Tiffany Dow’s 30-Day Warrior Article Marketing Challenge

[Sell]

Article Marketing doesn't work, it does work, size and quality matters, the more links from articles and others sources the better. Funnel your new subscribers into your product.

[traceye]

Daily Results - Day 21

Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
Articles Submitted – 23, Live – 20, Article Views – 2826, Hops –414, Sales – 0

My Product: Blog Cash
Articles Submitted – 8, Live – 6, Views – 118, Clicks – 23, Sales – 2

Tracey

[Chris Hunter]

Originally Posted by traceye

Daily Results - Day 21

Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
Articles Submitted – 23, Live – 20, Article Views – 2826, Hops –414, Sales – 0

Tracey, are you redirecting this from your own domain? That's a lot of hops for no sales.

Maybe it's time to change the redirect to something else?

My Product: Blog Cash
Articles Submitted – 8, Live – 6, Views – 118, Clicks – 23, Sales – 2

Way to go! Looks like that's converting pretty good!

[traceye]

Originally Posted by Chris Hunter

Tracey, are you redirecting this from your own domain? That's a lot of hops for no sales.

Maybe it's time to change the redirect to something else?

Yep changed the redirect to a landing page about a week ago. To be fair about 300 of those hops was when I was direct linking and the rest from the landing page (which still doesn't seem to be converting that well so I'm looking to rework it on Monday when I have more time).

But as you can see it's easier for me to make sales with a topic I know about (my product) rather than someone elses (clickbank product).

[Jeremy123]

Thanks Hamid,

I think it is important what kind of article is submitted to EZA,
that is the first step to getting traffic to your landing page.

If people don't think the article is of any value then they
won't click thru.

Guess it is a matter of testing, but since you are successful
at it, that is why I was hoping you might share what style
of article you are submitting.

Guess another way is to research articles within EZA within
your niche and pay attention to the ones with the most views,
then write similar ones yourself.

[Allen Graves]

JUST OVER A WEEK TO GO! You guys are in the home stretch. Push push push...

AL

[Peggy Baron]

Day 21

In my new niche:

Live Articles - 3
Views - 323
Clicks - 64

These articles are only 2 days old.
That's an average 20% click thru rate. One of the articles actually had a 40% click thru.

Expecting sales to be forthcoming soon.

Peggy

[traceye]

Daily Results - Day 22

Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
Articles Submitted – 23, Live – 20, Article Views – 2974, Hops –417, Sales – 0

My Product: Blog Cash
Articles Submitted – 9, Live – 6, Views – 142, Clicks – 26, Sales – 2

Was nobody online yesterday? My views/clicks barely changed.

Tracey

[giftsolution]

I needed to take a break from articles on Friday and Saturday, but just finished uploading 6 articles, making it 2 for each day: one in each niche.

Here are my current stats:

Articles Submitted - 25
Articles Live - 18
Pending - 7
Article Views - 646
Ezine Publisher - 10
URL Clicks - 118

I wish I had more of the articles published in ezines, since that give extra exposure to hundreds, or sometimes thousands of subscribers. I know my articles are good, but wonder if there are specific titles/subjects within a niche that get more ezine owners to pick that article up.

Anyone here has had success having their articles picked up more often, or specific articles picked up by several ezine publishers, and willing to share their secrets?

[Peggy Baron]

Hi Adriana,
One thing I do is put an opt-in box on a page on one of my websites where I list lots of my articles. If anyone wants to be notifed when I post another article they can opt-in to be notified. I don't send them promotional emails (I have another opt-in box for that), only let them know when I've published another article in this particular field (the subject of my website). I usually don't notify them until I have at least 3 new articles to share.


Hey Traceye,
I've had the opposite results this weekend. Go figure! In fact, 16 more views since I just posted above. But it's about time since I've had such poor viewing results in this challenge up until now and I'll never catch up to your number of views.

Peggy

[successh]

Took a break over the weekend. Still no sales so I think I may have to change my landing page (which is a simple opt-in page).

Articles Submitted - 18
Articles Live - 14
Pending - 4
Total Article Views - 819
Total Ezine Publisher - 8
Total URL Clicks - 89
Total Opt-in - 6
Total Sales - 0

[giftsolution]

Originally Posted by Peggy Baron

One thing I do is put an opt-in box on a page on one of my websites where I list lots of my articles. If anyone wants to be notified when I post another article they can opt-in to be notified. I don't send them promotional emails (I have another opt-in box for that), only let them know when I've published another article in this particular field (the subject of my website). I usually don't notify them until I have at least 3 new articles to share.

