Well, okay the methods don’t actually involve cheating, but they do use Associated Content and EzineArticle in such a way that will cause you to receive the most page views possible for your article submissions. Now that’s good news!

Here’s the deal. What if I told you, if you were to change just three small things, your article submissions would become supercharged? That would be cool.

And keep in mind that you’re not going to break any rules, not even one, by using these three methods. Ready to follow along and optimize your article submissions? Good.

1.  The first optimization trick that will drive traffic to your blog is so simple that you’ll wonder why you didn’t see it. Whenever you publish a piece on Associated Content, you’re required to place something in the “descriptive overview” box, right after the subtitle. Don’t strain your brain trying to write your description–The best thing to put in that spot  is  the first 150 to 200 characters of your article. Easy as pie.

It doesn’t ‘look’ redundant to anyone, because that field appears on your Content Producer Page. But spiders “recognize” it!

Those wonderful programs (lovingly called spiders), who are sent over with every inquiry on every search engine only see the patterns and/or instructions of what they’re programmed to.

Bottom line when you are writing, make your article reader friendly AND spider-friendly. All of your work is pretty pointless if you don’t.

2.  The second happy little trick to optimize your article submissions should be used when writing or your own blog or website as well as Associated Content or EzineArticle. This one involves a couple of tools. Since we now know that we need to please the spiders as well as the visitors, counting keywords in our articles is absolutely vital. Counting cards may get you kicked out of Vegas, but counting keywords will drive traffic and sales right to your door with your article submissions. A lot of us try to determine keyword density by counting the words ourselves, just by skimming over the article. If that’s you, stop now… There are free tools to do that for you silly!

The absolute BEST tool to use for this is Textalyser. It’s free and fast. I’ve used other programs, but the feature that sets Textalyser apart is that it not only counts your individual keywords, it also determines your keyword phrases, which is much more important. It also calculates the keyword density percentage. Just copy and paste the body of your text into the program and let the analysis begin…

A rule of thumb is to keep your unique keyword phrases at about 6% keyword density.

The easiest way to do this is to place your best keyword phrase in the title, the subtitle (if applicable), and twice in both the opening, and closing paragraphs, as well as every 100-200 words, within the body. (Don’t forget to name your image with one of your keyword phrases…yes, spiders crawl your photos too)

Also, in order to find the best (most searched) keyword phrases, use Google’s free keyword tool and refer to my Ninja tutorial on exactly how to use it. Okay, your article submissions are almost supercharged…

3.  Here’s the final, vital, non-negotiable step to your article optimization campaign. This is the part that really makes the other two steps take off. This is also the part that most people question, or  just plain ‘don’t get.’

Ready? Here it is: Promote other people’s work. In fact, promote the websites of others at least three times as often as you do your own.

That means for every link of your own that you post, you should put at least three links to the valid and reliable works of others (including entire subject categories) out there too. Why? To be nice? No, it’s so much more than that.

If you’re linking to only your own work in blogs, social networking sites, and other places, Google’s spiders will see you as probable spam. (Yep, you got that right) You’re quite literally pulling the rug out from under yourself if you don’t link to other sites and promote other writer’s work.

By posting just your own stuff you’re actually hurting your Google Ranking by being to pushy. Yes, the Google Police can quantify “pushy.” Amazing. Huh? When you build your own little kingdom of niche blogs, linking to ONLY each other, your little world will remain unnoticed.

So use your blogs and your article submissions to lead to others sites as well as your own. It will help your rankings, you will see.

Does all of this sound like work? Of course it is. But keeping your eye on the bigger picture, if you are going to write the articles, you should take the time to do them correctly. Only by optimizing your article submissions will you be able to generate enough traffic to  lead people to your sales page or back to your own website.

Lastly, keep in mind that none of these methods will work as well alone as they will together. You should do all three to really see the benefits.

