My Results After One Month of Intense Article Marketing

[lcombs]

Maybe I missed it but one thing I didn't see mentioned.

It's not simply the article itself generating traffic.
By submitting the articles to as many directories as possible you build backlinks which improve page rank.
So, speaking to the longevity of an article... in that regard it's infinite.
To say nothing of the article being picked up by other sites and going viral.

I've got one site in particular that 5 or 6 articles submitted to the top 3 directories have generated over 300 backlinks, and a top 3 spot on Google for my main keyword.

Just food for thought.

LC

[BrashImpact]

Originally Posted by Mike Hill

As a matter of fact I do... Mine

I'll pm you...

Mike Hill

Mike,
u have high respect on the forum, i have multiple projects, that
have massive income potential, i have exclusive rights to them,
and some other things. I am looking for one expert, can u
pm me your contact info please, not enough posts to pm.
Thanks in advance
Robert

[Jullian]

Good work on the article marketing, haven't really made much myself

[ajbarnes777]

This is a very inspirational thread! I've written close to 350 articles, but that was within a full year (January 2008 - January 2009)....basically averaging 1 article every day. Reading your story is making me want to start cranking out more and stop procrastinating!

[lburrell]

Originally Posted by ajbarnes777

This is a very inspirational thread! I've written close to 350 articles, but that was within a full year (January 2008 - January 2009)....basically averaging 1 article every day. Reading your story is making me want to start cranking out more and stop procrastinating!

Had any success?

[grumpyb]

would some one mind explaining "build a list"
what does this mean exactly

[freddie_fireman]

Originally Posted by grumpyb

would some one mind explaining "build a list"
what does this mean exactly

Do what you can to get customers and/or prospects to sign-up for an opt-in email list so that you can get information and offers to them without them having to visit your web site again.

[NavPitt]

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?

Good luck and you seem to be on the right track.

[NavPitt]

Originally Posted by ajbarnes777

This is a very inspirational thread! I've written close to 350 articles, but that was within a full year (January 2008 - January 2009)....basically averaging 1 article every day. Reading your story is making me want to start cranking out more and stop procrastinating!

I agree. Hopefully this will jumpstart me.

[NavPitt]

Originally Posted by cullenpowell

Look into other methods of generating traffic and get the hell out of article marketing! (that's my advice) Complete waste of time if you ask me *flame suit on*

Why do you say that?

[NavPitt]

Originally Posted by trippmarxx

Your second statement is true, but wherever you posted that article first will really be the only one that shows up in the search engine rankings.

Can you PM me please?

[grumpyb]

Do what you can to get customers and/or prospects to sign-up for an opt-in email list so that you can get information and offers to them without them having to visit your web site again.

Thank You for that bit of information

[freddie_fireman]

Originally Posted by grumpyb

Do what you can to get customers and/or prospects to sign-up for an opt-in email list so that you can get information and offers to them without them having to visit your web site again.

Thank You for that bit of information

You're welcome.

For prospects, this usually means offering something for free as an incentive to sign-up.

This is an example of such an offer: Private Label Rights And Master Resell Rights Products For Free! (not an affiliate link)

[artagnan1978]

I am reading recently - and not just recently - success stories related to article marketing. So far I have been promoting my business using other tools, but I am thinking seriously about starting to use article marketing too, as they seem to be highly efficient. Beside article marketing is long term advertising, as your article is submitted, it stays there almost forever, so it is a potential continuous source of traffic to your site.

Any idea or tips from where to start the article marketing campaign???

[KathyBaka]

Great Job on taking action, I agree with Andrew ...I have just started working more heavily into articles and press releases and I would also appreciate any advice in this area..Great Post ...Thanks

Kathy

[vlabroo]

Hey, that is fantastic start. It will get only easier. May be try variations to produce multiple copies with unique content and used them in different ways. Bum marketing, driving traffic to your money site, in Squidoo, Hub pages and Blog Posts. get multiple streams of income from same set of articles. Wish you all the success.

Virender Labroo

[PatrickM]

Hi Gang,

Long time no see, hope everyone is doing fine.

