Does Article Marketing Really Works

[johnben1444]

I have posted over a hundred article to ezinearticle, ideamarketer, isnare and so on. Yet the returns are very very minimal. In my own opinion article doesnt work.
Some of my article receive high visit and clicks yet no conversion.

Yet i put out time to write quality article.

Does article marketing really work for you. Is there a secret that you might want to let me know.

[Steven Wagenheim]

Please don't take this the wrong way, but do you write your own articles?

The reason I am asking is that it appears from your forum post that English
isn't your first language. If this is the case, and your articles read similarly,
it could very well explain why you're not seeing the results you'd like.

That and a lot of other things that would take way too long to get into here.

You might want to consider having your articles outsourced. It might make
a big difference.

[johnben1444]

Below is one of my article:

For job opportunity the Internet is the wave of the future. Although the Internet is highly famous today but only about 23% of the world population have access to the Internet. That means we still have about 77% untapped growth ahead of us. That's a whole lot of potential clients and business owners out there waiting for us to spot them!
In this wave of tremendous growth there are a lot of unscrupulous schemes out there trying to swindle innocent people out of there hard earned money. There are also numerous genuine internet business opportunities.
How can you differentiate between a genuine opportunity and a scam?
First of all "Quick Riches" is a load of crap. If you are searching for a get rich quick scheme opportunity then you are not been sincere with yourself. It doesn't exist at all. Getting rich is not as simple as clicking a couple of your mouse buttons. So if an opportunity looks like "Get rich quick" then there is the possibilty that it not genuine.
No business is easy to begin. A business may be quite easy to run, but promoting that business, educating your self, and attaining the right mindset to successfully manage a business are not simple.
One of the questions to ask when considering a business enterprise is "Does the company provides adequate training, and is it comprehensive?" This is vital when buying into an existing business enterprise.
Another question to ask is "Does the company have a solid track record of success?" Find out if other people are attaining the success you are looking to achieve.
Does the company have a system set up to support newbies? Starting a new business can be very challenging, overwhelming, and sometimes confusing. You might want to know that you will be supported when tackling these challenges.
One must realize that being an entrepreneur is not a day's job. It is one of the most challenging, risky, and rewarding paths one can take. That being said you should not anticipate a company to hold you by the hand in your endeavor. You need to be creative and be committed toward success. You need to be ready to do whatever it requires to make your business succeed. You need to take responsibility for educating and training yourself.
Being a business owner is a serious task. It is rewarding and it is worth all the challenges, but it won't just come to past at the click of a button.

[Steven Wagenheim]

Originally Posted by johnben1444

Below is one of my article:

For job opportunity the Internet is the wave of the future. Although the Internet is highly famous today but only about 23% of the world population have access to the Internet. That means we still have about 77% untapped growth ahead of us. That's a whole lot of potential clients and business owners out there waiting for us to spot them!
In this wave of tremendous growth there are a lot of unscrupulous schemes out there trying to swindle innocent people out of there hard earned money. There are also numerous genuine internet business opportunities.
How can you differentiate between a genuine opportunity and a scam?
First of all "Quick Riches" is a load of crap. If you are searching for a get rich quick scheme opportunity then you are not been sincere with yourself. It doesn't exist at all. Getting rich is not as simple as clicking a couple of your mouse buttons. So if an opportunity looks like "Get rich quick" then there is the possibilty that it not genuine.
No business is easy to begin. A business may be quite easy to run, but promoting that business, educating your self, and attaining the right mindset to successfully manage a business are not simple.
One of the questions to ask when considering a business enterprise is "Does the company provides adequate training, and is it comprehensive?" This is vital when buying into an existing business enterprise.
Another question to ask is "Does the company have a solid track record of success?" Find out if other people are attaining the success you are looking to achieve.
Does the company have a system set up to support newbies? Starting a new business can be very challenging, overwhelming, and sometimes confusing. You might want to know that you will be supported when tackling these challenges.
One must realize that being an entrepreneur is not a day's job. It is one of the most challenging, risky, and rewarding paths one can take. That being said you should not anticipate a company to hold you by the hand in your endeavor. You need to be creative and be committed toward success. You need to be ready to do whatever it requires to make your business succeed. You need to take responsibility for educating and training yourself.
Being a business owner is a serious task. It is rewarding and it is worth all the challenges, but it won't just come to past at the click of a button.

There are several grammatical errors and the article is very wooden. It is
obvious, at least to me, that this was written by somebody who is not a
native English speaker.

Having said that, I've read much worse. Keep working on your English
grammar and expressing yourself and you may reach a point where your
articles are read, enjoyed and acted on.

In the meantime, if you need immediate cash, I'd try outsourcing in
addition to working on your writing.

[Kael41]

Holy **** that is some bad content! By bad, i actually mean horrible. If you wrote that, and English is your 2nd language, props to you for trying to write an article. I honestly cannot find anything redeeming in that wall of text...

