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This is the final post in our series on Search Engine Marketing (SEM), and the conclusion of our discussion of content distribution.

Over the last two posts we’ve discussed the importance of content and content distribution to traffic generation from your website. From this discussion, I hope we’ve begun to understand a few basic facts:

1) Traffic is easy … quality traffic is a bit harder.

2) Quality traffic can be generated by good content creation and distribution.

3) Wide-ranging and and extensive content distribution to “highly ranked authority sites” creating a web, or link-wheel of quality back-links to your site, if done correctly, will result in quality traffic sent from search engines to your website.

4) Content distribution is therefore a critical part of our job as Internet marketers … but it is time-consuming and can be mind-numbing and tedious.

Finally, we discussed the automation question, and the pro’s and con’s of full or partial automation of content distribution. We also touched on the outsourcing solution a bit as well.

In my experience, the Partially Automated method is the way to go here, if content distribution is going to be something we’re going to do ourselves, and Ross Goldberg has created a program I think stands above the rest as far as this method is concerned. It’s called TRAFFIC MAGNET, and it partially automates your content distribution for articles, videos, podcasts, feeds … in fact a whole range of content.

Now, something you have to understand about partially automated distribution is the fact that … you still have a lot of work to do. Actually, that’s the point. You want to retain the “fingerprints” of an actual human being doing the distribution. It’s that fingerprint that guarantees the acceptance of your content. So, your expectations should include this concept from the start. TRAFFIC MAGNET is a great program, but if you’re expecting it to reduce your distribution labors to ten minutes or so … you’ll be disappointed.

That said, let’s discuss the “partial” part: what does TRAFFIC MAGNET actually do?

Basically, when you use TRAFFIC MAGNET, you create a “Profile” within the software. That Profile retains the information for your accounts at all of the many distribution sites … along with the item being distributed, such as an article, and the description, author’s box, title, etc. It saves all of this information in Fields that you can access at any time.

When distributing content using a Profile in TRAFFIC MAGNET, you proceed from site to site going through a lit of sites within the software. TRAFFIC MAGNET automatically inserts your access information for each site and speeds up the login. Once inside, you use the profile information to quickly insert the article, description, etc. … whatever it is you’re distributing … submit it … and them move on to the next site.

The result is that you are physically and personally submitting the content … so it’s not dinged as submitted by a “bot” of some kind … but TRAFFIC MAGNET is storing all the information for the sites … locations, logins, articles, descriptions, etc … and making it much faster for you to jump from one to the next. Basically, TRAFFIC MAGNET simply creates a framework within which is stored all your distribution sites and the content you want to distribute. By doing this it cuts out an amazing amount of time to your distribution chores.

Now, there are some problems that I’ve found. It’s been my experience that sometimes the software can become kind of clunky and quirky. This kind of program must, I suppose, build up a lot of temporary files as it works. I’ve had the experience of working within TRAFFIC MAGNET for a couple of hours and then just experiencing a sudden software shut down with no explanation. My experience is that if something like this happens, a quick re-boot seems to solve the problem.

Additionally, I should say that I have had occasion to contact Ross for help once or twice and he’s always been there with useful information. He replies quickly and clearly to any support problems you may have, and that’s really important. I’ve also noticed … the replies have come directly from him … not from some anonymous “help desk”. That tells you something right there. I like it a lot when someone makes themselves personally available to users of their products.

You should be aware, as well, there is setup time involved here. The first time you use TRAFFIC MAGNET, you must go through and join all the distribution sites. This will be time-consuming and frustrating. I recommend you set up a separate email address for all the confirmation emails … you’ll get tons. When you’re going through this process you’ll begin to wonder, “How is this going to save me any time? It’s taking HOURS!” (and it will … many).

BUT … once you have it set up and begin the actual distribution process, you’ll discover in no time how much time and effort you’re saving.

The other thing I should mention here is spinning.

If you want to do massive distribution and not be “dinged” for duplicate content, you’ll need to become good at what’s known as spinning your content. I’m not going into a lot of detail here … spinning can be the subject of future posts and lessons … but let’s just say that spinning content is using software programs to vary the wording of an article, description, title, etc., so that it’s not picked up by Google or a site owner as “duplicate content”. Yes, I know that some distribution sites will say specifically, “No posting of spun content” … well, too bad. Get over it. I distribute spun content to most sites daily … and have no problems.

