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Please help me with my article marketing

by cargen
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Hi guys,

I'm new to IM and the path I took is the Article Marketing way. I have currently 175 live articles (with different pen names) and 10,661 article views but still no success. One of my articles on ezinearticles, "Successful Hair Growth Formulas" by Michael Price has 1048 views and "Hair Home Remedies For Dry Damaged Hair" has 811 views. The link on the resource box is pointing to the affiliate offer.

I need some advise how to ramp it up and actually make money.

Thanks.
#article #article marketing #marketing #please help
  • Profile picture of the author advfin1
    What are you doing to index them?
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  • Profile picture of the author lamberw
    What other things are your 175 articles about? Do they all relate to the hair niche?

    Also, what are you doing to get traffic to your articles?
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    • Profile picture of the author cargen
      Originally Posted by lamberw View Post

      What other things are your 175 articles about? Do they all relate to the hair niche?

      Also, what are you doing to get traffic to your articles?
      That is for the 16 different niches. But overtime, I learned to create new pen names for specific niches.

      To tell you honestly, I have not done anything with traffic. I just relied with the right keyword phrases.
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  • Profile picture of the author cargen
    Nothing, so far.. Maybe the right keywords is the key. Look for keywords with 3000 or more searches a month, and less than 30,000 competition.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nigel Greaves
    I've only taken a very brief glance at the 2 articles you mention so bear that in mind.

    With the first article, "Successful Hair Growth Formulas", there's no compelling reason for the reader to click through at the end of the article. In fact I almost missed the links as they simply don't stand out. You have to offer the reader an answer to the question "What's in it for me?"

    Just giving them something to read isn't enough, you have to persuade them that there's a benefit for them in following your advice.

    The second article, "Hair Home Remedies For Dry Damaged Hair, has a more prominent resource box but that talks about regrowing hair. Now I don't know much about dry damaged hair, however I would suggest that someone who has dry hair probably doesn't want to know how to regrow hair but rather they want advice how to repair the damage instead.

    With any article, be it on EZ or any other site, there has to be a flow from the headline which piques interest, through the body of the article which builds your credibility to the resource box which offers a solution. I would respectfully suggest that isn't happening with those 2 particular articles.

    Nigel
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    • Profile picture of the author cargen
      Originally Posted by Nigel Greaves View Post

      I've only taken a very brief glance at the 2 articles you mention so bear that in mind.

      With the first article, "Successful Hair Growth Formulas", there's no compelling reason for the reader to click through at the end of the article. In fact I almost missed the links as they simply don't stand out. You have to offer the reader an answer to the question "What's in it for me?"

      Just giving them something to read isn't enough, you have to persuade them that there's a benefit for them in following your advice.

      The second article, "Hair Home Remedies For Dry Damaged Hair, has a more prominent resource box but that talks about regrowing hair. Now I don't know much about dry damaged hair, however I would suggest that someone who has dry hair probably doesn't want to know how to regrow hair but rather they want advice how to repair the damage instead.

      With any article, be it on EZ or any other site, there has to be a flow from the headline which piques interest, through the body of the article which builds your credibility to the resource box which offers a solution. I would respectfully suggest that isn't happening with those 2 particular articles.

      Nigel
      Great point Nigel,

      It never entered my mind to actually fix the articles.. All I thought, since it was getting a lot of hits, my articles was good.

      Maybe your right.. I have to actually be in the mindset of the readers.

      Thank you!
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      • Profile picture of the author Fenris Lloyd
        Originally Posted by cargen View Post

        Great point Nigel,

        It never entered my mind to actually fix the articles.. All I thought, since it was getting a lot of hits, my articles was good.

        Maybe your right.. I have to actually be in the mindset of the readers.

        Thank you!
        Fixing the articles should have been one of your first thoughts. If you're already getting the hits, but just not getting the conversions... Then the salescopy or something else on the sales page is you're most likely problem. If you're getting conversions but just not enough traffic then you would leave the articles alone and focus on the traffic generation. You just have to break your system down and evaluate what parts aren't working.