There you have it,  your three little cheating tips (that don’t really involve any cheating) to optimize your article submissions like a madman, or a Ninja, or whatever cool thing you wish you were…

In 2009, an intelligently written, well researched, credible blog can touch a life, cause a profound decision to be made and ignite enough passion in the spirit of the reader to create real change. A blog can start a movement, define a dream or redirect a nation.

How does that begin?

With your first post…Never before has the average individual had the opportunity to have a voice or a platform like today. What is Social Media for? If you have to ask, you just don’t get it.

I’ve read hundreds of articles and blog posts surrounding the confusion of social media.

Twitter, FaceBook, Blogging and other forms of instant communication are the main topic of a million seminars and a wave of eBooks. Individuals can’t seem to grasp or wrap their mind around social media.

Social Media…What is it?

Well, to put it in proper perspective…let’s stop for a moment, realign ourselves and try to think like a real world changer. What do you think Martin Luther King Jr., William Wilberforce, or Nelson Mandela, would have done if they could have combined the platform of Social Media with their world changing passion?

Social Media is nothing more or nothing less than a tool in your hand and a soap box to stand on. Used with wisdom, it can allow your thoughts, your dream and your vision to permeate areas of our world you never thought possible. Now do you get it?

Of course, most people with any amount of passion allow it to die shortly after conception. Abandoned blogs and stagnant social media accounts litter the world wide web. And of course, not everyone is called to change the world, but I do believe that we are all called to find our purpose, discover our destiny and live it out to the best of our ability. If you can’t change the world, then touch one life, improve one neighborhood, give one child the opportunity to fulfill their dreams.

If you take a look at the majority of Tweet Streams, you will see the glaring reality of what our world has become. The shameful truth is this…given a platform, most of us will tweet about affiliate marketing schemes, get rich quick tactics, and MLMs. We always want to put the cart before the horse. Money, money, money…How can we make money? Our shallow aspirations are an embarrassment. Twitter has begun to look like some sort of cheesy carnival. Come see the freak show, the porn peddlars, the MLM pushers and those that guarantee your overnight success (for a mere 49.99).

Here’s an idea. View Social Media as a gift, a divine opportunity–and treat it as such. Use it to spread valuable information and to help the less fortunate. Is it okay to tweet about our business services? Of course it is, but let’s be realistic….Spam is spam is spam. No one cares about joining Donald Trump’s new money making scheme or joining your program that will bring 130,000 Twitter followers in 3 months. Can’t we stop and look at ourselves already?

It’s pretty pathetic…just saying.

Can your blog change the world? Of course it can, if the right person is behind the wheel, great things can and will be accomplished through the power of social media.

What is your online voice going to be known for? Pushing garbage or doing something worthwhile.

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count.  It’s the life in your years.” ~Abraham Lincoln

The word ‘blog’ is short for ‘web log’, which is a website where one can maintain a type of online journal to discuss the topic of their choosing. While the majority of blogs used to contain a writer’s personal thoughts, political views or provide a convenient place for large families to keep up with each other; blogging is now recognized as a vital part of  social media and business success.

What can a Business Blog Do for You?

Today’s professional blogs provide a way for a business to gain visibility, network, develop a following of potential clients and ultimately increase a company’s bottom line. By providing keyword saturated, fresh and relevant content to the public, a business can rise above its competitors by actively engaging with others through the use of a blog.

Getting Hits

The key to a flourishing blog is hits – and lots of them. The problem is that when you’re first starting out, you don’t have a lot of hits. You may not know how to set up a blog, what to write about or what voice to use. What can you do to solve this problem?  Hire a ghostwriter.

A ghostwriter can write through a variety of voices, posting to your blog as many times per week as you like. The more posting you have, the more key words you will have and the more times your blog will come up when those key words are searched. It naturally follows, of course, that the more traffic you generate to your site, the more unsolicited postings you will have, generating more popularity, and so on. It’s all about visibility and a business blog will get you there.

