With my recent ventures into article marketing. I have been doing some research, and here is an article that has helped me . Let me share a short, but true story: Earlier this week, a new author sent in 15 articles to our article directory, EzineArticles.com. Those 15 articles received 400 page views within the past 24 hours. Assuming that rate held constant, that author would receive 12,000 page views per month or 144,000 page views per year without lifting one more finger, not including the distribution potential of our site. The average person clicks 3.3% on the resource box based on seed articles that we track the CTR (Click Through Rate), give or take .6% either way. Let's use 3% for easy numbers. 144,000+ page views annually x 3% CTR = 4,320 targeted clicks by someone who is already pre-qualified to be interested in your product, service or website because they just read your article. Average CPC (Cost Per Click) ranges from .05 to $1.25. Let's pretend that you buy clicks from your favorite PPC (PayPerClick) provider for $.40 cents per click. Those 4,320 clicks that EzineArticles sent you for free just saved you (4,320 x $.40)= $1,728 USD. Send in 30 articles, and you could be seeing $3k worth of FREE advertising or more. My best example are the chart breakers like one of the health and beauty authors who sent in 35 articles and has over 212k page views in the last year. Recently a handful of authors received over 20,000 page views in their first month with only 3 articles that mentioned current events topics as part of their content. Your results may vary. Which brings me to this question: If you knew without a shadow of a doubt that you could get $10k-$25k+ in free advertising for 1-2 weeks of work submitting 85-200 articles, would you do it? Average editor makes $10/hr. 100 hours of work would be about $1,000 in admin labor and I assume you already have the articles produced from your current archives that just need to be repurposed. Net result is about a $19k profit via the savings of not having to spend it to acquire sales via traditional online advertising. Obviously, if you have to invest your time and labor to produce the articles for the first time, this adds to your cost... but most folks already have 100+ articles in an archive somewhere. Should you stop PPC advertising now because of this? Absolutely not. Let article marketing supplement your targeted traffic buying campaigns, not replace it. For many entrepreneurs who have not started to buy advertising on a PPC basis, this is a great way to begin thinking about it. Lastly, did I mention that your articles keep selling for you, day after day, month after month, and year after year? It’s true. Get a plan together; submit 15, 150, or 1,500+ articles this month to the major article directories and specialty niche sites that accept your quality original content, and then sit back and watch your traffic results climb while your advertising expenditure budget gets a little relief. About The Author: Christopher M. Knight invites you to submit your best quality original articles for massive exposure to the high-traffic http://EzineArticles.com/ expert author community. When you submit your articles to EzineArticles.com, your articles will be picked up by ezine publishers who will reprint your articles with your content and links intact giving you traffic surges to help you increase your sales. To submit your article, setup a membership account today: http://EzineArticles.com/submit/ (c) Copyright - Christopher M. Knight. All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
Love the article. I really like the idea of article marketing because it's something that builds over time. The more articles I submit, the more targeted traffic I have coming to me. Even if I suck at selling, since I'll always be getting clicks, the law of averages state I'll eventually get a sale. rep+1
Bum Marketing is definitely super method for making money online, but PPC is not bad as well. However, it requires to invest quite a lot of money, before you see good results. Everyone chooses something for himself.
i disagree, i think it requires to invest quite alot of reasearch, and your time. You dont need to spend $100's on it before you become successful. If you find a hungry niche, with low competition, know how to lower your quality score, and how to build landing pages specific for that niche you should be able to do very well with it. Granted that most people do learn the above by losing a little money by ppc, but you dont have to do ppc either to learn the above.
mohamedd You need to do research and spend your time on anything you want to do, but for PPC if you haven't got money to invest, even low competition niche won't help you...
Well if time is money as one would say I agree 100% Yes bum marketing with articles is a great way to make money online and to generate enough revenue to reinvest into other means of exponentially growing your revenue.
Read the article. You're argument is very logical. But do you think an article will bring you 400 page views a day? I don't think it would. Not saying that BUM marketing can't be very good and bring loads of visits but a formula like this is too static to be economical?
1. Why are you posting content from another site here?? 2. In every campaign I run on Googles Content Network (60+) not one of the article sites sends a sale, for this reason ezinearicles is one of the first sites I exclude from displaying my ads. 3. With PPC and affiliate marketing its possible to double your money. 4. PPC takes less time than writing an articles.. (The OP was too lazy to write his own article ) 5. It would be nice if you posted some proof you earned $10.00....(I doubt the OP earned $10,000 even) 6. Another thread title that offers nothing but BS. and a thread using content from another site no less..... How else can you waste peoples time?????????
You can't just make threads about whatever you want and think that it's "your thread" so it's ok to post rubbish. I only read the last few posts and already know that I don't even want to read your OP. Very childish reply to a decent remark.
Its not rubbish, its an article that I used to help me with article marketing, I thought I would share it with people that are interested in it. For those that think its garbage, then it doesn't hurt me because it's not my article... its written by the guy who owns ezinearticles. EZINARTICLES allows you to take the articles posted on their website, and share them if you wish. It is my thread... I created it. DP owns it, and people are allowed to express their opinions if they wish.
Haha I love bullys who hide behind computer monitors..... Seriously post something constructive like when you've made enough to put a down payment on a postage stamp. otherwise posting junk from other sites is a waste of peoples time here at DP... Post it on your own site if your doing things for shits and giggles/. There is no such thing.... and I have enough money to make me happy...
its funny how dp is. After one jerk comes in and trys to tear up a thread, others follow suite. I think its a fine article and thanks for shareing
Right and DP lets newbies post old stale content and they let assmunches agree to someone posting useless old stale content from another site.. Post something of use and maybe you will see jerks disappear.......
No you are wasting my time and others time here. You are bullying us by posting content which has been posted here before and is on another site most of us are aware of., Youre so much of a bully you cannot find the right place to post your old stale boring content. Lets look where you posted this silly thread Digital Point Forums > Marketing > Affiliate Programs > ClickBank What does this have to do with Clickbank???????????????????? Still think I am bullying you or simply pointing out a few obvious flaws with your thinking????? THINK!!!!!!