Hi guys, I am quite new with articles marketing, but I would like to start with it so I have few questions concerning the whole Articles marketing process and I hope that you can help me with it. So let me start... 1) How long should the article be, in words count? 2) What should be the content of these articles, on what should they focus? 3) How do you submit your articles and is there any limit on how much articles you should submit per user? 4) How different should be the articles that you submit? 5) On which bases Ezine decides if they accept your articles? 6) Since you can not have hops on the articles what is the best way to handle this? 7) How many articles you should submit for your product? And what is the minimum to start getting sales? 8) Articles Vs. Youtube marketing? Which in your opinion is better? 9) Can you also point me to some articles that so far had good success? I know that there are many questions, but I think these answers will be of great importance of all those who just start with articles.
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The answers to your questions are going to vary based on the person, but here are 5 things I feel to be very important to article marketing success. 1. Find good products. I like going to clickbank and look for products with a gravity around 100. Also, try to stick to products that pay at least a $20 commission. 2. Keyword research. Write articles on keyword that get at least 1,000 searches per month according to google adwords keyword tool, or you could use seobook or wordtracker. 3. Your articles should be around 300-500 words long, and contain a great resource box with a call to action. 4. since you cant put hops in articles, either create a landing page with a free blogger blog, or redirect using a .info domain name, you can get one for around a dollar. 5. I try to write around 20-40 articles per product that I promote. The key is getting the articles to rank high in google. If you can do that, you can start creating a decent income. Now, this is by no means a complete guide, and some of the information I am sure people will disagree with me on. However, this is my opinion and has worked well for me. Just read up a bunch on article marketing and you will be fine.
1) How long should the article be, in words count? I used to say 250-350 words but Ezinearticles is really cracking down on affiliate marketers and suggesting articles should be 400+ so I'd go with maybe 350-450 words. 2) What should be the content of these articles, on what should they focus? Find niches where people are desperate to find a solution to their problems - "how to", "get rid of", "cure" etc. 3) How do you submit your articles and is there any limit on how much articles you should submit per user? No limit, although if you're new to Ezinearticles you may have to wait for your account to be upgraded (after the first 10). 4) How different should be the articles that you submit? Again, Ezinearticles is cracking down on 'derivative' content so you should at least not try to rewrite the same stuff over and over again. Having said that, there's only so much you can write on any one particular niche. You should read this to find out what they're expecting. 5) On which bases Ezine decides if they accept your articles? Ezinearticles editorial guidelines and author TOS 6) Since you can not have hops on the articles what is the best way to handle this? You can redirect from a top level domain - however I recommend you create your own presell landing page. If you don't have hosting you could use a free site such as Blogger. 7) How many articles you should submit for your product? And what is the minimum to start getting sales? There's no minimum or maximum as it depends on the product and how you promote it. This is something you'll find out for yourself as you go along. 8) Articles Vs. Youtube marketing? Which in your opinion is better? I prefer article marketing (but then that's because I'm crap at making videos) - some people prefer video though so again that's something you'll need to determine for yourself. 9) Can you also point me to some articles that so far had good success? I don't think many people would be willing to give away their niches by showing their own articles. What I do is go to Ezinearticles and watch the authors that are submitting articles daily - you can subscribe to as many authors as you want (you'll get a list of their articles in your inbox every day). If an author is submitting a number of articles every day in a particular niche you can be pretty sure they're making money with it. You can then reverse engineer their success by watching what titles, resource boxes, landing pages etc that they're using.
Thank you guys these are really good advices. Just to be clear...I search for keyword/s and than I actually use them in my article and this should help ranking my article higher on the search engines? Another thing...how smart is hiring someone who will write the articles? Since I am in no English speaking area maybe my English will be not enough for the quality of the articles. Have you tried this with someone already?
Your English seems to be quite good - I've seen alot worse in Ezinearticles. I always recommend people new to article marketing do it themselves before outsourcing. Articles that you submit to a directory often need to be a very specific style depending on the niche and product you are promoting, and the only way you can learn this is to test things out for yourself. Once you are making money and have worked out a winning formula then you can be very specific in your instructions to your article writers. I know people who have outsourced hundreds of articles and only made a few dollars in return.
1) How long should the article be, in words count? Quality would result in 400-800 words 2) What should be the content of these articles, on what should they focus? Focus on a solution to the readers problems 3) How do you submit your articles and is there any limit on how much articles you should submit per user? Ezine is the best. you can do as many as you want if you are a Platinum level author. You get this by submitting good articles with no errors and rejections. 4) How different should be the articles that you submit? very different. why write about the same old crap. Dont be lazy..write each one from scratch 5) On which bases Ezine decides if they accept your articles? If they dont suck 6) Since you can not have hops on the articles what is the best way to handle this? Buy a domain name. you can then build a landing page or re-direct your URL to the vendors page. sales will suffer if you do this however. 7) How many articles you should submit for your product? And what is the minimum to start getting sales? You can get sales from 1 or it may take 10..depends on the niche and how well your articles are written. 8) Articles Vs. Youtube marketing? Which in your opinion is better? Both are great. both get ranked in Google as well. 9) Can you also point me to some articles that so far had good success? Do this your self you lazy ass. It is not hard. Go to Ezine, type in your keyword, click on a article and then go to "Most Viewed" near the bottom of the article page. Will show how many times viewed but does not mean they make sales....
#1 is wrong. Anything over 20 gravity will convert and you want at least a $30 payout to make this worth you while. 100 gravity is good but only 32 products on CLickbank have this. i had more success with gravity between 20-80 than with 100 and above.
Minimum 250 words. You must take good care of quality content. It should be new and carry some thoughts. rest will fall on places itself.
That's wrong too. Anything with a gravity of 0 or above will convert, its just quality products with a lower gravity are hard to find among all the rubbish.
Agreed - thank you, Will. Some products with gravities over 200 have terrible conversion-rates. A few products with single figure gravities have excellent conversion-rates (not always so easy to find among all the rubbish, as Will mentioned). Don't let people tell you that there's a correlation between gravity and conversion-rates. And especially don't let them tell you that there's a correlation between gravity and sales numbers, either. Both statements are garbage. For all the reasons explained in this post.
You're actually totally correct here. In fact, putting aside conversion ratios, high gravity products are always swamped with competitors. Dozens of PPC ads, thousands of articles already out there which you need to compete with. Finding a quality, low gravity product to promote is great because traffic is often much cheaper and easier to obtain.
100% agreed with this. It's a bit crazy to me the way most folks focus only on the high gravity CB products, I've actually had more success with lower gravity products (less competition.)
I totally agree with all you guys. Competition is just too big with products with high gravity. But let me go back to original post. I got few articles accepted by Ezine few rejected. Even though I tried to keep the same style of writing, I get reject reasons like content not original. And I really wrote it my self and that's why I don't understand this reason. On the other hand they have rejected it first for keywords in the title, I fixed that and now that originality issue comes up. Are Ezine always this harsh and full of themselves with the articles reviews? On the other hand ArticleBase accepted all the articles without any problems. But I still fear if it is good idea to have the same articles submitted on different places even though on the same writer name?
Hi, to the initial poster of this thread - please check out this other thread: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1560247#post12837235 It contains kind of a mini-guide to help with article marketing.
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Are you sure it's not: 1) You find something that works 2) You work hard for a couple of days, then get a little tired 3) You realize that it's actually hard work, and there is no magic bullet 4) Something else shows up and looks easier to do 6) You jump onto the next opportunity 7) Rinse and repeat until broke (<< Sarcasm face)
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Always remember to submit to article directories that have high pagerank. And beware of nofollow article directories