Is Article Marketing Still Alive or Is It Dying Out Slowly?

14 years ago

I've gotten decent results from article marketing, but never something that was going to "break my bank" or make me want to focus my efforts 100% on it or anything.

I do think it is a good thing to do, especially for people starting out, but I wouldn't suggest putting all your eggs in that basket, especially with all the opportunities around with social networking (facebook, youtube, etc).

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Steven Wagenheim

14 years ago

Not enough info to answer your question.

1. What niches?
2. How good are your titles?
3. How good are the actual articles?
4. How good are your resource boxes?
5. How good are the product sales pages? Do they convert?
6. How competitive are the niches?
7. What keywords are you using?

Any of the above can trip up an article writing campaign.

In general, if everything is solid, article marketing works.

But if you have ANY weak links, depending on the importance of that link,
you could be in anything from slight to serious trouble.

Best answer I can give you based on what you've given us to work with.

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TheRichJerksNet

14 years ago

Why do I feel like creating a product

"Article Marketing Is Dead"
So Claim The So-Called Experts

Now Discover The Truth And
Power Of Article Marketing

Maybe it is the hundreds of threads I see posted on forum after forum, don't know but I seriously feel like writing an ebook now...

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Andy Money

14 years ago

Originally Posted by TheRichJerksNet

Why do I feel like creating a product

"Article Marketing Is Dead"
So Claim The So-Called Experts

Now Discover The Truth And
Power Of Article Marketing

Maybe it is the hundreds of threads I see posted on forum after forum, don't know but I seriously feel like writing an ebook now...

James

If you don't I will

The race is on.

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NancyHill 14 years ago

Travis Sago recently wrote about one of his "Magic of Making Up" affiliates who is very successful selling that product. All she does is write articles which she posts to her blog as well as to EZA. Good example of how article writing still works (I seem to remember her income being quite healthy, too!)
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TheRichJerksNet 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Andrew Maule

If you don't I will The race is on.

Get a WSO up Andrew, I will write you up a testimonial ....

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Dennis Gaskill

14 years ago

Originally Posted by TheRichJerksNet

Why do I feel like creating a product

"Article Marketing Is Dead"
So Claim The So-Called Experts

Now Discover The Truth And
Power Of Article Marketing

Maybe it is the hundreds of threads I see posted on forum after forum, don't know but I seriously feel like writing an ebook now...

James

I think you have a winner, James!

turbostar52, article marketing may not be as effective as it once was, probably due to increased competition and junk articles written only for backlinks, but it's still a decent way to generate traffic. With 500 articles out there and only a handful that worked, seems to me you're doing something fundamentally wrong. You should have better results than that. You might want to pick up Tim Gorman's Article Marketing Lifeline. He's a fellow Warrior and one of the best article marketers around.

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Rus Sells

14 years ago

Dude! You stole my idea! If you write it first can I offer it on my back end. Probably would not see to good when people see my back end. LOL

Seriously, if content is KING on the internet and I believe it still is and will always be, then how could AM be dead? Articles are the simplest source of content you can produce on the internet.

Originally Posted by TheRichJerksNet

Why do I feel like creating a product

"Article Marketing Is Dead"
So Claim The So-Called Experts

Now Discover The Truth And
Power Of Article Marketing

Maybe it is the hundreds of threads I see posted on forum after forum, don't know but I seriously feel like writing an ebook now...

James

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TheRichJerksNet

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Rus Sells

Dude! You stole my idea! If you write it first can I offer it on my back end. Probably would not see to good when people see my back end. LOL

Seriously, if content is KING on the internet and I believe it still is and will always be, then how could AM be dead? Articles are the simplest source of content you can produce on the internet.

Ha!! Seriously I am confused!! :confused: Do proper keyword research and write a quality and informative article. Use other sites and not just one. I hit a keyword with top listing yesterday and BOOM! 1,000 hits on my article and no this was NOT eza... If people just follow a simple plan on how article marketing is really supposed to be done they would see much better results ...

James

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All Night Cafe 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Neither.

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Alexa, you are always so politically correct, you go gal.

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- Paxton 14 years ago
  
  Depends very much on how you treat it. Is it just for links or is it just for traffic or is it just for sales?
  
  One of the things people don't seem to realize is that any link source can also be a source of traffic. Article marketing is a case in point.
  
