How can you make $10,000 a month with article marketing?

[DyLan Lee]

It is definitely possible!

If you divide the amount into $/day, you just need to make $333/day. Let say you are selling an ebook at $10, you just need 31 sales/day.

If you have the database, you can easily make it.

[Doctor Article]

Originally Posted by Jeremy Kelsall

QUICK AND DIRTY

Alot of people make Article Marketing much harder than it has to be. They have these corny perceptions of having to be a great writer and building authority and all of this other garbage that stops a ton of people from even starting.

I'm going to give you a quick and dirty plan here that has worked for me time and time again. More importantly, it worked for me before I "knew" anything at all really. Before I knew any "tricks" and was still extremely wet behind the ears.

Niche selection - Pick a niche that is embarrassing for people. something that they don't want to talk to other people about. Something that puts them in a desperate situation.

Here are a couple examples:

• Picking up chicks
• Catch your spouse cheating
• Yeast infections
• man boobs
• Penis enlargement

Very true - there's no need to be a great writer nowadays simply because you can outsource.

Also, as you say, you need to find a niche such as the ones you've mentioned. Hey, I'm no marketer, but I do write for a website offering writing services, and I can assure you, what you've said here is spot on. We see literally thousands of clients pass by each month and in the end, it gets easy to spot the ones who are being successful with their marketing efforts. Of course you also see many requesting articles regarding a niche which has long since died a death, but oh well, Iwork for the site as a writer rather than an adviser.

Seeing how much can be made from marketing though, I think I should maybe give up with the writing...lol.

[kenjitay]

To answer that very first question of the post... yes you can.

but, grasp this concept. Article Marketing is not a business.. it is a traffic and marketing tactic to increase sales and build your business.

think about it...

regards
kenji

[desmond11]

One of the best threads I've read and Jeremy knocked this one out of the park. Cheers mate.

If you've got Steve praising your efforts, you ain't doing too bad

[Anees]

This article marketing strategy of 10K/mo itself worth hundreds of dollars! Jeremy, you disclosed the guru's article marketing strategy for free who were keeping close to their chests! You can make a WSO and sell it for $67, $77, $97 and keep that all money!....

Originally Posted by Jeremy Kelsall

This isn't a cop-out, but I honestly don't discuss my income publicly. What I can tell you though is we have done live training with a group of 1,000 people that saw us use the techniques above and make $1,200 in 11 days in 1 niche with 2 articles a day. Another group saw us make $600 in a different niche is 5 days or so with 2-3 articles a day.

Article Marketing works if you can wrap your head around the process and simplify it. It also helps if you can make yourself be passionate about stuff that people want to buy.

You don't have to do it anywhere near that scale. Like I said above - 3 sales a day in 4 niches will get you to 10K. 3 sales a day can be accomplished by GETTING 1 ARTICLE TO STICK ON THE FIRST PAGE OF GOOGLE.

It really is just a matter of wrapping your head around it and simplifying it

[maverick8]

Originally Posted by JustinHart

sure anything is possible, but the amount of work needed to reach that amount is huge... we're talking years of steady effort

I know for sure it does not take years. steady effort well of course. If you think it takes years i think you should check your approach. You can can do it in under 10 months

[sree94]

Originally Posted by Jeremy Kelsall

QUICK AND DIRTY

Alot of people make Article Marketing much harder than it has to be. They have these corny perceptions of having to be a great writer and building authority and all of this other garbage that stops a ton of people from even starting.

I'm going to give you a quick and dirty plan here that has worked for me time and time again. More importantly, it worked for me before I "knew" anything at all really. Before I knew any "tricks" and was still extremely wet behind the ears.

Niche selection - Pick a niche that is embarrassing for people. something that they don't want to talk to other people about. Something that puts them in a desperate situation.

Here are a couple examples:

• Picking up chicks
• Catch your spouse cheating
• Yeast infections
• man boobs
• Penis enlargement

I know alot of people will tell you to pick something your passionate about, but just forget about that for a bit, unless you are passionate about stuff that people want to buy.

