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Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by HzCy

Now, can you tell me whether or not this is a good strategy?

I believe that it isn't.

I've been a professional article marketer now for nearly 5 years, and I wouldn't be able to write 5 articles per day of anything like the quality required to make a real autority site. It's just unrealistic, in my opinion. One per day is my limit.

Publishing content just on your own site isn't really a traffic-generating plan.

Using content for marketing means taking your content to the places where the already-targeted traffic you're looking for is already looking/reading/visiting.

Originally Posted by HzCy

Also, my first aim would be 1000 Articles! What possible earnings do you see there?

It depends on a huge number of things (including a realistic traffic-generation plan), none of which you've mentioned above. The "number of articles" isn't one of them. This quantitative thinking won't be helpful to you at all.

The important things to know (about articles, in this context) are ...

(i) Publishing articles just on your own site isn't really a traffic-generation plan at all: all that can ever bring you is some gradual, eventual search-engine traffic that's typically very low-performing, unresponsive and poor quality anyway, and in the overall scheme of things "generally not worth talking about". Using articles for marketing is about taking your content to the places where the targeted traffic you want to attract is already looking/reading/visiting (after publishing it first yourself, to secure the initial indexation-rights, of course);

(ii) Article marketing isn't about how many articles you have: it's about who reads them (relates to the point above, and to other considerations);

(iii) "Good content" is content that publishers in your niche, who already have access to the traffic you want to attract, want and choose to share with their own subscribers, readers and visitors (either by publishing it or linking to it). That's a very simple, practical definition of "good content", but I think it's a useful one because it relates directly to how content produces income. Or, to word it the other way round (same thing, really), content that directly produces income is content that publishers in your niche, who already have access to the traffic you want to attract, want and choose to share with their own subscribers, readers and visitors.

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HzCy

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

I believe that it isn't.

I've been a professional article marketer now for nearly 5 years, and I wouldn't be able to write 5 articles per day of anything like the quality required to make a real autority site. It's just unrealistic, in my opinion. One per day is my limit.

Publishing content just on your own site isn't really a traffic-generating plan.

Using content for marketing means taking your content to the places where the already-targeted traffic you're looking for is already looking/reading/visiting.

It depends on a huge number of things (including a realistic traffic-generation plan), none of which you've mentioned above. The "number of articles" isn't one of them. This quantitative thinking won't be helpful to you at all.

The important things to know (about articles, in this context) are ...

(i) Publishing articles just on your own site isn't really a traffic-generation plan at all: all that can ever bring you is some gradual, eventual search-engine traffic that's typically very low-performing, unresponsive and poor quality anyway, and in the overall scheme of things "generally not worth talking about". Using articles for marketing is about taking your content to the places where the targeted traffic you want to attract is already looking/reading/visiting (after publishing it first yourself, to secure the initial indexation-rights, of course);

(ii) Article marketing isn't about how many articles you have: it's about who reads them (relates to the point above, and to other considerations);

(iii) "Good content" is content that publishers in your niche, who already have access to the traffic you want to attract, want and choose to share with their own subscribers, readers and visitors (either by publishing it or linking to it). That's a very simple, practical definition of "good content", but I think it's a useful one because it relates directly to how content produces income. Or, to word it the other way round (same thing, really), content that directly produces income is content that publishers in your niche, who already have access to the traffic you want to attract, want and choose to share with their own subscribers, readers and visitors.

Really appreciate your answer. Its also definitely true as said in all posts, that quality is over quantity.

For an even more realistic aim, lets just say it will be 1 quality article per day. 3h spent on inclusive KW-Research.

Now imagine, I would have about 400 Articles in one year.

What amount can I estimate by then? $x per day? $xx per day? $xxx per day?

Anyhow, what Im really interested in right now is, how this business strategy is compared to others. If I invest like 3h/day for 1 year, its about 1000 hours.

Now, which would be the most profitable long-term method if I could spend this time on anything?

Article-writing seems pretty good to me because this traffic will never fall and it is possible to make everything out of that traffic such as building a list.

What do you think?

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Alexa Smith Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by HzCy

Now imagine, I would have about 400 Articles in one year.

That a whole lot more than I have, for a total of 9 entirely separate, unrelated niches.

Originally Posted by HzCy

What amount can I estimate by then? per day? per day? per day?

The bad news is that my answer's probably unhelpful, given your current thinking and frame of reference for what you're asking. The good news is that it's sensible and at least I'm consistent : "It depends on a huge number of things (including a realistic traffic-generation plan), none of which you've mentioned above. The "number of articles" isn't one of them. This quantitative thinking won't be helpful to you at all."

