Tiffany Dow’s 30-Day Warrior Article Marketing Challenge

[Tenzo]

Third article posted. I'm hoping the first article gets approved tomorrow...it's down to the last bar on the progress chart.

Warmly,
Kevin

[Peggy Baron]

Day 3

Wrote another article. 3 days in and I'm on schedule with a buffer of one extra article.

None of the articles are approved yet but I'm thinking (hoping) the first two should be tomorrow.

Peggy
P.S. I set up a blog to chart my progress as Asher suggested, but I'll post here too.

[NewbiesDiary]

better late than never? I'm in. I just had some articles written for me & I've been incredibly slack submitting them so well done for pushing me.

[kenj]

Just to say I'm in and cooking on gas.

Some great content sitting at EA awaiting approval

I will post by the end of the month.

By the way I am getting 30 - 50% clickthrough at present. What have I done??

[Estelle T. Dunomes]

Tiffany:

I just saw this today; are you allowing others to join in or will you start another challenge based on the date of others interest?

I'd like to join in.

Thanks for letting me know.

Estelle

[TiffanyDow]

Originally Posted by Estelle T. Dunomes

Tiffany:

I just saw this today; are you allowing others to join in or will you start another challenge based on the date of others interest?

I'd like to join in.

Thanks for letting me know.

Estelle

join in! no need to wait.

[NewbiesDiary]

Done! One down - 29 to go!

thanks so much for making me get of my backside & submit some articles.

[traceye]

Daily Results - Day 4

Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
Key Phrases Used: emotional eating, tips for fast weight loss, tips on fast weight loss, flat abs, belly fat, flat stomach, hot abs

Articles Submitted – 7
Articles Live - 1
Article Views - 3
Hops – 4
Sales - 0


Tracey

[ezrock]

Daily Results - Day 3

Today I submitted a third article. It's for my second best squidoo lens. I titled it:

"Confessions of a Wordpress Blogger - First 30 days"
It's about 450 words and took only 15 minutes to write

I got an email saying my first article has been approved without needing any editing.

Article 1 - 7 views on it so far
no clickthroughs to lens

[CSwrite]

Day 4 - Fell behind yesterday due to a hellish schedule but got my article done for today. Will play catch up later in the week or on Monday to make up for the article I missed.

Stats so far:

Articles Written and Submitted: 3
Approved: 0
Live: 0

Darn EZA and their slow approval times.

[Ben Roy]

I think it's funny how some of us are posting our Day 3 results but others have already posted day 4. It's a fun world we live in.

Day 4 Results
Articles submitted: 6 (3 in each niche)
Articles approved: 0
Views: n/a
Clicks: n/a

I have one extra article written and ready to go, but I still need an extra in the other niche. I can tell already that having this thread is going to be a big help for me. I was feeling a worn down already on this challenge and it's only day 3! If there wasn't something larger than myself going on, I'd probably just stop at this point. It will help when they start getting approved and I can see the results.

[JMichaelZ]

Submitted my third article today in baby gift niche. Still waiting approval. Morea articles to come. It is still a really good idea that Tiffany had, at leat for me. That is the first thing I do in th e morning now. My 3o Tiffany Challenge article.

[Keith Goodrum]

Tiffany this is a great idea. Looks like I'll have some work to do to catch up.

Keith Goodrum

[Tom Borowski]

Daily Results - Day 4

Articles Submitted - 3
Articles Live - 0
Article Views - 0
Hops - 0
Sales - 0

[Craig McPherson]

Day 4

Have 4 articles published.

Treatment For Hair Loss in Dogs 20 views, 0 clicks
5 Qualities All Great Dog Trainers Have 19 views, 3 clicks
How to Recall Your Dog and Teach Him a Lesson 19 views, 4 clicks
3 Steps to Teach Your Dog to Sit on Command 22 views, 2 clicks

7 clicks through to my clickbank page with zero purchase

4 articles waiting for approval all in the dog niche

[WritingMadwoman]

Two more articles posted this morning. I just viewed the status of the other 4 articles, and all of them are still with just one red block. I guess I still have a ways to go before they are released, maybe tomorrow.