  If you address the needs of your readers in your articles, chances are those readers will want more of the same and will reach your websites.
  
  One of my sites (which fits article marketing like a glove) gets around 20% of its traffic from article directories. That particular site converts at over 8%, so Yes, for the particular market, article marketing is an important part of the equation.
  
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Alex Mensah

14 years ago

hi turbostar,
adding to what steven said you have to make sure your keywords are highly targeted. Also make sure that the title is highly SEO'd. for eg. an title like "trading baseball cards - hottest tips on trading baseball cards revealed!" would better rank for the keyword "trade baseball cards" than a title like "trading baseball cards - hottest tips revealed!" In other words:
1)have a good targeted keyword
2)try to include the keyword twice in the title
3)sprinkle keyword once per every 100 words.

these techniques will get your articles ranked and driving daily traffic.
* bonus - copy the link for the article e.g. ezine and use web 2.0 properties to drive backlinks to it. works like a charm!

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turbostar52

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Zeze

hi turbostar,
adding to what steven said you have to make sure your keywords are highly targeted. Also make sure that the title is highly SEO'd. for eg. an title like "trading baseball cards - hottest tips on trading baseball cards revealed!"

I've tried this technique many times. Also, how can you highly target a keyword in a competitive niche? It's know need to target keywords in noncompetitive niches because those niches don't make money. Usually people's needs lie only in competitive niches.

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Steven Wagenheim

14 years ago

Another thing.

If all you're doing is submitting articles to EZA and nothing else, you're
missing the ball game.

There is more to article marketing than just submitting articles.

Right James?

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TheRichJerksNet

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim

Another thing.

If all you're doing is submitting articles to EZA and nothing else, you're
missing the ball game.

There is more to article marketing than just submitting articles.

Right James?

This is what I don't get, why are people so mislead into thinking all they need to do is slap some words on a text file and submit to article directories and they will be rich ...

There is an entire world out there craving for information and solutions. So many sites to use articles on and not all are article directories.

It just amazes me how I read thread after thread on this ....

James

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ILUVCA$H

14 years ago

I was testing the waters and doing some research for my affiliates with article marketing and was really impressed with just under 20 articles I saw a good bump in traffic and altouh it has dropped off a bit like yours I can still see the benifit in submitting articals consistantly say 100+ a month as a way to drive traffic and add value to the SEO.

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mlord10

14 years ago

Article marketing is not dying at all. It is still a very legitimate method to build a list, sell affiliate products, sell your own products... now that I think about it you can pretty much sell anything!

Anyone who thinks that article marketing is dead is lacking in one of the following areas:

1. keyword research
2. niche selection
3. quality titles
4. killer resource box to improve CTR
5. Promoting your articles using a variety of methods

If you really want to get the most out of your article marketing efforts, then you need to focus on leveraging both your time and content.

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JohnMcCabe

14 years ago

Actually, I think the OP is about half right.

Fire hose, spray and pray article marketing is probably dying out. If your fire hose is spraying sewage, it's definitely dying out.

If you don't believe me, look at the surge in the number of people complaining that some site or other won't accept their articles, even though they ran them through the spinner until they passed some uniqueness test. Or the ones by people blatantly ignoring TOS and getting accounts canceled, then whining because "such and such a site hates IMers"...

On the other hand, you have the folks who are writing effective, interesting articles that add value to the web coming to forums and attesting to how well they are doing.

You can't spray a field with fertilizer and expect a field of daisies. You still have to plant daisies...

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FrankBowman

14 years ago

Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe

Actually, I think the OP is about half right.

Fire hose, spray and pray article marketing is probably dying out. If your fire hose is spraying sewage, it's definitely dying out.

If you don't believe me, look at the surge in the number of people complaining that some site or other won't accept their articles, even though they ran them through the spinner until they passed some uniqueness test. Or the ones by people blatantly ignoring TOS and getting accounts canceled, then whining because "such and such a site hates IMers"...

On the other hand, you have the folks who are writing effective, interesting articles that add value to the web coming to forums and attesting to how well they are doing.

You can't spray a field with fertilizer and expect a field of daisies. You still have to plant daisies...

John!!!, dude, you changed your sig? Please tell me its only temporary!!! Please!!!

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Nicola Lane

14 years ago

Threads asking how to do Article Marketing come up quite often here - so I have a standard reply - I hope this helps:

Two brilliant threads to read about article marketing are these:

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

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...eza-first.html

Read them both - all the way through - and take notes.

