Tiffany Dow's 30-Day Warrior Article Marketing Challenge

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Alright Warriors, listen up - there's prizes involved here!

I know we all have it in us - that "Steve Wagenheim" article marketer quality. So starting tomorrow, and for the next 30 days, I want to know who is going to submit 1 article a day to EzineArticles.com?

I slack off in this department a TON, so each day for 30 days I'm going to submit 1 article a day to promote my lens building service with Lewis Smile.

If you want to join in and we'll chat about our results as we go, then let me know here. We will update as we go here - post what articles you have going live here and post what kind of traffic you're seeing, and/or sales. Whenever a post is added to this thread, try to make your title or first line a bold, pre-approved subject line, such as "Daily Submission Results," "Weekly Traffic Results," etc. That way people can follow along and filter out the "I'm in" posts if they're in a hurry.

You can do as many articles as you like, but at least 1 per day.

My judging will be based on a few things - such as:

Who updated regularly
What their article content was like
What kind of results they're getting
etc...

Here's a sample of what I'm doing:

Today:

1.) Downloading a list of keywords from https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

2.) Creating 30 Article Titles based on my keyword list.

Each day:

1.) Submit one article to EZA (I know it takes a year is it (lol) to get approved, but oh well).

2.) Check my traffic stats for the domain to see what kind of traffic the articles are delivering

Each week:

1.) Reviewing our sales stats to see how they've increased thanks to our efforts.

At the end of this, I'm going to pick one person who joins in the Warrior Article Marketing Challenge and you'll win the following:

1.) A custom made Squidoo lens by me.

2.) A custom made Hub Page (or the content for it if you don't want me logging into your account)

3.) $100 worth of PLR from my PLR Mini Mart

4.) 5 Custom articles to give you a much-needed break in the article marketing department.

5.) $50 via PayPal

Allen Graves chipped this in, too:

"For the top three challenge winners, I will give a lifetime membership to website-articles.net and The Article Marketing Handbook for free."

Thanks, Allen!!

Sound good?

Who's up for it?

Tiff "the speed demon article marketer" Dow
#30day #article #challenge #dow’s #marketing #tiffany #warrior
  • Profile picture of the author thatgirlJ
    I'll join! I love challenges like this.

    Will we all just keep updating each other in this thread?
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    • Profile picture of the author Tuzic
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      hi,

      this is a great thread getting everybody involved & all based on actual worthwhile internet marketing & working.
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      • Profile picture of the author dalentam
        Ok Tiffany, I am in! Just about to launch a new membership site and this is exactly what I need to get it started right. Guess I better get moving as I need to finish and upload the sales letter yet, then get caught up on the articles to EZA.

        Thanks for lighting the fire! Looking forward to seeing what kind of results will happen on a brand new, absolute zero traffic site now and what can happen in 30 days.

        Tammy
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        • Profile picture of the author MikeCollins
          Count me in! What a great idea Tiffany...and I already have a niche topic in mind that I've had on my "to do" list for some time. This is going to be fun.
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          • Profile picture of the author WritingMadwoman
            Okay, I am in too! I've been article marketing all along but I have been neglecting my newest product horribly since I launched it, so I will use this challenge to focus solely on that. Since I've done little with it so far it will be easy for me to see the results I get from just submitting one article a day.

            I already have the keyword research done, so today I'll put together a list of article topics and titles, and get article #1 submitted by tomorrow morning.

            This will be fun! :-)

            Wendy
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            • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
              Okay, I've submitted my first 5 articles today for this challenge. One of
              the niches I will keep secret in fairness to my customers who got the
              product from me that revealed this niche.

              Here are the other 4 articles:

              Internet Marketing Tips - Pay Per Click Insider Secrets
              Affiliate Marketing Tips - Finding the Killer Products
              Copywriting Tips - Great Bullet Points For Killer Copy
              Internet Marketing Tips - Are Your Emails Ending Up in the Spam Box?

              I obviously have no stats yet as these are still waiting for approval.

              When I have more to report, will do.

              Roger wilco, over and out.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rachel Goodchild
    hey I think I'll do this
    let me see what I want to focus on
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  • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
    Okay, I realize I'm not eligible for this.

    But let me give everybody a piece of advice for writing articles IF you're
    going to do more than one a day, which really isn't hard at all.

    Pace yourself.

    The day is 8 hours long if you limit yourself to 9 to 5.

    Even if you're brand new at this, it shouldn't take you more than 1 hour
    between researching and writing to write 1 article.

    Write your first article starting at 9 AM. You'll be done by 10.

    Write your second article starting at 12 noon. You'll be done by 1 PM
    but more importantly, you'll have had a whole 2 hours of rest.

    Write your third article at 4 PM. You'll be done by 5 PM.

    There you have it. A well paced day and you've written 3 articles.

    Imagine doing that everyday. That's almost 100 articles in a month.

    Good luck Warriors!
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    • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
      Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim View Post

      Okay, I realize I'm not eligible for this.
      Now that I've actually read the OP properly I think maybe I'm not either - I already submit more than 1 article a day.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ian Jackson
      Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim View Post

      Okay, I realize I'm not eligible for this.

      But let me give everybody a piece of advice for writing articles IF you're
      going to do more than one a day, which really isn't hard at all.

      Pace yourself.

      The day is 8 hours long if you limit yourself to 9 to 5.

      Even if you're brand new at this, it shouldn't take you more than 1 hour
      between researching and writing to write 1 article.

      Write your first article starting at 9 AM. You'll be done by 10.

      Write your second article starting at 12 noon. You'll be done by 1 PM
      but more importantly, you'll have had a whole 2 hours of rest.

      Write your third article at 4 PM. You'll be done by 5 PM.

      There you have it. A well paced day and you've written 3 articles.

      Imagine doing that everyday. That's almost 100 articles in a month.

      Good luck Warriors!
      Hi Steven

      Do you have a similar formula for those of us who work mainstream full time jobs, 5 days per week? ()
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      • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
        Originally Posted by iciejay View Post

        Hi Steven

        Do you have a similar formula for those of us who work mainstream full time jobs, 5 days per week? ()
        Honestly, not really. You can't stuff 10 lbs of ham in a 5 lb bag.

        If you work 9 to 5, get home at 6, finish dinner at 7 and have a 10:30
        bedtime, that essentially gives you 3 hours to do your writing. At best, if
        you don't want to burn out, write one article at 7 and another at 9.

        But after a long day, this is still a lot of work.
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      • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
        Originally Posted by iciejay View Post

        Hi Steven

        Do you have a similar formula for those of us who work mainstream full time jobs, 5 days per week? ()
        If you're doing IM part time, take it slow. But you can work weekends and make up for it. Or buy PLR so that you have a springboard for your article and you're just rewriting it in your own words - this goes much faster for some people.

        Don't do this with non-PLR, of course - that's plagiarism!
        tiff
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    • Profile picture of the author Dick Doe
      Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim View Post

      Okay, I realize I'm not eligible for this.

      But let me give everybody a piece of advice for writing articles IF you're
      going to do more than one a day, which really isn't hard at all.

      Pace yourself.

      The day is 8 hours long if you limit yourself to 9 to 5.

      Even if you're brand new at this, it shouldn't take you more than 1 hour
      between researching and writing to write 1 article.

      Write your first article starting at 9 AM. You'll be done by 10.

      Write your second article starting at 12 noon. You'll be done by 1 PM
      but more importantly, you'll have had a whole 2 hours of rest.

      Write your third article at 4 PM. You'll be done by 5 PM.

      There you have it. A well paced day and you've written 3 articles.

      Imagine doing that everyday. That's almost 100 articles in a month.

      Good luck Warriors!
      Thanks for the advice. I might as well print it out. Way 2 go Steven
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    • Profile picture of the author kristinecpa
      Oh... great challenge! I'm in! I've actually been meaning to ramp up my article writing, so this is perfect timing. Thanks Tiffany!
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      • Profile picture of the author Tenzo
        Perfect timing for me, too. Count me in!

        Regards,
        Kevin
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
      Originally Posted by TiffanyDow View Post

      Everyone can participate, too.
      Okay, if I'm going to be in this, I have to submit a minimum of 5 articles a
      day.

      I think I shouldn't have any problem doing that.
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  • Profile picture of the author valerieSONORA
    A challenge I think I'll join too
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  • Profile picture of the author CSwrite
    I'm in - this will actually get me motivated to start promoting my own stuff instead of always doing it for other people - Thank you!!
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    • Profile picture of the author thatgirlJ
      Originally Posted by CSwrite View Post

      I'm in - this will actually get me motivated to start promoting my own stuff instead of always doing it for other people - Thank you!!
      My thoughts exactly! Us writers have to start doing more of our own thing
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  • Profile picture of the author Shannon Tani
    Me too!
    I've also been inspired by Steve's results and have started submitting articles. I started yesterday. My goal is 5 a day, but I'm going to make sure I do at least one.
    Love,
    Shannon
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  • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
    Alright Warriors here's my keyword research with titles all ready to go. My keywords have been bolded. I'd also like to know how everyone does in the SERPs if you know:

    1.) Squidoo Still Holds Power in the SERPs
    2.) On Squidoo Everyone Can Make Money
    3.) Squidoo Lens Experts See Profits Soar
    4.) How to Squidoo from Start to Finish
    5.) Squidoo Marketing Mistakes You Should Avoid
    6.) Squidoo Money Is Easy With These 7 Tips!
    7.) Squidoo to Brand Your Business
    8.) Make Money Squidoo Style
    9.) With Squidoo There Are 3 Ways to Cash In
    10.) For Squidoo Lensmaster Success, Try This!
    11.) Online Squidoo Guidance
    12.) Is Squidoo Good for Backlinks?
    13.) Money with Squidoo Requires Zero Monetary Investment
    14.) Squidoo Tags: Are They Irrelevant?
    15.) A Squidoo Module Lesson
    16.) Make Money with Squidoo Using Professional Content
    17.) Squidoo Queen Secrets Lensmasters Need to Know
    18.) Squidoo Social Network Is a Boon to Online Marketers
    19.) In Squidoo Is MLM Against the Rules?
    20.) Squidoo Link Tutorial for Internet Marketing
    21.) Squidoo Secrets Giant Squids Know That You Don't
    22.) What Is Squidoo?
    23.) A Squidoo Lens Analysis
    24.) Networking on Squidoo for More Profit Potential
    25.) Squidoo Blog Tips to Help Your Lens Get Traffic
    26.) Squidoo eBook Lessons from the Masters
    27.) Squidoo Tips for Making Money Online
    28.) Squidoo Profit: What's the Potential for You?
    29.) Squidoo Slap - Is It Still in Effect?
    30.) Squidoo ClickBank Secrets to Increase Affiliate Earnings

    Tiff
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  • Profile picture of the author NoBoss
    Hi Tiffany...

    Did you notice Chris over at EZarticles
    smiling in the background ? :>)

    ...Doug
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    " The more you give people what they want...
    ...the more they'll give you what you need." Zig Ziglar

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    • Profile picture of the author Michael Shook
      Alright, sounds good, actually sounds real good. I would like to participate. I see you have posted your keyword phrases made into titles, would you like us to do that too?
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  • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
    To answer the question above, I chose EZA because on Squidoo, it's not public content. This way, publishers can pikc up your articles and those who will keep your links intact will drive traffic to your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark McWilliams
    Well erm, I'd take part...but I can't write! OK, I say I can't write, maybe it's the inspiration that's missing from me. If I need to write, then I can, but it's not always on topic AND probably doesn't help out the reader!

    Next thing on my list of can't do's is creating resource boxes, I really should start using articles to send traffic towards my blog and sites when they start building and completing themselves!

    And you know what, I'd probably be happy if I could submit 1 article a week to EzineArticles. (Stop moaning Mark! - Maybe I should under-go some kind of training! LOL)

    This is definately a thread I'm going to subscribe too, and probably make notes on almost everything!

    Thanks
    Mark
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    On mark.mcwilliams.me or @markmcwilliams you'll find me!
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    • Profile picture of the author traceye
      Oooh My hand is up. This sounds like fun - I love a challenge.

      I only have around 2 hours a day while my son is napping to work, but that should be plenty time to get out one article as well as my other work.

      Ok. I think before I start I'll choose a clickbank product to promote sooo ..

      Today's to do:

      1. Choose a clickbank product
      2. Do some keyword research
      3. Set up a landing page

      Tommorrow's to do: (I'll start writing tomorrow as I'm not sure I'll fit it in today)

      1. Write one article per day ...

      Tracey
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  • Profile picture of the author Shannon Tani
    Transparency huh?

    Well, I'm being a little different as this is a goal that I started for myself two days ago and I'm jumping in here to help motivate myself to keep going.

    My plan is to pick a product, create a Squidoo lens about it with my affiliate link. Then do 5 articles a day pointing to the Squidoo lens. Then dropping off to one article a day.

    Then pick another product and repeat, while still doing the one article a day from the initial product.

    The first product that I chose was Magic of Making Up, which Steven mentioned as being great. I actually just got Travis's messages about it the day before I read Steves "Travis is the bee's knees" post, so I felt particularly motivated by that product.

    That's kind of a buttload of articles to plan out in advance to post like you did, Tiffany. I mean, because I'm starting out with 5 a day. By the end of today, I'll have written my first 10 articles. I'll try to think of titles for the next 40 to post later today.

    Maybe also, since I'm doing a different method, we'll be able to test how well this style works in comparison with other styles.

    Love,
    Shannon
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  • Profile picture of the author Sylvia Meier
    I am going to put my hat in the ring. I need to motivate myself big time. My niche is going to be for my own e-book, I am also going to try the 3 a day like Steven suggested by am determined to put in at least the one a day. Will get my keyword research done asap.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
      Okay, here is my personal game plan. I'm only doing this for the 30 days
      because it sounds like fun and I need to challenge myself.

      1. I'm going to choose 1 niche a day for 30 days from my "Niche Research
      Revolution" book. I figure after all this time, I might as well throw my hat
      in the ring on these niches (I haven't yet)

      2. I'm going to write 1 article for that niche, put up a blog with a review
      of the product, and see what kind of response the 1 article gets. At the end
      of the 30 days, I'll reveal the top niche right here at this forum based on
      that 1 article and blog post. Naturally, not scientific, but it will be interesting
      to see how much damage I can do with just one.

      3. I will write 4 additional articles for 4 of my regular niches. I usually rotate
      these anyway so this won't be anything different. I'm just adding the one
      niche per day new.

      4. I'll track my sales for each niche, new and old, and report the niche
      with the most sales JUST from the articles. Not fair to include sales from
      those niches generated through opt ins and other means. These MUST be
      sales gotten from going from EZA to blog to sales page.

      And that's it.

      Now I'm going to go out on a limb right now and predict that Travis'
      product will finish on top. But who knows? I've got quite a few good
      selling affiliate products out there so this should be interesting.

      I'm only doing this because I'm getting bored now that I've cut my hours
      down drastically and need something to look forward to for October.

      And there you have it...time to get to work.
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  • Profile picture of the author Zulfus
    To motivate people more we could have some sort of leader board, with everyone's names in the first post (or in a new post) and then give points for each article submitted and maybe points for traffic, conversions and sales as well.

    That way we could have four categories, "most articles", "most traffic", "highest conversions" & "most sales" - & people could see where they needed to improve, and also seeing the stats up there against everyone elses, we could all get a good feel for where we're at, and motivate ourselves to get our numbers up.

    This would require transparency, so not everyone may be up for it - but they could simply opt not to include themselves in certain categories.

    And although this would take work to keep up to date - If you didn't feel like the hassle i'd be happy to open a new post and handle it all for you

    Just throwing it out there - Use it or discard it as you see fit.

    I'll definitely be joining the challenge with a new blog, may take a day or two to get the research done & everything up and running, but after that I'll put my article marketing cards onto the table.

    Zul
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    • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
      Originally Posted by Zulfus View Post

      To motivate people more we could have some sort of leader board, with everyone's names in the first post (or in a new post) and then give points for each article submitted and maybe points for traffic, conversions and sales as well.

      That way we could have four categories, "most articles", "most traffic", "highest conversions" & "most sales" - & people could see where they needed to improve, and also seeing the stats up there against everyone elses, we could all get a good feel for where we're at, and motivate ourselves to get our numbers up.

      This would require transparency, so not everyone may be up for it - but they could simply opt not to include themselves in certain categories.

      And although this would take work to keep up to date - If you didn't feel like the hassle i'd be happy to open a new post and handle it all for you

      Just throwing it out there - Use it or discard it as you see fit.

      I'll definitely be joining the challenge with a new blog, may take a day or two to get the research done & everything up and running, but after that I'll put my article marketing cards onto the table.

      Zul
      I don't want to flood the WF main board with multiple posts on this topic, but how about we compile this at the end? I'll have every post their stats, so everyone can keep up with how many articles, traffic, conversion, and sales they have.
      tiff
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      • Profile picture of the author Zulfus
        Probably a good idea tiff You've got me really motivated though now, excellent challenge

        Zul
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      • Profile picture of the author Ruth Hendrickson
        Tiffany, this is a great idea -- count me in! I could use some motivation too.
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  • Profile picture of the author Shannon Tani
    Are we supposed to post daily updates? Just something at the end? Only when something exciting happens?

    Love,
    Shannon
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  • Profile picture of the author CSwrite
    Got my niche, found my product on CB, bought a domain to forward, wrote the article and submitted it to EZA. Wooah! 29 days to go
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  • Profile picture of the author CanuckMike
    I am in. I started something like this last week actually. I am just waiting on ezine to accept my article. It has now been 8 days...
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    • Profile picture of the author Justin Jordan
      I'm in.

      I'm learning some new stuff to supplement my upcoming product, part of which is article marketing, so this'll be good for that.

      I'm going to try and do two a day for the next thrity days.
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      • Profile picture of the author Justin Jordan
        On that note, what I did today:

        Signed up at Ezinearticles.

        Did titles and ideas for 100 articles.

        Watched the Steelers and got depressed.
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        • Profile picture of the author Chris Hunter
          You know what?

          I want in.

          More to follow...
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          Ok, sure. You can follow me on Twitter - http://twitter.com/Chris_Hunter ;)

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          • Profile picture of the author traceye
            I decided to get a domain re-direct rather than create a landing page as this would be better indication of just my article marketing results. And as I've never tried the weight loss niche before thought this might be interesting as I'm a 'newbie' in this niche so to speak ..

            Day 1
            Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
            Articles submitted to EZA = 1
            Hops = 0
            Sales = 0

            (Obviously article not live yet)


            Tracey
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            • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
              I'm excited about this as I've been kind of unmotivated over the past few weeks! I love a good challenge and this will give me something to work towards.

              I'm going to use the next 30 days to test out some new niches and products - that way it will be easier to test my traffic and sales. My aim is to find at least 5 new products to promote that will make me at least $500 a month each.

              I won't put an exact number on the amount of articles I'll write but I'm hoping to write at least 5 every day, and traffic will be sent to my review blogs.

              I'm also going to use this opportunity to start my IM blog (I bought a domain months ago and never got round to using it). Rather than posting to the thread I intend to update my progress on my blog and just check in here on the thread now and again (I'll put the blog in my sig).

              So all in all, I hope it's going to be a very profitable month for everyone taking part - I hope everyone keeps us updated and I can't wait to hear how everyone gets on.

              Actually it'd be interesting to see a few of the people who released recent article marketing WSO's doing this as well. I'm sure there's lots we can learn from each other.
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              • Profile picture of the author Craig McPherson
                Hey Tiff,

                We all started the challenge today ( or yesterday depending on where we live) but we all know that EZ will take up to a week to publish our articles.

                Can we make it a 30 day+a week challenge?

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                • Profile picture of the author rapidscc
                  Hi!

                  Oh well,

                  A while ago I was fretting on what to do about a search result I was able to dominate by article marketing.

                  Maybe this is a chance for me to focus my work.

                  Count me in.

                  ~RapidScc

                  P.S. Hey Steve, aren't you supposed to be one of the judge.. ;-) nyahh just JK.
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                • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
                  Originally Posted by Craig McPherson View Post

                  Hey Tiff,

                  We all started the challenge today ( or yesterday depending on where we live) but we all know that EZ will take up to a week to publish our articles.

                  Can we make it a 30 day+a week challenge?

                  You raise a good point. We're not going to know many stats until about a week later. So how about this? We start today. The article marketing ends October 21st, but everyone will continue posting their success for another week (until the 28th). Then we'll see how it went for everyone and a winner will be chosen on the 29th!
                  tiff
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                • Profile picture of the author joefission
                  Tiffany,

                  This is just the kick in the pants I need. I have been seriously slacking off on articles recently.

                  I'll have to remove myself from the prize eligibility, however, as the bulk of my articles will be submitted under a name other than my own and I'm working on some stealth niches at present!

                  But I will join in and share results. What a GREAT IDEA. Good things ALWAYS happen after submitting articles, but sometimes it takes a boost to get started.

                  Shaun
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                • Profile picture of the author mseanmarshall
                  Great idea Tiffany!

                  Count me in too!

                  Signed up for EZA. I'll have to play catch up to be able to get at least 30 articles (after my approval).

                  This is great!
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                • Profile picture of the author Darwin
                  You can count me in. I need a virtual kick in the backside to get me moving.
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                • Profile picture of the author lakshaybehl
                  Alright!

                  Alright!

                  I am in too!

                  I did a little bit of Article Marketing initially and results were cool, but then I found PPC is better than everything else because the darn thing runs on autopilot!

                  But still... I do have an extra hour each day, so I guess its for my good only... and I am in....

                  -Lakshay
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                • Profile picture of the author Ian Jackson
                  Hi Tiffany

                  Yes, I need a really good kick up the a*se with my EZA subs!

                  I was only thinking just b4 I read this post, that up to 10-15 subs a day is all but "impossible" for me (I have a full time day job - until my IM income matches it) so I'll make every effort to post even just 1 article a day; way better than nothing at all.

                  I'll likely focus on the motivational, rather than competitive slant, but will see how I go.

                  I'm replying straight from a quick scan of your post, Tiffany, so will go and have a peep at the whole thread now!

                  Regards all

                  Ian
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                • Profile picture of the author Loricwr
                  Hi Tiffany, Great challenge! I am challenging myself to get in the habit of writing first thing every morning but not sure if I will have them polished enough to submit to an article directory but at least I am getting them started. Thanks for the extra push to get me moving on my writing at least!

                  Thanks again,
                  Lori
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                  • Profile picture of the author Tenzo
                    Just got my fourth article submitted. I also discovered that yesterdays article was somehow listed as saved but not submitted, so I took care of that. Luckily it will only be a day off.

                    MY first article went live today-so far it has 11 views and 3 clickthroughs to my lens. I need to check on any lens to sales page traffic. I just did a bit of bookmarking for the article, hopefully that will help.

                    Regards,
                    Kevin
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                    • Profile picture of the author yube
                      Hello,

                      I am a newbie to IM and AM. I read through Travis's Bum Marketing Methods, and am writing articles based on the 5,000 or less search results for the keyword phrase.

                      How are you guys tracking the number of views?
                      Are you submitting strictly to EZA?
                      How about submitting to GoArticles or other sites?
                      Are you all linking the EZA back to a Squidoo page, or blog? (Is there a difference in performance?)

                      Thanks,
                      John

                      3 articles submitted to EZA and GoArticles
                      0 approved
                      0 sales
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                • Profile picture of the author writeabooknow
                  Hi all,

                  Just a quick thought I found very helpful when I stumbled upon it several years ago...

                  There is an unlimited number of articles you can write about any subject. Quite literally, unlimited.

                  So any time you're thinking that it's all been said, it really hasn't. In fact, we haven't even scratched the surface. Just knowing that can be a real help.

                  How do you get started? As Tiff has already pointed out in another thread (that I can't find) just create the title, and take it from there. Go to websites that have articles, copy down five titles (don't read the articles) and write the very articles these titles suggest to you.

                  Want to be a little different? Okay, if the original title list '3 secrets to...' Your article is 'four secrets to...' or 'the biggest secret to...'

                  And if you're really strapped, how to get the benefit '... for Democrats' or '...for Republicans' or '... for Conservatives' or '...for Liberals'

                  You see? It never ends and your list of possible articles is unlimited.

                  Cheers,

                  Steve Manning
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                • Profile picture of the author gamefreak
                  Hey guyz, honestly speaking quantity in ezinearticles doesn't matter. It's all about quality. I know when I submitted my first 50 articles, only 5 of them got featured (i.e. most viewed top 15) that's from where I got all the veiws and URL clicks.
                  At the same time, my friend submitted only 10 articles and 8 of them got featured in the most viewed category. He got double the page views and URL clicks and ofcourse more sales.

                  Let me know how many of you guyz articles got featured in the most viewed articles.
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                • Profile picture of the author tiger325
                  The easiest way to do it is to just sit down and write like you like talk and before you know it you have knocked out 10,20,30 articles
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                • Profile picture of the author paulmcp
                  I agree with McPherson (no relation I don't think)

                  How about 30 days from first acceptance?

                  Paul McPherson
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  • Profile picture of the author Andyhenry
    It's weird reading a thread title where the poster refers to themselves in the 3rd person. It's like Tiff is both a name and a title
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    • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
      Tiffany submitted her first article this morning called, "Squidoo Still Holds Power in the SERPs." Now Tiffany is going to wait to see if Tiffany's article is accepted to rejected.

      Tiffany is totally kidding with this third person post. I just did it to weird Andy out.