Anyway, I just wanted to stop by and say how impressed
I was after reading these posts here in this thread. There's
easily an ebook's worth of information here, and top quality
info at that.

The one thing I've learned over the years in this Internet
marketing thing is just don't give up.

I remember talking with David Cavanagh one day and we were
talking about why I was having such a hard time really getting
rolling, really getting the steam up there. David's words where
something like: "You need to pick one thing to do, then do it
again and again until you become really good at it before you
jump to something else".

You see, I've had a bad habit of trying something for a couple
of weeks, maybe a month, not getting much in results, then
jumping to something else. It took me years to really pick-up
what I was doing wrong, because that had been my lifestyle
since I was a kid. I needed instant results or I moved on.

So, from my own experience, my advice is to stick at it, test,
tweak, test some more until you start getting the result you
want.

If you made $855 in your first month of effort, than stick at it,
you're onto something, I did not make $855 in my first year,
and I'm a programmer, it should be simple to make that in a
week!

So, I think you're doing great, test, test some more, you'll get
there. And as I mentioned above, there is some info in this
thread that I haven't seen in ebooks for sale! That's why I love
the Warrior forums, every once in awhile, there's gold in these
here hills!

Cheers,
Patrick

[my_addict_mind]

My stats are not quite far off from you. I just submitted 4 articles in eza last month and it generated 431 views with 99 url clicks. Now I understand that volume is the key here. If I can only sustain article production just like what you did, I would have generated 21k views and 4950 clicks, of course that assumes i maintain the same average.

thanks for your share and congratulations.

Originally Posted by sree94

Monetizing the traffic by selling Clickbank products

So far, 17,553 page views--- click throughs- 3,849

That's roughly 17% if I do the math in my head

[Peter Bashforth]

As a new boy on the block I have been viewing all the messages that I think will be helpful to me.
I was going to start investigating article next week, so your question was great to see and the answer was invaluable to me. Thank all

[xavy]

I'm new to article marketing. How much does your bio make a difference? Anyone have a sample bio to share and a good format to use?

Thanks,
Paul

[yaz8888]

Good information on backlinking ..Thanks

[Mark Guthaus]

I am brand new to this whole internet marketing thing but a have huge desire to learn and apply the info into dollars. so my question is what type of articles are people posting are they based or personal research about need that people might need or are they based one professioal experiences. do you write an article and sell the informationnor do you sell a product or service. I don't mean to sound ignorant i am just tring to learn.

[mmacken]

It maybe hardwork writing all those articles but from some of the advice your getting you should be able to turn it into a nice earner, maybe even a $3000/mnth earner. Congratulations.

I am new here but from what I have learnt here already today.........it's priceless.

To everybodys success!

[Simon74]

Did you write the articles yourself or you out source them? I am just asking because I would like to move from Mail order to IM, and writing 200 articles it's very intense.

[hbsjcd3]

Originally Posted by xavy

I'm new to article marketing. How much does your bio make a difference? Anyone have a sample bio to share and a good format to use?

Thanks,
Paul

Wow, The Bio is the mechanism that

1) gets the reader to your money site ( squeeze page, afiliate offer, blog etc

and

2) Gets you up to 2 valuable backlinks to the site you are trying to promote....and these are backlinks from an authority site.

Why are backlinks from an authority site ( like ezinearticles) so powerful?

because it a "trusted" site by Google, Yahoo and MSN

to put it into perspective

If you had a PR6 ( like a regular blog, website etc.) site pointing to your site and a link from an article you wrote at ezinearticles ( also has a PR6), the backlink from ezine articles would carry much more weight and power, even though its an the same PR6

The bio is the most important part of the article you submit!

[geordie-coach]

I think you have made a great start. It shows dedication and commitment to write all those articles and clearly you have a product which meets your target market as the sales have started.

I bet many others who purchased the same product are still sitting procrastinating.

Well done, learn from any mistakes you've made, repeat your successes and you'll do well.

kind regards
Aly
geordie-coach

[hbsjcd3]

Keep it up....you are an inspiration to many struggling marketers.

