Good for you - and you're just getting started.

Even more valuable than the $$$ is what you learned from it.

Keep tracking your articles, and see which ones generate the most traffic.

Great work. :-)

Dude, are you not building a list?

Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list. Build a list.

By the way, did I mention that you should build a list?

Also, great job! It may not have been $3000 but it's $855 more than you previously had and it shouldn't be hard for you to grow that in no time. KEEP DOING WHAT YOU'RE DOING!!

Take $600 of the original $855 and spend it on some outsourced articles using reliable writers from this forum - There are plenty here!!! While your outsourced articles are being completed continue to do your own writing and submitting. Once your outsourced articles are ready, begin to submit them while still maintaining your own article writing.

By now perhaps a month has passed and you should have generated slightly more income then the previous month. Continue to repeat this process but as your income increases you increase the amount of outsourced articles you purchase. This is the process of building your article marketing funnel.

Eventually you get to where a site is paying to build itself while providing a small (but growing) and steady profit margin for you.

I've done this with many of my original sites and they consistently churn out income month after month even after I stopped submitting articles on their behalf.

Respectfully,
Tim


Oh - if you're wondering about the other $255 that was left over. I recommend you pay 1 small bill with some of it (for a sense of accomplishment), place a small amount in savings (for a rainy day) and use the rest to splurge on something for yourself because you earned it (for a sense of happiness/reward). You could also treat a friend or family member(s) to something nice like dinner because chances are good that while you were busy writing your articles during the month you most likely ignored them unintentionally (making amends with family and friends).

Work the numbers and see were you are so you can make good business decisions...

Okay you made $855 from 200 articles (that works out to $4.28 per article)...

Now, you should be directing traffic back to your website with 2 different squeeze pages for testing purposes... Capture their name and email (very important)

This is were you need to make a business decision...

1. Invest half your months profits into having more articles created for you... For now Do NOT pay any more than $5 per article...

2. That means each month you are going to be making more and more money as your article count increases...

3. Take 50 of your articles and put them into an autoresponder series to be delivered to your list every 2nd day...

4. Create quick tip audio podcasts out of each article and submit them to several podcasting sites... (use PodPusher.com)

5. Create your audios into videos with some PowerPoint slides and submit them to YouTube, etc...

6. Join high-end affiliate programs related to your niche that also have recurring income (membership sites)... and promote them to your list. At the end of each of your autoresponder messages promote the program, one at a time and see which one performs the best...

7. Wash Rinse Repeat...


The key is to replace yourself from doing the work with outsourced teams you can trust to do a good job. You may have to try a few places before finding the right people but make sure you find the right people (That's also important)


Mike Hill

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sree, how are you monetizing the traffic?

Be sure to track the CTR you're getting from all those articles, assuming you have a way to track such a thing. I know EZA tracks URL clicks from article body and resource box. Really pay attention to that, because you can increase your income quite substantially if you get better at it. The other part of the equation is maximizing your conversions at your site. If your income is from Adsense, make sure you've got your ad blocks/units positioned properly and blended with your content to get the highest CTR possible.

Honestly, if you're not getting a minimum 10% CTR to your site from the articles and another 10% CTR on Adsense ads, you're not doing it well enough (in my opinion). I was able to take my EZA CTR to 26% from a measly 3% by coming up with better titles and much better endings (call to action). Adsense CTR is mostly about tightly focused content on each page of your site + proper blending and positioning of ad blocks. You should be able to get close to 20% CTR there if you test a lot.

Seriously, if you can make $800+ from one month of effort and you're NOT getting very high CTR's, you are literally sitting on a goldmine, my friend! You should be able to exceed that with half as many articles monthly if you really dig in and analyze things closely. Great job and best of luck going forward! BE PROUD OF YOURSELF!!!

John

Wow, congratulations. You took massive action and made a pretty decent amount of money, too. Keep in mind, these articles will continue to keep working for you. You are an inspiration.

sree94, did you publish the articles to your own website AND article directories? Or just to article directories and you have different content on your own site?

Thanks

Try giving out a free e-book for free. With your personal expert outlook on your niche.

$855 is not bad at all for the first month, it's more then I made. - The money is in the list your building with those 200 articles!

Nice Start! and good luck with your IM.

Congratulations! Here is an extra tip for you...

Once your articles get out there, and start getting natural searches, be sure to use a tracker. One that tracks what keyword brings the visitor to your site and what keywords are getting the click throughs. You will begin to see a pattern of certain keywords get clicks more than others.

The most important thing is that of those keywords, certain ones will be the people that click through the most often to your clickbank offers. And of those, certain keywords some will be your main purchasers.

