In my experience, it would be difficult to make a full-time income using article marketing only. If you build links to your better articles, and send potential customers to a sign-up page and collect names/list build, you'll get closer.

What would a full time income be for you?

A saturated niche with everyone using the same keywords can make life much more difficult without the proper research.

Everyone has a different idea of a full time income. In my world I make a full time income from article marketing but I live the simple life. I don't have 3 cars in my drive, a massive mortgage and 3 children to support. Also, I've built many residual streams of income because I don't like depending upon any one method online. An example would be my 220 made for AdSense sites that got whacked a couple years ago from Google. It would have been a REALLY heavy blow if that's all I was doing.

Whatever you decide to do it's wise to build a list no matter which niche you go into as already mentioned early in this thread.

To YOUR Success,
Dean Shainin

The top article on Ezine has had over 2.2 millions views. At the end of the article, there's an affiliate link.

I wouldn't be surprised if that guy is making a full time income just from ONE article he wrote. It's definitely possible to make a lot from article marketing.

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If you do some keyword research and then promote related affiliate in your articles you could make some cash. I don't know about full-time income, but I had a pretty good month with this kind of marketing last month. I use hubpages though, and some people don't consider that article marketing...

As a matter of fact, you can make full time income from article marketing alone but certainly not from any kind of niche. You will need a microscopic eye to find niches where you can survive with article marketing alone.

You can certainly earn a good living, there is no question about that. The only question is how hard are you willing to work for it. If you think you can submit an article here and there, and expect to get to the top in a week, think again. If you think the income will come pouring in over night, think again.

A saturated market will be tough to tap into, but it can be done. You'll just have to work extra hard at it. Build back links, network, build your own content, and when you've done them all, start over and do them again.

Stick with it and it will happen, good luck.

I think you can do it, but be prepared for a lot of work ahead of you. Consistency is definitely the key.

I think it's possible but it would take a lot of consistent writing and effort on your part.

If you have your own blog and or sites, then you could write the same articles and give your sites/blog backlinks at the same time. Plus having a blog/sites will give you more credibility.

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It's certainly possible to earn a full time living offering article marketing services to other marketers for seo purposes. Which is the same thing you're looking to do if you think about it.

Article Marketing may not be as easy as it used to be a few years ago, but it still has the potential of making you a full-time income if done properly, with a little innovation. For example, submitting RSS feeds of your articles to RSS directories. You don't have to be stuck with one keyword, try many others. Maybe another keyword can hit #1 position with less efforts and is equally profitable than the one you chose.

Sure it's possible. Like some of the others have said, you're going to have to do some serious keyword research before you start, though.

Article marketing is kind of like a snowball. It may take awhile for it to get going, but once you build up momentum, it can become huge.

The key is to be patient. I've had people ask my why, after publishing 8 or 10 articles, they aren't seeing giant results. It takes time. Will you be making a full-time income in a few weeks? No. But, the great thing about article marketing is, the content is always out there. Months or years from now, someone could find your article, love it, and become a very loyal customer.

Not a chance in hell save for a select few.

Never put all your eggs in one basket. If that basket falls, all your eggs break and you go hungry.

Diversify your income streams and that way if one of them goes flat, you have others to float you while you replace it.

Work smart!

Because mostly, people use article marketing to promote affiliate sites.

Now, using affiliate marketing to promote your OWN products is a toooooootally different story.

I was actually about to come here and ask the same thing.

I'm basically down to my last efforts here to make some money online.

To me, it definitely seems VERY possible to make say $2000 a month from article marketing alone (that would be enough to sustain me personally for the moment).

Like Alexa said about, even $4000 a month is only $133 a day, which is say about 4 affiliate sales, depending on what you're selling of course... doesn't seem overly difficult with enough articles out there.

I've been writing about 4 articles a day for the past two weeks (not ****e articles... well written and good info) and have done proper keyword research in the hopes of getting them ranked.

At the end of each article I have a direct link to an affiliate offer (bought a domain, forwarded and masked it so it's ok for EzineArticles).

I have a couple questions I'd really appreciate some help with though.

1. In my author signature should I include something like "mkmossop has studied fitness and nutrition for the past 10 years... etc etc"... or, should I forgo that and simply link directly to the offer, i.e. "Watch the following presentation to discover 5 foods that fight abdominal fat... link"?

As of now I have both of those, the info about me coming after the affiliate link.

2. I'm submitting these to EzineArticles as they have the best chance of ranking. Would using an article submitter/spinner harm my chances of getting ranked?

It seems to me that using a good article submitter could massively increase your affiliate trafficif it's going out to say 100 article directories. Good idea or bad idea?

3. At say 4 well written articles a day, and good keyword research, at what point might I start seeing some returns?

Thank you for any help!

Making a living solely from article marketing can certainly be done, but why would you want to do this?

Write articles, and make sure that any traffic you generate goes straight to a squeeze page. I used to write a ton of articles each and every day, and while it will generate some immediate income, it is not even close to the best long-term solution.

My question is why do you want to be in a niche that already saturated? There are a lot of good keywords, just keep drilling until you find oil!

I'm starting off with Article Marketing, but I would like to move on to some of the other methods too.

For what it's worth, the most success I've had with article marketing was sending traffic to a lead capture page and making the money on the backend via an email series with Aweber or the like. So, if you're asking how much can you make directly with article marketing, it would probably take a lot of work to get to full-time levels. But if you use it to build a quality list of subscribers and if you have some good info to offer your members so you gain their trust, then you can knock it out of the park for sure!

John

Yes, please all keep writing in the weight loss, forex and **** berry niches, then the rest of us get entire niches to ourselves.

Lucrative niches are overrated - look how much Danny Choo has made from writing about plastic toys and geek junk.

Anyone have any input on what a good CTR is for a link in an author signature in an article?

At what percentage should it be changed?

Thanks!

You can definetly make a full time income from article marketing alone.

What I found out with my years of article marketing is that its really a numbers game.

If I would have submitted 10 articles to EA and made $400 total, I would submit 100 and make $4000.

Its all a numbers game.

Outsourcing will speed up things and make you earn money faster and you wont have to perform any labour!

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Hi!

You can most certainly do make a full time income from Article Marketing if you use leverage, automation and outsourcing. But it all depends on what "full-time income" means to you.

Full time income in the philipines is a few hundred bucks a month. Full time income for an oil engineer in Texas is quite a lot more!

I would recommend using article marketing as a mixture of getting massive amounts of dirt cheap backlinks and getting real visitors to your site.

...and as always: use various income models. But Article Marketing is a good way to start out or expand...

Best of luck

The full time income doesn't come from your articles. It comes from your sales funnel and backend.

I have been making a full time income through article marketing for quite a while now and use this as my foundation while I learn how to implement other very good strategies in order to be able to begin my own internet marketing businesses to generate passive streams of income.

There definitely is money to be made through article marketing but it requires dedication and a lot of effort on your side, the art is to be able to add more and more value in your articles so that they get the attention which you require in order to make money.

Hope this helps.

It's indeed possible if you believe it's possible
and if you WORK it. Many of us know the possibilities
and know what we must do but we don't. Even
those who eventually take action they DON'T do
ENOUGH of what must be done and they don't
do it CONSISTENTLY enough,

Kingsley

If you have a tld that redirects to an affiliate offer you can.

I would assume you would have to hire a ton of article writers, to spin your content, it is certainly possible