I also went into my Aweber account and checked how many opt-ins I have to the list for that site, and there are 8 so far (all of them signed up months ago and I haven't done squat with the list so far).

Later today I'll be loading a 10 part e-course so any new subscribers that come from this challenge will be hearing from me regularly! :-)

Wendy

[kiwichamp]

Submitted 3 Articles - first post on new blog also done.

Today's goals: Day 4's article
2 new posts
Continue working on ebook
Looking for product to give away (relationship related).

Think my day's work is cut out for me

[TiffanyDow]

Alrighty - Day 4:

Submitted "How to Squidoo From Start to Finish" (with my keyword phrase in bold).

I find that if I wait until I get back from taking the kids to school, I take more time and I write more. This was another over-800 word article.

Nothing even out of the first red block in the approval process for the last 3.

Everyone's doing a great job on productivity so far
Tiff

[manchild]

OK, I want in on this challenge. This should give me the kick-start I need.

My goal is write 5+ articles/day

So far I've set-up 1 landing page in the health and fitness niche and created 10 blogs. I created a new pen name on Ezine Articles just for this challenge. I've also made a list of 50 low-comp, high-searched keywords.

Here's where I'm at as of this morning...

Daily Results - Day 4

Articles Submitted - 9
Articles Live - 0
# of Views - 0
Bio CTR - 0
Sales - 0

[jensrsa]

The first money was earned within 4 days, albeit $0.04 from Adsense

Articles are up to date but still languishing in the Review pending (first block) at EZA - but that will happen too.

I really must get ahead with the article writing, this beating the deadline stuff is not fun

Jens

[Hamida Harland]

I'm so behind - I was hoping to have 20 done by today but I've had the flu . So now I've only got 10 submitted so far and I'm testing some new niches and NOT getting the results I was hoping for. The way things are going I definitely won't be getting into the 'Most Viewed' with any I've submitted so far! Anyway, I'll keep going and hopefully I'll have identified a few good converting products by the end of the 30 days.

[Shannon Herod]

Hey everyone,

Somehow I have missed this thread in the past couple of days, so I'm going to be a couple of days behind.

I have however decided to take this challenge.

Here are my results so far...

Daily Results - Day 4

Articles Submitted - 2
Articles Live - 0
# of Views - 0
Bio CTR - 0
Sales - 0


I went ahead and wrote two articles today and submitted them. I'm hoping to get at least one more done today and then I will do two more tomorrow to catch up.

I've also posted a blog post on the warrior blog as well...

http://www.warriorforum.com/blogs/sh...challenge.html

I actually need to get the squeeze page set up for the site I'm going to be sending traffic to. Right now it is just a coming soon page.

Anyway, thanks for the motivation. I have plenty of work to keep me busy for a while now.

Shannon

[TiffanyDow]

Originally Posted by Hamida Pall

I'm so behind - I was hoping to have 20 done by today but I've had the flu . So now I've only got 10 submitted so far and I'm testing some new niches and NOT getting the results I was hoping for. The way things are going I definitely won't be getting into the 'Most Viewed' with any I've submitted so far! Anyway, I'll keep going and hopefully I'll have identified a few good converting products by the end of the 30 days.

Well it's only day 4 so all you need is 4. This is why I don't recommend anyone bite off more than they can chew. No you feel like you're letting yourself down not having 20 done when you could have been overly proud of yourself for meeting your 4 goal Just scale back and get on track again
Tiff

[Loricwr]

Hi Tiffany, Great challenge! I am challenging myself to get in the habit of writing first thing every morning but not sure if I will have them polished enough to submit to an article directory but at least I am getting them started. Thanks for the extra push to get me moving on my writing at least!

Thanks again,
Lori

[Tenzo]

Just got my fourth article submitted. I also discovered that yesterdays article was somehow listed as saved but not submitted, so I took care of that. Luckily it will only be a day off.

MY first article went live today-so far it has 11 views and 3 clickthroughs to my lens. I need to check on any lens to sales page traffic. I just did a bit of bookmarking for the article, hopefully that will help.

