Many web marketers are using free-reprint articles to earn nice income from Google AdSense by building content sites including articles and other quality content websites.

I just bought a copy of a new script called Article Directory Pro (ADP) and am in the process of installing it on my website.

Article Directory Pro is a powerful web site news and article content management system, created to speed up your activity of adding news, articles, press releases and any other type of content to your web site as easy and convenient as possible.

The user administration system allows you to authorize trusted writers to help you update and manage your website. Give them permission to add, edit, and manage any part of the content management system directly from the editors admin area.

Article Directory Pro comes with the built in Google AdSense feature that will add your Adsense code to every page of your article directory.

So actually, other people will submit articles to your directory and you can have a growing database of 1000’s of original quality content witch will pull search engine traffic and grow your Google Adsense Revenue.

With Article Directory Pro, you can start your own article directory submission website in a matter of a few minutes.

Writing articles is by far the most effective online promotion strategy I’ve come across. If you can write good, readable, original content, you can easily put yourself far ahead of the pack in your field of interest.

But article marketers and new article writers are often stumped for topics to write about. Finding topics that appeal to your readers can be time-consuming but well worth the effort.

Here are no less than eight awesome ways to research your market and find newsy topics that attract loads of traffic and the interest of your target audience.

Read the rest of my new article 8 Sources To Research Awesome Article Topics.

One marketing manual I own and recommend without hesitation is Jeff Alderson’s Marketing Equalizer.

Jeff is the successful marketer of products like Adword Equalizer, Competition Equalizer, SEO Spider and Article Equalizer (which I’m especially impressed by).

He’s now written a book on marketing that focuses on solving the single biggest threat you face as a website owner or affiliate marketer… your competition.

Marketing Equalizer is like getting a lesson in Marketing 101. But its more than just another marketing manual.

Jeff shows you how to boost your traffic and sales by setting yourself apart from the rest. Using examples of successful offline marketing strategies, he demonstrates how to research and survey your market, define yourself and find your USP.

He provides you with the tools and techniques you need to “spy” on your competition and reveals business transforming marketing strategies using pay-per-click advertising. He also shows you how you can get more done by actually doing less.

This 92-page PDF shows you the ins and outs of wiping out the competition. In the cut-throat world of affiliate and pay-per-click marketing, these techniques could mean the difference between barely scraping by and making extravagant profits.

If you need more traffic and are tired of losing sales to your competition, then Marketing Equalizer is the solution you’ve been looking for.

I’ve been a long-time advicate of using good, relevant content to attract traffic to your sites. Even wrote an SEO guide that explains how to leverage your content to get top rankings.

But Kevin Bidwell’s Traffic Writing Private site goes a step further. I’ve been a member of Traffic Writing for the last couple of months and had access to some powerful reports that show exactly how you can generate massive traffic and profits from any website you choose.

I’m delighted with the traffic generating tips and wealth of information that Kevin shares in the reports, some of which I’ve listed here.

Traffic Explosion 2005
Creating a Content Driven Traffic System
A Review of Online Article Banks

These reports will teach you strategies you can put to work immediately like…

How to use a little-known insider tactic to get #1 on Google for a great niche market term¦and do it in as little as 24 hours.

Exactly where to grab no-cost or low-cost search-engine magnet content for your website even if you can’t write a sentence

How to use a cheap tool to generate visitors to any website you chooseand turn those visitors into buyers

How to generate thousands of dollars in recurring affiliate commissions (HINT: It’s a Set it and Forget It Strategy that pays every month)

Plus how you can get unlimited access to our resident experts forum (that includes me ) where you can ask and get instant answers to your toughest traffic and marketing questions.

You’ll get access to this and more when you sign up for a no-cost trial membership at Traffic Writing.

A few months ago I was in the process of moving content from my largest internet marketing site to a number of niche sites, so I could provide more targeted content and boost their rankings.

This month I found that for some reason, my marketing site had been removed from the Google index. I know that in these cases there is little I could do to get it reindexed, so instead of wasting time worrying about the loss of traffic, I just speeded up the process I began earlier.

The first site, Article Writing Tips , is up and running and already getting traffic. The site is already indexed by Yahoo and shows up in its index for very competitive terms.

Here’s the new link for my big list of article directories and submission sites. Shorter, better and easier to remember.

Enjoy the resources on Article Writing Tips.

Fact: Trouble is Looming For MOST Copywriters

The world of copywriting is saturated with “copywriting know-how.” If you’re one of the truly good, hot-shot copywriters you’re probably facing a lot of competition from the egotists who thing they’re *instant* copywriters and stink at what they do.