Pick something that people are more likely to go online to buy than to walk into a retail outlet and pick up. Hopefully, that makes sense to you.

Once you have your niche, you will want to of course grab some keywords.

KEYWORD RESEARCH - Again, I'm going to go against the grain here. Forget about results in quotation marks and all that other stuff. What you want to look at is the number of sites that are actually actively competing in your niche. The easiest way to do this is to find the number of sites that are rockin your keywords inurl and inachor. I would like to get into that a little more, but honestly, you could fill up about 10 pages on it...

The other thing you want to look at is what *kind* of site that Google is ranking on the first page for your keyword. What you want to see is:

1. Article directories
2. Web2.0 sites
3. Yahoo Answers
4. etc..

Basically, you want to see the types of sites that other marketers are using to rank. If Google will let them on the first page, they will let you on the first page. The key here is to understand that the other marketers that are using those sites to rank are in most cases - Hit and runners. They throw up 500 words of content, throw 10 backlinks to it and if it ranks, it ranks. If not, they move onto the next thing.

So, your goal is to either completely overtake their ranking or to slide into a supplemental slot - Believe it or not, there is a lot of traffic to be had there. The key here is to provide updated content and some decent backlinks.

When I say updated content, what I mean is to add new posts to your 2.0 sites etc so that Google sees your content is staying fresh, unlike your competitor who probaby will never add another word to their page for as long as they live.

ARTICLE TITLES - Your article titles should be keyword rich and FULL OF HYPE. Think of the most outrageous claim that you can think of and still tell the truth and then go with it. The more outrageous it is, the more people will read it.

A good way to come up with titles is to use the hyped up bullet points from the sales pages. You will have no problem finding hype on a sales page lol

ARTICLE CONTENT - This is where it gets a little dicey. I know that the ebooks train you to write award winning stuff and to provide oodles and oodles of conent so that the reader thinks you are a rocket scientist, right? But, let me ask you this - If you give all the info in the article, why the hell would they click throuh on your resource box?

Ideally, you want to focus on pain! If you are pitching an ebook on how to find out if your wife is sleeping with the mail man. Make your content, call out the husbands pride - Piss him off. "Chances are good that your wife is banging the mail man right now" or "Do you wonder why your wife doesn't want to sleep with you anymore? Do you think it has something to do with the fact she is having sex with the mail man?"

You can do the same thing with just about EVERY single niche. I don't want to inform the reader - I want to coax them into clicking my link! They can be informed when the pay $49.99.

RESOURCE BOX - Here you want to reinforce the fact that you have the answer to their problem. I see so many people type a life history in the resource box. Do you really think the reader cares how old you are or where you went to college? Probably not! What they want to do is pay you $49.99 for an ebook to solve their problem.

So, if your pitching an ebooks that is going to show Johnny how to get rid of his man boobs, it might be something like this:

Want to get out of a b-cup and into a t-shirt? CLICK HERE!

I consistently get CTR's of 30%+ with resource boxes just like that.

There are obviously other steps here such as promoting your articles with backlinks and repurposing your content, but I think most of that stuff is talked about so often that it should be for the most part common knowledge.

Personally, I think that most new people to article marketing fail or don't do as well as they could because they are still trying to do "their fathers" article marketing if you know what I mean.

Marketing with articles has gotten more aggressive even since I started doing in in December of 2007. You really have to think outside of the box a little bit and find creative ways to get eyes on your articles. More importantly, to get as many people as possible to click on your resource box links.

I know this is kind of incomplete, but my medicine has me tired lol

Jeremy

Incomplete? Dude, you have offered more helpful tips in this one post than most entire ebooks have in them!

[ramone_johnny]

I think far too many people make the whole process more complicated than it has to be.

[DyLan Lee]

Is it really possible to make $10,000 a month working from home and running your own business online? Does it sound like a dream? Is it even possible, let alone be a dream? And how many people actually make that much anyway?

The answer is YES. You CAN make $10,000 a month working from home and running your own work at home business. And YES there are plenty of people who make that much, or even more, on the internet. But it didn't happen overnight!