Thanks Peggy, do you have a personal site where you have this opt-in box? Or do you put this it on each individual site?

[Peggy Baron]

Originally Posted by giftsolution

Thanks Peggy, do you have a personal site where you have this opt-in box? Or do you put this it on each individual site?

I just do it on one site. Obviously you don't want to do it for every little niche site because it takes some time. But if you have a "mothership" site and/or have narrow niche sites that can link back to it, it can make sense.

Peggy

[traceye]

Daily Results - Day 23

Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
Articles Submitted – 23, Live – 22, Article Views – 3026, Hops –426, Sales – 0

My Product: Blog Cash
Articles Submitted – 10, Live – 6, Views – 173, Clicks – 31, Sales – 2

Tracey

[Jeremy123]

Blog Cash seems to be doing well. Nice job.

[giftsolution]

Ughhh... I need to start submitting my articles earlier in the day: I just spent an hour submitting 2 already written articles, because I kept making mistakes.

Luckily, I am platinum already and tonight's mistakes won't put me out of business. I'll post updated stats tomorrow: I need to go and rest.

[giftsolution]

Originally Posted by Peggy Baron

I just do it on one site. Obviously you don't want to do it for every little niche site because it takes some time. But if you have a "mothership" site and/or have narrow niche sites that can link back to it, it can make sense.

Thanks a lot Peggy: very helpful.

[TiffanyDow]

Here's what I'm learning:

I got scattered and bored writing about buildmylens on a daily basis so I switched to the debt and credit niche. NO sales...these people are BROKE! lol (j/k the affiliate products may not convert well - obviously).

Then I started promoting my guide2ebooks site and sales DID increase for that since then but I have no way of knowing as I don't poll those customers. Sales of my Squidoo guide are increasing too.

Lesson: When you make a plan, stick to it. Don't get sidetracked like I did. I plan to go back to my roots.

Also, anyone know about this? Remember I bought the Premium membership on about Sept 25th? Well A few days ago, I knew I didn't want to renew it, so before I forgot, I went in and canceled the subscription. Well instead of letting me use up my month, it canceled it right then and there. I don't think I've ever bought a membership where they didn't go ahead and let you use up the portion you'd bought!

Now I feel ripped off
Tiff

[Hamida Harland]

Originally Posted by TiffanyDow

Also, anyone know about this? Remember I bought the Premium membership on about Sept 25th? Well A few days ago, I knew I didn't want to renew it, so before I forgot, I went in and canceled the subscription. Well instead of letting me use up my month, it canceled it right then and there. I don't think I've ever bought a membership where they didn't go ahead and let you use up the portion you'd bought!

Now I feel ripped off
Tiff

That's awful - I was considering whether or not to keep my premium membership as well, but I decided to hold on to it for another month. I wouldn't be at all happy about that though - I think you should contact support and complain.

[Allen Graves]

Originally Posted by Hamida Pall

That's awful - I was considering whether or not to keep my premium membership as well, but I decided to hold on to it for another month. I wouldn't be at all happy about that though - I think you should contact support and complain.

I definitely agree.

While this may be excused as yet another CS mistake, you should at the very least get your 1 month for 97 friggin dollars!

AL

[TiffanyDow]

I did complain - no reply yet! It's been a few days.

[Peggy Baron]

I hope you get your $97 worth Tiff!

Early Day 23

In my new niche:

Live Articles - 4
Views - 427
Clicks - 78
Sales - 1

Peggy

[kevin campbelle]

Originally Posted by TiffanyDow

I did complain - no reply yet! It's been a few days.

Wow you lost everything, even the speedy support.

Kevin.

[TiffanyDow]

Just an fyi that they fixed it and gave me back Premium until my account naturally expires Oct 25th.

[Warrior Markets]

Originally Posted by kevin campbelle

Wow you lost everything, even the speedy support.

Kevin.

Not sure if you meant it..but it made me laugh!

-WM

[traceye]

Daily Results - Day 24

Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
Articles Submitted – 23, Live – 23, Article Views – 3196, Hops –430, Sales – 0

My Product: Blog Cash
Articles Submitted – 11, Live – 9, Views – 217, Clicks – 42, Sales – 3

Tracey

[giftsolution]

Current stats:

Articles Submitted - 29
Articles Live - 24
Pending - 5
Article Views - 834
Ezine Publisher - 10 (I wonder why there were no more of these: I got all these in the first few days of the challenge, and then no more)
URL Clicks - 154

[giftsolution]

I submitted my 2 articles for today, and will update stats tomorrow. My next few articles for one niche will be very practical. I want to see if that makes a difference in getting picked up by ezine owners.

