Article Marketing - ROI
Well, simple question I've been pondering today.
If I were to outsource articles today, at $6 a piece, would my ROI make it actually worth it to do so?
If I were to get 10 articles per day at $6 each, and do that for 1 month, I'd spend $1800, ending up with 300 articles.
If each article gets 200 views in it's lifetime (From my experience, about 4 months), then that would end up at 60,000 views total 4 months after publishing.
If our articles convert an average of 20% to clickthrough to our landing page, then that's a total of 12,000 URL clicks. Further, if our landing page converts at 35%, then we get 4200 visitors to the product salespage.
Now, if the product salespage converts at 2% (MUCH better than my current 0.4%), we get 84 sales.
Again, a $30 commission, with 84 sales. Result? $2520. Profit of $720 for 4 months total, including the entire "life" of the article. I'm sorry, but not all articles continue to be viewed for years. Most end up disappearing from my experience.
And to take it further, the articles would be worth $8.40 each
Now, I tried to be as realistic as possible, but anyone who has superior experience in article marketing, please throw in some input.
I'm the type of person who needs to work out what will happen before I do it. I'm trying to stop doing that.......but I've already wasted a lot of time article marketing with very little success (4 sales from 35 articles).
If I were to outsource articles today, at $6 a piece, would my ROI make it actually worth it to do so?
If I were to get 10 articles per day at $6 each, and do that for 1 month, I'd spend $1800, ending up with 300 articles.
If each article gets 200 views in it's lifetime (From my experience, about 4 months), then that would end up at 60,000 views total 4 months after publishing.
If our articles convert an average of 20% to clickthrough to our landing page, then that's a total of 12,000 URL clicks. Further, if our landing page converts at 35%, then we get 4200 visitors to the product salespage.
Now, if the product salespage converts at 2% (MUCH better than my current 0.4%), we get 84 sales.
Again, a $30 commission, with 84 sales. Result? $2520. Profit of $720 for 4 months total, including the entire "life" of the article. I'm sorry, but not all articles continue to be viewed for years. Most end up disappearing from my experience.
And to take it further, the articles would be worth $8.40 each
Now, I tried to be as realistic as possible, but anyone who has superior experience in article marketing, please throw in some input.
I'm the type of person who needs to work out what will happen before I do it. I'm trying to stop doing that.......but I've already wasted a lot of time article marketing with very little success (4 sales from 35 articles).
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“Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.†-Nikola Tesla
“Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.†-Nikola Tesla
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“Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.†-Nikola Tesla
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“Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.†-Nikola Tesla
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