These are the keywords you want to focus on. Write articles for the directories on these keywords and make sure to post some on your site as well.

These are your golden eggs.

Jeannie

I'm just glad you are making money thanks to my system!

Congratulations! Told you it would work! Try Jeremy Kelsall's tips, that should help you take it even further. Wait for your articles to grab more momentum, you should be making much more than what you did with 200 live articles.

Either way, you just made more money than 95% of the people giving IM a shot!

Best of luck,

Daniel Molano

PS: Satisfied and succesful customers is what keeps me going! I'm truly happy for you.

Hi,

My suggestion is look at which products you got the most sales from.

Then write the same articles JUST for those products while creating your own products in the same niche.

You can then move onto Clickbank with products that you know sell, you will already have a load of articles and you will also get people becoming your affiliate and you should then make well over $3000.

Don't give up this is the time to go faster!

All the best and good luck

Chris

Are you a professional writer?

With that many articles on EZA you can start analyzing your stats there. Which articles had the best CTR and why? Which the most views? Also compare the stats with the 'most viewed' articles of your category to see if and where is room for improvement.

I did double my CTR and views with that.

Gunter

I'd look at which keywords are driving your sales and consider some ppc..

Writing articles by hand and submitting them to the directories is totally exhausting.

I have to say that I am really impressed that you managed to write that many in one month. I know how exhausting it is writing articles because I used to do it.

There's a much, much easier way though.

Take a look at:

Instant Article Wizard Pro - Create articles with superhuman speed!

With this software you could bust out 200 quality articles in a weeks time and never actually write a word yourself.

For distribution. check this out:

Massive Backlinks and Search Term Domination. Article Marketer

With this distribution service you will get your articles distributed to hundreds of articles from one central site.

BTW- You should really consider video marketing as an alternative to article marketing. It's both much easier and you can get a hell of a lot more traffic.

You already have an rss feed - see the rss symbol at the top of your ezinearticles author page.

Andrew

Hi,

What does everyone think of products like Brad Callen's Article Submitter?

Are these products good to use for submitting articles, or is manual really the only way to go?

Your advice will be appreciated!

Thanks!

Supermania

I agree. Sometimes its not the best to do what "all" are doing.

Gunter

This is awesome as I have just started article marketing myself. I have not published near that many articles but I have gleaned a ton of information from this thread that will really help me. I am even more motivated now than ever before.

Wow - that is amazing. I am not close to that amount of articles a month, congratulations. I am just starting out and have benefited well from the valuable resources within the warrior forums. My question to you: while you have written a ton of articles, what has allowed you to build the traffic to your articles? You said you have had little time to do anything else, so what has worked as far as promoting the articles and getting the traffic. Thanks

I also congratulate you on taking massive action and for the results you had as a new IMer.

Maybe I missed it in reading all these posts, but have you considered the niches themselves and the products you are selling? With a good CTR, lots of articles of quality content, and products that are for a hungry audience, you should be able to make a nice monthly income.

I know my first IM experience was almost unbelievable because I made more than $12K selling two eBooks I wrote and sold for less than $10 each. I also did no article writing (I didn't even know about it when I first started) and instead wrote about 6-8 posts on a Wordpress blog. But the biggest element of my success was because I offered good quality "food" to a very hungry audience.

So, my advice is to check out your audience and the products you are offering them. Make sure the price point is appropriate. My audience wouldn't pay more than about $10 for the eBooks. But I made up for that in quantity. So your product may not be the best match or the price might not be right for your audience.

I hope the best for you!

How do you build a list if you don't have a web page and you just write articles on ezine? Sree, is each article pointing back to a website?

List building is king, no doubt about it.

Most Article courses talk about writing articles about topics and give parameters for the keywords. However, they never mention anything about Staying on one topic. How else can you build a list? I mean, you don't want 100 different topics and 100 different capture pages with 80 people on each list.

So, my point, find a niche that will last for the long haul if you are going to build a list.

Preferably a niche you enjoy writing about and learning about.

Jim Furr ><>

Tim and Mike - you guys are tops!!
(And everyone else too

OK, so my intense article marketing period ended about four weeks ago. Since then, I have cut back on the articles. I basically write only one article a day for the niche that is bringing me virtually all of my sales.

I've tried to get tons of backlinks to my "performing" sites, though I am not seeing much increase in rankings.

I have now decided to get involved in as many niches as possible, to get as many income funnels as I can.

My biggest frustration is not being able to get more traffic to my main converting site. I am still only averaging 50 visitors a day, yet I am selling almost one product per day. If I could just get this traffic up!!!!

I was going to say what Kim said about taking most
of the money and outsourcing the article writing.

