Many article directories do not pay money. And while that may deter you – consider some of the non-monitary rewards that you may reap from submitting original content in a subject matter that interests you.

Tip: Quality is Key! Make sure your articles are well researched, spell-checked, and edited! Poor articles make you look bad & may be rejected for quality standards.

Marketing – when you want to get the word out about you, or what you do – you use marketing to do it. Rather than paying for advertising – you can submit your articles to content directories and include a promo blurb about you or your business. People that read your article about the stock market and find the free information helpful will be very likely to click through to your website to find out more about your expertise in that industry.

Google Page Rank – this is especially important if you have a website that relies on SEO, search engine placing, search engine ranking, and advertising to pay the bills. Many article directories, like the one linked here, allow search engines to follow the links in your bio. More quality pages that link to yours – the more value the search engine robots see in your site. That improves ranking and exposure. This generally leads to hits, sales, and making money.

Note: The article directory that I’m checking out now is currently accepting original submissions. They must not be published elsewhere. Feel free to check out if Web Articles is the right site for your article marketing.

These are just a few of the benefits an author gets when they market their ideas through writing articles and publishing them in directories. Research the industry a bit and you’ll find out what features would most benefit your online business and help you make money online.

So, while in my morning prep for all the stuff I want to get done today – things like taking a teleclass for continuing education credits for my Coaching, and writing several newsletter articles, I looked at my iGoogle home page and saw an interesting snippet by Chris G about affiliate marketing. I clicked, read, and scrolled down for other reads by one of my favorite bloggers.

I clicked on one about getting your site out of Google’s supplemental index. Fabulous read, fabulous tip, with a snippet of code to try.

Highlight. Copy. Login. Select header. Paste. Save. Done.

Or so I thought.

A half hour of Parse errors, troubleshooting, gritting my teeth, and trying to fix my blog later, I gave up and went to the original code that CG tweaked. I clicked through to Ogletree.

Almost a year ago, now, Ogletree posted the awesome snippet of code that should work to let Google’s bots not see you as plagiarizing yourself with duplicate content.

Highlight. Copy. Login. Select header. Paste. Save. Done.

And it works.

What I love about the bloggosphere – geeks from all over the world can network and help each other out and have a conversation in a language that is foreign to many and international to some.

Today I’m going through each of my affiliate-ad-supplemental income generators and assessing whether I’m keeping them or not.

When I logged in to LinkWorth and read the blog post explaining “Penalizing” vs. “Penasizing” it made sense. (The latter term had a spell change, due to this being a PG blog.)

Penalizing happens when your results in the search engine (SERP) are penalized due to you having a ratio of sponsorships vs organic content that the search engines deem unworthy. Your site is then bumped back in search engine results.

Penasizing is when you experience shrinkage in the green Google PR bar that you may have in your browser. This does likely have to do with your paid content. However, it does not negatively effect your search engine standing.

So, as long as your organic search results stay good, the PR is only mildly relevant.

And remember: It’s not the length of your PR that counts – it’s what you do with it!