Internet Marketing: The Power of Conversion

I am not an expect in internet marketing. I don't even know how to drive traffic in my blog. Some authors say content is the KING but look, I regularly update my blog but still, nothing happened. My PR is still at number one and sometimes, it goes back to zero.

I don't feel frustrated though. Perhaps, PR is not something you need to own especially when you don't have any concrete knowledge in webmastering or link building. As a content writer, I simply write, write and write my insightful thoughts online.

I hugely rely on contents for optimization. In this case, contents are not enough and this is probably one of the best ways to market your blog but it still takes time.

The way I see it, the secret ingredient in driving traffic to your blog is consistency. One needs to have the patience to submit and bookmark his entries to all article directories, social bookmarking sites, free search engine directories and online communities.

Honestly, I don't do these tasks often. The level of my patience is low and at times, I simply forgot to bookmark my entries.

Anyway, just what my previous client told me, optimization is about having a system that works. If you want to be popular online, you need to be consistent in selling yourself online.

What's the secret point in all of this? Use the "power of conversion."

This is the one thing I can't forget about my previous client. I am not sure how effective this system is, yet it might spell SUCCESS.

If you can write 1 article of 400-600 words a day, that can mean everything in SEO world.

Using this 1 article, you can convert this article into different versions. If your article is written in informative-news approach, take time to convert it into a feature article, short story, newsletter, review, press releases and sales letter. You can also convert the written information into a five-minute video or podcast and post it to video sharing sites such as YouTube, GoogleVideo, MySpace, Bright Cove, PhotoBucket, BuzzNet, Kwego and more.

Imagine that! If you can do this, you can take the next step to your success and that will be the submission.

Spreading your winnings is a hard work. You may need to call the help of auto-softwares to be successful in this work. Or, you can hire agents to do the work for you.

First off is the article directories.

Submitting my contents in article directories is an achievement. Aside from the fact it can help drive traffic back to your blog, article directories are free, easy-to-operate and offers ranges of services (such as press releases submission).

I read this article written by seo researcher and he jot down all the article directories in the web world.

Here are some of them:


There are also free search engine directories out there. You can submit your blog url to these directories and just wait for some time for approval. Humans and not machines operate the transactions and the purpose of web directories is for categorization of quality and relevancy.

Remember: "Search engine" and "Web directory" are two different search services available to the Web community; although they are often mistakenly confused. Search engines have indices that are built up by robots or crawlers; whereas Web directories build up their indices through human editors (Barry Schwartz,SEO Chat)

Some of the famous free directories are 01Web Directory, CheetahFind.com, AbiLogic, One Mission and Sphericom Web Directory.

Also,

Never forget the various social bookmarking sites if you are into blogging. There are various bookmarking sites online and these can help you in optimizing your site. Every single day, many people are registering to these bookmarking sites to read what's the latest, the coolest and the trendiest.

Digg.com is my favorite bookmarking site. Stumble Upon is ok and very easy to use but I prefer Digg. The overall interface of Digg is simply great. I like its array of useful services. Like other bookmarking sites, you can't only read news and articles in Digg, you can also watch videos, listen to podcasts and dugg for your favorite pieces.

Unluckily, using only one bookmarking site is not enough. If you are hungry for optimization, you must spread your entries to various bookmarking sites and just observed how visitors come and go to your site.

I stumbled upon these 125 social bookmarking sites in search engine journal and to view them all, you can click this link: 125 Social Bookmarking Sites.

There are also online communities that can help you in communicating and sharing information to many people around the world. "The main types of social networking services are those which contain directories of some categories (such as former classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages), and recommender systems linked to trust. Popular methods now combine many of these, with MySpace and Facebook being the most widely used in North America; Nexopia (mostly in Canada); Bebo, Facebook, Hi5, MySpace, Tagged and Skyrock in parts of Europe; Orkut and Hi5 in South America and Central America; and Friendster, Orkut, and Cyworld in Asia and the Pacific Islands (Wikipedia)."

For the complete list of online communities, here's the link: Social Networking Sites

Seems like the world of internet marketing is a new height of adventure that needs large amounts of patience, overflowing sales talk and a sprinkle of luck.

This is the power of conversion, converting your hardwork to success without leaving your home!