It starts out just like any other business. With a lot of "elbow grease" and hard work. There's simply no short cut to it. If you think that you can wake up tomorrow and make $10,000 while you slept, then you're right. You can! But only if you won the lottery or some rich relative died and left you his or her money. That's the ONLY way you'll make a lot of money in no time. Other than that, it's all about how hard you work at your work at home business.

It's just like any other business. You can't assume that just because you do it online, some miracle will happen and the business will take off by itself. You must realize that in order for any business to succeed, be in online or offline, you've got to put in the effort.

But what are the basic guidelines you should follow if you want to make $10,000 a month? Here’s how.

a) Target a niche that's lucrative.

You can't succeed if your target market is saturated, unless you're a genius. For the rest of us, we need to focus of building our work at home business around a niche that's not too big but yet not too small either. You must make sure that your niche is big enough for you to be able to sell to it and yet small enough that not too many people are targeting it. This is one place where SIZE does matter. And knowing exactly how big your niche is, is so very important.

b) Focus on one thing

Once you find your niche you need to focus on it. It's easy to get side tracked or branch off into many different streams of markets. Don't lose focus! Keep doing what you are doing and focus on ONE specific thing at a time. Make it work 100%. And even then, there's always room for improvement. Many work at home business owners fall into this "diversify or die" mode and they spread themselves too thin. Don't fall for that. Focus on one thing and do it well. There'll be a time to expand, but not until you are making a considerable monthly income. If you are making a few bucks each month, you KNOW you need to focus!

c) Test and Refine

You cannot be complacent about how you do your business. What's good today can be bad tomorrow. And you'll never know unless you test and refine your business process. Don't take someone else's advice on what's good for your business. Test it yourself! Use different website copies, headlines, calls to action, prices, bonuses etc. There are a LOT of areas you can test - so make sure you do it. And when your results are in, refine your business process. If your results are conclusive, make the change. Don't wait until it's too late. Refine your process and then keep testing it. It's a cycle. Not a movement. So repeat it often.

d) Keep doing what works.

Sometimes you'll find that there are certain aspects of your business that you've tested and found that it works well. There's no need to change it. Well then don't. Many people think that change is universal and that EVERY aspect of their business should be changed. Don't be like that. Change only those that your tests told you to change. Leave other aspects that work, well alone. If they work - don't change them.

e) Try to automate as much as possible

After a while you'll find that some of your day-to-day business chores take up most of your time and that leaves little for the rest. You always feel that you don't have enough time. Identify the aspects of your work at home business that take up most of your time and see if you can automate it to some extent. You might also be able to find tools or services that can do those tasks for you in less time or effort. If you can automate such processes and free up more of your time, you can use that time on other areas of your business that can be of more use to you.

f) Replicate your success

If you've tested, refined, tested some more, and automated as much as you can then you will begin to realize that your business is now almost running in "auto pilot" mode. And this means that you can now run the business spending less time. And the profits have not taken a hit and have actually increased. Once you begin to see that you are making a considerable amount a month, it's time to replicate your business. And that means creating a whole new business that works the same as the one you've got. Once you get more than one work at home businesses running, you will have multiple streams of income. And now you are that much closer to your $10,000 a month goal.

g) Keep Working Hard!

And finally, you simply can't find a substitute for hard work. Working hard means working smart. So as you start your multi income streams you must not let yourself slacken and lose focus. Keep a firm grip on your businesses and make sure you put in the same hard work that brought your to your $10.000 a month dream. Treat it like a business and it will treat you well - I promise you.

So earning $10,000 a month from your work at home business is indeed possible. But there are no short cuts and no silver bullets. Hard work and working SMART will get you close to that "dream" faster. And once you are there you'll find that all that hard work was well worth it!

[xpert]

Really helpful tips especially for newbies.

[geoffcruz]

Dylan Lee

Nice post, do you earn 10k a month?

[Wade Watson]

Originally Posted by Jeremy Kelsall

The thing that most people don't realize especially when just starting out is that 10K a month is CHUMP CHANGE. Seriously, once you GET the big picture, 10K is a STATING POINT.

