My Results After One Month of Intense Article Marketing

[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?

[angela99]

Good for you - and you're just getting started.

Even more valuable than the $$$ is what you learned from it.

Keep tracking your articles, and see which ones generate the most traffic.

Great work. :-)

[Chris Hunter]

Dude, are you not building 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. Build a list.

By the way, did I mention that you should build a list?

Also, great job! It may not have been $3000 but it's $855 more than you previously had and it shouldn't be hard for you to grow that in no time. KEEP DOING WHAT YOU'RE DOING!!

[Monetize]

I think it's wonderful that your hard work has paid off!
Keep chipping away at it and soon you will reach that
$3,000+ per month

[chucknnita]

WOW!
I admire that so much. I can only do 3 or 4 in a day before they stop making any sense, lol. 200 in a month is outstanding. I haven't been doing this very long either, so I'm no expert, but what worked for me was taking the articles I had already written and making hub pages and squidoo lenses out of them. I also started wordpress and blogger blogs and rewrite the first few sentences of the articles as blog posts with a blurb at the end "continue >>" or "Read More >>".

And in addition, I keep churning out more articles and have a 10 day autoresponder on one site, and am getting one ready for the other to make sure I have a growing list.

Just a couple of ideas. Maybe one of the gurus here that knows way more than me can give the idea a thumbs up or down and come up with some other ideas.

[Ernie Lonardo]

Well done on taking action!

Have you considered using an article mixer or whatever theyre called. You could double the amount of articles with a click of the mouse

[AndrewCavanagh]

You want to think through how you made that $800 and see if you can capitalize on it.

Are you building a list from the traffic you're creating that you can market to over and over?

Are you using the articles to get your own website pages ranked high in the search engines for long tail keyword phrases?


With a bit of luck you may be able to maintain a percentage of those current sales without any extra work so if you keep writing articles your monthly income should also increase.

In other words 3-6 months of this kind of effort combined with improving the way you optimize the traffic you create could give you a nice ongoing income.

Kindest regards,
Andrew Cavanagh

[sree94]

Originally Posted by Chris Hunter

Dude, are you not building 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. Build a list.

By the way, did I mention that you should build a list?

Also, great job! It may not have been $3000 but it $855 more than you previously had and it shouldn't be hard for you to grow that in no time. KEEP DOING WHAT YOU'RE DOING!!

No, I have not.

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

[Chris Hunter]

Originally Posted by sree94

No, I have not.

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

How do you know that? I would seriously like to know.

[napoleonfirst]

Building a list is one of the most important aspects of this business. Also if you can get a suscription to Article Marketer to get more attention. There is a cool software called UniqueContentPro that you can use to increase your article production.

[Joseph Then]

I advise that you can have a "Intense One Week Article Submission" done once a month. That means, blast out all the articles in a week. Rest or do other work for the next 3 weeks, come back again and start blasting.

You can get a lot of traffic that way.

[Dana_W]

Chris, the problem I have with you is that it's so hard to figure out what you're thinking. Quit hinting and just come out and say what you mean! What should the OP do?

Originally Posted by Chris Hunter

Dude, are you not building 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. Build a list.

By the way, did I mention that you should build a list?

Also, great job! It may not have been $3000 but it $855 more than you previously had and it shouldn't be hard for you to grow that in no time. KEEP DOING WHAT YOU'RE DOING!!

[Chris Hunter]

Originally Posted by Dana_W

Chris, the problem I have with you is that it's so hard to figure out what you're thinking. Quit hinting and just come out and say what you mean! What should the OP do?

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!

[Dana_W]

Also, here's the thing about article marketing. I have an adsense site and I wrote about 60 articles for ezinearticles and 10 for Associated Content, and it got really tedious doing that because I'd write an article and traffic would trickle in, i'd get like $6 in adsense clicks, and traffic would then die down in a few days.

After three months I got sick of it, stopped writing articles, and figured the site would just die and my traffic would do away.

That did not happen. My PR rose to 3, traffic has been steady ever since and i have not done jack to the site or written any more articles since the END OF FEBRUARY. Today my adsense was $12. I loves me some passive income.

My point is that you have not wasted your time, because over time the backlinks that you have created will help your sites rise in the ranking and you will see passive income for a long time to come.

[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?

[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 ...

