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

[newBum76]

Originally Posted by Allen Graves

I'm testing it now. Don't want to say anything until/unless I get conclusive results.

There are 2 or 3 different ways I am testing out right now. Very intriguing, indeed.

Just waiting for indexing/ranking.

Allen

Can't wait to hear your results!

I'm doing some testing of my own too, hopefully I'll see some good rankings, we'll see...

[Alevoor]

Originally Posted by Allen Graves

I can confirm this. Don and Jeremy are correct in their statement that you don't need to have the keyword phrase in the title or body anymore.

There is a way to get Google to recognize your targeted keyword phrase without having to concentrate on placing the phrase within the article.

Allen

Intriguing, very much.
Less because of curiosity but more because of the need for it as long as you can follow the proven good ol' method and keep Google happy. No offense, I am not questioning the wisdom of having it, but not quite convinced of its need

[Allen Graves]

Originally Posted by Alevoor

Intriguing, very much.
Less because of curiosity but more because of the need for it as long as you can follow the proven good ol' method and keep Google happy. No offense, I am not questioning the wisdom of having it, but not quite convinced of its need

I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

But when you start seeing tons of traffic from a keyword phrase you weren't even targeting, you'd be convinced.

Now, if we can figure out exactly what is happening and take advantage, I think it will work well - as long as we continue to provide killer content and not flood the internet pool with more crap.

Allen

[MoneyPlus]

Yes, it is possible to make $10,000/m article marketing.
Here is how one person did it (I'm quoting him)...

How did I do it?

First of all, I have been plugging away at it for over 3 years.
Second, I have been very aggressive about achieving it.

I remember when I first started writing articles, I would look
to see how many articles I needed to get on the first page
of the author results.

And so that was my first goal (I needed about 800 or so to do that,
if my memory serves me correctly).

Then my next goal was to get "above the fold" on that page
(I needed about 1300 or so to get there).

Then literally one by one, I would write enough articles to
surpass the next person on the list.

Of course, in the meantime, I have generated about $400k in revenue
from my articles, become number one in many article categories.
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So, I guess it's possible (but not easy). Good Luck to ALL.

[lilgrace]

Wow...800-1300 articles to get to the first page? Were there any keywords in the articles? I just think that is a really large amount of articles...many people here do it in even less than 20 articles depending on the keyword your after. I think people reading that number may be turned right off article marketing.

[John Burton]

Yes there are plenty of people who make 10,000 dollars per month as an article marketer. I am fortunate enough to be one of them. The trick is to build yourself to that level, so you have a system in place in at least four niche markets. I currently have seven sites in different areas. Last month they brought in 13,000 dollars. IT CAN BE DONE. It just takes hard work and passion.

John Burton

[JT0713]

Originally Posted by Bayo

The answer is you can but you need to combine article marketing with list building and affiliate (and or your own) product promotion

Main issue?

Many people lack the discipline to follow through and get results.

Great post Jeremy, 10K is my goal as well. But, I definitely need som discipline...


I think lack of discipline is a major problem people encounter when they first started on internet.

Also, there are many perfectionist out there (try to sort out everything perfectly before they mak their moves.)

[nettech]

Congrats John thats absolutely awesome.

Just a quick question, where does the majority of the income come from? Is it affiliates/adsense/others etc? Just want to know where to focusmy energies?

Also, how long did it take you to acheive this and how many articles content do you need to write in order to sustain this level of income?

Thanks and congrats again, its wonderful to hear people's success stories!

Originally Posted by John Burton

Yes there are plenty of people who make 10,000 dollars per month as an article marketer. I am fortunate enough to be one of them. The trick is to build yourself to that level, so you have a system in place in at least four niche markets. I currently have seven sites in different areas. Last month they brought in 13,000 dollars. IT CAN BE DONE. It just takes hard work and passion.

John Burton

[owenlee]

Originally Posted by John Burton

Yes there are plenty of people who make 10,000 dollars per month as an article marketer. I am fortunate enough to be one of them. The trick is to build yourself to that level, so you have a system in place in at least four niche markets. I currently have seven sites in different areas. Last month they brought in 13,000 dollars. IT CAN BE DONE. It just takes hard work and passion.