Making Money With a Blog

A successful blog – and by that, we mean a financially successful blog – is one that successfully reaches a specific audience of people, an audience generally referred to as a company’s  ‘target audience’. Decide who your target audience is and then use your blog accordingly. A ghostwriter can help develop the feel of your blog. Regardless of the audience, a blog should be written in a relaxed, conversational tone; as if you were speaking face-to-face with another individual. That’s what makes a blog different than a business website. Although a blog is intended to bring in new clients, it should add value to the reader’s lives without a hard sell.

If your company is Quaker Oats, then your blog is going to need health related content as well as a recipe section. A ‘cooking with your kids’ section can be developed and even a ‘craft corner’ that includes fun step-by-step projects that can be made from empty Quaker Oats Containers. These types of articles add value to families while giving a company increased visibility and a renewed relevance in the minds of the readers. Which oatmeal box will the readers of this blog instinctively reach for during their next shopping trip? Quaker Oats; because the reader has developed a positive connection with the company. In the reader’s mind, the oatmeal company cares about family…their family. The more personal and individualized a business blog is, the deeper the connection to the reader will become.

Can You Do This Yourself?

The idea of a business owner posting to his or her own blog is admirable, but highly impractical. Keeping one blog filled with interesting and engaging, key word rich content is a full time job. Hiring a ghostwriter who understands your company’s needs, where it wants to go and who it wants to reach is by far your best option.

Writers-elite offers ghost-blogging to every industry–from legal firms and product manufacturers to real estate agents and restaurant suppliers, we can provide the voice that will reach the broadest possible audience and bring them in with useful and timely information. Let our ghostwriting services bring the leads to your door. Call us or send an inquiry today. Our capable staff will provide you with a blogging blueprint that will include key word phrases and topics that should be covered in your business blog.

Contact us today for a personal quote. Most blog posts average at $18-20 per post, and it is well worth the price with the level of success you will reach by using a business blog as your means of social outreach.

If you are still at square one and in need of a domain name, web-hosting, and someone to set up your blog, we do the technical part as well. Our sister site, Custom Blog For Free handles all of the blog creation, set-up and initial optimization for the web. If you haven’t purchased your web hosting yet, check this site out first. For the price of regular web hosting, you can actually have your blog set up for free.

Whatever you do…go ahead and do it today! Here’s to success!

Owner: Robin Hale

Years in Business: Partnership Marketing is coming up on 10 years of service in the area of strategic business promotion. We are well-seasoned experts who know what the client is looking for.

Contact: editor@writers-elite.com or partnershipmktg@aol.com

Phone: 239-440-6856

Before we set up our firing line, lets take a step back and look at the whole picture here. A business, any business, should strive for excellence in every area that falls under its umbrella of responsibility. Thinking this all the way through, one must come to the realization that certain businesses are branded by an idea, certain businesses are branded by a product, and certain businesses are branded by an individual–but they ALL must operate according to the same standards if they are to succeed. Right? … Right.

If that is true, then why is it that you don’t expect Colonel Sanders to fry your chicken wings or Sam Walton to help you find the new Coldplay CD, but you DO expect Guy Kawasaki to answer your emails. Business is business. Guy Kawasaki’s Internet Marketing presence is branded by a person…himself. But at the end of the day, he still has to do his accounting, attend a live seminar taping, pitch his materials and keep up with his appointments. Do you really think he is sitting in front of his computer all day, waiting to personally reply to the comment you left on his website? Well, wipe the sleep out of your eyes and come on over to reality. That’s not how it works.

Almost a decade ago, I was on staff at a fairly large church in Ocala, Florida. The pastor and staff were well known by all of the big Rhema preachers and we produced a weekly television broadcast along with owning and running our own radio station and private school. It was a fast paced, demanding atmosphere to work in–to say the least. But, I learned  more from working at that church than any business school could have ever taught me. Our pastor was awesome, Godly, beloved by the community and always sincere in his actions and motives. He also ran his businesses with the same amount of widom, drive and genious that I would expect from Donald Trump.

