Submitted some articles last night that were accepted this morning, but they just don't seem to be performing that well. I know I should be patient, but sometimes you just know when you are looking at a turkey. Sigh. Oh well, at least it is more in my ever-growing arsenal I guess...
Article marketing is not going to enable you to retire......it may drive incremental traffic, which is to mean if 5000 people read the article and you have a 1% Click thru rate.... 50 people will visit your site. You can do the conversion to sale / lead numbers calculation from there.
Points well taken. I am using article marketing right for two things. To generate some cash to reinvest into this whole project and to learn. It has been a great learning experience. Knowing that I can get people to really pull out their credit card and purchase is pretty powerful. Next step is probably mini-sites and list building.
I then just when I get down a make a sale. Four consecutive days in a row! Excuse me while I do a happy dance.
You knows whats really crazy is spending $1.21 on PPC..... and making $14.99 in affiliate revenue... I happy dance every day and in my sleep too
At some point I may check out PPC again. I just felt like I was never very good at it and ended up losing money.
A few well written articles will get you a few thousand hits a day of more. It may take several dozen articles to get it right. Now granted if you are in a tight nich and seing a clickthrough of 30-40% and from that conversions of about 10-15% it really is sweet. That is just one example. Now to mention the articles with well chosen keywords sets you up for some sweet backlinks and natural traffic. I may jump back into PPC but I just found my time spent on natural search methods more productive.
Backlinks from article marketing sites probably has a PR value of 0.000010 since Google would likely give as much credit to those as it does free directories. Sure SEO is good for somethings... However for most e-commerce products and lead generation it does little ....where PPC rocks it.....
Interesting ... does not explain the sites that get those backlinks increasing in PR and the ones that did not stayed at the same PR. Sure SEO is good for say ... 50k hits a month on one site. Lead generation ... works fine for building my list. This is where natural traffic rocks.
I'd say they have links from high quality sites that you have not researched far enough to see. 50,000 visitors perhaps to a myspace profile site. Of course that distortion of numbers would require there to be 250,000 searches done daily since no site gets 100% of the searches done. There are probably less than 1,000 terms with that search volume. Lastly as soon as you can find me someone who will drop a $25,000.00 diamond in a shopping cart and whip out their credit card Another who will plop a $45,000.00 Lexus in the shopping cart and Paypal it and yet another who will buy a $300,000.00 home using a shopping cart and pay for it with his Google Checkout account then I will believe you are actually making a valid point......... till such time I have tried with all three listed above, managed to sell a few diamonds none above $5,000.00, nobody bought a car, had some leads generated for the homes but nobody bought one online, and I can safely say with certainty SEO works at times and at others it has no chance of working.....
If you have a content-based blog, submitting your articles takes almost no time and will get one way backlinks helpful for SEO.
I got my first article approved by EA last Friday and it's literally got a 50% URL CTR. I don't have tons of traffic so I'm pretty happy to have the boost coming in at no cost. My second article has 33% CTR which I'm happy with also. My problem is that my niche is so targeted that I cannot make myself write the 10 articles everyone says I should be writing. How many times can I rewrite the same things in different ways? It's so cumbersome. I hate doing it but oh well. I wish I could tell what my CTR is on my hubpages.
You should whait for a while. Google will find your article and index it. After that you might get good traffic and sales.
Let me speak from experience with article marketing. I am not a multi-millionaire guru, and really not an english major, with a slick style of whisking the people's wallets to a clickbank sales screen. I have written several articles, have about a dozen squidoo lens, and two websites, actually as of tonight, a third one (forex) just went up. probably have done 10-15 hours of total work to get things going from writing articles, researching topics, and writing relative content to try to captivate potential purchasers. as of right now, I have made about $435 dollars on clickbank on my two accounts, and it will keep on growing. Article marketing happens to be a great thing. While I am back on the swing of things, trying to get a few articles written everyday, I am also experimenting with a new method of attack: Blogs loaded with niche content. For those who happen to be on a shoestring budget, Use blogger or wordpress.com's services. Also do not count out squidoo as well, as its kinda like a hybrid between a blog and an article service. blogger is highly indexed with google and Alexa, and so is wordpress. Create an account, which takes only five minutes, and create a blog page. for the subdomain on blogger, use keywords to determine your subdomain name "xxxx.blogspot.com" and write relative content for that niche. Find a reasonable amount of products for that niche, and write reviews for each product. If you have to, write more than one review, and revisit with some talking points as well. If you happen to be handy with coding and html, you might want to put in a sidebar, a few neatly arranged 125x125 boxes with graphics that blink and captivate site visitors. There is a couple of good ideas for blog marketing. Just remember to keep your chin up, and just keep going at it. Maybe you need to change your product mix, and maybe you need to change the way you word your spiel. YOU WILL GET THERE! IT WILL WORK IF YOU ARE WILLING TO DO SO! Tom Howell The Forex Guy
article marketing has never failed me it also depends on the unique content and usefulness of your article
hello guys...article marketing is a good way of genrating traffic as you people are sharing.I have submitted my articles to ezine but the time to get published is more than a week.Can u people suggest me some other good article directories where the acceptance is fast??
Give it a few days, Grover, sometimes things don't take off right away. And then in a few days if you're getting little or no response...well, at least that was a cheap way to test your niche.