        Determine what part of your plan is getting the correct results and which parts aren't. Then think of which things affect the things that are working and eliminate them from your list of problems, then of the things that are left start with the most likely that would affect the things that aren't working and start there.

        I probably worded that poorly. I hope you understand the concept though.

        It's basic troubleshooting. You have to think a little bit like a detective.
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        • Profile picture of the author cargen
          Originally Posted by Fenris Lloyd View Post

          Fixing the articles should have been one of your first thoughts. If you're already getting the hits, but just not getting the conversions... Then the salescopy or something else on the sales page is you're most likely problem. If you're getting conversions but just not enough traffic then you would leave the articles alone and focus on the traffic generation. You just have to break your system down and evaluate what parts aren't working.

          Determine what part of your plan is getting the correct results and which parts aren't. Then think of which things affect the things that are working and eliminate them from your list of problems, then of the things that are left start with the most likely that would affect the things that aren't working and start there.

          I probably worded that poorly. I hope you understand the concept though.

          It's basic troubleshooting. You have to think a little bit like a detective.
          There are things I don't really understand..

          I get the hits and a good clickthru rate.. But low sales.

          Maybe the presentation is the problem..
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          • Profile picture of the author Fenris Lloyd
            Originally Posted by cargen View Post

            There are things I don't really understand..

            I get the hits and a good clickthru rate.. But low sales.

            Maybe the presentation is the problem..
            Well if you have a good clickthru rate then that means the visitors already are following the links to the sales page. In that case then you're article is already doing it's job (or enough of it's job anyway), but the sales page isn't converting. There's generally three possible reasons for that.
            1. It's a poor salespage that isn't converting the leads you send.
            2. The sales page doesn't meet the expectations the visitor has after reading your article.
            3. You're getting good traffic, but it's not targeted to exactly the right niche. For example, if your selling "widgets", then traffic looking for "free widgets" isn't going to convert. They might follow the links all the way to the sales page, but they aren't going to buy.
            The first one is usually out of your control. You're only option in that case would be switching to a better product. It looks like that sales page is ok though. You can check the stats for that on the CB Marketplace. I imagine you did that before selecting it.

            The other two things are part of your own efforts so you can do thing to improve those. You're already getting some good suggestions in this thread regarding how to improve your own articles. You should also try to evaluate the traffic. (It's easier to evaluate traffic when you have your own websites because you have stats to work with.) In you're case you'll need to just take a really critical look at the keywords and niche your targeting.

            Someone suggested earlier in the thread that you might want to trim down some of the niches and keywords your targeting. They may be getting you a lot of the traffic, but that traffic isn't converting. Be more selective in what you target and you might notice a significant decrease in hits, but the traffic you do get might be more likely to buy. Try to narrow the list down to terms that will most likely be people willing to actually buy, not those that just might have some mediocre interest.

            My guess is that the biggest problem you're having is actually with the traffic. You're getting visitors to the sales page, but they really aren't interested in buying. Fix that and you'll probably see an increase in sales. Fix the articles as well and you'll probably see even more, but only after you fix the traffic first.
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  • Profile picture of the author lamberw
    The advice I am about to give you is the best advice anyone can give you right now!

    Drop 15 of those niches. FOCUS on just one of them!
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    • Profile picture of the author cargen
      Originally Posted by lamberw View Post

      The advice I am about to give you is the best advice anyone can give you right now!

      Drop 15 of those niches. FOCUS on just one of them!
      Thank you for the advise.

      I actually created different pen names for different niches. But it took me awhile to realize that.

      "Jack of all traits" does not actually make any doe.
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  • Profile picture of the author NeilC
    Hi Cargen,

    That's a lot of articles and quite a few views for no results.

    If you don't already know then you need to learn how to get your articles ranked highly in the search engines - basically build backlinks to them.

    It's also important that you know how to choose the right keywords or you'll be wasting your time. There are plenty of articles on my blog that go into more detail if you want to take a look.
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    • Profile picture of the author cargen
      Originally Posted by NeilC View Post

      Hi Cargen,

      That's a lot of articles and quite a few views for no results.

      If you don't already know then you need to learn how to get your articles ranked highly in the search engines - basically build backlinks to them.

