Questions for article marketers

It depends on your goals. Why are you doing article marketing? If it's simply to get backlinks to your site, write them short and pay less attention to the quality. If it's to drive direct traffic through links in the article, you need write a better quality article so you can sell the click. And then some people write them to be longer and of higher quality in order to get them syndicated on as many other sites as possible. That builds name and site recognition and authority status.

It's not a one-size-fits-all activity, in other words.

John

I am with Zeus.

You can write articles for links only, and when you do size does not matter.

If you write to attract an audience and customers, then you need to focus more on your storyline, and use as many words as are necessary to tell the story you want to tell.

The better your story -- by focusing on what your reader wants, the more likely you will be able to drive direct sales from your articles.

If you don't give a **** about Click-Through traffic (CTRs) or the reader, then do the bare minimum to get published.

Also, the better your article is, the more likely it will be syndicated

I'm with Zeus and the others

How many articles per product?

Right now, I write 16 articles for each keyword I find worthy of writing about. Why 16? Because I can easily come up with that exact number (8 one day, 8 the next day).

So the number of articles per product would depend on the number of keywords, I would use per product.

Contrary to what some others here have posted, I believe size does matter. The whole purpose of your article marketing should not be to simply get links back to your site - there are thousands of other ways to do that.

If you are going to the trouble of writing articles or having articles written for you, you may as well also take advantage of any traffic those articles can bring you.

For traffic you will need quality articles. Someone landing on your article is not a guarantee of them coming to your website. Your article has to do the job of taking them over to your website - only well written articles will do this. You can't get much across in only 250 words.

In regards to how many articles you should be writing, I think 150 per product is a little overkill. I also think 16 for each keyword (as the above poster mentioned) is overkill. The reason I say this is that once again, we are looking for quality articles. It would be very hard to write 16 articles on the same keyword phrase without compromising the quality of each article. And when you compromise the quality of your articles then yes, you will need to write more articles to get the same results that one well though-out and well written article could have given you.

IMO there should be no set number. When you are targeting a particular niche or product, do some keyword research and find the keywords you wish to target. Then write one, well written, quality article for each keyword phrase you are trying to target.

You should then go and submit that article to the top 5 or so directory sites. Sites like ezine articles, go articles, article base, etc. I personally would not bother submitting them to every article directory you can find. You are providing quality articles (hopefully) so you should put them on sites where the quality of work is equal to yours.

Hope that helps.

I am sure that some niches are such that writing a lot (either in one article or indeed lots of different articles!) is actually tricky.

One of the things talked about above is quality. That is surely not only about "the story", ie. set out to say something and say it, then stop, but also about the way you put a sentence together. The advent of cheap and quick "article writing services" from all parts of the globe, and (worse still!) the ability to automatically spin articles, translate them into Afgan, to South Korean and then back to "English" means that a woefully large percentage of the articles even on the directories, either make no sense, have weird sentences, use rare words not in common parlance, or are just plain gobbledygook. If English is not your mother tongue, English article-writing may not be for you.

I read one the other day about traffic (internet traffic) which talked about the reptiles. It was a long time later when I realised they were referring to the Google crawlers. Now, reptiles is an English word, in common parlance, but I have to say it should not turn up in an English article about internet traffic!

Because most of the other article directories set their minimum length at 400 or above. And the SEs love more content than less. If it comes between your 250 word article for the same keyword at the 500 word article and they are optimized the same, who do you think they will rank first?

So - we're not submitting to only EzineArticles. You want to be able to reuse as much of your content as possible and I'd rather do that with 500 words because there are more words to spin.

Yes, there is.

One of the striking features here, in our many discussions about articles' length, is the consistent way in which all the people I know to be highly experienced, very successful professional article marketers state that they're writing articles far longer than those of "other article marketers".

My articles are typically between 900 and 1,200 words, and long experience in 8 different niches has taught me that I'll typically earn far more from a 900-word article than I will from three 300-word ones, in spite of the latter arrangement of the same 900-word total having three times as many resource-boxes and backlinks.

The reason for this is actually a very simple one: syndication.

The purpose and function of an article directory (and actually the reason for their being called "directories") is that they're depositories of content to which webmasters and ezine/newsletter compilers can (and do) go in search of content for their sites.

If I write an article about, let's say, deep-dea-fishing, what I want to happen with it is for the article (and its accompanying resource-box and backlinks) to be published on some good quality deep-sea-fishing sites, in front of pre-targeted audiences of people already interested in deep-sea-fishing, who go there regularly to read the site and its updates.

