Article Marketing Questions...

That will depend on the quality and targeting of your article and syndication partners.

Because they won't have the full picture. Even if they don't meander over to your site, they'll keep reading articles. That's evidence that they don't have the full picture.

The beauty in this is that they won't know that until they -visit-

^ ^ ^and this is why you WILL get visitors.

I'm sorry, but it looks like I'm going to give you a question instead of an answer.

Have you tested submission of articles for syndication that only contain half of the story, wherein the other half is found on your website? Or webmasters who accept guest posts simply don't just allow that?

I would say use a YouTube video with your affiliate link inside as you can show people who you are and explain some of the benefits from joining your opportunity before they do. The best way to sell something online is to start branding yourself 1st.

why guess man? This is a simple case of test it out for a month and have google analytics running on your site so you can see where your traffic is coming from. Very easily you can see if it's working or not. If it is working, concentrate a more focused effort on it, if it is not either adjust your strategy or try something else.

Article directory marketing, while perfectly viable, is really not the most effective use of written content; it never was. Look into content marketing.

This thought should win an "understatement award".

Here's the reality: never even mention a product at all, in any article you ever try to have syndicated, otherwise virtually nobody will ever publish it at all.

It's not going to do you any good on websites to which you can just "submit" it yourself and have it published with no editorial acceptance/controls: those sites don't usually have the pre-targeted traffic you want to attract (and if ever they do, it comes from search-engines anyway, so it's pretty much worthless).

How do you know this?

Yes indeed.

Again, almost nobody will publish it, anywhere you want it to be published, on that basis.

The primary aim should be to add as much value as you possibly can to all the sites that publish your article. And don't try to use a "call to action" - that looks "salesy" and people don't like it. It backfires.

Don't think about "how to maximize the traffic you attract from each site": that's generally counterproductive. Think about "how to get your article as widely published as possible in places that have the pre-targeted traffic you want", by adding value to those sites, and the rest will take care of itself.

This might help: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post3188316

Because your writing impressed/entertained/shocked them so much that they want to see "more of the same".

Nope. Not necessarily so at all.

You would never direct the traffic from one copy of an article to another copy of the same article (that would be, as you rightly suspect, a very good way to lose/waste traffic!). You direct the traffic to your landing-page, of which the primary purpose should be to collect the visitors' email addresses. There would be very little point indeed in going to all the time and trouble necessary to generate article marketing traffic (generally one of the most responsive, most potentially profitable kinds of traffic you can ever get) and not retaining as much of it as possible with a prominently incentivized opt-in.

All my landing pages also include (well below the prominently incentivized opt-in) one article which I've never had syndicated anywhere else at all, so that if people arrive at the site really wanting to read another article without having to look around for it, there's one right there for them, on the front page, which they can't have read before. (But mostly, they know they can get more by putting their email address in the little box. And that, of course, is what the site's actually there for.)

Article are for niches, and about niches. People who are interested in articles in the niche are interested in articles in the niche. They don't just read one and go away satisfied. Article marketing is about getting your articles in front of people who are already screened/sorted/sifted/targeted and already known to be interested in the niche.

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Thankyou alexa, as always your post is great! I've subscribed to a few email lists in my niche to see exactly what people people are doing. I've never done a newsletter or email marketing before, nor did I ever subscribe to a newsletter before, so I feel abit overwhelmed on where to start, what I should talk about etc. Gonna wait for a few of these newletters to arrive then I should be ok I think

Syndication of contents is always a bad habits, for Google ranking, it creates duplicate contents.

https://support.google.com/webmaster...er/66359?hl=en

You can syndicate but do it carefully, affiliate links in it is not the best solution.

Search on the links I give you what do they write about syndication.