John Burton

Hi,...

What kind of landing pages did you use for the articles?

Thanks

[KatyaSenina]

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

Wow I'm going to put this into action RIGHT NOW
Can't believe that you're giving this stuff away for free...

EDIT I've learned more out of this post than from some of what these fancy gurus are teaching

[CDarklock]

Originally Posted by KatyaSenina

Can't believe that you're giving this stuff away for free...

It's a loss leader. Check his WSOs. If you think the free stuff is good...

[KatyaSenina]

Originally Posted by CDarklock

It's a loss leader. Check his WSOs. If you think the free stuff is good...

I certainly don't doubt that he knows his stuff... I will definitely check them out

[JAIDEEP2959]

You can use long tail keywords which has low competition in your articles. It will help your articles to rank higher in search engines.

It is better to give free gift using opt-in form through the resource box to collect more leads. You can sell your products or affiliate products to those subscribers.

For $10,000 a month, you need to write many articles on many niches.

Good Luck.

[rapsolo]

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

Jeremy, that was a great post. Particularly, the aspect of niche selection and research. It is indeed insightful. Please, do complete this post because we really need to tap into your wealth of experience.

Yes, when Jeremy speaks, people should listen good.

Rapheal

[rapsolo]

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

Jeremy, that was a great post. Particularly, the aspect of niche selection and research. It is indeed insightful. Please, do complete this post because we really need to tap into your wealth of experience.

Yes, when Jeremy speaks, people should listen good.

Rapheal

[Dave d]

Great post Jeremy,

Ive only just realised the power of AM lately. Ok here is my experience lately. About a year ago when I first starte IM I bought One Week Marketing and basically wrote six articles stuck 3 on Ezine using a redirect and 3 on squidoo and threw a few backlinks at them nothing major though as I was clueless then.

Clickbank commissions so far over $500. With $150 in the last week and I know I will get more sales. Now I know a lot of folk will say whats the big deal in taking a whole year to make $500 but that fact of the matter is it took me a few days to write the articles and throw a few basic backlinks at them, there was no effort put in to them and I have never even looked at them since. I know quite a bit more about IM now so can you imagine if I scaled this up and actually put some effort in to it which is what I will be doing very soon.

Dave

[Fraserb]

From what I understand, the trick is to write an article for many sites promoting your site / sites at the end of each arrticle, so for example if you write 10 articles for 10 sites each week and you promote say the same affiliate site eac time you are bound to get the hits....

Just a thought.

Fraser
:-)

[cashmasterr]

yes its probable..but you need to be an experienced article marketer !

[TimD]

Originally Posted by kevinpotts

The honest answer is Yes and No. Clearly, anything is just about achievable with focus, action and talent.

I think the response to this question really needs to be broadended to say that Article Marketing is a powerful and essential component within any IM's tool box. But it is only a component.

To take one model (and there are many) as an example:

1. Identify a niche ( a hungry group of potential customers)

2. Register a congruent and relevant domain name for that niche.

3. Create a quality free product (resource report, newsletter etc)

4. Get a great Autoresponder (Email Marketing Software, Email Newsletters and Autoresponders by AWeber or Shopping Cart Software | Ecommerce Software - Interspire etc)

5. Build a series of relationship building emails to convert the prospect once you've captured them.

6. Build a simple one page web site with capture field from your autoresponder for First name and email address and make sure the web site is highly relevant.

7. Drive traffic, squeeze via your site, provide the free product, start to build a relationship via your automatic email series and at the right time, introduce them to a paid, quality product, be this your own or as an affiliate.

So article marketing really figures in point 7, and is one of many SEO, traffic driving strategies.

During my first year, after founding the Cambridge Business Academy I spent a couple of hours every day, writing and submitting articles. Over a year I guess that was about 500 articles, but I submitted them with tweaks and adjustments to a list of around 150 article sites and those articles went viral, each from a well ranked article site, each with a One Way Link back to the academy and each therefore contributing to my first 7 months income when I only have just one product....those prospects were turned into 1507 paying customers and just over £189,000 of income, which paid for my film studio in my backgarden.