      It's also important that you know how to choose the right keywords or you'll be wasting your time. There are plenty of articles on my blog that go into more detail if you want to take a look.
      I never learned how to rank my articles.. Maybe someday soon.

      All the while, I thought I was doing good with getting alot of hits.

      Thank you for the advise.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulie888
    Also, are you direct linking to the sales pages on your articles? If so, then you need to change that immediately - throw up some simple squeeze pages with opt-in forms, and send all your visitors to these squeeze pages instead of direct-linking. You'll get far better results when you build a list that you can market to repeatedly.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by paulie888 View Post

      Also, are you direct linking to the sales pages on your articles? If so, then you need to change that immediately
      ^^^^ This!!

      There's no point in talking about, or looking at, or thinking about anything else at all (including even exactly how many niches you have) until you've done that. This is the big game-changer upon which everything else rests. There's no point in correcting anything/everything else, without having done that first.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris The Traffic Blogger
    I want you to go through your articles and read the conversion rates. I bet that most are in te sub 5% range. Take the best one you have (% not view numbers) and rewrite it. Make the resource box part of the conversation and write as much as you can in there (you have 300 characters).

    Focus on conversion rates, if you are picking good keywords which I think you are, then conversion rates are what you need to focus on.
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    • Profile picture of the author cargen
      Originally Posted by Chris The Traffic Blogger View Post

      I want you to go through your articles and read the conversion rates. I bet that most are in te sub 5% range. Take the best one you have (% not view numbers) and rewrite it. Make the resource box part of the conversation and write as much as you can in there (you have 300 characters).

      Focus on conversion rates, if you are picking good keywords which I think you are, then conversion rates are what you need to focus on.
      Great advise. Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author ambitiouskriss
    The best advice I can give you that really helped me was finding different ways to promote my website. That way, you will find people who are ready to buy. What content do you place in your articles?
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    • Profile picture of the author cargen
      Originally Posted by ambitiouskriss View Post

      The best advice I can give you that really helped me was finding different ways to promote my website. That way, you will find people who are ready to buy. What content do you place in your articles?
      My articles are more in the information side.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marx Vergel Melencio
    Hi Cargen. As mentioned above:

    Conduct proper industry, business market, consumer market, online
    consumer market, affiliate market, keyword and online competitor research
    and analysis to get:

    •a profitable set of industries to operate in;
    •useful business market data to develop your business and marketing campaigns;

    •helpful consumer and online consumer market data to know which
    immediate needs and urgent problems to solve, where to go to know your
    target audience along with their relevant needs and problems and when to
    go to those online places to establish your business as a friendly expert
    source of beneficial content, info, advice, products and services;

    •useful affiliate market data to know the best solutions for the immediate
    needs and urgent problems of your target audience; and

    •helpful keyword and online competitor data to know which keywords to
    target, what your target audience expects to get when using those
    keywords, know how your target audience is expected to react when they
    find what they're searching for and what your online competitors have
    done to rank high on Google and other search engines for your target
    keywords as well as the online places they go to funnel traffic, promote
    their products and services and so on...

    Write attention grabbing titles and article content offering tips, strategies,
    techniques and advice beneficial for your target audience...

    Write about a set of problems your target audience may encounter by
    having wrong or incomplete information before your resource box, then
    write your resource box content in a way which makes your target
    audience think and feel going to your onsite pages linked by your resource
    box links will prevent such problems and issues and thereby maximize the
    benefits they get from your provided solutions...

    Your resource box should show them an action leading to a set of relevant
    benefits, in which the action is to go to your onsite pages and the
    benefits those provided by your onsite content...

    Point your resource box links to your onsite pages offering
    additional/supplemental benefits not found on your articles...

    Mention useful information about your affiliate products in the right places
    at the right time on your onsite pages. Your target audience should think
    and feel your affiliate products offer more benefits not found on your onsite pages or free mailing list signup content -- see below...

    Offer mailing list signup content download, such as a short ebook,
    providing additional/supplemental benefits not found on your onsite
    pages...

    Mention useful information about your affiliate products in the right places
    at the right time on your mailing list newsletters and updates. Your target
    audience should think and feel your affiliate products offer more benefits not found on your onsite pages or free mailing list signup content...

