instant article factoryFirst of all, thank you to those of you who commented on my July Income Report to enter the contest to win 1 of the 3 free lifetime copies of Instant Article Factory, given to me by Jonathan Leger himself. As I write this post, there are a whopping 269 total comments, most illustrating how they would use IAF and how much it would benefit what they do online. I really wish I had enough free copies to give to everyone, because everyone had wonderful things to say about what the software can do.

I’m happy to announce that the three winners are:

  • Stacey
  • Eric
  • J Griffin

I have already contacted each of the winners via email.

Again, thank you all for your entries, and I feel really bad I can’t choose everyone.

If you didn’t win, but you still want a copy, Jonathan was nice enough to also offer a special “Pat Flynn Discount” (a deep 40% off) just for the SPI community. The offer expires at midnight tonight (Friday, August 6th), so you have until 11:59pm PST to grab the discount.

To get the discount, you must go through my affiliate link (yes, I do earn a commission from your purchase), because again it’s a special discount just for the SPI readers.

You can click here to watch the Instant Article Factory video and grab your copy today.

Moving on…

Why Article Marketing?

As I mentioned in my July Report, article marketing has been my number one strategy to get my niche sites to quickly climb the search engine rankings. It works because you’re writing content relevant to your niche, posting it on a higher authority site and earning a backlink as a result. If you make sure to have your target keywords match the anchor text in your links that go back to your site, then it’s even more powerful.

In addition to that, people scour the article directories to grab content to use on their own sites. This may sound bad at first, but know that in order for people to use your written article, they must credit you as the author and provide a link back to your site.

As a result, you get even more backlinks to your niche site, and possibly some direct traffic from the article itself. Click to continue…

Dollar SignWoohoo! It’s time for another monthly income report. I love writing these posts, not because I get to publish all of the details about my online income, but because I get to share exactly what I’ve been doing to earn that income – what I’ve learned, what I did well, what I didn’t do well, and where I’m headed. My goal here is not to boast about what I do – if you know anything about me you know that’s not what I’m about. This is about inspiration and education.

I’m here for you.

Let’s get right to it… Click to continue…

The Smart Passive Income Podcast

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In this session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast, I’m pleased to have the opportunity to interview Mark Mason from Masonworld.com. Mark is a good friend of mine who has a 60 hour per week corporate job and a family to support, yet he still makes a killing online as an internet marketer. He shares with us some of his tips and tricks for productivity and success, as well as the tools and resources he uses to make profitable and high ranking niche sites.

You can learn more about Mark and what he does on his blog at Masonworld.com, or from his successful iTunes podcast.

Enjoy!

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I know a lot of you have been asking me about Article Marketing and what exactly it can be used for. Well, since I only do minimal amounts of Article Marketing, I’ve found someone who has much more experience to write about it for you today. Feel free to ask any questions in the comments below if you still have questions unanswered. Enjoy!

This is a guest post by Henri Junttila from Wake Up Cloud.

Do you want to generate more traffic to your blog or website? Do you want to increase your subscribers, sales and fans?

It can be done, but only if you’re prepared to work hard. You’ve probably heard people say that article marketing is dead. I’m here to tell you it’s not, because I’m currently using it successfully.

There will always be people that proclaim that everything’s dead. Google Adsense is dead, blogging is dead and whatever else.

These are the people that have failed and want something to blame. Increasing traffic to your blog and website is extremely simple with article marketing, so let’s get started, shall we? Click to continue…