My article has good views but bad sales!

Hey,

Congratulations on the views. I whish I could say the same.

You say "Not good on the sales part." Does "Not Good" mean no sales or a few sales?

Just curious.

George Wright

Before anyone can give you any suggestions they're going to need a lot more info. If you're getting traffic to your site and not making sales or getting sign ups to your list it's safe to say that your site can be improved upon.

Of course for anyone to have a look and make suggestions you'd have to be willing to reveal the niche that you're working in which is not always a good idea on a public forum filled with internet marketers.

Thanks George and adamv,
By not good on sales I mean very few sales,and very few sign ups to my opt in per day.
I would like to give more info about my squeeze page and website,but as you mention its not safe to do so on a public forum.
Pinky

Do you sell from your blog? Any idea how much traffic is going to each site? Do you have Google Analytics installed on each site? You could use that to see how much traffic you are getting and from where and how much time people spend on your site.

Depending on the niche and the topic of the article, people might be turned off by a squeeze page. You might need to provide more content and be a little more subtle about the sales part. People like to feel that it's their decision to buy, and don't like being forced into it.....unless they were actually searching to buy. On the other hand, if a lot of traffic is going to the blog and you don't have the option for them to buy in a side bar or something, you could be losing out there too.

Also, do you have a way of tracking the clickthroughs to the merchant. Maybe their sales page is converting for you.

Make sure you keep the reader all the way to the end. In other words, you really need them to want to click the resource box. I see tons of authors writing a quality article and a sloppy resource box. I can't tell for your situation, but there are tons of leaks on those article directories.(adsense, banners, related articles, etc.) 9,000 views is awesome! Keep doing what you're doing to get those views. But, try and really Lead the reader to your resource box.

As many said, use resource box as a way to call for further action. That is what I always do when I write articles.

The person reading the article must know why s/he should click the link below, and that reason must be appealing.

Thanks to everyone who answered,
I just wanted to describe how I went about with my article marketing.

I have around 9 articles in ezine with around 14,000 views.One article in particular is getting 9000 views and is on the second page of google.

The traffic I get to my site is mainly form the articles and a few from the search engines.I get around 30-40 visitors/day.
The clickthorough rate of the article with 9000 views is around 6.5%.The article is around 6 months old.
The blog that is linked to the article has quality content,a squeeze page on the blog(at the side),but people are not clicking on any ads or any links.

With this situation I have 2 questions:

1.Should I use some backlinking strategies to the article to get it on page 1 from page 2,like social bookmarking,or backlink packs?Right now I have just submitted the article and done absolutely no backlinking.
2.Should I direct one link to my squeeze page and after they optin should I redirect them to the affilate product site immediately?

I would love it if someone could critique my site and my squeeze page and tell me what I am missing in terms of copywriting.

If my article is getting a good view,but the sales part is poor,that is quite alarming for me.Whats the point of getting on googles first page ,if I suck at selling?
I don't know what I am doing wrong here.

Thanks eveyone,all of you are awesome!
Pinky

I saw results from article marketing after a couple of years of writing and submitting articles. My results weren't a single sale or anything like that. The results were multiple clients who keep me on retainer.

Bonnie

Nobody is going to be able to properly answer your question and as Adam has stated it is not a good idea to slap your info in public.

With that said though, you should have these articles posted on your own site first and not an article directory. You should build backlinks / bookmarks to these articles on your own site. After which you want to submit them to more than 1 article directory and also build backlinks and bookmarks to the article on the article directories.

You want most of your backlinks and bookmarks on your site though... I normally suggest the 70 / 30 rule - 70% of bookmarks and backlinks to your site and 30% to the article directories. You want your site to be seem as the authority and not the article directory, you want to use the article directory to help but not be the authority for your content.

James

Hey Pink, once you have all the kinks sorted out would you do the rest of us warriors a favor and report your progress back here on this thread, because I am curious to know how it all turns out.

Hi RanD, I'm pretty new here, but one piece of advice I was given early on was 'don't give people a choice in your resource box' - they dither, click neither (hey that sounds good!). Anyway, I cut my res box links from 2 to 1. Still ain't sold anything through articles, but I will persevere as I enjoy writing them, reckon I've got original viewpoints and I believe it's a good way to generate volume (though I'm only 2 months into it). Can't find the right niche, though.

I wish I had your level of views. The other piece of advice was change change test test. Good luck, and keep us posted!

Thank you everyone for showing me some direction,

My style of writing the article was mainly information based.But even at my site I do offer a lot of quality information.
From the stats I see,I think people are looking for free information.Hence they don't click on any links,since they don't really want to buy something.

I have just have a CPA offer related to the niche at the sidebar.I promote my clickbank product only through the email list.I had put a banner for the clickbank product,but it never got clicked.

I have yet to understand internal linking of the site.

I must start building backlinks to my site.And I just got an idea from all the wonderful answers here.
What I ususally do is,I do a lot of keyword search.I have 10 keyword for articles and another set of 10 keywords for my blog posts.

What I will do is rewrite the article that is generating 9000 views,since I think that is a very good, low competition keyword and post the article on my site and see how the traffic builds up.

I will also get backlinking packets and build backlinks to this article on my blog.
Does that sound like a good plan?

I will report the results once I am done with the changes.
Pinky

That sounds like an excellent plan. Definitely do that.

And, if that product isn't selling for you, maybe you can find another product that fits better, something that maybe solves a problem instead of providing more information. You may also want to try using adsense. It may not get you as much per click as a CPA product, but it might get you a lot more clicks overall.