Are Blogs Old School - Can Article Marketing get you Traffic? November 3, 2008
Posted by Riley West in : The Making of an Internet Marketer , add a commentHello Folks:
I read something that disturbed me this morning. It was an RSS rant that, essentially, said blogging is dead.
And I’m not going to get into it because I don’t know. I HOPE it is still a viable means of distributing information because I just started in September. (With a blog)
I will tell you where to read the article (I’m not all up on feeds yet but it came into me Nov 3 2008.
Go here if interested…but first…I am so technically messed up that it took me 5 minutes to find the RSS feed, then NOT KNOW how to feed it to you, so I uploaded to a website at Yahoo where I can upload a file, by hand, not FTP, in one or two minutes.
That’s old school and that’s me.
By the way if someone could tell me how to get this RSS thing going I’d appreciate it! Leave a comment and I’ll get right back to you.
Here’s the link to the article AND a side link to an article about the article.
Man, I’ll tell you what. Other people have more hours in the day or they are one heck of a lot more efficient.
Still, I gotta tell you that old age and treachery are formidably powerful in the face of youth and optimism.
But this isn’t what I came here to write about.
I guess this is going to be one of those post where I never get around to making a point or giving out content someone would care about.
Wait! There is something we could start looking at.
In my last post I was going on about getting targeted traffic to the blog with articles. I’m going to document my success or failure on a page here…not a post. This may take a while.
So, anyway, I fired off one article on the subject I’m interested in and that is “Is Article Marketing the Targeted Traffic Tool They Say it Is?”
I have, on this blog, an Article Marketing Tutorial that is just excellent and I thought I’d see if people who are typing in “Article Marketing” or “Targeted Traffic” would be interested in this tutorial.
It’s a neat experiment, especially if I manage to sell a few of them!
Here’s where we are so far… The Offer is hosted right here.
The First Article has been written and is at Ezinearticles (link above). I had submission issues but I hear they are the fussiest one.
And today I’m sending the article out broadcast via Isnare. Hundreds of publishers.
We’ll see what happens. The two webpages of that offer are rigged with Google Analytics so we should know everything.
The rest of my comments regarding this whole Internet Marketing Oriented Blog + Article Marketing + Article Marketing Tutorial Might Equal Sales thing will be on it’s own page so look for it there.
See you back here soon - Comments Welcome and Needed,
Riley West - An Oregon pioneer making his way in the trade.
