Overview of My Second Money-Making Month in IM: $3990+

Talinn · 09-23-2009, 11:50 AM

Hey Warriors!

I am Talinn, you know me from my first thread:

Overview of My First Money-Making Month In IM: 2830 Dollars

In that thread I had summarized my first money-making month in IM and what made me earn 2830 dollars.

I have considerably upped my income this month - $3990, and today is not included!

Unfortunately, my last week was really bad for me and actually it was one of the worst weeks I had in the previous 2 months. But before that was awesome, so I still got $3990 this month!

My primary sources of traffic haven't really changed since the last month - article marketing. I have been pretty much consistently churning out 10 articles a day still. But the thing is, I have optimized each article's benefit.

Since I laid out my business plan plainly in last month's post, in this post I'll just tell the changes I have made that increased my income.

1. Increasing CTR's of Pre-Sell Pages (not articles)

While I was doing CTR-wise on my presell pages (about 70%) I still felt that there was room to improve. I have made the hoplinks more prominent, something I had been wary of because I wanted my visitors to actually read my page and be pre-sold first before they clicked away. But, this month I put a above-the-fold hoplink which gets clicked more often. The good thing is that the click counts for the below hoplinks didn't change, so this meant an overall improvement of CTR to about 80%.

2. Increasing CTR's of Articles Published

Since I have been writing a lot of articles, I have come up with a lot of different CTR numbers, and I focused on writing higher-CTR type articles which upped my CTR's about 10-15% overall. Actually, I list a lot of my high-CTR tactics in this thread

How to Have High CTRs In Your Articles

So if you are interested, you should read that.

3. Increasing Search Engine Traffic

While for the first month I had rarely checked how good my articles were doing in search engines; this month I have focused a bit more upon that. On several article directories, I looked at the most read articles and checked if they ranked high on any keywords. If they do, I check those articles' backlinks - if there aren't a lot of backlinks, I assume I can outrank the article by providing more optimal keyword densities for those keywords, and most of the time I managed to outrank them in Google.

A great method of searching for which keywords you can rank for is, choosing a niche, building a long list of keywords that are searched for in that niche (takes a minute in Google Adwords keyword tool) and then checking if any article sites rank highly on one or more of those keywords. I assume that if they haven't been heavily backlinked, I can outrank most of them.

4. Doing Away With Inefficient Products

Since my primary method is article marketing, I am able to conduct what I am going to tell you now. Not everything is conversion (hops per sale). In some of the niches (weight loss for example) it's super easy to generate a lot of hops since your articles get read ten times more. And yet in other niches (anxiety disorder for example) it's a hundred times harder to generate hops. So you should not only look at conversion, but also how easy it is to generate hops in that niche.

By that logic, I simply took how much money I had made in a niche, and divided it by how many articles I wrote. With this tactic I was able to pinpoint how much money each article I wrote was making for me. The results were counter-intuitive and I left promoting some products that I previously felt were doing good; and allocated more time to promoting products that brought me more money per article. This increased my efficiency a lot.

A Note,

I am thankful for your interest on my IM experience and I have been receiving a lot of PM's. I haven't replied to the last 4 or 5 of them since I think this thread will answer all those questions.

Also, unfortunately I am not a War Room member so my inbox is limited to 10 messages. I am sorry for any problems arising from that!

Finally;

The reason that I have found moderate, but encouraging success is that I have been consistent with one method of Internet Marketing. I feel that a lot of potential IM'ers fail to give enough time to one method, and switch to other methods. This way, they are costing themselves any success they might have!

I have been able to make money not because article marketing is the only way to go (in fact, I think A.M. is inefficient when it comes to hours you spend versus the money you earned). I have been able to make money because I persisted on this one method.

Whatever aspect of IM you are currently focusing on; might me SEO, might be PPC, might be tons of other crucial methods I may not even be aware of; you must persist and not give up on that method.

Do not forget that people are making huge amounts of money from SEO, from article marketing, from PPC, from CPA, etc... It just takes that you insist on one method and don't get discouraged when you first for the first months or so!

I wish all of you great success!

jasonl70 · 09-23-2009, 11:57 AM

While I am not into article marketing, i think it's really cool of you to share your techniques so openly like this.

keep up the good work..

Jill Carpenter · 09-23-2009, 11:57 AM

I think the huge point here is that you are taking the time to track and look at what is really going on as opposed to just tossing up 10 articles a day.

