How True Is This Online Marketing Formula?

[robinana]

These are not my own words. This is a formula I got off of a Work at Home Mom's Forum I belong to. Can anyone take a minute to review it and tell me what you think? I'm interested in trying it but figured I'd run it by the "experts" here first. Thanks in advance!

1. Buy a .info domain for $.99 and a few months hosting for $5 (you can decide to buy longer term hosting later if you like how this works for you).

2. Create a free ClickBank account. This will allow you to collect commissions on affiliate sales.

3. Find a few nifty little simple HTML webpage templates. There are free ones everywhere.

4. Download GIMP and NVU. GIMP's a graphics editing program, NVU is a WYSIWYG program for editing web pages.

5. Visit Clickbank's marketplace and find a product with relatively high gravity. Something that interests you is a decent idea.

6. Set up an account at EzineArticles.com and 5 or 6 other article directories of relatively high repute.

7. Dig through EzineArticles.com articles relevant to the product you've selected. Check to see which ones are kicking butt in that category and grabbing tons of views. Look at them through the Ezine Publisher button and you can see what keywords were isolated.

8. Make a nice little keyword list based on the top articles in the category.

9. Use Google's keyword tool to research related keywords. Find related terms that are getting decent search volume and then check to see what the competition for those terms is like. Find options with less than 50K in real competition and add them to your list.

10. Take one of those templates, some graphics and some imagination and throw up a quick and dirty landing page on a subdomain of your new website. Make sure you're including your affiliate links. This page is pre-sell material.

11. Write about 10 articles based on the keywords you found. Submit them to EzineArticles.

12. Wait until they're all approved. See what the traffic looks like and how many sales you've logged. If things are promising, continue. If they're mediocre, make sure everything you've done is solid. If they suck, you may want to move on down the road.

13. If you have a winner, add wordpress to the subdomain. Link your new blog and the landing page you made. Or, you can create a static front page for the blog and rig it as your landing page.

14. Use your keyword list to come up with about 10 blog posts. You can dump them out there all at once, or you can schedule them to come out on a daily basis.

15. Keep submitting articles to EzineArticles like clockwork. For every 3 or 5 you submit to EzineArticles, submit another one to the other directories.

16. Take advantage of additional freebies to funnel traffic to your landing page. A free blogger.com blog, a free wordpress-hosted blog, squidoo lenses, you name it.

17. Use an autoresponder service to build a list and put the sign up form on your landing page. Feed the subscribers a series of emails, all of which contain your affiliate link.

18. Engage in regular link building efforts to help with your site's SEO. Forum participation, directory submission, comments on dofollow blogs and other like behavior is easy to do.

19. You can do this with a series of products on that same domain, using subdomains. Once you get a little practice, you can opt to set up new domains for every project. You can also buy .com's if it makes you feel better.

20. Lather, rinse, repeat.

The beauty of this method is that you are using your articles as the primary traffic mover and you aren't investing any advertising money.

It might seem like a lot of stuff, and it is possible to get way bogged down in little details, but if you are a good study and can move fast, the actual infrastructure creation is a lot faster than you'd think.

I can add a subdomain, build a landing page, generate a good keyword list and set up some extra free feeder sites in about three hours. Once you get a little knowledge and practice under your belt, it's easy.

The articles, though, are the key. That's why it's perfect for someone who can write. If your text is good, you will get traffic. And that traffic will convert to sales if you're working with strong affiliate products.

The learning curve isn't that steep, but it is infinite. You can learn a ton of great tricks on every level and there's constantly room for tweaking and improvement along the way. That makes it fun. Sort of like a big jigsaw puzzle that comes with checks made out to you.

Once the basic core structure is in place, your primary mission is to write articles. Only now, those articles and blog posts. Only now, all of that writing will be making you more dough.

At some point, you can escalate to the next level. Instead of being an affiliate for someone else's stuff, you can author and sell your own product. That's a whole different series of posts, though.

This is just ONE way to do something other than churning out articles for quick cash. It requires a leap of faith in your own abilities and a willingness to learn a bit about internet marketing.

The nice thing is that if, for some reason, you don't like it, you will have a strong acquaintance with much of the internet marketing world, which will allow you to better understand what cash clients want and how to give it to them. Plus, you can write IM articles, too. Another niche never hurt anyone.

In most cases, though, you will like it because you'll find a fun challenge in the process and the checks will make you do a little jig.

Here's one example for you. I timed myself on this project, so I could make a fair assessment of its popularity. I've put about 7 non-writing hours in on one project and continue to add about an hour per week in that department. Every morning, I write a little 250 word article based on my keyword list and submit it to EzineArticles.

That project has made me in excess of $50 per day for 18 out of the last 20 days. It cleared that mark 12 out of 13 days when I was on vacation doing nothing. It occasionally brings home a $200 day.

And it isn't my biggest winner, it's just the one I happened to time.

I'm about to kick off a new little project like this on getting rid of clutter.

I know that a lot of people will have a lot of questions. That's understandable. All I can say is that Google is an awesome little tool and research never killed anyone. If you're smart enough to be a good writer, you're more than smart enough to figure this stuff out.

Again, this probably isn't for everyone. But it's also not the only way to make your articles really work for you. It's just one option.

[ShelbyC]

Very cool plan, I'll add a couple of your ideas to my current plan. Thanks.

[bgmacaw]

This isn't all that different for the method I use although I don't depend on articles to bring in traffic but Google search results. Articles are sometimes a part of this but are relatively minor as compared to the rest.

I also don't recommend using .info domains, especially with subdomains. While some statements from Google say that they aren't prejudiced against them, statements by other Google people, including Matt Cutts, and their actions, such as blanket deindexing a few months ago, indicate differently. I think you'll be better off purchasing a new .com or, even better, a pre-owned .com, .net or .org that fits your keyword profile.

[grumpyjacksa]

you do realize of course that some people would charge money for what you just wrote..........

but thanx a lot ! i'll give it some work.......

theoretically, it seems sound. it should work