Article Marketing : I know it works But....

Thanks for the response.
I always try to get a catchy title...As i said in my previous post i am starting to do keyword research....

Yes, I am setting up a squeeze page for the weight loss niche. I know it has terrible competition but i have many weight loss articles ready.

Stretch Marks : I used that niche to get a "platinum" level status. Many advised me to stay away from make money online, adult niche etc...so just selected stretch marks...I won't be adding more articles...Same is the case for cellulite.. I got 4 plr articles which were never published...

But still i will be changing the product selection. Thanks for the advise.
Yes, I wont waste another 150 articles. Many things are left to be done before i publish them.

Things learnt :
1) Build squeeze pages for highly competitive niche.
2) Find low competition niche.
3) Always do keyword research.

Thanks again for all the advise.

Hi Hardik,

It's very good, and very unusual, when replying to an "article marketing question thread" to be able to see exactly what the OP is doing: what their articles look like, what their resource boxes look like, which products they're promoting and how, and what their figures are. Well done for giving so much information. Unlike most people who ask here, you've made it really easy to advise you - so thanks for that.

First, let me tell you briefly, my overall impression of what you're doing and why it isn't going to work for you, and why I think it's so important for you to ignore the advice above from people telling you to continue what you're doing. Then I'll answer some of your direct questions and we'll see what you could change to produce some income out of this.

But bear in mind, before we start, that it's all been an important and worthwile part of the learning-curve anyway. (And that I was doing no better than you, at an equivalent stage!)

My first thoughts:-

1. Your English is pretty good for someone whose first language isn't English. I can't see many serious mistakes of English in your articles, and the few minor errors there aren't going to cost you anything at all, so you have no great problem on that front. (That's why you got upgraded quickly and smoothly to Platinum, as people who can write decent English do - well done!).

2. Your articles are not well keyword optimised, if you're getting so few views. This is probably partly because you've chosen very competitive niches. One way or another, that's something you have to change (either the niches or the keyword optimisation, because at the moment you're not getting enough views).

3. There's a huge mismatch between your "stretchmark-prevention" articles and the "scar removal" product you're promoting. Finders and readers of those articles have no interest in scar removal. You might as well be writing about stretchmark prevention and selling an e-book about flying to the moon. They're two completely different things.

4. Your resource-boxes are very weak (I don't want to start writing a book about resource boxes in the middle of this post, but it's an area that needs a lot of attention).

5. This is the most important one. You're not going to be able to make Clickbank sales by direct linking like this. Not with this sort of article, not these products, and maybe (as Hamida observes above) not for Clickbank products at all. The weight-loss one you can't possibly sell without building a list. I'm not actually sure you can sell any of them at all without building a list. And you have to have a pre-selling page of some kind, too. This is really, really fundamental. There are 2 things you need to do, to make sales of Clickbank products through article marketing. The first is to pre-sell effectively. The second is to build a list and do email marketing to it. By direct linking, you can do neither of these things. But you're competing with hundreds of people who are doing both of them. Truly, the deck is stacked against you in many respects.

Don't continue to submit another 150 articles. It will not produce sales of these products, I'm sorry to say. Honestly, you need a Big Strategic Rethink, here.

This is your big problem, the one that's preventing you from earning anything and the one that makes all the other details more or less irrelevant. Without changing this, you won't earn money, I'm afraid.

Not surprising, just on the the numbers: you should be aiming for something about 1% conversion from visits to sales. You'll sometimes go for 200 - 300 visitors without a sale, so 40 is nothing. The problem here is that, the way you're doing this, you can get many hundreds of visits without a sale, because of the direct linking.

I suggest that you don't need to wait for 400 visits to learn this the hard way: you can learn it today from what Hamida and I are saying.

You could have a little website on which you "review" the products, and post all your articles there too, before submitting them to EZA, as explained in this thread. The thread is very worthwhile reading, in detail and with careful attention: there's a lot of valuable information from really successful experts in there.

But even without doing that, having just the squeeze page and the autoresponder will be a huge improvement on how you're trying to do it now.

People can argue about this for ever without producing a consensus.

Personally, my opinion is that weight loss and credit/financial services are bad niches for beginners, statistically. There are non-competitive ways into these niches, certainly, but overall, I think trying them as a beginner is a poor idea, and stacking the deck against yourself. I respect that some Warriors will disagree with this perspective.

Cellulite - I just don't know, sorry. I suspect it will need very good keyword research to get far. And this product would be no good for me to promote because of the opt-in.

Stretch marks - possibly. But at the moment the product you're promoting has nothing to do with avoiding stretch marks: it's about scar removal!

I don't know these markets well enough to answer. But their sales pages certainly contain some things that would stop me promoting them. If it helps you, my own "Clickbank product selection criteria" are listed in this post. It seems that many people have actually found them pretty helpful, and I think it might help you to have a look.

I'm puzzled that you think so. I promise you're not: your keyword density is actually below 2%, and that's a good thing.

Yes and no! The problem you have is not primarily with the quality of your articles (apart from the keyword optimisation and resource boxes, which I grant you can be improved plenty).

It's with the quality of your marketing process, and this is much more important, and more urgent, because even if you get the keyword research and resource boxes right, from tomorrow morning onwards, you may well still not make any sales by direct linking to these products' sales pages! :confused:

Thanks for the advise. You have provided me a detailed outlook. Thanks

Things to remember:
1) Improve resource box
2) Do not focus on highly competitive credit niche
3) Create a squeeze page
4) Write more informative and interesting articles.

Again thanks.

This forum is really great.