Here is an example of the power of Google Alerts and the power of having articles in article banks.

I wrote this article several years ago and put it on a couple of article banks and on my website and today it pops up on my Google Alerts for the book name because this website picked it up and used it. I was a little upset at first because the requested byline isn’t at the bottom of it – but then I noticed that they put the information in a little different format in the middle of the article – and that was OK with me.

My analytics for my website told me the other day that there are now over 3,000 inbound links to my website – that means that there are 3,000 places on the web that have my website URL listed somewhere on their website where people can just click and instantly be on my website. It could be embedded in a story like this, listed on a resource page, mentioned in a blog post, etc.  Some of those links I cultivated early on in my website’s life trying to get people to link to me, or post and article etc. Now I do nothing because people just find the articles, link from one post to another, etc.  

The moral of the story is to write those articles now, get them onto relevant websites, blogs and article banks; spend some time getting relevant sites to use your material, do an interview with you, post a review (use your sample review), or run a contest with your book as the prize. Some work early on, pays big dividends down the road.

Tags: Article Banks, book marketing, Google tools, internet marketing, marketing ideas, publicity

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