Tiffany Dow’s 30-Day Warrior Article Marketing Challenge

[Hamida Harland]

Didn't start writing til late today so I had a mad dash to write 6 articles - got them done in an hour! I didn't feel much like writing today so I chose a niche that I know alot about. Just couldn't face doing any research.

[ezrock]

Submitted "The Niche Blogger - What to look for in a WordPress Theme" just now, targetting "the niche blogger" and a few similar keywords.

Day 5 Results

Live Articles
Tropical Fish Tank Setup in 5 Easy Steps - 44 views, 3 clicks, 1 publisher click
-also picked up by 1 site

Pending Articles
4 --> all at 1 bar

[Keith Goodrum]

Daily Results - Day 5

Articles Submitted - 3
Articles Live - zippity do da!
Article Views - see above
Hops - ditto
Sales - likewise

Keith Goodrum

[successh]

Do we need to set up a brand new site to participate?

I got a credit card directory that is a few months old but I have not done much promotion with it.

Stephen

[Ben Roy]

I almost copped out today. I had two extra articles I'd written yesterday, but honestly they were pretty low quality and both really short. I was feeling lazy and almost just loaded those up. But I hate doing things crappily, so I guilted myself into doing the real thing.

Day 5 Update
Articles Submitted: 10 (5 each in 2 niches)
Articles Live: 0 (all are showing first red bar still)
Other stats: n/a


I will say this though. I submitted three articles in one of these niches the week before this challenge started. They just went live yesterday and I'm seeing really good results. I've had a number of signups to my new newsletter yesterday and today, and I can't wait to see what happens when another 3-5 go live, let alone the 30 when this challenge is done.

[traceye]

Daily Results - Day 6

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 – 10
Articles Live - 5
Article Views - 214
Hops – 39
Sales - 0


Tracey

[CSwrite]

Day 6 - Did not get anything done today, besides catching up on much needed sleep. Will play catch up this weekend

Articles Submitted: 5
Approved: 0 (argh!)
Views: 0
Clicks: 0

[WritingMadwoman]

Just wrote and submitted one more article, that's 8 total.

I also noticed that 3 more of my articles were released and I didn't get notifications about them, so that was a pleasant surprise! :-)

Here are the articles and stats published since the beginning of the challenge:

Title: Telecommute Data Entry Jobs - Are They For Real?

Views: 5
Clicks: 2

Title: Researching Legitimate Work at Home Jobs

Views: 8
Clicks: 1
Published: 1

Title: Top 10 Most Common Work at Home Jobs

Views: 24
Clicks: 1

Title: Legitimate Telecommute Jobs - How to Find Them

Views: 27
Clicks: 6

Total opt-ins since challenge started: 2
Total sales: 0

I've got 4 more articles pending.


Wendy

[jaywilsonjr]

Count me in...

Better late than never, or something like that, lol

Jay

[Steven Wagenheim]

For those who are in this challenge, and if you're interested and need some
tips, I've made this post to help you out.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...challenge.html

Hope it helps some.

[StuartStewart]

Ok so I'm a week late and new to this but I'll give it a go. I't will be interseting to see how much I can learn in the 30 days.
Thanks for the challange

[TiffanyDow]

Originally Posted by successh

Do we need to set up a brand new site to participate?

I got a credit card directory that is a few months old but I have not done much promotion with it.

Stephen

No, mine's not new - pick a site, any site - and go for it

[kiwichamp]

Well I got ONE article published on Fri - but it was an article submitted before this challenge -- all the others are still waiting

However when the guys at ezinearticles get back to my account they will find even more articles to read and approve

I am thinking about rewriting the articles waiting in line at EZines and submitting them to other directories also. Maybe next week. I know those would not count for this challenge, sort of a separate experiment.

[TiffanyDow]

Hi Warriors!

