Article Marketing Case Study - 30 Days - How Much Will I Make?

@Fivestar - I just answered your comment on the blog about that, hehe. But I'll answer again here

Right now, I'm using .info's that are redirected to a CB vendor's sales page. This is the fastest route (in my opinion) to do things. I'm picking products that appear to have high quality, high converting sales pages, which will hopefully translate into more commissions for me.

Within the next week or two, if I see that a particular niche is performing extremely well, I'll come up with a squeeze page so that I can start collecting email addresses. The only reason I'm not doing that now is because of the short time frame (30 days) I have, and the level of commitment in writing articles takes up a fair amount of time. When you start building squeeze pages/landing pages for products, it takes even more time.

This experiment is all about the fastest and most efficient way to make extra cash using article marketing, which is also "newbie" friendly.

Hope that helps!

 

Gogogo, hope you can pay off the membership in time

 

Update Time!

So this weekend, I stuck with it, and submitted 5 articles Saturday, and 5 more Sunday (of course, they were all approved today since EZA isn't open on the weekends). Over the weekend, I had 2 articles that got a lot of action (mainly because they were at the top of their respective category pages).

I will, of course, submit another 5 today.

Since the beginning of the experiment, I have 20 live articles (5 per day). So that's not bad at all!

In the process, my account was upgraded to Platinum. So I'm rolling with a premium membership as a platinum author - approval times are around 20 minutes. Life is good.

As far as sales, I'm still at one. I haven't been able to log into my CB account today yet, as I've made a goal of only checking it once per day, at night. So we'll see if I end up with any more sales today - fingers are crossed!

It's been a very productive weekend and I'll continue to keep you updated with any breaking or new news. Thanks for following along!

 

Thats great to hear! I look forward to seeing if you've made anymore sales.

 

Very awesome Shamus! I just found this, and it's definitely something I'll be checking up on!

I cannot believe those approval times (20 minutes) -- that's ridiculously fast!

 

You're doing something that most people will never
do and that's taking ACTION! Congrats on your
will to succed. You'll learn more by doing this than
by reading 500 ebooks on the subject.

 

@jakeruston - Thanks!

@WritersHall - Glad you enjoy it so far! Yeah, the approval times are still blowing me away - SUPER fast.

@Dave Johnson - Indeed my friend. Action is what's necessary to succeed. Thanks for the positive energy

 

Shamus - 5 articles a day is very nice... I write 1 a day and think I am diligent.

I clearly pale in comparison to you in terms of diligence.

 

Update!

I can now confirm my SECOND SALE!

It's such a great feeling when things work how they're supposed to. This sale was from a different niche than my first sale, so it's good to see some diversity in my niche selections.

I'll be posting more details on my blog in a little while, so stay tuned!

 

This is great to follow! Just wondering though how come you dont outsource your article writing? You cna pay someone $1 to knock off those articles.

 

@kimberwyn - Hey thanks! As far as outsourcing, I have outsourced some of the articles, however, there isn't a writer around that I would trust with my reputation if they're charging $1 per article (unless I got really, really lucky!). I'm not posting just any old article...I'm trying to write compelling and quality content, so that I can effectively pre-sell the person (in a round-a-bout way) so that they're ready to buy when they arrive at the affiliate sales page.

Anyway, yeah, I have no problem outsourcing, but the more I can force myself to write, the more money I make, and for the sake of the experiment, every dollar counts!

 

If nothing else, this is a great testimonial for EZA's premium membership. Looking forward to your results. Good luck!

 

Good one keep it up. I've decided to enter the 'weight loss niche a few days ago and I'm pretty disappointed but we'll see how things go.

I've submitted to EZA around 35 articles -- well optimized for the search engines -- but the same old story the articles get a decent amount of traffic then they die out. Anyways the great part is that I managed to make around 6 sales. As far as I've noticed in the past 2 days the click through on the bio links is "0" so there isn't any more traffic the articles are nearly all buried in the SERPs except 2 off them which still send a little traffic.

My conclusion is that the weight loss niche is one of the most difficult to target, due to a high competition on every keyword anybody feels different?

 

Just going into weight loss niche is not easy.
When dealing with flooded niches go after sub niches.
Such as weight loss for mothers after pregancy(made it up as I type). This goes for any niche....target all over the place.

 

yes, im exdperiencing that to, and its very hard to presell, they are not buying bullcrap()

 

Another update for you guys -

So it's now day 6 I believe, and I'm still on track with my 5 article per day goal. I've always been able to write fast articles for the most part, but since the start of this exercise, I'm finding that if I sit down with no interruptions, I can knock out 5 good articles in about an hour - maybe an hour and a half tops.

Anyway, as of last night, I was still at two sales, which I'll admit I was hoping for a few more, but on the other hand, just seeing those two is motivating to know that I have the chance to get more.

On another note...it finally clicked today as far as why they include the "scheduled release" feature in a premium membership...it's actually VERY cool and will make the difference in this entire experiment. Later tonight I'll explain more about that in a blog post.

Other than that, I'm going to finish up my articles for the day, and cross my fingers. Stay tuned for more updates

 

The problem is that you're giving away traffic to ezinearticles. And when a visitor finds your article there, there are tons of distractions like the adsense ads they run, links to related articles, and so forth. You're competing with all that which means that not everyone who sees your article will be enticed to click on your resource box.

This vs. placing content on your own site and getting backlinks to that content - which allows YOUR site to rank nicely in organic search over time.

Just sayin.' 'Cause I found article marketing to be a very limited and short-sighted approach to making good sales consistently. I get much more mileage out of creating the content on my own sites and focusing on getting quality backlinks to that content (which admittedly can include the occasional article submission to ezinearticles.)

Dan

 

@dangregory - Oh yeah, I totally agree with most of that. As a blog flipper and long time blogger, I'm all about it.

But this is strictly an experiment, just to see what might be possible with it. So for the sake of experimental purposes, I'm doing article marketing

Thanks for your input, though!

 

That is true. I am starting this stuff up myself and I am using my own sites to post my articles on. With the proper links back to each article I can rank for the keywords I want and I do not have ads on my site other than the affiliate links.

I still would like to see the results of ezine and will be following this thread or your blog.

 

Wow. I don't know which I find more impressive - that you get your articles approved in 20 minutes, or that you can write 5 a day, day in and day out. It's like you have super powers.

Looking forward to the final tally!