Article Marketing Rocks - Follow my very own story that makes me more than $200+ daily on autopilot!

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Hi Warriors,

Today I want to give you some tips that will be usufull for newbies and advanced article
marketers.

p.s - I just want to say that English is not my first language but I will try my best.

Let's start.

Since 2008 I have tried to figure out how article marketing works and how to become a 5 figures
per month earner. Really this was my goal but I never follow it. Back at October Last year I build a
blog and manage it to get it to $100/day mark within only 3 weeks. But then I sold that website
and I forgot article marketing once again.

-- - - - Until August this year, when I was at vacation for 3 days with my GF and we had conversation with her
about how are we gona live together - like normal people ( I am talking anywhere between $1-3k month ) - This is what I
called normal people in my country - most of them will call them rich.

Anyway after we got back from that 3 day vacation we decided we will do a reasearch and put 2-3 review sites that will
promote other people products. And here is What we have done under 3 days.


We spent around $200 To get 2 super looking review websites and 15 Articles in Total - Unique content + I payed $10 per article.
Some of you will say: Why Did you spent over $10 per article when you can get your articles for less than $3 each - well the answer is
I want to make money so I have to spent money and get quality content.


After we got my review websites up, we got our writer and asked her to write us other batch of 100 articles that we will promote or review sites with them.
We payed a tottal of $800 for that but we got other batch of 10 articles as a bonus and posted them in my review sites.
So each of our review site now has - 2 product reviews + a total of 8 related articles to my niche.

After two months time working on my new sites - We manage to get both of them on the front page of google. The first one is also ranking in the 1st position and the second on is 5th position in google for the main
keyword.

* Niche one has over 6 000 000 competition
* Niche two has over 2 500 000 competition

Since that was happend around the middle of September the 1st website was bringing me over $120+ daily commision. We had few days with over $300 in sales just by one of this sites. The 2nd website
hit google front page and position 1st in the end of September I thing it was 27th. That website makes me anywhere between $50-70 daily.

So here is what I did.

1. We posted each of my promotional articles to over 25 directories. So thats a total of over 2500+ backlinks if all of them was accepting my articles (Well to be honest I got my articles accepted
in 23 article directories )

2. We spent nearly 7 days - 14 hours on PC each day - creating videos with my articles. When I hit the 100 videos done ( Thanks to my GF for helping me on that one ) - I start to submit each of my
video to the TOP 10 video websites. That toke me only 2 days. ( Thanks again for the help of my GF ) And that brings me more than 1000 backlinks to my site.

3. We bookmark every promotional article to the TOP 15 bookmarketing websites and we also bookmarked our inner pages of our review website.

4. We submit our articles to the TOP 5 search engines and we also submitted our review sites and their inner pages.

5. We done RSS feeds submittion.

6. We submit our review websites to over 2000+ directories. This was difficult but it toke us no more than 5 days I gues and we also done other work in that time.

7. This was the last but not the easiest part of our promotion. We build some Blog commenting links to over 100+ PR5 websites. This was diffucult if you ask me.


So all of the above we done it manually - We did't use any softwares or any automation tools ( this is just my opinion - I don't like softwares because I cannot track everything the way I wanted to ).

It toke us 17 days in total to complete all the tasks.

What I learned was - ARTICLE MARKETING ROCKS if you follow your goal and be motivated you will success.

Till today those two websites are making us enough money.

Site one makes us - $150+ daily now
Site two makes us - $80+ daily now

Lets hear your success with article marketing and to the ones who are newbies and thining of stating jus follow yor goal and stay motivated.

Thanks
Ivan Georgiev
#$200 #article #autopilot #daily #follow #makes #marketing #rocks #story
  • Profile picture of the author ryanman
    Awesome advice...Congrats on your success.
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  • Profile picture of the author pheonix44
    Your plan sounds good. I don't like the website directory technique though, I did it and found it to not be that good for me. The Rss, the article marketing and the commenting on high pr blogs is a great step though. I have found if I do simple blog commenting to high pr sites that's enough to get me ranking well for a mid level niche.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alan Mc Donald
      congrats on your success ivan

      did you get any traffic from the video submissions or did you do it just for backlinks?

      also what is your conversion rate
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  • Profile picture of the author Daniel Brock
    Is the article you put on your blog the same article you sent out to those 25 article directories?

    Or do you have 2 articles, one for your blog and one that you syndicate out to the article directories with a link back to your blog article?

    Thanks!
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    • Profile picture of the author Ivancho
      Originally Posted by Daniel Brock View Post

      Is the article you put on your blog the same article you sent out to those 25 article directories?

      Or do you have 2 articles, one for your blog and one that you syndicate out to the article directories with a link back to your blog article?