[Texas Belle]

Great post!! Inspirational and giving us hope to take action! Congratulation for your first moneymaking online career!

That'd be me in a month as I am setting it up tonight!

[derrickp]

Emailrevealer,

The problem with becoming in article writer for others is you have to keep writing to keep earning. Say the OP current articles only bring in $100 next month and they write another 200 articles that earn $800 for a total of $900.

Then the next month the 400 articles already done earn $200 and another 200 articles do $800 that is $1000.

Overall that is a lot of work for $1,000 but it is scalable and can be outsourced.

Building lists and other "building out" steps can significantly increase the amount of money earned.

Derrick

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 ...

[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).

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?

[Mike Hill]

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?

Work the numbers and see were you are so you can make good business decisions...

Okay you made $855 from 200 articles (that works out to $4.28 per article)...

Now, you should be directing traffic back to your website with 2 different squeeze pages for testing purposes... Capture their name and email (very important)

This is were you need to make a business decision...

1. Invest half your months profits into having more articles created for you... For now Do NOT pay any more than $5 per article...

2. That means each month you are going to be making more and more money as your article count increases...

3. Take 50 of your articles and put them into an autoresponder series to be delivered to your list every 2nd day...

4. Create quick tip audio podcasts out of each article and submit them to several podcasting sites... (use PodPusher.com)

5. Create your audios into videos with some PowerPoint slides and submit them to YouTube, etc...

6. Join high-end affiliate programs related to your niche that also have recurring income (membership sites)... and promote them to your list. At the end of each of your autoresponder messages promote the program, one at a time and see which one performs the best...

7. Wash Rinse Repeat...


The key is to replace yourself from doing the work with outsourced teams you can trust to do a good job. You may have to try a few places before finding the right people but make sure you find the right people (That's also important)


Mike Hill

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[derrickp]

Awesome posts Tim and Mike, both solid advice.

Derrick

[Chris Hunter]

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?

Dana,

Are you kidding?! I just graduated from nursing school!

There's SO much that you could follow up with.

You'd be surprised at how little people know about getting into nursing school. Things like:

• Getting their initial credits to be able to apply to multiple nursing schools.
• How to get their loans set up properly for nursing school.
• Places to get their nursing books and supplies for heavily discounted prices and not being gouged by the school bookstore.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg! I can't beleive that you haven't started a list for that site!

ARGH!

Well, now you know!

[JasonKing]

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?

sree, how are you monetizing the traffic?

[Chris Hunter]

Originally Posted by derrickp

Awesome posts Tim and Mike, both solid advice.

Derrick

Great info from TimG and Mike.

You can also sign up for a free autoresponder account with GetResponse. It's limited, but when you have the extra income to get the fully featured service, you can just upgrade that list and you won't lose anything!

Get on it!

[Mike Hill]

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).

bastard... LOL you stole my thunder

You hit the submit button 1 minute before I did LOL

Mike Hill

PS. Great minds think alike

[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

[derrickp]

Mike,

I have articles I wrote in 2004 still bringing traffic/earning money. Not to speak for Tim but I be he has similar results.

Derrick

[TimG]

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,
A properly constructed article (meaning title, content and resource box) will generate visitors and income indefinately because it has the ability to maintain its ranking in the search engines.

Another example of articles making income infinately for its owner can be illustrated by your earlier posting where you mentioned putting your articles in an autoresponder series and having it sent out to the people on your list. As long as you continue to accumulate subscribers those articles have the potential to earn you income.

Respectfully,
Tim

[TimG]

Originally Posted by Mike Hill

bastard... LOL you stole my thunder

You hit the submit button 1 minute before I did LOL

Mike Hill

PS. Great minds think alike

Lol - I have a lot of respect for you Mike so anytime I can be mentioned alongside you as having a great mind I'm all for it.

By the way, fantastic answer you provided

Tim

[Fabian Tan]

Great results, but as mentioned already you've got to build a list.

So it's not a one-shot thing. So it's not a fluke.

When you build a list, that traffic you get from 5 months ago is still worth money to you today. If you don't, you have to keep on finding new customers.

I've said it a few times before, a list is a traffic funnel. You can literally command traffic at will when you have a list.

That is a power you don't have if you redirect straight to an affiliate link or Adsense ad and help build the merchant's business as they get the leads and the customer list.