So the answer is yes. But you need to follow a model, be disciplined, learn the craft, and take action, each and every day.

Kevin

I'm with Kevin on this. I've got about 350 articles up in the past 5 months or so. My experience is that people screw up with article marketing by thinking of it as ARTICLE marketing instead of article MARKETING.

What I mean is, choose your keywords carefully and then promote the heck out of your articles.

I wrote 118 articles on one topic and drove lots of traffic to a merchant who made me 1 sale every 102 visitors almost like clockwork. But none of the articles stuck. So all the work went to nothing.

On the other hand, I wrote 40 articles on another topic, linked to them, did social bookmarking, submitted articles to link to the effective articles. Ended up dominating 8 of the 15 top spots on EzineArticles for that category. And those 8 articles still make me money today.

Don't get it backwards. The article is the beginning. But you've got to promote.

[TimD]

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

I've got to call you on this Jeremy.

I've written on yeast infections and I've found it hard to get any traction at all. I've had titles that get great views "You Put Yogurt Where?" is mine and it attracted a lot of views and a good amount of click through (seems to me it was roughly 30% CTR) early on. And then faded immediately.

I got copies of the products (not just the top but the top two) and created a good review site. Nothing. People didn't click through (and I've had great success doing that in other niches). So I offered a free ebook and free yeast infection diet. Still, no takers. People didn't even download them.

When I contacted the merchant, they said - yes, it's a very competitive market. My judgment was that there is so much free information out there that people are very reluctant to buy.

Even David (David, so sorry I blanked on your last name), the fellow who wrote conversations with Travis, doesn't try to do article marketing in "get your ex back" without an autoresponder. And Ian Hollander over at Karmic Consulting has had great success in the "pick up chicks" niche but not without an autoresponder. He also freely admits that articles for a niche like "pick up chicks" only have traction for about 48-72 hours unless you write in the very long tail.

So, I cringe when I see experienced warriors putting up "three steps to success" posts that set up eager new comers to go out and bust their cans not knowing how the game works. They can write a ton of articles with scintillating titles and provocative resource boxes and just exhaust themselves and wonder what they're doing wrong.

The stuff that you say "is talked about so often that it should be for the most part common knowledge" is often the difference between success and plugging away at something doomed to failure. I hate to see it downplayed.

[GeorgR.]

Originally Posted by alohaoahu1978

Article marketer,is this a realistic figure? Can you really make $10,000 a month or is just
another dream? And if you do,how do you do it?

Thanks,

Mihye

VOLUME <----

Like 30+ articles/day, various writers...good articles and well selling products. Optimized articles, keyword research. I can see this might work. Not making $10.000 yet..but then my article volume is also relatively low.

[Tom Turner]

Originally Posted by alohaoahu1978

Article marketer,is this a realistic figure? Can you really make $10,000 a month or is just
another dream? And if you do,how do you do it?

Thanks,

Mihye

You make much more than 10K per month using articles to market with.

You want a few different accounts.

You will do all your article writing at first to get started, but as soon as you have some money coming in you start outsourcing articles too and continue writing.

NOTE: You need the right business model to really make the BIG bucks with article marketing.

Articles are my number one source for marketing!

Yes, it really works.

Tom

[Jeremy Kelsall]

Originally Posted by TimD

I've got to call you on this Jeremy.

I don't really see where you "called me" on anything...you just added to it

Originally Posted by TimD

I've written on yeast infections and I've found it hard to get any traction at all. I've had titles that get great views "You Put Yogurt Where?" is mine and it attracted a lot of views and a good amount of click through (seems to me it was roughly 30% CTR) early on. And then faded immediately.

The question is, do you know why that happened?

I'm interested to know whether you do or not....I do.