However, I have no problems because I’m now good at the techniques of spinning … and I “spin deep”. Without going into too much detail here, I’ll just say this:

TRAFFIC MAGNET includes what is probably the best content spinning software I’ve ever seen. I use it all the time and love it. If you join TRAFFIC MAGNET and need help with the spinning software … or TRAFFIC MAGNET itself … just shout. I’m glad to help if I can.

Notice something here: I just said, “If you join TRAFFIC MAGNET …”. That’s the case. Because the sites where we distribute our content are always changing the procedure (we discussed this in previous posts … it’s one reason why we need a software system like this and not something static), TRAFFIC MAGNET is not a piece of software you buy and then it doesn’t change. TRAFFIC MAGNET operates the same way as a membership site. There is a monthly charge … which is less than $40 a month … for access. Operating this way, Ross can constantly update the way the software works with all of the various content sites involved, and you don’t have to constantly be buying or upgrading your software.

TRAFFIC MAGNET is my choice as the best of the best as far as online content distribution for search engine marketing is concerned. It’s efficient, well laid out, easy to learn and understand, not expensive, and very effective. That’s about the list, I believe, when looking for a good online tool.

So … bottom line: TRAFFIC MAGNET is the tool to use if you want massive, organized, effective online content distribution … and you want to handle it yourself.

To find out more about TM … and to set up your own account … CLICK HERE

Now, I’m not going into a lot of detail here either … at least not right now. But, if handling your own content distribution is not something you have the time for … or the desire to do … you might want to consider outsourcing. This is not as cost prohibitive a technique as many people believe, and if it results in good, quality traffic directed to a well-designed site, that cost should be making you money, not losing it for you.

We’re going to be having an official “rollout” here soon, but my new company, “ONLINE TECHNIQUES” is just coming together to provide exactly this type of service. You’ll be hearing more about it in future posts and mailings, but let’s just say that we’re available to provide all sorts of web marketing services you might not want or be able to do for yourself. We can build a good branding website for you (like this one), provide hosting services, autoresponders, online conference rooms … you name it, we’ll get it done for you … and that includes content distribution and/or creation and complete traffic generation programs.

So … if you’d like to find out more about that … simply visit our Online Techniques website by CLICKING HERE

Well … that’s it for now. I hope you’ve enjoyed this series on Search Engine Marketing and Content Distribution. I hope you’ll consider giving Traffic Magnet and/or Online Techniques a visit and perhaps a try. With either one, I guarantee you’ll be satisfied.

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Have A GREAT Day!

Steve Gaghagen
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In our last post in this series, we discussed Content Distribution as it relates to Traffic Generation to your Website. It’s obvious that if we want people to be visiting our sites … and we want them finding our sites through Google and Yahoo search engines … then we need to be doing consistant content creation and distribution.

In that last post, I provided a partial list of sites where you can submit your content and create backlinks to your own website. That list of sites included social networking sites, social bookmarking sites, article directories, podcast and feed directories, Micro Blogging sites, press released sites, video sharing sites, document sharing sites … the list went on and on. In fact, I received several comments on the blog and several emails from folks kind of shocked at how many of these things there were and how many places there actually are for you to mount content on the web … and build links to your site increasing your site’s ranking.

Well, if you weren’t aware of the facts before, yes, it could be shocking, I suppose.

There’s the cold, unvarnished truth. If you want targeted, quality, and massive traffic coming to your website through search engines like Google and Yahoo … and yes, that is the exact kind of traffic you want … you will need to be doing what most people consider to be the most tedious, time-consuming job of the Internet marketer.

Content distribution for the purpose of creating backlinks and traffic can sometimes be the straw that broke the camel’s back … or the back of the fledgling online entrepreneur. When someone who is a relative “Newbie” to the industry begins to come to grips with just how much time and effort they will be spending on this … that’s when you discover whether or not someone really has what it takes to succeed online.

Why is the job so huge? Well, there are several reasons. The sheer number of sites to submit content to is one (as you’ve seen). The other is that it’s very difficult to keep it organized.

