So basically, you're just righting articles for category traffic. Meaning you pound out 400 words and get 20-30 views from people already on ezinearticles and maybe 5-10 clicks per article if lucky. Just remember, traffic from "already ezine visitors" means they already left another article to visit yours. There's a good chance they will leave yours too. However, traffic direct from search engines gives you a much better chance for clickthroughs. And regarding linkbuilding, if you want to rank very somewhat competitve keywords, articles don't just make it "big time" with seo. Sure, you have the query deserves freshness(so an inflated ranking for a few days), but if you're serious about an article making it, well, that's only up to you and backlinks. I used to do the "I just need to pound out lots of articles for quick sales I don't care about seo " method, but eventually you will get burned out when the sales aren't coming in like you expected. My advice? Keep pounding these out if you want(since it was your goal), but in your extra time, rank some articles for autopilot traffic. Okay, well good luck with that.
Yea... Convert well with the right keywords. I would trade one article with the correct keywords to 20 random articles anyday....
Great response. I am glad he started this thread. Great advice from everyone who responded. I am lucky to get one article posted weekly. I wish I had time for more but do not. I still have to work for a living.
20 articles a day huh. Good for actually acting even if it does seem like a silly idea to some. You have a lot of great advice in this thread if you want long term results. I was writing about 3-6 articles a day using a similar approach and while it brought in a good amount of sales, when the articles stopped, the income stopped. So it is best to go for long term results by getting your site or your articles to rank for good keywords that gets a decent amount of traffic. I wont tell you you will get burnt out but I did so I am looking at ranking my sites and my articles now. I think I write 1 good 500 word article and submit to ezines and rewrite that and submit to other top directories per keyword. Good luck on your mission and what you decide to do after this phase.
Yes, it's definitely better to go for long term results, you are correct - hopefully I don't get burned out, right now I'm not that close to getting burned out because I have a technique for getting new article subjects. If you are ever looking to work on a project on the future that you think you may need help on, feel free to message me!
Also an idea, if you really want to have some control and up your sales/ conversions rates. Make a landing page and put a unique tracking ID in for each article - this will be a pain but you will know exactly where the sales are coming from and which articles are ranking. Then you can focus on getting high search engine positions for the articles that are bringing in the $$$'s. Just an idea. Chris
I was tired when I wrote it but published anyway as I wanted to offer some encouragement to the thread's poster. You aren't funny. What's your excuse for insulting people on a regular basis? You seem to know everything but are so busy adding your negative comments and various other unpleasantries (I know that's not a word before you start another) that you can't put them to any use. Please do one
Day 5 Recap Okay, again, no sales, but I have a feeling I should be seeing one soon, I'm not really getting burned out though, I just have to keep pressing and slowly adjusting my method to something that works; but still 20 articles a day is still in my formula for success because I strangely find writing 20 a day to be really easy and enjoyable....kind of weird, I know. I had about 96 hoplink clicks yesterday, I'm surprised none of them converted because these products have converted in the past for me, but it's no time to be worried - I feel if I keep working hard, the "trickle" effect will come & you'll start seeing sales everyday, which has also happened to me in the past. I managed to write and submit 20 articles yesterday, started at 9:30, finished at 12:50, alot of that time was spent during breaks and stuff. I have to write & submit 20 today - we'll see how that goes.... DLM, I feel has a vast amount of knowledge, but is one of those personalities that would rather get satisfaction from being sarcastic....I don't know why that is.....but whatever. This is actually an excellent idea!.....but like you said, it just requires so much work! I'll be thinking of a way to input that into my scheme, however, it could help on later campaigns.
I do agree, 99% of the time it's true, except what I'm doing right now....then you have to find a balance, because I've found that my best click through articles have been short & crappy for some reason. The one's I put effort into, people say "okay, I got the information I need, screw his author's resource box" lol.
Yadda yadda yadda. People seem to like my posts (note my positive green reputation) because I'm honest. I don't sugar coat things. But this thread isn't about me - if you have a problem just PM me and I'll insult you in private.
Wait, wait, wait. So you already wrote like 40-60 articles and you are yet to make a sale?? Man you are obviously not doing something right here. If I had time and determination to write so many articles a day I would be making a 3 digit daily income easily. It's all about finding a niche + article style + landing page which fit together perfectly and convert. If you did not get a sale from the first 40 articles, chances are you will not make one from the next 40. And that's a hell of a work for nothing! I recommend you try at least 5-7 niches (write 3 articles for each) and if one of them converts star focusing on that one. I found a niche and developed a writing style for it which brings me a sale per ever 2-3 articles. Whereas I have written over 15 articles for some niches without getting a single sale. And bear in mind that writing articles for a niche that converts doesn't necessarily mean it will convert for you! When i figured out that the niche I found converts so well using article marketing I went and outsourced 30 articles. Of course the guy had a completely different style of writing and guess how many sales I made off the 30 articles?... 0. Hope that helps
I can see that you are higly motivated and i think you have a unique resource within but if you add setting goals to that motivation, you will not regret at all. You said that you don't want to set goals, but contrary to that, i can see that you have set yourself a goal of making money but it is too vague! So you need to narrow this to simple but definitive objectives that will keep you focused and also help put your efforts in monetary terms. This will help you to evaluate yourself at every step all the way. Anyhow, i wish you well.
This is pretty good advice, I usually write 3 articles per niche and make a sale from writing 3-5 articles. Depends on niche and your landing page and also your writing style. You may need to focus on something you are doing and evaluate the click through rate of your articles to your landing page. That's a lot of articles to have with no sales. Also another tip, if the product isn't converting within 100-200 hops with targeted traffic, it may not be a good converting product. Some may disagree with me but I like to give a product a chance before switching.
I have a question. I know when I am writing my articles that Keyword research is key and posting unique. The problem is no matter how much research I do, I have trouble writing longer articles. What would you say is a good amount of words for an article? Mine usually end up about 300 to 400 words. I mostly use articlesbase. How would you rank them for your article marketing source. What article site does everyone use? I know Ezine is the most popular but I seem to have issues with them.
You know 250 word articles can rank as long as the SEO is on point and they keyword is easily rankable. How many words you right depends on you. Me personally, I like to right 250-300 word articles when I am trying to get traffic to a landing page for a product as they seem to perform better. When it comes to ranking an article, I write 400-500 word quality articles and submit them to ezinearticles, articlesbase, and goarticles. This is for that one keyword. I then watch which article is ranking better and backlink it. What I do is different from what you may decide to do. Just giving you an idea.