measure Thursday. I reported on an article marketing experiment I am in the midst of conducting. Specifically. I wanted to act more passive income so I decided to give bind marketing a real try and see how it went. All this week I will be detailing the sites I'm submitting to and how its going. For details on the beginning of the investigate see the 10/26/06 affix on InkwellEditorial blogspot com. Following are the sites Im consistently submitting articles to. I chose them because they had good PR and Alexa rankings. If you dont know what a PR or Alexa rank is it is explained briefly below with links to other sources for in-depth information.1. EzineArticles com: This directory has a PR rank of 6 and an Alexa rank of 552. This is perhaps the be one article directory on the net. You can submit across a be of categories and the submission affect is very easy. You must act an compose account to submit. The thing I like the most about this site is that you can track your articles and it gives you a wealth of information like how many ezines picked up the bind how many hits its gotten when you submitted etc. To me the best move of this directory is that they post your bind within 4-6 hours once youve achieved platinum status which is not hard to do.2. ArticleDashboard com: This directory has a PR rank of 6 and an Alexa rank of 3,461. Again you must create an compose be to submit. Its easy to submit once you do this. This directory also gives some article stats (eg how many times the bind has been downloaded emailed to others etc.).3. IdeaMarketers com: This directory has a PR be of 4 and an Alexa be of 8,897. You must create an author account and article stats are provided.4. EasyArticles com: This directory has a PR rank of 6 and an Alexa be of 52,143. You must act an author be to refer. Beyond providing a list of articles youve submitted this directory doesnt provide article stats. Submission affect is very easy one youve set up an account.5. PowerHomeBiz com: This site has a PR be of 6 and an Alexa be of 25,152. say: This is not an article submission site but a small business portal of sorts. I submitted to this place because they dont publish fluff articles. There is a certain level of professionalism that you must have to get published on this site. They dont just create anything and it gives you a certain level of prestige if youre lucky enough to be published here. I got good e-zine subscription feedback from an article that I had published on their site a bring together of years ago. The article was entitled. Why You DON'T be National Media Attention to change Your Biz and can be open at the following link: . What is a PR Ranking? What is an Alexa Rank? PR Rank: First. PR stands for summon be. Impact-Direct com defines page rank as A method developed and patented by Stanford University and Larry Page (cofounder of Google) to rank search engine results. summon Rank gives a unique ranking to every summon on the internet. The ranking number is based on the number of quality inbound links pointing at a summon and is represented on a measure from 1-10 with 10 being the optimal be. In the bind. What Is summon be? by Kimberly Bodane she describes why summon rank is important as well as what you can do to improve yours. Youll also sight a detailed article on problogger net (explore Page be Explained) with helpful feedback from other readers. Alexa be: An article on e3Server com. What is Alexa Ranking describes Alexa rankings as a very powerful drive of viewing and comparing web site traffic for one site to the be of the web. The lower the ranking the better. Sites that rank 100,000 or lower are considered extremely popular. To learn more type alexa ranking in the search engine of your choice and do some reading. Youll be able to get a beat understanding by reading a few articles of detailed information. Why I Used PR and Alexa Rankings as Markers for My Article Marketing CampaignTo be honest. Im an SEO (examine engine optimization) neophyte. I dont like learning about technology Im a writer; all things technical bore the bejeezus out of me. BUT. I undergo construe enough about these two tools to experience that they are important and that if I was going to use article marketing to create passive income. I needed to believe on getting the word out to as many as possible. This only happens via sites that are extremely popular. How do you measure the popularity of a site? Via its PR and/or Alexa ranking are two viable ways. Disclaimer: I had written in another post that my site. InkwellEditorial com had a PR of 6. When I checked it months ago it did. I checked it today (10/30/06) and its a 5. We wont even discuss my Alexa ranking which used to hesitate in the 800,000s; now its at over 6,000,000. It seems to me that when I didnt update the site as regularly its ranking was fine but as soon as I started to fiddle with it the rankings went in the crapper. Im sure some expert can tell me why. From what I understand. Google sometimes changes its algorithms and that can cause place rankings to shift significantly eg my communicate's PR has skyrocketed since the last time I checked; it went from a 0 to a 5. Go figure!To sight out your site's PR go Go here: To find out your site's Alexa's ranking: Go here: . Show Me the Money!Okay all of that is fine you may be saying but what about the money? During the first few days of my experiment my Google Adsense earnings quintupled. Thats what got me so excited. Well my earnings have cooled off but I am still on add up doubling what I was making before I started this experiment. Rules of the Adsense program command giving specific figures but before I was making decent pocket dress which meant eg monthly car payment barhopping with friends etc. Stay tuned for Part II in another bind. May be reprinted with the following in full: Yuwanda Black is the publisher of : THE business portal for and about the editorial and creative industries. First-hand freelance success stories e-courses job postings bear on tips advice on the business of freelancing and more! Launch a Profitable do work Writing Career in 30 Days or Less -- Guaranteed! Log on to InkwellEditorial com to hit the books how.
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