I just submitted my 6th article for the challenge – Squidoo Social Network Is a Boon to Internet Marketers – (keyword phrase in bold) - and got my latest stats to share. I’m checking the first 5 pages of Google to see where I am for the keywords I was targeting, too:

How to Squidoo From Start to Finish – 32 views, 2 publishers, 3 URL clicks (1 to socialmarketing101, 2 to buildmylens), 1 vote – WOW! Already #6 on Google for “how to Squidoo.” That was fast! This right here is making me think Premium might pay off if I was targeting various keywords and wanted almost instant Google top rankings.

Squidoo Marketing Mistakes You Should Avoid 27 views, 1 publisher, 1 URL click to buildmylens, 1 vote (keyword is Squidoo Marketing and one of the publishers who picked up my article is #20 – page 2 – and another publisher is #23 on page 3 – and my Twitter EZA post is #43 - but my original EZA article is not on the first 5 pages.

Make Money With Squidoo Using Professional Content 23 views, 0 publishers, 2 URL clicks to buildmylens. For the keyword phrase “make money with Squidoo,” someone is using the first part of my article with no link and no rest of the article, either. They’re at the bottom of page 5.
On Squidoo - Everyone Can Make Money 18 views, 1 publisher, 1 URL click to socialmarketing101, 1 vote – now #42 on Google for “on Squidoo.”

Squidoo Still Holds Power in the SERPs 17 views, 1 publisher, 1 URL click to buildmylens – not in the top 5 on Google yet

Tiff

PS – I’d like to see if anyone’s having SERP results, too!

[Tenzo]

I just submitted my sixth article. So far I have 3 approved, with a total of 59 views, and 15 clicks to my landing page. From the lens, 6 people have clicked through to the sales page I'm promoting. No sales as of yet.

Regards,
Kevin

[Sylvia Jaumann]

Thanks for letting me know about this Tiff! I'm in for doing one article a day for sure. I need to promote my new coaching program and my ebook (in the same niche) could always use some more articles. So this comes at a great time. I'll post my results at the end.

Sylvia

[artgirl]

Hi Tiff:

This sounds like fun...I hope I'm not too late.

Well. I am off to the races as I attempt to catch up with everyone. My keyword research should be a breeze...the problem is choosing a product to promote.

Wish me luck!

[Robo90]

I think I am going to give this a try, it sounds interesting

[fred67]

I'd love to do this but I'm useless at research.
Keywords bore the pants off me, and you can bet your life that all the stuff I pump out every day into this keyboard from this head of mine, wouldn't be of any use to anyone.
Therefore, the chances of any of my articles being accepted is probably nil.

I've come to the conclusion that Tiffany Dow is an Android.
How can 'one' human fit so many hours worth of work into 24 hours?

I'm going to 'stalk' this post as I find it absolutely fascinating.
If we're getting links to all of the posts as well, that would be a great education for those of us who struggle with 'Article' writing.

(Will we be getting live links?)

Good luck to you all, I think you're an amazing bunch.

Pete.

[Michael Ashbourne]

I can't tell if my first sale came from a person finding me from my article or from google traffic but I got a sale!!!!! I have only had 17 clicks for the article that could have made the sale thus far so I think that is pretty good.

The best part is that it is a recurring commission.

Thanks for everything guys. It really is so simple to just write an article or two a day and bam you get hit with a sale that just keeps on giving.

[Shannon Herod]

Okay, I'm all caught up with my article submissions. I have six articles submitted, and all six are still waiting to be approved.

I am using Dragon naturally speaking to write the articles. This is making article marketing super easy. I never wanted to do article marketing because I hated writing. Now, I'm all about it. All I need to do is sit here and talk and say some punctuation marks. This is absolutely awesome.

The accuracy is actually very awesome! It is making my life very easy and I am expecting my income to increase exponentially because of this.

Anyway, keep on plugging away everyone. You Can Do It!

Shannon

[ezrock]

EDIT: Wrote an article afterall: "Baby Betta Foods - What Live Fish Foods Are Ideal For Young Betta Fry".

