Pretty much. This is what the thread starter is doing. As I mentioned, it's highly inefficient. The best route involves writing articles AND THEN promoting them through directories, social networking sites, other articles, etc.
I have quit, I'm going to stop internet marketing. Can this thread be closed please - lol j/p Never that, I have been incredibly swamped with new events in my life, most notably finding a night time part-time job so that I can increase the amount of money I'm making online, now I will have guaranteed money every single night, and will not have to succumb to the everyday ups and downs of internet marketing. So that's great, right? Positives a Part Time Job Can Bring - You will not have to worry about using your internet marketing money for food & other necessities, such as in my situation - You can even invest some of your part-time job money into your internet marketing - Will finally have some more cash to spare for internet marketing tools and PPC, I will also be able to start up some blogs as well, I'm very excited I was able to get a night time job! My Sales - As said, I haven't been writing too many articles, I've been setting up the promotion for a whole new slew of products, creating new landing pages, and all that great stuff, the internet marketing is about to get more intense; but hopefully I'll succeed: Anyways, thanks for keeping up, and I apologize for not keeping up with the updates.
Im not sure that it is true that articles disappear off the front page after a couple of days - when i was doing some research on an article title it turns out the exact same title was in an ezine article but this one was from 2007 and was in position 3...
It depends - nothing is ever 100%. Sometimes non-promoted articles rank well and other times you can do a bunch of promotion and still see crappy rankings. But I'll bet that article from 2007 has a few backlinks or some other type of marketing behind it.
Dude! That sucks. I decided to quite many times, but something always brought me back to it. I personally can't believe you're even considering a part time job. Internet marketers love freedom, and the act of someone telling me what to do makes me sick. I wish you luck, and remember if you decide to come back with a better, smarter plan, I'm here for you....we all are
You've only been working hard at this for about a month and you're giving up already? Tisk tisk. I can't imagine going back to a job with a schedule that wasn't of my own making. But your game plan from day one wasn't the greatest. If you had taken the time to do the behind-the-scenes work that is a must in article marketing, I think you could be doing much better. Article marketing isn't so much a number game as it is a strategy game. Quantity isn't what's important. It's getting your article ranked (i.e. building valuable backlinks and promoting the article itself well), writing good copy that produces clicks and doing the proper keyword research to ensure quality traffic. If you truly want to succeed with article marketing you can't follow the fool's concept of "build it and they will come". %95 of the time, it doesn't happen that way. You have to work for it. Internet marketing is an awesome job with the complete control of your work schedule and life, but it is still a job. It requires time and effort. Personally, I think you could do well as you seem to have a good work ethic. You just need to do it the right way and stick with it. But good luck, man.
@ Brad and Parth, he said "lol j/p" at the end of that, you guys must have missed it lol. I see why though, he bolded the whole thing saying he quit and then wrote j/p in the non-bolded text. @ Chris, what made you want to get a part time job instead of focusing 100% on IM? I know everyone's different, but to me getting a job is like a backup plan just in case IM doesn't work out for you. One of the things I really believe is that if you don't have a Plan B, you have no choice but to succeed with Plan A. It's one of those weird psychological things, but I think it's true. Anyway, good luck and I hope it all works out for you.
lol thanks for clarifying this. The reason I'm doing the part-time job is because I need guaranteed money; usually at night time, I'm not around a computer at night time because I do not have a PC, all of my work is done on public computers such as libraries and things of that nature - which can tend to be a hassle, to be honest. So at night time, I'm usually wasting my life away, but now I have a part-time job at the wee hours of night, and I can do internet marketing during the day - it's not affecting my internet marketing schedule, and I'm only making more money because I won't have to spend my IM money on food anymore, I can just re-invest in my business. My income's only going to increase. The biggest thing with getting a part-time is that my stomach doesn't suffer due to the inconsistency of internet marketing.
I guess I take for granted that I still live with my parents. In a way it sucks because even when I tell my dad I don't need money, he gives it to me. He gave me $100 today and I didn't even need it! I don't come from a rich family, but my dad has his own business. So, everyone has their own situation I guess. Good luck!
Oops. I guess that's what I get for skim reading ... Well good to see you're still going to be at it. Hopefully in the near future you'll be able to live comfortably without a part time job to accompany your internet marketing earnings. It may take you a bit longer since you're only doing it part time. But at the same time you'll have some extra cash to pump into it (if you choose to do so) which you can use to outsource the article writing and/or the backlinking.
Oh I see what you mean. I didn't know you don't have a computer of your own to use. Well in that case, it probably is good that you got the job at night if you're not even able to work on IM at that time anyways.
Internet Marketing does get frustrating but the more quality articles, ads, forum postings etc that you have out there on the web, the more your sales will increase over time. It is like anything else, to succeed, it takes hard work, Of course with internet marketing, your hard work stays around so you don't always have to work as hard as you do in the beginning, you just have to maintain. Writing 20 articles a day would burn anyone out. I don't think you should give up on it. Buy a cheap laptop to get you started and the more you work at it and learn, the more you will see results. Good Luck to you
Hey ExpertForumGuy good luck with your goal. I think it will be best for you to follow the advice given on this thread about backlinking your articles, but it’s your choice. And even though people think dIm is hater or negative hole the time I think he is just realistic about everything and saying what is right to say, from the posts I've read I think he/she is actually a good marketer with some great knowledge... but who I'm I to tell, just another beginner... However I do have one question though for all of you guys... Which sites are best to start getting quality backlinks? Can you name some sites? Thanks in advance.
i think you make a mistake solely focus on article volume. It is correct that you WANT and NEED a constant flow of articles, but it is more important that you do keyword research, look into headlines and writing style as well as your resource box and landing page. 20 articles/day wont have any use if the keywords are badly/not researched and the product doesnt sell and the sales page is bad. Then rather ONE article per day, but with those killer keywords! Furthermore, if you want to do "after-care" (link building, bookmarking)..you will VERY quickly lose track. Quality >> Quantity! ONE article on #1 in Google will make you more money than 20 each day which no one clicks!
Well the money seems to be somewhat consistent, but this can change in the future; we'll see, I haven't been averaging 20 articles per day, because I would be seeing more, but I'm making the effort to get there. Last Couple of Day Earnings
Chris i have asked several times in this thread, but i think you might have over looked my posts can you please let me know Total Articles Total Views Clicks and where you are sending your traffic? landing page...sales page....checkout
Yeah, with a real job you sit there working your *** off for somebody else while they get all of the money.