How to write 5 articles a week and make $1,000 a month

If you are talking 2 searches as per the google keyword tool on exact setting then your figures here don't match with what I have been receiving. 50% of the expected search volume to click through is unlikely in my experience, even if you are #1 it will be much less. But you may rank for multiple keywords on same article.

"Decent products need around 200 hops for 1 sale"??

No ways....

I'll never ever promote a product that requires 200 clickthroughs for 1 sale after I presold them. That means the product is crap or the article presell was written horribly.


Cheers
Reinhardt

I love mathcraft, thanks for this post - I didn't really learn much, but I still enjoyed reading it and that's something!

I personally promote one product that takes 150-200 hops per sale, but I don't really presell them and it's all on autopilot getting a sale per day so I can't really complain. I really should take some time and make a review page to presell it...

If you learn how to convince people to buy, then you can do a 80-150 hops per sale.

It also depends on how well the author of the products funnel the customer through the sales process. Sending them flat out to a long sales letter might cause a higher drop off rate.


Regards
Reinhardt

These numbers are conservative, if you have a decent presell page then 100 hops per sale is completely within reason. This is for proof of concept, not every single situation. I wanted to point out that it's not necessarry to write 10 articles a day, which many beginners try to do.

Do you use article submitter software or submit by hand, what is the best..

I prefer the article marketing ---> squeeze page ---> OTO ---> follow-ups method. Done well, you can make $1 or more per subscriber per month. In fact, I would argue that article marketing traffic is the best there for this model. At least, it's easily the most productive I've yet to find.

John

Interesting thread. I'm not that good at writing articles, but I think I'm gonna give it a try again soon.

It's actually an interesting method that I'm willing to try with a few keywords. Wish i was good at "testing" this kind of thing. By that i mean one method to another.

I am sitting on a product that I currently convert at about 1 in 90 hops.

Yeah, Article Prince... Get your point... Article marketing works! And you don't need to kill yourself to get results...
I'm with you...
Thanks
Brye

well said, im going to be submitting a few articles of my own, i just hope im on the right stride of things.

With articles it is different...

You are best to use articles for opt-in pages.

Then convert those subscribers into buyers over a period of time.

I do find that it takes about 200+ hops to sell a product priced at $47 or more with articles. However, it takes less subscribers and then you have an even better subscriber when they start buying.

Tom

I rave to anyone who'll listen about how great article traffic is. I'm a complete newb when it comes to paid traffic, so I can't say it's any better or worse, but of all the free ways, article marketing wins by a wide margin, in my experience. And that's across a bunch of niches.

If you think of your articles as little pre-sellers and write them with your eye always on the goal of getting readers stoked to learn more or take that next step, it's pretty awesome the results you can get. I'm no squeeze page or sales page expert by any stretch, but good article traffic often converts on my properties at as much as 10X the rate as other sources of traffic.

It totally rocks.

John

Well if you are a good writer then you can write articles for any big company so they can pay you more then $1000 per month.

Great points thnx for all the advice guys. Im going to be starting article marketing very soon. Thnx again

200 !!

In advance I'm not only new to the warrior forum but to marketing in general, but decent products has like a 3% conversion rate have they not ?

3% conversion = 1 sale every ~33 hops

Thanks for the great info, Article Prince. Just about to start my article marketing journey and was looking for some start-up info.

Anyway, just one question. What are the best article marketing directories which you submit your articles to? I only know Go Articles, Articles Base and EZA. Are there any other good directories I should be submitting to?

Thanks a Lot!

^^ yes that is what my question was you took it right out of my mouth.
that's exactly what i was wondering as well.

I presell, generally it's 20 hoplinks to 70 for a sale.

(note: Not usually 20, I had one that seemed to be converting at that level, but it dropped..wonder why, I should check it out)

Kewl... Imaginary "What if" math.

How much is a penny doubled every day after one month?

The real world and imaginary "what if" math seldom line up in practice.

So much for the "how to".

If it were just this simple I wouldn't focus on $1,000 a month I'd pick a residual product and make the big bucks

Conversion rates are not linear.

Hey ArticlePrince,

Thanks for the post. For the sake of discussion, let me throw out a couple of "issues" that I have with some of it.

1. I'm not a big fan of relying on the number of competing pages. The top 10 is all that matters. It would be a shame to throw out a KW phrase that has 100,000 "competing" pages simply based on that number alone. In reality, it may be more attractive than a page with 10,000 competing pages. It all depends on the strength of competition on the first page.

2. Checking only the PR of the competitors isn't a very thorough analysis. Sites with low PR can easily and consistently outrank those with higher PR. Some would even argue that the PR of a page contributes very little to it's actual rank for a particular search term. I've found this to be quite true and is easily verified.

3. I appreciate that you are trying to present a worst case scenario (or at least realistic), but I wouldn't put much effort into a product that consistently converted at .05% (1 in 200 hops). Find some better converting offers and increase your income dramatically

Cheers!

Steve

Apparently no one here believes in conservative numbers. I simply cannot believe the pm's I've gotten because of this post. Do I promote any products that convert at 1:200? No, I don't. And I doubt anyone else does. The point was to illustrate that even if you picked a product with an absolutely terrible sales page (which many newbies do) this method will still work. Obviously, the better it converts the more that you are making. As to conversions being linear, you can determine and improve averages for the conversion rate at each step. Promote physical products, you'll never have a sales page conversion problem again. In regards to the (so far) 12 people who've basically said this method won't work because "it's just made up numbers", this is the method I use to make $8,000 monthly; because my hop conversions are better. I sincerely appreciate all of the comments and debate, but please stop pming to tell me that 'imaginary math' is useless. I was illustrating a point.

Just to make it clear here. I did not PM you ;-)

Ha not you gallowitz, but I've literally gotten 8 so far telling me how this is a great theory that doesn't work, it's frustrating