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Struggling With Article Marketing

by Sour
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Things just ain't what they used to be.

A few months ago I was pulling in at least 100 hits per article. With a 1% conversion rate and a pretty high article CTR (25-35%), it wasn't unnatural for me to make a sale every few articles I published to EZA.

A few months down the road: I've posted 15 articles so far, and I still haven't seen a single sale. I'm not doing anything different; the problem is EZA only brings me a quarter amount of the views it used to, so if I wanted to generate a single sale, I'd have to write four times as much (about 15-20 articles per sale).

Does anyone else notice the lack of traffic with EZA? What're you doing to combat this? I'm trying to build some funds to start up a PPC campaign, but EZA not being the way it used to, I'm having a difficult time.
#article #marketing #struggling
  • Profile picture of the author Vanquish
    Yes, I sort of notice what you are talking about.`

    I can get a good click through rate as wel 25%+, write a great title but get a poor amount of hits. I find that it is really hit or miss with ezine articles some days I will publish 4 articles and they will all get 100+ hits other times I will publish them and they will get 30-40 hits on average which really sucks when you are putting int the time to write articles daily.

    I'm thinking it has to do with the time you submit your articles to ezine and the amount of other submissions at that moment but I'm not completely sure.

    Some people have suggested getting the premium service where you can time out your articles to go out at certain periods and although that sounds great I would not know which time to use in order to accurately maximize the amount of hits my articles were getting.

    Hopefully we can get some article marketing pros to comment on this situation.
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    • Profile picture of the author Sour
      Originally Posted by Vanquish View Post

      Some people have suggested getting the premium service where you can time out your articles to go out at certain periods and although that sounds great I would not know which time to use in order to accurately maximize the amount of hits my articles were getting.
      Isn't the premium service like $95/month? I'd rather be using that money toward a PPC campaign .

      Originally Posted by topguy

      What types of business you promote ?
      I'm promoting CB products.
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  • Profile picture of the author faizanutd
    I think there is a simple explanation for this. More and more people are doing article marketing, so naturally your articles will be receiving less and less hits.
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    • Profile picture of the author affilcrazy
      Originally Posted by faizanutd View Post

      I think there is a simple explanation for this. More and more people are doing article marketing, so naturally your articles will be receiving less and less hits.

      Herein lies a possible answer. You may be used to getting ezine articles traffic to your articles, rather than search engine traffic...and your article may well be spending a lot less time on the recently published list than it used to.

      An example would be the "get your ex back" niche. 2-3 years there were only a few articles being submitted to the conflict category of EZA. Therefore you could expect your article to stay in the "recently published" list for a day or 2. However, there are probably at least a few thousand writers in this niche now, who write plenty of articles each and every day. So you will probably find that your articles are only spending 30-90 minutes maximum in the recently published section, before they disappear into complete oblivion.

      The solution - market your articles and build plenty of backlinks to them. This way you can rely on search engine traffic!

      Cheers
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    • Profile picture of the author wolverine1971
      Similar articles can have very different results and it's really hard to measure. Sometimes I'll write a quick article without much though and not even thinking about the call to action and resource box and pull a 35% CTR and 100 views in a day while at the same time carefully crafting the perfect call to action, title, etc and seeing a measly 30 views and 7% CTR. It all seems to average out in the end if you keep doing some volume.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Bainbridge
    I still use EZA quite a bit myself, but imo the solution is to start your own master articles hub (a blog essentially ) It will be harder to rank your articles to start with, but as you build backlinks around it and grow the site over 1-2 months you can get pr1-2 easily enough..

    .. then your work will be a bit easier and your new article will rank easier, but of course the longer term benefits are much more - you are in control, not at the mercy of EZA policy, changes to the site, advertising leaks which you don't profit from, other articles with the same keywords knocking you out of position etc, and of course you build your own brand - 100 articles on a blog site can be worth a decent amount of money and are your asset to sell or to use as you wish - 100 articles old articles on EZA could be next to worthless
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  • Profile picture of the author Dustin Cannon
    I am sure that as competition increases there will be less traffic to go around.

