How to make $1000,000 with article marketing....

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ok for all you article marketers, is this following paragraph accurate to make $1000 000 with article marketing?

Let us assume I have found a keyword in my niche that gets 25,000
searches a month in Google and I have an affiliate product that pays $25 per sale/lead in that niche

Let us also assume I have a website that will eventually rank in the top 3 in Google for that keyword.

If that is the case then statistically I could probably see about 10%-%40 of those searchers a month visiting my website or one of my articles that is circulating the internet.

This works out to approximately 8000 visitors to my main money site in 1 month.

If my main money page (landing page) has a click thru rate of %37 then approximately 3000 people would continue to the affiliate offer, and out of those 3000 let us say 3% of them would convert (3% Conversion Rate) meaning 90 people would by the product every month. This results in $2200 a month (90 x $25).

To make $1000,000 in a year I would need to be making about $84, 000 a month meaning the above scenario would have to be done about 40 times over.

Is this realistic? If not why?
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  • Profile picture of the author myob
    It can be done, and those earnings are in fact greatly exceeded by many article marketers here. But your metrics are unrealistic because of so many unsupported assumptions.

    For example, you have not taken into account the sheer number of articles that will be required to meet your targets. I can tell you it is way more than you can handle by yourself without significant outsourcing.

    How well do you know your market? How well can you write to that market? How are you going to produce articles in sufficient volume? Where will these articles be submitted?

    The answers to these four questions alone will be major factors that needs to be included in your model. It may also be helpful for to do a search on the forum for "article marketing". This topic is discussed quite frequently.
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  • Profile picture of the author hotlinkz
    Of course it's realistic. You have people earning 10x that and more. Some earn less but still considerable incomes annually.

    The real question is... can it be done using article marketing? If you visit EzineArticles, you will see that Sean Mize has something like 25,000 articles posted. I doubt he is making a million a year from them. A huge number of those articles are outdated and have fallen off the radar. Article marketing done the "old way" is a mass production proposition and few marketers have the resources or capital to maintain the outsourcing of this type article production.

    Another problem. You start off with "article marketing", then you immediately jump to having a Google Top 3 ranking website for what appears to be a somewhat competitive keyword (based on 25,000 average searches monthly).

    I missed the connection. Do you mean to get your articles ranked or your site ranked? Getting articles ranked for such a keyword while almost immediately slash your calculations by 50% or more. Many of the visitors who filter through this type "funnel" get siphoned off by EZA and they will never get to the point of clicking your resource box links.

    You must also take into consideration that while real article syndication can still be profitable. Google is working hard to learn how to detect spun content and low-quality content. And...they have already proven that they are more than willing to accept the collateral damage caused by taking out good sites in an effort to get to bad ones.

    If your goal is a million a year, set up your business and marketing infrastructure and create a good business plan first. Then start building on that infrastructure.

    Best of luck to You!
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    • Profile picture of the author Joey Babbs
      Originally Posted by hotlinkz View Post

      The real question is... can it be done using article marketing?
      I agree and I think it can be done with article marketing as a tool for ranking the website in the top 3

      Originally Posted by hotlinkz View Post

      Article marketing done the "old way" is a mass production proposition
      The old way of spamming article directories with poor quality content doesnt work but mass production still works....from what I have seen

      Originally Posted by hotlinkz View Post

      Another problem. You start off with "article marketing", then you immediately jump to having a Google Top 3 ranking website for what appears to be a somewhat competitive keyword (based on 25,000 average searches monthly). I missed the connection. Do you mean to get your articles ranked or your site ranked?
      I am talking about using article marketing to get my site ranked in the top 3 - using content distribution to gain backlinks to rank my site in the top 3....


      Originally Posted by hotlinkz View Post

      Google is working hard to learn how to detect spun content and low-quality content.
      Totally agree! but there are still ways to get 90 percent unique articles distributed for less than $1 each


      Thanks for the info!
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  • At a glance, the math looks correct. Execution is entirely different.

    (a) If it is that easy - competition will spring up. Google rankings don't always stay the same, and it is unlikely you would maintain that position for a year.
    (b) Products/seasons change. Expecting a consistent 37% & 3% purchase rate is unlikely unless you maintain the site/etc. Unless it is an 'ever-weather' product (i.e., doesn't matter what month it is, people still want it).

