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A Few Article Marketing Questions

by anthmyers
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Hey Everyone,

Just a few questions regarding Article Marketing.

1. What are the main directories you submit to? I'm studying a course right now that recommends submitting to Ezine Articles, Go Articles, Uber Articles and Uber Articles.

2. Where are you sending your Article readers? This might vary greatly, but I'm a bit confused. I hear people say "I'm making $X/day with Article Marketing" - It gets me thinking, Are they writing great articles across dozens of niches and sending the traffic directly to related products where they earn an affiliate commission? Or are they sending them over to their own personal blog or squeeze page where they hope to get them to opt-in to their list and join their sales funnel, in which they sell their own products.

3. If you choose to send them directly to an offer where you earn an affiliate commission is it better to send them to a related CPA offer or Clickbank offer? Again, this might vary greatly but I'm just trying to get a general guideline.

That's all I got for right now... but I'm very interested in Article Marketing and hopefully I can clear up the confusion and get things to really *click*

Thanks ahead of time and sorry to be a pain with all the questions. I do my best to learn by reading questions that have already been asked and answered.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexander CPA
    Originally Posted by anthmyers View Post

    Hey Everyone,

    Just a few questions regarding Article Marketing.

    1. What are the main directories you submit to? I'm studying a course right now that recommends submitting to Ezine Articles, Go Articles, Uber Articles and Uber Articles.

    2. Where are you sending your Article readers? This might vary greatly, but I'm a bit confused. I hear people say "I'm making /day with Article Marketing" - It gets me thinking, Are they writing great articles across dozens of niches and sending the traffic directly to related products where they earn an affiliate commission? Or are they sending them over to their own personal blog or squeeze page where they hope to get them to opt-in to their list and join their sales funnel, in which they sell their own products.

    3. If you choose to send them directly to an offer where you earn an affiliate commission is it better to send them to a related CPA offer or Clickbank offer? Again, this might vary greatly but I'm just trying to get a general guideline.

    That's all I got for right now... but I'm very interested in Article Marketing and hopefully I can clear up the confusion and get things to really *click*

    Thanks ahead of time and sorry to be a pain with all the questions. I do my best to learn by reading questions that have already been asked and answered.
    1) Ezine, articlebase, goarticles
    2) Squeeze pages
    3) Either works, CPA offers require certain traffic (In terms of location), making it harder to directly link, unless you link them to a geo-ip redirecting script
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  • Profile picture of the author auradev
    1- yes those are the biggies, but there are dozens more

    2- Article marketing can make money 3 ways- links to your site (seo), visitors to your site (people who go to your site after reading where you sell them something there), and putting affiliate links directly in the article.

    You described the second 2 and I'm not sure what people tend to do, but I tend to send people to my sites and then sell them products as an affiliate. Because I want the link to my site for SEO. I think the other way is a valid strategy if you don't have your own websites.

    3-That totally depends on what it is you are selling. I would think that it is easier to sell well known CJ type products inside articles directly because it would look more like a product review.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by anthmyers View Post

    What are the main directories you submit to? I'm studying a course right now that recommends submitting to Ezine Articles, Go Articles, Uber Articles and Uber Articles.
    Hmmm ... is it sponsored by Uber Articles and/or Uber Articles? :confused:

    I haven't heard of it, to be honest. I submit to EZA, GoArticles and ArticlesBase, myself, but opinions will vary a lot.

    Originally Posted by anthmyers View Post

    Where are you sending your Article readers?
    Always to my own site, where there's an opt-in, other articles and information, product reviews and so on.

    Originally Posted by anthmyers View Post

    If you choose to send them directly to an offer where you earn an affiliate commission is it better to send them to a related CPA offer or Clickbank offer?
    A CPA offer.

    "Direct-linking" is an extremely difficult way of selling Clickbank products. To make any steady income from promoting Clickbank products, you need to do two things: (i) effective pre-selling, and (ii) building a list. Direct-linking achieves neither.

    To judge from earlier conversations, even most of the direct-linking enthusiasts here (of whom I'm not one, myself), if not all of them, would advise you against trying it with Clickbank products.
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  • Profile picture of the author anthmyers
    Thanks everyone, I appreciate it.
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  • Profile picture of the author JHC81
    I use ezine mostly and I send people to my review sites.
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    • Profile picture of the author anthmyers
      Originally Posted by Amy Garrison View Post

      I use ezine mostly and I send people to my review sites.
      Thanks Amy.

      On your review site, are you reviewing/pre-selling some sort of clickbank product or CPA offer? Do you directly link over to the product/offer? or do you build an email list on the review site and try to sell them through the autoresponder?
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