In addition to the forum I've found some amazing writers
at Textbroker.com - Each Word Counts for some crazy good prices.

mx

Wow, there's a wealth of info in this post.

First off, great job with writing your articles. Isn't it really exciting to see your effort paying you back?

I can't think of anything to add to Mike and Tim's posts which were great by the way. They've encouraged me, I'm gonna write five articles today. It will come back to you.

Great Job.

You've done the hard work and made some money, now - outsource!

Outsourcing is the key to big, big money!

When you get your hands on a pile of profits, work hard to figure out how to multiply your efforts through outsourcing.

Like someone mentioned earlier in this thread, outsource the article creation and submission process, then I would spend the a lot of my time...

Repositioning my articles into other types of content and plaster them all over the net.

- Blog posts & ping ( start a small blog farm )
- Hub & Squidoo Pages
- Bookmark EVERYTHING!
- Other methods...

( look up Matt Bacak - in this forum for article distribution/re purposing tips )

Of course, it won't hurt your long term business situation - if you begin to build and market to your lists.

You doing a lot of hard/smart work. Why not build a long term asset in the process?

TL

Here's an idea.

Build a list by redirecting each article to a squeeze page. Market to the list...and make more sales.

Take that 855 dollars and reinvest in some PLR (easier to rewrite) or get articles freelanced. You've done the hard work...now repeat it and use some leverage!

Cheers and GREAT JOB!!!


Brad Spencer

The problem with "intense" article marketing is that most people are not passionate writers and therefore simply can't churn out tons of quality articles each and every day. You can burn out quickly writing articles.

The second problem is that today, with all the article marketing competition out there, you really have to know how to write well for getting enough views and click-thrus. Submitting a lot of crap won't get you anywhere today anymore.

Gunter

Awesome results!

Don't know how I missed this thread.

Make sure that you outsource like TimG advised.

And you mentionned that you are "hammering your list"... Make sure that you build a relationship with them. What you need is to get them opening your emails and see your offers.

There are a lot of awesome advice in this thread.

Remember:

1. Build a List
2. Outsource
3. Did you think about your own coaching program?

All the best,

Franck

That is great. This just shows you that Article marketing is ONE of the best ways to bring in unlimited FREE traffic to ones site.

I personallly have written close to 200 articles and this has brought me in a very good amount of free traffic. I see some online internet marketing gurus who have over 1000 articles and this is the only way that they are making money online. This is the only traffic source for their income and traffic.

Tal

Congratulations. Would love to hear more about your future successes

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I see some people are taking issue with your comment regarding hammering your list. There are some very successfull marketers who hammer their lists. Anyone ever hear of Mike Filsaime

I have tested this.

I set up 2 lists in aweber, and alternate the opt-in form on one of my squeeze pages bewteen the 2 lists.

I've had around 3,000 opt in to each one.

One list I send an email to every day for 15 days, and the emails are very heavy on the promotion. no relationship building, etc. It's nothing but straight promotion for 2 weeks. I would add more to the autoresponder, but I've slacked off some

The second list I did just the opposite with. They get an email once every 3-4 days, they are heavy in content, etc.. You know, the whole 'build a relationship' type thing. I've got enough emails in this autoresponder to go out a few months.

List 'one' has a higher unsub rate, but actually makes me more money. And those who stay on the list are in fact 'high responders' when I send a broadcast.

I'm still testing both lists, as I'm planning a launch and want to see if the results are the same.

What can I say - I'm a testing freak And my test results sometimes run counter to 'warrior wisdom'.

Everyones results are different but those results are nothing to be disappointed with for a first try. I would be happy with those results and I think it shows the power of article marketing is still strong.

Wow. Amazing job! I can tell right now you're going to go a long way with IM.

That is great that you were able to write 300 articles in one month. Why not try writing 104 articles next month on how to get through nursing school.

Use your articles about getting into nursing school to get people to your site. Next, put together 104 articles to use to build your list on how to survive nursing school. Put together 2 years worth of autoresponder messages to go out once a week. Then put an opt in form on your site for your newsletter.

Some ideas to get you started . . .

How to get the money to get started
How to stay focused and learn good study habits
How to balance family and school
Tools to help you get through nursing school

You can build a huge list this way. Think about how many people are going to nursing school. This is a huge niche. Stick with it and you will see your profits grow each month.

Good Luck!

Tracie

I applaud you your application and dedication to the cause. I really couldn't do that myself. As for list building that's probably the way, I'v got myself set up with an autoresponder, but don't know where to go from there. Will have to consult the gurus I guess, because I'm getting a lot more visitors now.

Missing the jig - darn it.

Thats amazing, how do you find a topic to talk about? You must've had a major brainstorm.