    With that being said, a lot of the content being published is boring and run of the mill.

    If you can write articles and especially article titles that capture attention and speak to the visitor then you can set yourself apart from the volumes of junk articles being published and stay ahead of the competition.
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  • Profile picture of the author PCRoger
    I get more traffic from ArticlesBase than I do ezine. And I get more sales from ArticlesBase on fewer views.

    Hint: Lots of views on Ezine are just from your competition.

    Regards,
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  • Profile picture of the author simonheng82
    i agree with PCROGER, the viewer from EZA is mostly the person who are looking for articles to rewrite, if you are not at the first page of SE for a particular KW, then you are wasting your time.
    I am actually doing a test on AcaiBerry product (slashfats.com), and planning to submit 30 articles to EZA with targeted KW redirecting to the affiliate site. Will see how it goes and update accordingly.

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  • Profile picture of the author Slin
    It all depends on the keywords you are targeting.

    Right now though the editing team is doing weird things to my submitted articles and it's really lowering my ctr. I may start paying for ezine services.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nicola Lane
    Threads asking how to do Article Marketing come up quite often here - so I have a standard reply - I hope this helps:

    Two brilliant threads to read about article marketing are these:

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

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...eza-first.html

    Read them both - all the way through - and take notes.

    For further information I recommend the following directory - It is education in article marketing - a guide book and monthly newsletters - with a directory thrown in! You can read what Warriors think about it here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...alks-walk.html

    Article Directory - Article Marketing Community

    I can also recommend the WSO's from this guy:

    View Profile: Zeus66

    This guy also has some good stuff - some article marketing some on other things

    View Profile: Steven Wagenheim

    Hope this helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author Wiggy0618
    I know I'm in the minority here, but I've always thought that getting traffic from articles directories stunk, anyway. Great for backlinks and such, but even if I had 100% CTR on my articles, it'd be minimal traffic...esp compared to me having my articles published at authority sites.

    It's a different nut to crack, but if you can get your articles at authority sites, IMO, it's a much better use of your time than cranking out tons of articles for articles directories (speaking solely for purposes of getting targeted traffic).

    *shrug*
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    • Profile picture of the author PCRoger
      Originally Posted by Wiggy0618 View Post

      I know I'm in the minority here, but I've always thought that getting traffic from articles directories stunk, anyway. Great for backlinks and such, but even if I had 100% CTR on my articles, it'd be minimal traffic...esp compared to me having my articles published at authority sites.

      It's a different nut to crack, but if you can get your articles at authority sites, IMO, it's a much better use of your time than cranking out tons of articles for articles directories (speaking solely for purposes of getting targeted traffic).

      *shrug*
      Well, my clickbank sales come straight from people who viewed my article at an article directory. And with CBSaleTracker, I know which article directory and which article generated the sale.

      So...

      I keep doing more of the same.

      Regards,

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  • Profile picture of the author erinwrites
    I think Ezines has become sort of the "go to" for article marketing which is great for them but not so good for every other person (of the bazillions out there) who are trying to make a go of internet marketing.

    What I find surprising is the amount of attention given to the poorly written stuff that gets posted up there. Some of the articles posted there are obviously written off the top of someone's head without being checked for errors (or valuable content) and yet somehow...these guys seem to get a ton of attention. I just don't get it.
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    • Profile picture of the author JAIDEEP2959
      You need to promote products which people want to buy.

      There must be demand for those products.

      You also need to use keywords which give high traffic to the relevant websites.

      You can include link of your articles in signature file of forums you participate, to get more traffic.

      Good Luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author jeffreys
    Hi Sour,

    Yeah, I notice EZA is not what it used to be. I agree with some of the warriors here that people view EZA articles just to rewrite their articles.

    You better off with writing your article to your blog.

    Hope this helps.
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