PotPieGirl One Week Marketing - The Missing Pieces

You are interested in One Week Marketing from PotPieGirl or you perhaps you already have it. The premise is simple enough. But does the course answer all of your questions? Are there some parts of the course that could be expanded upon? The purpose of this post is to clarify some pieces of One Week Marketing from PotPieGirl.

One Week Marketing rule number one, don't copy someone elses content for your articles. This is especially true when submitting articles to ezinearticles.com. One critic of PotPieGirl claims he can't get his article published because ezinearticles.com says it is duplicate content. He claims his market is so competitive that he can't write a unique article. I don't know the contents of the article, so I can't say for sure what happened.

I do know that I have some 50 articles published there, on internet marketing, blackjack and other saturated markets. I only bumped into this problem once. I submitted to ArticlesBase.com and ezinearticles.com at the same time. ArticlesBase.com published my article first by several days. Some spammer copied my unique article and put it on a blog without giving me credit. Now it triggers duplicate content at ezinearticles.com and since there is no author, I don't get credit. Live and learn, post articles to ezinearticles.com first and only post elsewhere after it is approved.

You have to conclude the PotPieGirl critic was copying content. Do not copy content. Ezinearticles.com will not publish it. Instead, write you own content. Take the time to learn a little about your topic, and then write your own article on the topic. If you write your own material you won't get duplicate content issues.

One Week Marketing rule number two, spend more time researching your niche and keywords. You have to have keywords with some search volume and low competition. Plus it you are an affiliate marketer, you'll need a product to pitch that converts reasonably well. PotPieGirl doesn't spend much time on these topics.

You may want to consider starting with a product first. Get a product from clickbank with some gravity. You want some gravity, because that means the products sales letter is working. No gravity means no sales, which could be a poor sales letter. That means no matter how much traffic you send you probably won't get sales. The product should hopefully be in a market you know or something you are willing to learn about.

You then have to research keywords for your market. You can find keywords using the free Google Keyword Tool. It gives you a list of related keywords for a topic keyword. You should look for keywords with about 2,000 searches per month if you are doing niche marketing.

Take your keywords to the Google Search page and search on them. Check the number of pages returned near the top right of the results screen. You need less than 100,000 pages on the topic. If you get back a million or more results, there is too much competition and you are unlikely to have success.

One Week Marketing rule number three, blog comment and forum backlinks are better if they are do follow links. This is another topic PotPieGirl doesn't address since nofollow links weren't around when it was written. Do follow links count as backlinks to your page. Nofollow links do not. Nofollow links will not help boost your listing in the search results.