Your frustration with Article Marketing? How you solved it?

I had your same frustration, and I found that adding "to learn more about.... click here" or "click here to view this authors blog" at the bottom of every article, made a massive difference.

SuperRyan, I think that's a good idea, because you build a list you can market to over and over again.

Others may disagree, however, but it's certainly one strategy you could use to shake things up if article marketing isn't going your way.

Keep working on your resource box. Try using 3-5 different calls to action and see what works the best.

You have the headlines down if you are getting a lot of views. The problem either lies within the body or the resource box.

Another point is to always link your article to opt-in pages. I use articles for LIST-BUILDING not making sales. But it' just me...

Ryan

Focus and direction are important. Good CTR is nice and all, but increasing revenue is all about WHY people are clicking through. Remember that your ultimate goal is to increase revenue not just increase CTR.

As with anything else in your marketing business - the 80/20 rule applies.

80% of your traffic will come from 20% of your articles. The trick is to know which articles produce the most traffic.

Some of my best articles were ones I thought were "scrappy" and vice versa.

It comes down to knowing what your audience wants and giving it to them.

With article marketing you just need to keep writing, more you write more methods and tricks you learn along. Best Of Luck!

Not getting enough traffic. I solved this problem when I learned how to do KW research the RIGHT way.

There are two reasons why you would get views and no clicks, and both can be fixed...

1. The article did not hold the attention of the reader to the end of the article; and

2. The article resource box did not make a strong case for visiting your website... The resource box should force the reader to WANT to click your link...

If either variable fails to deliver on its purpose, then your article will fail to deliver the all-important click-through traffic...

Poor conversion ratios can always be fixed with tweaking, testing, and tracking results... You will get the hang of it, given enough practice and attention to detail...

Consider a frequency of writing and don't give up. Your site must look alive. otherwise you'll lost visitors and ranking.

Ryan is really making the most use of article marketing strategy by building his list.

In my opinion also, one should focus on building a list with article marketing. Because once a reader leaves your website then there is no chance you get him back again. Capturing his/her name and email can give you many other chances to interact with him/her and build a valuable relationship through autoresponder series.

But you can not make a long lasting relationship with your subscribers without strong, value added content. So we also need to focus on building valuable autoresponder content. Once you achieve this then you can easily achieve your income target within few months.

Instead of building someone's business, we can build our own using List Building. So why waste writing articles only for promoting affiliate products. Making optin page as a landing page for all of your article marketing efforts is one of wisest online marketing strategy which actually very few implement in their business.

Once you build a sizeable list then you will not depend on getting continuous traffic through your article marketing efforts. So my suggestion is to focus on building your list from the beginning of your article marketing business.

I have learned that I must tease my audience or almost pre-sell them in the last sentence of my article and make my bio box almost blend into that. Gets me 40-50% CTR.

Focusing on one product/squeeze is a good idea if you already know the niche/product converts well. Otherwise you should be testing multiple niche/products at tyeh same time with your article marketing before committing.

I solved my frustration with article marketing by clicking here (not an affiliate).

You will find this in George Wrights sig link... Im not an affiliate, dont make any money on this, but Im telling you it will solve your frustration with article writing, and make you look forward to it.

Hi Ryan,

If you want more people to click, make sure that you don't have a conclusion in your article.

Your article should build up to a climax that is not even reached in the resource box, but only on the site you link to.

This is an act of balance, because you have to fulfil the promise you make in your headline within your article, without telling everything, and thus making people want to go to your site to learn more.

I love the idea of using articles to build your list. I honestly have never tried that, I usually use articles for backlink purposes.

One of the biggest problems I've had is just finding quality article directories.