Have you ever seen a Link Wheel?

Well, here is where content distribution can get dicey, and where we lose some folks talking about traffic generation and related subjects. The truth is that your Content Distribution MUST be organized. You don’t want to just go out there and throw content around willy-nilly. Oh sure, you’ll get traffic that way, and it will be good traffic. However, if your distribution is highly organized you will get exponentially greater results from the same amount of effort! Why settle for less with the same amount of work involved?

Organizing your content distribution is what we refer to as Building a Link Wheel. There are many different kinds and styles of link wheels … some simple and some complex. The diagram below is of a fairly complex link wheel.

Now, that particular diagram is not a link wheel I necessarily recommend, but it is one that will demonstrate how organized you can be, and how complicated it can all get when creating a good link wheel to generate traffic to your site.

So … one more point to all this: you not only need to be doing massive content creation and distribution, but you need to be doing it in an organized, purposeful manner that will guarantee you the maximum amount of return for the hard work you’re doing.

So … now we come to this very basic question. Sure, I can hear it in the air, “This is the Internet. These are computers we’re using. Surely there must be some method or software that will help alleviate this time consuming, complicated, and tedious task for us?”

Well, yes, there is. However, not all methods of Content Distribution are equal. Essentially they fall into three categories: Fully Automated Methods, Partially Automated Methods, and Outsourcing. There are pro’s and con’s to all three, and we’ll discuss those here. One category I don’t advise at all … in fact I strongly recommend you stay completely clear of it. The other two I do recommend and we’ll get into why with each of them.

Well, that subheading just about says it all, doesn’t it? This is the category of “assistance” I recommend you avoid. We’ll get to that, but first let’s talk a bit about what exactly fully automated content distribution looks like.

The fully automated method usually takes the place of software that you buy outright. These doo-hickies can range in price from $25 up to a $250 or more. You purchase the software, set it up, and from then on you let the software do your submissions.

That’s the ideal … too bad it doesn’t work that way. In actual practice there are a few problems:

1: Usually this type of software covers only one type of submission, so you end up needing multiple “thingys”. One program for article submissions, one for bookmarking sites, etc. That means you’re purchasing more “thingys’ than just the one that “does everything for you”.

2: The folks who run the websites where we want to submit content are not dummies. They
want to weed out “bots” so they vary the submission process on their sites on a regular basis. That means that a software submitter that works well with a certain site in January, will probably stop being successful by March or so. THAT means … you’ve got to buy some updated version of the software if you want to keep the fully automated thing going. These things just don’t have a very long shelf-life.

3: Submission site owners also look for content that can be considered “dulicate”, and they look for other signs that content is being distributed by a bot of some kind. When you submit content completely automatically, you have no chance to vary that content by “spinning”, so you’re very likely to get “dinged” for duplicate content distribution and have your submission refused.

All in all … considering the lack of ability to vary and “spin” your content, along with the probability that your software will only be good for a couple of months … the fully automated method of content distribution is one you should avoid. It’s the perfect example of the old saying about “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing”. People with a little knowledge know they CAN automate this process. However, just because you CAN do something … doesn’t mean you SHOULD.

Here we come to the first of the two methods I DO recommend. Partially Automated content distribution.

With this method we are again dealing with software solutions, only there is less automation to the process. The software’s main job is to bring all the many distribution sites into one interface so they are easy to reach one after the other … to store usernames and access codes to the various accounts and enter that information … and to also store the descriptions, keywords, articles, etc., that you’re distributing.

What this type of software does NOT do is remove or skip over the necessary Human Element demanded by the distribution sites. You still have to go from site to site and submit your content. You have to fill out the “captchas” and jump through the “are you a human?” hoops the sites put up and move around all the time.

There are several advantages here:

1) You are actually following the submission process on each site, so your software does not grow obsolete within a few weeks.

2) You are actually doing the process yourself, so you can “spin” your content from site to site. Now, bad content spinners are a waste of time and some are actually counterproductive. However, a good content spinning program … combined with someone with the knowledge to use it and a partially automated content distribution program can create HUGE link wheels that don’t annoy the site owners or the search engine spiders with tons of duplicate content.

