Did Everything Right But Still No Progress

Can i ask what the niche is?

so you've submitted your articles to directories and that's it?

My first question to you is why you can't link your squeeze page to your resource box? I've done it many times and never had a problem unless that's changed.

Second, Ezinearticles isn't your answer. You need to create a website or blog and put your content on there at least before submitting to an article directory. Then drive traffic to it.

If you are trying to build a list, your problem could and probably goes way beyond the article issue. What are you offering your prospects for their name and email address? Is it high value content? Or is it just some kind of freebie that's crap? People aren't going to give up their name and email now days unless you have something very valuable to offer.

These are just a couple of things you should think about with this issue. Hope it helps!

You say you have a blog set up.. are you posting content/articles to it regularly? If not then that's what you should be doing. Fill it up with useful, relevant content, and use the Google keyword tool to find keywords to write articles for. Then work on getting as many backlinks to your site as possible, from different sources. It'll take time and effort, but it will pay off.

First off, it takes longer than 6 weeks to get indexed. Also, you don't seem to be aggressive enough in terms of your marketing approach. Once your site is up and running, it's time to expand your linkwheel, which requires far more than a couple of articles. There are a ton of different versions of a linkwheel, but basically you literally only have a handful of direct links to your money site. From my experience, and successes, your articles should pull traffic to hubs like Squidoo and Hubpages. Do NOT, however, make any of these a blatant sales pitch. People see right through that and you'll lose credibility and conversions. Instead, think of the hubs as providing sources of "free" information, pro bono as it were. This builds trust, educates and positions you as an expert on the topic.

So, first tier of a linkwheel is a set of 3 or so hub sites linking back to the money (main) site. Second tier of hubs links to the first set of hubs and a third set of hubs links to the second set. I hope this isn't too confusing. Linkwheels can be intricate but they also force your site to develop organic traffic in a way that makes sense to the SERPS. It wouldn't seem like a natural trend for every site emanating from your main site to all link back to that site. If you do that, you'll get slapped quickly.

Ok, after the three hubs, the articles come next, although you can write them or have them written anytime. Two, three or even ten articles isn't going to put a dent in your self-professed competitive market. Initially though, do ten articles for EZ, ten for GoArticles and mix and match ten for ArticlesBase to make a total of 30 articles. HALF the 30 link to one of your third tier hubs, the other half to a second tier hub. On the other side of the wheel, you'll need another 10 articles for each of the big three article sites mentioned.

Here's where it gets dodgy, if it hasn't already, lol. 20 of the second batch of 30 articles should link to the third batch of 10. That last batch of 10 articles needs to link back to your money site.

Oy, sorry for the complicated answer. It gets easier as you get efficient at linkwheeling. You absolutely may and probably will get a difference of opinion from other members and no one method is "right" or "wrong". This is just what has worked for me. Feel free to change it to suit your approach.

BTW, no, you aren't done at the article level either. I was trying to make it a slow-drip feed of information rather than overload. PM me if you need help!

It sounds to me like you need to spend some time getting relevant backlinks as suggested as bnwebm suggested. I wouldn't go down the route of buying links as that may have a negative effect.

Also what are your stats showing ? is the problem that you aren't getting visitors to the site, or that you are, but they aren't signing up ?

Sounds to me like you are doing what everybody else is doing in an area that has been arguably overworked for a long time. There are so many new areas that can be found with greater return, but people won't necessarily tell you...

Well some may argue with me, but IMHO, it's all about the keyword research. Have you done the proper research and are you targeting keywords you can rank for (and are they ranking?)

Also, it sounds like you are not doing nearly enough as far as backlinks go. Of course, that all depends on your keywords and how competitive they are but I'm going to guess for that niche you will want to have at least 100 articles out there submitted to various directories.

And, of course, you will also want some web2.0 properties and then boost your best articles/properties by building backlinks to them.

Lee

Interesting but I do not see anyone posting about why there are not many or no leads, that to me is the most interesting aspect of this topic, if it is an effective "psychological cure" which is likely a matter of circumstance, given the situation, it would seem to me that the real market is much different than the example approach suggests it is.

How enticing is your opt-in form? If it says Sign Up, then it doesn't convert well. Might need some red arrows pointing to the form, and offer them something free.

It may also help to add more content more often. It is generally suggested you try to add content to your site 3 times a week at least, if not everyday. I know I attempt to update my sites at least 5 times a site. Of course once the site is more established it will be easier to slow down, but updating more often will help get you up in google faster.

I can't agree with that. I purchased a new domain this morning, installed WordPress and added 1 page of content around 11am, and I was indexed by 2pm. All I used was a ping plugin, and I even got a $0.20 AdSense click...

Dare I suggest that your thread title is wrong?

If you "did everything right", you would not be in here asking the questions that you are.

The whole of your problem can be sorted by the following list of things you MUST DO:

1. Target the people most likely to take the action you want them to take;
2. Put your links in front of those people, and give them a reason to click;
3. Create content that leads a person to take the action you want them to take;
4. Simplify the "action process" for your visitors.

If at any point in your sales funnel, you fail to do what is required, then your campaign will fail to produce the desired results.

You should diversify your linking channels, and provide a good call-to-action with your link.

Try another account at EZA, but this time give them the kind of content they want, and fashion the landing page as they want it designed. They want a landing page that contains content, not a squeeze, so if you want published there, follow their guidelines.

Make sure that your content is presented in such a way as to ensure that people take the action you want them to take, either subscribe or buy.

Provide people a means to find you, and then REALLY DELIVER on what they want from you.

Thanks to all the Warriors for your great answers.

I now see a few things that I can do differently.

Mike

6 weeks isn't much time at all. Keep your blog active and continue to add quality content to it. Build links to your blog and squeeze page. You'll start to see interested people eventually. Rome wasn't built in a day.

You may be underestimating the magnitude of articles, links and promotion that is required to see any real results.

I think your title is not compelling and you aren't showing any benefits....

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I think you are focused on the wrong issues. You seem more concerned with submitting articles (I assume for link juice) - but, you should be spending this time trying to understand who your potential customers are and where they are at - then work on getting in front of them - if you do this - the link juice will come.