Have you ever been given something important, but your brain hasn’t let you see the true potential? You put the thing aside and then, months later you come back to it and slap your forehead saying, “Oh My! Why didn’t I realize how important this was months ago?”
Well, I had one of those moments… in fact lots… over the last 24 hours. I got an email reminder from Mike Liebner who runs ArticleUnderground which was recommended to me by Michael Cambell. Because of my friendship with Michael, I took a look a few months ago and didn’t really see the potential. Well, yesterday I went back and, wait for it, actually watched the help tutorials and case study movies.
So, having started watching the movies, I couldn’t stop. It was like Mike was slapping me through my monitor saying, “you see the value in this now? C’mon! It’s not that hard to see this is amazing!”
I have to agree. I kept watching movie after movie. I sat and watched them for two or three hours. Now I “get it”.
Article Underground is a monthly members site where the members get 400 articles per month (there’s a maximum 350 members per set of 400 articles/month). That is a MASSIVE amount of articles. They are all quality articles written around top paying keywords that have been painstakingly sifted out from tens of thousands of keywords people are searching for. The articles are written by professional ghostwriters… they read well, they scan well, they look great. All you have to do is put a few of these articles on your sites and they’ll get traffic which you can monetize via Adsense, affiliate links, pay per lead or direct product sales… the monetization is up to you.
BUT… here’s the “slam dunk”. Mike has TWENTY TWO different blogs that you can announce your article pages on. You, as a member, just log in and make a post. It can be as simple as taking a snippet from the article and saying, “click here for the full article” and link the quote to your webpage. These blogs are pagerank 4/5/6! They get spidered all the time… so you get links into your article page and have it visited really quickly… bingo, it should be in the search engines in almost no time.
The articles AND the blogs makes this a really smart system. It’s encouraged me to start building my own web content sites. I’m sure, with Mike’s resources and my own little extra trick, I’ll be cashing big checks in the near future.
If you want to know my “little trick” (which is really my “start to finish” system for building and promoting quality websites and ways to monetize them) sign up for Mike’s ArticleUnderground and I’ll send you a movie going through my step by step process. I haven’t made it yet, so don’t expect instant delivery, but I have finally distilled the process into something easily understood and if you join ArticleUnderground you’ll be one of the first to know my personal system!)
Hi Neal,
I’m a long-term subscriber of yours, also one of Michael’s too. I’ve seen a lot come and go and I am finally starting to get interested now. What worries me about AU is, what about the duplicate content problems you’re going to come up against? You’ll be publishing the same articles as other people, republishing bits of those same articles again in the blogs as most likely will other people; how are Google going to rank any of these without penalising them for dupe content?
BB
Hi Neil,
Thanks a lot for that fantastic tip. I’m fairly new to the world of IM and I started the out doing it SBI “turtle way” of writing keyword focused content pages and monetizing them with AdSense – still, this is a good learning experience, but unfort. terribly slow…
So, your strategy gives me the potential to add up to a few hundred optimized pages to my site. That’s just amazing! Again, thanks a lot for that.
Robert – http://www.betternetbiz.com
Bill,
As far as I’m concerned, Mike (Liebner), keeps emphasizing on how important it is to modify around the articles, which is of course to reduce duplications…..
My reply is here…
http://www.neilshearing.com/neil-shearing/2006/06/22/duplicate-content-filters/
im so serious since i made this blog …i will not make another until it brings in “something”…how do i start making money with this blog ?
Hi Neil,
Thanks for the great post about article underground and the response on how to get around duplicate content.
As an internet marketer I always find your posts very useful.
I’m also an article directory owner and I come up against duplicate content on a regular basis. I regularly spend quite a bit of time removing duplication.
Because of the time it takes me to approve all the articles I receive, my article directory no longer accepts “out of the can” PLR content.
However your strategy to personalise your articles and possibly give the articles you promote your own twist would be acceptable as it then becomes a unique article.
I also recommend that the submitter change the title of the article and also give a unique summary for their article.
If your readers followed this strategy, their ArticleUnderground membership would become even more useful as most people don’t bother to spend the time to do what you do and they are missing out on another great way to leverage their articles and get more traffic.
Bernie
Neil,
Hello. I’m a subscriber of yours and already a member of AU. Can you make your video available to me and others in this situation? I would love to see it!
Thanks,
Jill
Hi Jill,
Yes, I’ve sent the details via email.. to everyone who is a current member of AU and requested my bonuses.
Neil.
Hi Neil,
I notice that you are recommending both
ArticleUnderground and Liz Sherwoods Adgold Rush.
I wonder which would be the preferred choice if one had money only for one
Also I have a concern about ArticleUndeground.
The 400 articles that one gets every month cover a wide range of topics. How does one go about using them if one wants to operate with an optimum minimum of domain names and sites.
Because each domain name involves USD 5-7 and each new hosting ( for IP Diversity and theme focus ) involves USD 10 per month.
And the wide subject range of the Articles can involve upto 50 domain names and hosted sites.
I am sure there must be a way to use sub domains and build the article content sites around a web like structure. But can people with little experience do it, and justify the money spent on AU.
I’m sure there must be a way to maximise the use of the 400 articles with a minimum of websites. Can you explain and throw some light on this aspect, please.
Am I missing something?
All the best
Anurag
Hi Anurag,
I’ve answered your questions here…
http://www.neilshearing.com/neil-shearing/2006/06/28/yet-another-article-underground-query/
Neil.