The process is very simple. You take one of your article and create a slide show out of it using Power Point or Keynote and the you run through the presentation and record it with Camtasia or Screenflick. For best results, it is a good idea to narrate your presentation and use the “floating head” display if you have a video camera or web cam.

This does two things, it makes the video much more interesting and gives the viewers a personal connection to you by hearing your voice and seeing your face. This creates familiarity and trust and make people more apt to listen to what you have to say and actually take action on your advice.

You don’t even have to rewrite your articles. There is no fear of duplicate content, I would however, re title your videos to something different then your articles. That way it won’t get filtered out of the SERPs on the same pages as your articles.

Once you have your videos created you want to get it on as many video sharing site that you possibly can. That means upload it to YouTube all the other video sites you can find. There is a great service called Traffic Geyser that does all the video submitting for you and is a great way to leverage your time and the amount of traffic your videos will generate.

By doing this you will really ramp up your marketing campaigns, and join ranks with the elite marketers. It is so simple, and the results you get are way too good for you not to do it. Go ahead and make a video today and get it out there on the web sending traffic back to you.

The one thing that all the article submission services have in common is the syntax for spinning the content of your articles. For example, to randomly change a word in a sentence you would use this syntax {word1|word2|word3} so that each time the article is spun it would randomly pick one of those words.

Words can also be nested like this {word1|{word2|word2.1|word2.2}|word3} so that you can create as many variations as you want. This is used most effectively to spin full sentences or paragraphs.

For example, {{This is sentence number one| Sentence one goes here}| {This is sentence number two| Sentence two goes here}| {This is sentence number three| Sentence three goes here}}

I think you get the idea. The more variations you can provide the better, remember you want to get pass duplicate content filters and the only way to do that is by not having large groups of spun text exactly like the others. This can also be done for the anchor text of your links in the authors resource box which allows you normalize the back link structure to your site in the eyes of Google.

I would like to be able to recommend some software to you that will do this automatically, but I have yet to find one that works well and has no major bugs. So for now it is best to do it manually. You can however sign up for a free account at JetSubmitter and get randomized versions of your spun articles to submit to article directories and social article sites like Squidoo and HubPages.

If you use Unique Article Wizard or Article Marketing Automation to automatically submit you articles to article directories and blog networks then it automatically randomizes the articles for you. Except UAW requires that you write 2 separate spun articles so that it can automatically randomize on the paragraph level as well. Which is a really good idea.

In the end you want to be able to have good flowing, grammatically correct, randomizable (if that’s even a word) articles that can be used with the majority of article submission services out there, so that your article get as maximum of exposure as they possibly can with minimal effort on your part.

The last thing I need to discuss with you is the importance of spinning your article titles. When Google indexes your articles on other sites the title of the page is usually the title of your article, when there are multiple sites indexed with the same title, Google will filter them down to what they deem the most important site. This causes your article to lose exposure in the search engines and also hurts the number of back links to your site.

You want to create as many unique titles for your articles as you can so that they are not filtered out of the SERPs. You can use the same syntax as above to accomplish this, and UAW and AMA allow you to do this very easily when you upload your articles to be submitted.

Well there you have it, everything you need to know on how to properly “spin” an article so that it wont get picked up by the duplicate content filters and allow you articles to bring in more traffic and add more SEO value to your site.

Here a quick recap of what you need to do

• Spin (rewrite) each article 2 times using the syntax discussed above
• Always keep the same formatting as the original article, i.e. same number of paragraphs, same number of line break, etc.
• Make sure each paragraph says the same thing, for example, paragraph 3 in the original article, should have the same point or message as paragraph 3 in the spun article
• Create as many titles for the article that you possibly can
• Spin on a paragraph or sentence level as much as possible
• Use multiple synonyms for as many words as possible, but make sure the article still flows well
• Create multiple author resource boxes with variations of anchor text for the links back to your site
• Get your spun unique articles on as many article directories and blogs as you can

Article marketing has the ability to drive traffic to your site and boost your search engine rankings at the same time. When done properly each article you write has the potential to drive in hundreds of visitors to your site every day.

The average person will submit one or two articles to one or two article directories and sit back and wait for the traffic to start pouring in, and when that doesn’t happen they give up and dismiss article marketing as an effective marketing strategy.

They don’t get the results they were hoping for because they did not give their articles enough exposure to be effective. When you write an article, you want to get it in front of as many people  as you possibly can so you can generate as much traffic as possible to your website, sales page, opt in page, etc.

Here are the Steps to Explode Your Article Marketing Campaigns

1. Write a great article (350 – 500 words). Don’t just say anything or put down nonsense, really add some value for the reader. You want to build trust and respect in the readers eyes so that they want to hear more from you and become much more responsive to your sales letters.
2. Develop a good author resource box directing traffic back to your site using your target keywords in your links
3. Submit your article to EzineArticles.com for approval (can take up to 2 weeks) then once its approved bookmark it on all the social bookmark sites out there.
4. “Spin” your article so you can submit a unique version to other article directories
5. Submit your uniquely spun versions of the articles to as many article directories as you can find, but not until it is approved and posted on EzineArticles.com. Then, social bookmark those articles as soon as they are approved.
6. Submit a unique version of your article to social media sites like Squidoo.com and Hubpages.com and be sure to include a link back to your site using your target keywords. Then social bookmark them as soon as you get them posted. Notice a pattern here
7. Contact related blog owners and ask if they would like unique content for their blogs and give them a unique version of your article to post and then, yep you guessed it, social bookmark the articles as soon as they are posted.