      Thanks!
      Daniel
      Hi Daniel,

      All of the content on the review sites are unique. I never posted any of them to article directories.
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  • Profile picture of the author rcwilson4au
    Great Job! Article marketing is truely the best way to promote your site. If you are looking for some help article marketing my company can do it for you. Just click the link in my sig.
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  • Profile picture of the author trigger1
    Nice results! Pm sent.
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  • Profile picture of the author MisterMunch
    This sounds similar to the plan I have been working on for the last months.

    Congrats for actually doing it!

    That is close to 7.000 a month. A worthy payment for 17 days of hard labour.
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  • Profile picture of the author deanfz
    damn, that's what I call taking serious action in the IM world. Great job. Keep the good work and keep your good GF. She seems to fit to you

    Is the competiton in quotation marks or not ?

    All the best.
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    • Profile picture of the author breakdance
      Originally Posted by deanfz View Post

      damn, that's what I call taking serious action in the IM world. Great job. Keep the good work and keep your good GF. She seems to fit to you

      Is the competiton in quotation marks or not ?

      All the best.
      LOL Dean, you ain't lying! I hope Ivan *marries* this chick, as she seems to be a good woman, and not only that, but an IMer just like us!
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    I'm copying the post and saving it in googledocs. Awesome awesome info.
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  • Profile picture of the author PrettyJenny
    I also bookmarked this post. And congrats on your wonderful success!
    May I ask a few questions- where did you find your writer? I had a hard time finding a good writer with affordable rate.
    And how did you do keyword research? Was each of your article targeting a long tail keyword?

    Sorry for many questions How did you make your videos? I normally use Animoto to create my videos, just wonder if you use another option.

    Thanks a lot for your great information!
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    • Profile picture of the author Ivancho
      Originally Posted by PrettyJenny View Post

      I also bookmarked this post. And congrats on your wonderful success!
      May I ask a few questions- where did you find your writer? I had a hard time finding a good writer with affordable rate.
      And how did you do keyword research? Was each of your article targeting a long tail keyword?

      Sorry for many questions How did you make your videos? I normally use Animoto to create my videos, just wonder if you use another option.

      Thanks a lot for your great information!
      Hi Jenny,

      I got my writer last year, I don't really remember where I find her lol.
      As for the Keyword research - most of the articles was targeting the main keyword of the niche and very few long tail keywords.

      As for the videos we did that our selfs with my GF. We done it with WMM. We did't want to spent more for services like tubemogul.



      hope that will helps

      Thanks

      Ivan Georgiev
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    Congratulations to your success. It looks like you worked really hard and now it is paying off.
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  • Profile picture of the author iplusgold
    Ivan thats an awesome story and good on you for getting out there and achieving it. Most people that start article marketing quite after about 5 articles and never ever review them again. You have gone the extra step and actually pushed through to the point where you are making money!

    Congratulations
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  • Profile picture of the author Trieu
    Great post Ivan. I have been working with Ivan for some time, and I can tell you he is a real hard worker and knows his stuff in SEO Marketing.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ehanson
      Great work! Article marketing is a lot of work and involves more than submitting articles to article directories but if you follow through it can really pay off.
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    Your story would be more inspirational if we had some idea of what you were selling. Not specifically, of course, but whether you are selling a physical product -- drop shipped? amazon aff? boxed and shipped yourself? -- or a downloadable product, or are you getting income from adsense or CPA?
    I've found that search rankings can be manipulated a bit, but what to do with the customers who show up is the main problem.
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  • Profile picture of the author Charann Miller
    That's impressive Ivan, sounds your like your significant other played a big part in that success, guess you're going to have to put a "ring" on it?

    Great results, you had a serious plan of attack and you followed it, very inspiring for those of us who feel disheartened or frustrated, it can happen you just have to be prepared to put the work in.

    Keep us updated, I have a feeling those figures will only grow with time.
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  • Profile picture of the author Big JP
    3. We bookmark every promotional article to the TOP 15 bookmarketing websites and we also bookmarked our inner pages of our review website.

    So do you mean to say, you bookmarked 2500 pages to 15 sites, thats... 37500 bookmarks! Along with 2000+ manual directory submissions, that alone surely is enough to kill a human If not, defenitely turn them square eyed Are you being serious?

    Congrats on coming out the other side by the way, must feel great now.
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    • Profile picture of the author H_Wilhelm
      Ivan-

      Thanks for sharing your insights into how well article marketing has been to the success of your business. This should serve as 'confirmation' that article marketing does play an important role in promoting a website!

