Deborah Woehr

Internet Marketers swore by this technique in the Spring of ‘05, claiming that they received thousands of hits per day. So I decided to try it because I needed to promote The Writers Buzz. I slammed out a couple of articles and threw them to the wind . . . and got more spam and scrapers (plagiarists) than quality visitors.

There was a positive side in that these scrapers kept my byline (and my link) intact so I was able to get more inbound links, thereby boosting my web presence. I also found some useful articles to post on The Buzz as well as some good writing sites. Unfortunately, they weren’t attracted to my site because my articles sucked.

On Saturday, I decided to give this technique another try, although this time I’m not expecting miracles. You may have read the book marketing plan article I wrote. I added my byline, mentioning both The Writers Buzz and providing the Lulu link for the anthology. That way, I won’t get penalized by Google for posting duplicate content.

I posted this article at ezinearticles.com, goarticles.com, and articledashboard.com. All of these sites have a PR5, which will give that link more exposure in the search engines. That’s my ultimate goal.

I plan on writing more articles to submit to print magazines as well as the heavy-weight writing sites such as WritersWrite.com.