Day 6 Results

Still 1 article live and 5 waiting approval (all at 1 bar)
-46 views at EA. 3 clicks. 7 profile views. 1 publisher click
-published in 1 blog
-linked to EA article from another blog
-0 sales/commission

[giftsolution]

I posted my 5th article just now. I still need to do an extra article to catch up, and promise to do it tomorrow.

None of my articles have been approved yet: waiting with one red bar only

[Kelvin Nikkel]

Hi Tiffany!

I just found your post and this sounds like something I need to do! I know I am a few days late but will try to catch up. lol

I have already posted my first post. Will try for more than one for the next few days so that I can catch up.

Thanks for the challenge Tiffany.

Kelvin

[Peggy Baron]

Day 6 Results

My 7th article was submitted today. I took one of my past blog posts and rewrote it.

Articles Submitted -7
Articles Live - 4
Article Views - 17
Ezine Publisher - 4
URL Clicks - 2

Titles:
Profile of a New Internet Marketer - Is This You? Published twice
Internet Marketing - Do You Have a Plan? Published elsewhere twice.
Testimonials - Do You Use Them? This article has been published 3 times. One far flung longtail keyword is on page 1, #2, and the other keyword is on page 4.
Kids Cooking - It's Vegetable Time! This one is on page 1 of Google at #9.

Okay, I haven't been doing my keyword research beforehand and it shows. It's apparent to me that if I don't do the keyword research properly then my time is wasted with this.

So... with article 8 up to 30 I vow to take the time to pick my longtail keywords better.

Peggy

[traceye]

Daily Results - Day 7

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, fad diets,

Articles Submitted – 11
Articles Live - 5
Article Views - 224
Hops – 43
Sales - 0


Tracey

[sevenish]

Jumping into this a bit late using Tiff's Cheeseburger method.

Not sure I can publish stats on a regular basis, what with my family requirements, but this is a great motivator to get started. It's much more feasible with this plan.

Thanks so much Tiff!

[rosetrees]

Just found this through Steve's other post. I'm up for it. Of to start a new blog for a specific affiliate product so I don't fall foul of Ezine's rules.

[WritingMadwoman]

Just submitted my 9th article for this challenge. Now I have 4 pending, including today's article. 5 published so far.

Stats so far are not too impressive, but part of the reason may be that I'm targeting keywords with immense competition! ;-) That's okay though, my objective with this challenge is to get some solid backlinks built up and over time let my site rise in the search engine ranks for these coveted keywords.

To that end I will be adding more content to the site, contacting potential affiliates, and working on a few other things.

My biggest challenge is that I don't have a ton of time to devote to this, so I will be making slow progress. Better slow than not at all, I guess.

Wendy

[aztecdataservices]

Hi I would like to join this challenge as well, but have a couple of questions,
if I am promoting a cb product can I send directly to the sales page or should I send to another page first? What is the easiest/quickest way to create articles as this is something that I struggle with, get plr and change or start from scratch?

[TiffanyDow]

Originally Posted by aztecdataservices

Hi I would like to join this challenge as well, but have a couple of questions,
if I am promoting a cb product can I send directly to the sales page or should I send to another page first? What is the easiest/quickest way to create articles as this is something that I struggle with, get plr and change or start from scratch?

3. Affiliate links will be allowed if the link is a domain name you own which forward/redirects to the affiliate link from the top-level of the domain name. For example, it is permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:

http://your-company-name.com/

...but it would not be permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:

http://your-company-name.com/page.html
http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/
http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/page.html
http://sub-domain.your-company-name.com/

Any article with an affiliate link that does not adhere to this guideline will cause the article to be rejected.

[greff]

Seems like some people need to see results quickly.

That is a good way to get discouraged. Nothing good happens fast.

Patience is a virtue. A stitch in time saves nine.

A hand in the bush is worth all the damn birds in the world. (oops, how did that get in here?)