3) Google and Yahoo have now written code into the heads of those little spiders that has them looking for what they term a “footprint”. Yes, folks, those Big Brothery people at Goo and Yah can now tell from your “footprint” whether you content distribution is fully automated. Contrary to some popular fear-mongering rumours, they don’t “blacklist” your site or some nonsense like that. However, they simply stop indexing your submitted content and you end up wasting your time. A good, partially automated distribution software program will satisfy the spidery gods, and you won’t have this problem.

4) The software brings all the sites together in one linear process. The original set up of all these hundreds of accounts at hundreds of sites can be horribly time consuming … BUT … once that’s done, you will save lots and lots of time as you simply jump from one site to the next within your distribution program.

There is one partially automated software program I recommend. It’s called Traffic Magnet. I’m not going to go into too much deatil right now as I will be discussing it in more depth in the next post. BUT … if you want to jump to the fron of the queue and see what I’m talking about … CLICK HERE

Outsourcing your content prescription cialis generic distribution is, of course, the complete solution. I don’t need to go through a list format in this section to point out the advantages with this method. They’re simple! The entire headache becomes someone elses!

Now, many of you are sitting there saying something like, “Hey! I can’t afford that!” … and you might be right.

BUT … you might also be wrong.

There are many firms and freelance individuals who do work like this at very reasonable rates. Let’s discuss a couple of alternatives here, and then I have one very strong recommendation for you.

1) Freelancers – There are many websites you can go to where people offer their services on a job by job basis. Here is a partial list of some sites where you can find Freelancers open to doing content distribution:

www.elance.com
www.guru.com
www.ebay.com
www.gumtree.com
www.craigslist.com

Of the sites listed above you probably recognize eBay and Craigslist, but you might be surprised to find them here. eBay actually does have a “Services” section where you will find people offering services that might fit your outsourcing needs. Craigslist, of course, offers just about everything and you’ll also find good freelancers there.

If you look at Freelancers you’ll need to make your own decisions about who to hire and who to avoid. Most of the sites like guru.com are set up kind of like a FaceBook. You have a profile and you can locate others by keywords indicating what kind of job they;re prepared to so. So … let’s say you want a series of 6 articles written and want to outsource. You can go to the freelance page, enter “article writing” or “authors”, or “ghost writing” in the search terms, and you get all the profiles of folks willing to do that kind of work. They will range from novices to very experienced and costs running the gamut as well.

My advice, when looking for freelancers, is to stick to someone who can show you some sample of work and has at least a couple of good testimonials. I’d also stay away from the very experienced and expensive folks … why break your budget?

2) Internet Marketing Consulting and Services Firms

Now this is where most folks think that we’re talking out of their financial reach, but you might be surprised. A Good Internet marketing consultation and services company will provide most if not all of the services you need to create websites, generate traffic, and some will even provide in-depth training and mentoring so you can learn to take on many of the jobs yourself in a structured and maximized way.

Now, I’m not going to pussy-foot around this subject. I’m going to get right to the meat of things here. As far as these kinds of companies go, there is only one I recommend … MINE!

OK … cheap joke time is over … cheap plug time is just beginning.

ONLINE TECHNIQUES is a company I’ve just formed with a few associates, and we are providing website design and setup services, traffic generation services, complete content creation services … as well as hosting and autoresponder solutions, web conferencing solutions … and Personal, one-on-one mentoring programs … all designed specifically to fit your particular business and your particular budget.

If you’ve been studying traffic generation and are coming to grips with the fact that you might not have the time to do content distribution in the way it should be done … if you’re ok with distribution, but you think you’re a flop at writing articles that are keyword rich and niche targeted … or you’re simply tired of holding house parties or hotel meeting for your business and would rather hold some in an online conference room … Online Techniques can help!

Now, I’m inviting you to have a look at our new website. You’ll find a fun and informative movie over there that will explain what we do and our philosophy.

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What you WON’T find there are “traffic packages” or “cookie cutter” programs of any kind. At Online Techniques we don’t believe you can cram every business into a few programs you’ve designed. What we offer is a simple consultation where we will speak with you personally, assess your online situation and what might be lacking … and then we will submit a Proposal to you if we feel our services might help. AND … we do that much for FREE.