    Hang out in contextually relevant websites and pages that accept content
    contributions from viewers and promote group discussions between
    readers. These websites and pages should be heavily trafficked by groups
    of people included in your target audience. These are usually top SE
    ranking pages and websites for your target keywords.

    On those websites and pages: Establish your business reputation and
    websites as friendly expert sources of relevant information, content,
    advice, products and services beneficial to your target audience...

    Contact webmasters of top SE ranking websites and pages for your target
    keywords that are heavily trafficked by people included in your target
    audience. Tell them about your articles which they can syndicate on their
    sites. Negotiate fresh content beneficial to their target audience in
    exchange for the exposure of your business, websites, content, info
    ,advice, products, services and backlinks on their pages. Negotiate
    onpage ad ad placement, mailing list ad placement and other mutually
    beneficial joint venture deals with them...
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    • Profile picture of the author schttrj
      Originally Posted by Marx Vergel Melencio View Post

      Hi Cargen. As mentioned above:

      Conduct proper industry, business market, consumer market, online
      consumer market, affiliate market, keyword and online competitor research
      and analysis to get:

      •a profitable set of industries to operate in;
      •useful business market data to develop your business and marketing campaigns;

      •helpful consumer and online consumer market data to know which
      immediate needs and urgent problems to solve, where to go to know your
      target audience along with their relevant needs and problems and when to
      go to those online places to establish your business as a friendly expert
      source of beneficial content, info, advice, products and services;

      •useful affiliate market data to know the best solutions for the immediate
      needs and urgent problems of your target audience; and

      •helpful keyword and online competitor data to know which keywords to
      target, what your target audience expects to get when using those
      keywords, know how your target audience is expected to react when they
      find what they're searching for and what your online competitors have
      done to rank high on Google and other search engines for your target
      keywords as well as the online places they go to funnel traffic, promote
      their products and services and so on...

      Write attention grabbing titles and article content offering tips, strategies,
      techniques and advice beneficial for your target audience...

      Write about a set of problems your target audience may encounter by
      having wrong or incomplete information before your resource box, then
      write your resource box content in a way which makes your target
      audience think and feel going to your onsite pages linked by your resource
      box links will prevent such problems and issues and thereby maximize the
      benefits they get from your provided solutions...

      Your resource box should show them an action leading to a set of relevant
      benefits, in which the action is to go to your onsite pages and the
      benefits those provided by your onsite content...

      Point your resource box links to your onsite pages offering
      additional/supplemental benefits not found on your articles...

      Mention useful information about your affiliate products in the right places
      at the right time on your onsite pages. Your target audience should think
      and feel your affiliate products offer more benefits not found on your onsite pages or free mailing list signup content -- see below...

      Offer mailing list signup content download, such as a short ebook,
      providing additional/supplemental benefits not found on your onsite
      pages...

      Mention useful information about your affiliate products in the right places
      at the right time on your mailing list newsletters and updates. Your target
      audience should think and feel your affiliate products offer more benefits not found on your onsite pages or free mailing list signup content...

      Hang out in contextually relevant websites and pages that accept content
      contributions from viewers and promote group discussions between
      readers. These websites and pages should be heavily trafficked by groups
      of people included in your target audience. These are usually top SE
      ranking pages and websites for your target keywords.

      On those websites and pages: Establish your business reputation and
      websites as friendly expert sources of relevant information, content,
      advice, products and services beneficial to your target audience...

      Contact webmasters of top SE ranking websites and pages for your target
      keywords that are heavily trafficked by people included in your target
      audience. Tell them about your articles which they can syndicate on their
      sites. Negotiate fresh content beneficial to their target audience in
      exchange for the exposure of your business, websites, content, info
      ,advice, products, services and backlinks on their pages. Negotiate
      onpage ad ad placement, mailing list ad placement and other mutually
      beneficial joint venture deals with them...
      How do you really get the time to write essays on forums?!
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      • Profile picture of the author Marx Vergel Melencio
        Hi Schttrj. I wrote that in less than 3 minutes. Everything's in my head, so
        no added time for research... That's 10++ years of content marketing, ICT
        outsourcing, business development, SEO campaign planning, employee
        training and management consultancy work talking. Plus: I'm totally blind,
        so everything's stuffed inside this head of mine...
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        • Profile picture of the author schttrj
          Originally Posted by Marx Vergel Melencio View Post