A question about the 200 articles. They were directing traffic to only 1 site or multiple sites?


stephen

I have started article marketiing. Members of my team and I share articles and tweek them to make them our own an save time.

Connect your Expert Authur RSS Feed to Twitter for even more traffic.

Charles

So Sree, hows it going now?

Any updates?

Sami

ibw13, you mean post articles on craiglist and usfreeads?

stephen

Now that you making more money you can begin to outsource some of the article writing to give yourself time to focus on the other tasks.

If you want huge success in Article marketing, you must learn and mastered BUM marketing.

BUM marketing is a way to tap into search engine traffic, build back links to your articles and draw massive traffic to your website!

Few things need to be in place to multiply your success.

1. BUM Marketing
2. Back links to article
3. Build opt-in list
4. Automated RSS Feed Blog
5. Back links to the blog

You can use an SEO blog to discover related theme keywords, download Jeff Johnson FREE SEO Blog Software and double your traffic to the website!

I'm cranking out an amazing 0$, I'm getting like 30+ subscribers weekly though, I just need to get a real OTO up, and find a few products to reccomend. As for the whole article marketing thing I have made a total of 0$ as of now but I haven't really had the time to get started.

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I must say, writing that many articles was exhausting!
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doesn't really exhaust me since the key is outsourcing
Check here on the forum, on DP or at BHW....

Lots of services which do HQ work + submission for ridiculous low prices. I just ordered 6 articles and i paid $50, this includes massive submission. $50 well spent, IMHO.

Great Job !!!

I was doing one article a day and thought that was good....I gotta get to your level....again great determination and fortitude!!!!

Great job, I hope my articles will do as good as yours, Thanks.

200 articles...!! That awesome..!!!

This thread has definitely been an inspiration to me! I just finished reading all the way through it. Learned quite a bit.

I'm just getting started with articles. In fact I just signed up for an EzineArticles account 3 days ago.

I have a question that I didn't see covered in the thread. Obviously, EzineArticles is the premier place to post your article. A lot of stuff I've read says to post your article to as many article directories as possible.

1. Is this really necessary?
2. Can you post the same article to more than one directory without being penalized for duplicate content?
3. If I do need to post a unique article to each directory, should I just stick with EzineArticles since Google is so fond of them?

Maybe some of the more experienced members here could share some of their posting techniques with us.

Thanks,

Shane

Look into other methods of generating traffic and get the hell out of article marketing! (that's my advice) Complete waste of time if you ask me *flame suit on*

Great work, 10 articles a day is really tiring for me....
But anyway, hard works paid off in the eventually

What's nice about that is the fact that the payoff for those 200 articles you wrote doesn't stop at $855 ..

Perhaps they'll make you around $850 a month .. every month ..
And you can keep writing more and more and build that up even further

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE

I had kind of gotten away from the article marketing, and my sales dropped as a result

Today I have submitted a bunch of articles, and had my third $100 day so far.

Keep submitting articles folks. Article traffic is so good that I'm not even that concerned with SEO anymore

Train a writer from Elance.com to do what you do and have them do 80 articles for $10 ($800)...then you'll be doing 280 articles a month...keep doing that and in 2-4 months you won't be writing a word.

Eventually you'll have 1000s of articles each month without writing any of them. At that point, train someone to do the keyword research and manage your article writer's work.

In a year or two you'll be hands-free and able to pursue whatever you wish.

Scott

Wow, some really great content in this thread amazing,

Mike and Tim you guy's should work on a article marketing eBook together seriously you guy's have massive amounts of knowledge, I'll be the first to purchase! It would be a real winner as I and many others barely know the secret formula to article marketing and I think guy's pretty much mastered it.

Best Regards,
-Alex Kaplo

Great job! I know your fingers must be hurting you, but at least you got to fill your pockets up with cash. I'm looking to increase my article marketing as well. Hopefully I can do as well as you have!

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Wow! You just wrote 200 articles in one month! That´s really outstanding!....Keep the good work and you should be reaching the $3000/mth very soon....

Remember that what you put up today could be there for 30 years!. $800 this month + effective money in the bank from income in future months on the same articles

Great Job!!!!! I'm very impressed, you HAVE to be quite focused, and that's what matters most. Just keep on going, and it will build upon itself.

are there any updates of your sales so far?

Are the original 200 articles are STILL bringing in sales?

I am about to attempt this myself...

Been putting it off for a long time now...