I may also try to contact some sites in my niche and see if they are interested in practical suggestions for their subscribers: just trying to see what else I can do with my articles, other than submit them to EZA and other directories.

[traceye]

Daily Results - Day 25

Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
Articles Live – 23, Article Views – 3286, Hops – 434, Sales – 0

My Product: Blog Cash
Articles Submitted – 12, Live – 10, Views – 258, Clicks – 52, Sales – 3

Tracey

[Income_Legend]

TiffanyDow, I have yet to see such a wonderful response to a challenge. Amazing!

Originally Posted by TiffanyDow

Just an fyi that they fixed it and gave me back Premium until my account naturally expires Oct 25th.

Glad to know that.

By the way, it is almost a month, is it possible to give a general summary of the responses and results of the challenge, for example: Out of x%, y% have posted atleast 1 article per day, maximum number of articles submitted by a person so far, total number of articles submitted etc.

Thanks!

[giftsolution]

Submitted 2 more articles today, and here are the current stats:

Articles Submitted - 33
Articles Live - 29
Pending - 4
Article Views - 1042
Ezine Publisher - 10
URL Clicks - 197

[traceye]

Daily Results - Day 26

Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
Articles Live – 23, Article Views – 3379, Hops – 441, Sales – 0 (this is starting to become quite funny!)

My Product: Blog Cash
Articles Submitted – 13, Live – 11, Views – 282, Clicks – 55, Sales – 3

Tracey

[Michael Ashbourne]

It is really nice to see the progress everybody is making and that sales are coming in. Hard to believe that the month is almost over already though.

[successh]

Catching up soon. Here's my stats.

Articles Submitted - 22
Articles Live - 20
Pending - 2
Total Article Views - 1086
Total Ezine Publisher - 8
Total URL Clicks - 145
Total Opt-in - 6
Total Sales - 0

[Ben Roy]

I slacked off on updating this thread for a few days, but I have been writing and posting articles. I've decided I'm too lazy to break it all down by niche, so I'll just summarize it all together.

Articles Written: 35
Articles Published: 27
Views: 1993
Clicks: 517
Sales: 1


I'm a little disappointed in my sales. It took me a little bit to get my referral ids fixed up, so I don't have perfect stats on how the hops break down by product. In any case I would expect a little better conversion rate.

For one of the niches I'm pushing people to an autoresponder, which I've received a fair number of signups for. Another niche I'm building a site, so I'm getting backlinks if all else fails.

[Peggy Baron]

Early in Day 25

In my newer niche:

Live Articles - 7
Views - 517
Clicks - 106
Sales - 2


Brand spankin new niche (with 1 article 1 day old and the other live this morning):

Live Articles - 2
Views - 101
Clicks - 7
Sales - 0

I don't know this new niche as well so I'm having to spend more time on research right now.

Meanwhile, the original 2 sites I started with have gained in opt-ins and AdSense $ and I'll tally that up at the end of this 30 day thing.

Peggy
P.S. Where's Asher and Wendy?

[Asher]

Originally Posted by Peggy Baron

P.S. Where's Asher and Wendy?

I only JUST received my new batch of articles to submit. So...
yeah, off to a writing and submitting craze now.

Asher

[Hamida Harland]

Wonder how many people are still doing this, there's not much posting activity going on anymore (I know, I'm guilty too ).

I'm still working on the challenge but only submitting one article a day - I'd planned to do more but just don't have the time at the moment.

[giftsolution]

I am still here submitting every day. I actually went from one article a day to 2 a day, because I wanted to continue with my initial niche, but also wanted to add Christmas to the mix.

I have a very busy weekend coming up family wise, so I already posted my articles for today, and will only pop in online tomorrow night enough to submit my 2 articles for tomorrow.

I'll update my stats again on Sunday evening.

[Asher]

I just submitted 4 articles to EZA and will be submitting the rest of the
21 articles by the coming 2 days (that's the goal).

This is what happens when I don't get my new batch of articles to play
with because I have to request for it. I thought it would be automated
until I sent a support ticket over to ask for more article slots to submit.

Going to rush out the articles before the 30-Day Challenge end!