;P

[Allen Graves]

LOL

A hand in the bush...in the bush...in the bush...in the bush...



Although I am not participating in this challenge, I, along with many others, are kneeling on the sidelines watching this all play out.

Keep the results coming! VERY interesting indeed. Thanks for coming up with this Tiff.

AL

[Hamida Harland]

Just updated my results - things are picking up, I finally got a few sales! Only submitted two articles this weekend. In fact I'll probably cut back to one or two articles every day for the next few days because I need to work on some of my sites.

[Gunter Eibl]

Excellent challenge. Brings some action into the boring writing/submitting work.

Submitted 10 articles in the insurance area that did convert into 4 leads so far, $8 each.

Submitted 15 articles on an affiliate dating product but zero conversions, very frustrating. But that's the game, testing niches and finding out what works.

Gunter

[lakeview]

Thanks for the challenge Tiffany!

I jumped into the challenge at the beginning of the week but have not had a chance to post until now. Here are my current stats:

submitted - 11
live - 5
views - 368
published - 3
clicks - 49
sales - 2

This is such a great motivator!

Angela

[Asher]

I've joined since the very first day and up to now,
I've not had 1 go live yet. Ha. EZA's pretty random
with the approval speeds.

Current Stats:
12 Pending Articles
6 Articles with 3/5 Bars Red
6 Articles with 1/5 Bars Red

For more information and details,
check out WarriorForum - Internet Marketing Forums - Asher

Asher

[Shannon Tani]

Haven't been able to post in awhile. Here's my stats so far:
EZA
submitted: 27
live: 15
views: 992
clicks: 157

Website-Articles
submitted: 3
live: 3
views: 25
clicks: (not sure. too lazy to do the math)

So far no sales.

As I mentioned before, I'm ranking high in the SERPs.

Love,
Shannon

[jensrsa]

Still parked in the first red zone for all my articles and I've reached my limit, both in # articles I can post and in patience. If EZA take so long to start reviewing an article, how long are they going to take to approve Platinum membership?

Not giving up - yet. Just have to look at other areas to channel targeted traffic to the site.

Jens

[Tom Borowski]

Daily Results - Day 7

Articles Submitted - 6
Articles Live - 0
Article Views - 0
Hops - 0
Sales - 0

I didn't post yesterday because I didn't write an article yesterday. But I caught up today, although only partly. I'm still one article short...

All articles are still on bar 1 in the EA queue Then again, it's Sunday. Hopefully they'll get around to accepting them next week.

[Ben Roy]

Well, unfortunately I have to post in shame today. It's day 7, but I never posted my day 6 update. I had a bunch of stuff in the morning, ended up busy in the afternoon, and then took a nap before going out for the whole evening and well into the night. By the time I got home I was too tired to even post my backup articles, so I'm now a day behind. I felt kind of bad, although my morning was busy with a walk for diabetes, so I figure that balances out a bit karma-wise.

My plan is to write and post 4 articles before I go to bed, so I should be all caught up later on tonight.

Day 6 Results (1 day late)
Articles Posted: 10 (2 niches)
Artices approved: 0
All other stats: n/a

[TiffanyDow]

Hi Warriors!

Well today I posted another article. I’m liking this one a day deal. It was called “For Squidoo Affiliate Success – keyword phrase in bold - and I changed it from something I had earlier because I wanted to target affiliates rather than just lens buyers. (more sales!)

So basically, I talked about how Squidoo affiliates can make more promoting tutorials and services for Squidoo than info products and tangibles. ie: a lens commission for a VIP pack is $119 compared to an Amazon book that brings in a dollar or so.

Another woohoo for me today – but article marketing of a different kind. Back when I first wrote the first book on Squidoo (thanks to Warrior James Allen) people would say, “Tiff’s the Squidoo Queen around here…” blah blah blah. Well everyone advised me not to get a domain with Squidoo in it. Hence the socialmarketing101 URL.

