Article Clustering

Forex Rates

2010-08-22T06:08:00.001-07:00

Binary Options Market Review for August 15, 2010

2010-08-21T20:20:00.001-07:00

Will earnings reports save the stock market this week?

This week a handful of economic reports and earnings reports will affect the markets. The home-builders’ index for August, scheduled for Monday, is expected to tip higher. Housing starts for July are set for Tuesday, with economists penciling in a rise in the pace of new home construction. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. releases its second-quarter reports on Tuesday, with analysts estimating that the world’s largest retailer’s earnings wi

Part 2 - Take Your Child Food Shopping With You

2010-07-14T22:14:00.001-07:00

This follows right along with making your child a part of the solution if he or she needs to lose weight. A lot of children have never even paid attention to what's in a grocery store, let alone have the experience of picking out something just for them.

Before you and your child go shopping, discuss the basics of healthy eating with your child so they will understand what you're trying to accomplish. Here are some ideas:

1. Sugar and refined carbohydrates, such as white flour, are t

Part 1 - Take Your Child for a Regular Checkup

2010-07-14T22:13:00.001-07:00

We always hear the advice, "Before you start a new program, be sure to visit your doctor first.

This is true of children also. You may think your child is overweight, but that may not be the case. Your doctor should examine the child and determine if he/she is overweight or not.

Maybe there is a health problem you are not aware of that is causing your child's metabolism to be slow, which can lead to weight gain. Only your doctor can determine this.

If your doctor does feel that y

How to Raise Healthy Children Series

2010-07-14T22:10:00.001-07:00

This next series of posts will be a short 10-part series on "How to Raise Healthy Children". We will be providing information to help you protect or improve the health of your child or children.

Check back often over the next few days as we will be posting articles on the following topics:

"Take Your Child for a Regular Check Up"
"Take Your Child Food Shopping With You"
"Your Child Can Be Making Bad Food Choices"
"Limit the Food Availability in Your Home"
"If Your Child Has

Clustering Articles For Greater Link Popularity

2009-05-15T20:50:00.000-07:00

Clustering is a methodology used in many aspects in today's societies. Typically, it is used to tie similar, but different systems, functions, or ideas together into a single structure while each piece of the structure stands on its own merits.

Strength in Numbers

The old axiom, "Strength in Numbers", best defines the basis of clustering. People have been using clustering since the dawn of man by gathering in groups to establish a community and utilize the strength of the community to overcome their adversaries. Likewise, they have used that strength to produce food, tools, clothing, and other material items for the use and survival of the community. Countries have even joined together for a common goal and defense. During disasters we often see countries and organizations joining together to help the people to overcome the destruction that has been caused. All of these groups and organizations working together have formed clusters for "Strength in Numbers".

Today we can see many examples of clustering in the business world where companies join together to form larger and stronger companies. However, today we often term such actions as mergers and acquisitions. Never the less, such actions are still a methodology of clustering.

Cluster Marketing

When the techniques of clustering are applied to marketing methods the effects can produce some pleasing results. For years, internet marketeers have been applying the methodology of cluster marketing in their everyday marketing practices. When they launch a product they join forces with several key marketeers to advertise the launch. Now, if you were to be a member of each marketeer's opt-in e-mail list, you would receive an e-mail about the same event from several marketeers instead of just the originator of the launch. This act of joining together is the very basis of cluster marketing.

When marketeers launch a product they don't just use e-mail as their only medium of advertisement. In addition to e-mail they will use press releases, direct mail ads, webinars, tele-seminars, etc. All of these different types of advertising are pointing to the one web site that the marketeer wants you to visit. The one limitation to cluster marketing is that it is a one way methodology. Cluster marketing in itself can be very powerful if the advertiser wants to throw enough money into the advertising campaign to sustain it long enough for the general public to catch on to the message it's trying to deliver.

With cluster marketing techniques you get one way links to your site as that is the direction the methodology is designed to support. The cluster methodology of marketing with the one way design has been very useful and powerful over the years as it emulates the human desire of pointing people in the right direction. Search engines have also found the one way links to be popular in ranking the popularity of a web site. Within the last few years we've even seen the introduction of three-way links and have found how popular they can be with search engines. However, setting up three-way links between various sites can be extremely time consuming unless you already own many sites where you can add all of the links required for three way linking.

For years, marketeers have been experimenting with ways to build more links, with more "link juice" from authority sites. For the most part the results have been the same, the more advertising and the more articles that are produced the greater the link popularity. It has all boiled down to "Strength In Numbers".

Clustering Articles

A few years ago I started to experiment with the broader technique of clustering articles. Soon, this method started to take hold within the internet marketing community as its ease of use became evident. This technique involves using a group of topic related articles to create back links to the target web site. These back links would not only relate to the target web site, but to other related locations. This inter-relational organization technique showed that over time, the link popularity increased while using fewer resources than the conventional one way link or three way linking methods.

One of the more popular aspects of clustering articles is that it can be accomplished using free internet resources instead of extensive paid advertising. Also, back links can be established in a shorter amount of time using variations of the original related topic articles. While it is possible to use un-related topic article groups, the link popularity isn't as good as using related themes throughout these groups.

It's important to note that these groups should be created from original content instead of copying someone else's work. The article directories and search engines are smart enough to know when you're faking it with copied content. Original content and variations of the original content in clusters have been found, in all cases, to produce the greater desired results.

Social Networking and Video Sharing

With the introduction of Social Networking the ease with which this technique can be implemented has increased over time. Additionally, the introduction of video sharing sites, do-it-yourself video production software, and camera systems with enhanced video production techniques has also enhanced link popularity when coupled with clustering articles. In future articles, I will expand on the "Techniques of Cluster Marketing" and "Proper Creation of Variations for Clustering Articles".

Gregg Sterner is the author and developer of the Article Clustering and Cluster Marketing systems. Please visit http://www.articleclustering.com/, to discover the in depth techniques used to increase the quantity and authority of back links for your web site. View our YouTube video "Link the World" at http://www.youtube.com/articleclustering As a former Director of Marketing Support for a major division of a Fortune 200 corporation, Gregg has developed and written numerous marketing strategies for the corporate world.

Article Clustering

2009-05-02T15:05:00.000-07:00

Article Clustering isn’t a new concept, however, everyone has seemed to have forgotten about it. Also, it has been updated to include the latest Article Directory submission guidelines.

Many Article marketers stopped using clustering because they wanted to blast out as many articles as they can in a short period of time. However, with article clustering you don’t have to post as many articles to get the same or better “link juice” out of your articles. It allows you to be creative again and produce qualitiy articles.

Fewer articles of better quality with better “link juice” means that you become more of an authority without being a slave to the article creation machine. Visit Article Clustering now for a better technique to your article marketing.

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