      Regarding step #3, where you indicated you bookmarked every promotional article, as well as your inner pages to the TOP 15 bookmarketing websites...my question is this:

      Did you use the same login details for each bookmarketing website or did you have 15 unique logins, one for each? If you used 15 unique logins, did you base your 'user-name' based on the keyword for each unique article?


      Again, congrats to your success and may it continue to grow everyday!


      Howie

      PS: I believed you mentioned "WMM" to post to the top video sharing sites...what is "WMM" if I may ask?...or were you merely referring to "Windows Movie Maker" to just make the vids?
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    • Profile picture of the author Ivancho
      Originally Posted by Big JP View Post

      3. We bookmark every promotional article to the TOP 15 bookmarketing websites and we also bookmarked our inner pages of our review website.

      So do you mean to say, you bookmarked 2500 pages to 15 sites, thats... 37500 bookmarks! Along with 2000+ manual directory submissions, that alone surely is enough to kill a human If not, defenitely turn them square eyed Are you being serious?

      Congrats on coming out the other side by the way, must feel great now.
      lol ofcrouce not . I told you my english is't very good.

      We bookmarked our articles which are 100 to 15 sites. thats 1500.
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      • Profile picture of the author Liam Hamer
        Plan + Massive Action and Determination = Results

        Very well done to yourself and your GF Ivan - I'm in awe of your levels of determination and motivation. You deserve your success, and your story is an inspiration to us all Keep up the great work
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      • Profile picture of the author Big JP
        Originally Posted by Ivancho View Post

        lol ofcrouce not . I told you my english is't very good.

        We bookmarked our articles which are 100 to 15 sites. thats 1500.
        Phew... That's good to hear, I thought there was some new breed of super human arising, still 1500 bookmarks manually is still quite an achievement, Well Done !
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  • Profile picture of the author misterwrecker
    Wow isn't it beautiful when you have a solid plan and follow through!

    I think a lot of people have the knowledge to make money online but they just complicate it by looking for some hidden secret.

    The secret is TAKE CONTINUOUS ACTION!


    Congrats to your success Ivancho!
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  • Profile picture of the author MichaelAppleton
    Congratulations, you made a plan, you took action and you are now reaping the rewards, well done. I hope you have inspired others to do the same.

    Your probably to busy reading all your PM's to read this but hey ho

    Best of luck to you and hope your websites continue to tick over at the $200 dollar mark.

    Michael Appleton
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    • Profile picture of the author mikeyman120
      Ivan,
      I copied and pasted this one. Obviously you took massive action and got good results. I need these kinds of posts to motivate me with article marketing. It has now been a few months since I wrote an article. When it comes to writing I am the king of procrastination, thanks for the motivation.

      Mike
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      • Profile picture of the author Ivancho
        Originally Posted by mikeyman120 View Post

        Ivan,
        I copied and pasted this one. Obviously you took massive action and got good results. I need these kinds of posts to motivate me with article marketing. It has now been a few months since I wrote an article. When it comes to writing I am the king of procrastination, thanks for the motivation.

        Mike
        Hey Mike -if you are lazy to write them your self you can always outsource them for cheap price
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  • Profile picture of the author TTran
    Congratulations on your success Ivan. It takes hard work to get results and you seem to know that very well =)

    I was just wondering, for your niches, how many searches do your keywords get per month?

    Thank you in advance.
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    Congrats,

    Seems likem the hard work paid off!
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  • Profile picture of the author brucekaushik
    ok .. its a great info .. but i got a question

    how did u monetize ur sites ?
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    • Profile picture of the author Tony Dean
      Article marketing at the moment seems to be king!
      The link juice from them is awesome.
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    I don't buy the idea. There are many ways to promote your web or blog without spending a dime.Article spinner has been the way out
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    • Profile picture of the author Liam Hamer
      Originally Posted by charlso1 View Post

      I don't buy the idea. There are many ways to promote your web or blog without spending a dime.Article spinner has been the way out
      You don't need to This worked fantastically well for Ivan and he is kindly sharing it with us. Different strokes.....
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  • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
    Wow - that's a truly awesome amount of work you both did. What can I say - fantastic, fabulous, brilliant - you truly deserve the return you're getting.
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    Wow. I should say that this is article marketing + hard work + again hard work
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    • Profile picture of the author LegitIncomes
      Awesome! Congrats on the success.

      You really did a lot more than what "article marketing", you've also
      done video marketing, etc....