      Seriously, I did it - I posted. I felt my article was gooood and I was only on half a cup of coffee. I noticed in someone's Warrior blog in the top stats section that he had done a screen shot of his before CB earnings to see how it pans out (as proof). Good idea.

      I did the same for my PDC account to show how our BuildMyLens revenue increases. I just went 30 days back so we can see a comparison of 30 days to 30 days.

      Have a great one - and get it in gear and post your articles today! I wanna see some CONTENT, Warrior!
      Tiff
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  • Profile picture of the author Amy Bass
    Sounds great! I'm in!
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  • Profile picture of the author Munch Mama
    Hey, Tiffany!

    You know what I am going to be doing till October 21! The prizes are great but the challenge is even better!! You know we are ALL going to see some big stuff happening in our businesses if, no, when we apply the pedal to the metal!

    Thanks Tiff for a great idea!
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  • Profile picture of the author Gunter Eibl
    Great idea this challenge. 30 days doesn't sound much but they can be sooo long. Good to have some other people to follow.

    I personally find it easier to write a bunch of articles at once than just 1 a day.

    Gunter
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    • Profile picture of the author Jenni Mac
      Well I've spent the day, choosing my product, keyword researching, I've set up a WP blog that will just be a static page for now, will really develop this in the future. I've also got my Lens published and will be adding more content. Written only 1 article today, not submitted it yet!

      Trying to do this and keep my other projects on the fire too!
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      • Profile picture of the author Tenzo
        I decided to use this particular challenge to promote a blogging membership I take part in. It's run by a fellow warrior, so if I do well I get to help someone here AND make some money.

        I've never really done keyword research for the internet marketing niche before, and suprisingly I found a handful of keywords relating to making money with a blog that weren't to competitive. So research done, and today's article has been submitted to EZA.

        As a shout out to Tiff for holding this event I'm using squidoo as a landing page. I'll check back in tomorrow.

        Regards,
        Kevin
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  • Profile picture of the author SandyDuPlessis
    I rather think that I am biting off far more than I can chew since I have several other projects that I am working on, all with deadlines - but I cannot resist making the attempt.

    So yes, I am in.

    Sandy
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  • Profile picture of the author kiwichamp
    Hi Tiffany - Planning on giving this a go. One question, would this test be best for just 1 niche?

    Or do you think it would be good to try testing various niches? If so, about how many articles would give each niche a fair test?

    Thanks -- look forward to seeing results here.

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    • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
      Originally Posted by kiwichamp View Post

      Hi Tiffany - Planning on giving this a go. One question, would this test be best for just 1 niche? Or do you think it would be good to try testing various niches? If so, about how many articles would give each niche a fair test?
      You can do whatever you want. I'm trying to see how 30 days of articles pointing to one site will help sales. I want one VIP sale a day ($799). Or, a couple of a la cartes would work too! ($249). So we'll see.

      I may change up my article titles to attract affiliates to the program - that might increase sales even MORE!
      tiff
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    • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
      Got my first 5 articles submitted and my blog is up and running - finally!
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      I've got my first 5 articles submitted and my blog up and running - finally! Looking forward to seeing the results.
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      • Profile picture of the author Chris Hunter
        Originally Posted by Tom Borowski View Post

        Here's the keyword list I'm going to use:

        clean windows registry
        speed up my computer
        registry cleaner reviews
        how to speed up your computer
        fix windows registry
        how to speed up computer
        registry fixes
        repair windows explorer
        repair vista
        how to repair windows xp
        clean up registry
        registry cleaning software
        registry cleaner review
        repair windows vista
        windows xp registry cleaner
        fix windows explorer
        registry scanner
        windows xp repair utility
        best registry repair
        windows registry cleanup
        improve computer speed
        how to clean registry
        repair xp installation
        how to repair windows vista
        windows xp repair tool
        how to repair windows
        speed up slow computer
        computer registry cleaner
        vista system repair
        microsoft windows xp repair

        I'll make up the full titles as I go. The EZineArticles author name I'll be using for this challenge is Reggie Nachtweih.
        Looks good, Tom.

        I have a file with some of these same keywords for a different PC product altogether, but I have a ton more that I think that I'll focus on for what I'm going to do.
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        Ok, sure. You can follow me on Twitter - http://twitter.com/Chris_Hunter ;)

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  • Profile picture of the author jensrsa
    Well, I've never really done article marketing to any great degree and I just set up a site yesterday on Eco Home & Building Design so it seems to be a good idea to try this.

    Will have to discipline myself to do one article a day though

    It's past midnight already here so I'll have to get in two articles today.

    I'm in.

    Jens
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  • Profile picture of the author ezrock
    I'm joining today. I only saw this today so I may not have 30 full days, but I'll try to get a few extra articles up to make up for this

    I'm a newbie at niche blogging. My first niche blog isn't ready yet with enough posts to warrant a full out article marketing attack on it, so I'll use this to target more traffic to my squidoo lenses (something I've been meaning to do for a long long time).

    I have 8 active lenses right now. I have posted a screen cap of lens titles, and traffic stats. Basically none of them make any external money from squidoo so my goal is to see some amazon/ebay module sales coming in thanks to increased traffic.

    -ezrock-

    edit: I also realized that I can additionally target some of the articles to other sites I have. I will be hoping to make some ebay affiliate sales from one of my main sites related to my best squidoo lens.
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  • Profile picture of the author djones
    I also tend to work harder on stuff for other people than myself, so this should be really good for me. Plus it gives me a chance to try something I've been putting off too long.

    Thanks for the kick in the pants.
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  • Profile picture of the author JCTunes
    Hey there!

    I'm already a bit behind since I just saw this challenge, but I think I'll jump in! There's a couple of products that I'm an affiliate for, and this may be just the motivating factor I need to get going on promoting it.

    I'm also starting up a blog, so I'm hoping this will also teach me to be more disciplined, also.

    Warming up fingers now...

    JC
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    • Profile picture of the author Ross Kenny
      Hey good luck everyone..

      Can't wait for you all to share your results..!!

      Don't give up Warriors..
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  • Profile picture of the author Sylvia Meier
    Okay, I have done my keyword research (at least for the first ten days), I have written and submitted my article to EZA and Website Articles, as well as placing another version of it on my blog.

    Article title is "Dating For Couples- Why You Need to Still Date" keyword being "dating for couples".


    Just finished adding my analytics and everything to it as well, have set up a separate sales page, exclusively for my article marketing efforts so I can also track it better. I also set up a goal in google analytics to track specifically my Article Marketing efforts to see what articles from the blog is making me sales.

    Sylvia
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  • Profile picture of the author jensrsa
    Got my Cinderella article in (just before the stoke of midnight) so
    I'll work today on the next and an article list.

    Jens
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    • Profile picture of the author Michael Shook
      Got my keywords, (reserving the right to change the around a bit if needed). Just got done with publishing my first article. Well, submitting it anyway, I suspect it will take a while to get published. My niche is custom baby gifts.
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      • Profile picture of the author Ruth Hendrickson
        It's just 7:00p.m. here, and I've got my keywords and submitted an article to ezinearticles.
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        • Profile picture of the author ezrock
          Did my keyword research to get 30 articles for my first squidoo lens mentioned above. The lens is about breeding bettas. Wrote, edited, and submitted my first article:

          "Tropical Fish For Beginners - Start With a Betta"

          has been submitted to EA. I incidentally submitted an article in the same niche a few days ago so that can count as yesterday's submission if that's okay. It's titled:
          "Tropical Fish Tank Setup in 5 Easy Steps"
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  • Profile picture of the author SusanUSA
    I'm a day late . . . maybe I can catch up with two articles on of the days. I love this. Thanks for the challenge! I'm off to get start with my 30-in-30.

    Be blessed, Warriors!
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
      Tiff, I've decided to pull out of this because with all the people in it, you're
      going to have enough tracking problems as it is, so I don't want to make
      any more work for you than you've already got.

      But you've given me a kick start to do more writing this month and for that
      I thank you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Helena Ritchie
    I haven't been here in ages, so this sounds like a great idea to get me back into work and forum mode after an interesting summer. Thanks Tiff!
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  • Profile picture of the author Ben Roy
    I just posted my first article. I didn't make a full keyword list - I like to use the 'just in time' method so I can write about something that seems interesting that day.

    Tiffany thanks for organizing this. Nothing like a group mentality to keep things moving along.
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  • Profile picture of the author Powertreb
    I'm up for the challenge. Trying to get over from a nasty pinched nerve right now (probably caused from non-stop computer sessions), so I may not have a profile for a couple days here. But I've been enjoying Tiffany's newsletters and would like to be an active community member.
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  • Profile picture of the author djones
    I've had a busy day, but was bound and determined to write and submit an article for this challenge before midnight (my time). And I did it.

    I think this is going to be interesting.
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    • Profile picture of the author traceye
      Daily Results - Day 2

      Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
      Key Phrases Used: emotional eating, tips for fast weight loss, tips on fast weight loss

      Articles Submitted - 3
      Article Views - 0
      Hops - 0
      Sales - 0


      No articles live yet.

      Tracey
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      • Profile picture of the author Justin Jordan
        Daily Results - Day Two

        Product: Magic of Making Up

        Articles Submitted: 1

        Waiting for approval

        Article was pretty good, I thought. Hopefully I wrote something useful but enough to get people to click through.

        I only wrote the one - I wanted to do more but had to stay late at the day job. Do better tomorrow.
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  • Profile picture of the author Munch Mama
    OK, I got under the wire tonight for day 1 but i did it! Title: Quick, Healthy Weight Loss: How To Stop Spinning on the Diet-Go-Round

    This will be a real first time, first for me. I am starting from zero. New list. new promo (Turbulence Training) so I spent all my free time today creating a new squeeze page, new auto responder messages, finished the free ebook for optin. Everything uploaded and working too!!

    I also put together my long tail keyword list of over 30 great potential titles in the weight loss fitness niche all pointing to promoting TT.

    My eyes are drying up so, good night all!

    Oh and i am keeping my idea pad next to my bed so that as I drop off tonight and a "genius idea" hits my sleepy mind, all those terrific ideas can get jotted down before they get lost to dream land!
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    • Profile picture of the author Craig McPherson
      OK
      First 5 articles submitted. Keyword phrase is bolded.

      5 Qualities All Great Dog Trainers Have
      How to Recall Your Dog and Teach Him a Lesson
      3 Steps to Teach Your Dog to Sit on Command
      Treatment For Hair Loss in Dogs
      Does Your Dog Stray Or Chase Cars?

      Back to it.
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  • Profile picture of the author ebet
    Hey!

    I would like to join. =)

    Since I'm new, it's a great opportunity to jumpstart my article marketing venture.
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  • Profile picture of the author Shannon Tani
    I'm very proud of myself. I did 5 articles today. That's a total of 15 (I started my own program to do 5 a day on Saturday then jumped in here for the motivation).

    The best thing about it is that my day was kind of screwy and I really didn't want to do them. But I did it!!

    So I've got 15 in the queue at EZA. Anyone doing other article directories? I just joined Allen Graves' directory site. I'm going to give that one a try too. There's a fee, but it's pretty cheap.

    Love,
    Shannon
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  • Profile picture of the author CSwrite
    Ok - Day 2 - Second article submitted, both articles still pending approval. Thinking about doing an extra article a day to promote my PR service, just to see what it could do. Thanks, Tiff!
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  • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
    Welcome aboard to everyone who joined up for the challenge AND to the Warrior Forum since I know I sent a few newcomers here this week. Glad to see y'all!

    I hope everyone is not overwhelming themselves trying to do 5-15 a day. All it takes is one. Build up a momentum. Rome wasn't built in a day you know

    I'm going to try to use my Dragon Naturally Speaking today to see how that goes. I had forgotten I had it after my husband was cleaning and hid my headphones! LOL. And I had been on a roll with it, so I found my headphones and I'll see if it speeds up the process.

    Oh! I'm about to write a hamburger related article tip, so check that out in the main forum, too! It'll really help those who struggle with writing.

    I'm about to take the kids to school and then I'll do my second article. No news yet on article #1 I submitted.

    tiff
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  • Profile picture of the author chillingbreeze
    I guess I'm too late to join.. Sighs**** Looks around if I've a chance**
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    I guess I'm too late to join.. Sighs**** Looks around if I've a chance**
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    • Profile picture of the author WritingMadwoman
      Okay, my update.

      Since I started a day later than most folks, I wrote and submitted two articles this morning. So far I've only submitted them to Ezinearticles, but I may also use isnare's distribution service since I do still have credits.

      I also checked out my incoming links to this site, and there are 323 - but 310 of them are on my own sites, so I won't count those. :-) So I'm starting this challenge with 13 official incoming links from other sites, and I will check it again as I go.

      Today I'm finishing up the free report that will be given as an opt-in incentive, and loading an autoreponder series for affiliates to use.

      I also put together 60 article titles based on keyword research. I'm planning to do 2 articles a day targeting 2 main keyword categories that apply to my niche, but if I get too busy on some days I'll just do one article at a minimum.

      Wendy
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    • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
      Originally Posted by chillingbreeze View Post

      I guess I'm too late to join.. Sighs**** Looks around if I've a chance**
      It's never too late to join. Go for it.
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      • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
        Hi Tiff,
        I just got back from vacation but I'm throwing my hat into the ring. I planned to do some article marketing for my new ebook and this will work nicely.

        So even though I've only had 4 1/2 hours of sleep, I'm going to write a couple of articles today to "catch up" with everyone.

        Peggy
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  • Profile picture of the author Munch Mama
    Good morning all. Well, article #2 is in and waiting.
    Title: Three Fat Loss Habits We Can Learn From Olympic Athletes to Get in Shape Fast

    To Tiffany and others more expereinced in article marketing: what are your thoughts on alternate author names. For example, I have my own name, Cheryl Hines for my Internet Marketing brand. But I don't necessarily want my real name associated with my other niches like the one I am focusing on for this project. I have already chosen an alias for this and wonder how far to take the bio and then how do I choose a photo of ME that is at least two different authors on Ezine Articles. Awkward? help please...
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    • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
      Originally Posted by Munch Mama View Post

      Good morning all. Well, article #2 is in and waiting.
      Title: Three Fat Loss Habits We Can Learn From Olympic Athletes to Get in Shape Fast

      To Tiffany and others more expereinced in article marketing: what are your thoughts on alternate author names. For example, I have my own name, Cheryl Hines for my Internet Marketing brand. But I don't necessarily want my real name associated with my other niches like the one I am focusing on for this project. I have already chosen an alias for this and wonder how far to take the bio and then how do I choose a photo of ME that is at least two different authors on Ezine Articles. Awkward? help please...

      Doesn't have to be you - istockphoto.com would make a great pen pic.
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      • Profile picture of the author Munch Mama
        Originally Posted by TiffanyDow View Post

        Doesn't have to be you - istockphoto.com would make a great pen pic.
        hmmm, i was reading the EZA author profile photo rules and it requires a picture of "you". I guess I'll ask them what to do, huh?
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        • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
          Originally Posted by Munch Mama View Post

          hmmm, i was reading the EZA author profile photo rules and it requires a picture of "you". I guess I'll ask them what to do, huh?
          I don't think it's required - I've had an account at EZA for ages and I've never used a photo.
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          • Profile picture of the author Munch Mama
            Originally Posted by Hamida Pall View Post

            I don't think it's required - I've had an account at EZA for ages and I've never used a photo.
            Thanks Hamida, That answers a lot of bitty questions. Just what I was wondering - whether or not you even needed a pic to be considered an expert author. I am still under my 10 articles, too, so I was not sure whether to "graduate to Platinum" you needed a pic, etc.
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            • Profile picture of the author Sylvia Meier
              Day Two Update
              New Article posted to blog, EZA and Website-Articles
              Title:"Cheap Date Ideas For Couples Don't Have To Make You Look Cheap"
              Keyword: "cheap date ideas"

              Article 1:"Dating For Couples- Why You Need to Still Date" Approved on WSA
              Current Views: 1
              Click Throughs: 1

              Overall Stats:
              Sales:
              0
              Signups: 0
              Sylvia
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        • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
          Originally Posted by Munch Mama View Post

          hmmm, i was reading the EZA author profile photo rules and it requires a picture of "you". I guess I'll ask them what to do, huh?
          Oh you may be right! In that case, forget the pic!
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          • Profile picture of the author Tenzo
            Day two-second article submitted, and some light touch ups on my lens. Hopefully the first article will be approved soon.

            Kevin
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  • Profile picture of the author kiwichamp
    ok I am in - today's goal is to submit 2 articles (1 for yesterday - to catch up) and complete website.

    I plan on using this challenge to launch a new site I had started.

    Looking forward to reporting results and sales!

    Thanks so much Tiffany for this challenge - just what I needed right now.
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  • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
    Just submitted article #2 to EZA – “On Squidoo - Everyone Can Make Money.”

    In it, I used the cheeseburger method in my other post and did this:

    Intro about how everyone can make money online
    Point 1 - stay at home moms
    Point 2 – retirees
    Point 3 – part time or two job workers
    Point 4 – internet marketers
    Point 5 – hobbyists
    Point 6 – kids!
    Conclusion – I use my resource box as my conclusion and in it, I promoted both my eBook and lens building service.

    It was over 600 words.
    Tiff

    PS - No word yet on Article #1.
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  • Profile picture of the author CanuckMike
    With my excellent foresight I started a project that matches the challange exactly a week ago so I was submitting just one post a day and today they are being accepted.

    I have two live articles now.
    Views: 52
    Clicks: 7
    Sales: 0
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  • Profile picture of the author MrLewisSmile
    I started mine yesterday... and got 2 articles written! Without even breaking a sweat.

    I wrote them as I was walking places and waiting around for stuff, on my BlackBerry. It looks like you're messing round playing BrickBreaker when in fact you're typing articles. It's called Secret Work

    1000 words a day x 30 is a HUGE 30,000 a month. 365,000 a year! (but I will probably take a couple of days off for good behaviour)

    I am writing articles about squidoo right now, to promote buildmylens.com and the buildmylens affiliate program.

    I think I will keep up this article writing plan. I like it a lot..
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    • Profile picture of the author WritingMadwoman
      All I can say is that you guys are great motivation. So far today I have written 3 full articles (one of which was over 1,000 words!), submitted all three, plus did more writing on the e-course and e-book, updated the website, and a few other tasks.

      It's only 1:00pm here and I've gotten more done today than I did all last week! Okay maybe not quite that much, but still a lot. :-)

      Wendy
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    • Profile picture of the author MADMONEY
      Hello Tiffany,

      I know it's Tuesday but I am in!

      I am committing to five articles per day for the next 30 days. Since I am behind 10 articles, I've written one so far and submit it and I have nine more to go your

      So, I wanted to make this a quick post.

      Mad Money
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      Mad for Money!

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  • Profile picture of the author Shannon Tani
    Well, I got lucky!!

    One of my articles that I submitted Saturday was approved and I've got 4 more that are getting close, according to the status bar.

    I hope everyone else is just as lucky as me!
    Love,
    Shannon
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  • Profile picture of the author inprofit
    Hi Tiffany:

    I'm ready to rock

    Kim Bedford
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    • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
      Day 1 and 2 combined:

      I submitted 2 articles today (one of them for yesterday as I just got here today.) Fingers crossed for quick approval.

      Peggy

      Edit: Did a third one. I was on a roll.
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      • Profile picture of the author Michael Shook
        Next article submitted in custom baby gift niche. 2 articles waiting to go live now. It would be nice if they recognized that we are having a challenge here and sped up the approval process.
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  • Profile picture of the author jensrsa
    Howsssshhit you guysssh.

    I don't think I musht write tonight. Jussht came in froma farewell party.

    But I had to finissh (hey! the ssh worksh there!) the article I shtrated thish morning elsh Tiff will be crosssh . So I publisssssh uh publlissshed uh publisshed it. Will go back and edit it in the morning.

    Crap! Jussht spiled spillt spilled my coffee anyone for coffee?

    It's only been two days and the stess is getting to me - working on a deadline

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  • Profile picture of the author kiwichamp
    ok -- I have my 2 articles (one for today and one for yesterday) so caught up.

    Blog is on its way. Just getting more products in same niche together. One possibility, but they are going to "get back to me" mm.

    My own products on the horizon. Seems like the best way.

    Thanks again for this challenge. I love it.
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    • Profile picture of the author traceye
      Daily Results - Day 3

      Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
      Key Phrases Used: emotional eating, tips for fast weight loss, tips on fast weight loss, flat abs, belly fat

      Articles Submitted - 5
      Articles Live - 0
      Article Views - 0
      Hops - 3 ? Must be eza reviewing links
      Sales - 0


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      • Profile picture of the author ezrock
        Didn't get an article done today. I unfortunately work up to 90 hour weeks (thankfully at a job I love) and sometimes it just won't be possible. I'll have to make up for it tomorrow!
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  • Profile picture of the author Ben Roy
    Day 2 Update

    I'm participating in this challenge x2. Once for an existing site in an existing niche that I've been really wanting to pump up the traffic to. And secondly for a new product so I can really see the effects of this from scratch. I'm also trying to get an article or two ahead so that I'll be covered in case I don't end up having time on one day.

    Articles submitted: 4 (2 in each niche)
    Articles approved: 0
    Views: n/a
    Clicks: n/a



    Also, I do have one very serious impending problem. I don't have a platinum account yet. I only have about 12 article submissions left until I run out, and I'm afraid that it will take them a couple days to upgrade me. That means I won't be able to submit my articles.
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    • Profile picture of the author MADMONEY
      Ok it's 4:08 am (eastern time) and I just finished writing and posting 10 articles in the exercise equipment niche for one of my CJ affilate websites.

      Had a busy day but wanted to get on track... so I am staying strong with my 5 articles per day commitment.

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  • Profile picture of the author ramkarthik
    I don't do this full time. So I limit myself to one article a day. When I'm very motivated, I'll try for two or probably three articles a day. For the past three days, I have been writing and submitting articles to EA.

    I'm a free member and I'm not yet on the platinum list. So it seems I cannot have more than 3 articles in the pending status. That's what it said. I'm thinking of starting another account to write articles till I can write one in my old account.

    My three articles have been in weight loss niche. I will update with the number of views once my article gets accepted.
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  • Profile picture of the author Shannon Tani
    Well, I didn't get any of my 5 in today because I was kind of unexpectedly busy outside of the house. However, tomorrow is my "day off", so I hope to catch up then.

    I did want to report in though, because two of my EZA articles were approved today! These were ones that I put in on Saturday.

    article 1: 90 views/6 URL clicks
    article 2: 18 views/1 URL click

    The URL goes to a Squidoo lens, which then directs them to the product. From the Squidoo lens, I got 3 clickthroughs to the product. No sales, yet.

    Hope everyone's articles are approved soon!

    Love,
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  • Profile picture of the author Helen Doherty
    I just wanted to say I'm in! I meant to post yesterday. This is such a brilliant idea and I have got several articles saved in my drafts folder and I'm finally getting around to post them!

    Opened a brand new Ezine Articles account for the purposes of this experiment, so it will take a while for my articles to be out there, but will be sure to report back here on a regular basis.

    it's quite exciting and planning to have a mass article writing session on the weekend! Two already up and ready and waiting to be approved. Look out for these:

    10 Tips to Keep Office Boredom From Nipping You on the Butt

    Put the Binaural Beat Into the Start of Your Day
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    • Profile picture of the author WritingMadwoman
      Okay, 2 more articles submitted this morning, that's 4 total so far. None approved yet.

      By the way, I got an email from isnare this morning saying that one of my articles was approved, but I couldn't remember submitting anything to them recently. I dug back through my files and saw that I submitted that article in JANUARY!!!! Nine months turnaround time for approval. Think about THAT the next time you want to complain about EZA taking a few days or a week. LOL :-)

      Wendy
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  • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
    Just submitted my third article. I skipped down in my list and did one titled, "Squidoo Marketing Mistakes You Should Avoid," with Squidoo marketing being my keyword phrase. I took time and based it on 5 mistakes, so it was longer than the others (almost 900 words).

    One thing I love about EZA is how they do the resource box. It doesn't look separate - it flows as if it's part of the bottom of the article.

    Still nothing even on the second bar, but after reading Wendy's January comment above, I'll zip my lip about that! LOL

    I can't wait to see some stats as these babies get approved!
    tiff
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    • Profile picture of the author WebGypsy
      Hello,
      I'm in though very new and very late. I'll be playing catch up this week.
      Have a new blog and hope this will jump start things there.

      Thanks for starting this, great motivator!!
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    • Profile picture of the author WritingMadwoman
      Something just occurred to me Tiffany, I hope we're not making the approval times longer because of all these new articles we're submitting! LOL I can see it now, "Due to some overzealous Warriors, your article should be approved sometime within the next 9 months..." :-O

      Wendy
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  • Profile picture of the author Munch Mama
    Well, #3 is in and pending. I am still under my 10 too, so I may have to wait too to get the next articles in. I'll try though.

    What do you think... I may head over to Articles Base and Buzzle, too, and others just to get it out there. Mark Mason has a list of the top 36 ezine directories list. These two are #2 and #3 on his list
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    • Profile picture of the author Asher
      Hrmm, I've updated from Day 0 to Day 3 so far.

      A little suggestion that anyone might want to take -
      use the blog function that we have in the Warrior Forums.

      I created a new category called 30 Day Challenge and
      am posting all my records in it. The great thing about it
      is that... well, it's a blog. So it has all the blog functions.

      It makes it easier for Tiffany to look through all the info.