But I can't - because I have only one, small, new-ish site on deep-sea-fishing, myself, and its home page is only PR-0/PR-1 (let's say).

And, unfortunately, all I can get out of an article directory for my article is a non-context-relevant PR-0 backlink of almost no value at all (unless I happen to find a specialist deep-sea-fishing article directory, I suppose - but I don't happen to know any!).

So what I do with it is: I publish it on my own site first and get it indexed there, and then I submit it to Ezine Articles. A month later, it's been syndicated to 5 other, good, context-relevant sites because EZA is where the webmasters of those 5 sites look for content for their sites - because that's what EZA's there for and why it exists.

They have space to fill, so they use an article directory to source freely available content which they can publish.

And if they have space to fill, they're not very interested in 250-word articles, because they'd need rather a lot of them to fill their space. But if they see a well-written 900/1,000-word article that tells them something new and controversial, and especially if it makes them laugh a bit as well, and isn't overtly promoting a specific product, they'll republish it for sure.

And that's how I get the higher-PR, higher-quality, context-relevant, pre-targeted traffic and backlinks (which are worth thousands of times as much link-juice as an article directory backlink) that my article marketing business needs, in order to produce gradually increasing residual income from work already done.

I'm certainly not writing for article directory backlinks (they're almost useless to me), and I'm not really even writing primarily for article directory traffic (though I do also get some of that). I'm writing for syndication. And short articles just don't work for that purpose.

I'm pleased if I can write one article per day.

Quality (together with length) leads to quantity, through syndication, which leads to a big income.

It'll get you more backlinks, but that's about all it'll get you, realistically, and collectively they're terribly poor quality backlinks. You'll need tens of thousands of them (at least) to get your site moving significantly up the SERP's for any competitive keywords. You can do that, by writing 150 short articles and submitting them all to 200 places, if you really want to. It's not my idea of fun.

I submit to three directories, at the moment.

When I first started, I used to submit to 200+ (briefly, until I realised why it was such a waste of time). Then for a longer time I submitted to about 7 or 8. And a few months ago I realised that even that was unnecessary.

I only really need one (Ezine Articles) but I'm nervous of becoming dependent on one directory, because I'll feel like an idiot if they disappear tomorrow, so I normally submit to two others as well (but I don't really get anything much from them, to be honest).

All the most experienced article marketers I know submit to very few.

Building a real business (growing residual income, not fast traffic and constant "rinsing and repeating"!) through article marketing necessitates thinking well beyond article directories.

People who fail at article marketing all fail in more or less the same way: it's a way characterised by short articles, "writing for clicks", salesy resource-boxes, fast traffic, mass submission, obsession about their "CTR", poor quality backlinks, spinning (sometimes), high quantity, and constant "rinse-and-repeat". This business model does work for some people, though (just not very many as a proportion of those who try it - the rest silently disappear or come back a year later and start a thread here under the title "Article marketing doesn't work any more"!).

People who succeed and build growing businesses based on increasing residual income tend to have their own slightly different ways, though. In my case, I'm actually using an article directory as a way of getting beyond article directories.

And that's why I write such long articles (and forum posts, apparently!).

As a newbie to all this could one of you please elabroate about article writing and duplicate content. I recently wrote an article posted it to my site then posted it to an article directory and it was rejected as duplicate content. My conclusion was if I wanted it on the directory I could not use it myself. The article was original content.

Hello to all,

by this;

"If we then slide down and take a look at an author such as Tim Gorman (a fellow warrior) who has just over 1,500 articles posted, with some quick maths you can see he is getting an average of 3622 views per article. The author above him is getting 155 views/article, the person below him is getting an average of 89 views/article."

Also get this example to my web projekt to make money with adsense;

when I get 155 views for each article. But how many from theese 155 visitors come to my webpage? 10% more, less?

So when i need 5000 visitors every month.

Also i think its possible, when i write daily 40 articles to 40 different directories, tha 1 article brings 8 visitors a day for 10 days then is finish, then the article a little bit slips further back , each day. Then after 10 days 1 article brings not visitors.

So, daily 40 articles brings me 300 visitors a day? I hope it the this is real.

Plus daily 10 different blogposts with long tail keywords, to 10 different web 2.0 properties
(link wheel) must be brigng traffic too.

Then later plus the traffic from the serps.....

Summary this i think is possible to become an flood if googd traffic and when you make your adsense template right to become an high ctr, then you will make money.

best wishes
marco005

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

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also available as a WSO here:

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This is a really great WSO for people trying to write good preselling articles:

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

View Profile: Zeus66

In particular this one - All people interested in article marketing should study this!

http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...-you-need.html

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

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Hope this helps.