          Hi Schttrj. I wrote that in less than 3 minutes. Everything's in my head, so
          no added time for research... That's 10++ years of content marketing, ICT
          outsourcing, business development, SEO campaign planning, employee
          training and management consultancy work talking. Plus: I'm totally blind,
          so everything's stuffed inside this head of mine...
          Oh Wow! I really admire your will power. Words can't express it. All the best for your future!

          One thing just struck me. How do you use the computer then?!
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        • Profile picture of the author cargen
          Originally Posted by Marx Vergel Melencio View Post

          Hi Schttrj. I wrote that in less than 3 minutes. Everything's in my head, so
          no added time for research... That's 10++ years of content marketing, ICT
          outsourcing, business development, SEO campaign planning, employee
          training and management consultancy work talking. Plus: I'm totally blind,
          so everything's stuffed inside this head of mine...
          I admire your talent and experience.. I'm just starting with IM as a part time hobby, I also went the Article Marketing route. I tried uploading videos to youtube but I don't get as much hits as my articles.

          Are you really literally blind? What gadget do you use to access the computer?

          To be honest with you, I'm also a noypi down south.

          Good Luck my friend!
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          • Profile picture of the author Marx Vergel Melencio
            Originally Posted by cargen View Post

            I admire your talent and experience.. I'm just starting with IM as a part time hobby, I also went the Article Marketing route. I tried uploading videos to youtube but I don't get as much hits as my articles. Are you really literally blind? What gadget do you use to access the computer? To be honest with you, I'm also a noypi down south. Good Luck my friend!
            Hi Cargen. Thanks. I'm not just literally blind: I'm literally totally blind...
            Here's the story if you have time...

            I use this software: JAWS For Windows v8...
            I use a different application from Nuance for my mobile phone...
            No special gadgets: Just software...

            Hope you can let other blind people there know about these tools since a
            lot of them have not heard about these applications...
            All the best from Quezon City!
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            • Profile picture of the author cargen
              Originally Posted by Marx Vergel Melencio View Post

              Hi Cargen. Thanks. I'm not just literally blind: I'm literally totally blind...
              Here's the story if you have time...

              I use this software: JAWS For Windows v8...
              I use a different application from Nuance for my mobile phone...
              No special gadgets: Just software...

              Hope you can let other blind people there know about these tools since a
              lot of them have not heard about these applications...
              All the best from Quezon City!
              Sure thing. I will keep this in mind.

              Take care!
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      • Profile picture of the author Fenris Lloyd
        Originally Posted by schttrj View Post

        How do you really get the time to write essays on forums?!
        It really doesn't take much time to write a decent article. It's even easier when you're doing it in answer to a question. Most people that write long posts and articles on forums, don't actually spend as much time at it as you might think. lol

        Another thing is by taking the extra step to give structure to the posts, add highlights, bullets, etc. will actually help improve your overall ability for when you want to crank out articles. The presentation of your content can often be as important and sometimes even more so than the actual content. Both are important so it's good to get to where it's so natural, it's almost harder not to do it.

        I imagine Mr. Melencio hardly gives it any thought when he writes like that. It probably just flows out as though he's having a conversation. It's much more enjoyable to answer a question about something you know about than it is to just write random articles.
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    Michael J. Price
    EzineArticles.com Expert Author

    Basic PLUS Author who joined May 5, 2010
    130 Live Articles 9,537 Views 1 Comment 22 Niches
    Alright...it seems to have 175 articles on Ezinearticles. Not bad, averaging over 9500 views. Well, to be honest, I have around 50 articles in Ezinearticles in one account and I got something over 5000 views.

    So basically you need to do keyword research first of all.