For further information I recommend the following directory - It is education in article marketing - a guide book and monthly newsletters - with a directory thrown in! You can read what Warriors think about it here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...alks-walk.html

Article Directory - Article Marketing Community

I can also recommend the WSO's from this guy:

View Profile: Zeus66

This guy also has some good stuff - some article marketing some on other things

View Profile: Steven Wagenheim

Hope this helps.

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mtnbiz

14 years ago

Articles are always great for backlinks. Even if you don't get the direct traffic.

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Alexander CPA

14 years ago

There are too many people seeming to think it's pretty easy to make money from article marketing, I'll agree it is, supplying you know what your doing, when it comes down to articles, there is so much you can optimize, it's really a numbers game though, say 1 article gets 1 sale a week, 100 articles, would get 100 sales a week, which would probably give you a nice $1,000+/week from 100 articles - Pretty nice eh?

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turbostar52

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Alex Brooks

There are too many people seeming to think it's pretty easy to make money from article marketing, I'll agree it is, supplying you know what your doing, when it comes down to articles, there is so much you can optimize, it's really a numbers game though, say 1 article gets 1 sale a week, 100 articles, would get 100 sales a week, which would probably give you a nice $1,000+/week from 100 articles - Pretty nice eh?

It's not that easy. According to Chris Knight, you have to submit about 2000 articles before you really start making money. You could really make some money in the early days with 100 or 200 articles.

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TheRichJerksNet

14 years ago

Originally Posted by turbostar52

It's not that easy. According to Chris Knight, you have to submit about 2000 articles before you really start making money. You could really make some money in the early days with 100 or 200 articles.

First of all you are listening to "ONE" person... Guess how many sites are out there that take articles that outrank EZA ??? Now guess how many of those sites do not have adsense ads all over your articles ???

The point that Steven made in his first post... There are many ways to use articles to generate a income. It is a great deal easier than what most make it. Fact is though if you put all your eggs into one basket, do not expect to make it rich ..

James

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turbostar52

14 years ago

Originally Posted by TheRichJerksNet

First of all you are listening to "ONE" person... Guess how many sites are out there that take articles that outrank EZA ??? Now guess how many of those sites do not have adsense ads all over your articles ???

The point that Steven made in his first post... There are many ways to use articles to generate a income. It is a great deal easier than what most make it. Fact is though if you put all your eggs into one basket, do not expect to make it rich ..

James

I'm sure one won't make it rich but may make a lot of money with the right lifetime commission programs.

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TheRichJerksNet 14 years ago

Originally Posted by turbostar52

I'm sure one won't make it rich but may make a lot of money with the right lifetime commission programs.

I think you are missing the point though ...

You seriously need to read this thread - http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...eza-first.html

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Allen Graves

14 years ago

Originally Posted by turbostar52

It's not that easy. According to Chris Knight, you have to submit about 2000 articles before you really start making money...

Hogwash!

I don't have the time to argue this point right now, and I don't feel like throwing myself under a truck. So take my opinion for what it is worth.

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turbostar52

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Allen Graves

Hogwash!

Maybe for EZA articles.

Sorry Chris, but 2000 articles? EZA is either not educating their authors appropriately, or they are educating them for reasons other than THE AUTHORS making money.

Allen

Then how many articles you need before you starting seeing consistent results in a competitive niche? Sounds like article marketing may be dead, or is there a secret code of which I'm unaware?

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Allen Graves

14 years ago

Originally Posted by turbostar52

Then how many articles you need before you starting seeing consistent results in a competitive niche? Sounds like article marketing may be dead, or is there a secret code of which I'm unaware?

Looks like you quoted me before I thought about it and edited my post.

Oh well.

Listen, this is just my opinion.

You can make plenty of money with a single article. James (above) said he got 1,000 hits from a single article yesterday. If his sales page converts at a measly 1%, then he made some decent money yesterday. And Steven gets 6,000 hits a month from 6 articles. Which would equate to a nice chunk of change as well.

That being said, some articles are not going to do well no matter what you do.

In your OP, you say...

"But from experience, I've only gotten dismal results. Out of a total of 500 articles, I have about three articles that bring in results consistently, but I get sales occassionally from these articles. So, this makes me question what article marketing experts say..."