It's 1:30 am, and I just came over to the forum after submitting five articles to EzineArticles and Go Articles. It took me two hours to flesh them out (three were already done) and edit and load those babies up. You know, you hope you've done some good when you get finished! This thread has been immensely encouraging; thanks, all. I have only about 40 articles done this month, but I am gonna keep pluggin' at it, since so many of you have had such good success.
Anybody got an opinion on GoArticles? Am I wasting time there?

First, congratulations! $855 in your first month is great andit will only get better. The great thing about articles is that they continue to pay off - they don't suddenly stop after the first month. Not every article will hit paydirt but I have articles that are still bringing me traffic and sales two years later.

However, I do have some criticism of one aspect of your method: 10 articles a day??? I know you read it in a WSO, which is supposedly expert advice, but I think quantity like that is absurd. It's not quantity that will bring you success but quality.

I commend you for even being able to produce 200 articles in one month but I don't agree with it. Assuming your writing on a single niche - nursing schools? - I take it for granted that you're repeating a lot of the same concepts over and over again. Not even the most original thinker can produce such a volume of original content.

Aside from the sheer impracticality of it, what kind of quality are you able to produce at that rate? If you produced consistently high quality I really admire you. In fact, you should become a professional writer!

The reality is more likely that you've got a few gems among a lot of mediocrity and/or repetition. Why not cut back the work load and concentrate on the few gems? You could polish them up even better.

There's another reason behind my criticism of this method: quality sells, not quantity. I achieve 4 primary things with my articles:

1. Search engine credit for original content by publishing my articles on my website first, then only on other sites after the page is indexed and I get the credit.

2. Backlinks.

3. Traffic from visitors clicking through to my site from my articles.

4. Preselling. A good article primes the reader and makes them easier to convert at your site.

Quantity may get you the first two benefits but it does not produce sales. Potential customers will not read mediocre articles and click through to your site. The few who do will not be presold.

Quality, on the other hand, produces all 4 benefits and leads directly to sales.

So I question the wisdom of this method but I still admire your accomplishment. Now you can back off a little and focus on high quality work that will bring you even more sales!

My second criticism only involves the advice from others: list building is just one tool among many forms of marketing. It's not the "be all and end all" that will doom you to failure if you don't do it. If you don't feel like it's your thing don't feel forced to do it. Maybe you will sometime down the road. Maybe never.

Just having a list will do nothing for you. You have to market correctly to that list and it's a very specific skill. I've tried it and it didn't work for me. I concentrate in other areas and I'm happy with the results.

How did you market with articles? wrote the articles and submitted to directories?

How many directories did you submit to in total + How many articles did you submit to each directory?

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Wow! 200 articles! Not many can boast that figure, especially when it's just you, well done. I would definitely re-invest and outsource. You could sweep up some nicely written articles for $3 a pop or heckle it down for bulk orders. Keep us posted.

Ye mate earning $800 is great that's just in a month, wow what if you did that for 4-6 months the income would be great, and remember that as the months go on an your articles are picked up every day by new person how much traffic this will bring in for years to come

you may have started out slowly ( you think, but i think it was a great effort) but as you go on your going to get better and better, mate good on you for taking action, defiantly a kick in the pants for me to move my but.

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Obviously, quality is important in article marketing (that is, if you're looking to make sales as an affiliate). If you can maintain high quality while cranking out a decent quantity of articles each day, that is the greatest formula for success with article marketing. Add some more promotional techniques to your arsenal and you're all set!

just over $4 per article? you either need to do more keyword research or work on your pre-sell. you could make more than that just selling them at $5 a pop which is the going rate for a 500 word article.

take your $855 and buy more articles. but this time do the keyword research first and do it well. save time by not writing them yourself, do the thinking work yourself, pay people to do the rest.

hey good going!

I just have to say, Chris Hunter has given you some awesome advice in this thread. Don't let people get away after they've gone through to your site. Even if they are buying products you want to be capturing their details!

sree94, You are a true inspiration for me. I have also started my first big Article Marketing campaign this month. And so far in first 5 days I am able to earn $51 in my CB account. And yes I am also building a list now.

I have set up a target to write at least 10 articles per day. So that will be 300 articles a month. Lets see How much I can earn this month..

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I agree! Build a List & Get Other People to Write Articles for You! Pay someone to write 200 articles a month for you or how about 1,000 per month while you focus on Marketing?

Way to go!

It is important to remember that not every article will e a home run. Some only bring in singles.

If you could keep this up for 12 months at your current conversion you
would bring in a massive $8000 per month.

Remember the articles will not stop converting.

Now If you put a blog up, with a few unique articles for your niche, and added in three good affiliate products. Not in each post just every 3 or 4th your sales will go through the roof.

Now build a list - yeah thats right 2 lists one of buyers and one for signups.

Now you are cooking!!