    Learning to be independent and earning, their own money is a very good practice for teenagers so they will know the importance of self-reliance and the value of money. Teenagers usually look for part-time jobs especially during summer to save money for their summer expenses since parents usually do not give allowances when there is no school. There are many ways for teenagers to make money. However, to make things simple, here are the 10 easy ways for teenagers to make money:

    First way for teenagers to make money is doing work at home for your mom and dad. You can ask your mom and dad if there are certain things or task you can do at home like gardening and cleaning and negotiate it to them on how much the payment will be of you do the job.

    Second is garage sale. If you have lots of stuffs and junks that you don't anymore like your old books, clothes, toys, comic books, magazines and other stuffs. You can also ask your parent if they have something to sell and make sure to ask permission from them before you sell stuff at home and suggest that you are willing to sell the items with a commission.

    Third way for teenagers to make money is selling their own products like their artworks and handcrafted items. If you are good in cooking or baking simple foods, you can also try selling pastries and refreshments.

    Fourth way is home-tutoring younger kids. This job may require a good amount of patience since you will be dealing with much younger kids but aside from earning money, you also get to help kids on their lessons.

    Fifth way for teenagers to make money is selling stuff online. Teenagers can sell many things online. As I have mentioned from the third way on selling your artworks and handcrafted items, you can also sell them online on famous selling sites like eBay. You can also sell eBooks and articles online if you are very good in writing articles.

    Sixth way is taking online surveys. Companies that are providing this job usually do not require age so teenagers can do this job.

    Seventh way for teenagers to make money is babysitting. This is a traditional job for teenagers during non-schooling days. You get to earn money by babysitting little babies for a few hours depending on the work requirement you agreed to.

    Eighth way is pet care. Sometimes, you even get paid by busy couples by just taking their pets especially pet dogs for a walk.

    Ninth way would be to cleanup other houses especially your neighbor's house and lawn. During winter, the amount of money teenagers could earn just by scooping and cleaning pathways and driveways of snow will surprise you.

    In addition, the last way to for teenagers to make money is by doing part-time jobs in department stores as helpers and attendants.

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    This is one of your articles.

    1. Not so effective resource boxes.

    2. Not so engaging writing style - no bold words, no italicized words. No bullets.

    3. Not very original. No apparent EXTRA value from your articles that makes you special.

    4. Length - quite short. Shoot for more.

    That's all I have time to say at the moment.
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    • Profile picture of the author cargen
      Originally Posted by schttrj View Post

      Alright...it seems to have 175 articles on Ezinearticles. Not bad, averaging over 9500 views. Well, to be honest, I have around 50 articles in Ezinearticles in one account and I got something over 5000 views.

      So basically you need to do keyword research first of all.



      This is one of your articles.

      1. Not so effective resource boxes.

      2. Not so engaging writing style - no bold words, no italicized words. No bullets.

      3. Not very original. No apparent EXTRA value from your articles that makes you special.

      4. Length - quite short. Shoot for more.

      That's all I have time to say at the moment.
      Thank you very much for giving time to check out some of my articles. To tell you honestly, I never thought about the problems of articles..

      I just have one question..

      1. Not so effective resource boxes.
      How will I improve on this part?
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      • Profile picture of the author schttrj
        Originally Posted by cargen View Post

        Thank you very much for giving time to check out some of my articles. To tell you honestly, I never thought about the problems of articles..

        I just have one question..



        How will I improve on this part?
        For the time being, I will say...just figure out what you would like to read! And write like that.
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      • Profile picture of the author Marx Vergel Melencio
        Hi Cargen. Resource box content and links...

        Show readers an action leading to a benefit...

        Grabbing this SEO outsourcing report will cut down your overheads and
        improve your offshore employee training and management systems.
        Implementing these top 5 proven traffic generation strategies will increase
        your online sales.

        An action leading to a set of benefits...

        Action = grabbing this SEO outsourcing report
        Benefits = cut down your overheads and improve your employee training
        and management systems
        Link = SEO outsourcing report

        Action = implementing these top 5 proven traffic generation strategies
        Benefits = increase your online sales
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        Make your target readers think and feel going to your linked pages will give
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    "Hair grows from the follicles and it is mostly made up of the protein called keratin."

    This is your first sentence and the biggest problem. You are making a classic mistake far too many article writers make.

