My Results After One Month of Intense Article Marketing

[derrickp]

Jeremy,

All excellent suggestions, I recently started using the RSS feature from Ezinearticles and it has produced a noticeable difference.

Derrick

[Jeremy Kelsall]

Originally Posted by derrickp

Jeremy,

All excellent suggestions, I recently started using the RSS feature from Ezinearticles and it has produced a noticeable difference.

Derrick

I started using it a couple months back and have also noticed a significant improvement.

There are a tons of things you can do to leverage your existing content that will make a big difference in your rankings.

[Jeannie Crabtree]

Congratulations! Here is an extra tip for you...

Once your articles get out there, and start getting natural searches, be sure to use a tracker. One that tracks what keyword brings the visitor to your site and what keywords are getting the click throughs. You will begin to see a pattern of certain keywords get clicks more than others.

The most important thing is that of those keywords, certain ones will be the people that click through the most often to your clickbank offers. And of those, certain keywords some will be your main purchasers.

These are the keywords you want to focus on. Write articles for the directories on these keywords and make sure to post some on your site as well.

These are your golden eggs.

Jeannie

[Daniel Molano]

I'm just glad you are making money thanks to my system!

Congratulations! Told you it would work! Try Jeremy Kelsall's tips, that should help you take it even further. Wait for your articles to grab more momentum, you should be making much more than what you did with 200 live articles.

Either way, you just made more money than 95% of the people giving IM a shot!

Best of luck,

Daniel Molano

PS: Satisfied and succesful customers is what keeps me going! I'm truly happy for you.

[melanied]

Well, assuming they took your (what must be, if your posts in the forum are any indication! ) awesome advice and actually got into nursing school, I would say products about studying, time management, memory improvement, and also nursing itself would probably do well.

Originally Posted by Dana_W

And all right, I'll hang my head in shame and confess..I haven't built a list. I don't know, I have a site that tells people how to get into nursing school. Do what with a list?

[Aurora9]

Hi,

I've read many excellent suggestions here and the only thing I'd have to add at this point is--If you've been focusing on the number of articles out there--200 in one month, which is roughly 6 or more articles per day then perhaps it's time to start focusing on the quality of the articles that you are writing and improve upon your copywriting skills.

Now that you can outsource articles at $5 per article, you can hire a writer to keep the numbers going and put your time to better use by analyzing which of your articles are performing well and if you can improve upon their conversion rates.

There was a post in the old forum by Richard Peck on how he made $800 in one month with just a few articles--I think it was 5 but don't rightly remember. He attributed his success to strong copy writing skills. I think that post should give you a lot of pointers.

So if you can write say 5 similar articles in the niches where you are having the most success, you should be able to really skyrocket your business

Hope this helps!
Lakshmi

[Chri5123]

Originally Posted by sree94

Or at least I think it's intense. 200 articles was pretty intense for me

I recently bought a WSO that said to write 10 articles a day for a month. The author said after that time, he made $3000

I was unable to write that many. My article count stands at 200. I made $855.

I am happy about that, since it is double what I have made in any other month since I began IM back in February.

I must say, writing that many articles was exhausting! And it seems as if I need to be cranking them out everyday. Plus, this gives me little time to do anything else with IM (link building, social bookmarking, expanding on niches)

I really want to expand this business to be in the thousands per month. Any ideas?

Hi,

My suggestion is look at which products you got the most sales from.

Then write the same articles JUST for those products while creating your own products in the same niche.

You can then move onto Clickbank with products that you know sell, you will already have a load of articles and you will also get people becoming your affiliate and you should then make well over $3000.

Don't give up this is the time to go faster!

All the best and good luck

Chris

[Dana_W]

Originally Posted by melanied

Well, assuming they took your (what must be, if your posts in the forum are any indication! ) awesome advice and actually got into nursing school, I would say products about studying, time management, memory improvement, and also nursing itself would probably do well.

Thank you so much! I guess when you think of it, if there is a hungry market of ANY type out there, there will always be products that they need.

[karunnt]

What is the purpose of the articles?

Is it to educate and sell the visitor on your products or is it to get the sales page high in the rankings so another page can actually 'sell' the products?

Thanks.

[AndrewCavanagh]

There's some really smart advice here.

Especially the suggestions for outsourcing your articles.

That gets you in the mindset of thinking of this whole venture as a business and running it to make a profit without a huge time input from yourself.

Kindest regards,
Andrew Cavanagh

[Dana_W]

Originally Posted by karunnt

What is the purpose of the articles?

Is it to educate and sell the visitor on your products or is it to get the sales page high in the rankings so another page can actually 'sell' the products?

Thanks.

There are numerous benefits to writing articles.