    Since it doesn't sound like you've done this before, getting 90 sales/month is a lot harder than it sounds. More likely, if you work hard at it, you'll get 10-15 sales/month, which, using your math = $250-$375/month. It will take some work to get it to 90 sales/month.
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  • Profile picture of the author mbenton
    Okay, but stop and ask yourself...that would have to be a pretty in demand product to get 3%.
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  • Profile picture of the author vansterdam420
    It is easy to get carried away with estimates in the early phases. Sure the math all looks simple enough, but as others have mentioned it is difficult to build up to that much. I'm sure it could be done if you work hard enough though. It doesn't seem to be the best time to pursue such a strategy with google fighting back against article marketing. The biggest hurdle is likely getting all the content outsourced. You would have to invest considerable money. Plus I wouldn't want to over rely on one strategy like that. Things change too fast online.
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    • Profile picture of the author Joey Babbs
      Originally Posted by vansterdam420 View Post

      It is easy to get carried away with estimates in the early phases. Sure the math all looks simple enough, but as others have mentioned it is difficult to build up to that much. I'm sure it could be done if you work hard enough though. It doesn't seem to be the best time to pursue such a strategy with google fighting back against article marketing. The biggest hurdle is likely getting all the content outsourced. You would have to invest considerable money. Plus I wouldn't want to over rely on one strategy like that. Things change too fast online.
      Google is not fighting back against article marketing,,,,,they are fighting against spammers...there is a BIG difference
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      • Profile picture of the author kingsol
        Why would anyone pay for your articale, unless you where scamming them and then word would get out that your page was a scam.
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        • Profile picture of the author Kay King
          How to make $1000,000 with article marketing....
          Use the product you are selling in your signature?

          You won't know what is possible for YOU until you do it. One thing is sure - it's fun to run numbers about "potential earnings" but that doesn't put a nickel in the bank.

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          • Profile picture of the author Joey Babbs
            Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

            You won't know what is possible for YOU until you do it. One thing is sure - it's fun to run numbers about "potential earnings" but that doesn't put a nickel in the bank.

            kay
            I totally agree with you...article marketing is one of those businesses you have to keep working at to see big rewards...
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by vansterdam420 View Post

      It doesn't seem to be the best time to pursue such a strategy with google fighting back against article marketing.
      Google isn't fighting back against article marketing.

      It's fighting back against article directory marketing.

      That's why so many article marketers have been saying here, for a couple of months, how pleased we are about the Panda update (even though it was "too little, too late") and how much more traffic and sales we're getting after it than before it: taking those directory articles off the front page of the SERP's has made it easier for article marketers to rank the articles on our own sites.

      The reality is that article directory marketing (relying on article directories for their traffic and backlinks) hasn't been a viable business model, most of the time, for most people, for a few years. The Panda update might have done a bit more damage to it, but for the most part only a "last nail" in a coffin-lid that was already pretty much closed.
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  • Profile picture of the author 1SEO
    Originally Posted by freddyfortunes View Post

    ok for all you article marketers, is this following paragraph accurate to make $1000 000 with article marketing?

    Let us assume I have found a keyword in my niche that gets 25,000
    searches a month in Google and I have an affiliate product that pays $25 per sale/lead in that niche

    Let us also assume I have a website that will eventually rank in the top 3 in Google for that keyword.

    If that is the case then statistically I could probably see about 10%-%40 of those searchers a month visiting my website or one of my articles that is circulating the internet.

    This works out to approximately 8000 visitors to my main money site in 1 month.

    If my main money page (landing page) has a click thru rate of %37 then approximately 3000 people would continue to the affiliate offer, and out of those 3000 let us say 3% of them would convert (3% Conversion Rate) meaning 90 people would by the product every month. This results in $2200 a month (90 x $25).

    To make $1000,000 in a year I would need to be making about $84, 000 a month meaning the above scenario would have to be done about 40 times over.

    Is this realistic? If not why?
    According to your signature you make $6,600 a month. To make $84,000 a month (approx $1 million year) why not do 12X what you're doing already?:confused:
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  • Profile picture of the author himanuzo
    Yes, this plan needs hard work to achieve the goal!
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  • Profile picture of the author Drewry_Media
    Originally Posted by freddyfortunes View Post

    ok for all you article marketers, is this following paragraph accurate to make $1000 000 with article marketing?

    Let us assume I have found a keyword in my niche that gets 25,000
    searches a month in Google and I have an affiliate product that pays $25 per sale/lead in that niche

    Let us also assume I have a website that will eventually rank in the top 3 in Google for that keyword.

    If that is the case then statistically I could probably see about 10%-%40 of those searchers a month visiting my website or one of my articles that is circulating the internet.

    This works out to approximately 8000 visitors to my main money site in 1 month.

    If my main money page (landing page) has a click thru rate of %37 then approximately 3000 people would continue to the affiliate offer, and out of those 3000 let us say 3% of them would convert (3% Conversion Rate) meaning 90 people would by the product every month. This results in $2200 a month (90 x $25).

    To make $1000,000 in a year I would need to be making about $84, 000 a month meaning the above scenario would have to be done about 40 times over.

    Is this realistic? If not why?

    I' not really worried about making $100k or $ 1 mil a year. As long as it's enough to help me pay bills and move forward, i'm all for it. But hey, a million a year I would like to have, but willing to wait years for it. It's not something I'm head over heels for =)
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