Article Marketing, Am I doing it wrong way?

Those numbers aren't large enough to give you a true impression of what's going on, yet.

Do not give up.

It won't happen overnight and I'm sure you know the amount of work involved is rarely mentioned.

Give it time and you will get there, if I can do it, anybody can do it. Keep focused and don't let early stats put you off your goals.

First of all, that CTR is nowhere near the level it should be at. That wouldn't help (I'm just trying to help =P).

Secondly, as lovelylou said; you haven't received enough traffic to your links yet. Wait until you hit 500 or 1000 hops before making any educated guesses.

Good luck!

-Aidan.

- Your CTR is below average IMHO.

- Are you offering free info in your bio box??

- You've got a lot of content buddy!

You can...

- Take you content and expand them to other...

- article directories
- web 2.0 sites
- use them on blogs

Check this thread out...

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ing-rocks.html

All The Best!!

TL

210 articles and 492 hops is definitely enough content and activity to determine whether your EZA campaign is effective... and clearly it is not.

To continue to keep doing what you're doing is going to get you more of the same results... and you'll burn out because you're not making any progress.

My suggestion?

Stop submitting articles to EZA until you revamp your approach. Again, you should definitely be making sales by now with that many articles and hops. And I find it rather odd that you have 14 order form impressions without any sales yet (oh boy, is it the notorious CB tracking/shaving issue at work again?). I average 1 conversion out of every 3 order form impressions.

I think you should post a sample or two of your articles here so we can help you with some tips. (You could even pm me with a couple samples and I'll try to help).

As others have said, your CTR could definitely be boosted considerably. You'd be surprised what a few quick adjustments will make.

Just want to be sure that you generally means 210+ live articles on EZA and not even 1 sale?

Okay, first.. give a pat on yourself for a well done persistent effort. 200+ original articles are a lot.

2ndly, the first product with 285 hops is definitely a loser. Drop it and substitute with another one of the same nature. Do not make the change on your EZA articles, but the landing page you are using (hope you made one) or if you are using domain redirect, just make it to redirect to another similar product.

3rdly, check to see the most viewed articles on EZA on how articles are being written. Focus on the title, article style and resource box. You'll learn a lot from those guys.

Well, good luck! Just keep doing it. Don't give up.

When a product has high gravity like the "panic attack" type product I like to see which sites are linking in. Sometimes a single website or blog can produce 50-75% of the sales which means the high gravity % is a little inaccurate.

Instead of using the clickbank marketplace I tend to evaluate products using cbengine. You get quality info, graphs and more importantly affiliate comments. If you take a look at the "maverickmoneymakers" comments, there's a shed load of people that purchased the product first and in turn became affiliates. When you've got so many affiliates promoting a product (especially with EZA) then potential purchasers are probably gonna do lots of market research before purchasing the product. Hence, lots of hops and very little sales!

Are any of your Articles showing up at the top of the search results in google for your given keyword?

I go a little against the grain here. I noticed some Top EZA publishers were using hyperlinks at the bottom of the article instead of the author box like 99% of other article marketers out there. I changed my article resource box and noticed my CTR shoot through the roof.

Not too sure why? I guess if the top guys used it and it works, that's good enough for me

Tip for conversions: If you write lots of articles rotate the "keyword" hyperlink and "click here". I found "click here" gets more clicks. Obviously, you wouldn't want to use this with each and every article, so it's best to rotate them (for seo).

If you're in a competitive niche and your competition write lots of articles then you're gonna have to write lots of articles too I'm affraid.

I try to publish my articles mid week so that they're in the "recently published" list at the weekend when you get the most views. I can normally bump other articles off that list that were submitted earlier in the week.

If it then sneaks into the "most viewed list" I try to build backlinks to help it along the way.

First of all, did I read this right? You're getting 2-3 hops per article? Yikes. It's not even worth the effort. Better to build sites with that content or sell it off. Think about it. At 2-3 hops per article, you could instead sell the article for say $5 and buy 5 direct hops via AdWords for $1 a pop, which is already a huge increase.

Or are people going to your site from EZA first and from there you're getting a couple clicks to the money?

Here's something else to think about (seeing as you're getting hops, but no sales).

Do the CB products you are promoting have EMAIL list forms or popups on them? If so, this could be costing you money. Just my own preference here, but I won't promote any product where my valued traffic has an opportunity to be taken out of the buying state, sucked into an email list I don't own and lose out as other products/services that I don't get credit for are shoved down their throats.

Best of luck

Try being more personal in your articles... I see a lot of people just pushing out articles left and right and when you read them it sounds like you're talking to a drone... People aren't going to buy from an emotionless robot.

Be more emotional, be funny, be like a friend.

Promote niches you are passionate about and have a lot of exp in. For instants, I have over 25 years exp in rehabbing houses. I know which tools and material to use for each job I do. If I were to write articles about a particular tool i use every day that is not easily found in retail outlets, do you think I'd be able to sell that tool? Absolutely I would because I know every inch of that tool. I know how long it will last, what it will do and how to use it and I'd explain all that in the articles I write. I'd set up a blog and link my articles to it rater than a landing page, that way a person interested in the product you are promoting can ask you questions if they are on the fence about whether to buy or not.

That's my two cents

Try something other than Clickbank products.. I bet you'll have more success.

EzineArticles I'm mostly using to build lists... Because it pre-qualifies them to be interested in the niche and you get higher conversions on your Squeeze pages. I've also done the "domain redirect to affiliate links" and still make sales each month from old articles, but the best method is still to build a list. Much better ROI, and you can "do whatever you want with them"...

I did a blog post about why you absolutely must have an autoresponder and why not having one is like robbing yourself... If you have any type of traffic an autoresponder is essential.

Also are you writing in a good enough format?

Seems like you aren't really getting a good CTR (mentioned)?

Power headline:

50 words intro (promoting why to read the article with 1-2 BIG benefits)

50 words para

50 words para

50 words para

50 words para

50 words summary

Resource box.

Try that.

- Chris