So the problem couldn't be something you are doing wrong? Or do you just want to jump to the conclusion that your articles are fine and the concept of marketing with them is dead or that it just sucks in general - even though others are banking?

Go ahead and conclude that article marketing is dead if you want to. But, as Steven said above, you have provided way too few tidbits of information for us "questionable" article marketers to give you any sort of help whatsoever. And when you keep coming back with excuses instead of info for us to help, well...there's not much more you're going to get but other people's opinions.

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TheRichJerksNet

14 years ago

I have to agree with Allen here.. Some seem to think well if one article makes me a $20 sales then a 100 articles would make me $2,000 and this is just not the case.

While 1 article may do very very well it does not mean everyone will. Ok I hit 1,000 views in one night while I slept but I also have a similar article on the same subject that only has 54 views (last time I looked).

So do not assume more articles will make more money. Fix the problem you have with what you got and learn from that. After you learn what mistakes you made then you may be able to duplicate it. I said "may" because again not all articles will produce, some actually do nothing no matter how well they are written and marketed.

Besides that as Allen stated you are giving out excuse after excuse...

James

Originally Posted by Allen Graves

Looks like you quoted me before I thought about it and edited my post.

Oh well.

Listen, this is just my opinion.

You can make plenty of money with a single article. James (above) said he got 1,000 hits from a single article yesterday. If his sales page converts at a measly 1%, then he made some decent money yesterday. And Steven gets 6,000 hits a month from 6 articles. Which would equate to a nice chunk of change as well.

That being said, some articles are not going to do well no matter what you do.

In your OP, you say...

"But from experience, I've only gotten dismal results. Out of a total of 500 articles, I have about three articles that bring in results consistently, but I get sales occassionally from these articles. So, this makes me question what article marketing experts say..."

So the problem couldn't be something you are doing wrong? Or do you just want to jump to the conclusion that your articles are fine and the concept of marketing with them is dead or that it just sucks in general - even though others are banking?

Go ahead and conclude that article marketing is dead if you want to. But, as Steven said above, you have provided way too few tidbits of information for us "questionable" article marketers to give you any sort of help whatsoever. And when you keep coming back with excuses instead of info for us to help, well...there's not much more you're going to get but other people's opinions.

Cheers.

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turbostar52

14 years ago

Originally Posted by TheRichJerksNet

I have to agree with Allen here.. Some seem to think well if one article makes me a $20 sales then a 100 articles would make me $2,000 and this is just not the case.

While 1 article may do very very well it does not mean everyone will. Ok I hit 1,000 views in one night while I slept but I also have a similar article on the same subject that only has 54 views (last time I looked).

So do not assume more articles will make more money. Fix the problem you have with what you got and learn from that. After you learn what mistakes you made then you may be able to duplicate it. I said "may" because again not all articles will produce, some actually do nothing no matter how well they are written and marketed.

Besides that as Allen stated you are giving out excuse after excuse...

James

Article marketing is nothing but a game of luck and numbers. In other words, 500 people may submit a title containg "how to train your dog" and get a piece of the pie; but if there are no high ranking sites with that keyword phrase, then only one person may get lucky with an article submitted to a directory...and usually in that case, their article title would be exactly, "how to train your dog." But then again, one submitting an article beforehand with a longer title including such phrase would probably have an advantage. Then again, who knows--the search engine algorithms are randomized.

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TheRichJerksNet

14 years ago

No Article Marketing Is Not A Numbers Game Or Luck

I fully 100% disagree, if this was true then quality, keyword research, product research, properly setup plan of attack, and etc. would mean nothing...

True Article Marketing is an art form, not everyone can do it "properly" and as evidence in this thread many do it 100% wrong. It is not as complex as some make it but can be very powerful if done properly.

I know people that have made $20,000+ from 1 article (I have not done this but it has been done). This had nothing to do with luck, it did have to do with proper research, quality, and a plan!

Seriously you need to read that thread I linked to a few post up...

James

P.S. Notice the keywords : "Plan" "Research" "Quality" "Properly"

Originally Posted by turbostar52

Article marketing is nothing but a game of luck and numbers. In other words, 500 people may submit a title containg "how to train your dog" and get a piece of the pie; but if there are no high ranking sites with that keyword phrase, then only one person may get lucky with an article submitted to a directory...and usually in that case, their article title would be exactly, "how to train your dog." But then again, one submitting an article beforehand with a longer title including such phrase would probably have an advantage. Then again, who knows--the search engine algorithms are randomized.

