If you had 100 articles what would you do with them?
I’m not talking about PLR junk, but 100 original, fresh articles you can edit, give away, or sell, to get traffic to your site, make money, or both.
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If you had 100 articles what would you do with them?
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16 responses so far ↓
1 Glen Barnhardt
// Nov 24, 2010 at 1:44 am
If I was to get 100 articles the first thing I would do is categorize them by topic/niche. I would then take some time and see what keywords would have enough searches while still have low competition. I would then create sites and products around those keyword/niche/topics. I would then submit those articles to the top ranked article sites and have a bio that points back to my money sites. I would also take those articles and spin them to get even more articles to use in posts in blogs, forums, and other marketing strategies that could bring traffic back to the money sites.
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2 Doug Wright
// Nov 24, 2010 at 3:37 am
However used my sales page would emphasize
that the article(s) are not old run of the mill junk.
The landing page would be descriptive of the article(s),straight to the point,& minus hype –
offering value for a fair (recession) price.
I would offer a page capture,in addition to security assurance,& Paypal,or Clickbank payment options. I would follow FTC rules,
& consider a refund within a short period.
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3 Scott Thrall
// Nov 24, 2010 at 4:25 am
1. Catagorize them by niche
2. Group several to into a niche specific book and add a cover (probably outsource cover through Fiverr.com)
3. Sell books through Amazon on both venues ie hardcover and Kindle
4. Create a WP blog add content from the plr articles and promote the Book through that site.
One system to generate traffic:
Create several videos with the plr and post some to You Tube, Facebook, the blog and draw additional attention to the videos via Twitter.
Last
Possibly:
Flip the site and book rights.
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4 Chuck Swope
// Nov 24, 2010 at 4:59 am
I would turn them into slideshows and videos and submit them to the slideshow and video sites.
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5 Scott Bumgarner
// Nov 24, 2010 at 5:15 am
With 100 really good articles, I would look at using them with my blogger.com Blogs.
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6 Ryan Bessling
// Nov 24, 2010 at 5:41 am
I would create a free report and give it away to build my list. I would also use those same articles to promote my squeeze page. I would make money by offering a back end OTO from the squeeze page. That's what I would do with the 100 articles.
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7 Henrik Blunck
// Nov 24, 2010 at 6:47 am
First of all, 80% of the articles would be drip fed on my blog with relevant intervals so as to include them in my Tweeter feed and on my Facebook page created for the niche these articles were written for.
Secondly, I would create a video with presentations of key points from each of the best 50 articles – and release it on YouTube so I could embed it on my blog.
Furthermore, I would add the next ten articles still not used on the EzineArticles article database to ensure traffic from this high pagerank well visited site.
The final ten articles would be submitted as guest posts on other blogs in my niche so as to bring relationships with audiences from fellow bloggers to create an interest in the content I was originally drip feeding on my site.
The end result of such a strategy will result in a major avalanche of targetted traffic because people would be naturally curious as a result of either the guest posts, articles found on EzineArticles or maybe one of the videos on YouTube, which would of course be garnered with the best descriptions so as to take full advantage of key words and topics of relevance for the niche I am already running.
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8 Lee Wise
// Nov 24, 2010 at 10:03 am
To be quite honest, I am not exactly how I would use them.
But here are my initial reactions.
1. I would scan the article titles to discover those which captured my personal interest. Why? Simply to see which ones I may or may not relate to.
2. In the process, I would be "scanning" and thinking through what I was looking at with my vision and values in mind. In other words, I want to know if I felt what I was attracted to could really help someone or simply provide an article. I would gravitate toward those I felt could truly help or provide them with a level of motivation or encouragement for their lives.
3. I would also be looking for articles that I might learn from that I could use now or at some point later in time.
4. I would also be "scanning" for ideas: i.e. stopping and seeing if I might agree with an idea and basically rewrite most of the article using the ideas as spring boards for the development of an article containing mostly my own thoughts.
5. Any that I felt I could immediately use I would consider posting on my blog that has to do with self-development and helpful articles for internet marketers. Since I have been spending a considerable amount of time away from what used to be my normal amount of writing for my blog(s), I would value the opportunity to have such articles to either use or modify and be able to post. I would most likely post and see what types of reactions I received after Tweeting and letting my Facebook community know that I had made such posts.
6. I would also consider retooling the articles for use with Ezine Articles.
7. Depending on the nature of any given article, I would most likely ask myself if it would be worth an article remake of key ideas that I could make a into a video to post on my blog, YouTube, etc. At this time it would be a long shot on this usage, but certainly could be possible. Most likely this might come from reading an article, thinking of how to create a quote that I would make following my impression of what read, and then creating a brief motivational video.
For myself at this time it would not be a "blitz" to use them all at once. Because of my schedule and current focus, it would have to be over time as my schedule, interests and desire to self-improve dictated.
Should the articles be able to be compiled and categorized in a way that I felt might help others — and depending on the restrictions for use — I also might consider doing what I mentioned above with the possibility of creating an ebook that could provide helpful information to others. Naturally, this would take a lot of work, but I do enjoy writing and creating, and I would enjoy being able to provide something of value to those who I might come in contact with in a variety of ways. At this time that would be a "long shot" but it would be worth looking into.
Most all of what I said would depend on the terms of use related to the articles.