Final Stretch!

Originally Posted by Hamida Pall

Wonder how many people are still doing this, there's not much posting activity going on anymore (I know, I'm guilty too ).

I put all my postings and updates in my blog so I don't clog up the posts with all my updates. Plus, it's easier for me to find my posts too.

Asher

[successh]

Still no sales but one opt-in. Here's my stats.

Articles Submitted - 24
Articles Live - 20
Pending - 4
Total Article Views - 1086
Total Ezine Publisher - 8
Total URL Clicks - 145
Total Opt-in - 7
Total Sales - 0

[WritingMadwoman]

Originally Posted by Peggy Baron

[B]P.S. Where's Asher and Wendy?

I'm here! Been out of commission with a nasty cold all this week, so I didn't get any articles done. I'm too far behind to catch up now but I will still start again on Monday! :-)

Wendy

[traceye]

Daily Results - Day 27

Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
Articles Live – 23, Article Views – 3471, Hops – 447, Sales – 0 (have updated the review page again – fingers crossed!)

My Product: Blog Cash
Articles Submitted – 13, Live – 11, Views – 328, Clicks – 62, Sales – 3

Tracey

[JustVisiting]

Originally Posted by traceye

Daily Results - Day 27

Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
Articles Live – 23, Article Views – 3471, Hops – 447, Sales – 0 (have updated the review page again – fingers crossed!)

My Product: Blog Cash
Articles Submitted – 13, Live – 11, Views – 328, Clicks – 62, Sales – 3

Tracey

Tracey
Thanks for posting your results so far.

--> Do all your articles in each niche point to the one landing page ? (for that niche) .

--> Are you willing to share your landing page URL for 'Strip that fat' for discussion?

[InfoESource]

Even if a person does not join in, your three bullets of action are great. If anybody follows them, they are ahead of the curve.

[traceye]

Originally Posted by JustVisiting

Tracey
Thanks for posting your results so far.

--> Do all your articles in each niche point to the one landing page ? (for that niche) .

--> Are you willing to share your landing page URL for 'Strip that fat' for discussion?

Your welcome.

Yes I do only have one landing page for all of my STF articles. As for sharing the URL I'm kind of unsure whether I should or not. On one hand it would be good to be completely open and help teach other warriors, on the other hand I'm reluctant to because I hate it when people steal my stuff and I'm really not sure what value it would do since it's not converting anyway. I'll think about it ..

Daily Results - Day 28

Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
Articles Live – 23, Article Views – 3504, Hops – 447, Sales – 0

My Product: Blog Cash
Articles Submitted – 14, Live – 11, Views – 355, Clicks – 64, Sales – 3

Tracey

[Kelvin Nikkel]

Well, I must thank you again Tiffany and everyone else here for keeping me positive and a bit motivated.

My original 10 articles are producing some clickbacks and from that my adsense has jumped a bit. Still no sales yet on any of this though.

I have been doing some other reading about affiliate marketing and doing reviews so I just created a post in my blog reviewing and comparing 4 non IM products. I then created and submitted a new article to EZA and GoArticles.

Just finished doing that now so will see where it goes when EZA clears the article and I start getting hits on it.

Will keep everyone posted.

Kelvin

[JustVisiting]

Originally Posted by traceye

Your welcome.

As for sharing the URL I'm kind of unsure whether I should or not. On one hand it would be good to be completely open and help teach other warriors, on the other hand I'm reluctant to because I hate it when people steal my stuff and I'm really not sure what value it would do since it's not converting anyway. I'll think about it ..

Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
Articles Live – 23, Article Views – 3504, Hops – 447, Sales – 0

Hi Tracey
I know how you feel...however if the landing page is not converting I don't think anyone would want to rip-it-off...??

Are you collecting emails before the prospect can continue to the merchant page?
If you are not...then you could try sending them direct to the merchant. Looking at the CB stats the gravity is 129 so it should be converting 1:100 or so?

[giftsolution]

Current Stats:

Articles Submitted - 39
Articles Live - 31
Pending - 8
Article Views - 1452
Ezine Publisher - 12
URL Clicks - 254

I am seeing really good results with my first niche I started submitting for, and just made another great sale yesterday (physical product).

[traceye]

Daily Results - Day 29

Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
Articles Live – 23, Article Views – 3562, Hops – 450, Sales – 0

My Product: Blog Cash
Articles Submitted – 15, Live – 11, Views – 389, Clicks – 68, Sales – 6

Tracey