My Results After One Month of Intense Article Marketing

[Preston Lore]

Originally Posted by DavidO

I commend you for even being able to produce 200 articles in one month but I don't agree with it. Assuming your writing on a single niche - nursing schools? - I take it for granted that you're repeating a lot of the same concepts over and over again. Not even the most original thinker can produce such a volume of original content.

Nah, the nursing thing was Dana, not the original threadstarter.. 10 articles a day over multiple niches is quite possible. It's also a good way to cover hundreds of keywords.

But yeah, it's definitely the "work horse" method of getting traffic..

[sree94]

Originally Posted by DavidO

First, congratulations! $855 in your first month is great andit will only get better. The great thing about articles is that they continue to pay off - they don't suddenly stop after the first month. Not every article will hit paydirt but I have articles that are still bringing me traffic and sales two years later.

However, I do have some criticism of one aspect of your method: 10 articles a day??? I know you read it in a WSO, which is supposedly expert advice, but I think quantity like that is absurd. It's not quantity that will bring you success but quality.

I commend you for even being able to produce 200 articles in one month but I don't agree with it. Assuming your writing on a single niche - nursing schools? - I take it for granted that you're repeating a lot of the same concepts over and over again. Not even the most original thinker can produce such a volume of original content.

Aside from the sheer impracticality of it, what kind of quality are you able to produce at that rate? If you produced consistently high quality I really admire you. In fact, you should become a professional writer!

The reality is more likely that you've got a few gems among a lot of mediocrity and/or repetition. Why not cut back the work load and concentrate on the few gems? You could polish them up even better.

There's another reason behind my criticism of this method: quality sells, not quantity. I achieve 4 primary things with my articles:

1. Search engine credit for original content by publishing my articles on my website first, then only on other sites after the page is indexed and I get the credit.

2. Backlinks.

3. Traffic from visitors clicking through to my site from my articles.

4. Preselling. A good article primes the reader and makes them easier to convert at your site.

Quantity may get you the first two benefits but it does not produce sales. Potential customers will not read mediocre articles and click through to your site. The few who do will not be presold.

Quality, on the other hand, produces all 4 benefits and leads directly to sales.

So I question the wisdom of this method but I still admire your accomplishment. Now you can back off a little and focus on high quality work that will bring you even more sales!

My second criticism only involves the advice from others: list building is just one tool among many forms of marketing. It's not the "be all and end all" that will doom you to failure if you don't do it. If you don't feel like it's your thing don't feel forced to do it. Maybe you will sometime down the road. Maybe never.

Just having a list will do nothing for you. You have to market correctly to that list and it's a very specific skill. I've tried it and it didn't work for me. I concentrate in other areas and I'm happy with the results.

I agree that 10 a day is too much.

Now, I am submitting just one article per day per niche. That is really all that you need.

I disagree though in regards to submitting similar content. I feel it's important to keep submitting to EZA day after day, for the immediate traffic.

The times lately that I have slacked and not submitted articles, my sales have fallen off.

[mrsray]

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

how do you use the RSS feature in Ezinearticles?

thanks in advance

[Charann Miller]

Wow! 200 articles! Not many can boast that figure, especially when it's just you, well done. I would definitely re-invest and outsource. You could sweep up some nicely written articles for $3 a pop or heckle it down for bulk orders. Keep us posted.

[kumisi69]

Ye mate earning $800 is great that's just in a month, wow what if you did that for 4-6 months the income would be great, and remember that as the months go on an your articles are picked up every day by new person how much traffic this will bring in for years to come

you may have started out slowly ( you think, but i think it was a great effort) but as you go on your going to get better and better, mate good on you for taking action, defiantly a kick in the pants for me to move my but.

[sree94]

Originally Posted by kumisi69

mate good on you for taking action, defiantly a kick in the pants for me to move my but.

That is the key right there. Just get to work!

If you keep searching for that one secret formula that will make you rich, you never will get rich!

[bhuff85]

Obviously, quality is important in article marketing (that is, if you're looking to make sales as an affiliate). If you can maintain high quality while cranking out a decent quantity of articles each day, that is the greatest formula for success with article marketing. Add some more promotional techniques to your arsenal and you're all set!

[johnsamuels]

just over $4 per article? you either need to do more keyword research or work on your pre-sell. you could make more than that just selling them at $5 a pop which is the going rate for a 500 word article.

take your $855 and buy more articles. but this time do the keyword research first and do it well. save time by not writing them yourself, do the thinking work yourself, pay people to do the rest.

