Friends, My target is to earn USD 1000 this month. For that, how many articles do I need to submitt a day to EZA ? How many do you submitt a day and what are your approx earnings - Only by promoting clickbank products thru EZA. Thanks! Jo
If you are starting from scratch, you will need to put out as many as possible. When I started, I did 10 a day until I reached 200. That provided a little residual income while I continued to do at least 5 a day. It's tough to say how many articles you will need for $1000/month - so many factors such as niche, ctr, pageviews, landing page quality, how well the product converts, the amount per sale all come into play. Personally, I am averaging only about $7 per article in revenue (that's my total income from Clickbank divided by my total articles). I'm hoping that will slowly increase as my cache of articles increases. I am getting disillusioned now because of the competition in my niche. While I do write keyword optimized articles, there are a hundred other articles optimized for the same keyword. I could look for less competitive keywords, but the search volume isn't even worth it. Google will only display one, maybe two, Ezine articles on the first page. I would say that the only way you will earn $1000 this month is by getting as much of the actual directory traffic as possible. That means catchy titles and consistent writing so that one of your articles will always be on the most recent articles page. Good luck
Ok... usd 7 per article avg wud mean writing 5 a day to reach my target. Since i am just starting out it could be more ... Ummm... back to my word docs to write in more articles
Just keep in mind that you won't get the full amount amount right away. The figure I gave you is an average of all my articles. Some have been there for 6 months or more. Initially, I would expect to make at least $4-$5 an article for the short surge of directory traffic that lasts a few days only. The rest, I make from SE traffic over time. This is just me though.
It's pretty easy to crunch the numbers. Take a sample of articles you've written as extrapolate. This is assuming you're covering the same niche/product Lets say 20 articles - Within 4 weeks, how many views have they gotten, how many clickthroughs, and how many sales. Lets say each article will be viewed in EZA 100 times, taking into acct initial burst traffic and some residual. 20x100=2000 views At a 30% clickthrough, that's 600 visits to your lander Lets say 30% like your lander and they click through to the product 30% of 600 is close to 200 If your EPC is 60 cents, you've just made 120 dollars. 120/20= 6 dollars per article. At that rate you need to write 1000/6 articles to reach your goal. The next month should prove easier, as some keywords "catch" with google and you receive a little bit of residual earnings.
Gee thanks. I guess I will keep this month as a 'trial' month so i get an idea of by ctr's and sales etc... and next month on i should do it in a calculated way. thx buddy.
I think that's exactly the right thing to do - it's impossible to ask other people how many articles a day because there are too many factors involved. You'll see for yourself once you get started and then you'll be able to do the maths yourself. The reality is you could strike lucky and make $1000 a month with less than 5 articles - or it could also take you 200+. The fun of article marketing is in the testing and tracking, working out what works and what doesn't.
Are you guys writing that many per day yourself or are you having them written? I worked on some articles for a new site I made this weekend and it was a lot of effort to learn and churn only three. Granted, it's a subject I'm having to think about as it's not in my personal knowledge, but I can't imagine writing 10 per day myself!
Basically, write as many articles as you can, as many days of the week as you can. Some will bomb, and some will hit the lucky spot that Google is looking for and they'll rank and bring you traffic. The more you have, the more the bombers are evened out by the winners and you end up with a decent stable rate of income. Of course, niche selection also plays a big part. I've had more success with info style products, rather than "make money online" and other products which require a bit of a hard sell. When people are already looking for information on something, an article is a great way to move them to your offer, as long as the offer is what they're looking for in the first place. Using one of my products as an example (see sig): if a surfer has a sore shoulder, they want to know how to fix it. Demand = product. However, if they want to make money online, and your article is about an auto-blogging system, you have to persuade them that this is the BEST way to make money online. You're competing against Forex trading, PPC guides, product creation guides, AdSense guides and so on. Which is why it's much harder. Go for simple products which fulfil a very obvious and well defined problem, and your conversion to sales will be higher.
After you've been writing in the niche for a while, it gets a lot faster as there is no research to be done. I can easily crank out 10 articles before lunch. While I make sure they are grammatically correct and free of spelling mistakes, I also remind myself that they don't have to have textbook perfect style and structure. I write as though I were talking to someone or sending a friend an email. For my own sites, I am much pickier. I can easily spend an hour or two to make sure one article is perfect. I also write longer articles for my sites as opposed to Ezine (250-350words).
I have 35 articles on ezine. about 2000 hits, but only about 140 URL clicks. I don't know if this is average or a sign that my articles are so bad that I need to tune them up. Some articles have been reviews a couple hundred times and others only about 10, but none of them have made me money..am i missing something?
hi i have 8 articles live on eza with over 2100 hits and approx same amount of url clicks - 160. so i guess the ctr is normal. just focus on keywords for sales all the best.
A 25%+ CTR is not unachievable. Write shorter articles, and have the whole point of the article lead up to the resource box and your recommendation. Also, if you address a very specific need, you're more likely to get higher CTR. People who are looking for information about model train repainting will almost certainly click through when they find an article which describes your experiences, and then a resource box which tells them they can learn more at the following URL... Be specific and target desperate people, and your CTR will go up. Oh, and don't be afraid to be forceful in your resource box. You can ask and TELL the reader to click your links and check out your homepage. If you don't ask, you don't get