So … there’s no charge … and no risk at all … in contacting us to at least discuss your situation. Why not visit the website, watch the move, and fill in the form requesting personal contact. Let’s put our heads together, and see if there isn’t some way we might be able to help you grow and expand your presence online.

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OK! Now the self-serving plug time is over as well.

There are the three ways you can approach your content distribution to generate traffic to your website. One I recommend you AVOID, and two I heartily recommend. I hope you’ve found this post useful.

The next post in this series will appear in a couple of days here. In that post I’ll actually review my favorite content distribution software, TRAFFIC MAGNET.

Until then … Have A GREAT Day!

Steve Gaghagen
Internet Marketing Expert and Trainer

Online Techniques

Big Bear Lake, California
mailto:steve@stevegaghagen.com

Search Engine Marketing: Traffic Generation & Content Distribution

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Search Engine Marketing: Traffic Generation & Content Distribution

 Welcome to the first in a series of posts about Search Engine Marketing and content distribution. There will be three posts in this series, and over the course of those posts, you’ll discover what Search Engine Marketing is, why you need to do it, what it entails, and what your different options are for handling it. There’s a lot involved here, but I’m going to try to make this as simple as possible so that we can all share some really good information … and we can all have a lot of fun.

So … let’s get to it right at the very beginning …

Traffic Generation vs. Worthwhile Traffic Generation

So here we are at the very beginning. You’ve got your own domain name and your first web site is all set up. You’ve got a form on your site to start collecting names and building a really good online mailing list. Now … let’s get going and do …

What? What do we need to do now? This is really where most people get into trouble.

Obviously, we need to encourage and invite visitors to our website! We need TRAFFIC! And … there are many different ways to get visitors to your site.

However, I’m here to tell you that not all visitors are the same. There’s traffic … and then there’s targeted traffic … and then there’s highly targeted traffic.

What’s the difference? The difference is that simple traffic … untargeted but easy to obtain … is useless and a waste of time. There are TONS of sources of untargeted or barely targeted traffic. If you’ve been around online for any length of time you’ve probably used many of them. Well, I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of un-targeted traffic. I believe it’s a total waste of time!

Look, simple traffic is easy. I could go to a “traffic company” right now and buy a “package” of “traffic” made up of “guaranteed visitors” to my website. In fact, I could go order 1,000,000 visitors to my site right now, and do it for somewhere under $200. I could also take that money and flush it down the toilet … and I wouldn’t have to fill out any forms to get rid of the cash that way.

I think I’ll take the toilet choice there, because I know just how useless that type of un-targeted traffic is. It’s completely pointless and a waste of your time, money and resources. If you opt in for something like that … sure … you’ll get a million visitors to your site. They’ll pop on … and pop off within 30 seconds. Why? Because they have no interest in what you have to offer … they were incentivized somehow by the “traffic company” to visit your site for some kind of credit. They are absolutely worthless to you.

So what else can I do here? Well, I could also buy a ton of “Leads” and dump them into my autoresponders! WHEEEE!

Well, again we have problems. First off you run the very great danger of being labeled a “spammer” and having your business shut down. Secondly, you’ve got just about the same quality prospect as with the buying traffic strategy. Leads you purchase have not expressed ANY interest in YOU or what YOU have to offer. They’ve simply responded … somewhere and sometime … that yes, they might like to look at something somewhat similar to what you offer. They also might have been incentivized somehow to make that response.

In both cases you’re simply not dealing with YOUR true buyers or prospects. You’re dealing with massive amounts of people that might contain one or two that are right for you, but that’s all. This kind of strategy to develop traffic and build your list is a useless waste of time, money, and resources.

Dont’ do it.

Remember this: It’s much better to have a very active list of 500 contacts than to have a list of 500,000 people who couldn’t care less.

Search Engine Marketing

So … how do we make contact with the folks online who are actually looking for what WE have to offer?

Search Engine Marketing. This is a simple concept and a simple process that most people never really master. It involves strategies designed to make something like this happen:

Joe is in need of a podsnap. Now don’t worry about what a podsnap is … all that matters is that Joe needs one.