      Great job!
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  • Profile picture of the author Arlene.Harahap
    thats very Rock.. wow fantastic..
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  • Profile picture of the author ronaldc
    I always appreciate to people who do well in article marketing. It pays for your hard work ! Congrats.
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    • Profile picture of the author tahoedavid
      Great info! Thanks so much, it's very inspiring to a newbie like me!
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    Thanks for the guide mate!!
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  • Profile picture of the author Magy
    Damn Ivan, you are crazy, i like that
    I must kick me and start working hard too!
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    Great story!! An inspiration for others to be sure!!
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    • Profile picture of the author robvegas626
      Good job man. Two quick questions, and I welcome all input here...

      - Do you use a bookmarking service like BookMarking Demon? I have that program, and have had difficulties with it. I'd love a recommendation on the best bookmarking program out there right now.

      - What RSS submission software are you folks using? I had been using RSS Announcer, but it suddenly quit working. I'm looking for something better and more powerful...

      Keep up the good work!
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    • Profile picture of the author natscash
      Thank you for sharing this valuable information.
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    • Profile picture of the author achivement84
      Congratulations Ivan,

      As you explained you have used many ways to promote and attract traffic beside the article marketing, i like that way as i don`t think following only one way can generate the needed traffic to your sites.
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    • Profile picture of the author Matt D.
      True, you are truly crazy. :p Well I guess this is another proof that hard work pays well in IM world. And a proof that it does require hard work to succeed. Damn I wish I could say I'm working that hard.

      Take care
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  • Profile picture of the author Ben Roy
    Thanks a lot for posting all of that information. Would you mind sharing some stats with us? Specifically I'd very interested to know:

    # unique visitors per day
    # hops per day (ie, 'conversion' from your review)
    sales/hop, or final conversion rate.

    Thanks!

    Ben
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  • Profile picture of the author Magy
    Originally Posted by Ivancho View Post

    lol ofcrouce not . I told you my english is't very good.

    We bookmarked our articles which are 100 to 15 sites. thats 1500.
    I dont get it too, you got 100 articles that you submit to 25 directories (or 23 that you are sure it's published). That's 2300 articles. You bookmark what so, one of the 23 versions?

    I'm curious, i am learning social bookmarking at the moment so
    Good luck for the future man, continue to work and you will be rich
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  • Profile picture of the author GFox
    Great job, Ivan! Now you and your GF can afford a one week vacation next time - you have both earned it, literally. Thanks for sharing and much continued success!
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  • Profile picture of the author actionplanbiz
    can you still post the same article in multiple article directories?

    is this still effective?
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    • Profile picture of the author Ivancho
      Originally Posted by actionplanbiz View Post

      can you still post the same article in multiple article directories?

      is this still effective?
      To be honest I don't see a problem with that. You can and that is what I have done with my articles.
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  • Profile picture of the author Franck Silvestre
    Awesome job Ivancho and thanks for sharing.

    All the best,

    Franck
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  • Profile picture of the author Amelia O
    Great to see your hard work paid off WELL..

    Cheers!
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  • Profile picture of the author Randy J
    Sounds like a lot of work...but all of it paid off...Awesome...
    I bet if you would added some solo ads to ezines you would have
    got a greater amount of traffic faster...I loved your case study...
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  • Profile picture of the author Hamza El Bouni
    * Niche one has over 6 000 000 competition
    * Niche two has over 2 500 000 competition
    Hi, well congrats first !! you are so inspiring man !

    i have a question if you don't mind ... did the amount of compitition you said your niche have is whe you search between quotes "" or just the normal results ? if it was the normal results can you tell us pleas how much compitition there is between quotes "" in both niches ...

    Thanks

    Edit :

    sry but after i submited my reply an other quetion poped in into my minde, you said that you'v done everything in 14 days, after that did you just waited for the whoel 2 months till you saw results or you keep doing something ?
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    • Profile picture of the author Ray Erdmann
      Great work Ivan! Goes to show that with a little investment and the right approach, it doesn't take much to start seeing results!

      would like some advice on the best way of going about social bookmarking sites. Do you suggest unique logins/user names for each site, or just sticking w/one generic one across the board?


      Thanks,


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      • Profile picture of the author Ivancho
        Originally Posted by Ray Erdmann View Post

        Great work Ivan! Goes to show that with a little investment and the right approach, it doesn't take much to start seeing results!

        would like some advice on the best way of going about social bookmarking sites. Do you suggest unique logins/user names for each site, or just sticking w/one generic one across the board?


        Thanks,


        Ray
        Well we use a total of 5 unique usernames for all our submissions. But I don't see any problem if you are using just 1.
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        • Profile picture of the author Ray Erdmann
          Originally Posted by Ivancho View Post

          Well we use a total of 5 unique usernames for all our submissions. But I don't see any problem if you are using just 1.
          Thanks for the response Ivan! I had heard conflicting stories regarding one account over many bookmarking sites...I'll use my one lone account on a few of the bigger sites to get an idea as to the speed of getting a site to page 1 of Google and if needed, will expand and try multiple accounts such as yourself.