[EdwardMoore]

Article Marketing is a great way to go. You can write 1, 100, 1,000 or more articles and each one has the potential to bring you traffic, not only for the 1st month they are out there, but for 2 or more years. Also, each article that you write and submit is going to give you a backlink to your site, provided you put it in the resource box or anchor text.

I am still getting visitors from articles I wrote 2 years ago. Of course not as many as when I first submitted the articles, but every little bit adds up. I haven't promoted that one site anymore since then and I still get visits and even a sale now and then.

To your health,
Edward Moore

[MrLD]

Congrats on your achievement. By the way, were all those 200 articles submitted to article directories or some of them were actually posted on your site?

[dwshoup]

Originally Posted by sree94

No, I have not.

I know I should, although my niches are not really geared toward list building

if there is a market to buy info products you have only to gain buy building a list. (just my opinion) but you should definately try.

[Chuck Underwood]

Originally Posted by dwshoup

if there is a market to buy info products you have only to gain buy building a list. (just my opinion) but you should definately try.

Are you just trying to increase your post count with this comment?

Before you give someone advice, maybe read the entire post. This has been mentioned many times and guess what he said long ago that he is now building a list. If you have something to contribute to the thread then please do, if not move along.

Chuck

[toddperk]

Congrats sree94 on writing 200 articles. That's not an easy task. I agree with a lot of the people that have replied here that you could potentially make even more money than you did from those 200 articles.

If your articles are pointing to a site between you and your affiliate link'd site (e.g. squidoo or hubpages) then you want to try and keep the concept of surfer momentum in mind.

Surfer momentum = Your article says some pretty good stuff that makes the visitor want to click on your link at the bottom (to your squidoo/hubpage). Once the visitor goes to your squidoo/hubpage they have even BETTER information from the info that was on the ezine article...and want to see more! They then click on your affiliate link (I recommend using the big arrow module built into squidoo to make this link stand out more).

This surfer momentum concept will help you generate a lot more sales. Hope that helps.

[shinmenx]

sorry for being a noob, but I have a question:

what are you doing with these articles? selling them? Posting them with ads on the page? Inserting affiliate links?

I'm not understanding what happens between "write 200 articles" and "make $800".

Thanks.

[sree94]

Originally Posted by shinmenx

sorry for being a noob, but I have a question:

what are you doing with these articles? selling them? Posting them with ads on the page? Inserting affiliate links?

I'm not understanding what happens between "write 200 articles" and "make $800".

Thanks.

No, the articles link to my website which has a product offer

I launched the first website last February, but did not start making any money until I started writing a lot of articles

[sree94]

Originally Posted by Matthew Connors

Hey sree94

$855 is a good start and best of all it was done through article marketing which is free and evergreen (they promote forever). 200 articles is an amazing effort and I appluade you for it. Im wondering though how you framed your articles to funnel customers to your site.
I know you said you didnt do the research first, but I certainly would have thought 200 would generate a lot more many then that.

Is it possible you can slightly reword some of your articles, make them better, have a stronger call to action or have products that monetize better appointed to each article. As it would seem a shame just to write 200 articles off as done and dusted.

How did I funnel people to my site? I basically talked about the problem that the person is facing (because I market to desperate customers) and then in the resource box, I push them to a site that sells them a solution

I was concentrating on four niches during that intense article marketing month. One of the niches has totally died, one has sold a few items, one has sold about 7 or 8 products a month, and one has given me a nice income each month. Now making about 2000 a month. Not enough to quit my job, but it certainly helps!

[shinmenx]

Originally Posted by sree94

No, the articles link to my website which has a product offer

I launched the first website last February, but did not start making any money until I started writing a lot of articles

so they were basically like "there's a product, its awesome, info info info, check it out here *link to your website*"?

and every day you wrote multiple, unique articles about the same niche/product and posted them to ezarticles or stumbleupon or those type of sites?

[James12C]

This is a GREAT thread - thanks. I've only just started the article submission, so thanks again. Inspirational.

[sree94]

Originally Posted by shinmenx

so they were basically like "there's a product, its awesome, info info info, check it out here *link to your website*"?

and every day you wrote multiple, unique articles about the same niche/product and posted them to ezarticles or stumbleupon or those type of sites?