Are selling yourself short as a copywriter to compete with the $5 sales letter variety?

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You get to spend over 30 hours one-on-one, face-to-face with mega-copywriting experts Brian Keith Voiles & Alan Forrest Smith.

Their crack unit claims that

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Here are some of the things you will learn:

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There are only 24 seats up for grabs at this masterclass. You get access to over 74 years cutting-edge experience copywriting, marketing and building business.

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An article in Clickz discusses a new online reputation analysis tool from Factiva that promises to monitor brand chatter across blogs, mainstream news sources and consumer generated media. Factiva is a joint venture of Dow Jones and Reuters.

In a previous post on monitoring online reputation, I wrote about IBM’s reputation tracking tool, WebFountain. Being able to monitor reputation online through consumer-generated media like blogs and other news sources is a development that most PR and marketing managers would welcome.

According to the article:

Factiva’s Insight Reputation Intelligence offering monitors coverage of a company or brand through the maelstrom of modern media. The tool will pour through material published in The Wall Street Journal, WSJ Online, the Dow Jones and Reuters newswires, over four million blogs and active message boards, and 11,000 other Web sites.

Customers will receive graphical reports intended to help manage and craft brand management and reputation strategies. These purport to show how various media sources portray a company, its brands and its competitors.

Discovering and proactively responding to these threats or opportunities are what will be the marketing executive’s competitive differentiator.

Via Marketing VOX

Peter Griffin who started the Tsunami Help blog sent me a message announcing the launch of a new blog that takes citizen journalism to the streets of Mumbai. I reproduce his message in part below.

Almost a thousand people dead in Maharashtra, about half of them from Bombay. Transport screwed, no electricity, no running water, some areas STILL under after a week later.

They haven’t even begun figuring out how many people were injured. Or what the tolls might increase to if the epidemics we all fear do happen. (And that’s likely, if you have sewage mixed with rain water standing thirteen feet deep in some places)

They have’t even begun estimating what the losses of property are going to be like. So many have lost everything. We can analyse what wrong later. We can figure out what to do about it later. Right now, Bombay needs help.

Bombay’s bloggers (and some friends - the net doesn’t worry about borders) are trying to do their bit, by making sure information is easy to find. Information was one more thing we all didn’t have enough of last week. Not that it’s much better now.

The Mumbai Help blog is an effort to put online such critical “for emergencies” information as we can find. We hope to turn this into a permanent site that will act as a Bombay disaster portal.

The Cloudburst Mumbai blog is a collection of news, both from the media as well as stories sent in via email and blog links.

But you know that blogging has reached the mainstream in India when our film stars start doing it.

I’m referring to Aamir Khan, whose movie Lagaan was nominated for the Oscars. Aamir has started a blog to create buzz for his latest release “Mangal Pandey: The Rising“.

If you’re an Aamir Khan fan like me, check out his blog, ostensibly written by the actor himself at Mangal Pandey Spaces , where you can post a comment, see movie and production stills and listen to music from the movie.

Via AgencyFAQs.

A small suggestion, Aamir. Lose the photo with the ferocious face and let your female fans see that cutesy-pie image we love so much.

RSS stands for Rich Site Syndication. RSS is a powerful tool, and the publishing choice of the future, according to Mike Mograbi, author of 378 Internet Marketing Predictions.

How to Subscribe to RSS Newsfeeds

Not sure what RSS feeds are? Read this excellent source of information on RSS from SiteSell - RSS: Really Simple Syndication

RSS: why it’s important
Watch this video where Rafe Needleman, editor for CNET.com Business Buying Advice, explains how RSS feeds give you the news you need, when and where you want it.

Tom Murphy has an excellent tutorial for RSS newbies at RSS 101 - Getting up and running, where he explains, with screenshots and step-by-step instructions exactly how to subscribe to an RSS feed. If you’re completely new to RSS, you’ll definitely want to read this.

RSS and Atom Resources - Download an RSS reader for free here

Do you really need RSS feeds?

The answer is - yes!

RSS can benefit anyone today. It’s definitely the publishing choice of the future.

Since I started submitting my blogs and RSS feeds to blog directories and RSS search engines in August 2004, not only have my listings in the search engines increased, but the traffic to my websites have shot up.

Syndicating my content with RSS/XML feeds has led to a consistent increase in traffic. Be warned, however that RSS can use up a lot of bandwidth, so make sure your hosting package allows for this.

RSS and XML feeds are currently used for the following -

1. RSS for Fresh Website Content

RSS is a technology that allows you to obtain fresh, updated content for your website by pulling it from Newsfeeds and blogs created by experts.