There was never a phone call unanswered, a misspelled word in any of his publications or a mark on any of the walls in the school. Even the chairs in the sanctuary were set at a precise distance from each other that was measured by a special stick the maintenance department had created. This was excellence to the tenth power. And do you know what? I have a secret to share with you…Get ready for this. Pastor Tim’s secretary answered all of his emails and written correspondence, most of the time without him even taking a glance at any of it. She would brief him on information that he needed to know, but would conduct herself with full authority to speak on his behalf…(gasp) Can you believe it? His secretary ‘ghost-answered’ his emails. Well of course she did. He was responsible for a church of over 5,000 members, a fully accredited  Academy (K-12th grade) and a radio station. He also authored numerous books and took frequent missions trips. Oh, and did I mention that he was a father of five children? Yes, and the church was never in the red, the staff was well paid, and everything went like clockwork, always.

Pastor Tim was the man behind the church. He was who everyone saw on TV and heard on the radio. But he could not have taken things to the level that he did without having the ability to do two powerful things:

• Number one– He was able to convey his mission, his vision and his way of thinking so completely to his staff, that they were able to make decisions on his behalf. Everyone knew what was expected and carried it out without diluting or putting their own personal spin on things.
• Number two– He was able to let go and trust his people to carry out the vision.

If you can’t wrap your mind around using a ghost writer or a ghost blogger to bring your voice and your brand value to a target audience because you feel it isn’t ethical, then don’t expect to grow beyond the limited number of tasks that you can accomplish on your own. People follow Guy Kawasaki because he is an influential leader in his industry. If he is so limited that he can’t properly convey his mission statement to a ghost-tweeter whom he employs to speak on his behalf, then Houston; we’ve got a problem.

Ghost writers, bloggers, and even ghost tweeters are valid resources that will clear your plate and allow you to further carry out the plan and growth of your business. The only logical argument against hiring a ghostwriter is when a business tries to cut corners and sacrifices their very reputation by employing writers who can’t even put two sentences together correctly. I’ve seen this happen all too often. The way around this pitfall is pretty simple, don’t hire someone who writes $5.00 articles. If you do, you’re going to GET $5.00 articles. I know fellow writers who are extremely talented, but have lowered their standards and have begun to write for low pay. If your writer is turning out $5 or $10 articles then guess what?–They are feverishly trying to complete ten or more per day so they can make ends meet. Do you want your blog posts written by someone who wrote it in fifteen minutes or less? I know I don’t. Bottom line, you get what you pay for…Yes, it was true last year, it was true a decade ago, and it’s true today.

If you are thinking about using a ghost blogger, you are thinking correctly…It logically flows in the growth process of any business or industry. You are not a one man band. Just be sure that when you do hire a writer, you do so with care. Don’t compromise your standards. If you are going to spend your time building a business, then do it correctly. Using intelligent and talented writers to properly convey your thoughts and bring value to your industry is just plain smart business.

Here, at Writers-Elite, we provide Business Blogging and Website  Content Management Services to some of the largest corporations in the United States. We also know how to cater to the small business owner who needs to make his mark in the Social Networking scene. From local search to international exposure, your image is our concern. Please contact us today to learn more about our Business Blogging and Social Media services. You’ll be pleasantly surprised to find that our level of excellence and attention to your needs comes with an extremely reasonable price tag.

Robin Hale

239-440-6856

Partnershipmktg@aol.com

This short document gives step by step instruction on getting audio into your posts to liven things up for your readers.

Also, by copying the URL from Archive.org, it is simple to add a hyperlink to your audio from email, newsletters and virtually any Web page. You can even prepare audio files for use in location specific media projects, for example: streaming audio to handheld phones.

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“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol

Is this a business article? Yes, it is. But at the same time I’d like to speak to your worries and fear of failure when starting an online business. Delving into a new business, especially online, can be a huge undertaking. What seems small at first, can quickly turn into an endless string of Google searches and digression. Did you have any idea you’d have so many questions? Your never-ending quest for information includes attempts to figure out what type of hosting is best, the difference between WordPress and Blogger as well as crash courses on SEO and proper usage of keywords. Even after you’ve discovered what SEO is, do you understand how to implement it on your blog? These are only a handful of the questions that individuals embarking upon an online business are asking.

