Advice me where to start. BANS or article marketing?

Hiya.

I got inspired from 2 threads.
First, using BANS (cj+ebay) to earn money:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=461514

Second, using articles to submit to Ezinearticles to sell Clickbank products:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=457865



So...
Whats better? What will bring faster income, if I will make it good?

I can't write articles, because Im too poor in english and I'd propably have lacks of knowledge to write about niches...so I'd have to buy articles or use rewriter.

I would like to hear your advices guys. Pros and cons maybe

 

Articles will be way better in the short run and the long run.,

The bans script is way flooded on the serps

 

This is not true.

The eBay affiliate opportunity which BANS has been built to enable you to profit from is just starting to be understood by the wider internet marketing community.

I assure you that the whole concept of building targeted eBay affiliate websites is very much at it's beginning stages and will continue to develop over the next few years.

With that said Ritu, article marketing (as a model) or building eBay affiliate websites are very different strategies for building income.

For example:

- You can choose to promote any merchant product with article marketing whereas with BANS you are choosing to focus on the products contained inside the eBay marketplace.

- With article marketing you are sending visitors straight to the merchant (unless you are building "middleman" websites) whereas with BANS (providing you develop your site - ie add unique content) you are creating a power base in your target niche.

I'd ultimately base your decision on whether or not you want to focus on the eBay affiliate opportunity. If you do then BANS is a great platform for doing that. If you don't then learning article marketing is going to better suit your goals.

Alternatively, you could follow a "hybrid" strategy and (as many of our members do) use article marketing as one method of promoting your eBay affiliate websites.

I hope that helps,

Kelvin

 

If you're new, I'd suggest starting with article marketing. It doesn't cost anything and you get a good understanding of how to drive traffic to web sites. You can't sell anything with BANS or anything else if you don't get traffic to your web sites.

Once you're more experienced, BANS is a great way to expand your marketing efforts.

Kent

 

I have tried article writing and it works. I'm trying Bans now. Got $50 so far from one blog.

 

yeh article marketing aka bum marketing does work, if done right. but also ive seen so many good stories about bans taking off in the first month of starting. i jumped on it and have not looked back since. and i was the creator of one of those threads mentioned.

BANS rocks all the way and the support is there aswell if needed. very easy to get set up and running.

i plan on making more and more sites over the next few mths all running bans, and covering various niches. theres thousands to choose from...

dont know where to look for a niche? no problem, goto the ebay pulse pages and youll see a list of top ten searches in that catergory. there you will see what gets looked for and then you can build around this.

 

Ritu, with bans you don't have much work, with articles you need to write the articles or buy the articles to some writer, which is allways more expensive and time consuming.

 

Why don't you build a BANS site, and use article marketing to drive traffic to it? You will also be doing great SEO work for the site with the backlinks in your articles.

 

Hello group:

Not to butt in, but I have read a few times that a BANS site somehow generates its own traffic? Without the tedius article marketing techniques?

How?

Has any looked at article re-writer or similiar softwear?

Thx

Paul

 

There is no such thing as a website that "generates its own traffic". You have to work for traffic.

I suppose if you pick a great niche that has high search volume and little competition (good luck with that) the SE's would send you traffic, BANS site or not.

But then again, you have to be visible to the SE's before they can index you and send you traffic, and that means getting links to your site. And article marketing is a great way to do that...

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Why don't you do both?
I know it's better to focus on 1 thing but building a site in spirit of BANS is easy and doesn't take that much time. Use article marketing to drive traffic to your selected affiliateproducts sites and your bans...just a tought

 

Bans are good if you find the right niche that is not flooded with other BANS and other sites. And think about the demand for the niche itself. If you find a high demand niche that is not BAN-NED up you will be sitting pretty.

Article maketing can be done with your eyes close if your good at it. Intro, three topic points and a conclusion. Volume is the way to go and they last for a long time. Get enough money and you can hire article writers from the content creation section here and you will be sitting pretty again.

 

My opinion, BANS is just bullshit. I have around 10 ban based sites but very little success even with targeted traffic (but thats just my opinion).

So I would suggest, go with clickbank and articles.

Don't kill me for this, but thats what I have seen in my experience.