You give the reader a little bit of valuable information about their problem, but not enough that they don't need your product. Then you can either steer them to your website, where you have a pre-sell page...or steer them directly to the merchant's page...or you can steer them to an adsense site.

[Bev Clement]

Originally Posted by Mike Hill

Here's something I don't know...

What is the average lifespan of an article..? (i.e still bringing in cash)

Mike Hill

Mike I can give you the exact lifespan of 1 article I wrote. I was asked by a website that I was a member of to write a long article for them. It was around 1,800 words. They published it, but they didn't want exclusive rights, I still own the copyright for it.

That was in 2001 and they pay me every single month $30 until 2104, the payment is 3 different levels in their membership site, but it is a niche I am in, and most marketers don't use paid forums for their research. I get access to their forum, articles and owners (extra benefit) and they have over 1 million members which is a good place to do research.

That has to be my best paid article.

[rondo]

You've been given a lot of good advice here sree94.
Any more sales to report?


Andrew

[jem]

Originally Posted by Jeremy Kelsall

...

Another thing you might want to consider is turning your EzineArticles account to an RSS feed and submitting it to a couple of RSS submission sites. This will give you a ton of backlinks to everything you publish that will build up over time.

Could you tell me what rss submission sites you submit your author url to?

thanks

[sree94]

Originally Posted by rondo

You've been given a lot of good advice here sree94.
Any more sales to report?


Andrew

Five more sales totaling $119

[J Elizabeth Dize]

Originally Posted by sree94

Five more sales totaling $119

Hooray! I just wanted to tell you that you are surely inspiring a lot of people. Great job

[C.B. Stewart]

This thread has been a huge "ah-ha!" moment for me. I am going to start a very similar process tomorrow. PS: thank you, OP, you are a huge inspiration for newbies like me who don't know where to begin. Your results are amazing!

I plan on focusing on one general, big, popular niche. Everyone here recommends building a list, which I plan on doing.

Is it best to just register a good domain name and have all my articles point to that domain name? Should I avoid all product promotion for now, and have that domain name set up solely to build a list?

Or is it possible to do both -- sell on affiliate products, AND build a list at the same time?

C.B. Stewart

[karunnt]

Originally Posted by C.B. Stewart

Is it best to just register a good domain name and have all my articles point to that domain name? Should I avoid all product promotion for now, and have that domain name set up solely to build a list?

If you want to follow the same path why not just get the WSO?

[ptwain]

Sree,

It's good to hear that you made almost 1000(including your last post) with article marketing. Recently I have been doing article marketing(about 150 a month) but only made about $100 for all my effort. Can you answer this for me? Are you writing articles and directing them to your personal sites(blog), landing pages, or a merchant's page?

Again, congrats on earnings, keep moving forward.

Paul

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by karunnt

If you want to follow the same path why not just get the WSO?

He just did hehe

[TimG]

Originally Posted by sree94

Five more sales totaling $119

Awesome - That's good stuff, real good stuff. Based on some of the tips provided in this thread you should be able to significantly increase that amount. You can even start the outsourcing piece next month and just focus on yoru own article marketing efforts this month in order to build up a reserve of funds to order 2 months of articles so you can submit some and still have a supply on hand while you continue to write your own.

Tim

[reapr]

Originally Posted by jem

Could you tell me what rss submission sites you submit your author url to?

thanks

Make life easy with the badass rss wso. Works great!

[C.B. Stewart]

Originally Posted by Daniel Molano

He just did hehe

Yep, didn't think to click on Daniel Molano's link in his signature until after I posted my reply.

The WSO is awesome, by the way. I just finished reading it, and plan on re-reading it tomorrow before I get to work. I'm a newbie who's been around for about a year with nothing to show for it, and the WSO gave a straight-forward plan that just kind of ties everything together.

Coupled with the OP's results, I'm feeling pretty inspired right now.

Thank you for this thread!

[sylviad]

Well, I have to tell you... I've been writing articles for 2 years, promoting several products in different niches. And your post has inspired me!

Here's why.

While I 'believe' I've written a lot of articles, when I check it isn't nearly as many as I think. That's because many were blog posts, plus other tasks have gotten in the way of article writing. Thanks to your post, I am once again encouraged to get back at it.

A spurt in article writing triggered by Travis's BUM Marketing report brought some quick sales for me last year, so I know your approach works.

You have done extremely well for one month's work. It takes great determination and persistence to produce large quantities of articles. You can be sure that they will bring you future sales.

Almost 2 years ago, I wrote an article on one product that I knew very little about so I never got around to doing more on the subject. That one article keeps bringing me sales after all this time. It's not consistent, but every now and then I make a few sales, which is always a pleasant surprise.

Keep up the great work - and Congrats on how you have kick-started your career. With the advice provided in this thread, your results can only get better.