[sree94]

Originally Posted by johnsamuels

just over $4 per article? you either need to do more keyword research or work on your pre-sell. you could make more than that just selling them at $5 a pop which is the going rate for a 500 word article.

take your $855 and buy more articles. but this time do the keyword research first and do it well. save time by not writing them yourself, do the thinking work yourself, pay people to do the rest.

Yeah, but I have money from those articles since then.

Plus, one of the niches was water 4 gas, which has pretty much dried up now that gas prices are so low

[Dan Briffa]

hey good going!

[trafficpayouts]

This is all fantastic and positive advise.

I found by offering work on Elance I actually received some fantastic strategy as the different writers competing for my contract pitched examples of there writing and also made suggestions.

When I lifted my articles from 500 words to between 700-800 I found that this improved my traffic greatly.

I have a W.S.O in play at the moment and on the sales page I have a little audio that talks about the proposition of getting 1 million dollars upfront or 1 dollar a day doubled every day for a month.

The dollar stat will really surprise you when you do the math,but the concept of leverage and compound interest is what you have in play with you 200 articles.

It does take patience sometimes though.

well done I commend you effort and energy.

I bet you have sore shoulders from all that typing.

Kind Regards


Paul

[johnsamuels]

Originally Posted by sree94

Plus, one of the niches was water 4 gas, which has pretty much dried up now that gas prices are so low

It'll get expensive again sometime, you might get a surprise bonus from those articles later on.

[Chris Hunter]

Originally Posted by johnsamuels

It'll get expensive again sometime, you might get a surprise bonus from those articles later on.

Heh. I was thinking the same thing. Nothing lasts forever, unfortunately.

[sree94]

Originally Posted by Chris Hunter

Heh. I was thinking the same thing. Nothing lasts forever, unfortunately.

I know, I have often wondered what would have been better for me: high gas, high sales of a gas-saving product, or low prices, and literally saving about 45 dollars these days when filling up.

[redicelander]

Originally Posted by sree94

Yeah, but I have money from those articles since then.

Plus, one of the niches was water 4 gas, which has pretty much dried up now that gas prices are so low

And the fact that water for gas is utter BS.

I know everyone here wants to make money, but if I was making a lot off IM, which I'm not, I know I'd sleep better if I did it honestly.

[Captcha]

I just have to say, Chris Hunter has given you some awesome advice in this thread. Don't let people get away after they've gone through to your site. Even if they are buying products you want to be capturing their details!

[vbm08]

sree94, You are a true inspiration for me. I have also started my first big Article Marketing campaign this month. And so far in first 5 days I am able to earn $51 in my CB account. And yes I am also building a list now.

I have set up a target to write at least 10 articles per day. So that will be 300 articles a month. Lets see How much I can earn this month..

[richfit]

I agree! Build a List & Get Other People to Write Articles for You! Pay someone to write 200 articles a month for you or how about 1,000 per month while you focus on Marketing?

[Topgunb]

Way to go!

It is important to remember that not every article will e a home run. Some only bring in singles.

If you could keep this up for 12 months at your current conversion you
would bring in a massive $8000 per month.

Remember the articles will not stop converting.

Now If you put a blog up, with a few unique articles for your niche, and added in three good affiliate products. Not in each post just every 3 or 4th your sales will go through the roof.

Now build a list - yeah thats right 2 lists one of buyers and one for signups.

Now you are cooking!!

Truth is very few guru's make $8000 per month. Most of their list are gasping or air with members optin out. Reason they are been nailed to the floor with sales offers. But very little real content.

So send your list an invite to check your new blog post. They will be more
receptive to your offers.

pm me if you want some more advice - I write 8 articles per day.

Brian

[jimfurr]

Hi sree94,

I have not read every post here, but even if you
Bought the articles @ $7 each, you would be
ahead in a few months time!

-------
Income = $855 1st month and probably $700 next month.

Buy 200 articles @ $7 = $1,400 costs

$855 + $700 = $1,555 - $1,400 = $155 net at the end of 2 months!

From the 3rd month on is all gravy

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So, take the $855 and buy 122 articles @ $7 each = $854

Watch your profits grow!

