am I on the right track??
hello all
Im another newbie and this is my first post im really sorry about the length but if you could please try read it would be appreciated
So im ready to get my feet wet in IM. I've been doing a lot of research and think I've come up with a plan. After reading various posts and ebooks about various ways to get started i decided on the article marketing approach. However, i still have some uncertainties. It seems that the majority of information i read suggests writing writing writing writing writing articles and then submitting them to high ranking article directories such as EZA. But some of the numbers are intimidating, I mean i got the newbie workbook and by the end of it's 30 day plan i would have written 72 articles. Talinn's recent post said 10 articles a day, so 300 a month. Other methods I've read give similar numbers, start a campaign with 10-20 articles, do a couple a week, etc...
so i dug deeper and it seems that there are others that feel the above approach is not the best way to do article marketing. For starters the "Article on site or EZA first" thread was a very good read and frankly has changed my thinking. I don't want to really want to rely on spamming article directories for traffic. Additionally , posts by member such as zeus66 (and his ebook) and kkchoon have lead me to belive there is absolutely no reason to write so much. From what i gather a decent article, based on good key words and good backlinking can rank high on it's own.
so if what i have learned so far is correct here is a basic idea of what im thinking of doing
pick a product, do some keyword research and make a list, build a landing page and install a blog, write an article based on some of my keywords, post it to my blog, bookmark my site across various social bookmarking sites, set up some free blogs (wp, blogger) and post some shorter summary of the article and link back to my site, get my content on squidoo and hubpages, THEN start on the article directories, spin spin spin, submit submit submit, use distribution service and distribute more, convert article to pdf get it on document sharing sites, possibly create video based on article content and submit to video sites, use video distributing service, pickup all the RSS feeds along the way and submit them to RSS directories and then i guess get around comment on other blogs and post on niche related forums and such
So i do all that and thats just for 1 article and hopefully if i do it right ill end up on page 1 of google for that key word. That alone should start some sales coming in ( i hope)
then pick some more keywords from my initial research and write another article and repeat and try to get on page 1 for those keywords
i guess the real goal is to get on page one for as many keywords as possible (i think)
hopefully im on the right track and if i am, i don't see how writing another 100 or so articles would come in to play in my plan.
but im still concerned about some things
first off, im not a very good writer. Even if i spent hours on an article i don't know if it would be that good. Does it matter that much? Most articles i read are 300-400 words so they kind of need to get to the point. I feel like more power is coming from the marketing of the article than from the content of the article. Of course I understand it needs to be readable and get the message across. I guess i really lack writing confidence. I have a fear that i will never actually follow thought with my plan because i will get so hung up on actually getting articles written (i have a big problem about this). Am i better off just outsourcing? Are rewriting PRLs out of the question?
also, from other people that use this kind of approach. How many articles will you write for a product? one for each keyword? if my research builds a list of 20, try to rank 20 articles? or less and then start on a new product? is it worth the time to get more than a few on google on page 1?
if i get on page 1 for the top few words that get the most searches am i going to get enough back from going further or would my time be better spent moving on and letting these do there thing while I start a new product?
Lastly, when i first start i feel like my site/blog will just be a landing page and blog with 1 post and even after i put some more content up it will be a pretty empty blog and virtually every post on the blog will be an article on the exact same subject. Is that OK? does any of that matter? most "normal" blogs don't look like that. It seems like im more or less just using the blog as a vessel to house my articles and not trying to use it in the traditional blog manner
really really sorry about the long post
hope some of you actually read it
i just have a lot to get off my mind before i start
any help is appreciated
thanks
Im another newbie and this is my first post im really sorry about the length but if you could please try read it would be appreciated
So im ready to get my feet wet in IM. I've been doing a lot of research and think I've come up with a plan. After reading various posts and ebooks about various ways to get started i decided on the article marketing approach. However, i still have some uncertainties. It seems that the majority of information i read suggests writing writing writing writing writing articles and then submitting them to high ranking article directories such as EZA. But some of the numbers are intimidating, I mean i got the newbie workbook and by the end of it's 30 day plan i would have written 72 articles. Talinn's recent post said 10 articles a day, so 300 a month. Other methods I've read give similar numbers, start a campaign with 10-20 articles, do a couple a week, etc...
so i dug deeper and it seems that there are others that feel the above approach is not the best way to do article marketing. For starters the "Article on site or EZA first" thread was a very good read and frankly has changed my thinking. I don't want to really want to rely on spamming article directories for traffic. Additionally , posts by member such as zeus66 (and his ebook) and kkchoon have lead me to belive there is absolutely no reason to write so much. From what i gather a decent article, based on good key words and good backlinking can rank high on it's own.
so if what i have learned so far is correct here is a basic idea of what im thinking of doing
pick a product, do some keyword research and make a list, build a landing page and install a blog, write an article based on some of my keywords, post it to my blog, bookmark my site across various social bookmarking sites, set up some free blogs (wp, blogger) and post some shorter summary of the article and link back to my site, get my content on squidoo and hubpages, THEN start on the article directories, spin spin spin, submit submit submit, use distribution service and distribute more, convert article to pdf get it on document sharing sites, possibly create video based on article content and submit to video sites, use video distributing service, pickup all the RSS feeds along the way and submit them to RSS directories and then i guess get around comment on other blogs and post on niche related forums and such
So i do all that and thats just for 1 article and hopefully if i do it right ill end up on page 1 of google for that key word. That alone should start some sales coming in ( i hope)
then pick some more keywords from my initial research and write another article and repeat and try to get on page 1 for those keywords
i guess the real goal is to get on page one for as many keywords as possible (i think)
hopefully im on the right track and if i am, i don't see how writing another 100 or so articles would come in to play in my plan.
but im still concerned about some things
first off, im not a very good writer. Even if i spent hours on an article i don't know if it would be that good. Does it matter that much? Most articles i read are 300-400 words so they kind of need to get to the point. I feel like more power is coming from the marketing of the article than from the content of the article. Of course I understand it needs to be readable and get the message across. I guess i really lack writing confidence. I have a fear that i will never actually follow thought with my plan because i will get so hung up on actually getting articles written (i have a big problem about this). Am i better off just outsourcing? Are rewriting PRLs out of the question?
also, from other people that use this kind of approach. How many articles will you write for a product? one for each keyword? if my research builds a list of 20, try to rank 20 articles? or less and then start on a new product? is it worth the time to get more than a few on google on page 1?
if i get on page 1 for the top few words that get the most searches am i going to get enough back from going further or would my time be better spent moving on and letting these do there thing while I start a new product?
Lastly, when i first start i feel like my site/blog will just be a landing page and blog with 1 post and even after i put some more content up it will be a pretty empty blog and virtually every post on the blog will be an article on the exact same subject. Is that OK? does any of that matter? most "normal" blogs don't look like that. It seems like im more or less just using the blog as a vessel to house my articles and not trying to use it in the traditional blog manner
really really sorry about the long post
hope some of you actually read it
i just have a lot to get off my mind before i start
any help is appreciated
thanks