Bum Marketing Difficulties

Discussion in 'ClickBank' started by candy_lim01, Mar 25, 2010.

  1. #1
    Hi,

    I've been doing Bum Marketing for a while. Sales were consistent. Below are what I do.

    1. I'm spending all my free time daily, pushing myself to submit 20 articles a day at the maximum.

    2. My articles were able to rank first 2 pages of Google for a few days, then dropped it's ranking.

    3. Earning were consistent around $200/ week.

    My question is, how can I get more sales?
    I've been working very hard daily, although sales were in, but I wasn't able to have a breakthrough like $500/week.

    Articles will not stay as competition was tough. (I can spend a lot of time doing backlinking, but the articles will still be outrank sooner or later.)

    My earnings aren't a lot, therefore I don't want to outsource my work first.

    Any tips how can I earn more through Bum Marketing? Or any tips that you can rank your articles high without wasting a lot of time? (I can't do backlinking for all my 20 articles everyday.)

    Thanks!
     
    candy_lim01, Mar 25, 2010 IP
  2. TigerPublishing

    TigerPublishing Member

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    Improve the clickthrough rate of your articles to make sure you get the most out of them. You'll have to work on this through experimentation really. Make them shorter or longer, hint at something in the end of the article to keep them reading, try different words in your links (include "click here to ..." for example) and so on. Analyse the most popular articles on the site to get some ideas.

    I'd also recommend that you use the links in your articles to point to a minisite that you own. That way you get to keep the link juice and you develop something more permanent and long term. If you're writing 20 articles a day, if each of them has one link to the affiliate product and another to your minisite, your site will have 100 backlinks in a week, 200 the week after that and so on.
     
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  3. peterprofit

    peterprofit Peon

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    send your traffic to a squeeze page!
     
    peterprofit, Mar 26, 2010 IP
  4. Skribblez

    Skribblez Notable Member

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    I know how you feel. :(

    This is what I'm doing myself and I'm seeing similar results. Working my ass off on the computer nearly all day everyday, writing articles, building links, etc. and only earning about $200-$300 / week from Clickbank. Like you, I'm hoping to eventually get to the $500 / week level, or even higher. It can get really stressful though, and that often leads to sickness and other annoying complications that can make it that much harder..

    I think the old saying, "work smarter, not harder", would definitely apply here.

    That's what I'm trying to figure out myself, but the good thing about articles is that, although it isn't the EASIEST way to make money with Clickbank, it definitely is one of the best ways to generate long term autopilot income, depending on the niche.

    Sorry if the above doesn't really help. Just my opinion, because I can relate, that's all.

    I think you could try promoting products with higher payouts. That could work. You could make as much as $100 with only two sales, but then refunds would be a b*tch in this case, and it won't necessarily be easier than promoting lower priced products.

    You could try playing around with your landing page. Often times, I notice a difference in sales from the smallest changes I make to my landing page!

    Never be satisfied with your landing page. Keep tweaking it and "perfecting" it, and you'll definitely notice that it DOES make a difference.

    What are you using your Clickbank earnings for? If it's for living expenses (rent, electricity, food, etc.) and you still have some left over, try to allocate a bit of that to PPC, or maybe Facebook Ads. It doesn't hurt to dabble into PPC. Although there are usually faster results with PPC, you do have to be careful of your expenditures. You can get burned just as quickly! lol.

    For now I'm not using PPC and just focusing on article marketing. Perhaps I'll give PPC a try again when this article marketing thingy gets too stressful for me.
     
    Skribblez, Mar 26, 2010 IP
  5. candy_lim01

    candy_lim01 Peon

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    Thanks for all the tips!

    Currently I'm focusing purely on Article Marketing. I've been writing and writing, yet my earnings were peanuts. Sometimes I really wonder how do the "Gurus" do it. How can they build so many links for so many articles within a short time?

    For me, if I were to build links, it'll take as much time to write 1 article. Which means instead of writing 20 articles a day, I can only write 10.

    @TigerPublishing - Thanks. Like that you've mentioned, I've been linking back to my blog. I'm using Articlebase and I think it's no follow. Somehow my blog doesn't have as much backlinks I thought it should have. Nevertheless, I'll still reserve 1 link/article to link back to my blog.

    @peterprofit - I'm linking back to my squeeze page. Do you think it's good idea to link to my blog directly?

    @Skribble - I'm glad you've replied! At least I know I'm not alone! I'm focusing on Article Marketing currently. PPC will kick off when I hit $500/week consistently.
    I've been testing on the 12th niche already. I'm dropping the products that do not convert. It's really a waste of time to keep changing, but I read somewhere a Guru dropped 20+ products before he hit on the winning one.

    So how many products are you marketing currently? It's very disappointing to login to clickbank and found $0. Need a way to do it right.
     
    candy_lim01, Mar 26, 2010 IP
  6. scheng1

    scheng1 Peon

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    Wow, that's a lot of hard work. I dont really like to push myself to write 20 articles a day for the sake of enriching article directories.
    I notice that many writers in Ezinearticles are working on rewriting the same content every few weeks. You may like to try that to cut down on research time.
     
    scheng1, Mar 27, 2010 IP
  7. getjimmy

    getjimmy Prominent Member

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    I think you are wasting lot of time writing just for article directories, try to set up your own site and update content regularly and build backlinks, you may not make money initially but in a long run,those articles will get you consistent traffic and sales.
     
    getjimmy, Mar 27, 2010 IP
  8. brada7x

    brada7x Active Member

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    ^^ Agreed.