Jim Furr ><>

What!
You already spent the $855!
Your Business Principle #1 should be:
Reinvest profits until you reach your $$$$ mo. goal.

PS: Chances are, you will not get quality articles for less than $7 each.

[jimfurr]

OK,

I would like a little information from You Folks in IM Land!

How long is it taking you to get your articles published?
Especially at EzineArticles.com -
(or have you given up on them?)

I read thier blog a few months back, before
they went to a paid priority service, and
the moderator said it would probably be
a nominal fee to access the service.

I don't know about you, but for me,
$97 a month is Not a nominal fee!

Jim ><>

[jimfurr]

Hi,

Could you please explain further ...

Jim ><>

Originally Posted by ste25

Not including anchor text link in the author bio.

[redicelander]

Jim Furr, why worry about paying for ezinearticles? Once you write 35 good articles or less that follow their rules, you are a platinum member and your articles will be approved in a day or two. For your first 35 or less before platinum it takes a week. Is a week too long for you? Not a problem for me. No reason to give up on them. Just write an article and submit. Many big article marketers use ezinearticles with success still and don't bother paying for any of their services.

[jimfurr]

Thank You redicelander,

You are right

Jim ><>

PS:About my comment #225 -
Does anybody have any
feedback about those
numbers I used? Do
they look correct?

[Jim Edwards]

Now that you have the content, take it and use it in different venues. For example, you can take your articles, modify them slightly, and post them on your blog. You can submit those posts to blog carnivals. You can bullet point them and upload them to free e-book directories. You can read them into a microphone and create a podcast series. You can video yourself talking about the various topics and post them to YouTube. It's all about leverage. Take your content and leverage it!!!

[ofir]

Wow , that's great!
Congrats.

[blairezon blenn]

Glad that u make a wise move. Soon enough try to build a list for good. That would help a lot in promoting your articles...

Regards

B

[sree94]

Originally Posted by Ngmedia805

how are your sales doing latly?

To close out last month, $1000 in 15 days

[Lexiranae]

That is fantastic! You might not have reached your initial goal, but at least you got $1000. That's terrific. I hope everything works out well for you. Good luck with next month. Drop us a message saying what you get next month!

[Gunter Eibl]

A good way to increase the views of your articles is to write about topics the people want to know and not writing articles based on keywords.

Just go to your EZA category and open any article there, then scroll down to the "Most Viewed" articles. These are the articles the pulled the most traffic over the past 90 days.

Gunter

[jimcal]

Hi,
Your articles will have a viral effect for several months or years so keep plugging. For$10, you can put a 30 day classified ad on ebay for your niche. I have this successfully for product sales and list building.
Thanks,
Jim

[Louis Raven]

First, Congratulations my friend.

Second:

Originally Posted by sree94

I had kind of gotten away from the article marketing, and my sales dropped as a result

I thought the current article would keep bringing you profit?

What makes them profitable only when they're first submitted but not after?

I always thought articles were for the long term.

Thanks,

Louis

[sree94]

Originally Posted by Louis Raven

First, Congratulations my friend.

Second:


I thought the current article would keep bringing you profit?

What makes them profitable only when they're first submitted but not after?

I always thought articles were for the long term.

Thanks,

Louis

I have now gotten my articles to stick, and now I get sales an autopilot.

Had my best day ever yesterday ($200)

[zerofill]

Originally Posted by Louis Raven

First, Congratulations my friend.

Second:


I thought the current article would keep bringing you profit?

What makes them profitable only when they're first submitted but not after?

I always thought articles were for the long term.

Thanks,

Louis

They are once you build backlinks to them...Most people don't...

[sree94]

Originally Posted by zerofill

They are once you build backlinks to them...Most people don't...

Yes Don, and this is something I have been doing lately thanks to you and Jeremy's 30 day challenge

[Katherine Wheel]

Mr Hunter has hit the nail on the head there. If you are building a list, you are building repeat traffic. Every article is working way harder for you. You want to have a list of customers who trust you, get some cool content from you regularly (3-4 times a month) and the chance to buy something valuable and useful from you regularly.

Having honed your writing skills to that peak, writing your series of emails to go out on your autoresponder service to your growing list will be easy!

Transfer your skills to list building, so those articles are bringing you longer-term returns.

And well done on what you've earned. You have the skills and the determination.

