Article Syndication Queries

Hmm ... does there? Maybe. I didn't know that. I use article syndication to promote everything I promote, and always have done. What you say could easily be true, though.

I imagine different people do this in different ways.

I'll tell you how I do it, if that helps ...

I select my niches in accordance with my perception of there being (at least) a few suitable ClickBank products with suitable sales pages in the same niche, and apparently plenty of places to syndicate the articles to. Then I put up a small niche site with a prominently incentivized opt-in, and on the home page I always have one article which I don't syndicate anywhere else (so that all article marketing visitors to the site have at least one front-page article to read which they haven't read elsewhere), and obviously it isn't a squeeze page.

I give them a "free report" (I don't call it that) for opting in. The report serves all these essential purposes.

Then I send email on days 1, 3, 6, 10 and 15 and thereafter at 5-day intervals, with a promotion occupying (usually) the latter part of one email in three. I'll typically promote each product twice (sometimes three times) before moving on to another. My subscribers know and understand that I'll sometimes promote something they've already bought, and they know and understand why, because I tell them in quite some detail how affiliate marketing works (this gives me the opportunity to provide reassurance that they'll never pay more for anything by buying it through my link - which they won't know if I don't tell them, and that can cost a lot of sales). The more I tell them about how affiliate marketing works and why I'm doing it, the more I sell: that's easy to understand. (And of course it keeps me nice and legally compliant, too).

Then they won't buy it. (They'll still have plenty of other stuff to read, from my emails, and maybe they'll change their mind in future? Or maybe not ...).

(Why is that a "disadvantage"? I don't expect 100% of my subscribers to buy something).

None of my articles ever leads toward any product, really.

I've never mentioned a product in an article, and have no plans to (nobody would publish them).

I don't quite understand what you're asking here, and what information you're looking for - sorry.

Sorry, I have absolutely no experience of that at all, and don't understand what it has to do with "article syndication"? Article syndication is a targeted traffic-generation method.

I do something slightly similar. Each new article I write (though I write only 2 per month, per niche, 3 at the most) gives me enough content to add 2 more emails on to the series (with a little bit of re-writing, always, to incorporate the continuity-process at the start and end of each mail.)

My perspective of email marketing is that the primary purpose of each email in the automated series is no more and no less than to ensure that people who read it open the next email. I find that if you can attend to that successfully, the money follows.

I do this, also.

Well, I find.

Some other content on the website. (I don't think I've ever reproduced an entire article in an email, though, to be honest).

Yes, I've heard of people doing this, and at times done it to some extent in my email series.

It's a bit inconvenient, though, when you're starting out, because it increases your requirement for "conveniently linkable website content" and (to me) one of the great advantages of article syndication + email marketing is that you don't need an impressive website.

I don't think think "training people to click on your links" means necessarily doing it in every single email?

I suppose so ... (I've never really had that idea, though).

Not a perspective I share at all, really; sorry.

My heart always sinks a little when I see people posting here, asking for advice, and starting off with something like "I'm doing an Amazon review site and ..." because I very strongly suspect that almost none of them ever really becomes profitable, these days, and it's a real uphill struggle trying to offer them any advice (typically because they already "know" that "traffic comes from Google" ). Just my skepchick perspective; sorry.

When you say "leaving" do you mean "leaving out"? In which case, you could test it, and see, perhaps?

Yes, you could try that, too (but not with Amazon, of course, since they don't allow affiliate links in emails).

I think I may have been of very little, if any, help at all. I started off answering expecting from the title that they'd all be "article marketing questions" but hardly found any, to be honest (that's not a complaint! It's just why I might not have been very helpful ).

They will be. That would be cool. (Not in the Main Marketing Forum of course: WF blogs and/or the "Member Contests & Challenges" forum are the places for that. There are some good threads there in which people recount their successes with article syndication ).

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