What is the most difficult aspect of Article Marketing?

Writing the Damn Articles it bores me to tears.

To me sitting at the computer writing articles is one of the most tedious time consuming jobs there is.

The worst part is once you post it your supposed to then re-write 75% of it as it is no longer unique. YUCK

To me it is the writing process that is most difficult. (its easy actually I just hate doing it) the actual posting them and seo etc on the articles is the fun part to me. No better feeling than Knocking off an established site with a well edited article.

Cheers

ODA

Just wanted to add, You are on the right track mate, Consistancy is the key from here, do a little often rather than have 1 big day a week.

If your keyword research is on the money you'll make cash. Don't forget to analyse the competition either, sometimes a keyword is just not worth the effort.

Thanks

No time to answer your other questions for now, sorry ... but ...

This is all good.

Especially the "low gravity", and the "2 - 3 good products" and the "quality articles".

As long as you're also doing the two fundamental things on which making steady money from selling Clickbank products inherently rests, yes (but without these you haven't started at all):-

(i) Effective pre-selling (not "selling"!) on your own site
(ii) Building lists and communicating effectively by email

There's not much point in doing article marketing for Clickbank affiliate sales without doing both of these.

These are, after all, the assets of the business one builds.

Without those, you have no assets and it isn't a business at all (and it probably isn't even much of an income while you're doing it, either).

Well, that takes off-page SEO, mostly. And article marketing can be part of your off-page SEO, of course. For some of us, it's most of our off-page SEO, if we can get the articles in good enough places (that means not just article directories). Just make sure that it's your site for which you're doing the off-page SEO, and not anyone else's site.

When someone types your keyword into Google as their search terms, you obviously need the copy of your article that they find to be the one on your own site, not one in an article directory!

The most difficult aspect of article marketing is getting traffic. Your articles must have the right keywords to attract search engine traffic, but they also have to be appealing to the public.

However, I believe that the true answer to your question is that there are many difficult aspects in article marketing. Your article is the beginning of a process that ends only when your reader finally orders your product.

You write articles to get traffic. Your articles are also syndicated, in other words, published in other websites by their owners, with your resource box. This means that your readers follow a journey until they end up purchasing your products. There are many other details that become part of the process that begins with article writing and marketing. You can offer a free ebook in your resource box and collect email address from your readers, building your email list. Article marketing gives you many alternatives at the same time.

However, the most important of all is to get traffic. Otherwise, nobody will read your work or click on your links. There is a fierce competition online, in all fields. Your success depends on managing to attract many readers.

Article marketing is "old school". With the recent google algorithm change article directories are going out just like the dinosaurs during the mesozoic period. IMHO article marketing is the biggest waste of your time there is.

The key in article marketing is consistency and persistence.

Getting rank, and get your articles syndicated does not come from ad hoc work.

there must be a plan to do it.

Most people fail because of lack of planning

Ok so it would be a good idea to post a link to my site in every article along with the clickbank links... right? Not a SEO expert but still learning

Effective pre-selling (not "selling"!) on your own site

what do you mean by that?

And are backlinks an example of why the web is called the "web" because the links create a web like structure? lol just a thought that popped in my head.

The toughest aspect in Article Marketing is having the motivation to write multiple articles on the same niche. If you are looking to buy articles, then the toughest aspect is to drive traffic to those articles.

I've seen it mentioned by three different people that writing the articles is something they dislike.

My question is would you not expect your dislike/bored/etc feelings to come through in your writing?

The only thing I find hard about writing articles is getting started . Once I'm past that hurdle, things flow relatively easily. Then I find major editing out the too much verboseness is required to tighten things up.

Except when posting on the WF .

Marvin

The toughest part of AM is writing good content that people will keep reading and follow your call to action.

In the beginning I thought the more articles, the better, but it doesn't work like that.

Also where you send the traffic from your articles is hugely important. It's not a race to send people to your sales page. The longer you can hold someone attention, the better your conversions rates will be.