Yes indeedy. I have submitted another 2 articles. I now have 4 articles done. So unless I sit on my butt for a few days, I’m ahead of schedule or just need to make sure I knock out one artcle every 2 days.

Hopefully EzineArticles will be happy with all my submissions. Waiting at least a week only to be told to fix and presumably end up at the back of the queue isn’t something I relish.

I can’t wait to see what kind of results I get once they’re live. Hopefully as I’m going a bit kamikaze rather than taking a  staggered piecemeal approach to submitting articles, I’ll see some real fruit for my efforts. Hell, maybe EzineArticles will upgrade me to platinum member status while I’m at it for being a serial submitter.

That said, I do need to use other directories too for maximum impact, but I’m not in the mood just yet to write the same thing in a different way so that I don’t get the duplicate content penalised…

Random though. I wonder if the EzineArticles new affiliate scheme will involve turning the current free submission system into a paid submission one. The answer is probably already out there, but hey, I can’t read everything in finite time. And I haven’t seen any tweets about it. All the rage right now on there is about twitter and whether facebook may kill it with the opening up of its API.

Anyway, back on topic, now that  I seem to be able to submit articles I think I might start the 30 Day Challenge and go through it properly and completely this time.

I just submitted my first 2 articles to EzineArticles – Finally! I’ve been way slow with this.

Submitting to article directories was one of the first things I learnt about Internet Marketing, but I never did it. For some reason I felt the same kind of block, how to write it, how much content?

Ironically, while I have a site and blog in a very competitive market where any methods of generating traffic outside of paid advertising like adwords are welcome and needed, I never managed to type up and submit a few articles.

Well, today I created and submitted 2. I’ve just got to wait about a week now to see whether EzineArticles have any issue with them. Hopefully not. Then soon after I will hopefully see for myself how powerful EzineArticles really is.

I will report on any success the articles bring with matching readers to product.

I’m going to try to bang out another 8 articles over the next 14 days just for the hell of it. If any get rejected, they can always become blog content, or submitted to an alternative article directory.

I can’t lose by creating new content!

I just found out that my blog while at its old address for barely a week, had already achieved a high SERP on google for a search on Infomillionaire Ninja Cloaker.

Oddly, rather than pointing to the post where I mention Infomillionaire, the google listing was simply pointing to the bostonhiggs.com domain name alone. So I guess the post could have been even more SEO optimized by being listed with a link to the post itself rather than the domain. Perhaps it would have been if I’d summarized all posts on the home page so that the full contents were only accessible by clicking the link to the post itself.

So, a good lesson in SEO and how quickly google can index stuff – it was only published barely a week ago!

I guess maybe I should do some redirects on the limited amount of posts I had up at the old address. At least one searcher was interested to hear what I had to say. Although on this occasion I don’t think it would have been all that useful as I wasn’t really saying much about the tool other than a passing mention.

It’s a good thing I decided to move the blog here while it was still young – less havoc with people searching for stuff indexed in the seach engines that has been relocated. Hopefully I’ll get some SEO organic keyword search traffic on this new domain name to justify that decision!

As this blog is new and as I continue to learn about internet marketing and search engine optimization stuff, it’s dawned on me that perhaps I should host a blog like this on a domain name that both describes what the blog is about and is more SEO targetted.

So I am going to copy the posts across to the new domain shortly. Once the new blog is up and running, I shall remove all posts from this blog, and create a new post advising of the new address for the few readers that have stumbled across this blog so far. Welcome by the way! I hope I offer some useful content.

I will probably then use this blog for its original B purpose – random stuff I feel like blogging about.

Just saw this today. Quite clever. I’ve not experimented much with video on YouTube, but after seeing this, I immediately thought maybe the “interactive” element underlying this “video” (read video series) could be used to create a high impact marketing campaign? I’ve seen many comments claiming that video can help with conversions, well how much stronger would a video be, if it were “interactive?”

Watch the video before reading on!

*Potential Spoiler follows – depending on what you know about YouTube*

I put interactive and video above in quotes because it’s not a single video you’re seeing, and it’s not truly interactive either. Each “action” is merely a link to another video powered by the YouTube Annotations Spotlight feature. If you do nothing, then the video simply plays through to completion with you getting your ass kicked.

It’s prety cool because I imagine many a first time “player” would be fooled by this at least for a little while, especially if they don’t know about the embedded link feature in YouTube videos.

It’s a great way of using an existing facility and creating something different to what people expect to see, thus creating a gripping element of surprise. And right now, with a bit of imagination and suitability to the product or service offered, I think it could be a powerful internet marketing tactic. In fact at the end of (I assume) every video in that series bar the first, the creator took full opportunity to display a Subscribe link to his YouTube Channel!

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Addendum

Actually there’s a big problem with this, which hopefully will be fixed. The problem is that the original vide can be embedded okay, as expected. However once you click on a Spotlight button, instead of loading the new video in the embedded player (like it would if you click on a gallery video after viewing) it currently forces the linked video to open in a new window.

Come on YouTube/Google, I think a trick is being missed here!