Who uses article marketing to market clickbank products? and if you do are you directing your articles to a Blog, squeeze page to try and capture emails and up sell them later or directly to the clickbank product via forwarded domain...?
Opinions are mixed, and people do all of these methods... see what suits you best, but imo try and capture emails if you can - especially if you plan to be in the niche for any length of time - people often need trust and multiple points of contact before they buy, having a list ensures this, and lets you market to the same people over and over again.
It depends, I usually writing my articles to the specific CB product so the article is like a pre-presell and inside the article i refer backlinks to my presell page (squeeze, PPC) or to the vendor's selling page (rare). If im writing about my product main niche, usually my backlinks point to my blog\review site (SEO) about the niche with multiple products or even just one. you can that there is a lot of content involved, but i never use the same content twice (30% top!) email list? well.. if it's a small niche with products that "buy and bye" I dont request email.
Every Niche is unique and what qorks for one will not work for another. If it is a very small niche a email address by not be required. However, if you planning to become dominate in a very large and competive niche, repeated emails are the only way to win. This is going to depend a lot on the niche your in. Look at your compertiors and find out what they are doing. That is a great place to start.
Also, it is worth pointing out that Ezinearticles, which is probably one of the best article directories doesn't allow you to link to pages without content. I would agree that in the long term it is better to capture leads than just make sales.
I am promoting my affiliate products through blog but didn't achieve my goal. So, I am thinking to involve in article marketing but don't know how to start it. I think who have idea that can sell products through both methods, blog and article marketing.
I do a mixture of all it. It all depends. My main ways of doing article marketing consists of.... 1) Buy a domain with targeted KW and redirect to merchant page. I usually do this in the beginning to determine if it's worth it to create a site. 2) Redirect to a squidoo page or blog. FREE and highly effective. 3) Setup a website with lots of valuable content. Have email capture form front and center, and give away a report to get them to sign up. I write my own articles and submit to about 10 directories. The best thing you can do is...TEST TEST TEST.
capturing email is good, but it also depends. if you have a lot websites promoting a lot of products from various niches, of course you can't capture all emails, eh?
I just started promoting a couple of products from CB using only article marketing. Here is what I did: 1. Bought .info domain from namecheap and forward it to my hop link (unfortunately I don't have knowledge right now to build my own website or to make good landing pages etc) 2. Did intensive keyword research: i picked a couple of keywords specific for my niche of interested and I used Market Samurai to find long tail keywords with at least 30 daily searches and low competition so I could get on the first page on Google 3. Wrote 15 articles per product, each focused on a long tail keyword and published them on Ezinearticles (10 have already been approved, 5 are still pending) 4. I rewrote some of them and published them on other articles directories: goarticles, articlebase, hubpages and squidoo. 5. I started promoting the articles on Ezine and build backlinks to them I hope to see soon my first sale, otherwise I'm going to quit CB
Honiawa has got the right idea. First and foremost, article marketing takes work. A lot of it. But I'm a firm believer it helps set the foundation for all the other strategies - writing, content generation, marketing, keyword research. Imagine having 1000 articles in 5 difference niches, and each one bringing in one sale a week. Oh, btw, it's free = )
I agree, it's a lot of work in the beginning. Especially until you get the hang of researching keywords and pick out the good ones. I think it took me more time to research my keywords then to write the articles around them )
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At first I directed straight to clickbank page but now I use "godaddy website tonight" to build a very simple 5 page lander and some products are selling at a sale every 20 hops.
@Honiawa Good work getting set up, but don't be discouraged, or worse quit, if you don't start making sales quickly. Article marketing is not a get rich quick strategy, it's a foundation that can continue to produce results over a long term. Sick with it and you'll do well, quit before you make anything and you'll never make anything.