What process do you undertake while selling articles? Let's say that you have just created 10 fresh articles, 500 words each. The subject is fairly average, and is something that is expected to sell somewhat easy. Among the many possibilities, would you sell them individually? As a group of articles? Submit them to article directories that support profit-sharing? Use websites such as AssociatedContent.com to get an almost guaranteed buy? There are many ways in maximizing your profit- which method do you practice?
The best way I've found is using a combination of methods. First selling the articles with PLR. PLR is very popular right now and can make money over and over from the same set instead of just that one time. Then the next thing that works is to get a header and footer designed then add the articles and create a website and sell these sites as PLR. Next you can compile all the articles into a report and have a cover graphic designed and sell this report also with PLR/resale rights. Also embed affiliate links in this report (products relative to the niche). This way you are maximizing the profit you make from these articles. Hope this helps. Dino
Why not build a site to sell? Here's an idea. It may be good or complete crap depending on what you normally earn. 1. Come up with a theme, like fishing. 2. Buy a domain. 3. Write 5-10 articles. 4. Put up a site. You can do a blog or regular site. Look for and use free simple templates if you can't design. 5. Advertise the site for sale on DP. Didn't sell? Fine. Next: 1. Get some links (if you have existing sites it's easier). 2. Write one or two simple articles and submit them to Ezinearticles only. 3. Start the next project. When Google updates PR, hopefully you'll get 2-4. Go relist the item and feature the PR. It should sell. Or you can keep the site and link to your new sites from it to pass PR and get the juice flowing for quicker indexing and sales. I think content sharing stuff like the site you mentioned are a waste of time, but that's me. And if you don't have a "master site" about something you know that's growing, you're doing yourself a big disservice.
On a somewhat related note, that last blog entry at your site is a total tease marketjunction (or whoever wrote it). Don't tell me to forget everything I know about article submission and then leave me hanging!
I agree with dino. Use a varitey of methods so that if one does not work you always have hope that the other will!
Interesting. How much would setting up a website and THEN selling it bring, on average? I did some article creation work for a customer who always turned around and put them on a cheap template and sold them here on DP for aroun $300+. I was paid about $100. So there is definitely a price difference here. Optionally, lets say I DID wait for the PR update, only I had about 10 different sites that I saved for maturation. Do you think that this would be profitable to keep long-term? Would extra work have to be done on SEO, and would I have to continue adding content? And to get the most out of my return visitors, wouldn't I need "sticky" content? I ask because the websites that I've seen quickly produced are just skin and bones- and have nothing for return visitors. (But are probably good for SE traffic)
I'm sorry. I wrote that some time ago and it was right before I decided to cut down my effort on that project. I'll finish it this month lol.
The price depends on a lot of things--how good the site is, the time of year, the topic, where it's sold, etc. Should you keep the site(s) instead? That's something you need to ask yourself. If the content was just SEO-dictionary-type-content, I'd probably sell it unless it fit in with something you were doing. If you look over in the site sale section, you'll see lots of these sites. They go from $50-$200 brand new and with content that's questionable at best. Like anything, your best bet is to just do something and see what happens. I'd start small first. Pick a topic that you think is profitable. Write 5-10 smaller articles (200-300 words). Put the site up fast (maybe a .info to save money) and open it up at auction with a BIN.