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Be forwarned! There is no instant way for you to get fantastic rankings and tons of qualified traffic to your ecommerce site inside of milliseconds, like all of the other so called SEO Experts who fill your email inbox claim. But then again, if you believe all of the hype that they offer, you might still believe in Santa Claus or that the earth is flat.

If you want honest information about how a sheer beginner created a very successful, profitable website in well under one year, then hang in there. This article is really about what has worked outrageously well at getting mountains of highly targeted traffic to an ecommerce website that I own.

A year ago I was a complete novice at this, and I didn't know what SEO, reciprocal links or article spooling was. Today I am the owner of a highly successful ecommerce website.

Now, I don't claim to be a Search Engine Optimization expert or guru. But I can honestly tell you that in well under one year, I've been outrageously successful at getting tons of qualified traffic to my ecommerce site without paying a dime for it. And my ecommerce website also has a much higher conversion rate than many other ecommerce websites on the web. In other words, my site is well in the "black" and making plenty of money.

Here is a little background on my experience: I've been in my own business since 1969 and I've had a great deal of success at it. Since about 90% of all new businesses fail within 3 years, and many established businesses fail on a regular basis, I like to think that over the years I've learned how to rapidly adapt as the marketplace changes.

I decided to mold my existing business into an Internet based business in Feb.. So I got a copy of FrontPage and I started creating and building an ecommerce site. At the same time I started morphing my "product" for online consumption. In June, I was 59 and I retired from my business in order to focus full time on marketing my "product" via my website.

You must be wondering what my "product" is. My "product" is information. But I'm not going to disclose to you exactly what kind of information it is that I sell, and I'm not going to send you to my ecommerce site because I don't want my direct competitors to know how I took a brand new homemade PR0 site, and advanced it to a PR4 site by Thanks Giving - a six month time span.

More importantly, I don't want them to know exactly how I got my homemade website to rank on the first page in the Google organic SERPS for a large number of important keywords, and on the first three pages of Google, Yahoo, and MSN organic SERPS for literally hundreds of different excellent keyword phrases. It has taken me way less than a year, while lots of my competition has been struggling at it for up to ten years!

I'll admit that along the way, I have wasted lots of money and time on lots of Internet marketing software and lots of worthless information from the "Internet Get Rich Quick Gurus." At the same time I've learned which software packages are beneficial and worth the investment.

HOW I FOUND SUCCESS ON THE INTERNET - ARTICLE WRITING AND MARKETING

Many people use link trading to promote websites. I myself have traded links with others in my industry. However, I believe that publishing articles that I've written on thousands of competitor sites for free has had the most profound impact on my site's search engine ranking and the amount of money that I have been able to make. But beware: If you are not aware of the downside of article marketing, you can quickly drive yourself out of business.

WHAT MAKES ARTICLE MARKETING SO EFFECTIVE?

It's simple: 1. The fastest way to good rankings on the major search engines is to have lots of one-way links from other on-topic websites to your site.

2. When you write a good article and put it on another site, your "payment" for the use of that article is one or more links from that article back to your website. The more articles that you write and publish, the more free one-way links pointing back to your site. The more one-way links from other on-topic websites, the better your site will rank in the organic SERPS.

3. If you are capable of writing a good article, then you can set yourself apart as the expert in your field. Well written articles will create a lot of validation for you in the eyes of the public. And a well-written article is one of the best ways to get qualified traffic to your site. That is because people will read it, and if you've built their trust, they will click your link to see what you have to offer them.

NOW FOR THE MONKEY WRENCH - AVOIDING THE GOOGLE DUPLICATE CONTENT FILTER

If you want to be successful then you've got to get your articles onto hundreds or even thousands of other websites. None of the major search engines like duplicated content. What that means is that even if you have an article on hundreds or thousands of other websites, Google can find the identical articles and only give you credit for the links in one, or maybe a few of the published articles.

So in reality, in order to get the most benefit from your articles you must create a different well-written article for each website that it is published on. But it is almost impossible to accomplish that, right?

Well . . . . Thanks to modern computer software, articles can be spun, spooled, or re-written automatically using software. And indeed, in 2006, article-spooling software began to emerge on the scene.

Unfortunately, most spun articles are worthless because the articles that the software creates on full autopilot are often totally laughable. The grammar and syntax is almost always all wrong. And people who read them usually think that they were written by a 2 year old. And because of latent symantic indexing, the Google algorithm can also pick out and ignore your articles as well.

However, if you create an article that has been well-written to start with, and then use the software correctly, the software can re-write it into hundreds or even thousands of unique, high quality articles that you will feel proud of. And more importantly, your articles will be more than unique enough to avoid the duplicate content filters.