      My $0.02

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      • Profile picture of the author WritingMadwoman
        Asher, that is a great idea. I hadn't set up my blog yet because I didn't know what to do with it but it's perfect for tracking and recording results. I just set mine up and posted the beginning stats.

        I'll probably still post in the thread though because it's easier to follow along with everyone.

        Wendy
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        • Profile picture of the author Tenzo
          Third article posted. I'm hoping the first article gets approved tomorrow...it's down to the last bar on the progress chart.

          Warmly,
          Kevin
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        • Profile picture of the author WritingMadwoman
          Two more articles posted this morning. I just viewed the status of the other 4 articles, and all of them are still with just one red block. I guess I still have a ways to go before they are released, maybe tomorrow.

          I also went into my Aweber account and checked how many opt-ins I have to the list for that site, and there are 8 so far (all of them signed up months ago and I haven't done squat with the list so far).

          Later today I'll be loading a 10 part e-course so any new subscribers that come from this challenge will be hearing from me regularly! :-)

          Wendy
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      • Profile picture of the author KenJ
        Just to say I'm in and cooking on gas.

        Some great content sitting at EA awaiting approval

        I will post by the end of the month.

        By the way I am getting 30 - 50% clickthrough at present. What have I done??
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      • Profile picture of the author Stephen Chua
        Do we need to set up a brand new site to participate?

        I got a credit card directory that is a few months old but I have not done much promotion with it.

        Stephen
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        • Profile picture of the author Ben Roy
          I almost copped out today. I had two extra articles I'd written yesterday, but honestly they were pretty low quality and both really short. I was feeling lazy and almost just loaded those up. But I hate doing things crappily, so I guilted myself into doing the real thing.

          Day 5 Update
          Articles Submitted: 10 (5 each in 2 niches)
          Articles Live: 0 (all are showing first red bar still)
          Other stats: n/a


          I will say this though. I submitted three articles in one of these niches the week before this challenge started. They just went live yesterday and I'm seeing really good results. I've had a number of signups to my new newsletter yesterday and today, and I can't wait to see what happens when another 3-5 go live, let alone the 30 when this challenge is done.
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          • Profile picture of the author traceye
            Daily Results - Day 6

            Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
            Key Phrases Used: emotional eating, tips for fast weight loss, tips on fast weight loss, flat abs, belly fat, flat stomach, hot abs, ab exercises, weight loss motivation

            Articles Submitted - 10
            Articles Live - 5
            Article Views - 214
            Hops - 39
            Sales - 0


            Tracey
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        • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
          Originally Posted by successh View Post

          Do we need to set up a brand new site to participate?

          I got a credit card directory that is a few months old but I have not done much promotion with it.

          Stephen
          No, mine's not new - pick a site, any site - and go for it
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    • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
      Day 3

      Wrote another article. 3 days in and I'm on schedule with a buffer of one extra article.

      None of the articles are approved yet but I'm thinking (hoping) the first two should be tomorrow.

      Peggy
      P.S. I set up a blog to chart my progress as Asher suggested, but I'll post here too.
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  • Profile picture of the author NewbiesDiary
    better late than never? I'm in. I just had some articles written for me & I've been incredibly slack submitting them so well done for pushing me.
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  • Tiffany:

    I just saw this today; are you allowing others to join in or will you start another challenge based on the date of others interest?

    I'd like to join in.

    Thanks for letting me know.

    Estelle
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  • Profile picture of the author NewbiesDiary
    Done! One down - 29 to go!

    thanks so much for making me get of my backside & submit some articles.
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  • Profile picture of the author ezrock
    Daily Results - Day 3

    Today I submitted a third article. It's for my second best squidoo lens. I titled it:

    "Confessions of a Wordpress Blogger - First 30 days"
    It's about 450 words and took only 15 minutes to write

    I got an email saying my first article has been approved without needing any editing.

    Article 1 - 7 views on it so far
    no clickthroughs to lens
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  • Profile picture of the author Ben Roy
    I think it's funny how some of us are posting our Day 3 results but others have already posted day 4. It's a fun world we live in.

    Day 4 Results
    Articles submitted: 6 (3 in each niche)
    Articles approved: 0
    Views: n/a
    Clicks: n/a

    I have one extra article written and ready to go, but I still need an extra in the other niche. I can tell already that having this thread is going to be a big help for me. I was feeling a worn down already on this challenge and it's only day 3! If there wasn't something larger than myself going on, I'd probably just stop at this point. It will help when they start getting approved and I can see the results.
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    • Profile picture of the author Michael Shook
      Submitted my third article today in baby gift niche. Still waiting approval. Morea articles to come. It is still a really good idea that Tiffany had, at leat for me. That is the first thing I do in th e morning now. My 3o Tiffany Challenge article.
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Goodrum
      Tiffany this is a great idea. Looks like I'll have some work to do to catch up.

      Keith Goodrum
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  • Profile picture of the author Craig McPherson
    Day 4

    Have 4 articles published.

    Treatment For Hair Loss in Dogs 20 views, 0 clicks
    5 Qualities All Great Dog Trainers Have 19 views, 3 clicks
    How to Recall Your Dog and Teach Him a Lesson 19 views, 4 clicks
    3 Steps to Teach Your Dog to Sit on Command 22 views, 2 clicks

    7 clicks through to my clickbank page with zero purchase

    4 articles waiting for approval all in the dog niche
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  • Profile picture of the author kiwichamp
    Submitted 3 Articles - first post on new blog also done.

    Today's goals: Day 4's article
    2 new posts
    Continue working on ebook
    Looking for product to give away (relationship related).

    Think my day's work is cut out for me
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  • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
    Alrighty - Day 4:

    Submitted "How to Squidoo From Start to Finish" (with my keyword phrase in bold).

    I find that if I wait until I get back from taking the kids to school, I take more time and I write more. This was another over-800 word article.

    Nothing even out of the first red block in the approval process for the last 3.

    Everyone's doing a great job on productivity so far
    Tiff
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    • Profile picture of the author manchild
      OK, I want in on this challenge. This should give me the kick-start I need.

      My goal is write 5+ articles/day

      So far I've set-up 1 landing page in the health and fitness niche and created 10 blogs. I created a new pen name on Ezine Articles just for this challenge. I've also made a list of 50 low-comp, high-searched keywords.

      Here's where I'm at as of this morning...

      Daily Results - Day 4

      Articles Submitted - 9
      Articles Live - 0
      # of Views - 0
      Bio CTR - 0
      Sales - 0
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  • Profile picture of the author jensrsa
    The first money was earned within 4 days, albeit $0.04 from Adsense

    Articles are up to date but still languishing in the Review pending (first block) at EZA - but that will happen too.

    I really must get ahead with the article writing, this beating the deadline stuff is not fun

    Jens
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    • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
      I'm so behind - I was hoping to have 20 done by today but I've had the flu . So now I've only got 10 submitted so far and I'm testing some new niches and NOT getting the results I was hoping for. The way things are going I definitely won't be getting into the 'Most Viewed' with any I've submitted so far! Anyway, I'll keep going and hopefully I'll have identified a few good converting products by the end of the 30 days.
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      • Profile picture of the author Shannon Herod
        Hey everyone,

        Somehow I have missed this thread in the past couple of days, so I'm going to be a couple of days behind.

        I have however decided to take this challenge.

        Here are my results so far...

        Daily Results - Day 4

        Articles Submitted - 2
        Articles Live - 0
        # of Views - 0
        Bio CTR - 0
        Sales - 0


        I went ahead and wrote two articles today and submitted them. I'm hoping to get at least one more done today and then I will do two more tomorrow to catch up.

        I've also posted a blog post on the warrior blog as well...

        http://www.warriorforum.com/blogs/sh...challenge.html

        I actually need to get the squeeze page set up for the site I'm going to be sending traffic to. Right now it is just a coming soon page.

        Anyway, thanks for the motivation. I have plenty of work to keep me busy for a while now.

        Shannon
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      • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
        Originally Posted by Hamida Pall View Post

        I'm so behind - I was hoping to have 20 done by today but I've had the flu . So now I've only got 10 submitted so far and I'm testing some new niches and NOT getting the results I was hoping for. The way things are going I definitely won't be getting into the 'Most Viewed' with any I've submitted so far! Anyway, I'll keep going and hopefully I'll have identified a few good converting products by the end of the 30 days.
        Well it's only day 4 so all you need is 4. This is why I don't recommend anyone bite off more than they can chew. No you feel like you're letting yourself down not having 20 done when you could have been overly proud of yourself for meeting your 4 goal Just scale back and get on track again
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  • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
    I just saw this challenge, and I am in. I will do extra articles for a few days to catch up.

    I already have my keyword research done, as I will be writing articles for one existing site.

    I am off now to write my first article, and once I have that submitted, I'll come up with titles for my next 29 articles.

    This is going to be great! Thank you for initiating this challenge, Tiff.
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    • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
      Day 4 article has been submitted.

      The first ones I submitted have 3 red blocks now, so maybe tomorrow?

      Peggy
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  • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
    I have just submitted my fist article to EZA, Idea Marketers, and Isnare.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jacqueline Watson
    I'm joining this as a newbie.

    I'm a few days behind, but
    I'm going to catch up and
    win the challenge!!

    I loooove a good challenge.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
    I submitted 2 more articles, so i have one more to catch up with all of you who got started on time (I'll leaved that for another day though, as I am really tired now).

    I can only imagine what this challenge will do for my site: while I submitted some articles in the past, I never did anything like this.
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Goodrum
      OK, here are my 1st day results. My goal is to have 30 articles done by the end of the 30 days. A challenge is always great motivation.

      Daily Results - Day 4

      Articles Submitted - 2
      Articles Live - 0
      # of Views - 0
      Bio CTR - 0
      Sales - 0

      Keith Goodrum
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  • Profile picture of the author ezrock
    Submitted "Siamese Fighting Fish - Explanation of Betta Tail Types" targetting "siamese fighting fish" and "bettas"

    Daily results - Day 4
    4 articles submitted
    1 live - 33 views, 1 click.


    Few questions for the experts out there. I will soon be reaching the limit of my initial 10 articles. Does it take long to get approved to have the limit increased? Once I hit that road block, I'll continue writing articles, then submit them all at once when I am allowed
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    • Profile picture of the author traceye
      Daily Results - Day 5

      Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
      Key Phrases Used: emotional eating, tips for fast weight loss, tips on fast weight loss, flat abs, belly fat, flat stomach, hot abs, ab exercises, weight loss motivation

      Articles Submitted - 9
      Articles Live - 3
      Article Views - 94
      Hops - 18
      Sales - 0


      Tracey
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    • Profile picture of the author Ben Roy
      Just barely made it today! Luckily I had that one article in reserve so I only had to write one to make it. The problem I'm facing is that I need to go to bed, but I know I won't have time tomorrow. I guess that means I need to crank out two articles in the next 15 minutes. We'll see...

      Day 4 Results (misreported yesterday as day 4 results, were actually day 3)
      Articles submitted: 8 (4 in each niche)
      Articles approved: 0
      Views: n/a
      Clicks: n/a

      I just had some articles I submitted 3 days before the challenge finally approved today. So I guess I'm still 3 days away from these going live, but I *am* excited for it to start happening.
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  • Profile picture of the author CanuckMike
    Things are going well over here. I submitted another article and my views and clicks are increasing. I am posting articles to two different niches and am going to see which performs better and at the end of the month and drop the loser.

    Should be interesting to see who gets the first sale in this challenge. My bet is on Steven.
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  • Profile picture of the author Shannon Tani
    Well, I'm still behind on my 5 a day goal, but I'm good for this challenge.

    Here are some of my stats:
    EZA articles submitted: 23
    EZA articles approved: 14
    EZA Total views: 749
    EZA clickthroughs:108
    EZA publisher button clicks: 2

    WA* submissions: 2
    WA approved: 1
    WA views: 0

    *WA is website-articles.net

    The link in my resource box goes to a Squidoo lens. The hop link to MOMU has been clicked 26 times.

    No sales.

    However...

    (Take this with a grain of salt because the KWs I'm using are often 4+ words and get less than 10 searches a day)

    11 out of the 14 live EZA articles are on the first page of Google for their keyword!!!

    BTW, I'm writing these under the pen name Serina Fea.

    Love,
    Shannon
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  • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
    Woke up hoping to see my articles approved with my new handy dandy premium account but they're still resting on bar 3. Maybe they went to sleep. I supposed editors have to snooze too.
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  • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
    Woot! Got home from taking the son to school and they're up! I'm going to put all of my articles in my WF blog too using the publisher button.
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  • Profile picture of the author kiwichamp
    Well I have 6 articles in Ezines waiting to be approved (2 were in line before we started this challenge, they were submitted on 21st Sept, and 4 of them are a part of this challenge).

    I have 2 posts up on the new blog, and will have 1-2 more by the time the articles are published I suspect.

    I am hoping to see at least some articles published today!

    Meanwhile I am about to start on today's article as well the post, having already posted on one of the other blogs.

    Looking forward to being able to report results.
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  • Profile picture of the author Munch Mama
    Oh, man! Shows you what a novice I am, my first three articles are still at one bar and since i am still under my 10 initial articles, they wont take anymore... and I can't do the Premium membership this month. Looks like I am going to keep up the article writing on the side at home and queue them up as I can.

    I am still determined, though.. I'll keep posting and let you know as they get accepted and cathc up ASAP
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    • Profile picture of the author WritingMadwoman
      Cheryl, yes definitely keep writing the articles every day. Then when they upgrade your account to Platinum you will have a nice stash and you can submit 2 or even more a day to catch up. It can seem like it takes forever but it's worth the wait! :-)

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    • Profile picture of the author jensrsa
      Originally Posted by Munch Mama View Post

      Oh, man! Shows you what a novice I am, my first three articles are still at one bar and since i am still under my 10 initial articles, they wont take anymore... and I can't do the Premium membership this month. Looks like I am going to keep up the article writing on the side at home and queue them up as I can.

      I am still determined, though.. I'll keep posting and let you know as they get accepted and cathc up ASAP
      Thanks for making me go and look at the TOS. I didn't have my affilaite links cloaked :p and I have 2 more to go to reach 10

      Jens.
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  • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
    Just submitted my 5th article - Make Money with Squidoo Using Professional Content (keyword phrase in bold).

    I almost forgot!
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    • Profile picture of the author Tenzo
      Ok, I just submitted my fifth article to EZA. Another got approved today, so two are live. I also took the first article and tweaked it a bit, then added it to my lens.
      So far:
      5 articles submitted
      2 articles live
      29 views
      9 click throughs(to my lens)
      3 clicks from lens to salespage

      Regards,
      Kevin
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  • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
    Day 5 Results

    I finally got the first 4 articles approved. They did them all together. They haven't been live long, but this is where I stand:

    Articles Submitted - 6
    Articles Live - 4
    Article Views - 3
    URL Clicks - 1

    Titles - Profile of a New Internet Marketer - Is This You?
    Internet Marketing - Do You Have a Plan?
    Testimonials - Do You Use Them?
    Kids Cooking - It's Vegetable Time!

    I just submitted today's article and will await the batch processing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
    I just submitted my 4th article today. My first 3 still have only one red box
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    • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
      Didn't start writing til late today so I had a mad dash to write 6 articles - got them done in an hour! I didn't feel much like writing today so I chose a niche that I know alot about. Just couldn't face doing any research.
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      • Profile picture of the author ezrock
        Submitted "The Niche Blogger - What to look for in a WordPress Theme" just now, targetting "the niche blogger" and a few similar keywords.

        Day 5 Results

        Live Articles
        Tropical Fish Tank Setup in 5 Easy Steps - 44 views, 3 clicks, 1 publisher click
        -also picked up by 1 site

        Pending Articles
        4 --> all at 1 bar
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      • Profile picture of the author Keith Goodrum
        Daily Results - Day 5

        Articles Submitted - 3
        Articles Live - zippity do da!
        Article Views - see above
        Hops - ditto
        Sales - likewise

        Keith Goodrum
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  • Profile picture of the author CSwrite
    Day 6 - Did not get anything done today, besides catching up on much needed sleep. Will play catch up this weekend

    Articles Submitted: 5
    Approved: 0 (argh!)
    Views: 0
    Clicks: 0
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    • Profile picture of the author WritingMadwoman
      Just wrote and submitted one more article, that's 8 total.

      I also noticed that 3 more of my articles were released and I didn't get notifications about them, so that was a pleasant surprise! :-)

      Here are the articles and stats published since the beginning of the challenge:

      Title: Telecommute Data Entry Jobs - Are They For Real?

      Views: 5
      Clicks: 2

      Title: Researching Legitimate Work at Home Jobs

      Views: 8
      Clicks: 1
      Published: 1

      Title: Top 10 Most Common Work at Home Jobs

      Views: 24
      Clicks: 1

      Title: Legitimate Telecommute Jobs - How to Find Them

      Views: 27
      Clicks: 6

      Total opt-ins since challenge started: 2
      Total sales: 0

      I've got 4 more articles pending.


      Wendy
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  • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
    For those who are in this challenge, and if you're interested and need some
    tips, I've made this post to help you out.

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...challenge.html

    Hope it helps some.
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  • Profile picture of the author StuartStewart
    Ok so I'm a week late and new to this but I'll give it a go. I't will be interseting to see how much I can learn in the 30 days.
    Thanks for the challange
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  • Profile picture of the author kiwichamp
    Well I got ONE article published on Fri - but it was an article submitted before this challenge -- all the others are still waiting

    However when the guys at ezinearticles get back to my account they will find even more articles to read and approve

    I am thinking about rewriting the articles waiting in line at EZines and submitting them to other directories also. Maybe next week. I know those would not count for this challenge, sort of a separate experiment.
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  • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
    Hi Warriors!

    I just submitted my 6th article for the challenge - Squidoo Social Network Is a Boon to Internet Marketers - (keyword phrase in bold) - and got my latest stats to share. I'm checking the first 5 pages of Google to see where I am for the keywords I was targeting, too:

    How to Squidoo From Start to Finish - 32 views, 2 publishers, 3 URL clicks (1 to socialmarketing101, 2 to buildmylens), 1 vote - WOW! Already #6 on Google for "how to Squidoo." That was fast! This right here is making me think Premium might pay off if I was targeting various keywords and wanted almost instant Google top rankings.

    Squidoo Marketing Mistakes You Should Avoid 27 views, 1 publisher, 1 URL click to buildmylens, 1 vote (keyword is Squidoo Marketing and one of the publishers who picked up my article is #20 - page 2 - and another publisher is #23 on page 3 - and my Twitter EZA post is #43 - but my original EZA article is not on the first 5 pages.

    Make Money With Squidoo Using Professional Content 23 views, 0 publishers, 2 URL clicks to buildmylens. For the keyword phrase "make money with Squidoo," someone is using the first part of my article with no link and no rest of the article, either. They're at the bottom of page 5.
    On Squidoo - Everyone Can Make Money 18 views, 1 publisher, 1 URL click to socialmarketing101, 1 vote - now #42 on Google for "on Squidoo."

    Squidoo Still Holds Power in the SERPs 17 views, 1 publisher, 1 URL click to buildmylens - not in the top 5 on Google yet

    Tiff

    PS - I'd like to see if anyone's having SERP results, too!
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    • Profile picture of the author Tenzo
      I just submitted my sixth article. So far I have 3 approved, with a total of 59 views, and 15 clicks to my landing page. From the lens, 6 people have clicked through to the sales page I'm promoting. No sales as of yet.

      Regards,
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    • Profile picture of the author Tovuti
      Thanks for letting me know about this Tiff! I'm in for doing one article a day for sure. I need to promote my new coaching program and my ebook (in the same niche) could always use some more articles. So this comes at a great time. I'll post my results at the end.

      Sylvia
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  • Profile picture of the author artgirl
    Hi Tiff:

    This sounds like fun...I hope I'm not too late.

    Well. I am off to the races as I attempt to catch up with everyone. My keyword research should be a breeze...the problem is choosing a product to promote.

    Wish me luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author Robo90
    I think I am going to give this a try, it sounds interesting
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    • Profile picture of the author fred67
      I'd love to do this but I'm useless at research.
      Keywords bore the pants off me, and you can bet your life that all the stuff I pump out every day into this keyboard from this head of mine, wouldn't be of any use to anyone.
      Therefore, the chances of any of my articles being accepted is probably nil.

      I've come to the conclusion that Tiffany Dow is an Android.
      How can 'one' human fit so many hours worth of work into 24 hours?

      I'm going to 'stalk' this post as I find it absolutely fascinating.
      If we're getting links to all of the posts as well, that would be a great education for those of us who struggle with 'Article' writing.

      (Will we be getting live links?)

      Good luck to you all, I think you're an amazing bunch.

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  • Profile picture of the author CanuckMike
    I can't tell if my first sale came from a person finding me from my article or from google traffic but I got a sale!!!!! I have only had 17 clicks for the article that could have made the sale thus far so I think that is pretty good.

    The best part is that it is a recurring commission.

    Thanks for everything guys. It really is so simple to just write an article or two a day and bam you get hit with a sale that just keeps on giving.
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    • Profile picture of the author Shannon Herod
      Okay, I'm all caught up with my article submissions. I have six articles submitted, and all six are still waiting to be approved.

      I am using Dragon naturally speaking to write the articles. This is making article marketing super easy. I never wanted to do article marketing because I hated writing. Now, I'm all about it. All I need to do is sit here and talk and say some punctuation marks. This is absolutely awesome.

      The accuracy is actually very awesome! It is making my life very easy and I am expecting my income to increase exponentially because of this.

      Anyway, keep on plugging away everyone. You Can Do It!

      Shannon
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  • Profile picture of the author ezrock
    EDIT: Wrote an article afterall: "Baby Betta Foods - What Live Fish Foods Are Ideal For Young Betta Fry".

    Day 6 Results

    Still 1 article live and 5 waiting approval (all at 1 bar)
    -46 views at EA. 3 clicks. 7 profile views. 1 publisher click
    -published in 1 blog
    -linked to EA article from another blog
    -0 sales/commission
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  • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
    I posted my 5th article just now. I still need to do an extra article to catch up, and promise to do it tomorrow.

    None of my articles have been approved yet: waiting with one red bar only
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  • Profile picture of the author Kelvin Nikkel
    Hi Tiffany!

    I just found your post and this sounds like something I need to do! I know I am a few days late but will try to catch up. lol

    I have already posted my first post. Will try for more than one for the next few days so that I can catch up.

    Thanks for the challenge Tiffany.

    Kelvin
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  • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
    Day 6 Results

    My 7th article was submitted today. I took one of my past blog posts and rewrote it.

    Articles Submitted -7
    Articles Live - 4
    Article Views - 17
    Ezine Publisher - 4
    URL Clicks - 2

    Titles:
    Profile of a New Internet Marketer - Is This You? Published twice
    Internet Marketing - Do You Have a Plan? Published elsewhere twice.
    Testimonials - Do You Use Them? This article has been published 3 times. One far flung longtail keyword is on page 1, #2, and the other keyword is on page 4.
    Kids Cooking - It's Vegetable Time! This one is on page 1 of Google at #9.

    Okay, I haven't been doing my keyword research beforehand and it shows. It's apparent to me that if I don't do the keyword research properly then my time is wasted with this.

    So... with article 8 up to 30 I vow to take the time to pick my longtail keywords better.

    Peggy
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    • Profile picture of the author traceye
      Daily Results - Day 7

      Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
      Key Phrases Used: emotional eating, tips for fast weight loss, tips on fast weight loss, flat abs, belly fat, flat stomach, hot abs, ab exercises, weight loss motivation, fad diets,

      Articles Submitted - 11
      Articles Live - 5
      Article Views - 224
      Hops - 43
      Sales - 0


      Tracey
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      • Profile picture of the author sevenish
        Jumping into this a bit late using Tiff's Cheeseburger method.

        Not sure I can publish stats on a regular basis, what with my family requirements, but this is a great motivator to get started. It's much more feasible with this plan.

        Thanks so much Tiff!
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        • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
          Just found this through Steve's other post. I'm up for it. Of to start a new blog for a specific affiliate product so I don't fall foul of Ezine's rules.
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          • Profile picture of the author WritingMadwoman
            Just submitted my 9th article for this challenge. Now I have 4 pending, including today's article. 5 published so far.

            Stats so far are not too impressive, but part of the reason may be that I'm targeting keywords with immense competition! ;-) That's okay though, my objective with this challenge is to get some solid backlinks built up and over time let my site rise in the search engine ranks for these coveted keywords.

            To that end I will be adding more content to the site, contacting potential affiliates, and working on a few other things.

            My biggest challenge is that I don't have a ton of time to devote to this, so I will be making slow progress. Better slow than not at all, I guess.

            Wendy
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  • Profile picture of the author Julie Fletcher
    Hi I would like to join this challenge as well, but have a couple of questions,
    if I am promoting a cb product can I send directly to the sales page or should I send to another page first? What is the easiest/quickest way to create articles as this is something that I struggle with, get plr and change or start from scratch?
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  • Profile picture of the author greff
    Seems like some people need to see results quickly.

    That is a good way to get discouraged. Nothing good happens fast.

    Patience is a virtue. A stitch in time saves nine.

    A hand in the bush is worth all the damn birds in the world. (oops, how did that get in here?)

    ;P
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    • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
      LOL

      A hand in the bush...in the bush...in the bush...in the bush...



      Although I am not participating in this challenge, I, along with many others, are kneeling on the sidelines watching this all play out.

      Keep the results coming! VERY interesting indeed. Thanks for coming up with this Tiff.

