Which is more effective? Please advise!

The secret is in keyword research. No matter how many articles you write, if they aren't seen in the serps then it's basically useless. (Though this is not a generalization, there are exceptions of course)

Check your keywords. First try to grab a good one. Just a good one and then put all of your efforts to getting the top spot for that.

After that, it's rinse and repeat

Another thing I've noticed -- If you submit a bunch of articles at once, it can take them longer to get indexed because you're competing with yourself in a way.

Personally, I try not to submit articles with the same target keyword on the same day. If I just submitted one on SEO, I'll submit another on article marketing, etc.

Question for you - are you getting article views, but they aren't translating into visits and sales? Or are you just not getting any article views?

It is tough to do mass article marketing these days, especially in the Forex niche (at least for me). I made a few sales in that niche, but I am not in it anymore. However, I would recommend you do some in depth keyword research using the Google Adwords Keyword Tool, as well as SEObook.com.

Keyword research is crucial, and you also need to be thinking of other ways to re-purpose your original articles in order to leverage the content you already have. Submit your articles to document sharing websites such as Scribd, and also make sure to create a blog and add your articles to it.

In future don't submit your articles all at once instead submit 2-3 articles daily, have you been optimizing your articles? Keyword is another thing might be hurting you though, in order have steady traffic you need to do backlinking, also start blogging as well. It takes a lot of work though.

Best Wishes!

@ Everyone, thanks a bunch for all your useful contributions so far.

@ rapidscc, I try as much as possible to research on useful keywords having less competition but with reasonable monthly searches(using adword keyword tool). I use these in my articles, ensuring they appear sparingly in my article title, body and tags. I don't know if there's something I'm doing wrong.

@ avenuegirl, the click through rate on my articles (for my new campaign) is about 21% on ezine. I guess this is okay but yet no sales breakthrough. Initially, my links led straight to my affiliate sales page because I thought this would ensure better sales conversions but this was just not the case (I even bought a unique domain name for this). I then decided to set up a blog (more like a brief review page) at wordpress.com which was precise, clear and straight to the point. I got some traffic to the blog but the few people that clicked through my affiliate link still did not buy.

@NicoleBeckett, of course I get some article views and site visits, but they are not translating into sales.

@Alexa, your points are well noted. I'll go back to where I started from and restrategize on how to develop a great site first and foremost. However, does it mean sending traffic directly to my affiliate sales page would yield no result? I would also want you to shed more light on how to make the best use of forum marketing. I am very much interested in this since article marketing doesn't seem to be working.
@All, what kind of affiliate programs does article marketing really work for? Please pardon my curiosity, i just don't seem to get it!

@ mlord10, most of my articles are keyword rich. One of them actually once ranked No.6 for its keywords on google and No.4 on bing! However, the issue here is that there's no sales. I keep wondering what it is that I'm not doing well. I wouldn't mind going for another affiliate program but I just don't want to make the same mistakes again..

@ Jamian, article marketing doesn't seem to be working for me. You mind shedding more light on 'backlinking'?

Thanks everyone, my happy feelings towards your contributions is far beyond comprehension. I feel so good that you guys are trying to help. Please don't go yet..

Definetely consistency is important....

I mean you need to write as much as possible, but if you're not using the right keywords theres no point...

How are your keywords, are they targeted?

you really have to focus on the targeted keywords, because those are what they call the money keywords...

for example, if you were selling trainers....

you wouldn't just write trainers as your keyword....

you would make it more targeted, what is the brad of those trainers?

then you would write the brad ad trainers example. "Nike trainers"

so you are targeting your prospects, ad you know the only people who are typing that are people searching for Nike trainers

Hope ive helped you

Louise Evans

Forex is extremely competitive. Maybe you should think about finding a smaller less competitive niche while you learn.

Thanks everyone