    Imagine a mother frantically looking around a shopping mall. She can't see her child and she's getting worried. If you went up to her and said: "Young children are more naturally curious than adults. There is a great of evidence gathered from the fields of evolutionary biology and development psychology that suggest..." she would push you aside without even looking at your face.

    However, if you went up to her and said, "Madam, is that your child over there?" she would turn and face where you are pointing and then run to her child.

    People don't look to marketing articles to give them lectures, or discuss ideas with them. If they wanted encyclopedic entries they would go to wikipedia. They have a problem or they need something and all they want is to be pointed in the right direction. An effective article makes them go in the direction the author wants them to.
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  • Profile picture of the author elrascal
    Originally Posted by cargen View Post

    Hi guys,

    I'm new to IM and the path I took is the Article Marketing way. I have currently 175 live articles (with different pen names) and 10,661 article views but still no success. One of my articles on ezinearticles, "Successful Hair Growth Formulas" by Michael Price has 1048 views and "Hair Home Remedies For Dry Damaged Hair" has 811 views. The link on the resource box is pointing to the affiliate offer.

    I need some advise how to ramp it up and actually make money.

    Thanks.
    Hi cargen, as you can see by all of your responses there are alot of different things you can do and often many people will have conflicting advise.

    The best thing you can do is take a step back and look at the "big picture."
    You want to build an online business. Not an online promotion. Writing articles with an afiliate link at the bottom is definatly just a promotion.

    The same fundamental rules of business apply to the online world. Add massive amounts of value to the customer and they will be tripping over themselves to give you money.

    As mentioned already by a few other Warriors, stick to one niche until you have made it profitable. Don't send people to the affilate offer. Send them to your own squeeze page. Some will opt in and now you can build up a trust worthy relationship with them, (and now you have a long term business rather than a short term promotion.) Once they trust you, you can send them to as many relevant affiliate offers as you want and they will be far more likely to buy from you. Just make sure the offers are good other wise you will lose their trust and in turn, their money.

    This is very brief but I hope it helps you in some way.
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    • Profile picture of the author Fenris Lloyd
      @elrascal - You've given cargen some good advice and some things to think about as he ramps up his Internet Marketing career.

      I actually agree with all of it, but I thought I'd make an additional reply regarding this part.
      Originally Posted by elrascal View Post

      ...The best thing you can do is take a step back and look at the "big picture."
      You want to build an online business. Not an online promotion. Writing articles with an afilliate link at the bottom is definitely just a promotion.
      ...
      The cool thing about the type of article marketing cargen is doing now though is that there are NO EXPENSES yet. (Hence the term Bum Marketing - "Since it costs no money to get started, even a bum can do it." )

      You're absolutely right that it's better to send the visitors to your own squeeze page. In fact I also think that at any stage in the process whenever you make the final links to a vendor sales page, it's best to make the link to a domain that you control, with a redirect to the vendor sales page. That way *no matter what* you maintain control of all the backlinks you've made wherever they are. But the sooner you do things like that, the more likely you'll start having expenses.

      Eventually everyone will move on to additional things that might have expenses, because it'll actually make them more money as well. But until then, Bum Marketing is still a great way for someone to get started.

      If cargen can tweak the campaigns he's working on to learn how to make the marketing effective, then he'll be able to make the money he needs to start moving on to even more lucrative plans. What he learns from this promotion will only make everything even easier when he does start investing in better strategies.

      cargen is ahead of the game for most of the people that start learning about IM. He's already taking action.

      Bum Marketing is proven to be effective. If he can do some troubleshooting on his campaign and learn to make it work, then when he does start moving on to better methods he'll have a really great chance of success as he builds up an actual business.
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      • Profile picture of the author Devid Farah
        Hi Cargen,

        One thing you are not doing quite right is directing your target visitors straight to the affiliate links.

        In today's IM, potential buyers needs to be reminded of your product and why they should patronize it because there are more competitors coming up daily.

        You may be surprised to realize that many of those that visit your affiliate links might end up buying similar products when they are ready the next day simply because they could not locate your link.

        It is much better to have them drop their emails and tactically follow them up without trying to splash sales to their desk tops.
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