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  • Profile picture of the author Gunter Eibl
    Excellent challenge. Brings some action into the boring writing/submitting work.

    Submitted 10 articles in the insurance area that did convert into 4 leads so far, $8 each.

    Submitted 15 articles on an affiliate dating product but zero conversions, very frustrating. But that's the game, testing niches and finding out what works.

    Gunter
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  • Profile picture of the author lakeview
    Thanks for the challenge Tiffany!

    I jumped into the challenge at the beginning of the week but have not had a chance to post until now. Here are my current stats:

    submitted - 11
    live - 5
    views - 368
    published - 3
    clicks - 49
    sales - 2

    This is such a great motivator!

    Angela
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  • Profile picture of the author Asher
    I've joined since the very first day and up to now,
    I've not had 1 go live yet. Ha. EZA's pretty random
    with the approval speeds.

    Current Stats:
    12 Pending Articles
    6 Articles with 3/5 Bars Red
    6 Articles with 1/5 Bars Red

    For more information and details,
    check out WarriorForum - Internet Marketing Forums - Asher

    Asher
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  • Profile picture of the author Shannon Tani
    Haven't been able to post in awhile. Here's my stats so far:
    EZA
    submitted: 27
    live: 15
    views: 992
    clicks: 157

    Website-Articles
    submitted: 3
    live: 3
    views: 25
    clicks: (not sure. too lazy to do the math)

    So far no sales.

    As I mentioned before, I'm ranking high in the SERPs.

    Love,
    Shannon
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  • Profile picture of the author jensrsa
    Still parked in the first red zone for all my articles and I've reached my limit, both in # articles I can post and in patience. If EZA take so long to start reviewing an article, how long are they going to take to approve Platinum membership?

    Not giving up - yet. Just have to look at other areas to channel targeted traffic to the site.

    Jens
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  • Profile picture of the author Ben Roy
    Well, unfortunately I have to post in shame today. It's day 7, but I never posted my day 6 update. I had a bunch of stuff in the morning, ended up busy in the afternoon, and then took a nap before going out for the whole evening and well into the night. By the time I got home I was too tired to even post my backup articles, so I'm now a day behind. I felt kind of bad, although my morning was busy with a walk for diabetes, so I figure that balances out a bit karma-wise.

    My plan is to write and post 4 articles before I go to bed, so I should be all caught up later on tonight.

    Day 6 Results (1 day late)
    Articles Posted: 10 (2 niches)
    Artices approved: 0
    All other stats: n/a
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  • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
    Hi Warriors!

    Well today I posted another article. I'm liking this one a day deal. It was called "For Squidoo Affiliate Success - keyword phrase in bold - and I changed it from something I had earlier because I wanted to target affiliates rather than just lens buyers. (more sales!)

    So basically, I talked about how Squidoo affiliates can make more promoting tutorials and services for Squidoo than info products and tangibles. ie: a lens commission for a VIP pack is $119 compared to an Amazon book that brings in a dollar or so.

    Another woohoo for me today - but article marketing of a different kind. Back when I first wrote the first book on Squidoo (thanks to Warrior James Allen) people would say, "Tiff's the Squidoo Queen around here..." blah blah blah. Well everyone advised me not to get a domain with Squidoo in it. Hence the socialmarketing101 URL.

    So some other savvy marketer went and registered SquidooQueen.com and capitalized on that. So I wanted a piece of that title and I submitted an article to my blog at socialmarketing101.com for keyword phrase Squidoo Queen and one day later, voila! Page 1 on Google #8 for "Who's the REAL Squidoo Queen?"

    Hee hee.

    I'm going to publish my EZAs on my own blog, too.

    Here's my stats - I have 3 awaiting approval - I guess cuz it's the weekend.

    Make Money With Squidoo Using Professional Content 37 views, 1 publisher, 5 clicks
    Squidoo Marketing Mistakes You Should Avoid 35 views, 1 publisher, 1 click, 1 vote
    On Squidoo - Everyone Can Make Money 22 views, 1 publisher, 1 click
    Squidoo Still Holds Power in the SERPs 21 views, 1 publisher, 1 click
    How to Squidoo From Start to Finish 52 views, 2 publishers, 4 clicks, 2 votes

    No sales from this yet. I know it might take longer since it's a hefty price point ($249-799) but we shall see!

    Tiff
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    • Profile picture of the author Kelvin Nikkel
      Originally Posted by TiffanyDow View Post

      I'm going to publish my EZAs on my own blog, too.
      I wanted to confirm something Tiffany. Posting your own EZA article on your blog. wouldn't Google look at that as a duplication of articles and actually hurt your rankings?

      Posted my second article today. Just started yesterday so am a bit late. Both articles are still not cleared. Planning on doing one more post right now.

      I am eager to see how this will affect my site because I am only getting about 4 unique visitors per day on this new (3 weeks old) site.
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      • Profile picture of the author Ben Roy
        Originally Posted by Kelvin Nikkel View Post

        I wanted to confirm something Tiffany. Posting your own EZA article on your blog. wouldn't Google look at that as a duplication of articles and actually hurt your rankings?
        This is a HUGE myth that seems to circulate constantly and just isn't the case. I currently have an article for one my keyword phrases in BOTH 2nd and 3rd slots on Google. I submitted it to EZA originally and then to ArticleDashboard.com (I think that's the one), and both of the rank extremly well. They are identical, and Google seems to like them just fine.

        The 'duplicate penalty' that I believe started the whole term had to do with having the exact same content on your own site multiple times at different URLs.
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        • Profile picture of the author Ben Roy
          Ok, got caught up.

          Day 7 Report
          Articles Posted: 14 (7 each niche)
          Articles Approved: 0
          Other stats n/a until articles approved.


          I can barely tell you how exciting it is to log into EZA and see 14 articles sitting in the queue. I just know I'm going to get an avalanche of traffic when those articles start hitting. I am getting increasingly nervous about the approaching article limit though. I think I only have 6 submissions left. I'm going to be pretty angry if they take a long time to upgrade me to platinum.
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          • Profile picture of the author Kelvin Nikkel
            Thanks hummusx! I am sure glad that someone cleared that up for me.

            So it would be ok to post my EZA articles onto my website? Because to tell the truth, these are actually the best articles I have ever written. LOL

            My first article is at 3 bars
            Second article, just posted yesterday is still one bar and I just submitted the third

            BTW, I am writing in the ESL niche. Just thought I would fill you in Tiffany. lol

            I too am getting excited to see all these articles in EZA. Can't wait to see what the results are going to be.

            Kelvin
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            • Profile picture of the author Ben Roy
              Originally Posted by Kelvin Nikkel View Post

              So it would be ok to post my EZA articles onto my website? Because to tell the truth, these are actually the best articles I have ever written. LOL
              For sure.

              PS. Doh, need 10 characters to post.
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              • Profile picture of the author traceye
                Daily Results - Day 8

                Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
                Key Phrases Used: emotional eating, tips for fast weight loss, tips on fast weight loss, flat abs, belly fat, flat stomach, hot abs, ab exercises, weight loss motivation, fad diets, nutrition facts, dining out

                Articles Submitted - 13
                Articles Live - 5
                Article Views - 242
                Hops - 43
                Sales - 0


                Tracey
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                • Profile picture of the author Sami
                  Originally Posted by traceye View Post

                  Daily Results - Day 8

                  Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
                  Key Phrases Used: emotional eating, tips for fast weight loss, tips on fast weight loss, flat abs, belly fat, flat stomach, hot abs, ab exercises, weight loss motivation, fad diets, nutrition facts, dining out

                  Articles Submitted - 13
                  Articles Live - 5
                  Article Views - 242
                  Hops - 43
                  Sales - 0


                  Tracey
                  Though I'm not in this challenge, here's a tip for everyone:

                  For best results (sales) concentrate on "buying" keywords and avoid non-buying keywords. For example in Traceye's list above...

                  "emotional eating" is less likely to be a "buying keyword". Anyone searching for that is less likely to be looking to buy a product. 'Perhaps' they are looking to be merely informed.

                  The same goes for "fad diets". Again the person searching is of course not looking to buy a fad diet. Yes you could argue that you could then try and sell them something that is not a fad diet. But the key is their frame of mind - "Are they looking for something to buy!"

                  By contrast those searching for "hot abs, ab exercises, weight loss motivation," are more likely to be persuaded to buy and are probably more easily persuaded too.

                  Traceye (& everyone else) you could also target actual product names and model numbers too...

                  Though very few people search for say "Sony Plasma XJ-2YT-4 blackscreen" (I made that up), just 50 people searching for that are infinitely more likely to buy (via your Amazon affiliate link ... & there's less competition for that phrase) than 50 people searching for "plasma TV" (which has huge searches and huge competion and IS NOT a "buying" phrase).

                  You see, with plasma TV, you have no idea what they want. It could be they're looking to find out about plasma TVs. Mentally they're very far from the buying stage, relatively.

                  With a specific product or model number, you know that they already know what they want. They're much closer to the buying stage.

                  I hope this helps. Good luck everyone.
                  Sami
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              • Profile picture of the author Ben Roy
                Anyone following this thread, don't be confused. My name change just went through.

                hummusx ===> Ben Roy
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            • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
              Originally Posted by Kelvin Nikkel View Post

              Thanks hummusx! I am sure glad that someone cleared that up for me.

              So it would be ok to post my EZA articles onto my website? Because to tell the truth, these are actually the best articles I have ever written. LOL

              My first article is at 3 bars
              Second article, just posted yesterday is still one bar and I just submitted the third

              BTW, I am writing in the ESL niche. Just thought I would fill you in Tiffany. lol

              I too am getting excited to see all these articles in EZA. Can't wait to see what the results are going to be.

              Kelvin
              Kelvin,

              You'll have nothing to worry about.

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          • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
            Originally Posted by Tom Borowski View Post


            I had some issues with some articles during my Basic PLUS level membership, although one particular rejection was an error on their part. So I'm hoping that I'll finally "break through" to Platinum this time...

            Anyone have experience here how EA handle this?
            I know someone who was in Basic Plus for at least 50 articles - I think they keep you back even if you get one rejection. You might get lucky though if you can write them a good enough appeal!
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            • Profile picture of the author MADMONEY
              Hello,

              Yes if you make one mistake in your submission they will not move you to platinum level. They will keep you at basic plus. It's important that you read the editorial guidelines and make sure that you get those submissions correct. After you are promoted to platinum level it doesn't matter anymore.

              Here are my numbers:

              25 articles submit
              4 live
              666 views
              111 click throughs
              16.7% Click through Rate

              2 sales.

              I am hoping to have more articles approved this week and looking to improve my click through rates on certain keywords. This was a great idea Tiffany thanks for starting this thread.

              Mad Money
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              • Profile picture of the author traceye
                Originally Posted by Tom Borowski View Post

                Dang. Guess I'm in for another round of Basic PLUS then... I'll try the appeal route, just have to see if I can muster enough charm
                I have two eza accounts. One of them I have over 60 articles and it is STILL on Basic Plus. The other one (my primary one now) is platinum and they actually gave platinum status to me one day out of the blue (I didn't request an upgrade). *shrugs*
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  • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
    I submitted 2 more articles, and I am now up to date: and hopefully, at least some of them will be live soon (all 7 still have only 1 box)
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  • Profile picture of the author sevenish
    Submitted 3 articles today whilst the kids napped.

    These are my first submissions to EZA, so we'll see.

    thanks for the inspiration Tiff.
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  • Profile picture of the author Charles Harper
    Even though I am late...I am in. If I don't get your package that's fine. Just need to motivate my blankety blank.
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  • Profile picture of the author kiwichamp
    Well I have 7 articles waiting on EZines to approve and have 3 live. Now I'm stuck til they do approve them all, cause they will only upgrade me to be allowed to submit more once I have 10 articles live.

    Mm guess this puts me out of this game. However I plan on keeping up and just submitting in other places. At least I can still pace myself and reap the benefits of team work on this challenge.

    So far no articles approved that were submitted since the challenge started. - waiting
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  • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
    Day 8

    I missed yesterday, Sunday, as we went up to the mountains to see the fall color. I had to get my nature fix.

    But I was already one article ahead so now I'm even.

    I submitted an article today and did my keyword research. I've got one very long tail and two very boad. This article is actually a Part 1 and now I'm going to write Part 2 and 3. I've not submitted a series to EZA before. I'm broadening my horizons.

    Peggy
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  • Profile picture of the author Julie Fletcher
    I have just submitted my first 2 articles, I am a few days behind but will try to catch up fast!

    Articles Submitted - 0
    Articles Live - 0
    Article Views - 0
    Clicks - 0
    Leads - 0
    Sales - 0
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  • Profile picture of the author idogi
    Good post, keep it up!
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    • Profile picture of the author Tenzo
      Okay, today I submitted two articles, because I skipped yesterday. Note to all IM'ers, make time to get out and be away from the computer sometimes. I went out to see a ceili band, and it was awesome.

      So as of today, I have eight articles submitted-4 are live, although one just went live this morning. I have 102 views, and 24 clickthroughs to my landing page.

      Back to work

      Regards,
      Kevin
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  • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
    Humph. I didn't know if you made a mistake in submission that you got nixed for a boost. I made 2 today - I didn't know I couldn't mention my business partner Lewis Smile n my bio box unless I listed him as a co-author and I also didn't know I couldn't link to my affiliate page because it redirects to the PDC affiliate page for our business.

    So oh well...

    I'm listed as a Basic Plus but I bought the Premium membership, so not sure how that'll work. It says I have 4 submissions left before I qualify for Platinum review.
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    • Profile picture of the author kevin campbelle
      Originally Posted by TiffanyDow View Post


      I'm listed as a Basic Plus but I bought the Premium membership, so not sure how that'll work. It says I have 4 submissions left before I qualify for Platinum review.
      I'm really interested in how this will work too. So are you paying the membership fee and not having the articles go live in fast times or even though you have basic plus status, are they reviewing and making them live fast while you just have the basic plus title?

      Kevin.
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    • Profile picture of the author ezrock
      I believe I read somewhere that premium membership has no bearing on your actual membership level. They say they will not allow people to 'buy a platinum membership'. The quality of your articles is what gets you to the platinum membership.

      -Ezrock-

      Originally Posted by TiffanyDow View Post

      Humph. I didn't know if you made a mistake in submission that you got nixed for a boost. I made 2 today - I didn't know I couldn't mention my business partner Lewis Smile n my bio box unless I listed him as a co-author and I also didn't know I couldn't link to my affiliate page because it redirects to the PDC affiliate page for our business.

      So oh well...

      I'm listed as a Basic Plus but I bought the Premium membership, so not sure how that'll work. It says I have 4 submissions left before I qualify for Platinum review.
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  • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
    Hi Kevin!

    I paid $97 for the Premium. But I'm still in basic plus status. So I get faster service anyway I guess...
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    • Profile picture of the author Shannon Herod
      It looks as if I have reached an article submission cap. I had an article that is under review because of a bad link, so I have to wait until that article is approved before I can apply for an upgrade. That kind of stinks, but I will keep writing articles and then just submit them when I'm able.

      Shannon
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  • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
    Hi Warriors!

    Submitted Squidoo to Brand Your Business (keyword in bold) today. Here are current article stats - got a sale today, but not yet sure where from. Checking...

    1.) Make Money With Squidoo Using Professional Content 42 views, 2 publishers, 5 clicks
    2.) Squidoo Marketing Mistakes You Should Avoid 39 views, 2 publishers, 2 clicks, 1 vote
    3.) On Squidoo - Everyone Can Make Money 26 views, 1 publisher, 1 click, 1 vote
    4.) Squidoo Still Holds Power in the SERPs 25 views, 1 publisher, 3 clicks
    5.) How to Squidoo From Start to Finish 61 views, 2 publishers, 7 clicks, 3 votes
    6.) Squidoo Social Network Is a Boon to Internet Marketers - 20 views, 0 publishers, 1 click
    7.) For Squidoo Affiliate Success - 25 views, 0 publishers, 5 clicks, 1 vote
    8.) Squidoo to Brand Your Business - Just submitted tonight

    Just checked our stats for the site and over 1/3 of our income this month was made in the last 7 days. Hmmm....that's interesting! Might pay off for us But right now I can't be sure they came from articles on EZA.

    Tiff
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    • Profile picture of the author MADMONEY
      Originally Posted by TiffanyDow View Post

      Hi Warriors!
      Just checked our stats for the site and over 1/3 of our income this month was made in the last 7 days. Hmmm....that's interesting! Might pay off for us But right now I can't be sure they came from articles on EZA.

      Tiff
      Tiffany,

      What do you use to track your traffic, Stat counter, Google analytics??

      I find it essential to know where my traffic is coming from in terms of conversion.

      To answer some earlier questions regarding affiliate links, if I am sending traffic directly to the affiliate, which I never do, I would use a 301 redirect. This way I can stuff my affiliate code before I send them to the affiliate sales page.

      Mad Money
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      • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
        Check out www.Woopra.com. I love it!
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        • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
          Day 9 results here

          Articles Submitted -9
          Articles Live - 5
          Article Views - 35
          Ezine Publisher - 6
          URL Clicks - 4

          The views are a lot lower than I'm used to, although I have noticed previously that my IM articles get fewer views than my articles in other niches. Ditto with the URL clicks.

          Peggy
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          • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
            Originally Posted by Peggy Baron View Post

            Ezine Publisher - 6
            URL Clicks - 4
            Peggy, how do you know the above info? Where do you see how many published your articles and how many clicks on your URL?

            thanks.
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            • Profile picture of the author WritingMadwoman
              Originally Posted by giftsolution View Post

              Peggy, how do you know the above info? Where do you see how many published your articles and how many clicks on your URL?

              thanks.
              It's in the tab that says Author Tools, My Article Reports. Click on that and you'll get a list of all your articles, along with stats for how many times they've been viewed, published, clickthroughs, and so on. Very handy! :-)

              Wendy
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              • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
                Originally Posted by WritingMadwoman View Post

                It's in the tab that says Author Tools, My Article Reports. Click on that and you'll get a list of all your articles, along with stats for how many times they've been viewed, published, clickthroughs, and so on. Very handy! :-)
                Thanks Wendy: very helpful!
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      • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
        Originally Posted by MADMONEY View Post

        Tiffany,

        What do you use to track your traffic, Stat counter, Google analytics??

        I find it essential to know where my traffic is coming from in terms of conversion.

        To answer some earlier questions regarding affiliate links, if I am sending traffic directly to the affiliate, which I never do, I would use a 301 redirect. This way I can stuff my affiliate code before I send them to the affiliate sales page.

        Mad Money
        I'm using my cpanel stats - is that not good?
        I'm just verbally asking my customers (since it's a service, personable interaction) where they found us but that won't help with an eBook download.

        For my new CB product which I just did an article about using the redirect, I included a tracking id of eza so i'll know.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
    I got derailed today, And haven't been able to submit an article, but will do 2 tomorrow.

    My first 3 articles went live today, and between them I have 20 views. How do you guys get the other numbers you are reporting, like how many clicks you had for each article?
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    • Profile picture of the author traceye
      Daily Results - Day 9

      Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
      Key Phrases Used: emotional eating, tips for fast weight loss, tips on fast weight loss, flat abs, belly fat, flat stomach, hot abs, ab exercises, weight loss motivation, fad diets, nutrition facts, dining out while dieting, exercises to lose weight, lose weight,

      Articles Submitted - 15
      Articles Live - 9
      Article Views - 318
      Hops - 56
      Sales - 0


      Tracey

      giftsolution - I am direct linking from my articles so I can log into clickbank to see how many hops I have.
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      • Profile picture of the author Ben Roy
        Day 8 Results
        Articles Submitted: 16 (8 each in two niches)
        Articles Approved: 0 (STILL!)
        Other stats: n/a

        My first article in each niche is now showing as the 3rd bar, so I imagine they'll go live tomorrow finally. I have 4 submissions left before I'll be stuck, which REALLY sucks given that they are a full week behind my article writing. So it'll take them a week to catch up to where I am, at which point they'll approve me for another 25 articles. That means I'll have a whole week of writing without being able to post. That stinks. But what can you do?
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        • Profile picture of the author ezrock
          Submitted "Betta Fish - Guide to Buying a Healthy Male Betta", targetting "male betta" and "betta fish".

          Day 8 Results
          Articles Submitted: 7 (mostly in betta niche)
          Articles Approved: 1 (plus now one at 3 bars)

          Stats:
          Tropical Fish Tank Setup in 5 Easy Steps -65 views, 4 URL clicks, posted on 3 sites.
          I managed to make the links on this article all point to a non-squidoo page so these aren't really helping my main goal so far. But, if I get ebay sales from the site it is linking to, I'll be happy with that too
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      • Profile picture of the author Sami
        Originally Posted by traceye View Post

        Daily Results - Day 9
        Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
        ...
        Articles Submitted - 15
        Articles Live - 9
        Article Views - 318
        Hops - 56
        Sales - 0
        ...
        Traceye, it's me again.

        I took a look at the stats and the product. I hope it goes well for you and let's see what happens but here's another tip:

        I like the product. It appeals to the scientist in me. But prospects "never" see any product until after they've bought. So a good product has very little effect on your sales. Sad but true.

        It is the "sales letter" that sells. No matter how bad the product, you'll do much better with a great sales letter than the other way.

        And that sales letter (Strip The Fat) starts well but loses it's way quickly. It lacks focus and worst of all it has "NO sales punch". There's NOT ONE ORDER BUTTON. Order buttons way outperform order links on sales letters.

        The sales letter never asks for the order except for just once at the end! Shocking! Tests show 3- 5 times is best.

        Their guarantee is very poor.

        There's NO URGENCY!

        No list of bonuses that I'm about to miss out on either!

        There's more but I won't go on right now.

        Traceye and everyone else obviously do monitor the situation and then may be reconnsider your product and watch out for a good sales letter. For this reason I never use direct links from the article to the sales letter.

        I always keep control of all my traffic (forever) and so should you all.

        ... and that in itself becomes a tremendous assett in no time at all.

        BTW, I know people who actually rewrite the sales letter and use their own! That's hard work but it pays handsomely, especially if you're getting the traffic.

        Food for thought guys.
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  • Profile picture of the author ezrock
    Three posts in a row for me

    Has anyone noticed sites publishing JUST their teaser copies of the articles? I have found a few doing that for my first live article. They post the title, then just the teaser paragraph. They're obviously just trying to get some quick content without having to credit (and especially link to) an outside site!

    It ticks me off. The one site, I can't even really mention it to the author (not that they'd care) because there is no contact info
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    • Profile picture of the author Sami
      Originally Posted by ezrock View Post

      Three posts in a row for me

      Has anyone noticed sites publishing JUST their teaser copies of the articles? I have found a few doing that for my first live article. They post the title, then just the teaser paragraph. They're obviously just trying to get some quick content without having to credit (and especially link to) an outside site!

      It ticks me off. The one site, I can't even really mention it to the author (not that they'd care) because there is no contact info
      Hey EZ

      If the teaser heading doesn't link to your full article, they're breaking EZA's publisher terms.

      You can (A) tell EZA and (B) contact their host* and get them to shut down for breach of copyright. ISP's and hosts care about getting shut down themselves much more than they do about dropping one site. They've been paid upfront after all. The other weapon you have against the site and the host is another breach of US law - the site having no contact/indentity details is also illegal I think and has been for a few years.

      I'd say these 2 actions are quick and painless. But beyond this I wouldn't worry about it ... it goes on all over the place. And you know what these guys rarely get much benefit from this type of "theft".


      * You can do this by running their domain name thru WhoIs - using sites like:

      dnsstuff.com or dnstools.com abd find out who hosts that domain. You'll have the contact details such as an "abuse" email address. Also go to the host website ... you know the rest.

      Good luck
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      • Profile picture of the author traceye
        Hi Sami & Others,

        Totally agree with what you've said about keywords, sales letters etc - all brilliant advice!

        My usual way of affiliate marketing is to examine the product and create an indepth review / comparison and sometimes build a mailing list depending on the product.

        However my object for this exercise was to see how I could do with JUST article marketing. No influence from anything else except the article (which is why I chose to direct link for this exercise). I've never promoted a weight loss product before either so I just chose one at random - usually I spend much more time deciding on a product.

        I think that's pretty typical for how most new affiliate marketers start so I was curious how well this would work (or not work ) whichever the case may be.

        It's more a little experiment for myself if anything. I agree it's not the most effective method for squeezing all the money I could out of a campaign, but I'm still very curious at how the results turn out after the 30 days.

        Tracey
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    • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
      Originally Posted by ezrock View Post

      Three posts in a row for me

      Has anyone noticed sites publishing JUST their teaser copies of the articles? I have found a few doing that for my first live article. They post the title, then just the teaser paragraph. They're obviously just trying to get some quick content without having to credit (and especially link to) an outside site!

      It ticks me off. The one site, I can't even really mention it to the author (not that they'd care) because there is no contact info
      Yes and that bugged me, too! You can go to whois to find the contact info but too much hassle for me...
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  • Profile picture of the author jensrsa
    At last!

    One approved and one with three red blocks - no views yet, no money yet apart from some Adsense.

    Question: Do you promote one product with all the articles or different ones depending on the subject?

    Jens
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    • Profile picture of the author WritingMadwoman
      Originally Posted by jensrsa View Post

      At last!

      One approved and one with three red blocks - no views yet, no money yet apart from some Adsense.

      Question: Do you promote one product with all the articles or different ones depending on the subject?