What this thread lacks in revelation it more than makes up in inspiration. You're the man, Jeremy!

[MovingAhead]

Haha, I came into this thread because I saw the five star rating. Then I see a 2 line post and I'm like what the hell? Where's the value in that?

Then I scrolled down and read your post...dude, I'm not glad that you're on medicine, but if you make posts like that because of your medicine, by all means take more of it!

Thanks for the post, that's some serious straight talk needed for a lot of people new to this game.

[Virtual Banker]

some great info in this thread.... but does anybody here actually make 5 figs monthly with article marketing? or has pulled over 5 figs in a month EVER with article marketing?

yes?
no?
silence?

[gtrplyr]

I have a question for Jeremy (or anyone else)...

We want the article itself to rank, correct? And when I say that, I mean I submit my aticle to Ezinearticles and it gets approved, etc.. I want THAT article to rank, right?

So, then, I'm not understanding how a Web 2.0 site factors in. If my article was a blog post, I would be trying to get my blog ranked, right? But its not, its an Ezinearticle...so how does adding more content to my blog affect the ranking of that article since it isnt hosted on the blog?

Or am I missing part of the strategy?

[lilgrace]

Originally Posted by Virtual Banker

some great info in this thread.... but does anybody here actually make 5 figs monthly with article marketing? or has pulled over 5 figs in a month EVER with article marketing?

yes?
no?
silence?

Yes there is and has been people making that much. The difference is that most of the people REALLY making that kind of money do not brag or post about it...seriously...I really believe the true figures that size are kept to themselves.

[Baldpilot]

Thanks for a fantastic answer to a great question!

[Jeremy Kelsall]

Originally Posted by gtrplyr

I have a question for Jeremy (or anyone else)...

We want the article itself to rank, correct? And when I say that, I mean I submit my aticle to Ezinearticles and it gets approved, etc.. I want THAT article to rank, right?

Of course

But, keep in mind that you should probably only spend time baclinking/promoting articles that have proven themselves worthy with a decent CTR.

I know someone is going to say, what is a good CTR?

The honest answer is, that is going to be different for everyone and for different niches. For instance, my idea of a good CTR in the weight loss niche is a lot different than my idea of a good CTR in a niche like criminal background checks.

Different niches have different levels of urgency which is something that you have to consider not only in niche selection, but CTR and sales figures as well.

Originally Posted by gtrplyr

So, then, I'm not understanding how a Web 2.0 site factors in. If my article was a blog post, I would be trying to get my blog ranked, right? But its not, its an Ezinearticle...so how does adding more content to my blog affect the ranking of that article since it isnt hosted on the blog?

Or am I missing part of the strategy?

To me WEB2.0 sites and article directories are all the same thing. At least in the sense of how the search engines treat and ran them as well as in the way that they set up internal linking structures.

Understanding what the search engines will tolerate when ranking with these types of sites is something that will in many cases be the difference between sitting on page 3 and owning the first page with 5 or 6 different properties.

[Jeremy Kelsall]

Originally Posted by Virtual Banker

some great info in this thread.... but does anybody here actually make 5 figs monthly with article marketing? or has pulled over 5 figs in a month EVER with article marketing?

yes?
no?
silence?

If I said that I have done 20K in a single month with article marketing would you believe me?...

Everyone is focusing too much on the AMOUNT and not enough on what it takes to get to the amount.

When I set up a campaign in a new niche, here is my goal:

To rank at least one site on the first page of Google that makes 3 sales a day. If I can do that, then I make roughly $100 a day. If you do that 4 times, how much are you making?...Right around 10K a month.

Do a Google search for the keyword REVERSE CELL PHONE LOOKUP and look at the number of times that article has been viewed - I know at about what percent that product converts at and I can tell you now that the owner of that article is probably making 20K - 30K a month JUST FROM THAT ARTICLE.

To many people 10K probably seems like a lot of money, but again I will repeat - When you get the big picture it is a starting point! CHUMP CHANGE!

There are people on this very forum that will tell you that Don and I have GIVEN them niches that make them 5K+ per month and for the most part left the niches ourselves as to not compete with them. Think about that for a second....If we would leave a niche that was pretty much a guaranteed 5K a month...how much money is out there to be made?

