repeatedly that abusing pinging would not even bring quality short term traffic, and could get a site banned.

However, having bought the package so I could review it, and see what the fuss was about, I can’t bring myself to say it’s rubbish. Far from it. I actually think it would be useful for a beginner who just can’t wrap their mind around pinging. I couldn’t at first, and if I’d had it, it would have helped me. I think it’s overpriced, and I think that if you should try and figure it out on your own first.

But if you can’t, get the guide but Use It As Directed. If you have my book and you follow the directions in the pinging section, you’ll get great results, sure. But I don’t go into as much detail, at all.

Now if you’re an expert blogger and you’re expecting it to uncover some secret you don’t already know, it’s pretty much a waste of your money, unless, like me, $147 really isn’t a big deal to you. I won’t be totally gauche and say it’s not an expense to me or that I wipe my behind with wads of cash. But if I went on vacation and I didn’t stay in a timeshare property where there was a kitchen, I’d spend more than that eating during the course of a day. Not to mention the fact that if I use it in my business it’s a write-off. And here I am telling you about it, right?

What I feel the book was lacking that would make it a medium-level benefit for an expert blogger are all the sources you can use to tag a link, with or without pinging, and a really in-depth look at tagging from a search engine standpoint, with all the benefits it can bring if not abused.

So in Traffic Reality this week, the monthly Quick Report is going to be on Tagging and Pinging, and how I use it to get my blogging clients up to 43 no-guilt links any time I want, to any page, any time I like, without abusing any social bookmarking service.

Bottom Line Advice: If you’re a beginner and you need to be walked through the process, Tag and Ping will help you with that but it’s a bit pricey. Should you buy it? Weigh the cost of learning to do this right against lost traffic to your blog. If the free guides out there aren’t doing it for you, then it wouldn’t be a bad investment, though again, I feel it’s a little steep.

If you have my guide or package on blogging, turn to the ping section. That should do it for you. If you don’t have it, dude, don’t get it just for that.

If you’re an expert blogger, your money is best spent elsewhere unless the price tag doesn’t bother you. There are one or two tips in there that make it worth your while in that case, and the included software is kinda neat if you have a use for it.

Okay. Next I’m going to do a post about the teleseminar I’ll be at tomorrow, take a nap, then do a short series on article marketing, and then … do some other stuff that doesn’t concern you.

Nosy.

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