      Jens
      Jens, some people are promoting different products/niches with their articles, and some are focusing on just one. (I'm doing just one niche/product for this challenge.) Do whatever works best for you! :-)

      Wendy
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  • Profile picture of the author Ben Roy
    Yay, so excited! My first article (of this challenge) finally got approved and is now live. I have two more with 3 bars and one with 4 bars, so hopefully I'll have 2 live or maybe 4 by the end of the day. Go go traffic!
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  • Profile picture of the author Ben Roy
    Ummmm ok. One of my two articles that went live has 3 views and 13 clicks! Can anyone beat a 433% CTR on any article they've ever posted?

    I think I'm an article writing genius and will soon be launching a major WSO, "How I made $235,231.63 in one day with only 14 views and 2,256 click throughs!"
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  • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
    Alrighty, I'm out of submissions. Awaiting an upgrade or something So I'll write and wait.

    Write and wait.

    Write and wait some more
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    • Profile picture of the author WritingMadwoman
      Originally Posted by TiffanyDow View Post

      Alrighty, I'm out of submissions. Awaiting an upgrade or something So I'll write and wait.

      Write and wait.

      Write and wait some more
      Bummer Tiffany. Hopefully it won't take too long, if I remember it's usually a week or less once you request the upgrade, but you have to wait until all of your articles have been approved and live before you get the opportunity. Maybe it will go faster since you have a premium account. Here's hoping!

      Wendy
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      • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
        Why not try a couple of other places while you wait???
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      • Profile picture of the author ezrock
        Originally Posted by WritingMadwoman View Post

        Bummer Tiffany. Hopefully it won't take too long, if I remember it's usually a week or less once you request the upgrade, but you have to wait until all of your articles have been approved and live before you get the opportunity. Maybe it will go faster since you have a premium account. Here's hoping!

        Wendy
        Oh no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

        I am submitting my 10th article tonight. I will likely have to wait a week for them to get approved. Then I have to manually request a bump up in status (or do they automatically consider me)? That will really set me back for this challenger significantly since the earlier the better for something like this (so your articles have time to be effective).
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      • Profile picture of the author Tenzo
        I missed yesterday because I'm a bit under the weather, but I did submit one today. So far that's 5 live and 3 pending, with 149 views and 34 click throughs t the landing page.
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      • Profile picture of the author Michael Kopec
        I would still like to join the challenge if I may.
        At least if posting daily results will improve my commitment to writing articles, it's still well worth it.
        Huge Thanks for coming up with this thread.

        Michael
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  • Profile picture of the author Khemal
    Very interesting thread Tiff's really got a lot of people to "TAKE ACTION" and that's awesome! Great job Tiff.

    I noticed that many of the people who are participating in this challenge are sitting around until EZA approves their articles. Some have approached their submission limits. So here's a suggestion:

    If you're just waiting around, why not rewrite your article and post it on another few high PR article sites other than EZA?

    Places like goarticles.com has a PR of 6 the last time I checked so why not leverage your "down time" and double your results?

    Just a thought.
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    • Profile picture of the author ezrock
      I fully plan on doing that. Do they HAVE TO be rewritten? Or is it only to help have more unique content out there all linking to your sites?

      -Ezrock-

      Originally Posted by Khemal View Post

      Very interesting thread Tiff's really got a lot of people to "TAKE ACTION" and that's awesome! Great job Tiff.

      I noticed that many of the people who are participating in this challenge are sitting around until EZA approves their articles. Some have approached their submission limits. So here's a suggestion:

      If you're just waiting around, why not rewrite your article and post it on another few high PR article sites other than EZA?

      Places like goarticles.com has a PR of 6 the last time I checked so why not leverage your "down time" and double your results?

      Just a thought.
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      • Profile picture of the author Khemal
        Originally Posted by ezrock View Post

        I fully plan on doing that. Do they HAVE TO be rewritten? Or is it only to help have more unique content out there all linking to your sites?

        -Ezrock-
        I personally like to be safe than sorry really. Specially if I've added the article to my own site. You see if you're submitting the indentical article to 2 sites then it's really a problem to those sites since google will look down upon them and not you. So if those sites are smart, they will not let you post the same article word for word on their site if it's been published before on another site. So you might be able to get away with it, or you might now.

        I look at it another opportunity at improving my writing skills and a split test really. It gives me another chance to test out different ways to call to action, different headings, different points of interest etc. And that gives me a little bit more of a change than if I just spread the same article and thereby the same message over to sites.

        Rewriting your article once you've written it isn't all that hard, really.

        Here's a tip. I somtimes picture myself talking to a different audiance and that helps me say things differently. For example, I'd write an article as if I'm talking to a totaly newbie and then when I rewrite it I'll imagine talking to someone who's a little more experienced. This change of audiance gets reflected in your writing and therefore will give you two versions of the same article easily. I usually picture myself try to explain something to my mom and thus elaborate a lot. Then when I rewrite I picture myself talking to someone who's bough a similar product etc and thus my approach is different.

        Hope that helps.

        PS: If you're strugling to write, buy a tape recorder and TALK into it. People have a tendency to be able to 100 words easily when they can't write 5 so talk into your tape recorder and then take it to your desk and play it and then write the words down

        Khemal
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  • Profile picture of the author jensrsa
    Well, whatever happens with this challenge I've already learned a lot here, and from Steven and Jennifer's ebooks/reports. My CTR results form this challenge, although I have only one article approved so far WAY outstrips my old articles at EZA. The few I published in the past were purely for the linkback.

    Approved today: 6 views 4 clicks

    2006 article: 189 views | 19 publishers | 0 clicks
    6/2008 article: 97 views | 0 Publishers | 0 clicks
    6/2008 article: 23 views | 2 clicks
    9/2008 article BC: 53 views | 3 clicks (BC = Before Challenge)

    Thanks

    JEns
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    • Profile picture of the author Craig McPherson
      Published articles with number of views and clicks and keywords in bold:

      Make My Dog Drop - The Easy Way | Views 12 | url clicks 0
      4 Reasons Why Your Dog Drinks Excessively | Views 55 | url clicks 1
      Dog Nose Bleed - Why and What to Do | Views 38 | url clicks 2
      Eating Disorders For Dogs and Puppies | Views 23 | url clicks 4
      Does Your Dog Stray Or Chase Cars? | Views 32 | url clicks 2
      Treatment For Hair Loss in Dogs | Views 51 | url clicks 2
      5 Qualities All Great Dog Trainers Have | Views 32 | url clicks 3
      How to Recall Your Dog and Teach Him a Lesson | Views 29 | url clicks 2
      3 Steps to Teach Your Dog to Sit on Command | Views 30 | url clicks 3

      Of the 19 clicks thru to my site 11 have gone onto my sales page for nil purchases.

      Waiting for approval, all with 3 bars:

      Should I Spay My Dog?
      Bringing Home a Brand New Puppy
      Flatulence and Your Dog.
      First Aid Kits For Dogs: What You Need
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      • Profile picture of the author Justin Jordan
        Interesting.

        My first ezinearticles articles just went live, and got 6 views and 2 clicks to the url. That's kind of neat for just having gone up an hour or two ago.

        Neat.
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  • Profile picture of the author jensrsa
    I've fallen behind totally on my articles. Will have to work to catch up.

    Articles Submitted - 5 (2 in 3/5 and 2 in 1/5)
    Articles Live - 1
    Article Views - 7
    Clicks - 6
    CB Hops - 11 but not all from the article
    Sales - 0

    Jens
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  • Profile picture of the author Tina Williams
    Just saw this post. Hope it's not to late to join in. Even if I'm not eligible for the prizes, it's awesome inspiration!

    Tiffany, thanks for giving me a nudge to get writing. I am behind by about 10 articles but will catch up ASAP!
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  • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
    I submitted 2 articles today, and I am up to date.

    Articles Submitted - 9 (2 in 3/5 and 4 in 1/5, 3 live)
    Articles Live - 3 (all went live today)
    Article Views - 59
    URL Clicks - 6
    Ezine Publisher: 3 (one for each live article)

    Tomorrow I am planning to tinker with Buzzle Web Portal: Intelligent Life on the Web (I have an account, but never submitted any articles there), and hopefully submit all my articles so far there.
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  • Profile picture of the author ezrock
    Another three posts in a row for me

    So I submitted my 8th article today: "Niche Market - Secrets of Choosing a Sucessful Topic for your Niche Blog" targetting 'Niche market' and 'niche blog'.

    Day 9 Results

    Live Articles
    Tropical Fish Tank Setup in 5 Easy Steps - 70 views, 4 clicks, 1 pub
    Tropical Fish For Beginners - Start With a Betta - 26 views, 4 clicks, 1 pub

    My fish squidoo blog is starting to get more traffic (up almost 10%)

    Both are already on multiple websites. One site is clearly scanning the fish section of EZA daily and publishing all new good articles That's fine with me since webmaster is properly linking back to my site!


    Note: I hit my limit today. Need to wait for 6 articles to be approved (one at 3 bars today). Likely another week for that. Then I will ask for account upgrade! I'll be out of commission for EZA for up to two weeks apparently so I'll start working on the same articles at different sites as several people have suggested

    I'm having a lot of fun doing this!
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    • Profile picture of the author Ben Roy
      I'm going to track my two niches separately from now on, because the one I've been promoting and building for a while. I've got a site with lots of articles and what not, and I'm just piggy backing on this to boost traffic (and hopefully sales, right?). My other niche I am ONLY promoting through this challenge, and I basically just have my articles land the user on a warm-up page before they get to the sales page. It's pretty plain vanilla affiliate marketing stuff.

      Day 9 Results
      Niche 1 (existing site)
      Articles Posted: 9
      Articles Live: 2 yay!
      Views: 13
      Clicks: 18 ??
      Sales: 0, unfortunately. A couple of auto-responder signups though

      Niche 2, brand new
      Articles Posted: 9
      Articles Live: 2
      Views: 33
      Clicks: 11
      Sales: 0

      I really didn't feel like writing/posting articles today. The ONLY reason I did was because of this challenge. Yes, that's another 'thank you'.
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      • Profile picture of the author traceye
        Daily Results - Day 10

        Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
        Key Phrases Used: emotional eating, tips for fast weight loss, tips on fast weight loss, flat abs, belly fat, flat stomach, hot abs, ab exercises, weight loss motivation, fad diets, nutrition facts, dining out while dieting, exercises to lose weight, lose weight, eating fat

        Articles Submitted - 17
        Articles Live - 9
        Article Views - 366
        Hops - 64
        Sales - 0


        Tracey
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      • Profile picture of the author Keith Goodrum
        I hit my 10 article limit back on Day 5, and have been in a holding pattern ever since. Still writing everyday, but they are piling up waiting for EZA.

        Hopefully I'll get a membership upgrade soon.

        Keith Goodrum
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  • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
    Good news, article marketers!

    My premium membership has paid off! One of our sales for an a la carte (single) lens was confirmed to be sent to us from an Ezine Article!

    $249, split between Lewis and I - so it paid for my $97 EZA membership.

    We haven't gotten replies on the how others found us yet, but as an fyi, our sales have been GREAT since I started article marketing. Look at the comparison:

    From August to September, with zero promotion, we had 5 sales

    3 out of 5 sales were VIP packs ($799 each) - earning us $2,895

    From September to August, we have done much better with promotion - $4,793.60 in sales.

    4 out of 9 sales were VIP packs!

    I'm excited that the VIPs are converting so well. But that's not the best part - guess what? I posted the thread about the contest on September 21st.

    $1,546 of that total came in AFTER my first article was approved. Hmmm...sounds like there COULD be a connection, and we know of at least $249 of it being from an EZA article.

    I can't wait to see how the other 4 orders from that date on found us.

    Yesterday, by the way - I posted several articles for my new Credit site, but none for BuildMyLens - I had to wait for submission approval again. They cleared me for another 25 (I had screwed up my links so I didn't get Platinum). So today I'll post 2 more for BuildMyLens to make up for it.

    I believe we'll keep at it and tally everything up at the end of the month and then keep it going as well as use article marketing to promote BuildMyKnol and my own eBook sites. I need to do more of this!

    Tiff
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  • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
    Here we are on Day 10 already, only 20 more to go.

    Articles Submitted -10
    Articles Live - 7
    Article Views - 41
    Ezine Publisher - 6
    URL Clicks - 5

    They've actually gone back to approving them one at a time lately.

    I've submitted today's article called "Toddler Food For the Picky Eater."

    One other goal I've set for myself in this challenge is to reach a Total Views of 10,000. Right now I'm at 9,631. Think I'll make it?

    Peggy
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    • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
      Originally Posted by Peggy Baron View Post

      One other goal I've set for myself in this challenge is to reach a Total Views of 10,000. Right now I'm at 9,631. Think I'll make it?
      I say YES, you'll make it! That's a nice goal to have.

      Now, here is my check-in: I've done my article submission for the day.

      Articles Submitted -10
      Articles Live - 5
      Article Views - 85
      Ezine Publisher - 3
      URL Clicks - 12


      Today I went a played with buzzle. It's a little different than EZA, but I like it. Here are sone of the differences:

      - the title has to be no longer than 65 characters
      - the article description can't be the first paragraph of your articles (it needs to be unique)
      - you can add links to the body of your article, but if you do, you can't include a link in your bio (actually, there is no bio)
      - each link in one article needs to be unique (you can't link to two the same page, even if your anchor text is different)

      I submitted 3 articles today, and since I don't know how the process works, I will stop at that. I'll go back each day (or at least I'll try), and add 1-3 articles a day. I have over 100 articles at EZA, so I might as well submit them here as well. I will change some of the titles, write new descriptions, and maybe optimize them for additional key phrases.
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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    Hello Challengers!

    I was going to post this info here, but I didn't want to hijack the thread. You see, many of you are coming to a halt as you approach your limits. Well, here's why I suggest submitting to other directories and websites:

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...tml#post144249

    Hope this helps!
    Allen Graves

    p.s. Tiffany has updated the OP with some new prizes from me. Good Luck to Everyone!
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    • Profile picture of the author wordwizard
      Well, uhm, I just found this challenge today and could use some motivation as well...
      And yes, very motivational, and informative too.

      So I'm 10 days behind. Does that mean I should write 1.5 articles/day to get caught up? At least I'm already a Platinum member so I won't get stalled in my submission process to EZA.

      And getting that writing done will certainly get me into a better routine ;-)

      Elisabeth
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      • Profile picture of the author Ben Roy
        So this is really strange. Going into this morning I had 7 articles in each of two niches waiting on approval. One in each niche was at 3 bars, the others were all at 1 bar. As of this afternoon I had one more article in each niche approved, so 12 total articles left in the queue.

        In ONE niche, I have ALL 6 articles at 3 bars. In the other niche, I have 1 article at 3 bars, and all the rest are at 1 bar. Huh?? I've been submitting a single article to each of the niches per day. But the article I submitted yesterday in ONE niche is already at three bars, while an article in the other niche has been queued up for almost a week. Do they have separate editors working in each niche, and some are just more backed up?
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        • Profile picture of the author Sami
          Originally Posted by Ben Roy View Post

          So this is really strange. ...

          Do they have separate editors working in each niche, and some are just more backed up?
          Ben

          They'd be mad not to separate editors into different niches. And predictably some niches are much busier than others.

          Sami
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  • Profile picture of the author kiwichamp
    Well today I had 3 articles go live

    Started a new job today also -- so tomorrow will catch up a bit. There is another article with a long red bar ready to go live tomorrow - so it is time soon I should have 10 live and be approved to be able to submit more.

    Meanwhile busy getting more ready - they will probably find me submitting at least 10-12 the moment they upgrade me.

    Will report tomorrw on views and click throughs to sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
    Submitted 2 articles for my toy lenses and 1 for my credit niche. Um, I'm supposed to be writing for BuildMyLens but er, I needed a break from the topic of Squidoo. lol
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  • Profile picture of the author ezrock
    That's great news Tiff (about your huge sales boost)...

    Still at my max for submissions. I had another at 3 bars today but I realized I linked an URL incorrectly so I edited it which put it back at 1 bar :'(

    Anyways: Day 10 Results

    Live Articles
    Tropical Fish Tank Setup in 5 Easy Steps - 77 views, 5 clicks, 1 pub
    Tropical Fish For Beginners - Start With a Betta - 49 views, 4 clicks, 1 pub
    Confessions of a Niche Blogger - First 30 Days - 6 views, 2 clicks, 0 pub

    5 articles in queue, all 1 bar :'( Still waiting to be upgraded.
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  • Profile picture of the author Stephen Chua
    I am late but definitely in for the challenge. Intend to write 2 articles per day to catch up. Site is not new but I have neglected it for a few months.
    At this moment, visitors is nil.

    Articles Submitted: 1
    Articles Live: 0
    Views: 0
    Clicks: 0
    Sales: 0
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    • Profile picture of the author maverick8
      hey people i'm late but i intend to catch up.
      results so far:

      6 live articles
      Article Views :357
      URL clicks: 98
      EzinePublisher: 0
      Sales: 1
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      • Profile picture of the author traceye
        Daily Results - Day 11

        Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
        Key Phrases Used: emotional eating, tips for fast weight loss, tips on fast weight loss, flat abs, belly fat, flat stomach, hot abs, ab exercises, weight loss motivation, fad diets, nutrition facts, dining out while dieting, exercises to lose weight, lose weight, eating fat, flat stomach diet

        Articles Submitted - 18
        Articles Live - 11
        Article Views - 451
        Hops - 86
        Sales - 0

        Still no sales - if it gets to 100 hops will no sales I might have to change products!

        Tracey
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        • Profile picture of the author Keith Goodrum
          Daily Results - Day 10

          Articles Submitted - 3
          Articles Live - 0
          Article Views - 0
          Hops - 0
          Sales - 0

          Still waiting for the 3 submitted to go live. Wrote another article today, and realized I'm losing track of how many I've written. I'm going to gather them, and save them in one folder.

          Keith Goodrum
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        • Profile picture of the author Ben Roy
          Originally Posted by traceye View Post

          Daily Results - Day 11
          Tracey it always throws me off that you post tomorrow's results before I get around to today's.


          Day 10 Results
          Niche 1 - Existing site
          Articles Submitted: 10
          Articles Live: 3
          Views: 52
          Clicks: 34
          Sales: 0


          Niche 2 - New product
          Articles Submitted: 10
          Articles Live: 3
          Views: 63
          Clicks: 20
          Sales: 0


          Well,
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          • Profile picture of the author traceye
            Originally Posted by Ben Roy View Post

            Tracey it always throws me off that you post tomorrow's results before I get around to today's.
            LOL, It's not who starts first it's who finishes with the most money And you are ahead of me with number of articles.

            t
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            • Profile picture of the author WritingMadwoman
              Glad to see everyone still going strong. Tiffany, congrats on the sales - that is awesome!

              As for me, I tanked yesterday. It was a crazy day and I was away from home for most of it so I never did submit an article. Today will be the same since I'm just about to dash out the door again! But I was ahead by 2 articles anyway I think, so I'll just play catch up tomorrow. Maybe over the weekend I'll build up a little stash of 5 articles that I can use on busy days! ;-)

              Wendy
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              • Profile picture of the author yube
                Sweet! 4 articles got approved today. I already have 15 views and 1 url click. That has motivated me to write 8 articles today.

                18 articles waiting to be submitted
                6 articles pending
                4 live articles
                15 views
                1 url
                0 hop
                0 sales
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  • Profile picture of the author Kelvin Nikkel
    These are my stats to date:



    Article(s) Views: 11
    Profile Views: 8
    URL Clicks: 2
    Sales: 0
    Live Articles: 1
    Pending Articles: 6

    One pending article should be going live today while the others are all with 1 bar for the past 2 or 3 days. Submitted one article(included above) today and am planning on submitting another 2 or 3 if I can find the time on my breaks from work.
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  • Profile picture of the author admin
    Administrator
    I brought this back online so you folks could wrap it up. There's no point in killing it when it's already been here this long.

    A note for the future though, many MANY members do not like these kinds of threads that ask for people to keep posting over and over with updates. If we had too many of these they would take over the whole front page.

    So it's really not a good idea to start these as they usually end up getting canned by the members, like this one did.

    So, whatever is going on in this thread let's get it wrapped up asap...

    Thanks!

    Allen
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    • Profile picture of the author Jose Delgado
      Thank you Allen for putting it back up!

      Even though I'm not even participating or anything like that,
      it's good to see it back up so we won't have to see all those

      "where's this and that" threads!

      Too many whiny people but at least you were kind enough to let this post die by itself soon. And I agree that post like this have can't be posted here since like you said, the front page would be filled with them! :p

      Even though, THIS thread IS an amazing Post by Tiffany!
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    • Profile picture of the author Mark McWilliams
      Originally Posted by admin View Post

      A note for the future though, many MANY members do not like these kinds of threads that ask for people to keep posting over and over with updates. If we had too many of these they would take over the whole front page.
      *Shakes head, and looks puzzled!*

      While I understand the last point you make Allen, it still amazes me. Is this something that you need to bring up in the rules, or something? Does it mean the only place we can start these kind of threads is the off-topic section, even although the thread in itself could turn out to be a goldmine?

      I can think of many other threads that should have 'disappeared' as they kept popping back up to the first page. As with always it's probably just me, like everything else!...

      Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author admin
    Administrator
    Yea a lot of people seem to love it.

    And I sincerely hope no members here are goofy enough to try and form some kind of "group" to purposely get rid of threads they don't like. I see ALL reports and something like that is easily uncovered.

    If a member gets caught being part of some such 'group' they are not going to like what happens.

    As far as I could tell though there was no 'group' against this thread. Just a few reports over time by people who didn't want to keep seeing it on the front page.
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    • Profile picture of the author traceye
      Would perhaps a separate section of the forum for challenges be an idea?

      Tracey
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      • Profile picture of the author raiko
        I agree this is one of the best threads going. Sure, there are a lot of update posts but look at the number of overall views as well. Besides, it's the update posts that I log in to see. Nothing better than being able to watch a process as it is evolving. Just my opinion but I would like to see MORE of these types of threads - not less.
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      • Profile picture of the author Alan Petersen
        Originally Posted by traceye View Post

        Would perhaps a separate section of the forum for challenges be an idea?

        Tracey
        That's a great idea. It would keep these type of challenges going and motivating people without interfering with the main forum.

        Only drawback is most people don't venture to far from the main forum.
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        • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
          First, a big thanks to Allen to bringing it back.

          Second, apologies to whomever was irritated about the "staying on page 1" deal. The reason I initially posted in the main forum is because of what Alan Peterson said -

          Originally Posted by Alan Petersen View Post

          Only drawback is most people don't venture to far from the main forum.
          I wanted to get people acting and reminded, etc.

          But I wouldn't mind if it was moved or anything if we go another section or if Allan doesn't mind if Allen (lol) continues it elsewhere - whatever works for you guys!

          Again, appreciation and apologies. I won't ask everyone to continue posting here. Someone just tell me where we move the party and I'm there!
          Tiff
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          • Profile picture of the author admin
            Administrator
            Originally Posted by TiffanyDow View Post

            First, a big thanks to Allen to bringing it back.

            Second, apologies to whomever was irritated about the "staying on page 1" deal. The reason I initially posted in the main forum is because of what Alan Peterson said -



            I wanted to get people acting and reminded, etc.

            But I wouldn't mind if it was moved or anything if we go another section or if Allan doesn't mind if Allen (lol) continues it elsewhere - whatever works for you guys!

            Again, appreciation and apologies. I won't ask everyone to continue posting here. Someone just tell me where we move the party and I'm there!
            Tiff

            Don't worry about it Tiffany :-)

            Go ahead and complete it, a lot of people are getting help from it so it will stay.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sami
    I think it best to compare the complaints vs. the rave responses before judging a thread ... and I guess that's what happened. Excellent.
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  • Profile picture of the author sara1987
    hi Tiffany
    thank you for the info.
    Wish I knew that before
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  • Profile picture of the author jensrsa
    OK let me wrap up my participation in this thread and in the challenge. While I learnt a lot about article marketing I fell too far behind with my daily writing and submissions.

    On top of that EZA suspended my account until I "retore my good standing" - something to do with "mistakes", which they didn't see as mistakes in my previously approved articles were mistakes in my last four. I wrote to them but I'm not holding my breath

    Jens
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    • Profile picture of the author WritingMadwoman
      Allen, I'll follow along if the challenge gets moved somewhere else, as I'm sure many will - but I don't get why we should even have to do that in the first place? I could see if we were all starting dozens of threads about the challenge why some people might think we were crowding the main forum or something, but we're keeping it all in one thread. I thought that's what threads were for, to keep a discussion going on one topic? LOL

      Well, if we have to move it, so be it, just let me/us know!

      Wendy
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  • Profile picture of the author Kelvin Nikkel
    YAYYYYY! I just had 6 articles go live. Now the count is

    Pending - 3
    Live - 7
    Article(s) Views:- 11
    URL Clicks:- 2

    These stats are from EZA's menu. I have noticed thought that my sites have increased a little since I started posting articles on EZA.

    Just waiting now until the last 3 clear so I can get upgraded then I will post all the ones that I have been working on. The last 3 are only at one bar so I think it will be a few days before they clear.

    This is getting exciting. lol Thank you Tiffany!
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    • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
      Wow, I'm glad the thread is back - thanks Allen. I like Tracey's idea of a separate forum for challenges, there's often stuff like this going on and it'd be nice to be able to keep up with them without annoying people in the main forum.