Great job on the improvements!

Talinn · 09-23-2009, 12:31 PM

I don't know why this was taken to this section while my first thread stayed in the general discussion section for months

Ken Durham · 09-23-2009, 01:35 PM

Good stuff! I agree with being persistent.

You can have more PMs if you become a Warrior member....but you already know this

LNSTRM · 09-23-2009, 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Talinn

I have been able to make money not because article marketing is the only way to go (in fact, I think A.M. is inefficient when it comes to hours you spend versus the money you earned). I have been able to make money because I persisted on this one method.

If you are still looking for a IM silver bullet -- there it is!

Fernando Veloso · 09-23-2009, 01:53 PM

Congrats Talinn, just keep doing what you're doing the right way.

Maybe in some weeks you can start to outsource and try to multiply the profit.

Antony103 · 09-23-2009, 04:54 PM

Hey Talinn, congrats!

i am also in the same boat well 2 months ago havin just graduated.

and struggling to start off my im career.

i was wondering how long before ezine started publishing your articles?
how long do you normally wait, and do you publish 10 a day?

Do you submit those 10 articles to other directories

regards

Quote:

Originally Posted by Talinn

Hey Warriors!

I am Talinn, you know me from my first thread:

Overview of My First Money-Making Month In IM: 2830 Dollars

In that thread I had summarized my first money-making month in IM and what made me earn 2830 dollars.

I have considerably upped my income this month - $3990, and today is not included!

Unfortunately, my last week was really bad for me and actually it was one of the worst weeks I had in the previous 2 months. But before that was awesome, so I still got $3990 this month!

My primary sources of traffic haven't really changed since the last month - article marketing. I have been pretty much consistently churning out 10 articles a day still. But the thing is, I have optimized each article's benefit.

Since I laid out my business plan plainly in last month's post, in this post I'll just tell the changes I have made that increased my income.

1. Increasing CTR's of Pre-Sell Pages (not articles)

While I was doing CTR-wise on my presell pages (about 70%) I still felt that there was room to improve. I have made the hoplinks more prominent, something I had been wary of because I wanted my visitors to actually read my page and be pre-sold first before they clicked away. But, this month I put a above-the-fold hoplink which gets clicked more often. The good thing is that the click counts for the below hoplinks didn't change, so this meant an overall improvement of CTR to about 80%.

2. Increasing CTR's of Articles Published

Since I have been writing a lot of articles, I have come up with a lot of different CTR numbers, and I focused on writing higher-CTR type articles which upped my CTR's about 10-15% overall. Actually, I list a lot of my high-CTR tactics in this thread

How to Have High CTRs In Your Articles

So if you are interested, you should read that.

3. Increasing Search Engine Traffic

While for the first month I had rarely checked how good my articles were doing in search engines; this month I have focused a bit more upon that. On several article directories, I looked at the most read articles and checked if they ranked high on any keywords. If they do, I check those articles' backlinks - if there aren't a lot of backlinks, I assume I can outrank the article by providing more optimal keyword densities for those keywords, and most of the time I managed to outrank them in Google.

A great method of searching for which keywords you can rank for is, choosing a niche, building a long list of keywords that are searched for in that niche (takes a minute in Google Adwords keyword tool) and then checking if any article sites rank highly on one or more of those keywords. I assume that if they haven't been heavily backlinked, I can outrank most of them.

4. Doing Away With Inefficient Products

Since my primary method is article marketing, I am able to conduct what I am going to tell you now. Not everything is conversion (hops per sale). In some of the niches (weight loss for example) it's super easy to generate a lot of hops since your articles get read ten times more. And yet in other niches (anxiety disorder for example) it's a hundred times harder to generate hops. So you should not only look at conversion, but also how easy it is to generate hops in that niche.

By that logic, I simply took how much money I had made in a niche, and divided it by how many articles I wrote. With this tactic I was able to pinpoint how much money each article I wrote was making for me. The results were counter-intuitive and I left promoting some products that I previously felt were doing good; and allocated more time to promoting products that brought me more money per article. This increased my efficiency a lot.

A Note,

I am thankful for your interest on my IM experience and I have been receiving a lot of PM's. I haven't replied to the last 4 or 5 of them since I think this thread will answer all those questions.

Also, unfortunately I am not a War Room member so my inbox is limited to 10 messages. I am sorry for any problems arising from that!