The only thing that keeps you going when attempting to start an online business is the inner knowledge that your idea is solid and if you could just get yourself a website, learn to build traffic and present your services or goods in front of an audience, you’d have it made. With an online business you could actually change your life.

This short article is going to help you weed through the slew of information that you are stuffing your brain with and list the things that should be important to you right now. In the beginning stages of an online business there are two phases I have noticed. Phase one is that adrenaline burst that pushes you forward to seek out, learn, take notes and make plans. Right on the heels of that is phase two: information overload–the stage that you reach once you have been pulled in so many different directions of seeking information that nothing has really been accomplished and you shelve the entire idea for a later date. Phase two can be the death of your dream. I don’t want you to arrive at phase two.

Let’s get back to phase one, shall we? Here’s what we have so far: You have an idea and you’d like to start an online business.

Congratulations, here are your immediate needs:

• A domain name (which is a dot com)
• Web hosting (your piece of internet real estate or a place to put your site in order to be seen by the world)
• A Blog (WordPress, in my opinion is far superior to Blogger. More options, plugins, features and easy to index with Google)

That’s it. Let’s stop there. Don’t look at anything else until you complete these first three tasks. Your domain name is basically your business name. Try to look for a dot com that hasn’t been taken. Two word phrases are best and they are still available. I own several successful blogs and just purchased the domain name Babblefind a few months ago. I wanted a review site to help others find useful web tools. I just kept trying different word combinations until I found one that wasn’t taken. There are plenty of tools to let you know if a web address or domain name is available. Just Google “domain name checker.” Pretty simple. There are also a few free tools out there that can help you think of word combinations for a domain name. Bustaname.com is one of them.

Next up is Web Hosting. I’ve used several and swear by Hostmonster. The wonderful thing about this web host is the fact that for one low price (approximately 6.99 per month) you can host as many websites as you’d like for free. My Hostmonster account currently has over 15 website / blogs on it, all at the single price. My sites have never been down and whenever I’ve had a question the customer service people were fast, friendly, knowledgable and available 24/7.

Now for step three, and this may be the tricky part. Many individuals feel they need a website when all they need is a well constructed blog. A blog has the ability to look like a website, sell merchandise, host forums, opt-in email lists and have a custom made design without having to enter your c-panel and write code every time you want to add something new.

If you know what you are doing, a WordPress blog can be set up with all the appropriate plugins that will cause it to be a supercharged, quickly indexed site in as little as 24 hours. Google loves blogs and you’ll find that your articles will show up in searches in just a few days.

Once your blog is set up and installed properly, you will be able to sign in to WordPress, never touching any code or html, and write compelling, useful and attention grabbing content on a daily basis. It is this unique and well written content that will drive traffic to your site and before long you will have your own following of individuals who subscribe to your updates and regularly read your articles. Every one of my blogs has worked this way and yours can as well. If you’d like to jump start your blog by having is installed for you, check out Custom Blog For Free When you purchase your webhosting plan or a premium WordPress theme, such as Thesis, through this website, you will be eligible to have your blog installed for free. Within 24 hours, you’ll be up and running.

Once you have these three steps in place you can begin learning about all of your social marketing options, backlinking and more ways to generate traffic. Get these three finished, start putting content on your site, learn about the benefits of writing keyword rich articles and you will be in business. The key to changing your life in 24 hours begins with focus. It will take some self discipline to properly use your time, but with some practice you can do this online business thing!

Robin Hale is a freelance writer, blogger and the founder of Partnership Marketing, a marketing firm which helps individuals achieve their online business goals. Robin can be contacted through her newest website, which is listed below.

For more information on blog creation or to have your WordPress blog installed and set up for you, see http://CustomBlogForFree.com This site is a wonderful time saver and the perfect way to have your blog running within 24 hours.