Originally Posted by TimD

I got copies of the products (not just the top but the top two) and created a good review site. Nothing. People didn't click through (and I've had great success doing that in other niches). So I offered a free ebook and free yeast infection diet. Still, no takers. People didn't even download them.

We do very well with Yeast infection ebooks...so much so that we put our own product up on clickbank...It is a very good niche...and a high converting one too.

So, you had a "free report" and nobody wanted to download it? That sounds like a copy issue...If people clicked through to the page...obviously they were interested...Your copy just didn't convert them.

Originally Posted by TimD

When I contacted the merchant, they said - yes, it's a very competitive market. My judgment was that there is so much free information out there that people are very reluctant to buy.

Sure, it is a competitive market, but as I said, we have found it to be a very profitable niche...

Originally Posted by TimD

Even David (David, so sorry I blanked on your last name), the fellow who wrote conversations with Travis, doesn't try to do article marketing in "get your ex back" without an autoresponder. And Ian Hollander over at Karmic Consulting has had great success in the "pick up chicks" niche but not without an autoresponder. He also freely admits that articles for a niche like "pick up chicks" only have traction for about 48-72 hours unless you write in the very long tail.

Nobody said you shouldn't get an autoresponder. But, telling someone "get an autoresponder" is almost like saying drive traffic with ADwords.

How?
Why?
On which ones?

Would you have an autoresponder if you were pimping acai berries? I know I wouldn't...

Originally Posted by TimD

So, I cringe when I see experienced warriors putting up "three steps to success" posts that set up eager new comers to go out and bust their cans not knowing how the game works. They can write a ton of articles with scintillating titles and provocative resource boxes and just exhaust themselves and wonder what they're doing wrong.

So, your saying that I was wrong?

That's your opinion...I've made a crap load of money with what was outlined above... WITHOUT AN AUTORESPONDER. ARticles+SEO = Lots of traffic.

Originally Posted by TimD

The stuff that you say "is talked about so often that it should be for the most part common knowledge" is often the difference between success and plugging away at something doomed to failure. I hate to see it downplayed.

Tim, it was a forum post...Not an ebook.

For me to map out my whole "system" I would probably be 75+ pages and 10 videos deep...i wasn't trying to give a road map - I was trying to give some information on the subject.

For others in the thread that have asked questions...I'm not purposely ignoring your questions. I've purposely stayed out of this thread so that the mods don't take it as me being promotional. I don't want to see the thread deleted.

Jeremy

[tomsmart80]

umm
goog question
now is it possible to actually make $1,000,000 a month IM
and if you are tells us how

[freudianslip27]

Webmind,

I'd suggest looking at other landing pages for the product that you want a landing page for, and creating your own. It may be a struggle the first time, but the knowledge you learn will be invaluable.

And once you've got a landing page you are happy with, you can easily make minor changes to have it go into other niches.

I've created one page sites that are lander pages, and when that niche works out for me, expand things. Its a nice way to play the field without investing TOO much time.

Matt

[tomsmart80]

don't forget the rss bit too

[neo3006]

Hi, just looking at this article helps me alot i think alot and will be looking at some things, thanks Jeremy and others for our help and helpful tips for the noobies like myself.

[Christian Fox]

There are ways to really make article marketing pay. I have learned most of the best ways are kept under wraps. Cant say I blame anyone either.

Obviously it works, just not for everyone and that is good for those who MAKE it work.

[jbode]

IMO most people do article marketing ineffectively

If you want more traffic to your sites you need to make short compelling articles...
in a fast systematic way

[ocd]

This is so cool. Granted I'm new but I've been writing articles on 9 blogs I started since mid Oct. I see now (eyes WIDE open) that I've been concentrating on putting out volumes of crap.

I learned two very distinct points from this thread:

1. How to find a niche. I took Jeremy's idea and ran with it big time.

2. Now I get to mess with people's head in my articles to incite them to action based on emotions and physical need.

Thank you Jeremy very, VERY much.

[ocd]

The question I have is do I really need a website? Can I just get a domain (or even a sub-domain), write some serious content and link it back to my affiliate or CPA?

