Interestingly though – I had a bit of a fallout over this issue with someone who runs a pretty well known blog ( and it was posted on EZA’s blog about a year ago as an open Q & A where I chimed in with my side of the story….it’s still there I just can’t find it as I’ve been drinking since noon) who was publishing MY stuff – on HER blog – with HER name, pic, etc – next to my articles…..was including my name of course – but because I had no hard URL and just keywords in my resource boxes – her “editor” was stripping out my links and she thought that was ok. ( cause I hadn’t included a URL – only keywords which I had optimized based on a pretty well tested box)

I got pissed (after being super nice and being told by her “editor” to “fix” my resource box so she could reprint my shit better – and once I get upset and threatened to head butt her whole office like Jack Bauer in season 4 of 24 – she wrote C. Knight at EZA – and he posted a little “anonymous” Q and A about it on their blog – and the bottom line is that regardless of what you post in the box – hard url or not – it’s got to be a live link)

I understand your point though ( people don’t care about TOS and simply post it that way anway) but in my experience, the traffic from those blogs is SO negligible for so many niches that it’s far smarter to optimize for CTR on natural search – then the occassional straggling visitor you get from a blogger blog whose scraping content for 12 cent adsense clicks.

What if someone came by, copied the article to add it as content on one of their blogs? You just lost a back link there because the links aren’t active.

Oh well, less competition for me =)

The articles I was referring to per the Twitter approach – are NOT those either – I probably worded it confusingly badly – that is a different popular author in the “article marketing guru” niche who uses that approach to drive up his numbers – which is a smart and savvy approach too.

But…..that said – in looking again today – the guy who wrote the “how to submit your articles to 200 directories in 3 minutes or less” above – ALSO has another article in that list that I didn’t see…..also has close to 4000 views – which makes me think that he may be “gaming” the system a bit as well – ( i.e. – using social networking style submissions and the resulting traffic that it generates) so…..my whole point could be moot.

So it doesn’t get lost in the shuffle – however – the KEY to writing compelling titles is ALWAYS – make a HUGE promise – a MAGICAL benefit – or a DIRE warning……and more times than not – you will get tons of curiosity interest in what you’ve got to say – i.e. – ” How to Pack on 12 pounds of rock hard muscle without ever breaking a sweat” .

(which I could use right now to be honest with you)