This article is all about "fluff" with no real information to be given to the reader. I would highly suggest you to outsource your content for article submissions to some third party company who actually gives a damn about article structure and grammar. What you posted above is the reason you're not seeing any success. Again, not a knock against you since English clearly isn't your first language. If you're going to do it right, get someone who is well versed in the language syntax to create the article content for you.

David

[cdtboxhdr]

Steve hit the nail on the head.

You should have a native speaker edit your articles. It's not a dig, but the 3rd word in your article should be plural and the pharse "highly famous" is not a normal American or UK English construct.

This could be why your articles are not converting - I can only guess that the copy on your landing page might be just as bad.

You have good ideas - and maybe you have another talent - do what you do well then hire out (or find help) for the rest.

On a positive note, you've done more than what 90% of the people do - you took action and got yourself into the game. Kudos for that.

[GeorgR.]

check my latest blog entry

Why Article Marketing is Better than Adwords | www.1UP-SEO.com

Will write a part two today. It works VERY WELL.

[johnben1444]

Some guy talked of optimizing an article, can that really be possible. If yes, then how?

[squeezecpa]

Article marketing does work, of course it does. Take a look at the expert authors list on Ezine Articles, see how many articles they've submitted, and then tell me article marketing doesn't work.

[Slyknight]

Aside from grammar and other stuff, try to keep your writting simple and interesting to read.

[Steven Wagenheim]

Originally Posted by Dal Khera

Article marketing does work, of course it does. Take a look at the expert authors list on Ezine Articles, see how many articles they've submitted, and then tell me article marketing doesn't work.

Actually, if you want to be technical about it, the Ezine Articles Expert
Authors list means only one thing.

These people either write or outsource a lot of articles.

It tells us nothing about their success or lack thereof with article marketing.

This is a trap too many people get caught up in. They see a number of
people doing X and thus believe that X must be really great.

It's the reason why so many people lose fortunes in HYIPs and other
ponzi schemes, as well as many legit forms of making money.

The thing (or X) doesn't inherently work or not work.

What makes it work is a combination of factors:

1. The skill you have
2. The effort you put in
3. The money you spend to outsource, if that's the route you go.
4. The market you're targeting
5. The quality of your squeeze or sales page
6. The demand for your product

And a lot more.

This is why when I hear people declare (and I used to be one of them)
that something either works or doesn't work categorically, I have to give
a little chuckle.

By the same token, I have done things that most people would swear do
not work, like use safelists and traffic exchanges and have made good
amounts of money doing so.

Why?

Again, all the items I mentioned above plus a few more.

I am of the belief (after 6 plus years of doing this stuff) that nothing by
itself either works or doesn't work.

It's what YOU do with it.

[howlinghawk]

If your article isn't structured in a way that attracts your reader's attention, then they'll simply navigate away. Make it interesting and not too many links.

Use keyword research tools to help you make your articles more trageted.

-Howlinghawk

[GeorgR.]

i feel a little bad for some "non native" speakers because i see such articles almost each day. Many content writers from other countries use about that same style.

Articles which are "per se" correct, but which read very "wooden" and "odd". Sometimes i think those article writers don't even realize that and think their article is good because "basically" the english is fine - but the article is still "bad", if you know what i mean.

If you are outsourcing, it can be very hard to find reliable writers, and especially foreign writers which can deliver content on par with EZA etc. standards.

I am not talking bad about all those helpful people in india/pakistan which otherwise do great jobs doing SEO etc.....but i really think that some of them are just not aware of their article quality. I had many "applying" for a job for me which claimed and told me how great their articles are....but many/most of them read like that example article, and this just wont work ;/

[timpears]

I have been told that my writing is fine. I don't have the confidence to write articles. I have tried and never been happy with the results. So I have outsourced the task, more than once, to people that make a living doing articles and other copy. My returns so far, a very disappointing waste of time and money.

I keep seeing people talking about the merits of article writing, and I just scratch my head. How the hell do they do it. The last batch of articles I got were excelent, I thought. I got a couple of them on the first page of Google. Got great views from most of them, a few click through, and one sale, which didn't even cover half the cost of my outsourcing fee. Of course, I will never get that commission as Clickbank has this clever five credit card requirement.

So bottom line, you folks can rave all you want about article marketing, but I don't see it.

[Steven Wagenheim]

Originally Posted by GeorgR.

i feel a little bad for some "non native" speakers because i see such articles almost each day. Many content writers from other countries use about that same style.

Articles which are "per se" correct, but which read very "wooden" and "odd". Sometimes i think those article writers don't even realize that and think their article is good because "basically" the english is fine - but the article is still "bad", if you know what i mean.

If you are outsourcing, it can be very hard to find reliable writers, and especially foreign writers which can deliver content on par with EZA etc. standards.

I am not talking bad about all those helpful people in india/pakistan which otherwise do great jobs doing SEO etc.....but i really think that some of them are just not aware of their article quality. I had many "applying" for a job for me which claimed and told me how great their articles are....but many/most of them read like that example article, and this just wont work ;/

George, here's the biggest problem with their articles, at least in my
opinion.