Finally;

The reason that I have found moderate, but encouraging success is that I have been consistent with one method of Internet Marketing. I feel that a lot of potential IM'ers fail to give enough time to one method, and switch to other methods. This way, they are costing themselves any success they might have!

I have been able to make money not because article marketing is the only way to go (in fact, I think A.M. is inefficient when it comes to hours you spend versus the money you earned). I have been able to make money because I persisted on this one method.

Whatever aspect of IM you are currently focusing on; might me SEO, might be PPC, might be tons of other crucial methods I may not even be aware of; you must persist and not give up on that method.

Do not forget that people are making huge amounts of money from SEO, from article marketing, from PPC, from CPA, etc... It just takes that you insist on one method and don't get discouraged when you first for the first months or so!

I wish all of you great success!

newBum76 · 09-25-2009, 06:15 PM

That is awesome Talinn, your threads are a big source of motivation for me so I hope you keep posting your updates.

4 sales this month so far...I haven't been churning out 10 articles per day like you but looks like that's what I need to be doing!

Thanks for the update, I wish you continued success!

-Jon

VMN · 09-25-2009, 07:12 PM

Thank you Talinn,
I also appreciate your sharing with us!
Victoria

Wesley Cash · 09-28-2009, 01:56 PM

Great Post! Yes looking at your stats from the previous month, definitely is the way to go.
Great inspiration keep it up!

Michael Curran Smith · 09-28-2009, 08:30 PM

Congratulations! Banging out articles isn't too glamourous, but it brings results. I'm going to up my article count per day to as high as possible. Thanks for the inspiration.

holla22 · 09-30-2009, 02:28 AM

Wow very inspirational, thanks for boosting our confidence! Keep up the good work.

09-23-2009, 11:50 AM	#1
Talinn Moderately Successful Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 254 Thanks: 15 Thanked 160 Times in 35 Posts	Overview of My Second Money-Making Month in IM: $3990+ Hey Warriors! I am Talinn, you know me from my first thread: Overview of My First Money-Making Month In IM: 2830 Dollars In that thread I had summarized my first money-making month in IM and what made me earn 2830 dollars. I have considerably upped my income this month - $3990, and today is not included! Unfortunately, my last week was really bad for me and actually it was one of the worst weeks I had in the previous 2 months. But before that was awesome, so I still got $3990 this month! My primary sources of traffic haven't really changed since the last month - article marketing. I have been pretty much consistently churning out 10 articles a day still. But the thing is, I have optimized each article's benefit. Since I laid out my business plan plainly in last month's post, in this post I'll just tell the changes I have made that increased my income. 1. Increasing CTR's of Pre-Sell Pages (not articles) While I was doing CTR-wise on my presell pages (about 70%) I still felt that there was room to improve. I have made the hoplinks more prominent, something I had been wary of because I wanted my visitors to actually read my page and be pre-sold first before they clicked away. But, this month I put a above-the-fold hoplink which gets clicked more often. The good thing is that the click counts for the below hoplinks didn't change, so this meant an overall improvement of CTR to about 80%. 2. Increasing CTR's of Articles Published Since I have been writing a lot of articles, I have come up with a lot of different CTR numbers, and I focused on writing higher-CTR type articles which upped my CTR's about 10-15% overall. Actually, I list a lot of my high-CTR tactics in this thread How to Have High CTRs In Your Articles So if you are interested, you should read that. 3. Increasing Search Engine Traffic While for the first month I had rarely checked how good my articles were doing in search engines; this month I have focused a bit more upon that. On several article directories, I looked at the most read articles and checked if they ranked high on any keywords. If they do, I check those articles' backlinks - if there aren't a lot of backlinks, I assume I can outrank the article by providing more optimal keyword densities for those keywords, and most of the time I managed to outrank them in Google. A great method of searching for which keywords you can rank for is, choosing a niche, building a long list of keywords that are searched for in that niche (takes a minute in Google Adwords keyword tool) and then checking if any article sites rank highly on one or more of those keywords. I assume that if they haven't been heavily backlinked, I can outrank most of them. 4. Doing Away With Inefficient Products Since my primary method is article marketing, I am able to conduct what I am going to tell you now. Not everything is conversion (hops per sale). In some of the niches (weight loss for example) it's super easy to generate a lot of hops since your articles get read ten times more. And yet in other niches (anxiety disorder for example) it's a hundred times harder to generate hops. So you should not only look at conversion, but also how easy it is to generate hops in that niche. By that logic, I simply took how much money I had made in a niche, and divided it by how many articles I wrote. With this tactic I was able to pinpoint how much money each article I wrote was making for me. The results were counter-intuitive and I left promoting some products that I previously felt were doing good; and allocated more time to promoting products that brought me more money per article. This increased my efficiency a lot. A Note, I am thankful for your interest on my IM experience and I have been receiving a lot of PM's. I haven't replied to the last 4 or 5 of them since I think this thread will answer all those questions. Also, unfortunately I am not a War Room member so my inbox is limited to 10 messages. I am sorry for any problems arising from that! Finally; The reason that I have found moderate, but encouraging success is that I have been consistent with one method of Internet Marketing. I feel that a lot of potential IM'ers fail to give enough time to one method, and switch to other methods. This way, they are costing themselves any success they might have! I have been able to make money not because article marketing is the only way to go (in fact, I think A.M. is inefficient when it comes to hours you spend versus the money you earned). I have been able to make money because I persisted on this one method. Whatever aspect of IM you are currently focusing on; might me SEO, might be PPC, might be tons of other crucial methods I may not even be aware of; you must persist and not give up on that method. Do not forget that people are making huge amounts of money from SEO, from article marketing, from PPC, from CPA, etc... It just takes that you insist on one method and don't get discouraged when you first for the first months or so! I wish all of you great success!