So some other savvy marketer went and registered SquidooQueen.com and capitalized on that. So I wanted a piece of that title and I submitted an article to my blog at socialmarketing101.com for keyword phrase Squidoo Queen and one day later, voila! Page 1 on Google #8 for “Who’s the REAL Squidoo Queen?”

Hee hee.

I’m going to publish my EZAs on my own blog, too.

Here’s my stats – I have 3 awaiting approval - I guess cuz it’s the weekend.

Make Money With Squidoo Using Professional Content 37 views, 1 publisher, 5 clicks
Squidoo Marketing Mistakes You Should Avoid 35 views, 1 publisher, 1 click, 1 vote
On Squidoo - Everyone Can Make Money 22 views, 1 publisher, 1 click
Squidoo Still Holds Power in the SERPs 21 views, 1 publisher, 1 click
How to Squidoo From Start to Finish 52 views, 2 publishers, 4 clicks, 2 votes

No sales from this yet. I know it might take longer since it’s a hefty price point ($249-799) but we shall see!

Tiff

[giftsolution]

I submitted 2 more articles, and I am now up to date: and hopefully, at least some of them will be live soon (all 7 still have only 1 box)

[Kelvin Nikkel]

Originally Posted by TiffanyDow

I’m going to publish my EZAs on my own blog, too.

I wanted to confirm something Tiffany. Posting your own EZA article on your blog. wouldn't Google look at that as a duplication of articles and actually hurt your rankings?

Posted my second article today. Just started yesterday so am a bit late. Both articles are still not cleared. Planning on doing one more post right now.

I am eager to see how this will affect my site because I am only getting about 4 unique visitors per day on this new (3 weeks old) site.

[Ben Roy]

Originally Posted by Kelvin Nikkel

I wanted to confirm something Tiffany. Posting your own EZA article on your blog. wouldn't Google look at that as a duplication of articles and actually hurt your rankings?

This is a HUGE myth that seems to circulate constantly and just isn't the case. I currently have an article for one my keyword phrases in BOTH 2nd and 3rd slots on Google. I submitted it to EZA originally and then to ArticleDashboard.com (I think that's the one), and both of the rank extremly well. They are identical, and Google seems to like them just fine.

The 'duplicate penalty' that I believe started the whole term had to do with having the exact same content on your own site multiple times at different URLs.

[Ben Roy]

Ok, got caught up.

Day 7 Report
Articles Posted: 14 (7 each niche)
Articles Approved: 0
Other stats n/a until articles approved.


I can barely tell you how exciting it is to log into EZA and see 14 articles sitting in the queue. I just know I'm going to get an avalanche of traffic when those articles start hitting. I am getting increasingly nervous about the approaching article limit though. I think I only have 6 submissions left. I'm going to be pretty angry if they take a long time to upgrade me to platinum.

[Kelvin Nikkel]

Thanks hummusx! I am sure glad that someone cleared that up for me.

So it would be ok to post my EZA articles onto my website? Because to tell the truth, these are actually the best articles I have ever written. LOL

My first article is at 3 bars
Second article, just posted yesterday is still one bar and I just submitted the third

BTW, I am writing in the ESL niche. Just thought I would fill you in Tiffany. lol

I too am getting excited to see all these articles in EZA. Can't wait to see what the results are going to be.

Kelvin

[sevenish]

Submitted 3 articles today whilst the kids napped.

These are my first submissions to EZA, so we'll see.

thanks for the inspiration Tiff.

[Ben Roy]

Originally Posted by Kelvin Nikkel

So it would be ok to post my EZA articles onto my website? Because to tell the truth, these are actually the best articles I have ever written. LOL

For sure.

PS. Doh, need 10 characters to post.

[traceye]

Daily Results - Day 8

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, fad diets, nutrition facts, dining out

Articles Submitted – 13
Articles Live - 5
Article Views - 242
Hops – 43
Sales - 0


Tracey