Sylvia

[Jason Zalesky]

So lets say you can only write 5 articles a day is it still worth it when it comes to profits down the road? Sounds like everyone does the article marketing and do pretty well at it. Just curious since I work full time and do my side thing here. And if you only can write 5 articles a day how many products would you promote only one or several?

Jason

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by Jason Zalesky

So lets say you can only write 5 articles a day is it still worth it when it comes to profits down the road? Sounds like everyone does the article marketing and do pretty well at it. Just curious since I work full time and do my side thing here. And if you only can write 5 articles a day how many products would you promote only one or several?

Jason

5 articles a day can also make you some nice profits, and as far as promoting several products goes, I would recommend it because that way you can diversify the keyword research and implementation.

[Jason Zalesky]

Originally Posted by Daniel Molano

5 articles a day can also make you some nice profits, and as far as promoting several products goes, I would recommend it because that way you can diversify the keyword research and implementation.

Another question I have is do you just post to online one article directory? I noticed ezinearticles taking forever with posting my articles recently. Do you post to more than one or just that one?

Thanks,
Jason

[mycupoverflows]

Are you a professional writer?

[Daniel Molano]

Jason, EZA is regarded as the best, but there are other good article directories. Buzzle.com is another great one and Ideamarketers.com is also good but it doesn't do as well in the search engine rankings for some reason, however, if you get syndicated hits for your articles there you are in for some nice traffic.

Those are the 3 main ones I use, but there are hundreds.

mycupoverflows, you don't need to be a professional writer at all, practice makes perfect.

[Dean Shainin]

Originally Posted by Chris Hunter

I know, I know! I probably am confusing him/her.

Let me explain it in simpler terms.

Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list.

There. That should do it. I hope it helps!

If there was one thing I'd do just starting from scratch it would be to... YES, you got it... Build a list!

For over 18 months I did not spend any time building a list.

Now with everything I do I try to remember not to get tempted to go for a straight sale unless I'm testing a new product. Even then I still have a way to build some sort of list...

I simply don't have the energy to go back and create new article bios for the first 200+ articles I wrote when first starting out.

Oh! Congratulations! It took me well over 12 months to write my first 200 articles. Now I outsource so that's another important aspect to consider as mentioned by TimG if you get burned out of writing and want to expand. TimG really knows what he's talking about to have over 1500 articles out there.



Cheers,
Dean

[saar2222000]

Man, after reading all of this i feel like a kid listening to the grown ups talk. I can say that i am officially motivated to write articles now. I learned something from every post. You guys rock.

[sree94]

Originally Posted by ptwain

Sree,

It's good to hear that you made almost 1000(including your last post) with article marketing. Recently I have been doing article marketing(about 150 a month) but only made about $100 for all my effort. Can you answer this for me? Are you writing articles and directing them to your personal sites(blog), landing pages, or a merchant's page?

Again, congrats on earnings, keep moving forward.

Paul

I direct them to my personal page, because it is something I have total control over.

I did make posts on Squidoo, Hub Pages, Wordpress, Blogger, etc. Basically all the free content hosting sites, just to get some more link love.

I am also using Linkvana, which at $150 is pricey, but people swear by it, so I am giving it a shot. I also have a 3WayLinks account

[sree94]

Originally Posted by Jason Zalesky

Another question I have is do you just post to online one article directory? I noticed ezinearticles taking forever with posting my articles recently. Do you post to more than one or just that one?

Thanks,
Jason

I only submit to EzineArticles, since they give me such good results

[strive4impact]

Originally Posted by Dana_W

And all right, I'll hang my head in shame and confess..I haven't built a list. I don't know, I have a site that tells people how to get into nursing school. Do what with a list?

Products you could promote to them (off the top of my head):

- Test taking skills
- Stress Management Courses
- Insomnia help (lots of nurses work the night shift and have trouble working during the day)
- Yoga courses (lots of nurses are into health and so few of them take time for it).

Just a few things you could stick into an autoresponder.

Or, here's an idea. Build a list by saying "Everything you ever wanted to know about getting into nursing school" and then day 2 autoresponder sends them a link to a surveymonkey survey where you ask them what they want to get from being a part of your community.

Then, create/find products around what they tell you they want.

[Eswar]

What about building back links with social bookmarks? I think most of the bookmarking websites are using nofollow tags.

Eswar

[sree94]

Originally Posted by Daniel Molano

I'm just glad you are making money thanks to my e-book!

Congratulations! Told you it would work! Try Jeremy Kelsall's tips, that should help you take it even further. Wait for your articles to grab more momentum, you should be making much more than what you did with 200 live articles.

Either way, you just made more money than 95% of the people giving IM a shot!

Best of luck,

Daniel Molano

PS: Satisfied and succesful customers is what keeps me going! I'm truly happy for you.