09-23-2009, 11:57 AM	#2
jasonl70 Software Developer War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Ohio , USA. Posts: 2,273 Thanks: 416 Thanked 408 Times in 250 Posts	Re: Overview of My Second Money-Making Month in IM: $3990+ While I am not into article marketing, i think it's really cool of you to share your techniques so openly like this. keep up the good work..
	-Jason

09-23-2009, 11:57 AM	#3
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09-23-2009, 12:31 PM	#4
Talinn Moderately Successful Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 254 Thanks: 15 Thanked 160 Times in 35 Posts	Re: Overview of My Second Money-Making Month in IM: $3990+ I don't know why this was taken to this section while my first thread stayed in the general discussion section for months

09-23-2009, 01:35 PM	#5
Ken Durham Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesterton, IN Posts: 923 Thanks: 129 Thanked 193 Times in 153 Posts	Re: Overview of My Second Money-Making Month in IM: $3990+ Good stuff! I agree with being persistent. You can have more PMs if you become a Warrior member....but you already know this
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09-23-2009, 01:53 PM	#7
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09-25-2009, 06:15 PM	#9
newBum76 HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: USA Posts: 314 Thanks: 186 Thanked 34 Times in 20 Posts	Re: Overview of My Second Money-Making Month in IM: $3990+ That is awesome Talinn, your threads are a big source of motivation for me so I hope you keep posting your updates. 4 sales this month so far...I haven't been churning out 10 articles per day like you but looks like that's what I need to be doing! Thanks for the update, I wish you continued success! -Jon

09-25-2009, 07:12 PM	#10
VMN VictoriaNTC Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Rocky Mountains USA. Posts: 162 Thanks: 17 Thanked 19 Times in 8 Posts Social Networking	Re: Overview of My Second Money-Making Month in IM: $3990+ Thank you Talinn, I also appreciate your sharing with us! Victoria
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09-28-2009, 01:56 PM	#11
Wesley Cash Cash Cow Mogul Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Anywhere USA Posts: 16 Thanks: 3 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Overview of My Second Money-Making Month in IM: $3990+ Great Post! Yes looking at your stats from the previous month, definitely is the way to go. Great inspiration keep it up!

09-28-2009, 08:30 PM	#12
Michael Curran Smith Thrive Web Marketing War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 197 Thanks: 28 Thanked 28 Times in 27 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Overview of My Second Money-Making Month in IM: $3990+ Congratulations! Banging out articles isn't too glamourous, but it brings results. I'm going to up my article count per day to as high as possible. Thanks for the inspiration.

09-30-2009, 02:28 AM	#13
holla22 Morné Zeelie War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: , , South Africa. Posts: 74 Thanks: 0 Thanked 6 Times in 6 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Overview of My Second Money-Making Month in IM: $3990+ Wow very inspirational, thanks for boosting our confidence! Keep up the good work.
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