Article Marketing Questions

The amount of money you earn for each article is going to really depend on the commission payment you receive for the product.

I am testing this strategy as we speak and nine articles in I have had 95 hops but no sales yet.

I'm submitting to EZA as well as Go, Idea Marketers and once I get some more articles underway I'll start using social bookmarking to promote them.

If you haven't decided on a topic/product yet then I suggest you explore EZA and find a category where the most viewed posts have a low number of views and where you can easily rank on the top ten authors page.

Oh and make sure it is a niche you are interested in as you are going to have to write a lot of content!

Hi I've never really found any trend in terms of return on article submission. My average is about 2 a day but then I also submit heavily to web 2.0 sites which I would also highly recommend. Definately social bookmark everything, don't over do it though.

Social bookmarking your article(s) certainly will help in terms of SEO, however it is not necessary in order to get them indexed...especially when submitting to high-PR sites like eZineArticles.com

Your questions are excellent and I understand why you ask them, but they are almost impossible to answer. The strength of the sales page, the quality of your article, the keywords you are targeting, the commission rates, the search volumes for your keywords--they all go into the mix.

EZA will not let you direct link to a vendor page with an affiliate link but there are ways around that. You can link to a page on one of your domains you set up and then set up a redirect from your cpanel (or whatever) to the product vendor's page. That will work.

Before you write a ton of articles, I would suggest you do some keyword research. Pick a keyword phrase you are targeting in each article and check the monthly search volume (you can use Google External Keyword Tool) or whatever tool you wish to see if that keyword phrase is worth the time and effort to chase after.

Keep your keyword density below 1.5% or so at EZA--some other directories aren't so particular. Your resource box is going to have to be a killer as well. Don't waste words telling the world about you--they don't care. Give 'em a link and a compelling reason to click on it--or send your traffic to a squeeze page and offer them a bonus for opting in to your list.

You can write a review type article for the product you have in mind if there is a good search volume for the name. Otherwise go after keywords with a strong correlation to what the product is all about.

I would also do a standard search on Google to see how much competition there is. I don't mean the number of competing sites they show as a total, I mean the quality of your competition on the front page. If they are all well-aged, high authority sites you will have a tougher time than if they are mom-and-pop type pre-sell pages or whatever.

I know I sound like a broken record with this to a lot of people--but it is important. Google will (99.9% of the time) only show two pages from any top level domain for any single search. So if you do a search for your main keyword phrase and there are already two EZAs showing (this doesn't just apply to EZAs but to all)--say one on page one and one on page two of Google--you will not get your EZA to show anywhere in the regular listings unless you can beat out one of the EZA articles already showing there no matter how good your article is. Google doesn't want any one domain to control the results for any keyword phrase. That wouldn't provide a good user experience and that is what holds the Google empire together--providing a good user experience for people searching.

Many people ignore this fact and spend hours and hours and hours trying to get their articles to show in Google when there is zero chance unless it is one of the top two in Google's ever watchful eyes. As they say, you have to choose your battles wisely.

An alternative is to submit to other article directories in such a case if they don't have two of their articles showing for your keyword phrase.

I know you know this, but in your title--make it begin with the keywords you are targeting. If you are promoting a book about Antique Airplane Propellers...

How To Find Antique Airplane Propellers (not good)

Antique Airplane Propellers: 5 Sneaky Ways To Find Them (much better)

Throw a lot of LSI stuff in too for good measure. I'm a strong believer--many are not.

What you really need to do is RESEARCH and TEST and ANALYZE YOUR STATS. Which of your articles are getting clicks and which are driving BUYERS to your site. All clicks are not created equal. A thousand tire-kickers and freebie seekers a month doesn't mean squat. Fifty serious buyers a month does mean squat, in fact it means more than squat.

Good luck--I know you'll do well! --Mike

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

Promote My Articles Article Marketing Service

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.

Thanks Mike, Nicola and everyone else for your inputs. This surely answers some of my questions. I will read more through some of the other thread links provided by you guys and do some keyword research before starting to write articles. A lot of information by Mike makes a lot of sense to me.

Successful article marketing basically come down to three things:

1. Market research (Pick a hot niche where people are already buying products)
2. Write many unique, interesting ("wet apatite" type of) contents
3. Post them to minimum 5 to 10 top article directories consistently (twice a week at least).

If you can cover those, you should be able to make decent amount of money, assuming you have a well converting product.

SacredWealth - I wrote an article about building an article marketing campaign which you might find useful - you can read it here How to Set Up a Good Article Marketing Campaign

Although visits are tough to predict, I have articles with 100 views and others with over 1,000....but I have been finding lately that my articles on Buzzle have given more views then the one's I've put on EZA.

Best of luck!

Thanks you everyone once again for the useful information. I will try and put these to practice.

SacredWealth, Don't forget to hit the Thanks button for MikeMcMillan, he just wrote you one heck of a good post.

Thanks Mike, great post.

Add these two people to follow for info on Article Marketing to the ones Nicola suggested:

Alexa Smith

James - TheRichJerksNet


The suggestion by Article-Excellence to check out Tim Gorman's WSO is a good idea, also. I own it, and it is excellent.

KansasDragon, thanks for reminding, I had completely forgotten to hit the Thanks button yesterday and thanks for your suggestions 2. I will looking in to purchasing the WSO you're talking about.