I started a journal back in Dec. of 2008 and was completely transparent marketing the forex niche products. To make a long story short I shared everything, my landpages, converting keywords and my strategy. I got to about $600 daily in sales for about $250 spend in PPC, then suddenly overnight lost it all to competitors and suddenly after weeks of consistent sales of $400+ daily I had weeks with 0. Surely something happened, but I am not getting into that here. I am back now with a new plan, strict article marketing. Having created my own products in other niches I ran across a resource where I saw a guy doing massive massive article submissions for a CB product and I know article marketing works. So I've decided to do just that and focus on bum marketing with the intention to scale this up big time to hopefully 50-100 articles per day. My Plan: 1. Begin writing 3-6 articles per day for the Forex niche. 2. Submit these articles to ezine, articlebase, goarticles, and insare. 3. The articles and submission is all outsourced. 4. Re-invest every bit of profit back into more articles and continue to scale up until we hit 20-30 articles per day. 5. After the $$ starts rolling in we'll expand into squidoo lenses, blogs and hubpages. I will of course outsource these as well. 6. Further expanding I have a software program that was just developed that enables me to create 1,000's of webpages with all unique content in a matter of days within any given niche. I will take my forex site and make 1,000's of pages for SEO purposes. Yes this software creates the pages with correct grammer, tags, titles ect.. and all and completely unique content for those wondering and yes it was already tested with other sites and has increased organic traffic by over 500%. I just ordered my first 25 aritcles and submissions. I will update again when all have been submitted. I will not implement the later stages until we are up and running and in profit from the article marketing, only after that I will move into the more technical and advanced methods. Ending Goal > $500 + daily in sales in the Forex Niche Past experience has been a 20% refund rate. I can live with that being that my costs are not great and even with the refund rate profits will still be made.
Wow.. this sounds like something similar to what I'm planning to do right now with other niches. I'll be sure to read your journal. Pls do keep us updated. Good luck !
Also.. would this be a transparent journal too ? If so, can you share the forex products you are promoting / keywords used etc ?
It's decent of you to be transparent about your campaigns, but have you considered a niche other than forex?. What with the reduced rate of impulse buying and CB's more than generous new policy towards refunds, don't you think it's better trying for energy or health or something?.
I've already done this once, the refund rates for the forex niche in CD are about 20% to 25% refunds regardless of how long they have to refund. As far as transparent I'll tell you everything I am doing w/o sharing my landing page and keywords or the product, only just what I am doing and what niche I am in. As mentioned earlier I shared everything and as mentioned earlier, it's cut throat when you start making money. I can't prove much, but I I can tell you this, I went from 10-15 sales daily to 0 overnight, had my landing pages copies, found competitors where I was advertising the whole 9 yards. In fact, just recently I had an affiliate copy all of my sites for a CPA offer, I mean he copied them to the "T" and ran his ads on all my keywords using spying programs. Which I didn't mind, but he copied everything of mine. I had to contact the network and they resolved it, but had that not happened I'd of had to take legal action. Anyway, that's another story, I'll be as trasparent as I can. I refuse to make the same mistake.
Let me give you some advice, don't do this journal shit. What do you think everyone is watching for? To do the exact same thing you are once you start making money. No matter how transparent you may be, if you start making money and are posting about it, people will find you out one way or another. What do you get out of these journals besides shooting yourself in the foot? Dumbest thing ever imo.
you have a point, but some people believe in actually helping noobs and rooks I learned how to make 100 a day from this form so now, I should give back and teach people how to do the same
Writing articles on forex need much knowledge and experinces in forex trading..but it's amazing in commission offered by CB.
As I said before I've already played this game before, the refund rate is about 20% to 25% of your total orders. Those numbers are taken into account when budgeting my ad costs. However, there's not much ad cost at the moment being it's all articles.
Wish you the best of luck - it's sad that people copied everything that you created. I thought it was lame that people never shared their info when I first started, but this is exactly why. Good luck
Wrote 5 articles yesterday and submitted to ezine. I am still waiting on the 25 outsourced forex articles, but they should be ready anytime soon. 1 sale so far from the few visitors I have coming to the site from previous articles.
Had a few trials come in and the first rebill went through today. $47 made on 5 articles so far. Still waiting for the 25 I bought to be submitted. Will keep you all informed and write a detailed post when I have more to announce.
Its something really difficult for a single person but nothing is impossible so go ahead best of luck
Labor Day weekend update. Today the 25 articles I bought and outsourced were finally complete and submitted to the directories. The articles where submitted to isnare, ezine, articlebase, and a few others. The first few articles I wrote have been driving a bit of traffic and has yielded a few sales. 09-02 earnings 105.92 09-09 earnings 127.43 I have a small PPC campaign running in yahoo, but it's only getting about 3-6 clicks per day. It's hard to tell whether my sales have come from the articles I wrote previously or the small amount of ppc traffic I am getting from Yahoo. I think what I am going to do is sub ID my yahoo traffic to separate from article traffic. Anyhow, over the next 7 days we'll have a really good idea what these 25 outsourced articles do. All the articles are about 250-300 words in length and I've had them tailored to long tail keywords in the title for one product niche. Here we go.....
Sounds like some pretty good results already for just 25 articles. I've got 18 live for the past 6 days with no sales yet. I'll be following your progress! So are you using landing pages right now or direct/re-directed hoplinks? Good Luck!
I dont use article marketing i like to go pure SEO with my stuff makign niche websites... Once i make the 12 sites im plannign i might take a week off making sites and write up a good 10 articles a day on my personal fav niches and submit them around.... Are you submitting the same articles to all sources or are you rewritting or just 5 to one 5 to another...?
Are you using landing pages or just a direct link to the forex product. Also I don't get the part about making 1000 pages of website? is it different domains for each sites or just 1000 pages on a single domain? Also for your articles, when you outsource them how do you submit them to the article sites, do you rewrite them and submit to all the sites or do you just pick a few like 5 for ezine 5 for article base 5 for isnare, 5 for goarticles? Wow you're very successful with this, how long have you been doing this for? I'm completely new to making money on the net and have yet to make a cent but burned money on PPC lol. Will be sure to follow your progress. and its great you're sharing your progress. Thanks