          To your continued success!


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  • Profile picture of the author mikemcmillan
    Neatooo! Sounds like a good plan. Glad it worked for you. I'm sure you've motivated a good many people here with your material--thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author seriousmny
    I copied the instructions down into a Word document and printed this out. I am taping it up on my wall in front of my computer. This is just want I need to keep my momentum going. You are also blessed to have a lady to support you in your work. I hope you share some of that cash with her... or maybe a "ring" :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author melanied
    Congrats!

    Most people would have gotten bored and given up. Tenacity is key!

    Keep it up!
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  • Profile picture of the author SteveSch
    Hi Ivancho,

    Thank you for sharing this story. Congratulations. That's inspiration for sure. I need to get going faster.

    Please tell us - how did you monetize the sites? CPA, adsense, your own products?

    Thanks again for the story. Another restless night for sure. LOL

    Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author MrDay
    Thanks for that inspirational story! I have saved this thread for future reference and it's good to know that great skills and diligence eventually payoff, Big Time.

    cheers!
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  • Profile picture of the author chewie49
    What kind of video you created? Did you just narrated the articles? Did you use a still image?

    Looking forward to your response.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ivancho
      Originally Posted by chewie49 View Post

      What kind of video you created? Did you just narrated the articles? Did you use a still image?

      Looking forward to your response.
      Well they was simple videos.

      Putting a background image, a song on the beggining then for the articles I used a voice over and at the end of each video they were promoting my website ...
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  • Profile picture of the author chewie49
    So you basically read the article out loud, right?
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  • Profile picture of the author Jenb
    Hard work pays off, Oh...if only it wasn't so damn hard!!
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  • Profile picture of the author raul28
    Whoo, lot of work. You can pay $50 and all of this can be done for you. You can build next site in that time.
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  • Profile picture of the author JT0713
    wow~! congrats for your great results!!

    thanx for sharin. bookmarkd this page already...lol
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  • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
    Great job and thanks for sharing.

    I see that you used review sites as the vehicle but what type of products were you promoting, IE: CB, CJ, etc... ?
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis-White
    Thats a great job and well layed out system , keep it up and only expand more on it
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  • Profile picture of the author Mo Faisal
    Well done!!
    Now you can live together with your gf- like normal people!
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  • Profile picture of the author alexanderberson
    Very interesting. Keep on doing what you doing. As long as it works....its all good.
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  • Profile picture of the author julianyc
    Ivan, congratulations to you. I'm wondering if you'd be willing to share whether the competition for your niches were in quotation marks, and what the exact monthly searches are on each of your keywords?

    Best of luck to you!
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    • Profile picture of the author RebeccaL
      Originally Posted by julianyc View Post

      Ivan, congratulations to you. I'm wondering if you'd be willing to share whether the competition for your niches were in quotation marks, and what the exact monthly searches are on each of your keywords?

      Best of luck to you!
      Thats the kind of thing that really doesnt matter though - if you stop focusing on numbers then you'll find things start happening. This is a big mistake that beginners continually make.
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  • Profile picture of the author WhamSoft
    Good reading, thanks for the advice. Did'nt somebody say this was easy?

    Just kidding, half a months work in creating something for life gets my vote everytime.
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  • Profile picture of the author babarapho
    Very great post. Real work + dedication= success. So keep it up
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  • Profile picture of the author ian hannaford
    Originally Posted by Ivancho View Post

    Hi Warriors,

    Today I want to give you some tips that will be usufull for newbies and advanced article
    marketers.

    p.s - I just want to say that English is not my first language but I will try my best.

    Let's start.

    Since 2008 I have tried to figure out how article marketing works and how to become a 5 figures
    per month earner. Really this was my goal but I never follow it. Back at October Last year I build a
    blog and manage it to get it to $100/day mark within only 3 weeks. But then I sold that website
    and I forgot article marketing once again.

    -- - - - Until August this year, when I was at vacation for 3 days with my GF and we had conversation with her
    about how are we gona live together - like normal people ( I am talking anywhere between $1-3k month ) - This is what I
    called normal people in my country - most of them will call them rich.

    Anyway after we got back from that 3 day vacation we decided we will do a reasearch and put 2-3 review sites that will
    promote other people products. And here is What we have done under 3 days.


    We spent around $200 To get 2 super looking review websites and 15 Articles in Total - Unique content + I payed $10 per article.
    Some of you will say: Why Did you spent over $10 per article when you can get your articles for less than $3 each - well the answer is
    I want to make money so I have to spent money and get quality content.


