Article Marketing Confusion

[Citre]

I'm a newbie bum marketer who seems to be having a little bit of a struggle. I have about 716 hops with 2 sales. The first 345 hops were from a faulty product that didn't get me a single sale, until I switched to something better. So, I guess I'm converting at 1:185 if you ignore my first campaign; I'm not sure if this is good or not.

Moving onto my questions: I've been reading about people who write 5-10 articles everyday. Do they promote every single article that gets published or only certain ones? And how do they find so many keywords? Shouldn't you eventually exhaust your list in just a few days if you're pumping out so many?

In order to test a new product, is it unwise to just forward to the vendor page? How many articles should I write (or hops to receive) before giving up on a product?

Thanks a lot, guys. I'm sure I'll have more questions as the thread progresses.

[Tony Dean]

Wow! That was a lot of questions.

About going straight to the vendors page - most marketers will agree it is better to set up a landing page on your own site first - with an opt-in to capture emails. Give them a review of the product and then let them click thru to the vendor.

[redrossero]

Well, you have to send 1000 hops and see eventually how the product converts. You cannot say just from the first 185 hops. Sometimes sales comes in batches. However, my question is this: How many things can you say about a niche to write 10,20 articles per day? This is overkill. So choose your keywords wisely because a good keyword in an article can bring you the same traffic as 20 articles. I have some articles with thousands of views and I didn't lift a finger to put them backlinks. Other times I work hard and get them backlinks for nothing. You get the picture.

[Traffic_Is_King]

If your going to write that many articles to a clickbank product try to setup your own landing page to collect opt-ins. If you don't, you are actually building a list for the vendor. At least get the opt-ins so you can promote your stuff to the list after you build a relationship with them.

As far as giving up on the product. For me the fastest way to test if a vendors page will convert is with ppc. Doing it organically with articles takes a long time and if your not building a list you are wasting time and your efforts.

If you Google "Seven things to check before promoting a clickbank product". It will take you to a blog that offers some good tips to know when you are promoting a clickbank product. Hope this helps.

[pharris1]

In regards to finding keywords there are alot of methods to choose from. Here's what I do: use Wordtracker to find keywords or keyword phrases. Depending on what words you search you could get 100 responses. Take the first twenty and search them one at a time in Google Adwords. This will give you the search volume per month and other data. I try to find keywords that have a search volume between 15K and 20k. Once I've identified those keywords I type them into Google in quotes. This will give you the number of competing pages. I try to find keywords that have competing pages around 15K. You can use keywords with less competition also. So you really want keywords or phrases that yield high search volume and low competition. This can help get your articles ranked for those keywords.

Using this method you could easily come up with 30 to 50 keywords in one sitting to write around. As someone mentioned earlier, focus on quality, not only quantity.

Hope this helps.

peter

[Sour]

Originally Posted by pharris1

In regards to finding keywords there are alot of methods to choose from. Here's what I do: use Wordtracker to find keywords or keyword phrases. Depending on what words you search you could get 100 responses. Take the first twenty and search them one at a time in Google Adwords. This will give you the search volume per month and other data. I try to find keywords that have a search volume between 15K and 20k. Once I've identified those keywords I type them into Google in quotes. This will give you the number of competing pages. I try to find keywords that have competing pages around 15K. You can use keywords with less competition also. So you really want keywords or phrases that yield high search volume and low competition. This can help get your articles ranked for those keywords.

Using this method you could easily come up with 30 to 50 keywords in one sitting to write around. As someone mentioned earlier, focus on quality, not only quantity.

Hope this helps.

peter

Maybe I'm just crazy, but how are you finding keywords with 15,000-20,000 searches a month and only 15,000 competing pages?