The key to getting there though is not to get side tracked. Pick your niche, make your plan, and then beat the hell out of it until money starts to fall out - Then pay others to maintain it!

RINSE
REPEAT

Do that a couple times and you are pissed off if you only make $200 on any given day.

[Jeremy Kelsall]

Originally Posted by gjd6599

Hey Jeremy, When you link from your articles to the product offers, do you link direct to the merchant, or do you link to your own presale page. Also with cpa offers do you link directly to the offer from the article, or do you have a page you send them to first.

When I enter a new niche, I always link direct to the merchant to test conversions and different sales pages. Once I hit a sweet spot on conversions, then I will put up my own pre-sell pages with the intention of ranking them in the SERPS.

[Lance K]

That's pretty good "tape to your monitor" material for anyone who still has the same question as the OP.

Originally Posted by Jeremy Kelsall

Everyone is focusing too much on the AMOUNT and not enough on what it takes to get to the amount.

When I set up a campaign in a new niche, here is my goal:

To rank at least one site on the first page of Google that makes 3 sales a day. If I can do that, then I make roughly $100 a day. If you do that 4 times, how much are you making?...Right around 10K a month.

<snip>

The key to getting there though is not to get side tracked. Pick your niche, make your plan, and then beat the hell out of it until money starts to fall out - Then pay others to maintain it!

RINSE
REPEAT

Do that a couple times and you are pissed off if you only make $200 on any given day.

[dv8]

Originally Posted by Jeremy Kelsall

Do a Google search for the keyword REVERSE CELL PHONE LOOKUP and look at the number of times that article has been viewed - I know at about what percent that product converts at and I can tell you now that the owner of that article is probably making 20K - 30K a month JUST FROM THAT ARTICLE.

Holy crap!!

This article has been viewed 2,098,354 time(s).
Article Submitted On: July 09, 2007


That's roughly 80,000 views per month.

[Jeremy Kelsall]

Originally Posted by dv8

Holy crap!!

This article has been viewed 2,098,354 time(s).
Article Submitted On: July 09, 2007


That's roughly 80,000 views per month.

And there are TONS of other keywords just like that that are either already ranked on the first page with a directory....or could be

[dizen]

Jeremy, how many anchor text variations do yo use for your desired,specific keyphrase? I only use two . e.g. used car and used cars , is this the right way to do it?

Thanks man .

[pheonix44]

But, keep in mind that you should probably only spend time baclinking/promoting articles that have proven themselves worthy with a decent CTR.

I know someone is going to say, what is a good CTR?

The honest answer is, that is going to be different for everyone and for different niches. For instance, my idea of a good CTR in the weight loss niche is a lot different than my idea of a good CTR in a niche like criminal background checks.

Different niches have different levels of urgency which is something that you have to consider not only in niche selection, but CTR and sales figures as well.

Jeremy you are a article marketing God. I just cannot get enough of the useful advice you offer in these types of threads. I think I have virtually everything you have ever written on article marketing printed and saved in page protectors in a binder.


For the longest time I focused a lot of my efforts on back linking all of my articles. But now I see I was doing it wrong and wasting a lot of time. I think I may need to join a 12 step program for article marketing addiction

[Jeremy Kelsall]

Originally Posted by dizen

Jeremy, how many anchor text variations do yo use for your desired,specific keyphrase? I only use two . e.g. used car and used cars , is this the right way to do it?

Thanks man .

Honestly, hand submitted articles are not a major part of my linking strategy so, I don't put a lot of thought into it.

One anchor text will usually be the keyword and the other will most times be "click here"

[Jeremy Kelsall]

Originally Posted by pheonix44

For the longest time I focused a lot of my efforts on back linking all of my articles. But now I see I was doing it wrong and wasting a lot of time. I think I may need to join a 12 step program for article marketing addiction

Well, if you have an article that has a good CTR it is a GREAT idea, at least in my opinion to backlink it or to have someone else do it for you.

It is just one more opportunity for you to get your words and links where people can see them.