So you can be in an article marketing niche that gets 5 times less traffic than some other people, but if you build a list, you can market to them forever. You'll definitely get a value of more than 5 times the traffic that your Adsense earning and 'instant gratification' affiliates are getting

You are building a long-term business when you build a list.

Fabian

[Terry Hatfield]

Also, even if you don't try to sell other products to your list, you can still push the original product over and over until they buy or unsubscribe.

Terry

[Zeus66]

Be sure to track the CTR you're getting from all those articles, assuming you have a way to track such a thing. I know EZA tracks URL clicks from article body and resource box. Really pay attention to that, because you can increase your income quite substantially if you get better at it. The other part of the equation is maximizing your conversions at your site. If your income is from Adsense, make sure you've got your ad blocks/units positioned properly and blended with your content to get the highest CTR possible.

Honestly, if you're not getting a minimum 10% CTR to your site from the articles and another 10% CTR on Adsense ads, you're not doing it well enough (in my opinion). I was able to take my EZA CTR to 26% from a measly 3% by coming up with better titles and much better endings (call to action). Adsense CTR is mostly about tightly focused content on each page of your site + proper blending and positioning of ad blocks. You should be able to get close to 20% CTR there if you test a lot.

Seriously, if you can make $800+ from one month of effort and you're NOT getting very high CTR's, you are literally sitting on a goldmine, my friend! You should be able to exceed that with half as many articles monthly if you really dig in and analyze things closely. Great job and best of luck going forward! BE PROUD OF YOURSELF!!!

John

[Gary Huynh]

I think that $855 will be the minimum you're going to make if you continue the same momentum next month. Analyze your results, write more articles in niches which are bringing more results, build a list, test and track and outsource.

Doing all these things will help to increase your income. If you're consistent at writing content then you should be able to turn that content into money in one way or another. Your time is never wasted writing content.

[Angela V. Edwards]

Wow, congratulations. You took massive action and made a pretty decent amount of money, too. Keep in mind, these articles will continue to keep working for you. You are an inspiration.

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?

[sree94]

Originally Posted by Zeus66

Be sure to track the CTR you're getting from all those articles, assuming you have a way to track such a thing. I know EZA tracks URL clicks from article body and resource box. Really pay attention to that, because you can increase your income quite substantially if you get better at it. The other part of the equation is maximizing your conversions at your site. If your income is from Adsense, make sure you've got your ad blocks/units positioned properly and blended with your content to get the highest CTR possible.

Honestly, if you're not getting a minimum 10% CTR to your site from the articles and another 10% CTR on Adsense ads, you're not doing it well enough (in my opinion). I was able to take my EZA CTR to 26% from a measly 3% by coming up with better titles and much better endings (call to action). Adsense CTR is mostly about tightly focused content on each page of your site + proper blending and positioning of ad blocks. You should be able to get close to 20% CTR there if you test a lot.

Seriously, if you can make $800+ from one month of effort and you're NOT getting very high CTR's, you are literally sitting on a goldmine, my friend! You should be able to exceed that with half as many articles monthly if you really dig in and analyze things closely. Great job and best of luck going forward! BE PROUD OF YOURSELF!!!

John

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

[sree94]

Anyone know of a good video tutorial on how to set up a squeeze page to get email addresses?

[Mike Hill]

Originally Posted by sree94

Anyone know of a good video tutorial on how to set up a squeeze page to get email addresses?

As a matter of fact I do... Mine

I'll pm you...

Mike Hill

[Angela V. Edwards]

I'd actually like one, too, Mike. I have just started building a list, but I haven't done it for all my niches. I could use the help, too.

[David Neale]

sree94, did you publish the articles to your own website AND article directories? Or just to article directories and you have different content on your own site?

Thanks

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?

[Jeffrey Louis]

Try giving out a free e-book for free. With your personal expert outlook on your niche.

$855 is not bad at all for the first month, it's more then I made. - The money is in the list your building with those 200 articles!

Nice Start! and good luck with your IM.

[chrisgarrett]

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

One thing I would add to all the great advice above, treat this as profit from your customer acquisition strategy!

In many markets I have helped clients make millions in the long term by losing money initially on attracting new customers, you made hundreds of dollars AND gained customers.

The trick (as already mentioned) is getting them onto your list, because then you can up-sell, cross-sell and increase lifetime value.

So ... optimize what you have ... grow your list ... get more value out of each customer ... profit ... rinse and repeat

[David Raybould]

Hey Congratulations!

