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I give up trying to come to grips with the fact that there are actually people out there that give any kind of relevancy to Alexa pagerank. It is my understanding that it represents a ‘measuring stick’ as to the popularity of any particular website. Unfortunately, it is based on the hit and miss visits from people that happen to have the Alexa toolbar installed on their browser (not all browsers are compatible with Alexa toolbar). I know for a fact that it does not fairly represent traffic... Read Full Story

by Silvia Pencak I’m a Twitter enthusiast. I use it on a daily basis to both, connect with other like-minded people out there and promote my business to those who might benefit from working with me. Even though I use other social media sites as well, I still find Twitter the most powerful tool out there for those who market to businesses. If you use Twitter daily like me, you might as well start using some of the smart tools and resources to get the most out of your time. 1. Hashtags... Read Full Story

I’m too young for World War II, too white and well off to join the native street life, and I’ve never stepped on the back of an Iditarod dog sled, either coming or going. Never lived in a native village in the bush of Alaska or walked ninety miles through the wilderness. But I know about them. When my novel required me to be able to present the difficulties, dangers, and human frustrations of the protagonist who did know these things I had to find out what he went through and how he felt... Read Full Story

If you want to work online, you’ve probably run into many philosophies about niche marketing. A niche is a narrowly focused, highly defined subject. When you write for a niche, your writing can be very deep, but it cannot be broad. For instance, sports is not a niche. Tennis is not even a niche. But if you wanted to write about learning to play tennis after the age 50, you have a niche. Another great niche might be how to teach your young child how to play great tennis. Many writers have... Read Full Story

Just thought I’d add a little note to tell all the great members of the ABC Article Directory that I’m extremely proud of their contributions in making this article directory such a success. Our traffic numbers continue to rise and the good news is that it is largely organic. Google, Yahoo and Bing still make up a huge portion of our traffic and our articles are continually being indexed and added to these search engines immediately after acceptance. Spam authors and spam articles... Read Full Story

In this  post I try and show, once again, that you can easily add floating social media buttons to your website without any special  programming skills whatsoever. Believe me….if I can do it, anybody can do it. The full article can be seen at http://www.abcarticledirectory.com/Article/The-Vertical-Floating-Social-Buttons-Bar-For-Websites/1369991 Remember…this is for websites…not blogs. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// I had been... Read Full Story

One of the greatest obstacles many writers face when attempting to start a new project is how to format the article. I know I used to spend a great deal of my preparation and brainstorming time trying to sort out the answer to that very question. Similarly many of the writers that I work with as a writing instructor and consultant were struggling with the same issue. If you are reading this article then probably you have as well. Writing a short article can be even more challenging because... Read Full Story

Everyone is an expert at something.  Whatever product or service you provide in your business is your area of expertise.  Writing articles about what you are an expert at and distributing those articles online through various article submission directories is a valuable marketing strategy called Article Marketing. How will writing and submitting articles help your business? Here’s how it works.  You will: Gain more exposure - When you write an article and submit it to various article... Read Full Story

If you are an article marketer, or you have entertained the possibility of writing articles, then keep reading… In this article, I define the Six Essential Elements of writing articles that generates traffic and produces sales for your website… It will all begin to make sense to you when you step into the shoes of your readers… Because once you understand how your readers read your articles, it becomes rather obvious what your articles need to include in order for you to generate interest... Read Full Story

A few quick updates on the most current goings on as far as the ABC Article Directory is concerned. First and foremost, I would like to state that the site is doing great.  Our traffic numbers are consistently good and articles that are approved are enjoying pretty good exposure. I am still a little disappointed  that the new improved Disqus commenting script does not work without it totally distorting the screen width in Internet Explorer. It seems to work well in Firefox and Opera but... Read Full Story