    After we got my review websites up, we got our writer and asked her to write us other batch of 100 articles that we will promote or review sites with them.
    We payed a tottal of $800 for that but we got other batch of 10 articles as a bonus and posted them in my review sites.
    So each of our review site now has - 2 product reviews + a total of 8 related articles to my niche.

    After two months time working on my new sites - We manage to get both of them on the front page of google. The first one is also ranking in the 1st position and the second on is 5th position in google for the main
    keyword.

    * Niche one has over 6 000 000 competition
    * Niche two has over 2 500 000 competition

    Since that was happend around the middle of September the 1st website was bringing me over $120+ daily commision. We had few days with over $300 in sales just by one of this sites. The 2nd website
    hit google front page and position 1st in the end of September I thing it was 27th. That website makes me anywhere between $50-70 daily.

    So here is what I did.

    1. We posted each of my promotional articles to over 25 directories. So thats a total of over 2500+ backlinks if all of them was accepting my articles (Well to be honest I got my articles accepted
    in 23 article directories )

    2. We spent nearly 7 days - 14 hours on PC each day - creating videos with my articles. When I hit the 100 videos done ( Thanks to my GF for helping me on that one ) - I start to submit each of my
    video to the TOP 10 video websites. That toke me only 2 days. ( Thanks again for the help of my GF ) And that brings me more than 1000 backlinks to my site.

    3. We bookmark every promotional article to the TOP 15 bookmarketing websites and we also bookmarked our inner pages of our review website.

    4. We submit our articles to the TOP 5 search engines and we also submitted our review sites and their inner pages.

    5. We done RSS feeds submittion.

    6. We submit our review websites to over 2000+ directories. This was difficult but it toke us no more than 5 days I gues and we also done other work in that time.

    7. This was the last but not the easiest part of our promotion. We build some Blog commenting links to over 100+ PR5 websites. This was diffucult if you ask me.


    So all of the above we done it manually - We did't use any softwares or any automation tools ( this is just my opinion - I don't like softwares because I cannot track everything the way I wanted to ).

    It toke us 17 days in total to complete all the tasks.

    What I learned was - ARTICLE MARKETING ROCKS if you follow your goal and be motivated you will success.

    Till today those two websites are making us enough money.

    Site one makes us - $150+ daily now
    Site two makes us - $80+ daily now

    Lets hear your success with article marketing and to the ones who are newbies and thining of stating jus follow yor goal and stay motivated.

    Thanks
    Ivan Georgiev
    Great Ivan, where are you from originally? I would love to hear more about your processes.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marcel Hartmann
    Great stuff. I remember your thread ages ago about your $100-a-day blog. Your plans involve hard work, and clearly it pays off.
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  • Profile picture of the author slma88
    Ivanco,

    Interesting to know the competing pages in google is with or without quotes. There are a lot of differences.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ivancho
    I don't know why people come and asking every time for:

    "I want to know ur competition in quotes and without ?"

    Whats the point ? - People that are interested to buy products don't search with quotes!
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    • Profile picture of the author Vaan
      HI Ivanco,
      Interesting thread, but for a lazy guy like me, I can't follow your techniques..

      I don't know, I just too lazy to take action..
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      • Profile picture of the author Wade Watson
        Originally Posted by Vaan View Post

        Interesting thread, but for a lazy guy like me, I can't follow your techniques..

        I don't know, I just too lazy to take action..
        Let us know if you've found a way to make a living in Internet marketing being lazy. We'd all like to hear that. All my experience and observation says that guys like Ivan with a good work ethic are about the only ones who have a decent chance. Otherwise, I hear McDonald's is hiring.

        Wade Watson
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    • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
      Originally Posted by Ivancho View Post

      I don't know why people come and asking every time for:

      "I want to know ur competition in quotes and without ?"

      Whats the point ? - People that are interested to buy products don't search with quotes!
      Marketers look for competition in quotes because the phrase in quotes is your real competition - the sites that are actually optimized for that particular phrase.
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    • Profile picture of the author Hamza El Bouni
      Originally Posted by Ivancho View Post

      I don't know why people come and asking every time for:

      "I want to know ur competition in quotes and without ?"

      Whats the point ? - People that are interested to buy products don't search with quotes!
      I did PM you with a question about the compitition in quotes, and the point is we wana know the actual compitition in your keywords

      cuz as a marketer the normal search results is useless, with quotes is really what metters,
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    • Profile picture of the author JustVisiting
      Originally Posted by Ivancho View Post

      I don't know why people come and asking every time for:

      "I want to know ur competition in quotes and without ?"

