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		<title>Answer Analyst Video Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Answer Analyst is Jonathon Leger&#8217;s latest Software. I am a big fan of Jon Leger and this software fits well with my thoughts on Internet Marketing. The internet search engines are getting smarter. This software is designed to help you write better more educated information. This software is more about getting information for you to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Answer Analyst is Jonathon Leger&#8217;s latest Software.</p>
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<p>I am a big fan of Jon Leger and this software fits well with my thoughts on Internet Marketing.</p>
<p>The internet search engines are getting smarter.  This software is designed to help you write better more educated information.  This software is more about getting information for you to write about than it is about taking someone else&#8217;s information and posting it on your site.  I do not believe long term that there is a future for duplicate content.</p>
<p><strong>Duplicate Content Killer</strong><br />
The search engines will eventually relegate duplicate content to the back pages of their index where it should be.  They will try to rank the first of this content and forget about the rest of it.  The lower rated article directories will get worse and worse ratings.</p>
<p>This software is unique.  It uses Yahoo Answers, Google Answers and  Ask.com to find both the questions in a niche that people are asking and the answers to those questions at the same time.  This is a great way to learn and write about a Niche.</p>
<p><strong>Build your own Content</strong><br />
Answer Analyst is designed to help you build your content quickly.  The quicker you can research and learn what you are writing about the better your content will be.</p>
<p>Try <a href="https://paydotcom.com/r/80713/Zbikenut/22697137/" target="_blank">Answer Analyst Video Review from Jon Leger</a>.  He has a 30 day full refund policy.  I do not think you will need it.</p>
<p>My long term plans are simple.</p>
<ul>
<li>Build more content and this program will speed up that.</li>
<li>Build more links to my content.</li>
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<p>I believe that is the simplification of internet marketing.</p>
<p>This is a Dofollow Blog.  Add a good link and we will give you a dofollow link.</p>
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		<title>My Internet Hobby</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a different hobby.  I used to watch a bit of Television.  I now watch very little.  I used to sell stuff on Ebay. I sold over 10,000 items on eBay between 1999 and 2005.  I now sell less than 200 items a year on eBay. My Internet Hobby I surf blogs to come [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a different hobby.  I used to watch a bit of Television.  I now watch very little.  I used to sell stuff on Ebay. I sold over 10,000 items on eBay between 1999 and 2005.  I now sell less than 200 items a year on eBay.<br />
<strong><br />
<a href="http://imbyrick.com/">My Internet Hobby</a></strong><br />
I surf blogs to come up with knowledge and ideas to write articles about.  I usually have 15 started articles on my blog.  I just checked and I currently have 21 in progress.  I title them and start the article and save it as a private post.  I finish off a couple and schedule them to post every week.  This way I always have articles to post on my blog.</p>
<p>I have another hobby that I do at the same time as I am researching articles.  I am a comment poster.  I post comments on most of the articles I read.  I have several Blog identites.  If the Blog I am reading is really good or I feel like it I will post on that article from a couple of identities.</p>
<p>I always try to make good relevant comments.<br />
Often I will copy the comment into my blog and then write an article with my comment as the base of the article.</p>
<p><strong>Three Hobbies in One</strong><br />
I really like reading other people&#8217;s blogs and this way I get a lot of learning, links and articles written at the same time.</p>
<p><strong>IM by Rick.com</strong> is a Dofollow Blog.  If you leave a relevant comment you will get a nice juicy Dofollow link.</p>
<p>Learning and writing about what I am learning.</p>
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		<title>Article Spinning</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a big believer in spinning articles. What is Article Spinning? Spinning an article is rewriting the article and then sending the article through a simple program that rewrites the article. I have found two sites that do it for free. One is more complex and has more options but doesn&#8217;t always seem to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a big believer in spinning articles.</p>
<p><strong>What is Article Spinning?</strong><br />
Spinning an article is rewriting the article and then sending the article through a simple program that rewrites the article.</p>
<p>I have found two sites that do it for free.  One is more complex and has more options but doesn&#8217;t always seem to work.  The other I have been using for the last year and it works great.  Why they give this away for free I do not know.</p>
<p>This site I use is http://www.spinprofit.com/</p>
<p><strong>How to Spin The Basics</strong>.<br />
I write my article based on a keyword.  I only use the keyword once per paragraph.  Most of my paragraphs have 2 or 3 sentences with a title for each paragraph.  That is just the way I write and the way I like to read.  I always finish writing the whole article before I spin.  This way the flow of the article is usually better.</p>
<p>I am going to rewrite the first sentence in the last paragraph as an example.</p>
<p>[Normally I will|I| I always|First I] write [the|my] article [around a|based on a single|on a] keyword.</p>
<p>The software will spin this article by using one section of each of bracketed areas.</p>
<p>In different versions of this sentence it will come out.</p>
<p>Normally I will write the article around a keyword.<br />
I write the my article based on a single keyword.<br />
I always write the article on a keyword.</p>
<p>I think you get the point.  I usually spend about as much time spinning the article as I do writing the article.  But my results are way bigger.  I get at least 9 more articles from the time I spend spinning.</p>
<p><strong>Spinning Tips</strong><br />
I like to give different numbers of words in the different options of the spin like the first bracket in my example  [Normally I will|I| I always|First I].  This gets different numbers of words in all your articles.</p>
<p>I do not spin the keyword for the article because then I get too many of the keywords in the article.  For example the keyword for the previous sentence might be &#8220;article&#8221;.  Notice I did not spin that word.</p>
<p>I try to change the main words in the bracket if I can.  I like to add large adjectives into the sentence.</p>