Regards,
Kevin

[yube]

Hello,

I am a newbie to IM and AM. I read through Travis's Bum Marketing Methods, and am writing articles based on the 5,000 or less search results for the keyword phrase.

How are you guys tracking the number of views?
Are you submitting strictly to EZA?
How about submitting to GoArticles or other sites?
Are you all linking the EZA back to a Squidoo page, or blog? (Is there a difference in performance?)

Thanks,
John

3 articles submitted to EZA and GoArticles
0 approved
0 sales

[giftsolution]

I just saw this challenge, and I am in. I will do extra articles for a few days to catch up.

I already have my keyword research done, as I will be writing articles for one existing site.

I am off now to write my first article, and once I have that submitted, I'll come up with titles for my next 29 articles.

This is going to be great! Thank you for initiating this challenge, Tiff.

[Peggy Baron]

Day 4 article has been submitted.

The first ones I submitted have 3 red blocks now, so maybe tomorrow?

Peggy

[giftsolution]

I have just submitted my fist article to EZA, Idea Marketers, and Isnare.

[Jacqueline Watson]

I'm joining this as a newbie.

I'm a few days behind, but
I'm going to catch up and
win the challenge!!

I loooove a good challenge.

[giftsolution]

I submitted 2 more articles, so i have one more to catch up with all of you who got started on time (I'll leaved that for another day though, as I am really tired now).

I can only imagine what this challenge will do for my site: while I submitted some articles in the past, I never did anything like this.

[Keith Goodrum]

OK, here are my 1st day results. My goal is to have 30 articles done by the end of the 30 days. A challenge is always great motivation.

Daily Results - Day 4

Articles Submitted - 2
Articles Live - 0
# of Views - 0
Bio CTR - 0
Sales - 0

Keith Goodrum

[ezrock]

Submitted "Siamese Fighting Fish - Explanation of Betta Tail Types" targetting "siamese fighting fish" and "bettas"

Daily results - Day 4
4 articles submitted
1 live - 33 views, 1 click.


Few questions for the experts out there. I will soon be reaching the limit of my initial 10 articles. Does it take long to get approved to have the limit increased? Once I hit that road block, I'll continue writing articles, then submit them all at once when I am allowed

[traceye]

Daily Results - Day 5

Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
Key Phrases Used: emotional eating, tips for fast weight loss, tips on fast weight loss, flat abs, belly fat, flat stomach, hot abs, ab exercises, weight loss motivation

Articles Submitted – 9
Articles Live - 3
Article Views - 94
Hops – 18
Sales - 0


Tracey

[Ben Roy]

Just barely made it today! Luckily I had that one article in reserve so I only had to write one to make it. The problem I'm facing is that I need to go to bed, but I know I won't have time tomorrow. I guess that means I need to crank out two articles in the next 15 minutes. We'll see...

Day 4 Results (misreported yesterday as day 4 results, were actually day 3)
Articles submitted: 8 (4 in each niche)
Articles approved: 0
Views: n/a
Clicks: n/a

I just had some articles I submitted 3 days before the challenge finally approved today. So I guess I'm still 3 days away from these going live, but I *am* excited for it to start happening.

[Michael Ashbourne]

Things are going well over here. I submitted another article and my views and clicks are increasing. I am posting articles to two different niches and am going to see which performs better and at the end of the month and drop the loser.

Should be interesting to see who gets the first sale in this challenge. My bet is on Steven.

[CSwrite]

Daily Results - Day 5

Yay! Got caught up on my missing article from day 3. Here's where I am so far:

Articles Submitted: 5
Articles Approved: 0
Clicks: 0
Hops: 0

Sigh - seriously considering signing up for a premium account.

Great job everyone - keep up the good work!

Cary

[Shannon Tani]

Well, I'm still behind on my 5 a day goal, but I'm good for this challenge.