      Whats the point ? - People that are interested to buy products don't search with quotes!
      Ivancho
      You 'hit the nail on the head here'. People very very rarely search using quotes. But the 'guru's' always recommend this as the way of gauging 'true' competition for that holy grail...'the long tail keyword phrase' or whatever.
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  • Great story but I think outsourcing makes life easier although nothing compares to doing it the hard way to learn. Well done.

    When it comes to article writing I think we are all procrastinators. Just outsource them. It makes life so much easier and saves you hours no, days of hard work.
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  • Profile picture of the author Success2020
    Ivancho Nice strategies...
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  • Profile picture of the author Rod Cortez
    Amazing what FOCUSED hard work can accomplish....way to go!
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    • Profile picture of the author Roy Carter
      Originally Posted by Rod Cortez View Post

      Amazing what FOCUSED hard work can accomplish....way to go!
      Absolutely correct! It's that word FOCUS again. If more people would stop skipping around from one thing to another they'd see success much more quickly.

      Well done Ivan. Only thing I'd add is that you should perhaps use some of the money you are now earning and start outsourcing more of the work, then just ramp it all up to the next level.

      Congrats.
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  • Profile picture of the author AJD101
    Man that is some work ethic. I have taken your approach and am now systematically trying to do your numbers, if only I had a girlfriend who was willing to help. For the directory submissions did you have to do lots of reciprocal linking?

    Albert
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  • Profile picture of the author WealthWithin
    Thanks for sharing your story.
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    • Profile picture of the author progame
      Ivan - two question for you:
      1. Where can one find those 2000+ directories?
      2. In your last point (point 7) Do you mean to say that you located 100+ PR sites related to your niche or general ones and just placed a comment with a link back to your landing page?

      Thanks in advance for clarifying these points for me.
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  • Profile picture of the author David Jay
    Good to know that the old adage "Hard work pay off" still applies. Now enjoy the passive income.

    What type, if any, ongoing promotion do you plan on doing? Please keep us updated on how your site continues to do.

    You said you used the "15 top bookmarking sites". How did you choose these? Most popular? Do follow?
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  • Profile picture of the author progame
    WOW IVANCHO - BLOODY HELL!! WELL DONE! That tooks patience, persistance and time! Well done to your GF as well. Some excellent tips. I too am a newbie.
    So far no sales but like you I'm determined. I'll give it a go with some of your tips. THANX
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    • Profile picture of the author Marcel Hartmann
      Originally Posted by progame View Post

      WOW IVANCHO - BLOODY HELL!! WELL DONE! That tooks patience, persistance and time! Well done to your GF as well. Some excellent tips. I too am a newbie.
      So far no sales but like you I'm determined. I'll give it a go with some of your tips. THANX
      It's great to see people so motivated.

      "Genius, when you look more closely at it, usually turns out to be the sum of uncommon dedication to a task."
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  • Profile picture of the author DASHBOY
    Hi Ivan

    Glad to hear it and long may it continue. You had a plan and stayed focused.

    Graeme
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  • Profile picture of the author dageniusmarketer
    this is a great strategy and plan of attack. Im glad it worked out for you the way that it did
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  • Profile picture of the author parkerli
    Nicely done. I am a newbie and its nice to see how you've done this. I am still trying to figure out the whole back link thing
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  • Profile picture of the author jhongren
    So much determination and planning. I am sure
    with your clear steps, many of us can benefit from
    them.

    John
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  • Profile picture of the author diamondseeker
    Wow
    More proof that success can be gained through something called work. It is a shame that so many people waste thousands of dollars on get rich quick crap before they realize that it really does take work to make money.
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  • Originally Posted by Ivancho View Post

    Hi Warriors,

    Today I want to give you some tips that will be usufull for newbies and advanced article
    marketers.

    p.s - I just want to say that English is not my first language but I will try my best.

    Let's start.

    Since 2008 I have tried to figure out how article marketing works and how to become a 5 figures
    per month earner. Really this was my goal but I never follow it. Back at October Last year I build a
    blog and manage it to get it to $100/day mark within only 3 weeks. But then I sold that website
    and I forgot article marketing once again.

    -- - - - Until August this year, when I was at vacation for 3 days with my GF and we had conversation with her
    about how are we gona live together - like normal people ( I am talking anywhere between $1-3k month ) - This is what I
    called normal people in my country - most of them will call them rich.

    Anyway after we got back from that 3 day vacation we decided we will do a reasearch and put 2-3 review sites that will
    promote other people products. And here is What we have done under 3 days.


    We spent around $200 To get 2 super looking review websites and 15 Articles in Total - Unique content + I payed $10 per article.
    Some of you will say: Why Did you spent over $10 per article when you can get your articles for less than $3 each - well the answer is
    I want to make money so I have to spent money and get quality content.