So … Joe goes to Google and does some research. First he asks Google, “What is a podsnap?”. And he finds his answer.

Then he asks Google, “Where can I find the best podsnap?”

Now this is where it gets interesting … because if you’re a podsnap dealer, and you have a really good podsnap available … it’s fairly simple for YOUR website to pop up right on the first page when Joe asks Google his final, BUYING question.

Now what happens? What kind of visitor is Joe when he reaches your website? Joe is a highly targeted prospect … one who is ready to buy, or join, and who has his credit card sitting next to him while he’s on your site.

This is the type of visitor … and the type of traffic … we want to create. And make no mistakes, you don’t have to generate tens of thousands of hits to your site … if the hits you DO generate are highly targeted and the result of someone searching specifically for what YOU have. Twenty or thirty visits daily from really qualified people coming from search engines is GREAT Traffic!

So, let’s say we agree we want to do search engine marketing. How do we make that happen? How do we get our site to pop up on Google’s first page?

Content Distribution

Search engine marketing and search engine ranking all depend on content distribution. If you want to get your site highly ranked on Google or Yahoo … and dominating the search pages for your chosen keywords (the words that tie Joe’s Google search to your particular product or opportunity) … you need to do two simple things:

1- Create content in the form of articles, videos, blog posts, podcasts, etc., and do it in massive amounts on a regular basis.

2- Distribute that content to as many highly ranked authority sites as you can all over the Internet.

Now, that process is called “backlinking”, and it is the most effective way of creating traffic to your site … and having it be the kind of traffic you want.

There are many different areas of this process we could discuss. We could get into the creation of your content, different ways to maximize your output of content, the pros and cons of various types of content, and … a really important one here … the ins and outs of keyword research. However, that is not going to be the focus of this particular series of posts. We’ll get into all of those eventually, but right now I want to focus on one thing: content distribution.

There’s something you need to understand about content distribution: It’s tedious, mind-numbing, and BOOOOORRRRRING!

That’s it. That’s the truth, and there’s nothing more to say about it. BUT … and this is one of those BIG BUTS … it has to be done.

Over the course of this series of posts, we will discuss various means of maximizing your content distribution efforts and minimizing the boredom and time involved. But, for today we’re going to conclude here by handling the most basic of questions: Just where do I distribute my stuff?

Content Distribution Sites

All right. Without going into too find a detail here, this is a list of sites that I recommend you should use as content distribution points for your various types of content. The list is long, and I could have made it a downloadable file, I suppose, but I think it’s better this way although it makes the post rather long.

At any rate … here ya go. If you take every piece of content … every article, video, blog post, podcast, etc. … and post them at their respective sites … all of their respective sites … and then CROSS-post those sites to other sites on the list … you’ll be building a huge web of links and backlinks … and you’ll see your Alexsa rankings increase while you jump onto the first page of Google for your chosen keywords.
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Content Submission Sites

