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101,715 views, 18,560 clicks. (Ezine Articles stats). I've been waiting for this milestone for awhile. Even though I've been dormant for a couple of months, I thought I would post to try to get my mind back on what I want to do.

I started writing articles in May of 2008, I now have 246 live. I have 100 in one niche that has brought in 99.5% of sales. 100+ visitors to website daily, a sale every three days. (Highly searched niche but hard sell.)

I stopped writing consistently in Oct because I went back to work full-time and had other family issues. I was excited that sales kept coming in even though I didn't have any fresh articles. Now everything has pretty much dried up. I have several articles that are solidly on the first page of Google but I think without the constant influx of new articles my website visits have dropped in half.

I'm trying to get back on the stick, but when you think about all the stuff that you have to do (writing, promoting, blogging, etc.) it gets overwhelming. I am trying to set small daily goals for myself.

Instead of saying I've got to write 10 articles, submit to five directories, create two lens, add to the blog, add fresh content to website, etc., I've broken it down into daily tasks that will eventually get me to the finish line.
Day 1: Write two articles and submit to EZA.
Day 2: Edit Squidoo page
Day 3: Add two articles to blog.
Day 4: Write two articles.
Day 5: Submit two articles to other directory.

I try not to think about the big picture because it will make me freeze up and not do anything.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
    Congrats ... huge achievement. I remember hitting 100,000 and it really felt good. I am closing in on 600 articles now and I can personally confirm that article marketing works. You just have to know when to submit, what niches to get involved in, learn how to draw readers to the resource box ...
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Ambrose
    Great idea to spread out the workload. I also find it easier writing everything I have to do down. Otherwise my brain overloads!

    Congrats on the milestone
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanman
    Congrats...There are very few people out there who have articles with such high views.
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  • Profile picture of the author TLTheLiberator
    Congrats!

    You know that you can ping your EZA RSS feed every time you add a new article for some quick and perhaps ongoing traffic from the RSS world right.

    - You do ping your blog every time you post to it right?

    - It wouldn't hurt your traffic stats if you could somehow bookmark everything you've created also.

    - ISNARE has a pretty decent article submission service for only $2 per article:

    Just checking and just trying to help if possible.

    Congrats again!

    TL
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  • Profile picture of the author Chiayee
    Hey there..

    Now that you have identify a profitable niche, I highly recommend you build a list. Instead of directing them to landing/presell pages, get them to sign up to your newsletter.

    I was in your situation. I have one niche that made me money, but I have to keep submitting articles to EZA to keep the traffic. As soon as I direct those traffic to squeeze page, conversion improves A LOT.

    TL mentioned Isnare. From my personal experience, their service is slow and lousy.

    hope this help.

    CY
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    • Profile picture of the author TLTheLiberator
      Originally Posted by Chiayee View Post

      Hey there..

      Now that you have identify a profitable niche, I highly recommend you build a list. Instead of directing them to landing/presell pages, get them to sign up to your newsletter.

      I was in your situation. I have one niche that made me money, but I have to keep submitting articles to EZA to keep the traffic. As soon as I direct those traffic to squeeze page, conversion improves A LOT.

      TL mentioned Isnare. From my personal experience, their service is slow and lousy.

      hope this help.

      CY
      At $2 per article it certainly won't hurt her content distribution efforts especially if she's not going to be using anything else and a couple hundred backlinks for sure for only $2 is a good deal even if takes a week to 10 days for distribution.

      1 link in the bio box can go to that squeeze page you mentioned and the other could go to pumping up the views and backlinks to one of her eza articles.

      You're right, she should set up that squeeze page and start building that long term asset.

      There's someone at this forum ( I can't remember who ) that will distribute an article through their Article Marketer account for $10 and I think it includes a original artIcle.

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      • Profile picture of the author jcw
        Way to go Lynne! Very smart of you to split the work out like that. I face the same challenge and try to set up my to-do list for the week in the same way. It's a pretty good feeling when the week is over and you look back at all you accomplished.

        Take care,
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  • Profile picture of the author chrisc58
    Hi there,

    Well Done!

    I would like to say congrats on making money from the internet and almost being in a situation where you could either work full/part time and have a second income coming in with little or no effort atall.

    I believe that this is an extremely good path to making money online. I am also interested to hear how you managed to drive traffic to your website in such vast volumes? I run a business in the Internet Services industry of which I bought back in November 2008.

    I turned the company around and made it more professional and attractive that what it previously was. I am now looking at increasing my current marketing and promotion activities.
    Any advice that anyone can give would be more than welcome.

    We advertise with:

    Yell.com, Yellow Pages, Friday Ad, Google, Yahoo
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  • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
    Congrats Lynne,
    I will wait for mine to hit those views.. in the meantime isnare is ok for $2 but the fact is one of their main sources is yahoo groups, they post on the group list and then the group list decide to take your article or not.

    Bookmarking will help out with traffic and submitting to rss directories. Just as you plan there, do a few everyday.. There are some that will also submit to RSS and Bookmarks sites for a small fee also..

    James
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    • Profile picture of the author Max Ramocsai
      First of all, good job on reaching your milestone. 100k views is pretty amazing with only 246 articles.

      And secondly, I can definitely related to feeling overwhelmed when considering everything that has to be done. Like you mentioned, it is extremely important to take things one step at a time and evenly distribute you workload.
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