After reading your post I feel like trying it out. Will give it a shot.

Articles do bring traffic but they also build your Internet profile and your credibility. My view is that, in these Web 2.0 times, you need to use multiple approaches to marketing. I use Squidoo as a means of integrating my blogging, article writing, social marketing (Facebook, Twitter, etc) and video/photo marketing.

By way of example, my Squidoo lens about AffSphere is sitting in the number 3 position on Google (for the keyword – affsphere), as I write this post.

I really enjoy the open discussion that Yaro provides here and the insights that people freely share.

Thanks for passing along this useful information. I like the concept however last weekend I lost the ability to post more articles. I keep getting a technical error. I figured it was temporary so I tried again a few days ago only to get the same problem. I emailed Affsphere yesterday and have not received a response. I know that’s not along time but I noticed another Affsphere user posted a frustrated message in the helpdesk section of the site four days ago and there’s yet to be a reply.

Any chance you can tap Anik on the shoulder to see what’s going on?

Thanks!
By the way, I am really enjoying Blog Mastermind.

Sincerely,
LMajor
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I think that AffSphere sure has some potential as it has tried to differentite itself from most article directories.

Also, not everyone finds article marketing effecting while others swear by it. I feel that you should actually stick to your traffic generating strategies instead of jumping from one strategy to another.

Also, it is good to do some web analytics and find out whether your traffic generating strategies have been effective in generating leads that actually convert on your site.

Happy Blogging!

Ishykiel
Guppy Breeder and Tropical Fish Blogger
http://www.GuppyBlog.com

Duplicate content is an issue, so if you are going to use your blog posts for article marketing, change them or only use a handful of your posts – like one from every 20 blog posts you do.

Though, it all depends upon how creative and innovative you are in article marketing.

Despite what you may have heard, pre-selling through articles has done a wonderful job in affiliate marketing as well.

I enjoy your blog.

I think Affsphere at the very least is worth a try.

Anik, being an affiliate, is pretty focused on different ways you can make income with affsphere.

Also traffic and backlinks cant hurt.

I personally am following your recommendations to outsource some article writing. And will be putting them up on affsphere and ezinearticles.com

I’m new to blogging, but have decided that is going to be the focus of my business. Since I’m one of the starvin’ marketers, I plan to use aarticle marketing for promotion. Problem is that I need a 40 hour day to fit all the necessities in. Since I’ll be writing both for back links and traffic the new article site is probably not going to be one I’ll use right away…I want my articles to be picked up for re-publication and my feeling is that affiliate links within them will undercut that goal a lot since the “standard” is not to allow such links.

I love your blog and feel I can learn a lot by following it. Thank you.

Maggie

another question is…can you tell us where you go to get these people to submit the articles for $10 per hour.? where do you find them?

i signed up and submitted an article and got it approved fairly quickly, but it would not let me insert an image into the article.

Don’t forget Buzzle. I get more traffic from Buzzle, than I do eZine.

Site looks great but their search is failing – I could not research what they already on my topic. If you know the guy you should let him know about it.

thanks for the tip

I know he is not exaggerating. You do need to put in a lot of hours to get your blog some “density” at any level. What I’ve done is come to a realization that we have to spend a lot of time putting in masses of articles into our blog to increase its natural/organic search results probability like Josh Spaulding says above too.

CourtneyTuttle.com has said it best, Content is NOT King. She states that 20 of her 400 posts generate 90% of her site traffic as those articles are the most popular. What I have found is that two of my articles are currently responsible for 100% of my traffic (although limited at this time). I say, post your articles in your site and if they don’t produce, migrate them over to article sites and keep the ones that produce on yours.

Anyway, gotta go for now, when I type site:laberintosocial.com on google, I get 84 results. Compare that to Yaro’s 2,670 and JohnChow’s 2,890 and I’ve got a “s___load” of articles more to write, -hoping to hit those 20 superstars along the way.

Fran

Hugh

At this beginning stage of my site, I don’t feel comfortable outsourcing any kind of work until I get enough traffic. My goal is to reach 100 readers daily in 3 months. Is this goal too big?

Thanks

Cheers!