We’ve talked in the past about how helpful Ezinearticles.com can be for you. Here is a post directly dedicated to telling you why you need an account with this site.

Three Reasons Why You Should Open An Account

1.  Get traffic to your website. Pre-sell on this site and the bio box will send people to your site

2. SEO. Anchored keywords pointing to your site from this site will get you search engine traffic via search engine spiders and people too.

3. Your articles are available for syndication if others want to publish on their site. They must keep your bio box and links in tact so you’ll get further search engine and potential human traffic as a result.

Of all the article directories, this one has consistently been the biggest bang for your buck. The site has editors and they have strict guidelines so follow them and you should have no trouble.  You can even use this tool in conjunction with other social marketing and networking tools as well. Feed it on RSS feeds on other sites as well as set up to automatically Tweet on Twitter when you’ve had a new article approved. Some affiliate marketers use this tool daily to build SEO and get potential customers to their website.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2009

Today’s featured free tool is Ping.fm.  This is a pinging tool that lets you update all your social services with one update.This includes many types of services like sharing sites, blogs and micro blogging tools too.

Here are some of the popular services you can update with it:

Twitter, LiveJournal, MySpace, FaceBook, Tumblr, Hi5, Yahoo 360, Xanga, Mashable, Flicker, FriendFeed, LinkedIn. The list goes on.

The point of this type of tool is that it saves you from having to visit all those sites individually. The service can be used to update your status, add a link, talk about a project you’re working on and all your followers in those services get an update. You can’t converse with people unless you visit the sites indivdiually and you want to do that at least sometimes so you don’t appear to be a selfish social marketer but this can be a substantial time saver!

How Ping Fm Works

Sign up for all the social media sites you want to individually first and then sign in to Ping.fm. Then you can add your user name and password for each of those web 2.0 sites and begin taking advantage of Ping.fm. It does take a bit of time to set up initially but can be well worth the effort.

(PS: Update: Forgive my blunder. Yesterday I told you I’d write about making more online friends but started today’s post before reading my day planners. Tsk, tsk. Tomorrow Sean is posting so I’ll be sure to post about that topic for Thursday! Cheers, Dana)

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2009

If you’re looking for ways to sell and ways to promote what you’re selling, Squidoo lenses are great tools. They’re a lot like HubPages.  These sites allow you to set up a robust looking page with all sorts of tools to help you promote including:

• polls
• pictures
• text boxes
• sticky notes
• eye catching headline boxes
• RSS feeds
• links
• and more

Not only can you use Squidoo lenses as a free online tool for link building to your other  websites but you can also monetize them.  You can add affiliate links, Google ads, Amazon links and images and more. While HubPages lets you use your Adsense ID to get paid directly, Squidoo pays you via PayPal when you reach a specified payout level.

Having a tool kit of promotion and monetization tools is a great idea. If you’re article marketing, you know that most sites won’t let you put affiliate links into your resource box. You can, however, put a link to your Squidoo lens which could contain calls to action or hoplinks.

Squidoo also has a great user community so encompasses monetization, article marketing, off-page SEO and social media.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2009