Here are some of my stats:
EZA articles submitted: 23
EZA articles approved: 14
EZA Total views: 749
EZA clickthroughs:108
EZA publisher button clicks: 2

WA* submissions: 2
WA approved: 1
WA views: 0

*WA is website-articles.net

The link in my resource box goes to a Squidoo lens. The hop link to MOMU has been clicked 26 times.

No sales.

However...

(Take this with a grain of salt because the KWs I'm using are often 4+ words and get less than 10 searches a day)

11 out of the 14 live EZA articles are on the first page of Google for their keyword!!!

BTW, I'm writing these under the pen name Serina Fea.

Love,
Shannon

[Tom Borowski]

Daily Results - Day 5

Articles Submitted - 4
Articles Live - 0 (yawn...)
Article Views - 0
Hops - 0
Sales - 0

I'm still behind one article, but I'm really putting in more work than usual into the articles I write. Word count is significantly above 500. I don't know if that's "better" in terms of CTR, but it should give the SEs more to chew on.

[TiffanyDow]

Woke up hoping to see my articles approved with my new handy dandy premium account but they're still resting on bar 3. Maybe they went to sleep. I supposed editors have to snooze too.

[WritingMadwoman]

Okay, one of my first articles was released late yesterday.

So far:

Views: 17
URL Clicks: 5
Opt-ins: 1
Sales: 0

This morning I submitted one more article (7 total so far). May do another later.

I see that one more article is nearly ready to be released, maybe later today.

Wendy

[TiffanyDow]

Woot! Got home from taking the son to school and they're up! I'm going to put all of my articles in my WF blog too using the publisher button.

[kiwichamp]

Well I have 6 articles in Ezines waiting to be approved (2 were in line before we started this challenge, they were submitted on 21st Sept, and 4 of them are a part of this challenge).

I have 2 posts up on the new blog, and will have 1-2 more by the time the articles are published I suspect.

I am hoping to see at least some articles published today!

Meanwhile I am about to start on today's article as well the post, having already posted on one of the other blogs.

Looking forward to being able to report results.

[Munch Mama]

Oh, man! Shows you what a novice I am, my first three articles are still at one bar and since i am still under my 10 initial articles, they wont take anymore... and I can't do the Premium membership this month. Looks like I am going to keep up the article writing on the side at home and queue them up as I can.

I am still determined, though.. I'll keep posting and let you know as they get accepted and cathc up ASAP

[WritingMadwoman]

Cheryl, yes definitely keep writing the articles every day. Then when they upgrade your account to Platinum you will have a nice stash and you can submit 2 or even more a day to catch up. It can seem like it takes forever but it's worth the wait! :-)

Wendy

[jensrsa]

Originally Posted by Munch Mama

Oh, man! Shows you what a novice I am, my first three articles are still at one bar and since i am still under my 10 initial articles, they wont take anymore... and I can't do the Premium membership this month. Looks like I am going to keep up the article writing on the side at home and queue them up as I can.

I am still determined, though.. I'll keep posting and let you know as they get accepted and cathc up ASAP

Thanks for making me go and look at the TOS. I didn't have my affilaite links cloaked and I have 2 more to go to reach 10

Jens.

[TiffanyDow]

Just submitted my 5th article - Make Money with Squidoo Using Professional Content (keyword phrase in bold).

I almost forgot!

[Tenzo]

Ok, I just submitted my fifth article to EZA. Another got approved today, so two are live. I also took the first article and tweaked it a bit, then added it to my lens.
So far:
5 articles submitted
2 articles live
29 views
9 click throughs(to my lens)
3 clicks from lens to salespage

Regards,
Kevin

[Peggy Baron]

Day 5 Results

I finally got the first 4 articles approved. They did them all together. They haven't been live long, but this is where I stand:

Articles Submitted - 6
Articles Live - 4
Article Views - 3
URL Clicks - 1

Titles - Profile of a New Internet Marketer - Is This You?
Internet Marketing - Do You Have a Plan?
Testimonials - Do You Use Them?
Kids Cooking - It's Vegetable Time!

I just submitted today's article and will await the batch processing.

[giftsolution]

I just submitted my 4th article today. My first 3 still have only one red box