Write your articles exactly long enough to tell the story and have your readers take action, then stop. I have articles which are complete at 400 words and others which have exceeded 1500 words.

Write exactly enough articles for your niche to tell the entire story over your series of researched and targeted phrases, weighted upon your desires for backlinks, and direct traffic from the directories. Add in the factor of your ROI. This number can be anywhere from a handful to hundreds. No one can answer for your niche, since we do not know your competition level and goals.

Submit your articles to exactly as many directories as it takes to accomplish #2. Personally I rarely use more than EzineArticles, Articlesbase, and GoArticles. The only exception is when I'm trying to drive up backlinks for one of my blogs, then I will throw an extra article out to a large number of directories not expecting any traffic from these lower tier directories.

I endeavor to have articles syndicated, too. I "hope" for syndication from the directories, and "work" for it by contacting content users.

Barry

Don't write articles for search engines or backlinks. White them for readers.............

For me, 350 words has been the golden number. Not too long, not too short, just right..

Hello,
very thanks for your questions and tips!

But, daily submitt articles to 40 different dierectories manual is not possible,i look fpr an good working, serious free article submitter.

Does everybody here have a recommend?

best wishes
marco005

Here is something else to consider in terms of article length. If a person struggles with writing then cranking out a 250 word article might be their maximum performance level at this point in time. Gradually as they become better at writing they can migrate to longer articles.

If it comes down to not writing anything or writing and submitting 250 word articles then by all means write and submit 250 word articles but my experience has shown that articles that short simply don't produce the results that a 500 word article can produce.

You've probably read Alexa's post where she talks about her articles going anywhere from 900 to 1200 words in length.

However, notice how she writes and the style she uses......quite honestly she is an accomplished writer and many article marketers are not so longer articles work better for her business based on the strength of her writing abilities.

As an article marketer you must leverage your strengths and improve your weaknesses if you intend to compete against your competitors.

As far as number of articles to submit on behalf of a niche. Over the last year I have come to the conclusion that 40 published articles is the magic number where I can ascertain if a niche will be profitable enough to continue writing content on it's behalf.

That's based on 40 keyword phrases with 1 high quality article per phrase. There are other factors involved such as website conversion..etc but rigth now I focus on the 40 articles as a standard article marekting campaign.

For submission purposes....if you plan to knock out 250 word articles then by all means submit them to as many places as you can but automate the process.

On the other hand, if you plan to create much longer articles then be a bit more selective in terms of where you submit your articles. Save your best work for the foloowing places:

1 - Your own site
2 - Top tier article directories
3 - Guest writer opportunities on blogs

In fact why not conduct a double edged sword campaign where you submit longer articles to one group (see above) and shorter articles to a second group...this way you obtain benefits from both article versions (short and long).

One caveat to all this - 1 high quality article will always outperform 10 low quality articles and size does make a difference in the amount of quality you put into your article content.

respectfully,
Tim

An article that does not get opened does not get read. Take a few minutes to look at this article on creating better titles for your articles.

People dont have time,So write short and smart with pointing the important keyword to your site that's it,You will get lot of visits rather than a 500 word long article

Are you using an article writing program?

If the article length is 500 words or more, it will bore the readers and you'll not get click. It's better not to give too much for your readers, give them half of the information, and the other half is in "click here". Just my 2 cents.

I have a feeling one day EZA will not accept articles unless they are 400 words to cut down on low quality articles....just a hunch.

Article Length - I like to hit around the 400 range to have enough content to make it a valuable article but short enough where I can make it time effective for me. I suppose this can depend on what you're talking about but enough to get some good quality information on your topic in there but don't make it 1000 words just for the sake of it being long and having it be drawn out and purposeless.

How Many - I think as many as you can for the topic. What I do is find articles topics that can potentially rank on their own in the top of Google just based on the juice they get from Ezine or Article Base. I try to hit like 5000 or less searches with 5,000 or less competition. Then I will try to write as many possible articles I can within these constraints for the topic that I'm marketing for. This usually becomes tough because those are pretty tight constraints, but you can get creative with this. Mind you this works for me and I don't know your situation completely but you might find this helpful

Directories - I've found that I don't really get any benefit from spending all the time submitting to article directories that are worthless. I submit to Ezine, GoArticles, and ArticleBase. I used to submit to 20 or so more with an automatic article submitter but I really saw almost no results from this and quit doing it. it's nice to think you can spread your content over 100's of sites but in reality it doesn't seem to do much at all except waste time and clutter up the internet. That is my experience though maybe it has helped others but I saw no traffic coming from these directories and very few if any backlinks