    You may only be able to push out 10 articles a day while doing backlinks but it will be well worth it in the end. Right now you're just pushing article after article and you're making it where you'll have to be writing 20 articles a day for life that way. Because your articles will rank for a short time due to them being new content, but then they will disappear with the wind because you aren't backlinking or promoting them at all.

    Write your 10 articles for the day, backlink to previous articles, rinse and repeat and you'll see your articles start to stick in the rankings rather than drop off like flies. It might take a bit of time to start seeing results but once you do, the sales will start pouring in more and more as you continue to build up your articles properly.

    And the mini-site idea that was mentioned before is gold. You'll build up a better long-term income using your own site rather than just spending all your hard work in writing on building up content for article directories.
     
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  9. jacky8

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    Just to give you an idea about how it can work better. Make it a linked train structure (yes, its my own term and i always get my team to use it)

    I don't really suggest blasting your articles to every corner of the internet. You can take advantage of article directories for quick traffic but try building your own site in the process as well.

    And now about my secret train structure.

    Edit: Removed the part. Sorry, a friend requested me not to share it.
     
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  10. AutoViralMoney

    AutoViralMoney Peon

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    wow very impresive. 20 articles in one day. article marketing is good, but you need a landing page/squeeze page and use autoresponder to build your customer list.

    it's work for me and others.
     
    AutoViralMoney, Mar 27, 2010 IP
  11. candy_lim01

    candy_lim01 Peon

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    Can just msg me what is Linked Train Structure? Pls share with me, very interested.
    Thanks!
     
    candy_lim01, Mar 30, 2010 IP
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    candy_lim01 Peon

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    @brada7x - So you suggest backlinking is more important than submitting more articles? How long do we have to submit before we can see the results?

    @AutoViralMoney - Ya now I'm collecting email addresses and send them regular email promo. Thks for the tips.

    @getjimmy - If we create our own site and post our articles, it'll take a long time to get index right? That's why we use directories. The articles can be indexed a lot faster. But you are right, long term, it's better to have our own site.
     
    candy_lim01, Mar 30, 2010 IP
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    FilthyRich Active Member

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    Why not try setting up a google adwrods campaign. Use market samurai to find easy keyword to rank for and then optimise your google adwords ad to rank for the easy keywrods.
     
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    you need to strengthen your existing articles with backlinks. Submit to other directories and link back to the ezine articles from the other articles.
     
    GeorgR., Mar 30, 2010 IP
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    xrcv Peon

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    Recently, it has become next to impossible for an ezinearticle to hit the 1st page of google, most of them land on the second+ page. Building links to the articles will rarely get you more than 2 or 3 places above. I'm still trying to figure what exactly has changed, but I think the main thing is google recongnizing more synonyms of certain words, which automatically increases the number of competing pages by many times. Google eliminating the useless articles, written solely to make clickbank sales was bound to happen though. Look for other ways of getting traffic, outsourcing, and providing more value.
     
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  16. getjimmy

    getjimmy Prominent Member

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    No, the blog posts gets indexed almost instantly if your blog has some kind of PR, then u need to build backlink to these blog posts.
     
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  17. Noahdeck

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    I'll second on this as well. Otherwise, if you really are focusing on creating a lot of contents on a regular basis (or daily), you could hire a full time copywriter who could work for you to write, submit and promote the articles to get through the search engines once you've got a blog in place. Particularly, use Wordpress and customize your theme with SEO-friendly plugins to do all traffic generation in place. We appreciate your effort a lot Candy, but you shouldn't be "pushing too much" just to be around Google pages. You deserve better and growing sales and traffic in the near future so you better seek help. :)
     
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  18. candy_lim01

    candy_lim01 Peon

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    So you're saying I submit articles to other directories and link back to my previous articles?

    Isn't that too many links for the customers? If that saw my articles and follow the link, it'll bring them to another articles, then to landing page before going to sales page?
     
    candy_lim01, Apr 7, 2010 IP
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    candy_lim01 Peon

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    Thanks, but I'll focus on Article marketing first. PPC will come next. Thks for the advise anyway :)
     
    candy_lim01, Apr 7, 2010 IP
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    candy_lim01 Peon

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    Thanks for the advise. I faced with "No-Follow" difficulties. I submitted articles daily to my landing/ blog, but since most popular directories are no-follow, it doesn't help in building backlinks. What should I do? If I don't do articles, it's hard to get targeted traffic.

    Another question: If my links are pointing to my simple landing page, and my landing page has a link to my blog, which will rank higher?
    Is it wiser to backlink all my articles to my blog directly to push up it's ranking instead? But I know landing page tends to convert better.

    What's your thought?
     
    candy_lim01, Apr 7, 2010 IP