Content Hubs. RSS Underground Content Articles

We've all heard it before: content is king. And it is true. If you own a site, you need to post something interesting that people want to read before you can expect people to stop by. If your site is a content-based web site, then you've already taken a huge step. However, if your web site is a business web site whose only purpose is to talk about your services, then you really should make an effort to post some content onto your web site which is helpful to readers, free, and relevant to your services or web site. If you do this, your site will attract traffic from people looking for information, not just to purchase something. And with increased traffic in general, you will get increased attention. And this increases your statistics.

Writing content for your own web site is only half the battle, though. You have got to get people to read it. Just posting a web site is not going to get people to come to it. It would be like building a business in the middle of the mountains. Nobody knows its there and you won't get any customers. If you get your articles out there for people to read and the articles are written correctly, you can position yourself as an expert in your field and promote your own web site. One way to do this is by publishing on content hubs rather than limiting it to your own web site.

A content hub is a site which publishes articles on all topics (usually categorized). Those articles are freely available to anyone to use on their own web site, newsletter, weblog , etc. So, many publishers or site owners in need of fresh content for their web site can go to one or more of these content hubs, find an article they like, and use it. They have to maintain proper credit to the author and publish the small author bio which accompanies the article.

Let's look at this, though, from the author's viewpoint - your viewpoint. Let's say you are selling consulting services for search engine optimization. You have a site for your services, but you blend in with all the other such services. So, you write a series of articles giving tips to webmasters on how they can optimize their web site. With your article you include a short bio of yourself. You include a mention of your services and a link to your web site. You publish your article on a bunch of content hubs. Other web sites, newsletters and blogs grab your article off those sites and use it on their own. Your article therefore spreads throughout the internet. Being that your site is linked with the article and is therefore on all of these other web sites now (including the content hubs themselves), search engines who are constantly spidering the internet pick up on your article and index it associated with your web site. This, in turn, raises your ranking in the search engines. And you get increased traffic to your web site not only from search engine searches but also from your article.

Now, let's say you have done some research on keywords and you interlace your article with certain keywords. When the search engines spider your article all over the internet and associates with your web site, it will raise your search engine rankings even more. There is a real science to this, and if done correctly, can drastically raise your internet presence in a short time. I recently had a meeting with the CEO of In Touch Media Group, a Clearwater, FL based company which is in the business of internet marketing. They use content hubs as part of their strategy for clients and they couple this with their vast archived data regarding keywords. They showed me the stats of one site which they have, in the course of just a few months, taken from essentially no traffic to a VERY respectable level of traffic. After getting an article out in the content hubs, they will follow up a few weeks later with a press release.

So, how can you publish some of your articles on content hubs? Well, the first step is to find and visit them. There are many of them out there, but here are some of the better ones:

There are services to help you distribute to a large collection of publishers at once. I have used Isnare's distribution service and it seems to work well. There are also distribution groups on Yahoo. Here are a few of them:

With that, I wish you the best of luck in your promotion efforts. Start writing!

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David Risley is a web developer and founder of PC Media, Inc. (http://www.pcmedianet.com). Specializes in PHP/MySQL development, consulting and internet business management. He is also the founder of PC Mechanic (http://www.pcmech.com), a large web site delivering do-it-yourself computer information to thousands of users every day.

Tips for Keeping Your Website Content Fresh

There are plenty of great reasons to keep your web site filled with fresh content and sticky topics that keep visitors coming back for more.

Who wants to read the same old thing, not the public and surely not the Search Engine Spiders. Fresh content and updates are some of the keys to keeping any web site in the public view.

Keeping your web site or web sites updates with new material can be a chore. It is important to keep your web site updated with the latest and newest information, otherwise your competition will gain ground and your audience will not return.

- RSS Feeds with articles that are relevant to your web sites theme. Probably the best way to do this is to have a second web site that you control that generates these RSS feeds. Article-engine, offers a great script that you have ton's of categories and topics - each with their own RSS feed. If you have never dealt with RSS feeds you can hire someone to install them or use either the script or the service found at rss2html.com. If you have even a little experience with scripts you will find it works like a charm.

- Open a Forum on your site, for open discussion. If you are using Phbb2's open forum script there is an add-on that allows you to have a Search Engine Friendly Archive. Services like Stmadeveloper can install these for you and provide you with a feed from your forum on your main site. It's a great way to keep both your forum active and fresh sticky content on your web site.

- Create a Blog and post theme related events and allow outside comments. One of the best things about most Blogging Scripts is that they actually generate RSS or XML feeds for your topics. Wordpress does this but so do many other Blog Scripts. You will still need to install the feeds onto your main site using something like rss2html.com or hiring a programmer to insert them into your site for you. Again - it's worth learning how to do it yourself.

- Hire someone to write theme related topics, and manually place them on your web site. Your still doing some work but you sure don't have to work as hard. We use Stmacontent.com to write both our articles and to provide us with full products and web sites. Outsourcing can be a very lucrative way to get your content.

There are numerous ways to keep your web site up to date. It's just a matter of picking the right combination of ways that suit your individual style and needs. Don't let a few technical aspects of web site development keep you from achieving your Online goals and aspirations. There is a wealth of information available on every subject imaginable.

So go get some RSS Feeds. Learn to display them on your site using the free script from rss2html.com

Create your Blog, again learn to use rss2html.com to dislplay them on your site.

Make a Forum and install the archive script and make sure you link back to it - also set up the syndication plug in's if they are available.

Hire a writer if your not a great writer. Services like Stmacontent and even places like rentacoder.com can get you all the original content you need.

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Eric Gehler

Eric is a Business Analyst and Consultant. Co- Owner of http://www.nichesitespecial.com and www.stmacontent.com

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