If so, then how do I backlink that individual page?


Thanks everyone!

[kevinfar]

The thing to remember that having a site will mean that the content is really YOUR OWN. On another website, the site can experience difficulties and have to close down or anything negative can happen.

Though not usually something that happens, nothing is sure when your content is on another person's website, so I would invest in my own website if I was serious about such a project.

CHeers,
Kevin

[himanuzo]

Yes, $10,000/mo with article marketing is possible! You must have thousands of articles then submit them to hundreds of article directories.

[petec]

Jeremy do you write Titles and resource boxes for other people. The best I have seen. I laughed for a long while, still puts a smile on my face.
Pete

[Nickolie0990]

Yeah you can, but you must put in the work. You don't have to write/submit the articles, but it will take time to get up to that level of income.

[paulie888]

Originally Posted by MoneyPlus

Yes, it is possible to make $10,000/m article marketing.
Here is how one person did it (I'm quoting him)...

How did I do it?

First of all, I have been plugging away at it for over 3 years.
Second, I have been very aggressive about achieving it.

I remember when I first started writing articles, I would look
to see how many articles I needed to get on the first page
of the author results.

And so that was my first goal (I needed about 800 or so to do that,
if my memory serves me correctly).

Then my next goal was to get "above the fold" on that page
(I needed about 1300 or so to get there).

Then literally one by one, I would write enough articles to
surpass the next person on the list.

Of course, in the meantime, I have generated about $400k in revenue
from my articles, become number one in many article categories.
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So, I guess it's possible (but not easy). Good Luck to ALL.

This is a great illustration of the step-by-step process he went through to reach 5 figures a month via just article marketing. It isn't easy, and it definitely isn't attainable overnight. What he did though was to break it into several easier steps that were more concrete and feasible, and this is what I feel everyone should do with major goals in IM.

It's just a little too abstract to view some huge defining goal without having some kind of framework to it, and this is what these little steps provide.

[George Langer]

I wonder if this is still possible in 2011. Don't you think that article marketing commpetion has grown recently and it is getting more difficult to get traffic this way?
Best regards
George

[acting coachs]

Yes, I would be interested in hearing about some metrics to plan and measure milestones.

[Emoney]

I'll have to agree that you can probably hit at least $5k/month within 1 year if you write and submit 10 articles a day for 365 days, you'll have over 3,600 articles. Each targeting 1 or multiple niche markets.

Personally I have only submitted 70 articles on EZA and like 10 articles on GoArticles and about 20 posts on my blog (which has backlinks from the EZA articles, and social networking sites, etc.)

I haven't worked on my business for the last 18 months, but this whole time I was consistently earning ~$200/month on autopilot and have banked over $2,000 during my off time, I have another $150 check coming soon from clickbank.

I'm coming back full swing since I'm now done with college (wow what an evil hindrance, and I'm not planning to work for anybody!)

I know it sounds crazy and "impossible" but you can't really fail if you have so many articles linking to either your affiliate product or your blog (which is filled with rich content and more affiliate offers)

My advice: build backlinks to your blog using anchor texts, it's the best way to get #1 on Google in the long run.

The biggest problem people have is they want immediate results. Just keep at it for 1 full year, stay focused, do your keyword research, produce rich content around those keywords, and you really can't fail. Just think of it that way, you really can't fail with so many backlinks directing to your site/blog.

[lowkey786]

great post Jeremy i learnt a few things there that I'm gonna put into action.

[myob]

Originally Posted by George Langer

I wonder if this is still possible in 2011. Don't you think that article marketing commpetion has grown recently and it is getting more difficult to get traffic this way?
Best regards
George

It's actually even much easier using Jeremy's ideas since the Panda update. Quality has always trumped quantity, and this is more evident now than ever before. The only thing I would add is an article marketing strategy I have been using in all of my stiffly competitive niches. It's what I call the "Hitching a Ride" strategy; nothing really new, but quite powerful and highly effective.