Yes, it was your ebook that got my butt in gear!

[Jeffrey Louis]

have you built a list yet?

[sree94]

Originally Posted by Jeffrey Louis

have you built a list yet?

I have been out of town the last few days, but I am working on it

[Dana_W]

Those are EXTREMELY good ideas. And I never even heard of Surveymonkey before, but that is brilliant.

I'm going to start paying attention every time you post!

Originally Posted by strive4impact

Products you could promote to them (off the top of my head):

- Test taking skills
- Stress Management Courses
- Insomnia help (lots of nurses work the night shift and have trouble working during the day)
- Yoga courses (lots of nurses are into health and so few of them take time for it).

Just a few things you could stick into an autoresponder.

Or, here's an idea. Build a list by saying "Everything you ever wanted to know about getting into nursing school" and then day 2 autoresponder sends them a link to a surveymonkey survey where you ask them what they want to get from being a part of your community.

Then, create/find products around what they tell you they want.

[Daniel Molano]

If I'm not mistaken, GetResponse (which I use and I believe to be on par with aweber (the two best autoresponder services out there)) offers a free trial, so you can always start building your list for free in your free landing pages until some money starts kicking in and you only have to pay like $20/month for their full service.

[Gunter Eibl]

With that many articles on EZA you can start analyzing your stats there. Which articles had the best CTR and why? Which the most views? Also compare the stats with the 'most viewed' articles of your category to see if and where is room for improvement.

I did double my CTR and views with that.

Gunter

[jasonl70]

I'd look at which keywords are driving your sales and consider some ppc..

[Zachary R. Skinner]

Writing articles by hand and submitting them to the directories is totally exhausting.

I have to say that I am really impressed that you managed to write that many in one month. I know how exhausting it is writing articles because I used to do it.

There's a much, much easier way though.

Take a look at:

Instant Article Wizard Pro - Create articles with superhuman speed!

With this software you could bust out 200 quality articles in a weeks time and never actually write a word yourself.

For distribution. check this out:

Massive Backlinks and Search Term Domination. Article Marketer

With this distribution service you will get your articles distributed to hundreds of articles from one central site.

BTW- You should really consider video marketing as an alternative to article marketing. It's both much easier and you can get a hell of a lot more traffic.

[Daniel Molano]

Very interesting tool Zachary and I would also suggest video marketing as another traffic generation method in addition to article marketing.

[strive4impact]

Originally Posted by Dana_W

Those are EXTREMELY good ideas. And I never even heard of Surveymonkey before, but that is brilliant.

I'm going to start paying attention every time you post!

That's just about the nicest compliment anyone could give me. Glad you found my thoughts helpful!

Warmest,

Jonathan

[sree94]

Originally Posted by Jeremy Kelsall

I started using it a couple months back and have also noticed a significant improvement.

There are a tons of things you can do to leverage your existing content that will make a big difference in your rankings.

Does anyone have a guide on how to set up my articles to be an RSS feed?

[rondo]

You already have an rss feed - see the rss symbol at the top of your ezinearticles author page.

Andrew

[JasonParker]

Wow... That's quite a secret you just shared. Thanks a lot.

Originally Posted by TimG

Take $600 of the original $855 and spend it on some outsourced articles using reliable writers from this forum - There are plenty here!!! While your outsourced articles are being completed continue to do your own writing and submitting. Once your outsourced articles are ready, begin to submit them while still maintaining your own article writing.

By now perhaps a month has passed and you should have generated slightly more income then the previous month. Continue to repeat this process but as your income increases you increase the amount of outsourced articles you purchase. This is the process of building your article marketing funnel.

Eventually you get to where a site is paying to build itself while providing a small (but growing) and steady profit margin for you.

I've done this with many of my original sites and they consistently churn out income month after month even after I stopped submitting articles on their behalf.

Respectfully,
Tim


Oh - if you're wondering about the other $255 that was left over. I recommend you pay 1 small bill with some of it (for a sense of accomplishment), place a small amount in savings (for a rainy day) and use the rest to splurge on something for yourself because you earned it (for a sense of happiness/reward). You could also treat a friend or family member(s) to something nice like dinner because chances are good that while you were busy writing your articles during the month you most likely ignored them unintentionally (making amends with family and friends).

[jhongren]

Hi Jason,

To add on, I heard this saying:

• Always invest 10% of the profits back in the business.
• Invest Another 10% in our development.
• Save another 10% into you savings accounts.
• Spend the remaining 70%

Of course the percentage may vary. Personally I save 50%, invest 25% and spend the remaining.

Cheers,
John

[supermania]

Hi,

What does everyone think of products like Brad Callen's Article Submitter?

Are these products good to use for submitting articles, or is manual really the only way to go?

Your advice will be appreciated!

Thanks!