Truth is very few guru's make $8000 per month. Most of their list are gasping or air with members optin out. Reason they are been nailed to the floor with sales offers. But very little real content.

So send your list an invite to check your new blog post. They will be more
receptive to your offers.

pm me if you want some more advice - I write 8 articles per day.

Brian

Hi sree94,

I have not read every post here, but even if you
Bought the articles @ $7 each, you would be
ahead in a few months time!

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Income = $855 1st month and probably $700 next month.

Buy 200 articles @ $7 = $1,400 costs

$855 + $700 = $1,555 - $1,400 = $155 net at the end of 2 months!

From the 3rd month on is all gravy

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So, take the $855 and buy 122 articles @ $7 each = $854

Watch your profits grow!

Jim Furr ><>

What!
You already spent the $855!
Your Business Principle #1 should be:
Reinvest profits until you reach your $$$$ mo. goal.

PS: Chances are, you will not get quality articles for less than $7 each.

OK,

I would like a little information from You Folks in IM Land!

How long is it taking you to get your articles published?
Especially at EzineArticles.com -
(or have you given up on them?)

I read thier blog a few months back, before
they went to a paid priority service, and
the moderator said it would probably be
a nominal fee to access the service.

I don't know about you, but for me,
$97 a month is Not a nominal fee!

Jim ><>

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Thank You redicelander,

You are right

Jim ><>

PS:About my comment #225 -
Does anybody have any
feedback about those
numbers I used? Do
they look correct?

Now that you have the content, take it and use it in different venues. For example, you can take your articles, modify them slightly, and post them on your blog. You can submit those posts to blog carnivals. You can bullet point them and upload them to free e-book directories. You can read them into a microphone and create a podcast series. You can video yourself talking about the various topics and post them to YouTube. It's all about leverage. Take your content and leverage it!!!

Wow , that's great!
Congrats.

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Glad that u make a wise move. Soon enough try to build a list for good. That would help a lot in promoting your articles...

Regards

B

That is fantastic! You might not have reached your initial goal, but at least you got $1000. That's terrific. I hope everything works out well for you. Good luck with next month. Drop us a message saying what you get next month!

A good way to increase the views of your articles is to write about topics the people want to know and not writing articles based on keywords.

Just go to your EZA category and open any article there, then scroll down to the "Most Viewed" articles. These are the articles the pulled the most traffic over the past 90 days.

Gunter

Hi,
Your articles will have a viral effect for several months or years so keep plugging. For$10, you can put a 30 day classified ad on ebay for your niche. I have this successfully for product sales and list building.
Thanks,
Jim

Mr Hunter has hit the nail on the head there. If you are building a list, you are building repeat traffic. Every article is working way harder for you. You want to have a list of customers who trust you, get some cool content from you regularly (3-4 times a month) and the chance to buy something valuable and useful from you regularly.

Having honed your writing skills to that peak, writing your series of emails to go out on your autoresponder service to your growing list will be easy!

Transfer your skills to list building, so those articles are bringing you longer-term returns.

And well done on what you've earned. You have the skills and the determination.

I really see where you went wrong. You actually manually submitted these articles. You need to blast the articles at least once a week on a Monday. While doing this, Build your list. then add them to the article submition from your list be it your business list or an email list like Yahoo or Gmail. I hope this helps!

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Hey bro... congrats on your $855!

Don't worry that you didn't get to 3,000. If you write enough articles and distribute them to popular directories, you will.

Yea I know sometimes when writing articles it can feel like you pulling your own teeth out...but that's ok. It is sure worth it.

Hey it's doesn't cost anything but some time.

Take care

Omar!

congratulations! Why not outsource the writing. You can get 500 to 600 word articles done for $1.00 each. A good sight to advertise free is freelancer.com
You will find plenty of good writers.

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That's truly excellent persistence! I admire that so much. I can only crank out about 3 or 4 in a day before they stop making any coherant sense! 200! What generally works for me is taking the articles I had already written and make some squidoo lenses out of them. I also started with my blogger blogs and rewrote several passages and the first few sentences of the articles as one time blog posts with a small blurb at the end. Just a few mini-ideas. Hope this helps! There have been some excellent ideas so far!

Hi,

I have just read the entire thread and there is some really great information here.

Can you tell me about the site you link to in your resource box and how you market the affiliate product there?

Thanks

Hi sree, Roger here, I'm a newbie to warrior and saw your post. WTG on your article marketing. I was wondering if you use isnare? If not give it a try you may free up some time. Take care

also, start a blog for each niche you're writing articles for and post your articles there.

put some ads for affiliate products, set up a very visible rss feed and put an optin box as well (try to get all of that above the fold)

and if you must, you can slip some adsense in there somewhere as well.

but, yeah i agree with everyone else that told you to build a list.