Unfortunately, the strategies of social bookmarking and simple RSS submissions on articles are not that effective anymore so, you have to get a little creative in the way you do it to have the best results.

[hyperlite]

Whats the easiest place to build backlinks to articles now that most social bookmarking sites dont allow it anymore?

[gjd6599]

Hi Jeremy, Do you have any problems with the article directories when you link directly to the merchant. I know ezine articles gave me a hard time because I had affiliate links in the article, and I think the bio.

Thanks Glenn

[pheonix44]

I had an article that did pretty well, but I was not getting the conversions I wanted. I did a little backlinking and made a few sales. I did not scale it up though the way I should have.

[geoffcruz]

Jeremy

Sorry about that, removed the post and will send you a PM.

[dv8]

Originally Posted by Jeremy Kelsall

And there are TONS of other keywords just like that that are either already ranked on the first page with a directory....or could be

Would it be safe to assume though that a good majority (porbably 95%+) of those views are from people doing a Google search and THEN seeing the article. Not from people already being on ezinearticles.com and seeing it that way?

If that's the case, then wouldn't it be better to have the article on your own blog and then when people find it, you have them on your site instead of EZA and you can control things better?

Or is the person who wrote that article doing it for the backlink?

[hyperlite]

Originally Posted by dv8

Holy crap!!

This article has been viewed 2,098,354 time(s).
Article Submitted On: July 09, 2007


That's roughly 80,000 views per month.

Over 400 links pointing at that biatch according to Google.

[Jeremy Kelsall]

Originally Posted by dv8

Would it be safe to assume though that a good majority (porbably 95%+) of those views are from people doing a Google search and THEN seeing the article. Not from people already being on ezinearticles.com and seeing it that way?

Yes, that is probably safe to assume.

Originally Posted by dv8

If that's the case, then wouldn't it be better to have the article on your own blog and then when people find it, you have them on your site instead of EZA and you can control things better?

In a perfect world, you are probably right. However, consider that you can throw an article together for a keyword like "lose belly fat" and be on the front page of Google in 7 hours an sometimes with no linking on your part.

Your own site, unless it has some age and a decent internal linking structure doesn't stand a chance of doing that in any short amount of time.

Of course it is always great to get your own site up there too, but I'll definitely take a quick first page ranking while I wait for my own site to work it's way up which sometimes can take a couple of months to do. In the interim, I'm still making sales every day simply because of the fact that the EZA domain already has such a tremendous amount of trust with Google that they in many cases articles rank well without any effort.

[adamv]

Originally Posted by dv8

Would it be safe to assume though that a good majority (porbably 95%+) of those views are from people doing a Google search and THEN seeing the article. Not from people already being on ezinearticles.com and seeing it that way?

If that's the case, then wouldn't it be better to have the article on your own blog and then when people find it, you have them on your site instead of EZA and you can control things better?

Or is the person who wrote that article doing it for the backlink?

Getting an article ranking well in the serps will get you a ton of traffic. You could put the article on your own site or blog first but if you start a new blog and post an article on EZA on the same day and do the exact same backlinking to each, guess which one will reach a higher ranking in a shorter time period.

[zerofill]

Originally Posted by dv8

If that's the case, then wouldn't it be better to have the article on your own blog and then when people find it, you have them on your site instead of EZA and you can control things better?

Or is the person who wrote that article doing it for the backlink?

You can post an article to your site and then post it to EZA...but make sure you have the Pen name as the author on the site. That way EZA doesn't have a fit when they see it...

As far as the question about changing anchor text ect..someone asked. The best way to do it that Jeremy and I have seen...As far as ranking well on say a 300 word article is to put the keyword in the title and once in the resource box as a link...and then we throw a click here link in too...

But often the article content won't even have the phrase in it...We have been experimenting...

We have one article that I wrote that makes between $20-$40 every day from a CPA offer...Doesn't sound like much but...I only wrote 2 articles in the niche and Jeremy will attest to the fact that they suck. So that article brings in at least $600 a month...actually around $900...