 Article Marketing

Ezine Articles: http://ezinearticles.com/

iSnare: http://www.isnare.com/

Articles Base: http://www.articlesbase.com/

Buzzle: http://www.buzzle.com/

Search Warp: http://searchwarp.com/

ArticleAlley.com: http://articlealley.com/

GoArticles.com: http://goarticles.com/

Web-Source.net: http://web-source.net/

Article Set.com: http://www.articleset.com/

WebProNews.com: http://www.webpronews.com/

Articles Dashboard: http://www.articledashboard.com/

Knol: http://knol.google.com/

eHow: http://eHow.com

Micro Blogging

Twitter: http://twitter.com

Plurk: http://www.plurk.com/

Jaiku: http://www.jaiku.com/

Plinky: http://www.plinky.com/

Yonkly: http://yonkly.com

Koornk: http://koornk.com/

Social Bookmarking

Digg: http://digg.com

StumbleUpon: http://StumbleUpon.com

Mixx.com: http://Mixx.com

Yahoo Buzz: http://buzz.yahoo.com/

Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/

Technorati: http://www.technorati.com/

Delicious: http://delicious.com/

Kaboodle: http://www.kaboodle.com/

Propeller: http://www.propeller.com/

NewsVine: http://www.newsvine.com/

2collab.2collab.com: http://www.2collab.com/

A1-Webmarks.com: http://www.a1-webmarks.com/

Ambedo.com: http://ambedo.com/

Bibsonomy.org: http://www.bibsonomy.org/

Blinklist.com: http://blinklist.com/

Bookmarks.yahoo.com: http://bookmarks.yahoo.com

Chipmark.com: http://chipmark.com

Cloudytags.com: http://cloudytags.com

Connotea.org: http://connotea.org

Diigo.com: http://Diigo.com

Dzone.com: http://Dzone.com

Fark.com: http://fark.com

Faves.com: http://faves.com

Google Bookmarks: http://www.google.com/bookmarks/

Mylinkvault.com: http://mylinkvault.com

Netvouz.com: http://netvouz.com

Searchles.com: http://searchles.com

Simpy.com: http://simpy.com

Folkd.com: http://www.folkd.com/

Clipmarks.com: http://www.clipmarks.com/

Buddymarks.com: http://buddymarks.com/

Spurl.net: http://www.spurl.net/

Bookmark Tracker.com: http://www.bookmarktracker.com/

Bookmarksync: http://www.bookmarksync.com/

Fleck.com: http://fleck.com/

Sphinn.com: http://sphinn.com/

Linkagogo.com: http://www.linkagogo.com/go/Home

BookKit.com: http://bookkit.com/

JumpTags.com: http://www.jumptags.com/

BookMax.net: http://www.bookmax.net/

MyPip.co : http://www.mypip.com/index.html

Bookmarking tools

Only Wire: http://onlywire.com

Social Marker: http://socialmarker.com

Social Networking

Facebook: http://facebook.com

MySpace: http://myspace.com

Hi5: http://hi5.com/

43Things.com: http://www.43things.com/

Xanga: http://xanga.com

Classmates.com: http://classmates.com

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/home

Plaxo: http://plaxo.com

CafeMom: http://cafemom.com

Friendster: http://friendster.com

Reunion.com: http://reunion.com

Bebo: http://bebo.com

Orkut: http://orkut.com

Ryze: http://www.ryze.com/

Snapvine: http://www.snapvine.com/

Social Content

HubPages: http://hubpages.com

Ning: http://ning.com

Gather: http://gather.com

Squidoo: http://squidoo.com

Tumblr: http://tumblr.com

Scribd: http://scribd.com

Zimbio: http://zimbio.com

9Rules: http://9rules.com

eHow: http://www.ehow.com/

Yahoo answers: http://answers.yahoo.com/

AnswerBag: http://www.answerbag.com/

MyEbook.com: http://myebook.com

Press Releases

PRLog: http://prlog.com

1888 Press Release.com: http://www.1888pressrelease.com/

24/7 Press Release: http://www.24]7pressrelease.com/index.php

BizEurope.com : http://www.bizeurope.com/pressrelease.htm

eCommWire.com : http://ecommwire.com/

Express Press Release.com: http://express-press-release.net

Free News Release.com: http://www.free-news-release.com/

Free Press Release.com: http://www.free-press-release.com/

Free Press Release Center: http://www.free-press-release-center.info/

FreePressIndex.com : http://freepressindex.com/

FreePressRelease.co.cc : No prescription cialis target=”_blank”>http://www.freepressrelease.com.au/index.asp

FreePressReleases.co.uk : http://www.freepressreleases.co.uk/

Newswire.com: http://www.newswire.com

IndiaPRWire.com : http://www.indiaprwire.com/

MediaSyndicate.com : http://www.newswiretoday.com/index.php

MyFreePR.com : http://www.myfreepr.com/

NewswireToday.com : http://www.newswiretoday.com/index.php

PageRelease.com : http://www.pagerelease.com/

PR.com : http://www.pr.com/

PR9.net : http://www.pr9.net/

PRCompass.com : http://www.prcompass.com/

PRlog.com : http://www.prlog.org/

PRurgent.com : http://prurgent.com/

PRzoom.com : http://www.przoom.com/index.php

PressAbout.com : http://www.pressabout.com/

PressBox.co.uk: http://www.pressbox.co.uk/

PressFlow.co.uk : http://www.pressflow.co.uk./

PressReleasePoint.com : http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/prpage