Tools to Add RSS Feeds to your site

ExpressRSS™ is a tool created by my buddy, Satyajeet Hattangadi, that allows you to add RSS Feeds to your site in under a minute without knowing any programming. Amazingly simple to use and much less expensive than some of the other tools out there. All you do is select your feed, press a button and Voila! your copy-paste code is ready. Also subscribe to the free RSS Riches email course.

Traffic Turbocharger generates entire search engine optimized, niche websites with RSS feeds that provide targeted, keyword rich, fresh content.

RSS Syndicator is a free tool to put auto-updating search engine readable headlines and content on your website.

Blogging Tools and Resources

A blog is an online journal or diary to which you can add short posts and syndicate your content with a newsfeed.

Blog Maniac - All about blogging, blogging tools, books, tutorials and more.

2. RSS for Content Syndication and Publishing

RSS is also used by publishers who want to reach readers without having them subscribe to an opt-in email list. Its helps publishers deliver Direct-to-desktop content and is a "Pull" technology (unlike email, which is a "push" technology).

RSS can benefit anyone today. I submit all my RSS feeds and blogs to RSS directories and search engines and am definitely seeing a surge in traffic from them.

Making An RSS Feed is an excellent tutorial by Danny Sullivan of SearchEngine Watch on how to create your own feed.

Syndicate Your Page is a tutorial that will show you how to blogify your page, or provide its content as an RSS feed.

Here are the RSS feeds that I created to syndicate my own articles

Priya Shah’s Business Articles

Articles on Health and Wellness

You can add them to your own website or just enter them into your RSS reader to learn when I add new articles.

One of the best resources on using RSS I have seen is free - its called The Marketer’s Introduction to RSS Content Delivery Power by Rok Hrastnik.

The best resource I have read on using RSS as a publisher is the much-acclaimed manual - Marketing Success With RSS by Tinu Abayomi Paul. This manual is the essential guide to content syndication and will show you exactly how to incorporate RSS into your marketing efforts.

It will give you an excellent overview on how to incorporate RSS into your marketing efforts and also has links to more learning resources on RSS. I found it extremely useful in understanding how to use RSS as a publisher and marketer. It is also available with the "Silver" version of my search engine optimization strategy guide, Number One In Your Niche.

Robin Good’s Mini Guide "The NewsMasters Toolkit - How To Create Independent Niche Information Channels And Mini Websites With RSS" is a useful introduction to tools and resources that help you convert different types of content to RSS feeds, such as mail to RSS, blogs to RSS etc.

If you publish a blog or an XML feed, you should submit your blog and feed to the big directories like Yahoo and Dmoz. There are numerous other directories you can submit your content to.

Here is the best list I’ve found of places to submit your feed or blog, compiled by Luigi Canali De Rossi, who writes under the pseudonym Robin Good.

Best Blog Directory And RSS Submission Sites - About 100 resources listed here.

Another list of sites to submit your RSS feeds and Blogs

Feed Burner - Add clickthrough and feed subscription stats to your feed

Tools to Create your own RSS Feed for Syndication

If you’re not a techie, how can you create your own RSS feed? Well there are free and professional tools online that allow you to do that, and here are some.

RSS Autopublisher - Broadcast messages & deliver automated/scheduled follow-up messages to your subscribers via RSS. Achieve 100% Message Delivery Rate, Boost Your Customer Loyalty, Skyrocket Your Message Response Rates, Recover ‘Lost’ Revenues & Generate Mega Sales from Your Messages and Newsletter!

NewzAlert Composer is a comprehensive tool for creating and publishing RSS feeds, and it’s all you need to get up and running with one or more RSS feeds of your own. It brings together the editing and publishing of all your RSS feeds into one convenient place on your desktop. NewzAlert Composer gets you up and running with your own RSS feeds within minutes. Download a trial copy of NewzAlert Composer

FeedForAll - Create, Edit & Publish RSS Feeds in minutes. New RSS feeds can be quickly and easily created with FeedForAll. Advanced features enable you to create professional looking rss feeds quickly. Existing RSS feeds can be repaired and enhanced with FeedForAll. RSS feeds generated by other means can be automatically repaired, so that they conform to the RSS 2.0 specification. Existing feeds can be enhanced to contain advanced feed properties.

Syndicate Pro News Server Software is server software for managing and distributing news headlines and other content over the internet. Web sites can signup as Affiliates and distribute your news content. These "Affiliates" could distribute the news for free, you might decide to pay them based on impressions or clicks, or you might chose to charge them to display your content. Once signed up, members place a small piece of code on their web page to display the news.

