Seeking Some Guru Advice

14 years ago

I try to get 1000 searches a day to any page on my site (s)

This can be done with one keyword or 10.

The deal is . One article listed to any or all of the sites you have mentioned is not going to get you very far .

There is so much lacking here .. I don't know where to start .

Originally Posted by warrenj1979

Im gonna write a article to market a product how many gobal searches the key word should have is 1900 gobal searches to low is 5,000 searches better or should I go higher?Also should I submit to articlebase or ezine or to all and do hubpages squidoo etc...

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warrenj1979 14 years ago

Can you elaborate
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cswjohnni

14 years ago

I'd put a quotes between my keywords to check the competition, < 10,000, and use phrase match search, volume > 1,000. Sometimes, it takes time to find one, but once you find it, it might be your money keyword. And I think of course it's better for you to submit articles (re-write them) and submit to article directories and hugpage and squidoo, too. The more articles you have out there, the more you own the internet.

However, I have to say, a good keyword (money word) is really the key for your customers to buy from you.

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Troy_Phillips

14 years ago

Would you rather have a keyword that has 100,000 marketers competing that really do not understand the process or only 10 competitiors that know the game like the back of their hand .

Competition analysis could easily be more important than keyword research.

Every niche has the same amount of competitors .. one . If you are not targeting the number one spot .. you will never get there .

I understand rewriting your content for the squid but why for directories ?

Please , don't tell me anyone told you too. I want to know an exact instance when the same exact article, syndicated to article directories, hurt your rankings or traffic in any way .

Would you rather have a money word that gets 100 searches a day or a free word that gets 2500 searches a day ?

Originally Posted by cswjohnni

I'd put a quotes between my keywords to check the competition, < 10,000, and use phrase match search, volume > 1,000. Sometimes, it takes time to find one, but once you find it, it might be your money keyword. And I think of course it's better for you to submit articles (re-write them) and submit to article directories and hugpage and squidoo, too. The more articles you have out there, the more you own the internet.

However, I have to say, a good keyword (money word) is really the key for your customers to buy from you.

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janeiro82 14 years ago

That depends:

1. Promoting luxury products or cheap products?
2. Is it a buying keyword or not?
3. How much competition u have? Can u rank for it?
4. Is it a long tail keyword or not?
5. How much commission u get?

and so on...

Ideal keyword:

No competition, more than 100.000 searches a month, long tail and buying keyword, promoting luxury products, 100% commission
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tpw

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Troy_Phillips

Would you rather have a keyword that has 100,000 marketers competing that really do not understand the process or only 10 competitiors that know the game like the back of their hand .

Competition analysis could easily be more important than keyword research.

Troy... Man... You hit it out of the park... There was some real wisdom in those words...

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PeteSmith

14 years ago

Originally Posted by cswjohnni

I'd put a quotes between my keywords to check the competition, < 10,000, and use phrase match search, volume > 1,000. Sometimes, it takes time to find one, but once you find it, it might be your money keyword. And I think of course it's better for you to submit articles (re-write them) and submit to article directories and hugpage and squidoo, too. The more articles you have out there, the more you own the internet.

However, I have to say, a good keyword (money word) is really the key for your customers to buy from you.

Interesting post. So how about this. When doing article marketing would you say target a niche that has keywords that have less than 10,000 results when you do a phrase search in Google " "..or should you target a competitive niche like say weight loss, that you know will get lots of searces for on ezinearticles etc?
Or do both?

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thaismr

14 years ago

My no-guru, still fighting the online war, advice:

Maybe you should start by marketing yourself.

Start an account at these sites; write a few quality contents, maybe 3-5 articles, get experience ranking your articles without too much affiliate links selling stuff.

I've seen ezine articles pages on first page of google, I've seen hubpages on first page of Google. I haven't been seeing much traffic to my squidoo lenses, though; neither have I been seeing many lenses on top 10 for any type of keyword.

So, start writing and see how those sites and their community receive your content. With 1-2 articles or pages sent to each of those big ones, you should see which site matches better with your writing style; they have different requirements to accept your content. Maybe you get along better with one or another. Article directories can get your content multiplied by syndicating it, while hubpages don't have that.

Personally, I choose 2-word or 3-word keywords with at least 1k searches/month, but that's not much clicks if you are top 10 but not #1! You can always escalate, though, writing several articles for different keywords in your niche. I am starting to focus on 5k+ keywords because 1k isn’t getting me much traffic at #4 to #10 spot.

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Troy_Phillips

14 years ago

Now I know we al like to think of our self as worth a lot . In reality, how much is yourself worth?

I see where you are coming from .. to an extent . I know people like Mike Dillard made this very popular at one time . I am not kicking it , he sent me a check or three in the day.

I know marketing yourself is suppose to raise authority .

I am a pretty big man. If I was standing on your pinky toe , would you want to hire an authority in pain management or just pay me to get off your toe ?

If we come to an understanding with our potential customer that they have a problem, pain, need , and we dangle the solution, pain medication,fulfillment in front of them, most could care less if you have a degree.

Originally Posted by thaismr

My no-guru, still fighting the online war, advice:

Maybe you should start by marketing yourself.

Start an account at these sites; write a few quality contents, maybe 3-5 articles, get experience ranking your articles without too much affiliate links selling stuff.

I've seen ezine articles pages on first page of google, I've seen hubpages on first page of Google. I haven't been seeing much traffic to my squidoo lenses, though; neither have I been seeing many lenses on top 10 for any type of keyword.

So, start writing and see how those sites and their community receive your content. With 1-2 articles or pages sent to each of those big ones, you should see which site matches better with your writing style; they have different requirements to accept your content. Maybe you get along better with one or another. Article directories can get your content multiplied by syndicating it, while hubpages don't have that.

Personally, I choose 2-word or 3-word keywords with at least 1k searches/month, but that's not much clicks if you are top 10 but not #1! You can always escalate, though, writing several articles for different keywords in your niche. I am starting to focus on 5k+ keywords because 1k isn't getting me much traffic at #4 to #10 spot.

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thaismr

14 years ago

Hi Troy,

The OP was asking specifically about direct article marketing, specially using Ezinarticles and Hubpages style sites.

Hubpages and Squidoo types of sites have a big community which can rate your article up and raise its exposure.
Hanging around their forum and getting people to vote your article up, link to it, follow you, etc., is important. Wouldn't be if he just needed backlinks, but he needs traffic - he can't make a sale if no one reads his articles.
I did not mean to market himself as an authority, rather to get himself known as a contributing member of the community.

Hope this explains my point of view.

Originally Posted by Troy_Phillips

Now I know we al like to think of our self as worth a lot . In reality, how much is yourself worth?

I see where you are coming from .. to an extent . I know people like Mike Dillard made this very popular at one time . I am not kicking it , he sent me a check or three in the day.

I know marketing yourself is suppose to raise authority .

I am a pretty big man. If I was standing on your pinky toe , would you want to hire an authority in pain management or just pay me to get off your toe ?

If we come to an understanding with our potential customer that they have a problem, pain, need , and we dangle the solution, pain medication,fulfillment in front of them, most could care less if you have a degree.