It doesn't matter what niche it is in and if you don't know what to send to them.

Get them on your list first, then ask them what they want you to send them.

Have you tried creating a few backlinks for each article so they will get some page rank of there own over time and keep bring in the money month after month.

Writing article after article can be very tedious so I write less articles but then get some backlinks for them. Use social bookmarking sites tumblr and the like.

Maybe I missed it but one thing I didn't see mentioned.

It's not simply the article itself generating traffic.
By submitting the articles to as many directories as possible you build backlinks which improve page rank.
So, speaking to the longevity of an article... in that regard it's infinite.
To say nothing of the article being picked up by other sites and going viral.

I've got one site in particular that 5 or 6 articles submitted to the top 3 directories have generated over 300 backlinks, and a top 3 spot on Google for my main keyword.

Just food for thought.

LC

Good work on the article marketing, haven't really made much myself

This is a very inspirational thread! I've written close to 350 articles, but that was within a full year (January 2008 - January 2009)....basically averaging 1 article every day. Reading your story is making me want to start cranking out more and stop procrastinating!

would some one mind explaining "build a list"
what does this mean exactly

Good luck and you seem to be on the right track.

Do what you can to get customers and/or prospects to sign-up for an opt-in email list so that you can get information and offers to them without them having to visit your web site again.

Thank You for that bit of information

Great Job on taking action, I agree with Andrew ...I have just started working more heavily into articles and press releases and I would also appreciate any advice in this area..Great Post ...Thanks

Kathy

Hey, that is fantastic start. It will get only easier. May be try variations to produce multiple copies with unique content and used them in different ways. Bum marketing, driving traffic to your money site, in Squidoo, Hub pages and Blog Posts. get multiple streams of income from same set of articles. Wish you all the success.

Virender Labroo

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I'm new to article marketing. How much does your bio make a difference? Anyone have a sample bio to share and a good format to use?

Thanks,
Paul

Good information on backlinking ..Thanks

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I am brand new to this whole internet marketing thing but a have huge desire to learn and apply the info into dollars. so my question is what type of articles are people posting are they based or personal research about need that people might need or are they based one professioal experiences. do you write an article and sell the informationnor do you sell a product or service. I don't mean to sound ignorant i am just tring to learn.

Did you write the articles yourself or you out source them? I am just asking because I would like to move from Mail order to IM, and writing 200 articles it's very intense.

I think you have made a great start. It shows dedication and commitment to write all those articles and clearly you have a product which meets your target market as the sales have started.

I bet many others who purchased the same product are still sitting procrastinating.

Well done, learn from any mistakes you've made, repeat your successes and you'll do well.

kind regards
Aly
geordie-coach

Keep it up....you are an inspiration to many struggling marketers.

Article Marketing is a great way to go. You can write 1, 100, 1,000 or more articles and each one has the potential to bring you traffic, not only for the 1st month they are out there, but for 2 or more years. Also, each article that you write and submit is going to give you a backlink to your site, provided you put it in the resource box or anchor text.

I am still getting visitors from articles I wrote 2 years ago. Of course not as many as when I first submitted the articles, but every little bit adds up. I haven't promoted that one site anymore since then and I still get visits and even a sale now and then.

To your health,
Edward Moore

Congrats on your achievement. By the way, were all those 200 articles submitted to article directories or some of them were actually posted on your site?

Congrats sree94 on writing 200 articles. That's not an easy task. I agree with a lot of the people that have replied here that you could potentially make even more money than you did from those 200 articles.

If your articles are pointing to a site between you and your affiliate link'd site (e.g. squidoo or hubpages) then you want to try and keep the concept of surfer momentum in mind.

Surfer momentum = Your article says some pretty good stuff that makes the visitor want to click on your link at the bottom (to your squidoo/hubpage). Once the visitor goes to your squidoo/hubpage they have even BETTER information from the info that was on the ezine article...and want to see more! They then click on your affiliate link (I recommend using the big arrow module built into squidoo to make this link stand out more).

This surfer momentum concept will help you generate a lot more sales. Hope that helps.

How did I funnel people to my site? I basically talked about the problem that the person is facing (because I market to desperate customers) and then in the resource box, I push them to a site that sells them a solution

I was concentrating on four niches during that intense article marketing month. One of the niches has totally died, one has sold a few items, one has sold about 7 or 8 products a month, and one has given me a nice income each month. Now making about 2000 a month. Not enough to quit my job, but it certainly helps!

