I guess that other articles may bring in some traffic, but when it is significant traffic, then it is more than 10-20 visits a day and more along the lines of 100+ a day on a regular basis. I am sure some of the other 960 articles written by Wizardofx will give him some traffic, but they are not contributing a significant amount of traffic independently and only help collectively whereas the top 40 articles are each bringing in traffic regularly. The amount of visitors that come to your sites from articles will determine their 'quality' in terms of sending leads in your direction. It isn't about the quality of writing, but the quality of conversion from article directory traffic to your site and then on to the merchant site. A high quantity of articles may help improve your chances of sending more people collectively, but will not mean they are high quality articles if they are only sending 1 or 2 visitors every couple of days (this is after they have had the initial volume of visitors). In time, quantity does help to gain some sporatic visits while high quality articles will continue to send higher numbers and more predictable traffic consistently.
Hi friend....you are correct....but nobody ever said compromise quality for quantity....it was that Wizard who ASSumed I was saying make this compromise M/crTech
My top article was viewed by 33,312 visitors last week, the total for the top 50 was 173,762, which was about 80% of the total. My lowest article got 16 views. wiz
As we always said: "Content is the King of Article"... so, do remember to write more good content articles, because these articles will be a long term investment for generating sustainable income...
I used 10-20 visits a day as that is a more realistic figure for bum marketing technique while 100+ a day over a period of time would be considered excellent results. Remember, I am only quoting the visitor rates for bum marketing techniques that may have 30 articles a day pumped out. There is a lot of difference between writing a 'quality' article for bum marketing and writing an actual quality article if you understand what I mean.
OH, FANTASTIC. Here is a robot that lets you create new content that is 70% unique. Who in the world is going to read this stuff? Is your target market other robots? Or are you expecting people to read it? Or are you expecting Google to index it and show humans googleads so that when they discover that you are scamming them they will gratefully click on one of your ads? I know that I am raining on your parade, but it is getting more difficult to find quality information on the internet. Thousands of pages on the same topic using thesaurus substitution software is just spam. Remember one of Kant's critera for ethics. "Would it still work if everyone did the same thing?" This works for the internet. If everyone was puting up unique, interesting, useful content it works. If everyone is automatically spewing crap it stops working. And the search engines are one of these days going to have to start sorting out the quality. The faster you spew the sooner that day will come, and then all your hard work will be for naught. best regards wiz
ok but what is the most important question for me, is.... Do you write articles and post them around (on ezine etc) and then again use them on your blog (or website) or do you do two different articles, one to promote around and one for your website?
As SitPoMk said, it is used mainly by those with no money at their disposal. It can work if there is the right amount of effort put into producing reasonable quality content... but in practice, most people who use the technique tend to opt for quantity rather than concentrating on quality. In saying that however, even high quality articles published in the right way do not have to cost money and could be classified as bum marketing... although the main difference is that people producing high quality articles will use those articles on their own site rather than submit to article directories or syndicate their content blindly.
Exactly what I wanted to ask. Why would I post my good articles around, if I can have them on my website, and attract people this way. Sure you post them on some social network sites, but... That should be all, I see it as wasting my efford...
The best thing to do is post the original quality article on your own site and if you wanted to promote that content... you create derivative works that deal with the same general subject and post those articles on other sites. It should mean you get more qualified traffic arriving to your original quality post.
I just post on my website, why should I let the article submission sites dilute my traffic? Remember, those sites are displaying targeted ads, so if you write an article about yellow gummer cages you can be sure that there will be 10 ads from competitive yellow gummer cages companies draining off your traffic. wiz
Then it should be renamed "peasant marketing" since bums are bums because they don't work, and peasants are poor even though they work like crazy. your local peasant wiz
Any person could easily write 5 articles a day if they are knowledgeable in enough areas. I write about one article a day and this takes me about 30 minutes. I understand that there are quite a few who can write quality articles of about 500-700 words in about 10-15 minutes. It just gets easier with time. What does IQ have to do with it. I'm up there with you but I have found that many with high IQ's are such perfectionist they never get much accomplished! Good luck with your 5 articles per year.
Thats right dude!! Thats why hubpages and many other web2.0 sites are banning clickbank related sites because too many people are making crap on their programs that are affecting their own PR.
Can someone share some numbers? I mean some $. I am not very motivated to write articles, because I just have seen someone who wrote 50 articles and no sale so I want to know what success can someone get with article writing. I am more a PPC fan but I don't have a good budget for it and I also have the account suspended by google,hope i will solve that monday.
I'll share my numbers for ONE of my squidoo lenses. It took me around 3 hours to build as I made a video for youtube, wrote some good content, and promoted it to the big social sites. It didn't get any sales for about 3 weeks, but then it started giving me 2-3 sales per week consistently for the past 2 months or so. I get 8 visitors a week to the lens (can anyone say awesome!) The average over the last two months has been a little over 300/month. Total earnings are around 800 or so. It pays to write great quality content because I'm also ranked #2 in google for several keywords. Almost all of the squidoo lenses I write get on the first page of google, although not all of them make sales. So the moral is: write good content, and it will pay off. I don't see the need to write any more than 1 article/lens/hub per day. If you can do that's great, but I only write 2-4 articles/lenses per week maximum, and I could make a living off of just that.