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Steven Wagenheim

14 years ago

Originally Posted by turbostar52

It's not that easy. According to Chris Knight, you have to submit about 2000 articles before you really start making money. You could really make some money in the early days with 100 or 200 articles.

Let me tell you something. I have 6 articles...6...that get me over 1,000
views each month...that's 1,000 views a piece.

Thousands?

Maybe if you're a hack and don't know what you're doing.

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14 years ago

As tears flowed freely from some people's eyes , those of use with the stoic belief of grown men not crying, quietly looked away to conceal eyes glistening to the point of seepage .

Reverend Google assured us that article marketing was in a better place . Not to let our hearts be troubled . Article marketing was in a place of rest and joy . Finally united with those that had crossed the abyss before it .

Tears of joy replace woeful sobs as we envisioned article marketing walking hand in hand with SEO as affiliate marketing decrees ... Twitter will join their ranks soon... the circle will no longer be broken.

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Slin

14 years ago

You must be doing something wrong if you have 500 and not good sales.

I find that I should make at least one sale every 20 articles. (if I don't at least hit that then I switch products)

I mainly just use EZA (please don't hate me for that, I get results!)

The great thing about article marketing is it builds on itself. The more I write the more sales I get, I write 20 articles and get 1 sale a month or so.

Then I write 20 more, by the end I get tons of money! I want to hit a 500$ for the first time in the next 3 months.

Just work at it, and make sure your landing page converts, honestly I think that might be the real problem.

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Tyrome

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Slin

You must be doing something wrong if you have 500 and not good sales.

I find that I should make at least one sale every 20 articles. (if I don't at least hit that then I switch products)

I mainly just use EZA (please don't hate me for that, I get results!)

The great thing about article marketing is it builds on itself. The more I write the more sales I get, I write 20 articles and get 1 sale a month or so.

Then I write 20 more, by the end I get tons of money! I want to hit a 500$ for the first time in the next 3 months.

Just work at it, and make sure your landing page converts, honestly I think that might be the real problem.

I agree 500 articles should make you a solid income

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turbostar52 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Tyrome

I agree 500 articles should make you a solid income

I make around 300 to 600 per month.
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turbostar52 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Slin

Just work at it, and make sure your landing page converts, honestly I think that might be the real problem.

One of my landing pages coverts at about 2 to 3 percent, and another one converts at about 4 to 6 percent. The problem I notice is, the article views die down fast. The niche is very competitive but has a high demand.
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Slin

14 years ago

Ezine articles have views that die down quickly because when you first post the articles your article is put onto a highly viewed page.

So it's ezine traffic, not google traffic you are receiving.

3% isn't bad, but what is your CTR at your landing page?

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turbostar52

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Slin

Ezine articles have views that die down quickly because when you first post the articles your article is put onto a highly viewed page.

So it's ezine traffic, not google traffic you are receiving.

3% isn't bad, but what is your CTR at your landing page?

My click-thru is about 15%.

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Lambert Klein

14 years ago

I only have around 180 articles out there and get almost 4000 views a month just from EZA not sure how many views I get from the hundreds of other directories.

Your 500 should be doing something for you...

I think article marketing helps.

Lambert

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Mark Owens

14 years ago

It's not dead. It's just the huge influx of people who think they can make millions using bad-quality, automatically spun content. Do it the right way and it still works like gold

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Tyrome

14 years ago

It's not dead. competition is just really tough and you need to stand out!

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Barry Unruh

14 years ago

Turbostar, you finally hit it right on the head.

Article Marketing is all about the numbers. If you create HIGH quality articles, targeted to properly researched keywords, in high enough numbers, to high enough quantities of locations, you will produce your own luck, and make money. Your piece of the pie can be quite large, as a matter of fact, go ahead and buy a second pie.

I know that's not what you meant with "luck and numbers" but you are so close to the revelation.

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guide4everything

14 years ago

Hello Turbostar,glad to meet you.
I always give first priority to articles.They really help me out in my work.

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Darren Hodgson

14 years ago

It all depends on how you do it. There's alot of good advice on this thread. take note.

Here's my take.