      I've submitted 24 articles and have made 18 sales so far. For the last couple of days I've earned approximately $100 a day so I'd be pretty happy if I could keep that up. I've definitely identified a few products that are worth promoting in the long term.
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      • Profile picture of the author ezrock
        Originally Posted by Hamida Pall View Post

        I've submitted 24 articles and have made 18 sales so far. For the last couple of days I've earned approximately $100 a day so I'd be pretty happy if I could keep that up. I've definitely identified a few products that are worth promoting in the long term.
        Wow all that from just work done for the challenge? Impressive!
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        • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
          Day 17 Results

          Articles Submitted -16 (haven't done today's yet)
          Articles Live - 12
          Article Views - 165
          Ezine Publisher - 12
          URL Clicks - 14

          I'm still plugging away.
          It appears I'm going to have to do something more with my bio box, although I actually change it up a bit (to suit the article) with each submission.

          My traffic is up though, on both sites and I'm getting opt-ins. All the non-IM articles have been published on other sites too.

          Peggy
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          • Profile picture of the author Ben Roy
            Originally Posted by Peggy Baron View Post

            Day 17 Results

            Articles Submitted -16 (haven't done today's yet)
            Articles Live - 12
            Article Views - 165
            Ezine Publisher - 12
            URL Clicks - 14


            Peggy
            Peggy, your views seem really low for this number of articles. Are you ranking well for your keywords? It looks like you either aren't getting high enough (too competitive) or else you're just on really, really long tails that don't have much traffic.
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            • Profile picture of the author NiallR
              Hi folks,

              I'm just thinking. Articles I've submitted in the past can take time to "warm up" and start driving traffic to a page.

              Sometimes the traffic can be instant and sometimes it can take more than 30 days for the results to show.

              If I'm building a content site and I'm using articles for SEO and direct traffic then I don't expect any noticeable traffic/income for 60 days.

              I think some of the people in the challenge are going to see sales from articles they submitted now but not until November/December - so it won't be wasted effort :-)

              Search engines are just plain odd at times lol

              Niall
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              • Profile picture of the author wordwizard
                After my late start, I too have gotten a bit side-tracked, but will recover ;-)

                I have a question though:

                About changing pen names on existing articles...

                What if the article has been picked up by publishers under the old name? That would mean it exists under two different names out there in cyberspace if I were to change my name to a pen name or vice versa. Wouldn't that cause problems with plagiarism accusations, even though of course it's not really plagiarism, but it won't be provable without outing yourself and your pen name...

                I got into enough trouble once when someone published my ezinearticle somewhere without the resource box and without giving me credit, and iSnare, where I was trying to publish an expanded version of that article said that I had ripped off my content from that article... I was able to sort it out because the original version was published at EZA with my byline, but it sure made me think.

                Any thoughts... (other than to keep my pen names straight)

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            • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
              Originally Posted by Ben Roy View Post

              Peggy, your views seem really low for this number of articles. Are you ranking well for your keywords? It looks like you either aren't getting high enough (too competitive) or else you're just on really, really long tails that don't have much traffic.
              Well, since you asked, Ben, here is the lowdown...

              With the first 6 articles I submitted I was really lazy about keyword research and was concentrating more on getting an article a day in for the contest. Bad Peggy.

              Non-IM Niche: Several 1st page on Google, some longtail and some actually pretty competitive. I find this niche to be one that gains in momentum after starting slow.

              IM Niche: Very competitive and had to resort to really longtail keywords, so the number of people searching for those keywords is going to be fewer, even when I'm on the 1st page.

              Non-IM Niche: 123 views for 4 articles.

              IM Niche: 45 views for 8 articles.

              So I'm going to stop the IM Niche for now, even though it's my own product, and go with another one of my non-IM niches I have had much better success with!

              Thanks,
              Peggy
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              • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
                After lacking in motivation for the past few days I finally submitted 2 articles today. I'm getting consistent traffic though from my previous articles, and I just checked my Clickbank stats and found that I have 5 sales already today. 4 of those were for just one product - 7 hops per sale.
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                • Profile picture of the author Kelvin Nikkel
                  Originally Posted by Hamida Pall View Post

                  After lacking in motivation for the past few days I finally submitted 2 articles today. I'm getting consistent traffic though from my previous articles, and I just checked my Clickbank stats and found that I have 5 sales already today. 4 of those were for just one product - 7 hops per sale.
                  WOW Congrat's on your success Hamida! Wish I knew how to do that. lol

                  My stats to date:


                  Live Articles: 7
                  Pending Articles: 3
                  Article(s) Views: 127
                  Profile Views: 33
                  Articles Published: 8
                  URL Clicks: 4

                  Still waiting for my 3 pending articles to clear so I can ask for an upgrade.

                  If anyone here that knows what they are doing want to coach me, I will not turn them down. LOL

                  Once again Tiffany, I want to thank you for this challenge. It at least got me writing. lol

                  Kelvin
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  • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
    My thanks too, Allen.

    Day 12

    Today's article came easy - "More Math Games For The Active Child."

    Articles Submitted -12
    Articles Live - 9
    Article Views - 66
    Ezine Publisher - 8
    URL Clicks - 6

    Almost double the views on the non-IM articles.

    Peggy
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  • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
    Articles Submitted -12
    Articles Live - 8
    Pending - 4
    Article Views - 190
    Ezine Publisher - 8
    URL Clicks - 28

    I made a mistake today and used a link in the body of the article too soon (in the third paragraph), or I would have 9 live articles. I fixed my mistake and it's now at 3 red squares.

    It pays to read the rules before you get started: I thought the link in the body couldn't be in the first 2 paragraphs, but it's actually first 3 paragraphs.
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  • Profile picture of the author Shannon Herod
    I'm glad to see that this thread is back.

    My articles have started going live and my optins are starting to come in.

    I still cannot submit any more articles until I am able to upgrade. That is kind of frustrating. I have however still been writing articles and they are waiting in a text file ready to be submitted. So, once I upgraded I will have a mad rash of articles being submitted.

    Do you think that is smart, or should I space them out?
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  • Profile picture of the author chanvh
    Hi Tiff,

    This is a good idea to keep my articles submission in check. I'm not big in promoting affiliate products and so I will post my results for all to see based on my weekly stats and also of possible I'll post some charts. Then, depends on the quality I'm going to post the CTR on my sigs. What do you think?

    PS: Steve is like the absolute master so he wins handsdown anyway, I'd recommend the "Article Yoda Masters Competition" for Steve ... haha
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  • Profile picture of the author kiwichamp
    Just a quick report -- EZines have now approved my 10th article, so I am waiting on their "upgrade" so I can submit more.

    Will take a look at the clicks tomorrow and report.

    I notice a few posts asking about posting same articles on our blogs as on ezinearticles. The rule of thumb as I have been told is there needs to be a 20% difference between the article on ezines and your post.

    This is what I have started to do:
    I write a post, then once I have 2-3 more on top of it, I rewrite the first post and submit it as an article. That way I can keep up with articles and posts.

    Hope this helps.
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    • Profile picture of the author traceye
      Daily Results - Day 13

      Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
      Key Phrases Used: emotional eating, tips for fast weight loss, tips on fast weight loss, flat abs, belly fat, flat stomach, hot abs, ab exercises, weight loss motivation, fad diets, nutrition facts, dining out while dieting, exercises to lose weight, lose weight, eating fat, flat stomach diet, exercise program

      Articles Submitted - 20
      Articles Live - 17
      Article Views - 738
      Hops - 137
      Sales - 0

      137 hops with no sales? Maybe it's time I chose a different product!

      Tracey
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  • Profile picture of the author Asher
    I've just finished all my submissions and am waiting for EZA to send
    me a new batch to play with.

    Is it just me or does EZA seem to be approving articles in a faster
    pace now?

    Asher
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  • Profile picture of the author ezrock
    I have 5 live articles. Had to resubmit two because one I had the wrong pen name, and the other had an error for the linked website URL.

    I actually had my first article get rejected. It had two mistakes! One link "above the fold" in the body, and three self-serving links. I took out the one in the body and that solved both problems. I'm guessing that will now prevent me from going straight to platinum? Anyone know if they have had a couple mistakes and still get straight to platinum? They have had no problems with my other submissions!

    I'll update stats once I am able to submit more articles. Hopefully any day now. My last three articles waiting are all at 1 bar though.
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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    Tom...Dude! Don't stop now.

    Get that other niche going and keep up the challenge. Tiff hasn't revealed how she's picking the winners yet...you still have as good a chance as anyone else!

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    • Profile picture of the author ezrock
      Don't give up now!!!

      I'm still going even though EZA has been taking forever to review my last 3 articles (before I can request upgrade). I'll just post updates here every few days until that happens (not daily since nothing's really happening with new articles for now).

      I have had a few small successes. I am getting clicks on my secondary-goal site. Earned 12 cents in adsense so far woot lol. but actually getting some daily clicks to that site now. haven't analyzed where most are coming from, but I imagine it's mostly EZA and likely some new google traffic (it's a brand new site). NO ebay earnings from it.

      Also, I have really noticed some disparity for my EZ article stats within the #1 niche I'm writing for this contest. I have one article that has like 80 views and 5 clicks and another that has 70 views and 9 clicks! I will definitely be going back and analyzing them to see what the difference is. The goal with that is to find out what makes my better articles better, then to make more of my articles get higher CTR!
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  • Profile picture of the author Craig McPherson
    13 articles published.
    Screenshot below with Title, Views and Clicks.



    Of the 24 clicks, 17 have clicked thru to sales page with 2 purchases
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  • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
    Here is my update for today:

    Articles Submitted -13
    Articles Live - 8
    Pending - 5
    Article Views - 240
    Ezine Publisher - 8
    URL Clicks - 34

    I am beginning to notice more traffic to my pages, and I have acquired first page results on msn (I also have a few top 3 results) for several of my main keywords.

    I have made a sale today that I believe is a direct result of the articles, with the visitor coming from an msn search.

    No ranking in google, but I am hoping that will come in time. My intention with this article marketing campaign is to build long term back links, and traffic, that in the end will push my rankings up.
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    • Profile picture of the author traceye
      Daily Results - Day 14

      Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
      Articles Submitted - 20, Live - 17, Article Views - 1326, Hops - 224, Sales - 0

      After 224 hops and no sales I'm dumping this product. I've sent more than enough traffic their way, if the page can't convert then I'm finding something else. I'll keep the stats up so you can see if anything happens further down the track.

      So I've decided to promote one of my own products instead for the remainder of this challenge.

      Product: Blog Cash
      Keyphrases: Make Money Blogging
      Articles Submitted - 1
      Live - 0
      Views - 0
      Sales - 0

      Tracey
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      • Profile picture of the author ezrock
        HI Tracey. Check your PM please
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      • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
        Originally Posted by traceye View Post

        Daily Results - Day 14

        Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
        Articles Submitted - 20, Live - 17, Article Views - 1326, Hops - 224, Sales - 0

        After 224 hops and no sales I'm dumping this product. I've sent more than enough traffic their way, if the page can't convert then I'm finding something else. I'll keep the stats up so you can see if anything happens further down the track.

        So I've decided to promote one of my own products instead for the remainder of this challenge.

        Product: Blog Cash
        Keyphrases: Make Money Blogging
        Articles Submitted - 1
        Live - 0
        Views - 0
        Sales - 0

        Tracey

        Tracey, question?

        Are you sending prospects directly to the sales page via a redirect or
        did you write a review of the product on your blog and then direct them
        from there?

        I ask because the product has a very high gravity, is in a very competitive
        niche and almost all of their sales come from affiliates. So you can't just
        do the bare minimum with a product like this (sending to sales page)

        At least, review the product.

        At most, offer a free report, build a list, follow up with a newsletter and
        then pitch the product within the newsletter. Offer a bonus for purchasing
        through you if you can.

        Suddenly, you'll see the sales come in.
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        • Profile picture of the author traceye
          Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim View Post

          Tracey, question?

          Are you sending prospects directly to the sales page via a redirect or
          did you write a review of the product on your blog and then direct them
          from there?

          I ask because the product has a very high gravity, is in a very competitive
          niche and almost all of their sales come from affiliates. So you can't just
          do the bare minimum with a product like this (sending to sales page)

          At least, review the product.

          At most, offer a free report, build a list, follow up with a newsletter and
          then pitch the product within the newsletter. Offer a bonus for purchasing
          through you if you can.

          Suddenly, you'll see the sales come in.
          Oh Steven, I can be so stubborn sometimes.

          I know this is true and I even tell other people to at least write a review but I was adamant that I could just direct link and it would be ok. After all I'm a great writer, I'll be able to do this and it'll be so easy, of course it'll work .. SLAM BANG - my ego comes crashing down.

          I talked myself into direct linking because I wanted to see 'just' how my articles would work with no other influences - but I guess my little experiment failed.

          It's not a huge loss, I own the domain it's forwarding from so it'll be easy enough to set up a review or build a list to catch people down the track, it's now deciding whether to do this straight away, or wait until the challenge is finished. Hmm

          Tracey
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          • Profile picture of the author traceye
            Daily Results - Day 15

            Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
            Articles Submitted - 20, Live - 17, Article Views - 1871, Hops -317, Sales - 0

            Product: Blog Cash
            Keyphrases: Make Money Blogging
            Articles Submitted - 2, Live - 0, Views - 0, Clicks - 0, Sales - 0

            Tracey
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          • Profile picture of the author WritingMadwoman
            Originally Posted by traceye View Post

            Oh Steven, I can be so stubborn sometimes.

            I know this is true and I even tell other people to at least write a review but I was adamant that I could just direct link and it would be ok. After all I'm a great writer, I'll be able to do this and it'll be so easy, of course it'll work .. SLAM BANG - my ego comes crashing down.

            I talked myself into direct linking because I wanted to see 'just' how my articles would work with no other influences - but I guess my little experiment failed.

            It's not a huge loss, I own the domain it's forwarding from so it'll be easy enough to set up a review or build a list to catch people down the track, it's now deciding whether to do this straight away, or wait until the challenge is finished. Hmm

            Tracey
            Tracey, I personally would like to thank you for trying this experiment because I've always been undecided whether it was better to direct link to a sales page or to a blog/review/optin page. There is one product that has a fantastic sales page that I promote, and I did a similar thing as you, top level domain directing to the sales page. Result, out of several articles written (something like 10 or 20, I can't remember offhand), only 1 or 2 sales have come through that way.

            But I also promote that same product using a different tracking ID in my affiliate link on some existing websites and through a newsletter - and the sales are definitely better that way.

            But I still didn't know if it was just me, if my articles just weren't good enough or my resource box wasn't compelling enough, etc.!! So I'm glad you did this out here in the open for all of us to see because it has confirmed a few things in my mind about ROI as far as affiliate marketing goes! Maybe when there was less competition the direct link to the sales page was probably quite effective, but as more and more people use article marketing to promote affil. products, maybe not so much anymore.

            Hmmm.

            So anyway, don't let your ego take a fall, I've learned something valuable as I'm sure you have too! :-)

            Wendy
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  • Profile picture of the author WritingMadwoman
    P.S. My update for the past few days: NADA! I've been busy with other things and just haven't had the drive to write articles. Bad me, but I will get back on track, probably tomorrow. *crossing fingers*

    Wendy
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    • Profile picture of the author Justin Jordan
      Wowsers.

      So, I've got two articles live.

      One has gotten a spectacular 16 views since it went live last Monday.

      The other, which went live late last week, has gotten 100 views a day since it went live.

      They both had the same subject area, so I think the title was probably the difference.

      Intriguingly, the URL clickthrough on both is an identical 22%.

      I've got another eight articles waiting for approval, so we'll see how that goes.
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    • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
      Originally Posted by WritingMadwoman View Post

      P.S. My update for the past few days: NADA! I've been busy with other things and just haven't had the drive to write articles. Bad me, but I will get back on track, probably tomorrow. *crossing fingers*

      Wendy
      You're not alone! I haven't submitted any articles for the challenge in the past few days either . Will start again tomorrow too and will try to update my blog.
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      • Profile picture of the author WritingMadwoman
        Originally Posted by Hamida Pall View Post

        You're not alone! I haven't submitted any articles for the challenge in the past few days either . Will start again tomorrow too and will try to update my blog.
        Okay good, it's not just me. LOL Even the Squidoo Queen herself got a little off-track, at least the track she intended at the start. We all do it, just gotta keep plugging away - some progress is better than none at all! :-)

        Wendy
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        • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
          Hi y'all, it's Day 15 for me. I just wrote my 2 for the weekend and have today's yet to do.

          I am writing for 2 niches, but I'm getting tired of them. I can see why you strayed, Tiff.

          Articles Submitted -14
          Articles Live - 10
          Article Views - 115
          Ezine Publisher - 10
          URL Clicks - 10

          Do any of you ever check your author rankings?
          It's pretty interesting, but I'm not sure what to do with what I see.

          How do you analyze your author rankings?

          Peggy
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            • Profile picture of the author WritingMadwoman
              Originally Posted by Paul Clutterbuck View Post

              Is anyone using this challenge to build a list?
              I am, Paul! :-) I'm directing all traffic to an optin page that offers a free report. I've had a handful of sign ups so far, nothing too impressive but some is better than none.

              Wendy
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            • Profile picture of the author Shannon Herod
              Originally Posted by Paul Clutterbuck View Post

              Is anyone using this challenge to build a list?
              Hey Paul,

              That is exactly what I am using this challenge for.

              Today I have received 37 optin's from my 10 articles that published so far. That is awesome. if I continue writing at this pace and continue getting the type of conversions I am getting, I will be super mad that I did not start article marketing before.

              Shannon
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              • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
                Originally Posted by Shannon Herod View Post

                Hey Paul,

                That is exactly what I am using this challenge for.

                Today I have received 37 optin's from my 10 articles that published so far. That is awesome. if I continue writing at this pace and continue getting the type of conversions I am getting, I will be super mad that I did not start article marketing before.

                Shannon
                I've never really used article marketing for list building as I've heard it's one of the slower ways to build a list, but your results are really good Shannon. Are you sending visitors from your resource box straight to a squeeze page? What percentage of your squeeze page visitors opt in?
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                • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
                  Here is my latest update:

                  Articles Submitted -16
                  Articles Live - 11
                  Pending - 5
                  Article Views - 347
                  Ezine Publisher - 8
                  URL Clicks - 55

                  All the articles I shuffled to a new pen name are now approved, and live.

                  And I am beginning to see traffic from Google. I checked today, and I am hovering around page 3 for most of my main key phrases (some are on page 2 and some on page 4, but most are on page 3). I wasn't there before the challenge. I am so excited to see this progress!

                  I am also seeing a trickle of sales (so far, this month I had at 3 days with one sale a day, one day with 3 sales, and one day with 2 sales).
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  • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
    Hey Warriors!

    Well I did what I should NOT have done and got sidetracked with other niches. SHAME on me! Instead of submitting my Squidoo on a regular basis, to promote the site I WANTED to promote during this challenge, I got into credit and blogging. Lol

    But I HAVE submitted on a regular basis. Out of the ones I've submitted, the one called Make Money Blogging - Profit Potential has gotten both the most views (94) and most URL clicks (24) with 1 publisher picking it up and it just went live October 5th.

    This may be a good topic for me to target.

    But NO, Must....Keep...Writing....About...Squidoo!

    NO sales from the EZAs other than that one confirmed $249 lens but I have had sales of my eBook that I'm not sure if they came from EZA or not.

    Tiff
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  • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
    LOL, it looks like many of us are getting a little weary. I didn't post an article yesterday, but did an extra one on Saturday night, right after I posted here, so it was really Sunday AM.

    At the same time (early Sunday AM), I decided to do some shuffling in my EZA account. I have over 100 articles, in several niches, and they are all under my name. Now I have a couple pen names, and many articles in transit.

    For that reason, I can't really update on my article stats at this time, but will do it as soon as my modified articles are re-approved.

    In any case, I made 3 more sales yesterday in the niche I am promoting with this article challenge (2 of them came from my PPC efforts, but 1 of the sales came form free traffic, which id increased from the challenge).
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  • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
    Oh, my goodness: I know where my increased traffic is coming from: msn!

    I OWN the top spot in msn for 95% of my keywords for the site I am submitting articles for. And if I am not number 1, I am somewhere on the first page.

    This is definitely a result of this challenge. I know msn is not Google, but hopefully that will follow.
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  • Profile picture of the author Shannon Herod
    E-zine articles finally approved my 10th article, so now I have upgraded and am waiting for the approval.

    I have still been writing articles and have articles ready to be submitted once I am approved for the upgrade.

    I've also outsourced 10 articles for another niche sites I am planning on building.

    Shannon
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  • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
    SHAME on me again - no, wasn't building a list.

    Running and hiding.

    Setting one up shortly.
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  • Profile picture of the author ezrock
    Does anyone know what the bars mean (in the approval process) if they're a colour other than red? My last two articles (of my initial 10) are now at 3 and are an orange colour. Hoping that's not a bad thing.

    I have a few articles picked up by like 8 sites. Most of them aren't providing PR leak to my site. I found one site that actually takes the effort of putting a "no folllow" tag into each link (though he does keep them active). That really bothers me!
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    • Profile picture of the author Justin Jordan
      Originally Posted by ezrock View Post

      Does anyone know what the bars mean (in the approval process) if they're a colour other than red? My last two articles (of my initial 10) are now at 3 and are an orange colour. Hoping that's not a bad thing.
      I saw the same thing - I think it was just a glitch, as mine are back to normal colors now.
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  • Profile picture of the author ezrock
    Here's an update on my active articles:

    Niche 1 (betta fish) --> 4 articles
    354 views ; 40 clicks ; 4 publisher clicks (this is actually way more)

    Niche 2 (blogging) --> 2 articles
    40 views ; 10 clicks ; 1 publisher click (plus one 5star vote)

    12 cents in adsense clicks on my site!
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    • Profile picture of the author Ben Roy
      Ok, I'm getting back on the horse. I experienced a minor streak of depression when the thread was removed - I was really pumped about the challenge and the great feeling of actually posting articles every single day. The last day that I posted articles (the day before the thread was removed) put me at my submision cap with EZA, so I couldn't submit any new ones anyway. But, I also didn't write any.

      Even after the thread came back I was still having trouble getting into the swing of things. Yesterday a friend that I'm helping with IM came over and we started up on a new product. We found a product, grabbed a domain, and started writing articles. I wrote 5, all of which are pending on his account now, and he wrote a few.

      Today I'm hopefully going to get a few written, and over the course of this week get caught up on where I should be if I'd been following along the whole time. I'm going to share my results so far though:

      Day 15? Results
      Niche 1: Niche with existing site (pre challenge)
      Articles Submitted: 10
      Articles Approved: 9
      Views: 329
      Clicks: 116
      Sales: 0
      Opt-ins: 26

      To be honest, in this niche I'm not selling nearly as hard as I should be - users are getting high quality content and practically no advertising. I'm ok with that since I know that they will appreciate the high signal-to-noise ratio and I can always hit them a little harder later.

      Niche 2: Brand new for challenge
      Articles Submitted: 10
      Articles Approved: 8
      Views: 673
      Clicks: 134
      Sales: 0

      So just over 1k views so far at about 25% click through. I'm not unhappy, although I sure would love to see some sales out of this effort. Hopefully I'll have some more articles submissions to report soon.
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  • Profile picture of the author Stephen Chua
    Got quite behind the challange but managed to submit 5 to EZA already. 2 got approved today. Here's the stat.

    Articles Submitted - 5
    Articles Live - 2
    Article Views - 146
    Ezine Publisher - 2
    URL Clicks - 4
    Sales: 0
    Opt-ins: 2


    Stephen
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    • Profile picture of the author traceye
      Daily Results - Day 16

      Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
      Articles Submitted - 20, Live - 18, Article Views - 2330, Hops -356, Sales - 0
      (NOTE: I've added a review page instead of a direct link - I'll see if this changes anything)

      My Product: Blog Cash
      Articles Submitted - 3, Live - 0, Views - 0, Clicks - 0, Sales - 0

      Tracey
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    • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
      Then why even bother posting in this thread. This thread is about an article marketing challenge, not "a much better idea." Sheesh.

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  • Profile picture of the author ezrock
    I now have my 10 BASIC level articles approved. Besides my very first submission (from probably a year ago), all the other 9 were recent and all high quality. One had a slight oversight with putting an extra link in it. I just applied for platinum status.

    My question: anyone know how long they usually take to review an account and consider upgrade? Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author ezrock
    Nevermind! I applied tonight and already (within an hour or so) got upgraded to basic plus!

    I'll restart submitting articles tomorrow!
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    • Profile picture of the author Kelvin Nikkel
      Hey Tiffany!

      How is this for a longtail keyword??? LOL

      Results 1 - 10 of about 2,650,000 for how do you get your sound back when you have to restore your computer.

      And I was number 3 on page 1! LOL
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      • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
        Originally Posted by Kelvin Nikkel View Post

        Hey Tiffany!

        How is this for a longtail keyword??? LOL

        Results 1 - 10 of about 2,650,000 for how do you get your sound back when you have to restore your computer.

        And I was number 3 on page 1! LOL
        You GO Kelvin!

        I'm getting discouraged with article marketing. Then again, I stalled on BML and started promoting credit/debt (got carried away with the news) and marketing to a broke market may not be too savvy.
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        • Profile picture of the author Ben Roy
          Hey hey, looks like I'm going to beat Tracey today.

          I have 2 articles left to be approved, both of which are at 3/5 bars. They should go tomorrow and then I can apply to get more articles submissions. I have 7 articles waiting that I wrote between last night and tonight in an entirely new niche. I think that hopping between a couple niches is going to help keep me interested. I also have the 5 articles I wrote on Sunday for a 4th niche. Yes, it's a little more scattered than I originally planned, but you've got to roll with the punches, right? Right.