Thanks for being able to share, Codrut, and I wish you and those you love all the best "Thanksgiving" wishes even though you may not officially celebrate such at this time.
Lee
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9 Karim
// Nov 24, 2010 at 7:24 pm
Hi,
Depending on their subjects, if I had 100 genuine, well written articles (and SEO optimised), I would create 10 different blogs of 10 articles each, but I won't submit the content online all at once in the same hour, rather, I'll post one article in the mourning, a secound in the middle of the day, and a third at the end of the day, and do the same for all the blogs, so it will take 4 days to finish using them. I will be patient for the comments and will never try to accelerate them artificially, plus work more often on the promising blogs and keep an eye on the others.
Ideally, I would prefere that the 100 articles are in the same subject, then I'll go for one major blog where I'll put a good amount of efforts working on it. The main keywords must bring in $$ and if not, it would not make sense creating a blog, and I would look for another solution, or choose to rework SEO optimisation for more convenient money making keywords, but always with the prospect’s benefit in mind. (I must choose a particular strategy for how I would monetise my content, PPC Ads, Sponsoring, Affiliate links, Service Providing…)
Another step would be to select all the main keywords that are present in these articles for a same subject, and create as much keywords as possible that are in the same context using Google keyword suggestion tool and some other tools, then play with the content in order to maximize the quantity of text (double, triple, quadruple… depending on the possibilities that are offered by the main subject,) but without loosing quality; this would be probably possible using "intelligent" article spinning, and by "intelligent" I mean keeping good content quality, and information usability.
Does it make sense? It's at least what I'd do.
Side note bonus: bad experiences from the past:
WARNING: Save your business projects backup files!!!
Not long ago, I found nearly 98 evergreen articles that I wrote 2 years ago just before sailing for a relatively long entreprise adventure period as a simple employee, I practically forgot that I was planning to create an ebook with them and sell it -in french, about love and relationships- but now I remember that I lost also a hard work of 70 pages about brand identity design -french- when I was off because of a virus caused by Internet insecurity use by my little brother… oh and another info product project folder I lost too –The best copywriting strategies in history –French-…
I was planning to come back home to do different types of back ups, but I could not, and I came back 2 years later.
Moral of the story: Don’t ever “plan” to back up your projects files and folders, Save A Back Up Right Now!
I wish you the greatest success in your business operations ; )
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10 Karim
// Nov 24, 2010 at 7:50 pm
Quick update: In the case of one major blog: posting frenquency would increase up to 10 articles per day in the begining. This posting frequency may change within the 10 first days depending on the received traffic.
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11 Sandy Halliday
// Nov 24, 2010 at 9:47 pm
Not sure there are any "unconventional" ways left but here are my suggestions:
1. Convert them into downloadable mobile files for people on the go.
2. Convert them to “books-on-tape” or MP3 type products.
3. Use them to make a PowerPoint presentation or online video.
4. Bundle some of them them and offer them as a bonus for buying something else or sell them with PLR rights.
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12 Elvin Liew
// Nov 29, 2010 at 8:17 am
If I had 100 original, fresh articles, I will repackage, repurpose and repropit as follows:
1. Categorize the 100 articles into 5 niche markets with 20 articles on each nich market.
2. Find a winning market for each niche with keywords research and forums on group of people to satisfy their wants, passions and solutions to a common problem or curing to those with 'breeding neck"!
3. Convert the articles into ebooks, transcripts, audio and video files.
4. Build a website for each niche market(total 5 niche markets) with all the articles provided.
5. Submit articles to article directories with signature files, audio for podcasting, videos to youtube, howcast, metacafe, daily motion etc…
6. Start sharing the leaked chapters of above ebooks on each niche market to build targetted lists on giveaways, viral, forums, joint ventures…
7. Join social media – Facebook groups & fanpages, squidoos, hubpages, twitter… to promote above websites on each niche market.
8. Split test the visitors, customize & satisfy what they really want to build bigger and stable long-term businesses with 5 winning niche markets
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13 John
// Dec 29, 2010 at 6:20 pm
If I have 100 articles with keywords targeted, I'll make a website by using 50 articles. For the remaining 50 articles, I'll either post on WSO or tradebit.com to sell them.
With 50 articles, there're a lot of backlinking to do to get those pages to be ranked high in search engines, so 50 of them is good for me for a mini website.
So, to make sure I could get some $$ back right away, I'll repackage them and sell them.
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Codrut Turcanu
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December 30th, 2010 at 1:06 am
#John: did you use tradebit.com before? wondering how does that work for you…
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Codrut Turcanu
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December 30th, 2010 at 1:06 am
#John: did you use tradebit.com before? wondering how does that work for you…
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14 Robert
// Jan 23, 2011 at 3:45 am
Separate the articles into categories of relevance. They dont have to be exactly the same catergories. Just have to have some good relevance in them that will allow me to build a powerful pyramid intelinking system and then i would drip them all to my money site.
The fact of using relevance anchor links from the articles would allow them to look unique and not form a obvious link pyramid, that the BIG G wouldnt be happy with.
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15 Backlinks
// Feb 2, 2011 at 10:18 pm
I would set them up to spin, then submit them to Free Traffic system over a period of a few months so not to build a backlinking system to quick. I heard if that is done you may be backlisted by Google. Free Traffic system gets you unlimited Backlinks if you submit unlimited articles. It saves time and money cause it is free.
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