If you don't like to write, if you do not have the time, or you do not have the expertise, you do not need to worry. You can purchase PLR (private label rights) articles and spin them! But you will always be better off if you can write your own articles.

I've used desktop software that I paid about $200.00 for, to create spun articles, and it works great. As I write this page, I still do use this software for creating articles that I submit to article directories. The upside of this is that each directory gets a unique version of the article, and this version won't get filtered out by the duplicate content filters. The down side is that as other webmasters take these articles from the article directories and publish them on their sites, most of these re-published articles will get filtered out. But they will still increase the traffic to your site as people read them and click your links.

Published articles will usually produce far more referrals if they are published directly on your competitor's website! But it is somewhere between very difficult and impossible to recruit other competitor webmasters to publish your articles. So that relegates you to submitting only to article directories.

HERE IS SOME GOOD NEWS!

There are some very inexpensive websites that allow you to use their article spooling software right on their websites, to create dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of unique articles. You can even try some of them out for free. It is amazingly easy to learn and to use their software. And the benefits of using these services are almost too good to be true. Let me tell you a little bit about these services.

To start with, the best part about these services is that they can take your article, and they can spool an unlimited number of unique versions of it. Then they publish a different unique version of your article on hundreds or even thousands of on-topic websites. These spun articles are unique enough that a duplicate content filter will not filter out these articles. So you will get the benefit of all of your back links for ranking purposes.

This is real power. We are talking about the ability to get your well-written articles published on hundreds of your competitors and your peer's websites virtually overnight. To sweeten the pot, when these services publish your article on another site, they won't publish that Webmaster's articles on your site. This will eliminate reciprocal linking and will net you hundreds, or even thousands of one-way links.

And unlike article directories where your links are severely limited, these services allow you to put up to five keyword rich links in each of your articles. It's best to have each of those back links go to a different page on your site, not just to your home page.

You should make the links appropriate. So if your article is about baby furniture, and you are talking about cribs, you'll want to link to a page about baby cribs on your site. If you are talking about playpens, you'll want to link to a page that features playpens, etc.

Future plans on some of these article spooling networks are to spin your unique articles to thousands of on-topic blogs, and into hundreds of article directories automatically. And remember, every submission will be unique as far as the duplicate content filters are concerned.

Make no mistake; this is not a 10 second cure for the huge job of creating hundreds or even thousands of unique articles and submitting them to hundreds of article directories and potentially thousands of peer websites. If you believe that something like that exists, then you probably still believe in the tooth fairy or that the earth is flat.

You still must put effort into creating well-written professional articles. And then you will have to put sufficient effort into looking up the synonym words and phrases that the software requires to spin your article. But believe me, you can not accomplish in a full month what these services can do in an hour.

As an example of what can be accomplished: I wrote four completely different articles on different kinds of information that I sell. After only 12 days with one of these services, my articles were on two-hundred-forty-two different peer site on-topic web pages.

You do the math! With 5 links in each article, one to my home page and four to different deep linked product pages on my ecommerce site, that's nine-hundred-sixty-eight links in only 12 days! And I began to see some of those links indexed by the major search engines within that same time period. Use your imagination about what will happen after a month, six months, or a year!

HOW DIFFICULT IS IT TO SPOOL ARTICLES USING THESE SERVICES?

It is very easy to use the software and a 9-year old child could learn the process. You will learn to use it within a few minutes.

Some of these services will allow you to test out their software for free. Most give you a 30-day money back guarantee. You will get to try their service for a full month to see how much it can help your site to improve its rankings and its traffic before you must pay for the use of the software. I highly recommend this type of service and you will be thrilled that you gave it a try!

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Albert Weiss is an amateur at Search Engine Optimization. He isn't one of the thousands of self-proclaimed SEO Gurus that inhabit the Internet. However, as a novice, he has built a very successful ecommerce website in well under a year. His ecommerce site is successfully competing with other top producing websites in his industry, many of which have been on the Internet for ten years!

Mr. Weiss has documented the steps he took to drive lots of free traffic to his ecommerce site to make it successful by using article spinning and marketing, as well as how incorporating several other aspects of SEO can quickly make a site a big success. He developed a Free SEO Information Site just for you! So drop by www.ArticleSpooling.com now.

Mr. Weiss has documented what he did to get tons of free traffic to his ecommerce site to make it successful by using article spinning, as well as how several other aspects of Search Engine Optimization can quickly make an ecommerce site a huge money maker. He created a Free Search Engine Optimization Website just for you! So drop by www.ArticleSpooling.com right now.