          Day 16 Results
          Niche 1: Pre-existing site (before challenge)
          Articles Submitted: 10
          Articles Approved: 9
          Views: 355
          Clicks: 129 (> 33%)
          Sales: 0
          Opt-ins: 43

          Niche 2: New for challenge
          Articles Submitted: 10
          Articles Approved: 8
          Views: 740
          Clicks: 149 (20%)
          Sales: 0

          Niche 3: New for challenge, teaching a friend about article marketing
          Articles Submitted: 5
          Articles Approved: 0
          n/a

          Niche 4: New for challenge
          Articles Written: 7
          Articles Submitted: 0 (waiting on account upgrade)
          n/a


          Incidentally, that puts me at 32 articles total, which is 2 a day. That means I caught up to my commitment, YAY.
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          • Profile picture of the author traceye
            Originally Posted by Ben Roy View Post

            Hey hey, looks like I'm going to beat Tracey today.
            Dammit! Must have been because I stopped to have that jam donut .. It was sooo worth it. Hmm maybe I should start reading some of my own articles on cutting out junk food .. nah!

            Daily Results - Day 17

            Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
            Articles Submitted - 20, Live - 18, Article Views - 2570, Hops -378, Sales - 0

            My Product: Blog Cash
            Articles Submitted - 4, Live - 0, Views - 0, Clicks - 0, Sales - 0

            Tracey
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  • Profile picture of the author Shannon Tani
    I, too, was getting bored and stopped writing.

    But I got my first sale today!!!! *happy dance*

    I've got 35 articles live, 2734 view, 410 URL clicks, 150 hops, 1 sale.

    I started a new niche today too. Decided it's better to write articles for a couple of different niches instead of the same one. We'll see how that goes. My new ones are a bit less competitive, I think.

    Love,
    Shannon
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  • Profile picture of the author Stephen Chua
    Writing articles can be real hard work. So far no sales.

    Here is my result:

    Articles Submitted: 10
    Articles Approved: 2
    Views: 198
    Ezinepublisher: 2
    Clicks: 12
    Sales: 0
    Opt-ins: 0


    Stephen
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  • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
    I just submitted my article for today. My eyes are too tired to look up after stats, so I'll do that tomorrow.

    Today I didn't feel like submitting an article, but I decided that wasn't an option, and here I am: more detailed update tomorrow.
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    • Profile picture of the author traceye
      Daily Results - Day 18

      Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
      Articles Submitted - 20, Live - 20, Article Views - 2634, Hops -397, Sales - 0

      My Product: Blog Cash
      Articles Submitted - 5, Live - 1, Views - 5, Clicks - 0, Sales - 0

      Tracey

      12 days to go - can I get a sale before the challenge is up?
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      • Profile picture of the author Ben Roy
        Day 17 Results

        I'm going to summarize today instead of the usual style of results. I have one article left waiting on approval before I can request an upgrade on my account. On my one new niche that I'm partnering with a friend on the first article went live today - and get this:

        I made a sale! Yay, finally! In about 5 hours I have over 90 views, 20-some click throughs, and one sale. It's so encouraging to actually make a little money. I can't wait for the rest of the articles in this niche to go live (hopefully tomorrow, his account is platinum).

        I didn't write any articles today because I was out with my wife and had a few drinks. I could write now, but I'm thinking it might not be the greatest idea.

        Tomorrow I'll be applying for an account upgrade and hopefully cranking out at least 4 articles to keep up with my 2 articles per day. I also hope to have more sales to report.
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        • Profile picture of the author NewbiesDiary
          I wonder if I'm supposed to be getting some kind of universal message - or is this just bad luck??

          I decided to join this challenge, wrote my first article, wrote about it on my blog, went away for the weekend & made the big mistake of leaving Master 15 at home!!

          I came back, turned on the computer (the fact that it was turned off should have given me a clue something was wrong!) & found a blue screen with some message about a "beep" something or other.
          Turned it off & on, then rang my computer expert. He came out - nope, couldnt fix it. Needs to take it away for a couple of days, brought it back a full week later - "it's all better Stef - that's $150 please" (lucky Master 15 works full time!). I turned it on & it did a couple of funny things so I turned it off & back on - & there's that damn blue screen again _ ARGGHH! Needs a new hard-drive. It's soooo lucky I have an external HD with all my stuff on it - so I didnt lose that - but the time!!!!

          The short of it is that I have been without a computer for nearly 2 weeks & the emails - WELL there's another story!!

          So let me get the 'puter back to where it was, create my 50 gazillion email accounts in outlook again, find all my discs & try to remember all those passwords - then I can get back into my article submitting.

          I'm setting the deadline that I have to be fully operational by Monday next week! Now I just have to get Bloke out of the house.

          So I'll post then - as soon as I've put up my article.
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          • Profile picture of the author Stephen Chua
            For those of you who have made sales, can you advise if you are sending the traffic right off from EZA directly to the merchant site? Or is it your own opt-in page?

            Please advise.

            Thanks.


            Stephen
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            • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
              WOW Congrat's on your success Hamida! Wish I knew how to do that. Lol
              Thanks Kelvin. I haven't forgotten your pm by the way - I'll get back to you soon .

              For those of you who have made sales, can you advise if you are sending the traffic right off from EZA directly to the merchant site? Or is it your own opt-in page?
              Please advise.
              Never send your traffic from EZA directly to the merchant site - you want to build your own business rather than the merchants. Plus you'll have much higher conversions if you send your traffic to a landing page.

              Depending on your goal there are different types of landing pages you could use. Some people use an optin, some use a one page landing page - I send mine to my niche sites (with a landing page on the site).
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              • Profile picture of the author kevin campbelle
                Originally Posted by Hamida Pall View Post

                Thanks Kelvin. I haven't forgotten your pm by the way - I'll get back to you soon .



                Never send your traffic from EZA directly to the merchant site - you want to build your own business rather than the merchants. Plus you'll have much higher conversions if you send your traffic to a landing page.

                Depending on your goal there are different types of landing pages you could use. Some people use an optin, some use a one page landing page - I send mine to my niche sites (with a landing page on the site).
                Hi Hamida,

                The landing page that you direct the visitor from EA to your site:

                1. Is it a review of the product conduit style (like more of a reporting style)?
                2. A review of the product describing it's benefits etc, (like pulling out the main benefits from the salespage or from your actual use of the product) and just simple text links at the top and/or bottom of the review.
                3. A page with the top product graphic on the top fold of your page.
                4. A page with like the top 3 products in the niche at the top fold and the review or article at the bottom of the page?

                I'm trying to get at how much clicks the customer goes through till they reach the merchant site.

                Thanks,
                Kevin.
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                • Profile picture of the author Oracle_320th
                  Am I too late to join?

                  Well, I'm starting to active again at article marketing from 1st October. Have 6 of my articles accepted and generated 1 sales.

                  http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Andrew_Carmiel

                  I'm planning to do at least 2 articles writing per day out of my article writing service. Let's see the result in the end of this month
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                • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
                  Originally Posted by kevin campbelle View Post

                  Hi Hamida,

                  The landing page that you direct the visitor from EA to your site:

                  1. Is it a review of the product conduit style (like more of a reporting style)?
                  2. A review of the product describing it's benefits etc, (like pulling out the main benefits from the salespage or from your actual use of the product) and just simple text links at the top and/or bottom of the review.
                  3. A page with the top product graphic on the top fold of your page.
                  4. A page with like the top 3 products in the niche at the top fold and the review or article at the bottom of the page?

                  I'm trying to get at how much clicks the customer goes through till they reach the merchant site.

                  Thanks,
                  Kevin.
                  I create a full niche site (based around niches that I've tested before or just very hot niches that I know will convert). I set up a wordpress blog with about 3-5 posts to start off with and then I keep adding to it over the following weeks & months.

                  I create a landing page on each niche site to send my article traffic to. Sometimes this will be a one product review called "Product Name Review", for other niches I create a 3 product review page. I've found that different styles work for different niches.

                  I use Chris Rempel's conduit WP theme for a few sites as well. For some niches the 'report' style review works better, but other niches require a more personalized review for good conversions.
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                  • Profile picture of the author Kelvin Nikkel
                    Originally Posted by Hamida Pall View Post

                    I create a full niche site (based around niches that I've tested before or just very hot niches that I know will convert). I set up a wordpress blog with about 3-5 posts to start off with and then I keep adding to it over the following weeks & months.

                    I create a landing page on each niche site to send my article traffic to. Sometimes this will be a one product review called "Product Name Review", for other niches I create a 3 product review page. I've found that different styles work for different niches.

                    I use Chris Rempel's conduit WP theme for a few sites as well. For some niches the 'report' style review works better, but other niches require a more personalized review for good conversions.
                    Hamida, if you are sending readers to your optin page, how do you get around that? Do you make your first page static?

                    Kelvin
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                    • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
                      Originally Posted by Kelvin Nikkel View Post

                      Hamida, if you are sending readers to your optin page, how do you get around that? Do you make your first page static?

                      Kelvin
                      I do often use a static page as my landing page - I haven't tested using an optin yet though so I can't comment on that. I've done a bit of list building but not using article marketing (it's on my 'to do' list ).
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                  • Profile picture of the author kevin campbelle
                    Originally Posted by Hamida Pall View Post

                    I set up a wordpress blog with about 3-5 posts to start off with and then I keep adding to it over the following weeks & months.
                    Thanks for the answer. I understand the article to site part.
                    One last question as I don't want to hijack of the thread. In the post pages that are initially set up and the ones that are added over time, how do you direct the visitors to the merchant product? Is it a link to the review page on your site or directly to the merchant.

                    Kevin.
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                    • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
                      Originally Posted by kevin campbelle View Post


                      In the post pages that are initially set up and the ones that are added over time, how do you direct the visitors to the merchant product? Is it a link to the review page on your site or directly to the merchant.
                      I send my article traffic directly to the post/page which contains the review, and then they click through (hopefully) to the merchants page.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kelvin Nikkel
    YAHOO! I was hoping for this but didn't expect it so soon. Just applied today!

    Hi Kelvin,

    Congratulations, you have been upgraded to Platinum Status! You may
    now submit an unlimited number of quality articles.

    Thank you,
    Jacob
    Member Support


    Now I can go to town!
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  • Profile picture of the author Munch Mama
    HI all
    Been quiet from my corner cuz i am still waiting to get past my 10 article limit :|
    But the stats on the ones that are live are as follows:
    5 live articles
    1 pending
    271 views
    23 click thrus
    4 opt-ins
    0 sales
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  • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
    I submitted 2 articles today. I started a new site for Christmas, so I am going to ramp up my efforts, and will try and do 2 articles a day for the remainder of the challenge: one in my original niche, and one in the holiday/Christmas niche.

    Articles Submitted - 19
    Articles Live - 16
    Pending - 3
    Article Views - 490
    Ezine Publisher - 10
    URL Clicks - 91
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    • Profile picture of the author traceye
      Daily Results - Day 19

      Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
      Articles Live - 20, Article Views - 2713, Hops -402, Sales - 0

      My Product: Blog Cash
      Articles Submitted - 6, Live - 4, Views - 31, Clicks - 8, Sales - 0

      Tracey
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  • Profile picture of the author Stephen Chua
    I hit the half-way point now. Submitted 15 articles so far although still lagging behind.

    Articles Submitted - 15
    Articles Live - 6
    Pending - 9
    Article Views - 283
    Ezine Publisher - 4
    URL Clicks - 26
    Opt-in - 0
    Sales - 0

    stephen
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  • Profile picture of the author Oracle_320th
    Hamida, I read about this somewhere in this forum, you made $10,000 from one article you wrote, wow what a cool girl [thumb]

    Anyway, go to my progress

    19 articles live
    1 sales
    2 pay per lead
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  • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
    Wow, EZA already approved 2 articles today before lunch that I submitted yesterday!

    Also, I hit my goal of 10,000 total article views today. I guess I'll go celebrate and write another article...

    Peggy
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    • Profile picture of the author Cali16
      I just read this thread for the first time....wish I had noticed it when the challenge started. But I am wondering....everyone always talks about how powerful article marketing / EZA is in driving traffic and getting sales (for affiliate marketing and your own products), but I'm seeing very few people reporting any sales from their results.

      Am I missing something? I am just about to start some article marketing, but reading this thread is a bit discouraging... Again, maybe I am missing something here...I hope so!
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      • Profile picture of the author traceye
        Originally Posted by Cali16 View Post

        I just read this thread for the first time....wish I had noticed it when the challenge started. But I am wondering....everyone always talks about how powerful article marketing / EZA is in driving traffic and getting sales (for affiliate marketing and your own products), but I'm seeing very few people reporting any sales from their results.

        Am I missing something? I am just about to start some article marketing, but reading this thread is a bit discouraging... Again, maybe I am missing something here...I hope so!
        I know for me that article marketing works but usually not straight away. For example I am now seeing quite a few sales for articles that I submitted last month (haven't written any more for that niche since then). And I'm guessing that will also be the case with the articles I'm doing for this challenge - that I'll start seeing sales in the next few weeks/months.

        I also think that I've had a bit of bad luck this month by posting my results for everyone to see - what's that saying? Oh yes
        A watched pot doesn't boil!

        Tracey
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        • Profile picture of the author Jeremy123
          All this work writing and submitting articles to EZA,
          is it worth it, I don't see a lot of sales or opt-ins recorded.

          People seem so excited about doing the challenge, but I hope
          your making money.
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          • Profile picture of the author traceye
            Daily Results - Day 20

            Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
            Articles Submitted - 22, Live - 20, Article Views - 2768, Hops -410, Sales - 0

            My Product: Blog Cash
            Articles Submitted - 6, Live - 6, Views - 31, Clicks - 15, Sales - 0

            Tracey
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          • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
            Originally Posted by Jeremy123 View Post

            All this work writing and submitting articles to EZA,
            is it worth it, I don't see a lot of sales or opt-ins recorded.

            People seem so excited about doing the challenge, but I hope
            your making money.
            If you go back a few posts you'll find that this very question was answered by Peggy - article marketing is NOT all about making sales. I probably didn't make a single sale out my first 20 articles because I didn't know what I was doing, BUT I analyzed where I went wrong, then tested and tracked each component of my articles until I started getting it right.

            You learn best by doing, and those people not making sales yet are in the process of learning what works and what doesn't. I've been doing it for over a year and I still use article marketing to test new products/niches and not all of them make sales either. Article marketing isn't suitable for those who aren't willing to work - and very few people start making sales from their very first articles.

            Bum marketing is supposed to be an easy way to make money, and it is, but only when you know how. It's NOT as simple as just submitting an article, redirecting to a merchant and getting a sale.
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  • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
    Well, Cali, some people are aiming for other results than Clickbank affiliate sales. Some people are trying to drive more traffic to their sites, maybe for AdSense revenue, or backlinks to get a better page rank. Some are building their lists to sell to later on.

    Others are experimenting in this challenge with something different. Maybe they're trying to see how well it goes to link to a sales page rather than a blog review site, or vice versa.

    Additionally, some people are totally new at this and are just learning. There's also a trial period where they test a niche to see if it's profitable or not.

    I think just about everyone here has learned something, except maybe Hamida because she's the bomb!

    I say, if it interests you, why not give it a try?

    Peggy
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Murphy
    Ok, so I see I'm WAAAY late for this, but I'll crash your party :-)

    I to a stab at article marketing just a few weeks ago and I put up 15 articles that pointed to a Squidoo lens.

    I got zero sales out of it.

    Earlier this week I got slow at work so I picked a new niche and in one partial day I wrote 15 articles but now I'm sitting on them.

    I need to know a few things and I apologize if this isn't the place to ask, but here goes....

    Where can I find a tried and true way to do keyword research?

    Is it more luck than skill?

    Should I have my articles point to a review site, a blog, Squidoo lens, hubpage, all of the above or just directly to vendors page (mentioned above as a bad ideas).

    Those that are making sales, please let me know your thoughts. If it's not too late, I'll jump in with these new articles. I'd only be a few days behind and could catch up but I'd like to know the process better.

    Thanks
    Mike
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    • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
      Originally Posted by Mike Murphy View Post


      Where can I find a tried and true way to do keyword research?

      Thanks
      Mike
      Hi Mike,
      Check out the link in Hamida's sig because she has an excellent post on her blog about keyword research and how she does it that should help you.

      Peggy
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      • Profile picture of the author Jeremy123
        Thanks Hamid,

        Found Peggy's post.

        Hamid, what kind of articles are you submitting that convert
        so well to your landing page then to a sale, product reviews,
        question and answer, 7 tips for etc,

        thanks
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        • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
          This is a thread about an article marketing challenge and answering questions about article marketing.

          Please refrain from posting your opinions or insults about AM.

          That's not what this thread is for or about.

          Allen Graves
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          • Profile picture of the author Mike Murphy
            Originally Posted by Allen Graves View Post

            This is a thread about an article marketing challenge and answering questions about article marketing.

            Please refrain from posting your opinions or insults about AM.

            That's not what this thread is for or about.

            Allen Graves
            ...and it's a shade negative and rude! Take that energy and start a new post about a method YOU have for generating leads, traffic and money and give back like everyone here is man!

            Thanks for pointing me to Hamida's blog...that's the stuff.
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        • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
          Originally Posted by Jeremy123 View Post

          Thanks Hamida,

          Found Peggy's post.

          Hamida, what kind of articles are you submitting that convert
          so well to your landing page then to a sale, product reviews,
          question and answer, 7 tips for etc,

          thanks
          All of the above - I submit different types articles for different products. The articles are only to funnel traffic to my landing page - it's my landing page that converts visitors into sales, so I don't think it matters too much what type of article it is as long as it sends the traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author WritingMadwoman
    I got back on track yesterday, but I switched niches for now. The one I started this challenge with was doing so crappy I decided to set it aside until I have time to work out why. So yesterday I put up a new landing page for a product that has converted well for me in the past, and wrote and submitted one article, not approved yet. So we'll see how that goes once EZA approves it. :-)

    Wendy
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  • Profile picture of the author Uncle Dimitry
    looks like article marketing sucks and not worth time and effort. Better write free ebook and have links all over
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  • Profile picture of the author Sell
    Article Marketing doesn't work, it does work, size and quality matters, the more links from articles and others sources the better. Funnel your new subscribers into your product.
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    • Profile picture of the author traceye
      Daily Results - Day 21

      Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
      Articles Submitted - 23, Live - 20, Article Views - 2826, Hops -414, Sales - 0

      My Product: Blog Cash
      Articles Submitted - 8, Live - 6, Views - 118, Clicks - 23, Sales - 2

      Tracey
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      • Profile picture of the author Chris Hunter
        Originally Posted by traceye View Post

        Daily Results - Day 21

        Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
        Articles Submitted - 23, Live - 20, Article Views - 2826, Hops -414, Sales - 0
        Tracey, are you redirecting this from your own domain? That's a lot of hops for no sales.

        Maybe it's time to change the redirect to something else?

        My Product: Blog Cash
        Articles Submitted - 8, Live - 6, Views - 118, Clicks - 23, Sales - 2
        Way to go! Looks like that's converting pretty good!
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        • Profile picture of the author traceye
          Originally Posted by Chris Hunter View Post

          Tracey, are you redirecting this from your own domain? That's a lot of hops for no sales.

          Maybe it's time to change the redirect to something else?
          Yep changed the redirect to a landing page about a week ago. To be fair about 300 of those hops was when I was direct linking and the rest from the landing page (which still doesn't seem to be converting that well so I'm looking to rework it on Monday when I have more time).

          But as you can see it's easier for me to make sales with a topic I know about (my product) rather than someone elses (clickbank product).
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      • Profile picture of the author Jeremy123
        Thanks Hamid,

        I think it is important what kind of article is submitted to EZA,
        that is the first step to getting traffic to your landing page.

        If people don't think the article is of any value then they
        won't click thru.

        Guess it is a matter of testing, but since you are successful
        at it, that is why I was hoping you might share what style
        of article you are submitting.

        Guess another way is to research articles within EZA within
        your niche and pay attention to the ones with the most views,
        then write similar ones yourself.
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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    JUST OVER A WEEK TO GO! You guys are in the home stretch. Push push push...

    AL
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  • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
    Day 21

    In my new niche:

    Live Articles - 3
    Views - 323
    Clicks - 64

    These articles are only 2 days old.
    That's an average 20% click thru rate. One of the articles actually had a 40% click thru.

    Expecting sales to be forthcoming soon.

    Peggy
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    • Profile picture of the author traceye
      Daily Results - Day 22

      Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
      Articles Submitted - 23, Live - 20, Article Views - 2974, Hops -417, Sales - 0

      My Product: Blog Cash
      Articles Submitted - 9, Live - 6, Views - 142, Clicks - 26, Sales - 2

      Was nobody online yesterday? My views/clicks barely changed.

      Tracey
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  • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
    I needed to take a break from articles on Friday and Saturday, but just finished uploading 6 articles, making it 2 for each day: one in each niche.

    Here are my current stats:

    Articles Submitted - 25
    Articles Live - 18
    Pending - 7
    Article Views - 646
    Ezine Publisher - 10
    URL Clicks - 118

    I wish I had more of the articles published in ezines, since that give extra exposure to hundreds, or sometimes thousands of subscribers. I know my articles are good, but wonder if there are specific titles/subjects within a niche that get more ezine owners to pick that article up.

    Anyone here has had success having their articles picked up more often, or specific articles picked up by several ezine publishers, and willing to share their secrets?
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  • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
    Hi Adriana,
    One thing I do is put an opt-in box on a page on one of my websites where I list lots of my articles. If anyone wants to be notifed when I post another article they can opt-in to be notified. I don't send them promotional emails (I have another opt-in box for that), only let them know when I've published another article in this particular field (the subject of my website). I usually don't notify them until I have at least 3 new articles to share.


    Hey Traceye,
    I've had the opposite results this weekend. Go figure! In fact, 16 more views since I just posted above. But it's about time since I've had such poor viewing results in this challenge up until now and I'll never catch up to your number of views.

    Peggy
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    • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
      Originally Posted by Peggy Baron View Post

      One thing I do is put an opt-in box on a page on one of my websites where I list lots of my articles. If anyone wants to be notified when I post another article they can opt-in to be notified. I don't send them promotional emails (I have another opt-in box for that), only let them know when I've published another article in this particular field (the subject of my website). I usually don't notify them until I have at least 3 new articles to share.
      Thanks Peggy, do you have a personal site where you have this opt-in box? Or do you put this it on each individual site?
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      • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
        Originally Posted by giftsolution View Post

        Thanks Peggy, do you have a personal site where you have this opt-in box? Or do you put this it on each individual site?
        I just do it on one site. Obviously you don't want to do it for every little niche site because it takes some time. But if you have a "mothership" site and/or have narrow niche sites that can link back to it, it can make sense.

        Peggy
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        • Profile picture of the author traceye
          Daily Results - Day 23

          Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
          Articles Submitted - 23, Live - 22, Article Views - 3026, Hops -426, Sales - 0

          My Product: Blog Cash
          Articles Submitted - 10, Live - 6, Views - 173, Clicks - 31, Sales - 2

          Tracey
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          • Profile picture of the author Jeremy123
            Blog Cash seems to be doing well. Nice job.
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        • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
          Originally Posted by Peggy Baron View Post

          I just do it on one site. Obviously you don't want to do it for every little niche site because it takes some time. But if you have a "mothership" site and/or have narrow niche sites that can link back to it, it can make sense.
          Thanks a lot Peggy: very helpful.
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  • Profile picture of the author Stephen Chua
    Took a break over the weekend. Still no sales so I think I may have to change my landing page (which is a simple opt-in page).

    Articles Submitted - 18
    Articles Live - 14
    Pending - 4
    Total Article Views - 819
    Total Ezine Publisher - 8
    Total URL Clicks - 89
    Total Opt-in - 6
    Total Sales - 0
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  • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
    Ughhh... I need to start submitting my articles earlier in the day: I just spent an hour submitting 2 already written articles, because I kept making mistakes.

    Luckily, I am platinum already and tonight's mistakes won't put me out of business. I'll post updated stats tomorrow: I need to go and rest.
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  • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
    Here's what I'm learning:

    I got scattered and bored writing about buildmylens on a daily basis so I switched to the debt and credit niche. NO sales...these people are BROKE! lol (j/k the affiliate products may not convert well - obviously).

    Then I started promoting my guide2ebooks site and sales DID increase for that since then but I have no way of knowing as I don't poll those customers. Sales of my Squidoo guide are increasing too.

    Lesson: When you make a plan, stick to it. Don't get sidetracked like I did. I plan to go back to my roots.

    Also, anyone know about this? Remember I bought the Premium membership on about Sept 25th? Well A few days ago, I knew I didn't want to renew it, so before I forgot, I went in and canceled the subscription. Well instead of letting me use up my month, it canceled it right then and there. I don't think I've ever bought a membership where they didn't go ahead and let you use up the portion you'd bought!

    Now I feel ripped off
    Tiff
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    • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
      Originally Posted by TiffanyDow View Post


      Also, anyone know about this? Remember I bought the Premium membership on about Sept 25th? Well A few days ago, I knew I didn't want to renew it, so before I forgot, I went in and canceled the subscription. Well instead of letting me use up my month, it canceled it right then and there. I don't think I've ever bought a membership where they didn't go ahead and let you use up the portion you'd bought!

