Hundreds of articles but no sales ...

how many hits a day are your articles getting?

 

yeah dude if you're not getting at least 100 views a month something is wrong...

 

Can you share you ezines profile or a pen name profile so we can check and advice further ?

 

Hi,
I'm listening to Pete and not submitting to Ezine. I'm submitting to Articledashboard and Goarticles. They will be approved pretty fast ...

 

Another question: How do you track your sales from Articles? I have PPC and other traffic sources, all directed to my blog, then linked to sales page. So how can I know it's from articles?

Thanks alot!

 

maybe try changing the style in which you write the articles.
Be different, be unique, maybe use humor. See what brings in results for you.
Good luck!

 

I have much respect for Pete, and he has helped a lot of people out. But, you can't do exactly as he is doing. I have many Ezine Articles that are top 3 on Google for some really good keywords. It's okay to wait for EZA to approve your articles. It's like courting a gorgeous girl..... It's worth the wait.

 

I had good success with blogs in certain niches. Whereas in certain other niches blogs failed miserably. What I learned is that, if you have too many posts chances are that the readers would read and leave since they lose their focus. Secondly the wordings in the landing page matter a lot. First you yourself read it and see whether you would be tempted to have a look at the sales page? Call for action without being too pushing may work better. These are all from my limited experience. If you find better success do not forget to share with us. ("We dont have competition rather we are the competion" ) Thanks for the reply and Good luck..

 

Q> Are you linking your product direct from Signature or you are taking them to a sales page and then from there directing them to final product?

If your answer is B then hopefully for hundreds of articles you must be having tens of sales pages. So by now, you must start getting some Search Engine Traffic to your sales page. That traffic has better % of conversion because the user is landing to final sales page in just two steps rather three steps from article->Sales Page-> Offer age.

 

target long tail keywords..these have usually less competition and attracts buyers.

 

I recommend SEO strategies. Google will help you. Also use Digg.com

 

Very simple advise to boost your sales
1) Find some good long tail keywords
2) write SEO articles that must be informative not just KW stuffed
3) Submit to ezine and when approved there, then submit to other directories by tweaking the title a bit
4) If possible social bookmark the Ezine article link...

This way you will not only get traffic from directories, you increase your chance of sales too.

 

I'll probably get slammed for saying this but maybe the problem is your English... I have no problem understanding you, but readers are very fussy and all it takes is a few grammatical errors to lose your credibility and for them to stop paying attention.

Are you outsourcing them, or writing them yourself? If it's the latter then pay someone to proofread them. You should be able to get someone to do this for a few bucks per article and then see if that improves the sales. Also bookmark your articles and change the title and submit them to other direcotores like others have suggested.

 

So does that mean I must drive traffic straight to the landing page or sells page rather than blog about it that lead to landing page?

If that the case , to have a blog with niche as domain or buy a domain with a niche.

 

My advice is to funnel your prospects into a landing page giving away a free report, and then give your prospects good quality content. Once they get on your autoresponder have it direct them to your affiliate link gently. Most people won't buy on the first time seeing your offer, it takes about 7 times reviewing the product before they buy. So if you have at least 7 messages going out, you increase your chances to make a sale dramatically.

 

Wow! Where do you come out with the "Magic 7"? I do agree most of the people don't buy within first visit. I've just setup autoresponder to pull them back to my blog.

Then I realised a stupid mistake. I put Tinyurl as link inside my articles to shorten it. I think this kills a lot of clickthrough. I changed that to a sentence like "Get free report" last night and hoped I would attract higher clickthrough rates.

Any more tips? Hope more successful article marketers can share their views!

 

You have to also make sure that you have fresh content with your articles. Of course it needs to be on the topic of what your selling that is common sense, but if you have article packs you need to either rewrite the article or at least use a article spinner program, so it ends up being a fresh new article. So many people makes the mistake of just submitting the article as is. Well when you also have hundreds if not thousands of other people also doing the same thing the article site will reject it. But if it looks like you at least wrote it yourself they are more likely to take it. Plus of course the biggest thing is you have to solve there problem. In most cases people are looking for a solution to there problem. If you can fix it then they are willing to listen and willing to buy.

 

Its all about your writing skills bro. I write 5 articles per week or less and make sales almost daily. You need to really convince the reader that they need this product NOW. It's not something everyone can do unfortunately.

 

You definitely haven't got hundreds of articles out there.

If you do just prove it.

 

I'm just curious why you wrote that.