TechPRSpider.com : http://www.techprspider.com/AddFeed.aspx

TheOpenPress.com : http://theopenpress.com/index.php?a=index

Podcast Directories

http://video.search.yahoo.com/mrss/submit

http://blogdigger.com/add.jsp

http://everypodcast.com/add.php

http://getapodcast.com/AddFeed.aspx

http://www.mirpod.com/rubrique.php?id_rubrique=2&lang=en

http://www.podblaze.com/directory_submit.php

http://www.thepodlounge.com/add_podcast

http://www.allpodcasts.com/PingAll/Default.aspx

http://www.plazoo.com/en/addrss.asp

http://podcastpup.com/addpodcastform.asp

http://www.2rss.com/index.php

http://podcastlikethat.com/ping

http://podcast.com/

http://www.podcastblaster.com/directory/add-podcast/

http://www.podcastfusion.com/fs/addPodcast.asp

http://www.podcasting-station.com/submitrss.php

http://www.podfeed.net/add_podcast.asp

http://www.rss-network.com/submitrss.php

Video Hosting/Sharing

YouTube: http://youtube.com

Google Video: http://www.google.com/video/

VidLife: http://www.vidilife.com/

510Video: http://www.510video.com/

BoFunk: http://www.bofunk.com/

Clipser: http://www.clipser.com/

DailyMotion: http://www.dailymotion.com/

Esnips: http://www.esnips.com/

Kewego: http://www.kewego.com/

LiveVideo: http://www.livevideo.com/

MegaVideo: http://megavideo.com/

Metacafe: http://www.metacafe.com/

MotionBox: http://www.motionbox.com/

Revver: http://revver.com/

Veoh: http://www.veoh.com/

Yahoo video: http://video.yahoo.com/

Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/

SeverLoad.com: http://en.sevenload.com/

(Uploading) Tube Mogul: http://tubemogul.com

 

Photo Sharing

Flickr: http://flickr.com

PhotoBucket: http://photobucket.com/

My Photo Album: http://myphotoalbum.com

Picassa: http://picassa.google.com

PhotoApe: http://photoape.com

WebShots: http://webshots.com

Document Hosting/Sharing

Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/

Docstoc: http://www.docstoc.com/

Classified Ads

USFreeAds: http://www.usfreeads.com/

Free Advertising Forum: http://www.freeadvertisingforum.com/

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Well, there you have it.

Content Distribution Software and Outsourcing

Now, there’s lots of ways you can mitigate what, I do realize, is a huge list of places to go and mount content … and then turn around and interconnect that content. I know that lots of you reading this now have your eyes crossed and are saying to yourselves, “OMG! I can’t see myself doing all that!”.

Well, that’s fine. In future posts in this series we’ll talk about what your options are. We’ll go into great depths about the do’s and don’ts of automation and the pro’s and con’s of outsourcing. However, we’ve covered enough for one day and one post. This is supposed to be simple, friendly information … not War and Peace … LOL.

So … inclosing for today … I invite you to do two things:

1: If you’re interested in just how I automate my distribution process and want to cut right to the chase … CLICK HERE FOR TRAFFIC MAGNET.

2: If you’re interested in finding out about Outsourcing your website creation, content creation, content distribution, or keyword research needs, please use the Contact Me page on this website. Provide me with your email and phone number or SKYPE id, and I’ll contact you. I’m just in the process … along with a couple of other folks … of establishing a company devoted to providing just those services. Our company will be called Online Techniques, and I’d be glad to talk with you about it.

So … that’s it for now. This brings to a close the first in this Series. In Part 2 we’ll discuss the pro’s and con’s of automation: how much is too much? So please, stay tuned and re-visit us in a couple of days when that post is up. If you haven’t yet subscribed to my mailing list, please do so. That way you’re always informed of a new post.

Hope this has been useful and helpful. As always, if you have any questions, contact me at any time. I’m here to help if I can!

Have a GREAT Day!

Steve Gaghagen
Internet Marketing Expert and Trainer

Big Bear Lake, California
steve@stevegaghagen.com