This Is NOT Another "Death Of Article Marketing" Thread

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Okay...I thought of doing this survey.

But I have a question to all the successful article marketers here (this is an example of a knowledge thread):
  1. How many articles have you written on a specific niche?
  2. How many URL clicks have you got?
  3. How many of them converted to sales?
  4. How many times your articles been republished? And is it for 1-2 special articles or distributed uniformly throughout your submission?
  5. How long the article took to generate those number of views?
  6. How long was the title of the article?
  7. What was the length of the articles?
  8. How many article directories do you post to?
  9. Do you link back to your articles (may be linkwheel)?
  10. Do you syndicate same blog content or post unique content?
  11. Do you use any other method of marketing?

I will like the newbies to just learn from the masters and don't ruin the thread. Don't distract the thread.

NOTE: I would prefer if you DON'T argue with each other here. Just share your stats. It would be much more conclusive. Thanks.
#main internet marketing discussion forum #article marketing #content #thread
  • 1. 5
    2. 700+
    3. none (lots of adsense clicks though)
    4. 1 month
    5.4-6 words
    7.1
    8. I ping them and backlink them yes (hubpages and blogs)
    9. unique
    10. No
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    • Excellent! Now, we are talking maths. Which article directory? And you backlink from the blogs and Hubpages to the articles right?
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  • I'll focus on one niche that has been successful lately.

    1. 48 articles
    2. 1,264 clicks (of 68,000 hits)
    3. 248 sales (impossible to tell if others later purchased through auto responder, affiliates or other marketing methods)
    4. 1 Month
    5. Atleast 5 words each, some are 10+
    6. Atleast 500-750 words, some 900+
    7. 5 but only ezinearticles consistently
    8. Rarely, but through twitter/facebook when I do
    9. Some were slightly altered posts from my blogs, rest were unique
    10. Yes, TONS. This is but one way to get traffic to a site.
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    • By the way, do you include Hubpages and Squidoo into your content marketing strategy?
  • With the recent changes from Google, I would think this is an especially precarious time to try building a business with the usual "article back-linking strategy" at the core. Would it not?
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    • Banned
      It would indeed.

      Though, to be fair, the overall success-rate from that "model" of article marketing seems to be pretty low, even at the best of times.
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  • Right - that's what I've been thinking the last several weeks. Tons of work for a rather iffy return, at best. All "the latest" just seems to confirm that more than ever.
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    • The syndication model has been shown again and again to be far more effective than the one-legged stool of mass article submissions. You really do not need very many quality articles at all to break into even the hottest and most competitive niches. The simple elegance of syndication can indeed be quantified, but not within these consrictions of a misdirected survey.
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  • I wonder if the stats from the past mean anything in relation to what google has now done with it's new algorithm:
    Technolog - Google winning battle vs. lousy sites

    If this is true, it seems a huge percent of the ezine marketing efforts that gave benefits in the past will only have a fraction of the impact going forward.
  • I am not an authority on article marketing but yes, I would appreciate if other people would share their stats!

    It tells us new article marketers how article marketing turns out for most fellow warriors and gives us an inspiring lesson of how to go about doing article marketing.
  • The whole syndication idea kind of boggles my mind right now. Are we referring to adding articles to ezinearticles.com and hoping people pick them up and add them to their sites, or are we referring to actually manually getting our articles on these other sites some how?
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    • Yes!

      If someone wishes to pick up one of my articles from EZA that is excellent, but I'm not going to wait if I know the article is top-notch.

      Start developing your own list of blog owners, ezine publishers, and newsletter publishers who use syndicated content, and inform them when you have good content available. You can even offer to write a unique piece for people with large followings. With a little initial work you can develop a very responsive group of publishers in your niche.

      Yes, it takes time. Yes, a high percentage of the time when you make initial contact you get no response. (No, I have never kept stats on it, I'd guess about 65% to 75% do not respond on a first attempt.) As you start developing relationships you will discover word spreads, or they notice your content being used on competitors materials and they start contacting you, too.

      Yes, this does work in the odd small niches.

      There are services available which can help you with syndication, also. I do not use any at the moment. I may consider one in the future. I keep re-reading TPW's free article marketing guide, and have been considering throwing a few articles into his talented hands to see what happens. As in all things, you never know until you try.
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  • Thanks Barry, that's some great info. I don't really know where to even start on finding these type of websites you are referring to, but I'll jump in head first and see what I can come up with.
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    • @LegionNate

      Checkout the Directory of Ezines (directoryofezines.com) which lists ezine publishers by niche, number of subscribers, demographics, ad rates, and whether or not they will accept articles (many do). Ezine publishers are hungry for relevant content.

      Also I use writers market (writersmarket.com). Most of the major magazines have online editions. It's more difficult to get published (quality is essential), but you'll get the double whammy of online and offline readers. One well-written article can result in a million or more targeted eyeballs, and may also get picked by republishers for reprints and so on to nearly effortless syndication.

      One article I wrote years ago is still being circulated, promoting several Amazon books on mesothelioma at upwards of $300 each. The stats and income from this article and several others in similarly competitive niches are unbelievable.
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  • Myob, I've seen you mention directory of ezines before. I'll have to take a better look at the page. I quickly glanced over it and couldn't really tell what was going on. Thanks.

    I'll check out the other resource as well.

    This whole idea is just so foreign to me as someone who was originally taught the whole 'pump out 250 word articles over and over and submit to Ezinearticles.com'. I'm not always into products but does anyone know of an awesome 'product' filled with fantastic resources and explanations based on this entire idea? I feel like that might be better for me than just going bit by bit.
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    • Well, just as for me it is difficult to fathom how so many people are convinced that what is termed "article marketing" here is anything more than throwing sh*t into a fan. Some of it may stick, and it does get distributed, but most people are disgusted in having it splatterd in their face. Being a simple kind of guy, (not a guru, LOL!) it seems to me this type of marketing logic makes reason stare back in disbelief.

      Syndication is really not new. It has been in the offline world for decades, and is the lifeblood of freelance writers who have regular columns in hundreds or even thousands of newspapers and magazines. I guess it will take a while longer for online marketers to catch up with what has been working successfully offline for all these many years.

      The recent algorithm changes from Google has reinforced the values of quality and syndication as being highly favored. And you have seen dramatic proof right before your eyes. What more can be said? Search for the topics in this forum under syndication. There is a wealth of discussions.

      The concept of "Article Marketing", as you were taught, may not be dead yet but it is gasping at last breaths.
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