So for the person asking about 10k a month... What do you think? Is it possible with all the niches out there to get at least 10 articles to perform that well? Not to mention many will make more and less per day than the one I am referring to.

$10k a month...is not a big mountain to climb...trust me.

Article Marketing is probably the easiest way to generate income...not always the most fun or glamorous but it can definitely get the job done. Now if you are someone that likes writing...WHICH I DO NOT...I friggin hate it...but if you like it. You are all set...

Probably one of the biggest problems with people not generating income in Article marketing is...They don't track where their articles end up in the Serps a day or 2 later... If that thing is on one of the first 3 pages of Google and there aren't 5 authority sites taking the first 5 slots up on the first page...You need to be building backlinks to that article.

Like jeremy was saying...we do redirects first to see if an offer even converts. If the sales page converts we might build a site on that domain around the subject of that offer. But in reality...you don't have to...You can get your articles to rank well and do a redirect forever if you want to. That is why Article Marketing is so newbie friendly too...Hell you don't even need hosting...you can redirect straight from the registrar where you bought the domain.

Now Web2.0 sites I don't typically try to rank in the serps with...We use them to rank specific real websites. That way the carpet can't get jerked out from under us. The chances of a Web 2.0 site being deleted are sometimes good. Especially with competitors trying to attack you by reporting you for some bogus stuff to hubpages, or wordpress.com etc... So we use them strictly as PageRank machines with networks we build from them and push up our main money sites with the power they begin to have after we backlink the hell out of them too.

But EZA, GoArticles, etc...I doubt will be going away anytime soon...Nor do they want to delete your content. If your content brings them visitors they want you there. Greatest business model...Especially EZA...have people pay you to write your content...Doesn't get any better than that from their viewpoint I am sure hehe.

EDIT: I will say that Scribd is pretty awesome for ranking well too though and making cash from your content.

[dv8]

Originally Posted by hyperlite

Over 400 links pointing at that biatch according to Google.

Interesting. I didn't do any homework on the article. So thanks for pointing that out.

Originally Posted by Jeremy Kelsall

In a perfect world, you are probably right. However, consider that you can throw an article together for a keyword like "lose belly fat" and be on the front page of Google in 7 hours an sometimes with no linking on your part.

Your own site, unless it has some age and a decent internal linking structure doesn't stand a chance of doing that in any short amount of time.

Of course it is always great to get your own site up there too, but I'll definitely take a quick first page ranking while I wait for my own site to work it's way up which sometimes can take a couple of months to do. In the interim, I'm still making sales every day simply because of the fact that the EZA domain already has such a tremendous amount of trust with Google that they in many cases articles rank well without any effort.

Good points. Thank you.

Originally Posted by adamv

Getting an article ranking well in the serps will get you a ton of traffic. You could put the article on your own site or blog first but if you start a new blog and post an article on EZA on the same day and do the exact same backlinking to each, guess which one will reach a higher ranking in a shorter time period.

That's what I plan to do.

I'm in the middle of creating my own product. In the meantime I was going to start posting articles to start building a list. My plan was to post the articles to my blog first (3 months old), let them get indexed, THEN post them to EZA. I just have a hard time with the fact that I am helping to build EZA and not my own site. Hence me wanting to get my articles indexed first on my own site.


Jeremy's posts have opened my eyes to a few new things in ways of getting traffic via EZA by posting articles about embarassing subjects and using resource boxes/headlines that will get people to click.

I have an article in mind right now that I am going to write that will be controversial. But again, I plan to post it to my blog first and then to EZA.

What do you guys think of that? Smart thing to do, or do I have my "facts" wrong about the whole indexing on my blog first then posting to EZA?

Thank you.

[JakeDaly]

Always giving back, Jeremy.. good man.

[bhopkins]

Jermy pretty much laid it out well, but I'll add Keyword research is key along with promoting CPA offers. Once you get the process worked out just scale it up. At some point you will likely have to start paying others to write articles, but that is not a big deal as you should be making plenty of cash from the offers.

One hint, tell a story and conversions are better. Write an advertisement and they normally suck.

