GeorgeR. FYI: all of your 'recommends' links are coming up with a 404 your url that you encrypted looks ok but the site that the CB link redirects is messed up i believe, cause when I manually enter your encrypted URL in the address bar it redirects and then gives the 404 (404 on http://www.affiliateprojectx.biz/clickbankelite?hop=youridremoved)
whoa...that sucks. It's not my mistake...they seem to have the CB-Elite page down or working on it.... sigh...
I have to admit that I skipped a few posts because my eyes are about to fall out of my head from reading this thread from the beginning (which is awesome by the way) so forgive me if I've overlapped here. In my article marketing experience, the best converting ones are the "How To" articles. You list a few detailed and useful tips, and in the bio box say something like "for even more tips" blah blah blah, but much better of course. I'm just too tired to come up with something decent, but you catch my drift I hope. I believe that quality articles aren't enough. It can have quality coming out the yin yang, but if your bio box sucks, you can kiss your potential buyers goodbye. I actually spend almost as much time on my resource box as I do for the article, sometimes more. I try to have a different resource box for each article. It takes up more time, but I think it's worth it in the end if it means more conversions. I focus on pre-selling. I'm pretty sure Travis talks a lot about that as well with his bum marketing report. Some copywriting skills really help too. I have more to say but I'm about to fall off my chair from lack of sleep. Good luck Ponynugget and thanks Samo for your awesome posts. You guys are inspiring.
I really, really think you would spend better time writing your own blog or do some Squidoo-ing or similiar. Article marketing as additional bonus. But the good thing is that those articles will appear anywhere on the net over time...so the real clicks on your links are higher that the clicks ezine etc. tells you.
You know MorgansMom I had an article that said something of the sort ("come here for more info/tips", or something similar), and it came back with a problem. I think this was mainly because of the editor that reviewed my article. They (the ezinearticle editor) said that my article had to have a "clear ending", that I "leave the reader hanging", and that my article was forcing readers to leave ezinearticles. (huh?) I ended up leaving that approach, because I was tired of debating with ezinearticles. Maybe my editor was having a bad week...I don't know. Any ideas on this???
I've never had a problem with that. If your title says something like "5 Tips to help you sleep" and you list 5 tips, then add in your bio box "for more tips on sleeping well...." there shouldn't be any issues. I always make sure there's an introduction and a conclusion to each article along with the 5 tips or whatever the body of the article happens to be. I've seen tons of author bios that read pretty much the same, so maybe somebody shit in that editor's corn flakes that morning...who knows.
Great thread. Article marketing does help in long run. I have not had much short term gains with this techniques. Well we definitely endup getting good backlink that you own. One suggestion I think that we should stick to promoting only couple of product categories so that our mind grows more and more in understanding them rather than learning new products daily and splitting our concentration.
I have 2 live articles on ezine would anyone know if I can see from which articles the clicks are coming from, and which articles are getting more views. Is there any way for me to split the stats for my articles?
Better make a good website instead of your bum marketing techniques which I only use for back links to my site. In the long term, it would bring you much more with less efforts!!! Why not write 2 quality articles for your website/daily? You will have a nice website within 1 year and it will bring you much more. Trust me. Just send an article each week 1 to an ezine to get a bit of traffic and back links. Programs and software I use: SEO elite (yes, no affiliate link and free joomla cms software to build huge websites for free) That's it. When building a website, I want at least two sources of income: advertisers and clickbank products (and other affiliate networks) My 2 powerful cents. I probably make much more than 99% on this forum. It all takes time, efforts, but doing my way really payoff (and the bills). Ps. The big and famous marketers make 95% money on the stupid marketers who believe they can make 200K in 1 month with a secret formula or adwords. I'm not using an affiliate signature because I make enough money Wiper
Just a newbie question: If you should wait one year for the results to show, you should choose a CB product that will last for at least one year then? Or you just make your articles on some niche & change the products you sell regularly?
Hi, Just make a niche website and add new products (the ones you like) and remove the ones that doesn't convert. (that's the way I do and it works). For example, i am now promoting a new hot clickbank product in my niche. Using joomla is easy to add banners under 5 min on all pages and start promoting it. I'm using peelawayads because they convert very well and by the way, you don't have to buy this script at peelawayads because you can download it for FREE from the original developer : http://www.webpicasso.de/blog/kostenloses-pagepeel/ For Joomla sites, you can download it for free from: http://www.templateplazza.com/ I hate people stealing from others: http://peelawayadscript.com/:mad: Don't buy, just take it for free! Wiper
If you do bum marketing, you will see an influx of traffic. In fact, I wrote 100 articles, and I get around 50 visitors a day from articles alone. After you get the traffic, it is highly important that you learn how to convert that traffic...you may need 1,000 articles to get daily sales....and make sure that you have an autoresponder as well, so you can increase your sales by over 300%
Article Marketing really works. This post inspired me to give article marketing a try. I am not a native speaker so i had some problems with some of my articles. This is my results by now. I had 8 sales wrom these articles. Top 3 topics for me are: automotive, games(WoW Valkors Guide) and weight loss(Weight Loss 4 Idiots). At the end of each article i make a quick product review and give a link. That's way i do not use landing pages. And it works great. I really want to try bum marketing but i can't. I can write maximum 7-10 articles per day working 6 hours. So if somebody think that article marketing is dead - it is not true. It is still works, and works great.
article marketing does work. but blogging, and putting the content on your own page is even better But article marketing is great if your starting out new and trying to build up your mailing list. If you don't have an autoresponder or mailing list...just forget it. You won't make half as many sales as you can with a list.