Hello, Note: I'm making this thread to motivate myself, get some online help and also to track the things I'll do and the things I've done. Also, I hope to help someone in the process... I'm struggling to make money with CB and I was doing like $100 till now but I'm here to take action and change that! Important: Please do not spam that you don't like journals, simply don't read it... I hope there is a bunch of people who would like to follow my progress. OK, so here's my plan: I will promote 1 CB product starting tomorrow (green energy niche) and pick another by the end of the next week. From that point, I'll keep promoting both products and maybe after a month add up third. I'm gonna promote through article marketing and maybe some videos along the way... Nevertheless my main traffic will come from articles. For a start I'll be writing articles (2 per day, 1 per niche) and submitting them to Ezine and then on this article sites below, in order to get some extra traffic. www.goarticles.com www.easyarticles.com www.articlealley.com www.articledashboard.com www.ideamarketers.com and a bunch of others... After that I'll ping them and social bookmark them... trying to get some direct sales. I'll be using direct linking to the vendors page for approximately 10 days till I finish my landing page (will let some of the members here review it and help me out a lil bit if they want to). After completing my landing page will try to build some backlinks to it through articles, forums, blog posts etc. and still submitting more to Ezine to maintain my budget. I'm looking forward to make some direct sales from the articles in order to see some fill out green bars to get an extra motive. For a start I'm waiting 3 articles to be accepted on Ezine and I've got 5 more live, made a sale from them 9 days ago (screen shot below). Tomorrow I'll have the hole plan sort it out and from Monday will start writing. I'll be writing for long tail keywords (1000+ searches per month, not more than 2000 "allintitle") I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOUR OPINIONS AND PREPOSITIONS! OK, that's it for now. Hope you enjoy the ride! Baster
My honest opinion: you will fall well short of your goals. This is not me making fun of you or trying to discourage you, instead, I'm basing my opinion on years of writing articles. Submitting a few articles a day to EZA (and a couple other sites) will probably make you $200-300 per month. You need to do something a little more creative to get closer to the $1000 per month range. But...go ahead and try to prove me wrong.
Yeh c'mon, give the guy a break, at least hes trying to do something proactive and positive. Telling him its a rubbish idea or blasting him for doing a journal etc doesn't make people stop them, it just creates negativity, massive arguments, and wastes everyones time.. This is a decent starting point imo, I think you will learn from this and within 1-2 months be able to make some tweaks, stop doing what isn't working and focus more on what is.. And it is good to have a high goal - why aim for a lower one? I always set massive $$$ targets and rarely reach them, but still, it's ok to reach for the stars and land on the moon...
I am exactly at the point you have explained right now. So it would be interesting to watch how to earn more with article marketing alone.
Thanks for your replies guys. @dlm I'll try my best to prove you wrong but instead of watching me trying hard to do that can you suggest something that will help me reach my goal... I'm always open to hear second opinion. Thank you for following Baster P.S. One article was rejected from Ezine, 2 of them still pending... Today will finish my keyword research for the green energy product and tomorrow start writing. Already got a bunch of long tail keyword but will need more.
If you are planning to earn $3000 by the end of 2010, you should be promoting at-least 10 products and submitting 30 articles per day. Try articlebase. They approve quicker. There is a very popular and free e-book which tells you how to earn $150 per day with bum marketing. Just do a google search. And go through the forum posts. There are a lot of useful information on article marketing. There is a very good e-book on how to write an article in 10 minutes. It is a paid one, but a good one. Do not worry about perfecting your landing page. Just create it and get going. You can do the tweaking later.
30 articles per day? That's not humanly possible... About the e-book which tells you how to earn $150 per day with bum... care to share the link or PM with it? Thanks
Yeah - so the best way to submit more articles without having to spend tons of time writing is either: a) pay someone to write them for you, or (assuming you don't have the money to do that now) b) write one article, then re-write it several times to give you 5-10 similar articles which you can submit with slightly different titles (especially to AB, they will accept them)
The problem with spinning is that he isn't actually trying to get backlinks, so I believe that in terms of users it wouldn't be much different than submitting a single article. Besides, is anyone really getting a good amount of traffic from any article directory besides ezine?
Yeah I've been thinking about this as well, I only get solid amount of traffic through Ezine. However will considers dlm's advice about trying to re-write them but for a start I'll stick to only writing. Will update you guys soon. P.S. Please remember, any advice will be very much appreciated. I really need this. Thank you
Yeah lots journals have a plan similar to this one. I think as long as you stick to your plan and tweak your marketing campaign along the way, you will achieve success.
So you don't know what you're talking about. Yes - spinning an article 5 times will give you more traffic than submitting the article once. Maybe not 5 times as much, but definitely more. Yes - several other article directories drive a lot of traffic for me and one of them is ArticlesBase.com
It is. Try Instant Article Factory. But If you are not comfortable or good with article writing, it is difficult to be successful at bum marketing. You can outsource.But in the beginning it will not be cost effective. Also you need to rewrite your outsourced articles to get best ctr. But do not worry if you are not very good at churning up articles on a daily basis. The only way to master article writing is to write everyday. By the time you are done with 50 or so articles, you will be very good at it. And by the way stop using silly words like" impossible". Here is a link to Instant Article Factory. I have tried the trial one with good result. And it is not an affiliate link. http://instantarticlefactory.com. And here is a link on how to write. http://www.copyblogger.com/become-a-better-writer. And here is a link about creating good landing pages. http://www.copyblogger.com/landing-pages And here is the link to free pdf download on how to earn $150 per day by bum marketing. http://ebookdirectory.com/dl/$150%20a%20day%20bum%20profit.pdf
@Marigoldd thanks for the links, will look into them later. Quick update: 2 more articles live, 1 was rejected... 15 hops yesterday - one order from impression - 0 sales 4 hops today - 0 order from impression - 0 sales I wrote 3 more articles today and add them to Ezine, waiting a review. Now I'm gonna post the 2 articles that were accepted yesterday to some more article directories. I already bookmark them and ping them. Should I use anchor text backlinking back to those on Ezine? Will this be useful?
Just so you know, I would guess you'll need about 100-150 hops per day if you want to make $1000 per month (just an estimate)
articlebase and goarticles grow month after month. Many timse I get many more read 6 months after posting, than after say three weeks. It does add up and from time to time you will hit a winner....
Yes, You should get at least 100 hops on daily basis to start with.What is your ezine article ctr?Just do the maths and figure out how many articles you need out there and how to rank them so you continue to get that many hops.
My CTR is around 25% (more or less). Will do some math and try to menage around 100 hops If I can. Thank you guys for your support, it really means to me.