[pheonix44]

The chances of a Web 2.0 site being deleted are sometimes good. Especially with competitors trying to attack you by reporting you for some bogus stuff to hubpages, or wordpress.com etc... So we use them strictly as PageRank machines with networks we build from them and push up our main money sites with the power they begin to have after we backlink the hell out of them too.

This is what I have been doing, I found that it is safer to mass link to these sites because they have a lesser chance of being sandboxed. I typically do not do that type of linking to my main site, especially if it is new.

[Shellfish]

Originally Posted by lilgrace

I really believe the true figures that size are kept to themselves.

Aint that the truth

[rebel-1234]

I looked at the article you gave as an example Jeremy and it was there now when I look the article is deleted what happened??

[Cryp]

Hey Jeremy, how did you find that article with over 2,000,000 views in the first place?
Keep up the good stuff

[feefondo]

This is a great thread but what would happen if every member on this forum was making 10 grand a month? Can you say saturation!

[Sissy76]

Originally Posted by Jeremy Kelsall

lol - did you forget the penis enlargement ones?

Want to make your member a monster with nothing but your bare hands? CLICK HERE!!

Ha! That deserves an award Jeremy! Total classic!

Sissy

[Liam Hamer]

Jeremy knows his stuff Buying his article marketing WSO a few weeks ago completely changed the way I approach the whole thing and some of my articles are now getting 30%+ CTR, and leading to sales. Just yesterday I made 3 CB sales, all as a result of EZA. I really haven't backlinked my articles much yet though, from reading this thread it has reminded me just how powerful it can be. I went through some of my recently approved articles, and one with a keyword term that gets 500 searches(for the exact term) daily is sitting on page 2 at number 15, and one with 100 daily searches is sitting on page 2 at number 17. I'm definitely going to concentrate on building backlinks to them now. BTW, the first one of those two is getting around a 50% CTR. Listen to people in the know like Jeremy and take action. The money is out there just waiting for us - go and get it, I know I'm going to

[clever7]

You are only going to make money through article writing if you’ll find first of all a huge number of potential customers interested in the products you are promoting. If you won’t find people that will buy what you are trying to sell, you won’t make money online, even if you’ll use PPC, and the most powerful advertising methods.

This means that first of all you indispensably need to find your specific customers, and only then, find the best products to promote: you have to give them exactly what they want to buy.

If you have this mindset, everything else is easier. Article marketing is a great free method that you must use to drive traffic to your sites, and to convince your readers that your products are really good. And there are many other free methods that can help you the same way. You only have to find the right people to promote to, and the right products.

[James Pateman]

Hi Mihye,

I hear you. When people mention these dollar amounts, its easy to be skeptical, I felt the same way. What I've found is that what makes all the difference is when you can actually talk with someone who has done it themselves. Then the belief comes, and with the belief comes the motivation learn for yourself.

All-the-best,
James Pateman

[mdotwhite]

$10K a month is definitely possible. First you have to believe you can do it, then you have to take massive action.

[newBum76]

Originally Posted by zerofill

As far as the question about changing anchor text ect..someone asked. The best way to do it that Jeremy and I have seen...As far as ranking well on say a 300 word article is to put the keyword in the title and once in the resource box as a link...and then we throw a click here link in too...

But often the article content won't even have the phrase in it...We have been experimenting...

Ok let me get this straight.....

So you're saying that the keyword phrase you're tying to get the ARTICLE ranked for, and not the landing page it points to, goes in only 2 places in the article - once in the title, then once again in the resource box as anchor text linking to your landing page........but NOT in the actual body of the article at all?

As I'm sure you're aware, this goes against a lot of info I've seen about putting keywords in the article body (once every 100 words), so just want to make sure I'm clear on this.

Also, I've always been under the assumption that you link to your landing page with the keyword you're trying to get the landing page ranked for, not the article.

But then again if we're just worried about ranking the article in google, not necessarily the landing page, this makes sense.

So Jeremy or Don, can you confirm this?

I have a feeling this little bit of info could be a huge hidden gem. I think I'll be doing my own experimenting.....

Thanks for all the great info guys!

-Jon