Building a list definitely helps to get more sales

that's pretty good... I need to get started!!!

sree94,

Great job! In addition to the $855, 200 articles should be bringing in some residual income as well. Have you earned additional income since your original post?

Best of Luck!

Calvin

Hi, your articles will bring you consistent traffic over time, especially for those that stick in Google. I have over 1000 articles in my EzineArticles account and they have pulled in close to 2 million visitors and still bring in over 4000 per day to my sites.

What you wrote last month will continue to bring in traffic. So keep it up! But I can understand how tedious it is to do it yourself. In order to bring your business to a higher level, outsource the work!

Observe and track your articles and see which are the ones that bring in the most traffic. Study and learn what was done right and avoid the wrong. Then you have a set of guidelines ready to instruct those whom you outsource to write for you.

That's what I did and now, I don't write a single article these days, very seldom do I ever write one on my own now. Everything is more or less on autopilot after I outsourced the work.

So the key is to outsource. Other tips:

1. Instead of sending visitors directly to the sales page, send them to your squeeze page or review site. That way, you are building a list and building quality backlinks over time.

2. Cover even more niches.

That pretty much rounds up how you can get from your current income level to the thousands.

Pm me if you need help.

First off, do the keyword research.

Build a huge keyword list of your niche.

Get an SEO-Article writer. You can get them when you hit up Google with the following keywords "SEO Article Writer".

Get SEO articles written for all your Niche Keywords, on various topics that are useful for your targetted reader.

When you have done the above things then it means that you have started Dominating your niche by Article Marketing.

My Personal Opinion : Always write SEO-articles for Article Marketing.
But the keywords should take place naturally on the articles.

Cheers

First off, do the keyword research.

Build a huge keyword list of your niche.

Get an SEO-Article writer. You can get them when you hit up Google with the following keywords "SEO Article Writer".

Get SEO articles written for all your Niche Keywords, on various topics that are useful for your targetted reader.

When you have done the above things then it means that you have started Dominating
you niche by Article Marketing.

My Personal Opinion : Always write SEO-articles for Article Marketing.

Cheers

I can produce on average 3 quality articles a day, plus write bloggs, plus creat newsletters , plus enter 2-3forums !
This all can consume most part of my day, should I be churning more articles ?

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One tool you can use to speed up your articles is Dragon Naturally Speaking Software.
It has a learning curve, but once mastered you can crank out articles like a machine.

As mentioned before, if you want a business, then build a list. Get your squeeze or optin page and include the link in your articles resource box. Offer your readers something of value for the to optin.
Try to always over deliver and they will love you.
You got to feed your list for them to trust you.

Ive followed this thread for a while, Good to here your success

I use article marketing daily and 2 years later it has helped me setup a nice income stream... Stuff works!

WOW, That's what I call Hard Working. I havent try the article writing marketing yet but looking forward to it soon, any advice?

Well done brother !!

Youve cracked it

Now apply the 80/20 rule my man, analyze what bought in that traffic and continue no more with the 80% that didnt perform

Focus more on the style of the 20% that did perform and BAM !! Keep this momentum up and set on fire bro !!

Oh yeah, you gotta build a list man

Dean

I think your results are amazing. Just think if you keep this up you'll reach your goals fast. I have been reading about Article Marketer and other programs that give you leverage with your articles. If you can find a way to spin your articles into readable information, you have found a goldmine.

You give me inspiration... I will start writing articles like mad.. Just think... This is a great start. Keep up the good work.

Wow! I wrote 6 articles today and thought I was a superstar! 10 articles a day, 200 in a month is just astonishing.

I am truly impressed and inspired!

Wow, that breaks down to a little over 6 articles per day! That is impressive. I bet you had daily migraines lol. All jokes aside though, other forms of expanding your business include press releases, blogs, video marketing, classified ads, web 2.0 to name a few. Keep up the great work.


-Earl

Older articles probably start to get a pr and rank higher in the search engines so itll still bring traffic for years to come.

Great results - the cool thing about article marketing is that you should still be seeing traffic over time... $800 in one month might stabilize at a couple hundred a month for a long time to come... keep it up and soon you'll have $800 residual!

If you spin articles is it ok if there is only a 30% diff and submit them to goarticles where they dont have to approve it? cuz i dont want to rewrite articles 100%

outsouce workers. be the middlemen and youll make $$

Thanks for the original post. Your honesty and hard work are admirable. I'm glad I'm not the only one who has trouble churning out articles at the recommended rates. And your results are, as you said, below what you were told to expect, BUT.... double your previous best (and a healthy chunk of change), plus hopefully they will continue to earn money for you without additional work.

I agree with those who recommended looking at what contributed the most to your success -- do more of that. Take what you learned this month and work it into next month's plan.