Pretty much, although I only submit to ezine articles

[coil101]

LOL i can only write one per day after that my head feels weird !

[WinsonYeung]

Building a list definitely helps to get more sales

[deslongs]

that's pretty good... I need to get started!!!

[KateD]

Originally Posted by sree94

How did I funnel people to my site? I basically talked about the problem that the person is facing (because I market to desperate customers) and then in the resource box, I push them to a site that sells them a solution

I was concentrating on four niches during that intense article marketing month. One of the niches has totally died, one has sold a few items, one has sold about 7 or 8 products a month, and one has given me a nice income each month. Now making about 2000 a month. Not enough to quit my job, but it certainly helps!

When you say that you are making $2000 per month now, is that from the original 200 articles that you wrote, or from your ongoing efforts as well?

K

[sree94]

I have entered some new niches since then but most is still coming from those articles

Originally Posted by KateD

When you say that you are making $2000 per month now, is that from the original 200 articles that you wrote, or from your ongoing efforts as well?

K

[hotlinkz]

sree94,

Great job! In addition to the $855, 200 articles should be bringing in some residual income as well. Have you earned additional income since your original post?

Best of Luck!

Calvin

[mikeb209]

Wow, that's not even worth it in my opinion. Not unless you need a guaranteed way to earn some quick cash. That's far too time consuming.

[Davion Wong]

Hi, your articles will bring you consistent traffic over time, especially for those that stick in Google. I have over 1000 articles in my EzineArticles account and they have pulled in close to 2 million visitors and still bring in over 4000 per day to my sites.

What you wrote last month will continue to bring in traffic. So keep it up! But I can understand how tedious it is to do it yourself. In order to bring your business to a higher level, outsource the work!

Observe and track your articles and see which are the ones that bring in the most traffic. Study and learn what was done right and avoid the wrong. Then you have a set of guidelines ready to instruct those whom you outsource to write for you.

That's what I did and now, I don't write a single article these days, very seldom do I ever write one on my own now. Everything is more or less on autopilot after I outsourced the work.

So the key is to outsource. Other tips:

1. Instead of sending visitors directly to the sales page, send them to your squeeze page or review site. That way, you are building a list and building quality backlinks over time.

2. Cover even more niches.

That pretty much rounds up how you can get from your current income level to the thousands.

Pm me if you need help.

[terryd]

Originally Posted by mikeb209

Wow, that's not even worth it in my opinion. Not unless you need a guaranteed way to earn some quick cash. That's far too time consuming.

Yeah and who would want a GUARANTEED WAY TO EARN SOME QUICK CASH..........

[Article Writer]

First off, do the keyword research.

Build a huge keyword list of your niche.

Get an SEO-Article writer. You can get them when you hit up Google with the following keywords "SEO Article Writer".

Get SEO articles written for all your Niche Keywords, on various topics that are useful for your targetted reader.

When you have done the above things then it means that you have started Dominating your niche by Article Marketing.

My Personal Opinion : Always write SEO-articles for Article Marketing.
But the keywords should take place naturally on the articles.

Cheers

[Article Writer]

First off, do the keyword research.

Build a huge keyword list of your niche.

Get an SEO-Article writer. You can get them when you hit up Google with the following keywords "SEO Article Writer".

Get SEO articles written for all your Niche Keywords, on various topics that are useful for your targetted reader.

When you have done the above things then it means that you have started Dominating
you niche by Article Marketing.

My Personal Opinion : Always write SEO-articles for Article Marketing.

Cheers

[sap147]

Originally Posted by Article Writer

First off, do the keyword research.

Build a huge keyword list of your niche.

Get an SEO-Article writer. You can get them when you hit up Google with the following keywords "SEO Article Writer".

Get SEO articles written for all your Niche Keywords, on various topics that are useful for your targetted reader.

When you have done the above things then it means that you have started Dominating
you niche by Article Marketing.

My Personal Opinion : Always write SEO-articles for Article Marketing.

Cheers

Do you recommend linking articles back to your OWN page such as a review site (where you can also put an opt-in box to aquire name/email), or do you recommend linking straight to some product you are promoting?