Has anyone had any success from BUM Marketing or something and if so, how well did you do? By the way, has anyone wrote the articles and posted them on a third-party article website and still received credit from them? I didn't know if the affiliate link needed to be sent from the website on file with the affiliate program?
BUM Marketing is one method that works for sure... Then again, it really does depend on the marketer / author. For BUM Marketing, I've had limited experience with it but from the success I've been seeing from it, it's worth spending some time doing. If you're looking for instant cash, look into PPC. Otherwise this is a slow and sure way to get some good money. I have an employee now that I've hired and after a week of bum marketing, I was making enough per day to cover ½ of a week of that employee's cost. But, I have extensive research into the fields I'm promoting so... Bottom line. Does it work? Yes. Will it work for you? Maybe.
Hi, BUM marketing is a variant of article marketing. I have quite a fair bit of success in article marketing. You can check out how I managed to pull everything off from selecting the product to BUM marketing it in my free report. See my signature.
I once wrote 10 articles and "bum" them into few major articles directories. I got around 300+ clicks to the affiliate URL. But I made zero sales. I later realized that the merchant had other form of payrments other than clickbank. I was wondering whether I was robbed a few sales due to that or the product sucks or something is wrong to my articles. What did you guys feel?
Sure. I've actually been blogging about it a lot recently. Here are some posts that I think have some good tips. http://www.jonathanvolk.com/interne...-a-successful-article-marketing-campaign.html http://www.jonathanvolk.com/internet-marketing/when-you-know-something-is-successful.html Good luck and let me know how you do.
I'll take a look at the blogs Volknet, thanks and I am still waiting to hear more success stories and even see some check's so I can get some kind of motivation Has anyone tried BUM Marketing and posting on article sites (ezinearticles.com) as an example? Is it allowed?
I think it HIGHLY depends on your ability to do good keyword research... Bad picks, and your bum marketing efforts are wasted. I also agree with above, it takes time... Not an overnight thing.
For a start, submitting your articles to big directories like ezinearticles.com would be enough. But ezinearticles are strict with their rules and regulations. If any of your articles found to have duplicate contents, I can assure they won't approve it. Also they like to take their own sweet time in going through and approving your articles... as long as one to three weeks. I suggest you start writing your own articles now and submit them as soon as possible, because this is a slow process, so do it now and learn along the ways...
I checked EZineArticles and they don't allow affiliate links, maybe affiliate link "forwarding" is a sort of work around.
Definitely, the right niche and the right product is the key. Then you have to write articles that aren't just filler junk. Articles that tell the consumer something, but leave them wanting more information so they click on the link to find out. You have to find the hungry crowd first. Sometimes its just instinct though. Because you want to be ahead of the trend, not just piling on after there are a billion articles already out there on it and everybody who wanted to search for it already has.
EzineArticles reviewers click on every link before they approve the articles, if it is just forwarded or a redirect they will know and not approve it. So a blog works best and is easiest to set up...and then use an another article there with all the affiliate links you want.
Just to add my 2 cents (1.3 cents after taxes) here, Bum article marketing works best imho if you have a page of your own to link to in your articles. Basically, you get semi-targeted traffic from the articles to your page, and then steer the most highly targeted visitors out of that group from your page to the affiliate. The articles will get you traffic that's interested in the topic, your page focuses on raising that interest to the "willing to pay for (product or more information) related to the topic" without seeming like a sales pitch, and then the affiliate page is hopefully designed to close the deal. The important thing to remember is that you usually won't get lots of traffic from articles, but what you do get will be targeted and if everything is setup well (your page content and the affiliate sales page) you can get high conversion rates from that traffic.
Here's a tip for you, Baby_Boy... 1. Write an article about 600-800 words targeting your affiliate products with related keywords within, then post it on your blog. 2. Split the article into two, then use the upper part and submit to your article directories. 3. Make sure when you submit, at the end of the article, embed a link with anchored text like "To read this in full, please click here..." 4. Direct your link to your blog with the full article and you're done! Hope this helps! -- Eric Tan --
^^ Thank you. Would you agree that social websites as well can be a huge article marketing technique as well? Which social bookmarking sites would you recommend?
I'm sorry to read that you had been cheated by the vendor. You might want to report the vendor to clickbank. However, this also shows that it's important that you test the ordering process of the vendor's site. One other thing that I do is that I even sign up for their mailing list. In this way, I can ensure that I am not duped by the vendor in any way. Hope this helps.
Social bookmarking sites are mainly use by bloggers, and I believe they are the ones to bring forward this trend. Of course you can make use of SB sites to bookmark your single websites, but it's not as effective as a blog due to the lack of frequently updated contents. Again, different social bookmarking sites have different purpose and there are many popular SB sites like e.g. Stumbleupon, Technorati, Digg, so on and so on... If you want to see a whole list of the most popular SB sites, just go to any of other people's blog and click on the "Bookmark This" button... The only thing that's really pain in the xxx is in submitting your website individually to these SB sites. Imagine you need 5mins to submit a site, than submitting to 20 sites would took you 100mins. I would rather spend these time watching a movie. But there's a better way to do so and I recommend you OnlyWire.com You just need to use this service to submit to 20 over SB sites with the click of one button. But initially you still need to signup for every SB sites manually to get username and password for the one time setup process. This is roughly what that I know about social booking sites, and I'm still learning. Hopefully it helps... -- Eric Tan --