People who are doing Article Marketing, I want to ask you few questions. Currently, I got about 30 articles live on Ezine. Each of them has got a top-level domain at the end with my affiliate link, asking a reader to visit the website if they are interested in specific product. These articles are mainly in Internet Marketing niche, so they don't really produce many views/clicks for me. So what I am thinking, is to write tons of articles/reviews for different products, and put my affiliate link at the end of each article(top-level domain). I will only submit my articles to Ezine & GoArticles. More articles = more changes to make a sales.... I just want to know your opinion about this, whether it's a good technique to do or there is no point of concentrating only on Ezine and Go Articles.
I think it is sound thinking. You're building little trickles of traffic in the long run, so it's a good thing. I write consistently 15 articles a day for EA, and it brings in sales.
Yeah, but I'm still gonna preach the pre-sell method for anyone that wants to listen... Better yet, make a blog, make your pre-sells blog posts and drive traffic to the posts. This will, over time, increase your pagerank overall for the entire site, and eventually get higher and higher SE rankings for the products you're reviewing. It's like autopilot SEO...
The cool thing is, the more articles you get out there, the more you can see what works and what doesn't. In fact, that is one of the biggest things I need to spend more time on....figuring out which Resource boxes work, which titles work, etc.
Supper Do you use only Ezine or something else? How constant are you sales and what is the usual amount of sales you get daily? lemonarian I had a blog, it was seriously killing all my time I might create a new one later on, but definitely not now. grover69 Yea, and also you will get more views and click-troughs, which is a change of getting a sale.
Whip up some articles to point at you blog including any internal pages. Ezine is the best but do not overlook the other lesser know directories. About half my traffic comes from ezine articles and the other half from assorted directories. I hand submit to ezine, go, isnare then the rest is all automated. Try using squidoo or hubpages to test and find keywords for you niche. Then focus you articles on the keywords and point those back to your site and link squid and hub back to your site.
reapr I tried to use Squidoo, but it doesn't seem to give me any traffic.....Probably because of my niche (Internet Marketing). I want to concentrate on Ezine, because despite of high competition I still get traffic from them, that's why I think it's the most useful. And I will also submit my articles to GoArticles.com for further exposure.
Good idea but as has been said build a blog. People have the impression that Blogs need to be constantly updated. They don't. Yy affiliate blogs have 2 or 3 pages. An article with various keywords linked to the product I'm promoting and a review of the product. I then just drive traffic to that blog. even poor performing blogs like this make 3 or 4 sales a month. Chose you keywords wisely and you'll rank highly for the words you target. If I then want to taget another keyword phrase on the blog I'll add another article. and drive traffic to that. Work smarter not harder.
What is said above is very true... For IM and Self Help products, which are the main niches (omg I revealed it lol) I just do them on my blogs and I get serious traffic to my reviews. If you google the Russell Brunson's brand new "Affiliate Evolution" but with a "review" added, ie Affiliate Evolution Review... I'm #2. Actually I'm #2 and #4 with my squidoo lens (pointed at blog).
You have picked a tough niche. I never ever tell people to avoid crowded niches. Why because if you think outside the box long enough you can find ways to have a piece of the pie. The trick is finding those niche longtail keywords that you can clean up on. For example I sell posters and artprints. Why because the commissions rock. It took a while to figure out the longtail keywords that other marketers were not so obvious ... I'm not smarter than anyone else maybe just more persistent and maybe a bit daft. It was not until I started throwing in some article marketing then things started really taking off. The directories I use are ezine, go and isnare with credits. Then there was the other I mentioned in a PM. If I had to pick one it would either be ezine or the one I mentioned in the PM traffic from both are about equal. Unless you are getting good traffic or some sales I would hold off on the other service I have mentioned. Good luck.
reapr Yeah, I've heard about promoting high gravity products using long tail, untapped keywords. People also suggest to do that in PPC as well, but the problem is those keywords, don't get much traffic......They almost don't have any traffic When I try to find some good long tail keywords, which have some traffic and low competition, it seems they don't exist...They either don't have decent traffic, or they are very competitive.
Ezine would be the main one. I submit to ezine during the week and the weekend I submit to some other directories like go articles and articledashboard. I'm typically getting a sale a day. Sometimes two. Depends on the day. Weekends are always a better time for me though. Do what lemon recommended and build a FOUNDATION, not just forwarding traffic. My first niche I started out in my journal, that I wrote all those articles for a never got a sale, are starting to generate sales all the time now. It's all because I built a foundation of pages on my site, that google and other SE's found and they send traffic to them. When it comes to SE's, they're not willing to be nice to you for months into the future. I haven't had anything decent come from squidoo. If you can hit a keyword, you'll get a little bit, but it's nothing special. A lot of times it is hit or miss. When you hit them it is pretty sweet. I have an old blog that yesterday (after months) hit the keyword I was planning for it. And it wasn't google that liked it, it was yahoo. Now it's generating hits like a mofo. It's not even in the top 100 at google for some reason(it's a blogspot blog). If I could get into google's top 10 it would be sending me probably 200 hits a day.
Black, I am almost exclusively in the internet marketing niche yet I find a good amount of traffic from EzineArticles and other article directories. The important thing is to keyword optimize each article like you would for a webpage and you should see some nice organic traffic, the traffic that then comes from the articles is like a double filtration system, very high quality traffic. Don't overlook the other article directories out there, I use submission software & a distribution service to spread my articles, but overall I end up with about 500 redistributes per article which leads to a nice amount of traffic and backlinks. Just keep trying until you find your groove and stick to it.
Gallito Thanks for advice. I've heard that iSnare and SearchWarp are quite good article directories. Do they have any restrictions on affiliate links? I know GoArticles accepts literally everything...