<p>Another example:</p>
<p>The dog jumped over the fence.</p>
<p>The [brown dog|old chocolate Lab|frishy old Lab|dog] [flew|jumped|easily jumped] over the [white fence|white picket fence|rickety old white fence|fence].</p>
<p>The spin changes the sentence by giving more or less information on the subjects.</p>
<p><strong>Articles as Ammo</strong><br />
I like have lots of articles I can use.  Since most of the paragraphs I write can stand on their own I will uses one of my spins as filler.  When I am working on an article and I want a little more filler I will grab a paragraph out of my Ammo Box.  I delete paragraphs as I use them from my ammo box so I don&#8217;t reuse them.</p>
<p><a href="http://imbyrick.com/">Article Spinning</a> can help with the constant demand for more content.  Yes you are just putting the same content up as the unspun article but you are able to put your information in more places.</p>
<p><strong><br />
This is a Dofollow Blog. </strong> I approve all comments so if it is not relevant do not bother&#8230;  I reward relevent comments with a live link.</p>
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		<title>Article Writing and Storage Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am very ADD. I go a lot of directions most of the time. Often intensely for short periods of time. I am often working on several articles at once and I am working in a few different niches. Document Storage I have had trouble storing documents on my computer. I work on 6 or [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am very ADD.  I go a lot of directions most of the time.  Often intensely for short periods of time.  I am often working on several articles at once and I am working in a few different niches.</p>
<p><strong>Document Storage</strong><br />
I have had trouble storing documents on my computer.  I work on 6 or 7 different computers.  I end up with a bunch of partially done articles and they are stored on different computers.  I end up not working on that computer for a while and by the time I get back to it my thoughts have changed.  Sometimes I have an additional thought for the article and I can not find the article.</p>
<p><strong>New Document Storage Plan</strong><br />
I am now storing my partially written articles on the website they will go on eventually.  Almost all of my sites are now on the WordPress blog platform and I store the future articles as private posts.  When I finish the article I can save it and set a post date or just have it go live.</p>
<p><strong>Blog Timing Issue</strong><br />
There might be an issue I have not worked with yet.  If I change an old post from private to live it will keep the old date.  I think I can cure this by setting the post date in the future.</p>
<p><strong>Access While Traveling</strong><br />
Another advantage to this is while traveling I can go in and write or finish articles and not carry anything with me.</p>
<p><strong>Previous Failed Attempts at Article Storage</strong><br />
I tried using a USB storage device but I always left it in the last machine I worked on.  I tried using a laptop but I don&#8217;t like carrying one with me all the time.</p>
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		<title>Ezine Article Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a big fan of Ezine Articles.  Why? Simple answer.  While playing around in the last few days &#8212;actually hard work.  I built and submited 5 articles to several different directories.  I won&#8217;t mention the other names but they are all the top rated in some of the top ten lists around. Any way [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a big fan of Ezine Articles.  Why?</p>
<p>Simple answer.  While playing around in the last few days &#8212;actually hard work.  I built and submited 5 articles to several different directories.  I won&#8217;t mention the other names but they are all the top rated in some of the top ten lists around.</p>
<p>Any way it is 4 days later.  I just checked, and one of my ezine articles went through right away and two more went through a couple of hours ago.  Traffic.  The article that went through right away has already had 118 people look at it and 14 of them have gone to my website&#8212;this website&#8212;.</p>
<p><a href="http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y32/zbikenut/?action=view&amp;current=P1000451.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y32/zbikenut/P1000451.jpg" border="0" alt="Pattee Canyon Missoula, Mt" /></a><br />
Pattee Canyon Missoula, Mt</p>
<p>I just checked some of the other directories.  One of them all six articles are up.  One article has been viewed 6 times one 5 and the others once.   There have been a total of 16 people look at the articles and I believe 6 of those were the people who okayed the article.</p>
<p>Traffic to your articles is what Ezine articles offers.</p>
<p>How you write your articles matters.  I think there are two ways to write an Ezine Article.</p>
<p><strong>Going for the Click</strong><br />
One way is to go for the reader to click the link to go to your website.  In the articles that I have gotten over 15 percent of the readers to go to my website I get very few uploads of the page to other sites.   My best going for the click article so far got over a 40 percent click through rate.  It was a freak.  I have only written a few that have gotten over 25 percent but I am still going for the 40 percent click articles.</p>
<p><strong>Going for the link</strong><br />
If you write a good informative article but do not push hard to get the reader to click to your website then more ezines and more websites will use your article on their site.  This will get you more back links.</p>
<p><strong>Going for both Clicks and Links</strong><br />
You can resubmit the article with a significant rewrite after a few weeks from your previous article being accepted.  If your first article went for the click your second article can go for the link.  It is fun to play with changing around the title to see what works better also.</p>
<p><strong>Most Important Part of the article?</strong><br />
The author box is the most critical part of your article.  Pull the curtain down and tickle them from behind the curtain.  Make certain that they  want to go to your website to scratch the itch you created. <strong> </strong></p>
<p>I have started writing long author boxes.  I put a link early in the box with the keyword for the article linking to one of my websites.  I then write another informational paragraph.  I then close it up with my name and the other link to my site.  The first link becomes truly an in content link.  According to the testing done by Jon Leger, Yahoo ranks a in content link higher than a link page link.</p>
<p>I have found Ezine Articles to be the toughest to get articles through.  They are good practice for submitting articles because they force me to write better articles.  Thanks EA..</p>
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