Find relevant high-authority sites that rank in the top 1-3 of SERPS for your keywords, and contact the site owners to syndicate your articles there. This is nearly as effective as being in the top 10 or even page one yourself, but without all the hard work and time. Having your articles on such high PR sites will drive highly convertable traffic and quality backlinks very quickly as you continue to build your own site to rank.

[Skalje]

So much useful information in here, now I need to just get started....

[Christie Love]

I've gotten half way there a little over a year ago with article marketing. I won't tell you it was an easy task. But, here's what I did...

1. Find a niche
2. Write (at least) 5 "excellent" articles and post on Ezine Articles each day. (7 days a week)
3. Send a link to a CPA landing page or your own blog that links to a CPA offer from the resource box.

That's about it.

The key is proper keyword search and formatting your article in a way that gives the reader a reason to click on the Resource Box for more information.

~Christie

[chrislangley]

To make $10,000 a month with article marketing takes into consideration several factors, the niche you are in, and the ability to be able to churn out articles en masse

[JeremiahSay]

Article Marketing can no doubt earn you $10,000 per month. The question is how much time and money are you willing to invest in order to receive $10,000 per month.

5 hours n $100 a day for 3 months?
4 hours n $80 a day for 4 months?

If you can write your own article. That's good! you save the money part If not, you just need to hire someone to do it.

God Bless,
Jeremiah

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by kreistik

it's a dream..you need more than blogging

I'm not sure that even that's necessarily true, but even if it is, that's perhaps why article marketing is being discussed, rather than blogging.

It often seems to me, reading this forum, that the primary requisite for making a living through article marketing (and one so often missing in people who try), is understanding the difference between article marketing and article directory marketing.

Unfortunately, many people who think they understand the basics (and quite a few who habitually offer others advice about them) simply don't understand the basics. That translates very directly into one's ability to earn a living from it.

How do Article Directories work?

Making $10,000+ per month from article marketing has nothing to do with the ability to churn out articles en masse. It's possible to earn that - even in competitive niches - from small numbers of articles. What determines the income is mostly knowing how to use the articles (and what sort of articles are needed), not how many of them there are. I write only about 25 articles per month, and earn far more than this from them.

[Takiyo]

Lots of research with a good tool and lots of writing or a quality team of writers to produce good content for your different web properties. I'm not there yet so time to get back to it!

[SarahZT]

Excellent advice Jeremy! Though definitely have to agree with Vyliss, i.e. they stumbling block for more newbies is actually getting started and doing things.

Also, don't expect for things to work and be right from the start - you will make mistakes and some things won't work... but you have to keep AT IT to make IT! Learn from your own mistakes and keep on getting better.

[JB Jiles]

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Making $10,000+ per month from article marketing has nothing to do with the ability to churn out articles en masse. It's possible to earn that - even in competitive niches - from small numbers of articles. What determines the income is mostly knowing how to use the articles (and what sort of articles are needed), not how many of them there are. I write only about 25 articles per month, and earn far more than this from them.

Well, based on what I read of your stuff here, your writing is something that is specifically suited to this way of earning a living. Writers who can churn out high quality content as quickly as you seem to be able to are a rare sort. Even one article a day, if it is something that can be syndicated widely, is quite a bit, and maybe you take the talents you possess for granted. I don't know.

The mistake, I would guess, that many people make who try and fail at syndicating their content, the way you explain what you do, is not recognizing they they do not possess these same talents. Or the inability or unwillingness to purchase the content from someone who can consistently write compelling content - not just for the articles, but for the landing pages and email messages.

Talking about people who attempt to "market" their articles by submitting to article directories for short-term traffic and/or backlinks is not even worth discussing. Tell me one person who does that successfully. I'd like to hear it.

[JB Jiles]

Originally Posted by WebtoolMaster

Hi,

aarticle maketing traffic is an own story. But when you learn how you bring computers for you 24/7 to work than it is much more.
This traffic business is very interesting, software then seo power tool or wtm submitter by webtoolmaster.com can make lot of them possible.

Looks to me as if you need to brush up on your spamming skills. Get that down and then come back with your broken English to advise on the finer points of article marketing.