    After we got my review websites up, we got our writer and asked her to write us other batch of 100 articles that we will promote or review sites with them.
    We payed a tottal of $800 for that but we got other batch of 10 articles as a bonus and posted them in my review sites.
    So each of our review site now has - 2 product reviews + a total of 8 related articles to my niche.

    After two months time working on my new sites - We manage to get both of them on the front page of google. The first one is also ranking in the 1st position and the second on is 5th position in google for the main
    keyword.

    * Niche one has over 6 000 000 competition
    * Niche two has over 2 500 000 competition

    Since that was happend around the middle of September the 1st website was bringing me over $120+ daily commision. We had few days with over $300 in sales just by one of this sites. The 2nd website
    hit google front page and position 1st in the end of September I thing it was 27th. That website makes me anywhere between $50-70 daily.

    So here is what I did.

    1. We posted each of my promotional articles to over 25 directories. So thats a total of over 2500+ backlinks if all of them was accepting my articles (Well to be honest I got my articles accepted
    in 23 article directories )

    2. We spent nearly 7 days - 14 hours on PC each day - creating videos with my articles. When I hit the 100 videos done ( Thanks to my GF for helping me on that one ) - I start to submit each of my
    video to the TOP 10 video websites. That toke me only 2 days. ( Thanks again for the help of my GF ) And that brings me more than 1000 backlinks to my site.

    3. We bookmark every promotional article to the TOP 15 bookmarketing websites and we also bookmarked our inner pages of our review website.

    4. We submit our articles to the TOP 5 search engines and we also submitted our review sites and their inner pages.

    5. We done RSS feeds submittion.

    6. We submit our review websites to over 2000+ directories. This was difficult but it toke us no more than 5 days I gues and we also done other work in that time.

    7. This was the last but not the easiest part of our promotion. We build some Blog commenting links to over 100+ PR5 websites. This was diffucult if you ask me.


    So all of the above we done it manually - We did't use any softwares or any automation tools ( this is just my opinion - I don't like softwares because I cannot track everything the way I wanted to ).

    It toke us 17 days in total to complete all the tasks.

    What I learned was - ARTICLE MARKETING ROCKS if you follow your goal and be motivated you will success.

    Till today those two websites are making us enough money.

    Site one makes us - $150+ daily now
    Site two makes us - $80+ daily now

    Lets hear your success with article marketing and to the ones who are newbies and thining of stating jus follow yor goal and stay motivated.

    Thanks
    Ivan Georgiev
    Sounds great man congrats on your success mate, that's wonderful. Still though.. all those videos yeeeesh! Not sure I could stomach that!

    G-money
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    • Profile picture of the author Philarmon
      Thanks for another motivating post Ivan. It was your great post that motivated me to look more into affiliate marketing again (i did that 10 years ago but then switched more to adsense and selling own scripts) and now you are sharing even more good techniques.

      I am not at that per month mark from affiliate sales yet - mostly due to lack of time and some lazyness but i will keep it going. It's always posts like these that are keeping me motivated
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      • Profile picture of the author welmic22
        6 millions and 2.5 millions competition? Are you kidding me? This is in contrast to all what I have read about choosing a profitable keyword. This really shows that you know what you are doing. Your massive action overrides the high competition in a relatively short period. Middle of September - October 11th when this thread was started. This is unbelievable.
        Congratulations Ivan. What a motivational post.
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  • Wow great post! That´s the way to do it. Thanks for the advice.
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  • Profile picture of the author Cash37
    Thank you for posting this and being honest.

    People need to realize.. there is no such thing as "free" traffic. Or at least, MEANINGFUL traffic. This is a business, you got to invest time AND $$$ just like a brick and mortar.
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    • Profile picture of the author JustVisiting
      Originally Posted by edorff View Post

      well i think people should ask me how i make $15K in a month and I have done it these last two months
      Start another thread and tell us
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  • Profile picture of the author Rhett
    I have to ask, are you reviewing digital products through Clickbank, Paydot.com, etc., or physical products, through Amazon or what have you?
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    • Profile picture of the author Rhett
      Originally Posted by LilBlackDress View Post

      What directories did you use and did you submit manually or with a bot?
      He previously stated that he did everything manually.
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  • Profile picture of the author LilBlackDress
    Just reread and saw that Rhett, thanks!

    What article directories did you use Ivan?
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  • Profile picture of the author Rhett
    I did a little digging for everyone with the search tool, hopefully it's helpful:

    Web Directory List (supposedly updated):http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...tory-list.html

    Article Directory:http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...tml#post539136
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