I know everyone is aware of this, but really, when you start doing it, you really aren't that confident with it. Articles do good for a few days and disappear into oblivion after that. I'm going to reiterate the point that it does add up. One of my sites, is on pace to average anywhere between 150-200 unique visitors a day. I know it isn't a lot, but take that when I first started it was ZERO. I haven't done anything really to get other traffic. I haven't submitted to directories. I haven't put my content stuff up on web2.0. It's just been article marketing and seo. And really over the last few weeks, things have really exploded in the way of traffic. In just one week(this month), I have half as many unique visitors I had all last month. So this month is on it's way to double last months unique visitors. A lot of this traffic comes from ezine, google, yahoo, msn and all those independent sites that used my articles on their site. If you've been skeptical of it, take advantage of it. This is much more beneficial than what I used to do (playing games with stumbleupon and other social bookmarks, and other stupid crap that didn't develop long lasting quality traffic).
People really underestimate (or misunderestimate ) the power of article marketing and good SEO. I do both of them and really enjoy the fruits. Also, article traffic fades, but doesn't necessarily die. My best article, which is still getting traffic, was written on March. My second best article was written on February (in fact, it is the first article I ever wrote). I still get a steady flow of traffic from EzineArticles every day. More articles, more steady traffic. This is simple math. I hope Google will update my backlinks soon and start sending traffic from forex related terms. When that happens, monetization is a piece of cake. nadavs
I wrote a Squidoo lens like 3 days ago, but got only 1 view. Is my article so bad or what? I'm kind of disappointed.
Your expectations are not realistic. Quick checking page views and pump out some more lenses. If you are just starting out you will drive yourself crazy checking your stats every 15 minutes. Instead every 15 minutes try to get back links. Or write an article or build another squidoo.
badar100 - I answered your PM, but I'm going to answer it here as well, so others will also be able to realize the universal truth of the internet. The universal truth of the internet is very simple: No one is going to type your URL. Now that you know that simple fact, do something with it. Promote your lens. No one is going to think "Oh, let's see if there is a Squidoo lens with that exact name so I can read about this topic". More likely, someone is going to think "Let's see what Google gives out about this topic", or "Let's see what EzineArticles has about this", or "Let's see if there is an interesting blog about this topic". The point is clear. You need promotion. nadavs
Article marketing is great for long term traffic. if you write 5 articles a day within a month you will have written 150 articles. Think of all the traffic.
That's why it's best to develop sites around your passion. When you're passionate about something, the words kinda flows. Also, I have this software called Instant Article Wizard and it scours the net searching for the keywords you input. When it finds them, it gathers then into sentences that makes it easy to write about a subject you know nothing about.
I admit that I didn't really like Instant Article Wizard. But I do love article marketing. I went to my brothers house last night to have some fun. Came home to a new sale in Clickbank while I was doing nothing but enjoying myself. I can get used to this!!
Exactly. You should never run out of ideas. I am getting ready to head into a new niche this coming up week and my mind is exploding with ideas for articles.
That's awesome. Hurry up and get them typed and submitted so you can move on to the next niche! Having those articles submitted every single day is so awesome for your online ventures.
Be wary of the article marketing naysayers out there. Article marketing works because it can create short and long term traffic. It also is great for backlinks and creating authority in a niche. It can also help you write the ultimate sales page. Why after writing dozens of articles you will see that some get more traffic than others. You can take your best article and expand upon that and possibly create the ultimate sales page without actually making a sales pitch and that can be a page of content on your site that should convert well! Not unusual to see conversions above 10% on that type of content! A good sales page will solve solutions answer questions and provide benefits. If you have been doing this for quite awhile after several SE updates you will see how valuable those backlinks are. So hang in and do not let the daily swings discourage you.
That is the cool thing about it. I'm learning tons of marketing stuff for free. And without some good traffic, it would take longer to figure out works. But since EA gets me traffic I am able to test and try things out that would otherwise take me months to see results.
Im defiently looking into this style of marketing. Im going to try find a writer than I can hire to write 24/7
Totally agree with this - quit checking stats and make more assets. Ezine - if you do have at least somewhat of a daily checklist that you perform for your IM'ing - yes ezine should be in there - once a day min. Chances are out of 5 articles - one will do well (don't work weekends, or prepare the next 5 to automate your submissions....). NC.
I would say with article marketing alone you not only get traffic but also can get better serps for your landing pages. It all depends on how you go for it.
As you know, there are a good many article writers submitting to Ezinearticles with over 1,000 articles to their credit. Some of these writers write all of their own articles, and some either outsource the writing for a few bucks each or use spinning services to alter the content enough so they can repost them under a different title and get them through the filters approved. However, (and I know this may go against the grain of driving maximum traffic generation) but I would never consider hiring out writing or spinning because I have seen some pretty horrible results. If you're really into the article approach to creating traffic (and it does work marvelously well), I'd suggest writing them all yourself. You can easily create a bad reputation out there by getting junk with your name on it all over the Internet. Just a humble opinion.
What a pleasant way to enter our community - hey BML - one post and one rep added Might be odd for you right now but you'll see in time - that 90% first posts are spammed to hellllll. Welcome to Digital Point - keep posting threads like that and you'll get rep here quick. NC.