Quikonnex - Publishing with Quikonnex is a lot easier than sending out newsletters, updates, announcements, etc. by email. No lists to maintain, no opt-in procedures to follow, and no spam complaints. You simply write your article, add it to your channel and your subscribers get your news when they check for updates. It’s easy for them and really easy for you.

RSS Responder is a script that allows you to send out follow-up RSS feeds much like an autoresponder allows you to follow up with subscribers by email. It does not work with Atom feeds yet, but the creator, Andrew Peacock plans to add that functionality soon.

Free Tools for RSS Feed Creation

RapidFeeds is a Free online service which allows you to create and manage your own RSS Feeds completely and effortlessly. Instantly create, preview and publish your own professional RSS Feeds with our simple web-based wizard. Quickly edit, update and manage your published RSS Feeds online without any hassles. Track your RSS Feeds easily, pin pointing your readers usage statistics like: Unique Hits and Feed & Items’ Click through rate.

The ListGarden RSS Feed Generator Program is a tool for manually creating and maintaining RSS feeds. The resulting XML file may be stored locally or automatically copied to a remote web server using FTP. ListGarden can produce an optional companion HTML file for human browsers to read. It also has basic list-maintenance functions making it useful as a simple list manager. The RSS XML and HTML files can be uploaded to any web storage.

RSS Headliner will also help you create an RSS feed. First select how many headlines you want your feed to have. Then fill in the form with links, titles and descriptions. Click on the "Make the Code" button. Then click on the "what does it look like button" to preview your headlines. That all it takes!

RSS Builder is an easy to use service to create RSS feeds for your web site. It provides a simple interface that lets you add topics, links and content, and then publish the RSS (v2.0) feed to your web server with one click! This service is absolutely free of charge.

RSS Scraper is a HTML to RSS Scraper, it will take your web page and turn it into RSS 0.92 format. Whenever changes to the web page are made, they will automatically reflected in your RSS feed.

eBooks on RSS and Blogging

Unleash the Marketing & Publishing Power of RSS

Thomas Pierce called it "the best book on RSS to hit the planet. This is the definitive guide on the marketing and publishing power of RSS." Rok Hrastnik’s comprehensive guide on RSS for publishers and marketers will give you all the knowledge and expertise you need to successfully start using RSS, whether you are a small business marketer or a large publisher. Topics, such as RSS metrics, RSS customization, RSS one-to-one communication, RSS autoresponders, affiliate-powered RSS and many more, are presented here for the first time. Unlike most material available on RSS on the market right now, the "Unleash the Marketing & Publishing Power of RSS" takes RSS to the edge, giving you the knowledge, expertise and advice to outperform any competitor, even if you have been publishing with RSS for the past few years.

Marketing Success With RSS

This is an excellent introduction and reference book for publishers and internet marketers who want to understand how RSS can benefit them and their business. The best resource I have seen on using RSS as a publisher is this much-acclaimed manual. This manual is the essential guide to content syndication and will show you exactly how to incorporate RSS into your marketing efforts. It will give you an excellent overview on how to incorporate RSS into your marketing efforts and also has links to more learning resources on RSS. I found it extremely useful in understanding how to use RSS as a publisher and marketer. Now also available with the "Silver" version of my search engine optimization guide, Number One In Your Niche.

RSS Rxposed

Paul Short’s Fool Proof, Step-By-Step RSS Marketing Formula Can Quickly And Easily Drive 1,000’s Of Laser Targeted, Cash-In-Hand Customers And Prospects To Your Web Site Daily. Get access to the member’s section with the latest and hottest RSS information, as it happens, and be able to apply the techniques to your own site and feeds - before anyone else on the web. The Most Comprehensive Step-By-Step RSS Traffic Generating Course Available On The Web Today!

RSS Made Easy

Learn how to use RSS as an alternative marketing channel to keep in touch with your subscribers, prospects and customers. Discover how RSS solves the problem of spam filters and bounced emails. Find out what the big companies and netpreneurs are doing with RSS, what are the various RSS opportunities, and where this technology is heading. Contains examples, urls of websites and ideas where you can take RSS one step further, and profit from it.

Marketing Rampage with Blogs and RSS

Ever bought some books on RSS only to find a whole lot of technical crap and still without the faintest idea what to do? Cut to the chase and learn how simple it is to use RSS feeds for marketing as you watch this set of excellent video tutorials by Brandon.

Articles on Blogging

All About RSS