You may not have made the money you wanted, but 800 bucks is 800 bucks...you've proved to yourself that it works. All you need to do now is maximise the things that make money, and reduce the things that don't and apply as much leverage as possible.

Why not do as Timg says and hire some writers for more articles, and continue to write some yourself?

If you continued along these lines for say 6 months, you'd have a pretty good amount of residual traffic reaching your offers, and residual traffic = hands off profit...

Hope that helps

Congratulations on what you achieved though, it's a good thing...

David

[rondo]

That's approx 21% ctr which is very good. Well done.

Just think you had approx 4000 clicks so you could realistically have built a list of 1000 so far and growing. You don't want to overlook list building.


For the next few days slow down on the writing and think about how you can maximize the effects of all the work you have done.

For example, if you only submitted the articles to EZA consider creating squidoo lenses and hubpages for some of the articles. Submit some articles to other article directories for extra backlinks.

Make sure you are using keyword backlinks in your articles so your own sites will be at the top of Google in no time. Google traffic lasts longer than article directory traffic and is more profitable.


Fantastic effort!

Andrew

[rondo]

Also you could easily create a few free reports with these articles to help with list building, plus you could create a couple of info products of your own to sell on CB.


Andrew

[MaskedMarketer]

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?

I think Nursing schools would love to get a hand on your leads and pitch them into their school. Maybe you could sell your leads? Maybe there are CPA campaigns for you to convert these leads?

[dbarnum]

Heads up:

Many speak of lists here, but don't forget offline list info gathering, as well. Mailing postcards at least quarterly, every 6 months or annually, can pay off big time.

Send a link to your website in the postcard plus include postcard specials that your web-visitors can find there, for example. Just load your Excel list to the US Post Office’s site that handle this:

https://mailingonline.click2mail.com

(no affil).

…and either load your own creation or use one of theirs. My company does this regularly.

[Kevin Marshall]

Hey man sounds like you are doing great! It sounds like you are well on your way to a successful career. I've been unemployed for six weeks now and I am going to start article marketing the exact same way that you are. I guess the only reason I havent started yet is because I want to get a business license to make everything legal. It looks like I am going to start a J.O.B. in another week, but my long term goal is to become self-employed. Sree94, how much time do you estimate you have put into your business so far to write 200 articles?

[Kim Standerline]

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).

wow this stands as one of my fave posts Tim.

One of the worst things people don't do is put some of the money they earned to work for them. How can u build a business if you don't plow some of your profit back into it.

Also agree entirely with your p.s

If I do well with something, it's bonuses all round for not only the team, but the family as well lol

Cheers
Kim

[derrickp]

Yeah investing back into your business is a must. One of the keys though is know they amount of money you are bring in on a per site basis. I know a lot of people that invest in the dud sites and do not put anything into the sites that are doing well.

It is a question of turning good to great or dud to average.

Derrick

[Jeremy Kelsall]

With that many articles out there right now, you might want to consider building their value.

Check the search engines for articles that you have written that are ranking well. I usually look for articles that are somewhere in the first 5 pages of Google.

Once you locate those articles start building some backlinks to them to try to boost their ranking. You can do this in a couple of ways.

1. Reply to blogs that are niche specific with a link back to your article.
2. Comment on other articles on EzineArticles
3. Answer questions on Yahoo Answers with links back to your article.
4. rewrite the original article slightly and do a mass submission linking back to your original article.
5. Link back to your article in upcoming articles you publish.

This benefits you in a couple of ways. If your article already has a somewhat good ranking, the chances are good that the search engines are
just looking for a reason to boost your rankings. Give them what they want and build some links.

One other way it benefits you, is if you can get a good first page ranking for a decent traffic keyword you can change your attention to perhaps a different niche and repeat the steps you have already done to have another income stream.

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.

Also, consider taking advantage of some of the free sites such as blogger, squidoo, hubpages, and wordpress, to either link to your articles or to your landing page of choice.

There are a ton of ways to leverage the content that you already have out there right now, that will allow you to profit a good bit more from the effort that you have already put in.

If you don't have time to do link building, consider outsourcing it somewhere. Often times, for something simple like that you can pay a couple of bucks an hour for a couple hours a day and within a couple of weeks have a ton of links build to not only your articles but your other real estate as well.