Web 2.0 your articles
Spin them and submit to as many article directories as you can not just ezines.
Do your keyword research and try to find a buying keyword.
Scatter you keyword throughout your article at about 1%
Find LSI keywords and scatter these through your article as well.
Test, Test, Test
If your resource box isn't converting then change it.
Create a title that's going to get opened.
Start a backlink campaign on your articles to help them up the search engines

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linkbeasts

14 years ago

If you outsource your writing to people who mess up the grammar real bad no one will take the article seriously is a big factor, also writing in such a way as to inspire the reader to click your link which is often lacking in many of the articles I read... you need to leave the reader with a " hunger " for more , a hunger that your link can fulfill.

PS ( edit ) if your link lands on a page that sucks well that could also have something to do with poor conversion if you are getting traffic but horrid conversion rates. Do you know how many visits you get per week / month from your articles ? what is your bounce rate on visits ? Bounce rate is a good indicator of trouble.

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Steven Wagenheim

14 years ago

Folks, this is JMO, but I think we should stop wasting our time answering
this guy. He just keeps coming back with one excuse after another.

I for one have better things to do with my time.

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- JAIDEEP2959 14 years ago
  
  If you write articles for buying keywords, it will give you sales.
  
  If you write articles for popular keywords, it will give you traffic.
  
  Keyword selection is most important.
  
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turbostar52

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim

Folks, this is JMO, but I think we should stop wasting our time answering
this guy. He just keeps coming back with one excuse after another.

I for one have better things to do with my time.

I'm not making excuse after excuse. I'm just keeping a dialogue going. It seems like you are wasting time because this post is off topic. But anyway, you're not going to bully me. If I want to keep this thread going, I will continue to do so. You don't own this forum.

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anthonyk 14 years ago

Article Marketing is all about content. People come to the net
to get quality content, free and paid.

That said, use articles for more then one purpose, such as
blog post, lens, hubpage.....whatever works for you.

Articles are a great way to test your entire system:
-no clicks----problems with either title, kw, content...
-clicks but the action stops on your site/blog/lens...---problems with landing page

You can literally see which part of your system you need to tweak.

There's more but this should give you some thoughts.
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jbode

14 years ago

Article marketing will always work... as long as you target the right potential customer
it takes more effort to get more exposure (than it used to), but that's true with almost any traffic source over time

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markimri

14 years ago

Article marketing still works. I write loads of articles which I submit and within seconds to minutes these articles are indexed and most times these articles appear on other websites and blog sites and are used by webmasters looking for new content. This creates new sources of traffic to my websites

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jennypitts

14 years ago

This is what WF is about, SOOOOO many different points of view, yet everyone has a point. I seriously think Article marketing is still a fundamental aspect of web marketing, otherwise we would not be discussing it so avidly. In my personal experience article writing and distributing HAS produced incredible results. I have seen an increase in traffic, backlinks, page rank and of course CASH influx. I think that with 500 articles you should be seeing more than a few visitors. You may need to seriously look at the content of your articles, analyze the information provided in them, review your site and make sure that it is completely optimized and maybe change your strategy with regards to the articles.

One thing I do agree with some fellow warriors is that you should NEVER depend entirely on one method of advertisement. Be it article marketing, email campaigns, etc. I think you should review your approach and ponder revising.

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MarketItAll

14 years ago

Article marketing works like a charm if you use it right. If you submitted over 500 articles and only a few of them are really bringing in sales for you, then you are probably not doing your keyword research before you write your articles.

I would much rather have 50 well researched articles than 500 articles that were not researched or poorly researched for keywords. You just have to probably go after more long tail keywords than what you are doing now. Try it, it works.

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Slin

14 years ago

Just wanted to post here again and say.

15% ctr on landing page is bad, you should get it up to at least 40%

Then you can start making money

that is your problem, not your articles.

Steven I don't know what you are talking about at all.

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Chris Dolan

14 years ago

Article Marketing is very much alive, of course you need to be ready to adapt. The problem for most people is where to start, and how not to waste time and money when writing articles. Its important to know the different ways articles get traffic. Some is obvious from the Search Engine results - which requires you to target keywords people are really searching for, and some articles get a high % of traffic from the article directory itself, indirectly from the search engine results of other articles.

So the writer may target directly what people search for in Google, Yahoo, etc, or may target other articles that are getting search engine traffic. Most directories display in the article page a list of other articles that are related. So while an article may appear on page 6 or 7 in Google it could piggyback an article on page 1.