Bum marketing in a more competitive niche - can it still work?

When I started, I not have a single penny, except pocket money. (Which I couldn't waste)

Now, you know... not 8 or 10... even 20 articles can't work for you if you not produce quality content. Your one quality article can be equal to 50 crap articles.

I am monitoring article directories since few months and the thing I got is that, now readers want something new and unique before buying anything from you. If we are sharp then it doesn't mean that readers are fool.

Now net is mother of information. Few years back, it's difficult to know about something, so reader had to buy. But now, a lot of free stuff is there... So first you should be unique and helpful(free) and then offer your product (extra unique and helpful)

And you know one thing....

"ARTICLE MARKETING IS NOT ONLY ABOUT SUBMITTING ARTICLES ON YOUR SITE OR DIRECTORIES... ITS A CAVE, FILLED WITH SUCCESSFUL SECRETS AND BY TIME YOU HAVE TO FIND OUT."

I have spent few months in article marketing but seriously I still find out something new interesting helpful thing. Till now, it's not end yet. I am still finding tips and tricks in article marketing and I know it'll keep going.

So, keep it out of your mind that it's only about submitting article... there's much more hidden behind this sexy face.

BUT YA... YOU CAN MAKE MONEY WITHOUT SPENDING A SINGLE DOLLAR, that's the beauty.

and the first thing is to get start... I made it and you can make it also...

Good Day!!!!!

I think a lot of Warriors here have had their successes with the usage of "Bum Marketing" We all started some where & for me I was in the same boat, Starting off without a single dime, the only thing of an asset was a domain name and the ability to write freely on any chosen topic of my interest. Provide the value in the article, give the reader a solid reason why the product of your recommendation is going to aid them further along with achieving something for example.

As for your questions, if you can post the articles in the respective categories and using the same keywords I think with a few additional backlinks to the article you can possibly achieve such results & increase your sales etc.

Goodluck.

It can still work in a highly competitive niche, Anne.

How competitive the niche is doesn't really determine the outcome: it's more about how competitive are the keywords which you choose as your targets. Whether or not it works for you really depends on your own skill-set (keyword research, keyword selection, writing skills, article placement skills, product selection skills, and so on) rather than on the method itself, which is a well proven, established one that can certainly "work".

Like just about everything in internet marketing, different people get widely differing results from it.

It's good to be aware that sometimes, particularly in forums, when people feel frustrated by a method and claim that it "doesn't work any more", all their posts are really telling us is that they were unsuccessful with it. We usually can't tell the reasons. But people tend to say "It doesn't work" rather than "I couldn't make it work for me". The reality is that for some people it works very well indeed.

In any competitive niche there are overlooked and less competitive sub-niches that you can access much more easily and start to build momentum with.

The fact is that it can still work.

The truth is that it requires hard or extra work.

"BUT YA... YOU CAN MAKE MONEY WITHOUT SPENDING A SINGLE DOLLAR, that's the beauty."

Not true. You will need a domain and hosting, as most article directories do not allow direct links. Also, any serious article marketer should purchase some sort of bookmarking software.

So, free? No. Cheap? Yes.

If you believe it will work, you will be motivated enough to take the action needed for it to work which will make it work and re-enforce your belief that it can work.

Huh?:rolleyes:

(On the flip side, if you doubt it will work, you will not take the action necessary for it to work and you will become a self fore-filling prophesy, which will re-enforce your doubt and increase your in-action.)

Whew!

Yes it can, heck, you can get away with only targeting competitive keywords and not worrying about ranking.

When I very first started that's exactly what I did, I just used that ezine first burst of traffic and wrote tons and tons of articles and started making money.

Smartest way?

Probably not..

But I did learn one important lesson from that venture.

TAKE ACTION

(Note: That campaign still makes me sales, I did all of this 3 years ago )

If you know keyword research and how to master it, bit of backlinking and you can market anywhere....anywhere you want. Weight loss, make money online, golf, dog training, acne...where ever you want.

I would understand if someone from PPC says that some niches are really hard and close to impossible (like credit cards, insurance)...but bum marketing...nah. You can do it in any niche. Just find right keywords. If you don't know how to do keyword research in article marketing...then sorry, but its just not going to work.


And like Chris said...in every niche, there is sub niche. So you can still market anywhere you want...

I used to be optimistic about keyword research, but how come I find some keywords with 12,000 searches per month, with the front page full of (aged) badly SEO'd articles with zero backlinks so I build a squid lens make 10 backlinks and it's on page 100 somewhere? This has happened not just once but several times.

Admittedly, I just THINK things are good keywords. I thought it wasn't possible to know such things. I tried to think from my customer's point of view to find good buying keywords.

As for the onpage SEO? It most likely wasn't particularly great, but it still seemed like people who had put in no effort would not budge from pg 1. Only difference I could tell was that the articles were older.

My suggestion? Write ezine articles for traffic, after about 20 of them I start making sales usually.

Targeting them towards keywords helps a bit too.

Then use the money you make from that for SEO down the road, that's my path at least.

That might be your problem. I can't remember when i found a keyword with 10,000+ searches per month, with low competition.

Keyword research is actually something you have to do, to see what you come up with. Just thinking about keywords what to use...that's no good really. If you write articles then you want to get low competition with quotes and also allintitle: this will give you a basic idea, is it ok to go with or no. If both are ok, then you look for backlinks. Top10 sites. How many backlinks they have and can you actually outrank them..

Hope this helps.

Margo

Bum marketing still works. I am only using FREE methods currently and I am on the front page for numerous "competitive keywords".

Add some different tactics to your bum marketing. Don't just use little article directories for traffic and backlinks. Use everything you can, like social media sites, guest posting, free blogging and website platforms like blogger, wordpress.com, squidoo, hubpages, tumblr and etc.