Originally Posted by HzCy

Anyhow, what Im really interested in right now is, how this business strategy is compared to others.

Which business strategy?

What you've described isn't a "business strategy" at all, HzCy.

It isn't even a traffic-generating plan (which would be one small part of a business strategy).

Originally Posted by HzCy

Article-writing seems pretty good to me because this traffic will never fall and it is possible to make everything out of that traffic such as building a list.

Yes - now you're talking, this is all perfectly true, as long as they're written for syndication and you get them published in the right places.

If you write high quality articles and get them published in the right places, you can attract floods of gradually increasing, highly targeted traffic. But what you describe above is something like 1% of the business model, leaving the other 99% undiscussed.

If it helps, this is a one-post overview of "how article marketing works".

And the links in this post add up to a simplified, abbreviated account of "that other 99%"
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wfletch24 11 years ago

I agree with what others have posted, 5 articles a day will be a huge challenge if you are doing it yourself. Especially if you want them to be quality.

With that being said, authority sites are definitely still a great way to make money online. I would suggest a few things.

Don't build a blog, build a business. Before you start creating tons of content think of how you plan to monetize the site. Is it a profitable niche? What can you provide? Could you create a successful product around this niche?

Next, remember that content is great but people have to find it. Spend just as much time on promoting your content and generating traffic that you do on content creation.
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Janice Sperry

11 years ago

Originally Posted by HzCy

I want to build a large authority site where I start writing about 5 Articles a day. When I will get my first money from this site, I will instantly reinvest... [snip]... my first aim would be 1000 Articles! What possible earnings do you see there?

Originally Posted by HzCy

I would have about 400 Articles in one year.

What amount can I estimate by then? per day? per day? per day?
...[snip]...Article-writing seems pretty good to me because this traffic will never fall and it is possible to make everything out of that traffic...

Writing articles and posting them on a website does not mean that you will automatically get ANY traffic or ANY income. At the end of the year you will have 400 articles and zero traffic and zero income. Sorry, but you need to do a lot more research before you attempt to earn money from building an authority site. The good thing that comes through from your posts is that you understand that WORK is involved. First, however, you need to learn a dozen other things before you start or your work will be in vain.

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Friedmett

11 years ago

Originally Posted by HzCy

Really appreciate your answer. Its also definitely true as said in all posts, that quality is over quantity.

For an even more realistic aim, lets just say it will be 1 quality article per day. 3h spent on inclusive KW-Research.

Now imagine, I would have about 400 Articles in one year.

What amount can I estimate by then? per day? per day? per day?

Anyhow, what Im really interested in right now is, how this business strategy is compared to others. If I invest like 3h/day for 1 year, its about 1000 hours.

Now, which would be the most profitable long-term method if I could spend this time on anything?

Article-writing seems pretty good to me because this traffic will never fall and it is possible to make everything out of that traffic such as building a list.

What do you think?

Your mind set on this is totally wrong.

You do not have a clear defied goal at all. What you are thinking about is how when you do not know what.

The answers to you questions on what it would be like is whatever it is going to be if you do it.

It all starts with a clear goal in mind. Then you get into how you are going to accomplish it.

Now if the strategy involves getting the high quality content out on the social sites as well leading back then you are on to a good start and 1000 articles would do well.

1: Get you goal clear and written down. Get this in your mind and start on how you are going to do it.
2: Get the theme for your website/blog
3: Post whatever hiqh quality content on your site and share it too.
4: Market your site. You got about 25 different ways of doing this. Some of them can be outsourced and you can focus on mastering 1 or 2 of them.

When you got it going and producing with time you can see and get a feeling with how much and when but you have to have the goals clear in your head at all times.

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mickel222

11 years ago

I wouldn't do it that way. When I hear authority, I'm thinking quality not quantity.

If you focus on writing 5 articles per day, it's becoming more about the quantity of articles you are writing. I advise you write less articles and instead focus on making these articles awesome.

Deliver real value to your readers, make them learn something new every time they visit your site and always be ready to help them out. Proving your knowledge and helping others is how you gain authority, not having xxxx articles on your website.

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John Romaine

11 years ago

Originally Posted by HzCy

Now, can you tell me whether or not this is a good strategy?

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DanielGossage

11 years ago

Make better use of your precious time by promoting your site. It sounds as though you have the writing ability and the desire to succeed. Instead of doing actual articles try guest posts on other peoples blogs. Even post to social media sites and ask other authority sites if you can post there. You need to concentrate your efforts on several streams not one. But, be careful not to dilute the quality of your writing for quantity. Do not overstretch yourself.

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Cobb

11 years ago

I admire your enthusiasm but 5 reviews per day is going to be almost impossible to achieve on your own.

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