[gailwarren]

I really see where you went wrong. You actually manually submitted these articles. You need to blast the articles at least once a week on a Monday. While doing this, Build your list. then add them to the article submition from your list be it your business list or an email list like Yahoo or Gmail. I hope this helps!

[Charles Harper]

Originally Posted by gailwarren

I really see where you went wrong. You actually manually submitted these articles. You need to blast the articles at least once a week on a Monday. While doing this, Build your list. then add them to the article submition from your list be it your business list or an email list like Yahoo or Gmail. I hope this helps!

Uh...I am totally lost, Gail.

Charles

[OmarNegron]

Hey bro... congrats on your $855!

Don't worry that you didn't get to 3,000. If you write enough articles and distribute them to popular directories, you will.

Yea I know sometimes when writing articles it can feel like you pulling your own teeth out...but that's ok. It is sure worth it.

Hey it's doesn't cost anything but some time.

Take care

Omar!

[dennisleo0]

congratulations! Why not outsource the writing. You can get 500 to 600 word articles done for $1.00 each. A good sight to advertise free is freelancer.com
You will find plenty of good writers.

[lburrell]

Originally Posted by dennisleo0

congratulations! Why not outsource the writing. You can get 500 to 600 word articles done for $1.00 each. A good sight to advertise free is freelancer.com
You will find plenty of good writers.

$1 each? The quality would be sketch

[Merlinthecat]

A buck each? Good quality, unique, optimized articles are so, so important - not only for SEO but mainly to please your visitors and ensure that they come back! It's worth the investment making sure you get the best.

Nigel

[Samuel Lee]

That's truly excellent persistence! I admire that so much. I can only crank out about 3 or 4 in a day before they stop making any coherant sense! 200! What generally works for me is taking the articles I had already written and make some squidoo lenses out of them. I also started with my blogger blogs and rewrote several passages and the first few sentences of the articles as one time blog posts with a small blurb at the end. Just a few mini-ideas. Hope this helps! There have been some excellent ideas so far!

[mrsteady]

Hi,

I have just read the entire thread and there is some really great information here.

Can you tell me about the site you link to in your resource box and how you market the affiliate product there?

Thanks

[rocko]

Hi sree, Roger here, I'm a newbie to warrior and saw your post. WTG on your article marketing. I was wondering if you use isnare? If not give it a try you may free up some time. Take care

[jasondinner]

also, start a blog for each niche you're writing articles for and post your articles there.

put some ads for affiliate products, set up a very visible rss feed and put an optin box as well (try to get all of that above the fold)

and if you must, you can slip some adsense in there somewhere as well.

but, yeah i agree with everyone else that told you to build a list.

It doesn't matter what niche it is in and if you don't know what to send to them.

Get them on your list first, then ask them what they want you to send them.

[imApprentice]

Wow!

This thread is so full of great information!

It is very inspiring for a newbie like me. Now I have a plan and can take action immedeatly and not try some of everything.

So let me just run a few points by you:

If we choose to link our article to our page, should that be a dynamic landing page or would we create an "authority" blog that we can use to market many different products? The second option seems like a lot of work on top of all those articles.

If we link directly to a product then that product should have a good sales page since we only have our article to make the sale?

If we create an opt in list AND a blog isn't there a risk we might lose the "buying temperature"?

If we can write good articles, why not outsource the backlinking instead? That way we can concentrate on writing top content. I know for me who is not an expert on seo, building links is way more work than writing an article?

Thanks for feedback!

[Tomwood]

Have you tried creating a few backlinks for each article so they will get some page rank of there own over time and keep bring in the money month after month.

Writing article after article can be very tedious so I write less articles but then get some backlinks for them. Use social bookmarking sites tumblr and the like.

[jhiggins]

Originally Posted by Emailrevealer

Its great that you've doubled your biggest month. I hope it continues to grow. are you making it from adsense?

But I was thinking. If you can crank out 200 decent articles a month why not become an article writer and charge 10 an article?
That's $2000 ...

Bad idea!

Because the income from the articles will be residual. He made $800 this month, but those articles will still keep paying off month after month totaling much more than $2000. Bum marketers continue making sales off of articles submitted 1 or 2 years before.

Jonathan

[jhiggins]

SREE94,

How are the all the backlinks from the articles affected your rankings in the serps? Have you checked your rankings for the keywords you target?

A good strategy from here on out concerning your article submissions could be to get your ranking pages onto page 1 of google and eventually in the top 3 listings.

Jonathan