You are probably thinking that is a lot of steps and must take a lot of time to complete, well your right. If you were to try and do all this manually you would probably never finish. Just manually setting up one account on all the social bookmark sites can take a full day.

But, don’t worry I am going to show you how you can get all this done in a mere fraction of the time it would take to do manually, but first you need to understand why we are going to all this trouble in the first place.

What do you mean by “Spin” my articles and why do I need to do that anyways?

It would be great if you could just write an article and submit it to as many places that would take it. Unfortunately, Google has something called the duplicate content penalty, that penalizes sites that display the same content that is found somewhere else on the web word for word. Many article directories are human moderated and reject articles that are already displayed on another site.

There are two ways around this problem.

• You can write a different article for each article directory you want to submit to.
• Or you can “Spin” your articles so that they are not picked up by the duplicate content filters.

The first solution is extremely time consuming or, expensive if you out source your article writing and is not a practical way of doing it.

The second solution is still somewhat time consuming, but in about the same time it would take to write one brand new article you can literally turn your original article into thousands of unique articles that you can submit all over the web with out fear of the duplicate content filter. That is what Leveraged Internet Marketing is all about, getting more return for less work.

Spinning an article means to rewrite it in a way that it will not trigger the duplicate content filters. There are right and wrong ways to spin an article, see my post How to Spin Articles for Maximum Exposure for a guide on how to spin your articles properly.

Submit, Submit, Submit

The next step would be to start submitting you unique articles to as many article directories as you possibly can. This can be a painstakingly tedious and long process when done manually and even if you use an article submission software that helps automate the process, you still have to spend hours, day after day, submitting articles.

I would venture to say that you don’t have that kind of time to devote to submitting articles, no one does. 

Fortunately There is a Better Way

There are a few good services out there that will submit your articles to thousands of article directories and blogs all over the web, automatically. All you have to do is upload your spun article to their site and they do all the work for you. Asides from them writing your articles for you as well, it doesn’t get much easier than that.

I currently use two services Unique Article Wizard (UAW) and Article Marketing Automation (AMA) and I am very happy with one so far.

• Unique Article Wizard: Submits articles to primarily article directories, but also to blogs and other sites that request articles from them for content for their sites. They send daily submission reports and weekly search engine index reports so you can keep track of the whole process. Each article I have submitted so far has gone out to 1000+ directories and other sites.
• Article Marketing Automation: Submits articles to only blog and other content sites, no article directories. They offer the same tracking and notification services as UAW. Articles submitted here usually go out to around 500 – 1000 sites.

Why do I use both services? Because by using UAW and AMA together guarantees my articles complete coverage across both the article directories and blog networks maximizing its exposure and my benefit.

On a side note, it is a good idea when using services such as UAW and AMA to set it up so that they submit your article at a frequency of about 50 per day, so that you build back links over time to appear more natural to the search engines.

Bookmark Like Your Business Depends On It. Because it Does

The next thing you need to do is ensure that your articles are found by potential buyers and the search engines.  The easiest way to do this is by social bookmarking your articles across all the social bookmarking sites.

This ensures that your articles will be indexed by the search engines quickly and allow your articles to start ranking for search terms as well as start passing the link juice back to your linked sites within the articles and help it rank for its target keywords even faster.

There are 3 ways this can be done

• Manually sign up for all the social bookmark sites and then manually submit all you articles on all the sites that they appear on. Doing it this way would eat up every last second of your time, every day and just isn’t humanly possible.
• A better alternative to manual submissions is by using the free service at SocialMarker.com which helps to automate the process so you can submit one site across about 60 social bookmark sites in a period of about 15mins. But, you still have to manually sign up for memberships to all the sites and you still have to be involved throughout the entire submission process which still eats up a lot of your time.
• The best way to get all your articles bookmarked is by using an automated submission software. I currently use Bookmarking Demon and love it. This software save hours upon hours of my time. It automates every aspect of the submission process. I can create multiple accounts across about 100 social bookmarking site in a matter of minuets and it has the ability to submit multiple sites at once completely hands free. It also has a built in feature that allows you to bookmark from RSS feeds and randomize the accounts it uses to submit your sites to. This helps keep you from being banned from the bookmarking sites for being a “self promoter” and help your submissions feel more natural.

Well that’s it for now, I hope that this article on getting the most out of your article marketing campaigns was helpful and allows you to kick some article marketing ass,  get more traffic, and make more sales in the process.

There is one other way to really get the most out of articles that I did not mention, turn it in to a video using PowerPoint and software such as Camtasia and then submit it to all the video posting sites out there. But that is a whole article in itself. View my post Convert Your Articles Into Video and Make More Sales for more information on the subject.