There is no personality in them. Nothing that makes you feel anything one
way or another, whether it be good, bad, happy, sad, angry or whatever.

In other words, they have no life. It's like reading a dictionary, except not
quite as interesting. (some of those fancy shmancy $2 college words have
some pretty interesting definitions.)

It's kind of like when I took German in high school. By German 4, I was
able to write full paragraphs but I'd hate to have to really get the
attention of somebody with them. They were very wooden and not all
that interesting (at least according to my teacher)

But they were grammatically correct (for the most part anyway)

Non English writers don't understand the English language well enough to
be able to use all the different nuances of the language in order to
communicate, such as sarcasm, play on words, and so on.

These are the things that separate the dull, boring writers from the ones
who you really enjoy reading.

It's hard to explain, but I know what it is when I see it.

[GeorgR.]

tim,

keyword research <---

Articles need to be optimized, there is more to it than "just" writing some article.

Later today i might write a second part of my blog entry about optimizing articles and keyword research ( see www.1UP-SEO.com ).

Look at angela and what she does with her articles. Massive SEO, backlinks also.

[Steven Wagenheim]

Originally Posted by timpears

I have been told that my writing is fine. I don't have the confidence to write articles. I have tried and never been happy with the results. So I have outsourced the task, more than once, to people that make a living doing articles and other copy. My returns so far, a very disappointing waste of time and money.

I keep seeing people talking about the merits of article writing, and I just scratch my head. How the hell do they do it. The last batch of articles I got were excelent, I thought. I got a couple of them on the first page of Google. Got great views from most of them, a few click through, and one sale, which didn't even cover half the cost of my outsourcing fee. Of course, I will never get that commission as Clickbank has this clever five credit card requirement.

So bottom line, you folks can rave all you want about article marketing, but I don't see it.

Tim, it's not just the quality of the article that makes or breaks article
marketing as a marketing tool.

There are many other factors as well that are beyond the actual article.

1. The resource box. How captivating is it?
2. The squeeze or sales page. Is it doing its job?
3. The keywords you're targeting. Are they buyers? How much competition?

I could go on and on but I think you get the point.

The article itself, IMO, is at best 60% of the formula for making sales with
article marketing. Without the other 40% being top notch, you're still
at a failing grade.

[adamv]

Originally Posted by johnben1444

I have posted over a hundred article to ezinearticle, ideamarketer, isnare and so on. Yet the returns are very very minimal. In my own opinion article doesnt work.
Some of my article receive high visit and clicks yet no conversion.

Yet i put out time to write quality article.

Does article marketing really work for you. Is there a secret that you might want to let me know.

If your articles received a good number of visits and click throughs then guess what? - Your article marketing WORKED.

If the conversions were bad it could be from a number of factors like poor keyword selection, bad site design, bad niche, bad product, etc.

If your article got the views and the click throughs, then it did its job and you have other problems to blame for low conversions.

However, I do agree with what some of the others have said about your sample article. There are several gramatical errors and it definitely sound like it was written by someone who first language is not English (not that there's anything wrong with that). Outsourcing your articles or having a native English speaker edit them for you would be a good idea.

[GeorgR.]

An article "basically" can seen as a giant "adwords ad" because it CAN be used for pre-selling, creating confidence in the reader and convince a reader that you are an expert in the field. (You CAN do this without sounding promotional or spammy)

Also..there is a BIG difference how you implement your resource-boxes and links. The majority of people use ending lines like "..and for more information on X visit Y" <---- BAD, it will not attract too many clicks.

You can do much better by using a mild form of "call to action"...again without getting booted off EZA because you'd sound too promotional. But there are better ways to make people click your links, eg. you can outright recommend a product at the end which should give way more clicks than the standard line "...if you want more information..."

[aboutalhah]

By reading your post, it seems that the article is part of the problem, and that your site doesn't have great conversion.

You need to test and improve until it works out.

As for your opinion, it's a mistake because article marketing works and you can easily make thousands of dollars from your articles when you know how.

All the best,

Franck

Originally Posted by johnben1444

In my own opinion article doesnt work.

[gapsapman]

Your articles quality affect the results of your marketing efforts.

[Michael Franklin]

Originally Posted by timpears

I keep seeing people talking about the merits of article writing, and I just scratch my head. How the hell do they do it. The last batch of articles I got were excelent, I thought. I got a couple of them on the first page of Google. Got great views from most of them, a few click through, and one sale, which didn't even cover half the cost of my outsourcing fee. Of course, I will never get that commission as Clickbank has this clever five credit card requirement.

So bottom line, you folks can rave all you want about article marketing, but I don't see it.

Hi Tim,

Just out of curiosity.....When you say that your articles were on the first page of Google, were they among the top 3 results? You can be on page one, but if you are only fourth or fifth, you are only getting a tiny fraction of the traffic out there.

Article marketing works but you have to set your sights on solidifying your articles in Google's top 3 SERPs if you really want to see it payoff.