      Now I feel ripped off
      Tiff
      That's awful - I was considering whether or not to keep my premium membership as well, but I decided to hold on to it for another month. I wouldn't be at all happy about that though - I think you should contact support and complain.
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      • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
        Originally Posted by Hamida Pall View Post

        That's awful - I was considering whether or not to keep my premium membership as well, but I decided to hold on to it for another month. I wouldn't be at all happy about that though - I think you should contact support and complain.
        I definitely agree.

        While this may be excused as yet another CS mistake, you should at the very least get your 1 month for 97 friggin dollars!

        AL
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    • Profile picture of the author kevin campbelle
      Originally Posted by TiffanyDow View Post

      I did complain - no reply yet! It's been a few days.
      Wow you lost everything, even the speedy support.

      Kevin.
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      • Profile picture of the author Warrior Markets
        Originally Posted by kevin campbelle View Post

        Wow you lost everything, even the speedy support.

        Kevin.
        Not sure if you meant it..but it made me laugh!

        -WM
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        • Profile picture of the author traceye
          Daily Results - Day 24

          Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
          Articles Submitted - 23, Live - 23, Article Views - 3196, Hops -430, Sales - 0

          My Product: Blog Cash
          Articles Submitted - 11, Live - 9, Views - 217, Clicks - 42, Sales - 3

          Tracey
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  • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
    I hope you get your $97 worth Tiff!

    Early Day 23

    In my new niche:

    Live Articles - 4
    Views - 427
    Clicks - 78
    Sales - 1

    Peggy
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  • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
    Just an fyi that they fixed it and gave me back Premium until my account naturally expires Oct 25th.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
    Current stats:

    Articles Submitted - 29
    Articles Live - 24
    Pending - 5
    Article Views - 834
    Ezine Publisher - 10 (I wonder why there were no more of these: I got all these in the first few days of the challenge, and then no more)
    URL Clicks - 154
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  • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
    I submitted my 2 articles for today, and will update stats tomorrow. My next few articles for one niche will be very practical. I want to see if that makes a difference in getting picked up by ezine owners.

    I may also try to contact some sites in my niche and see if they are interested in practical suggestions for their subscribers: just trying to see what else I can do with my articles, other than submit them to EZA and other directories.
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    • Profile picture of the author traceye
      Daily Results - Day 25

      Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
      Articles Live - 23, Article Views - 3286, Hops - 434, Sales - 0

      My Product: Blog Cash
      Articles Submitted - 12, Live - 10, Views - 258, Clicks - 52, Sales - 3

      Tracey
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      • Profile picture of the author Income_Legend
        TiffanyDow, I have yet to see such a wonderful response to a challenge. Amazing!

        Originally Posted by TiffanyDow View Post

        Just an fyi that they fixed it and gave me back Premium until my account naturally expires Oct 25th.
        Glad to know that.

        By the way, it is almost a month, is it possible to give a general summary of the responses and results of the challenge, for example: Out of x%, y% have posted atleast 1 article per day, maximum number of articles submitted by a person so far, total number of articles submitted etc.

        Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
    Submitted 2 more articles today, and here are the current stats:

    Articles Submitted - 33
    Articles Live - 29
    Pending - 4
    Article Views - 1042
    Ezine Publisher - 10
    URL Clicks - 197
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    • Profile picture of the author traceye
      Daily Results - Day 26

      Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
      Articles Live - 23, Article Views - 3379, Hops - 441, Sales - 0 (this is starting to become quite funny!)

      My Product: Blog Cash
      Articles Submitted - 13, Live - 11, Views - 282, Clicks - 55, Sales - 3

      Tracey
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  • Profile picture of the author CanuckMike
    It is really nice to see the progress everybody is making and that sales are coming in. Hard to believe that the month is almost over already though.
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  • Profile picture of the author Stephen Chua
    Catching up soon. Here's my stats.

    Articles Submitted - 22
    Articles Live - 20
    Pending - 2
    Total Article Views - 1086
    Total Ezine Publisher - 8
    Total URL Clicks - 145
    Total Opt-in - 6
    Total Sales - 0
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    • Profile picture of the author Ben Roy
      I slacked off on updating this thread for a few days, but I have been writing and posting articles. I've decided I'm too lazy to break it all down by niche, so I'll just summarize it all together.

      Articles Written: 35
      Articles Published: 27
      Views: 1993
      Clicks: 517
      Sales: 1


      I'm a little disappointed in my sales. It took me a little bit to get my referral ids fixed up, so I don't have perfect stats on how the hops break down by product. In any case I would expect a little better conversion rate.

      For one of the niches I'm pushing people to an autoresponder, which I've received a fair number of signups for. Another niche I'm building a site, so I'm getting backlinks if all else fails.
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  • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
    Early in Day 25

    In my newer niche:

    Live Articles - 7
    Views - 517
    Clicks - 106
    Sales - 2


    Brand spankin new niche (with 1 article 1 day old and the other live this morning):

    Live Articles - 2
    Views - 101
    Clicks - 7
    Sales - 0

    I don't know this new niche as well so I'm having to spend more time on research right now.

    Meanwhile, the original 2 sites I started with have gained in opt-ins and AdSense $ and I'll tally that up at the end of this 30 day thing.

    Peggy
    P.S. Where's Asher and Wendy?
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    • Profile picture of the author Asher
      Originally Posted by Peggy Baron View Post

      P.S. Where's Asher and Wendy?
      I only JUST received my new batch of articles to submit. So...
      yeah, off to a writing and submitting craze now.

      Asher
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    • Profile picture of the author WritingMadwoman
      Originally Posted by Peggy Baron View Post

      [B]P.S. Where's Asher and Wendy?
      I'm here! Been out of commission with a nasty cold all this week, so I didn't get any articles done. I'm too far behind to catch up now but I will still start again on Monday! :-)

      Wendy
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      • Profile picture of the author traceye
        Daily Results - Day 27

        Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
        Articles Live - 23, Article Views - 3471, Hops - 447, Sales - 0 (have updated the review page again - fingers crossed!)

        My Product: Blog Cash
        Articles Submitted - 13, Live - 11, Views - 328, Clicks - 62, Sales - 3

        Tracey
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        • Profile picture of the author JustVisiting
          Originally Posted by traceye View Post

          Daily Results - Day 27

          Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
          Articles Live - 23, Article Views - 3471, Hops - 447, Sales - 0 (have updated the review page again - fingers crossed!)

          My Product: Blog Cash
          Articles Submitted - 13, Live - 11, Views - 328, Clicks - 62, Sales - 3

          Tracey
          Tracey
          Thanks for posting your results so far.

          --> Do all your articles in each niche point to the one landing page ? (for that niche) .

          --> Are you willing to share your landing page URL for 'Strip that fat' for discussion?
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          • Profile picture of the author traceye
            Originally Posted by JustVisiting View Post

            Tracey
            Thanks for posting your results so far.

            --> Do all your articles in each niche point to the one landing page ? (for that niche) .

            --> Are you willing to share your landing page URL for 'Strip that fat' for discussion?
            Your welcome.

            Yes I do only have one landing page for all of my STF articles. As for sharing the URL I'm kind of unsure whether I should or not. On one hand it would be good to be completely open and help teach other warriors, on the other hand I'm reluctant to because I hate it when people steal my stuff and I'm really not sure what value it would do since it's not converting anyway. I'll think about it ..

            Daily Results - Day 28

            Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
            Articles Live - 23, Article Views - 3504, Hops - 447, Sales - 0

            My Product: Blog Cash
            Articles Submitted - 14, Live - 11, Views - 355, Clicks - 64, Sales - 3

            Tracey
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            • Profile picture of the author Kelvin Nikkel
              Well, I must thank you again Tiffany and everyone else here for keeping me positive and a bit motivated.

              My original 10 articles are producing some clickbacks and from that my adsense has jumped a bit. Still no sales yet on any of this though.

              I have been doing some other reading about affiliate marketing and doing reviews so I just created a post in my blog reviewing and comparing 4 non IM products. I then created and submitted a new article to EZA and GoArticles.

              Just finished doing that now so will see where it goes when EZA clears the article and I start getting hits on it.

              Will keep everyone posted.

              Kelvin
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            • Profile picture of the author JustVisiting
              Originally Posted by traceye View Post

              Your welcome.

              As for sharing the URL I'm kind of unsure whether I should or not. On one hand it would be good to be completely open and help teach other warriors, on the other hand I'm reluctant to because I hate it when people steal my stuff and I'm really not sure what value it would do since it's not converting anyway. I'll think about it ..

              Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
              Articles Live - 23, Article Views - 3504, Hops - 447, Sales - 0
              Hi Tracey
              I know how you feel...however if the landing page is not converting I don't think anyone would want to rip-it-off...??

              Are you collecting emails before the prospect can continue to the merchant page?
              If you are not...then you could try sending them direct to the merchant. Looking at the CB stats the gravity is 129 so it should be converting 1:100 or so?
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              • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
                Current Stats:

                Articles Submitted - 39
                Articles Live - 31
                Pending - 8
                Article Views - 1452
                Ezine Publisher - 12
                URL Clicks - 254

                I am seeing really good results with my first niche I started submitting for, and just made another great sale yesterday (physical product).
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                • Profile picture of the author traceye
                  Daily Results - Day 29

                  Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
                  Articles Live - 23, Article Views - 3562, Hops - 450, Sales - 0

                  My Product: Blog Cash
                  Articles Submitted - 15, Live - 11, Views - 389, Clicks - 68, Sales - 6

                  Tracey
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  • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
    I am still here submitting every day. I actually went from one article a day to 2 a day, because I wanted to continue with my initial niche, but also wanted to add Christmas to the mix.

    I have a very busy weekend coming up family wise, so I already posted my articles for today, and will only pop in online tomorrow night enough to submit my 2 articles for tomorrow.

    I'll update my stats again on Sunday evening.
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  • Profile picture of the author Asher
    I just submitted 4 articles to EZA and will be submitting the rest of the
    21 articles by the coming 2 days (that's the goal).

    This is what happens when I don't get my new batch of articles to play
    with because I have to request for it. I thought it would be automated
    until I sent a support ticket over to ask for more article slots to submit.

    Going to rush out the articles before the 30-Day Challenge end!

    Final Stretch!

    Originally Posted by Hamida Pall View Post

    Wonder how many people are still doing this, there's not much posting activity going on anymore (I know, I'm guilty too :rolleyes.
    I put all my postings and updates in my blog so I don't clog up the posts with all my updates. Plus, it's easier for me to find my posts too.

    Asher
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  • Profile picture of the author Stephen Chua
    Still no sales but one opt-in. Here's my stats.

    Articles Submitted - 24
    Articles Live - 20
    Pending - 4
    Total Article Views - 1086
    Total Ezine Publisher - 8
    Total URL Clicks - 145
    Total Opt-in - 7
    Total Sales - 0
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  • Profile picture of the author InfoESource
    Even if a person does not join in, your three bullets of action are great. If anybody follows them, they are ahead of the curve.
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  • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
    Day 28

    In the newer niche:

    Live Articles - 7
    Views - 535
    Clicks - 110
    Sales - 2


    Newest niche:

    Live Articles - 2
    Views - 123
    Clicks - 8
    Sales - 0

    Slow weekend for me for both niches.
    Did notice one article has a 64% click thru rate. I'll keep my eye on that one to see if it's the keywords, my bio box, or what.

    I just counted up all my articles and I am actually right on - 28 days and 28 articles, although 4 of them are pending.

    Peggy
    P.S. Way to go Adriana and Tracey!
    Maybe I should switch to promoting Blog Cash?
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  • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
    Current Stats:

    Articles Submitted - 41
    Articles Live - 35
    Pending - 6
    Article Views - 1650
    Ezine Publisher - 12
    URL Clicks - 295
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    • Profile picture of the author traceye
      Daily Results - Day 30

      Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
      Articles Live - 23, Article Views - 3646, Hops - 451, Sales - 0

      My Product: Blog Cash
      Articles Submitted - 17, Live - 14, Views - 416, Clicks - 72, Sales - 6

      It's my last day on the challenge - I made it! I'll do another update in a few days once these articles go live. Overall I've had a lot of fun and learnt a lot. Thanks Tiff!

      Tracey
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      • Profile picture of the author Asher
        TiffanyDow's Article Marketing Challenge
        Day 0 to Day 30 Results

        First of all, thanks to Tiffany for a great thread with a chance to win some great prizes. The only goal that I had in mind when I joined this challenge was to commit to submitting at least an average of 1 new article per day.

        So, here's what I had in the beginning:
        9 Live Articles
        672 Views
        30 Clicks

        And now, after the 30 days, this is what I have:
        33 Live Articles (with 10 still pending)
        1320 Views
        107 Clicks

        The unforunate throughout the 30 Days - I made zero sales. Seeing how some people made sales and I had none kind of made me sad. However...

        The great thing throughout the 30 Days:
        1. Achieved my goal of at least 1 article per day
        2. Found out which niche I really enjoyed writing about
        3. Discovered that there's so much to learn about article marketing
        4. Discovered I enjoyed learning despite having so much to learn
        5. Found some really useful resources for future articles
        6. I am as passionate about internet marketing today as I was on day 1
        7. Keeping records really help to gauge how much I've progressed and what I can do to improve
        8. Understood that things can only get better from here on out
        9. To come full circle, having an achievable goal that stretched me is what helped me grow through these 30 days

        So, that's my results after the 30 days. I enjoyed every single day that I created articles and am glad that I did so despite the challenges I face on a daily basis to create my articles.

        What next after this? Next challenge that I'm setting for myself is to learn how to improve my click through rates in my articles.

        Asher
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        • Profile picture of the author WritingMadwoman
          Way to go everyone!

          I never did get back on track after my week of illness, but that's okay. I feel good with what I did accomplish and I've got some ideas for new AM projects in the near future.

          I can't believe 30 days is up already!

          Wendy
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        • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
          Originally Posted by Asher View Post

          The great thing throughout the 30 Days:
          1. Achieved my goal of at least 1 article per day
          2. Found out which niche I really enjoyed writing about
          3. Discovered that there's so much to learn about article marketing
          4. Discovered I enjoyed learning despite having so much to learn
          5. Found some really useful resources for future articles
          6. I am as passionate about internet marketing today as I was on day 1
          7. Keeping records really help to gauge how much I've progressed and what I can do to improve
          8. Understood that things can only get better from here on out
          9. To come full circle, having an achievable goal that stretched me is what helped me grow through these 30 days

          Asher
          Hey Asher,
          Even though the 30 days are over, this thing is not done yet.

          1. You still have 10 articles pending.
          2. The results of your 43 articles is far-reaching, not just here and now.

          I think we should revisit this contest after another 30 days to see where the articles we wrote NOW are and what they've done for us.

          This was a great contest, but to really see the results will take some time. Article marketing builds up and multiplies, it's not necessarily a quick, overnight thing.

          Peggy
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          • Profile picture of the author Asher
            Originally Posted by Peggy Baron View Post

            Hey Asher,
            Even though the 30 days are over, this thing is not done yet.

            1. You still have 10 articles pending.
            2. The results of your 43 articles is far-reaching, not just here and now.

            I think we should revisit this contest after another 30 days to see where the articles we wrote NOW are and what they've done for us.

            This was a great contest, but to really see the results will take some time. Article marketing builds up and multiplies, it's not necessarily a quick, overnight thing.

            Peggy
            Hi Peggy,

            You're right - it's far from over. And you brought up a good idea to revisit this contest after 30 days. I think it's better to have it in another thread because this one's about to burst at the seams.

            But that will be up to Tiffany to decide. I believe I'll still be doing this in my own Warrior blog and keeping records there.

            This challenge has been very educational and helpful for me.

            Asher
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            • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
              Originally Posted by Asher View Post

              And you brought up a good idea to revisit this contest after 30 days. I think it's better to have it in another thread because this one's about to burst at the seams.

              But that will be up to Tiffany to decide.
              Asher
              What say you Tiff?
              We could call the thread the 30 Day Challenge Reunion.

              Peggy
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        • Profile picture of the author lpstoops
          Just found this thread. I dread article writing. It's not my strong suit at all, and I have never had great results. I think I'm going to start from the begining of this challenge myself and see it through.
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      • Profile picture of the author Lindsay Brynn
        Originally Posted by traceye View Post

        Daily Results - Day 30

        Clickbank Product: Strip That Fat
        Articles Live - 23, Article Views - 3646, Hops - 451, Sales - 0

        My Product: Blog Cash
        Articles Submitted - 17, Live - 14, Views - 416, Clicks - 72, Sales - 6

        It's my last day on the challenge - I made it! I'll do another update in a few days once these articles go live. Overall I've had a lot of fun and learnt a lot. Thanks Tiff!

        Tracey
        Hi Tracy - This is very interesting. I am brand new to IM. And this is oddly enough the first time I am reading this thread and the contest is just about over. For my very first product on clickbank I decided to try promoting STF. I only have a few articles out there and I've done some social bookmarking and got a few good google ranks and have made 12 sales in the last month. I don't think my review page is that great since I'm so new but I kind of wonder what I may have done "right". I'm actually looking to promote other products now after my success with this one.
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        • Profile picture of the author Asher
          Originally Posted by linm View Post

          Hi Tracy - This is very interesting. I am brand new to IM. And this is oddly enough the first time I am reading this thread and the contest is just about over. For my very first product on clickbank I decided to try promoting STF. I only have a few articles out there and I've done some social bookmarking and got a few good google ranks and have made 12 sales in the last month. I don't think my review page is that great since I'm so new but I kind of wonder what I may have done "right". I'm actually looking to promote other products now after my success with this one.
          Hi linm,

          Nice work! You probably did something right. Now that you've made
          sales in it, stick with this niche! Find out what you did right and keep
          doing it over and over again.

          Don't try promoting something else until you discover what it is that
          got you your success in your current one.

          Success in internet marketing isn't trying to achieve a lot of things at
          once but finding one thing done right and repeating that process.

          Asher
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          • Profile picture of the author Lindsay Brynn
            Originally Posted by Asher View Post

            Hi linm,

            Nice work! You probably did something right. Now that you've made
            sales in it, stick with this niche! Find out what you did right and keep
            doing it over and over again.

            Don't try promoting something else until you discover what it is that
            got you your success in your current one.

            Success in internet marketing isn't trying to achieve a lot of things at
            once but finding one thing done right and repeating that process.

            Asher
            Thanks for the advice Asher. I kind of wonder how great of a product it really is since I already have a return on it. I also know returns are a part of the business though. I'll definitely see this through before I change any niches around. It is fun experimenting.
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  • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
    Day 30

    Here's this morning's stats. I'll do a recap of all 4 niches later.

    In the newer niche:

    Live Articles - 7
    Pending - 4
    Views - 560
    Clicks - 118
    Sales - 2


    Newest niche:

    Live Articles - 3
    Pending - 1
    Views - 236
    Clicks - 29
    Sales - 0

    More later...
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  • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
    Congratulations everyone! I was all over the board myself - I'd post 3-4 articles one day and none for 3-4 more days. I did not achieve consistency. I did make money that I know of - 1 definite sale, but not sure about those I used to promote my other products.

    I CAN say that traffic has increased by about 20 a day to BuildMyLens.com since Sept 23rd (right around the time we started this). It had the same effect on my Guide2eBooks.com site (because I began publishing articles for that too) - about 20 a day more unique hits.

    Sales of that second product have risen by 6 sales this month over previous months so I suspect the articles have had an impact.

    I'll be looking through everything today and tonight and will announce the winner tomorrow!

    Thanks to everyone for supporting each other. Warriors Do It Best!
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  • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
    I know this challenge was about writing articles and making sales, but I would like to discuss some of the less tangible aspects of article writing.

    1. Just because I submitted these articles to EZA doesn't mean they own them. I now have 30 more pieces of real estate I can do whatever I want with. I can post them on my blogs or my websites, send them out to my list, offer them to my affiliates, etc.

    2. My credibility as a writer has increased because of the number of articles I've published.
    As a direct result of writing articles, I've been offered the chance to be a permanent guest writer for 2 high traffic blogs. I've also been asked to be part of the team on a high traffic website to work on a new project with them.

    3. By doing research for these articles I have gained a lot of knowledge that will help me:
    write more articles faster in this niche
    answer questions on forums
    be seen as an expert on this subject
    enable me to put together a product in this niche if I want to
    4. The daily average views for one of my own sites I was writing for, Cookin' Kids, is up 27%. This means more opt-ins, more AdSense, and most likely some sales down the road.

    5. My articles have shown up on several legitimate websites. I still get hits from my first articles I wrote over 1 1/2 years ago. And I admit I like to see my articles on REAL websites.



    I've learned a lot with this 30 day challenge -
    • Don't change niches in the middle of a challenge unless you've thrown a lot more articles at each niche than I did.
    • Don't get lazy about keyword research like I did with the first 6 articles.
    • Take what I've learned from what I've done here and what everyone else has had success with, analyze it, and run with it.
    • I wanted to hit the mark of 10,000 total views of all my articles. As of right now it stands at 11,238.
    • I still like to write. J
    I would like to see this challenge revisited. Some of these articles are only a few days old and I have 4 still pending.

    Thanks for challenging me Tiff!

    Peggy
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    • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
      Peggy, I totally agree with you about having all these articles to use again and again. as a matter of fact, I am planning to continue 30 day challenges of my own form now on, and my next challenge is to create a squidoo lens a day for 30 days. I can take some of the content I wrote for this article challenge, and re-purpose it for lens creation.

      I am so thankful I participated! Thanks Tiffany for challenging us. The biggest take away I got form this challenge is that I CAN focus and get things done if I really want to.

      I am also going to take my 30 articles and create a blog for this site: I'll change the titles a little bit, add/subtract some content in the body of the article, and increase my virtual real estate. It will also further help me climb up in Google for this particular site, which is slowly but surely getting closer to the first page (in MSN is on the first page for every key phrase I checked).

      I have so many ideas swimming in my head now... and it feels great!
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    • Profile picture of the author WritingMadwoman
      Originally Posted by Peggy Baron View Post


      2. My credibility as a writer has increased because of the number of articles I've published.
      As a direct result of writing articles, I've been offered the chance to be a permanent guest writer for 2 high traffic blogs. I've also been asked to be part of the team on a high traffic website to work on a new project with them.
      Peggy, that's fantastic - Congratulations!!!!

      Wendy
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      • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
        Originally Posted by WritingMadwoman View Post

        Peggy, that's fantastic - Congratulations!!!!

        Wendy
        Hi Wendy,
        Thanks!
        Now just to be clear, this didn't happen during the 30 day challenge, but this happened directly because of me writing articles and becoming known as a ?good article writer.

        Peggy
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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    Congratulations to the folks who completed this challenge.

    I am looking forward to having the opportunity of working with the people whom Tiffany deem winners.

    But just so I don't give the wrong idea. Every single person who participated in this challenge is a winner. You DID benefit from this in one way or another...trust me.

    Thanks for a very exciting month,
    Allen Graves
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  • Profile picture of the author Stephen Chua
    Submitted my 30th article today. Finally complete the challenge. Here's my stats:

    Articles Submitted - 30
    Articles Live - 27
    Pending - 3
    Total Article Views - 18
    Total Ezine Publisher - 12
    Total URL Clicks - 145
    Total Opt-in - 7
    Total Sales - 0

    While the results are a bit disappointing, at least I manage to complete the challenge as I only joined at the half-way point. Now I shall go figure out what can be done to improve the result!

    stephen
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  • Profile picture of the author Vyliss
    quality must be subjective then... I've seen heaps of crappy articles make it to most viewed so I think there's more to it then that.
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    • Profile picture of the author gamefreak
      quality must be subjective then... I've seen heaps of crappy articles make it to most viewed so I think there's more to it then that.
      Those people know how to market their articles even if it's crappy. For me, I don't keep writing article one after another. The day the article is published, I spend the entire day marketing my ezine url to make sure it comes in most viewed category. Some people even go for adwords which is too extreme. I prefer to spend my time rather than spending $.
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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    Well it ain't gonna work much longer!

    Google is actively seeking out these crap articles and taking care of them. From now on, newly indexed articles will pretty much be articles which are of good quality and provide COMPELLING content to the reader.

    Respectfully,
    Allen GRaves
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  • Profile picture of the author Adriana Copaceanu
    Thanks Allen for pointing that thread: I was wondering too.
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  • Profile picture of the author yourseomentor
    Cool challenge thanks for the opportunity, Tiffany.
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  • Profile picture of the author Saffie
    This has been one of the most inspirational threads for me. Thanks, everyone!
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  • Profile picture of the author Doug Simons
    I should do this because I feel that writing is my weekest point maybe I will get a little better at it.
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    • Profile picture of the author astoneuab
      I actually wish some one would do this challenge again, it seems like it really helped a lot of people.
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  • Profile picture of the author trafficguru
    Are you guys born writers? Everyone talks about how writing articles are easy. I think I fairly articulate and have decent command of the English language, however I feel like it would be difficult to write one article every day.
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  • Profile picture of the author Asher
    @trafficguru, @freezycool

    Well, the challenge is over but there's no one stopping you
    from setting the goal for your own self! The benefits from
    having this challenge is amazing.

    I'm not a "born writer"... in fact, I've never written articles
    for traffic before! I only started this year in August. All it
    takes is just the willing to do it and make the mistakes -
    but learning how to improve from there.

    Asher
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  • I'm jumping in a little late, but love the idea! I've gotten a ton of free targeted traffic this way in more than one niche.

    Good luck everyone! And I love the title to article #21 w/ the Giant Squids! Very creative!
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