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Don't expect the "flood of traffic" from article marketing that "teh goo-rooz" rant and rave about. It doesn't happen.
If you're dead set on that kind of promotion, then read MarxVergel's posts in this thread.
I only use article directories for links and nothing else. And only a few hundred links for each site at that. Sure, a few articles may drive a little traffic here and there but they're few and far between so its blind optimism to actually expect anything like that no matter how great those articles are and how great they rank.
If you're dead set on that kind of promotion, then read MarxVergel's posts in this thread.
I only use article directories for links and nothing else. And only a few hundred links for each site at that. Sure, a few articles may drive a little traffic here and there but they're few and far between so its blind optimism to actually expect anything like that no matter how great those articles are and how great they rank.
If you really want to do article marketing why move away from CPA offers?
When I first started I'd make an article on acai at EZA, buy a shit load of views to it (for a few bucks), get on the "most viewed" list and get around 200-300 real visitors to my link before my article was deleted for "blackhat" techniques or just dropped down the list.
Grab a domain and have a re-direct to an acai/colon offer and you'll do alright for sure.
EDIT: This was a long, long time ago now. Maybe EZA caught on. I doubt it though.
When I first started I'd make an article on acai at EZA, buy a shit load of views to it (for a few bucks), get on the "most viewed" list and get around 200-300 real visitors to my link before my article was deleted for "blackhat" techniques or just dropped down the list.
Grab a domain and have a re-direct to an acai/colon offer and you'll do alright for sure.
EDIT: This was a long, long time ago now. Maybe EZA caught on. I doubt it though.
1. Drive ezinearticles traffic
2. Promote high converting offers (paid surveys, biz op leads)
3. ????
4. Profit!
Even if you make $10 a day, that's $300 by the end of the month bankroll to buy some nice tools (autoresponder, bookmarking demon, ubot etc)
2. Promote high converting offers (paid surveys, biz op leads)
3. ????
4. Profit!
Even if you make $10 a day, that's $300 by the end of the month bankroll to buy some nice tools (autoresponder, bookmarking demon, ubot etc)
For any kind of decent traffic, yup.
So...if something's not working for you and you hate it, then that's where you turn to try to make an income?
Uh, ok.
I love internet marketing, i just dont like to write articles. If i had the money i would outsource.
Im making one dollar a day and its something real big for me but i really want to expand.
Who said anything about black hat?
I have no idea what "wealthy affiliate" is, but it looks like the only people that got wealthy from it are the ones that sold it to you.
What does that tell you?
Step back and think about what you're trying to accomplish. Don't think of it as saying "I'm going to try article marketing" one day and "I'll try sooper dooper black hat!" the next.
All you're trying to do is drive traffic to an offer to make a sale.
So what do you know about your target demographic? Where do they congregate? How can you get them to your site. Do you think they are searching for whatever you're ranking for just looking to click from the SERP ranking to a random article and then to your site? Probably not.
Think about where the traffic (or target demographic) would be for the kind of offer you're trying to convert and if you're strapped for cash, think of a creative way to go there and get it for free. Free sources for immediate traffic you could try are youtube, facebook, myspace, online classifieds, etc.
Are any of them going to make you rich? Doubtful. Can any of them work to get you some cash to further bankroll your efforts? Hell yeah. If you're creative enough (read: not spammy) you can get traffic from almost anywhere that people congregate.
Or hell, be spammy if you gotta. Just don't get yourself booted from the network you're promoting for before you get paid.
But if you hate article marketing, don't do article marketing. It's over-hyped, over-done, and if you're looking for immediate returns, you're going to be sorely disappointed, guaranteed.
how would they find out if you're doing it slowly? what traffic you guys bought, ppv ?
This thread should probably be in the newbie section, but...
Article marketing helped me get started and grow. At my peek I was getting a couple thousand visitors/day from EZA and was listed as the #1 site under "audience also visits" for their Quantcast profile. So these aren't exactly typical results, but there is (or at least was) traffic to be had from article marketing. I'm still getting a fraction of that traffic from those articles a couple years later.
This was without any blackhat techniques and little self-promotion. Just writing and publishing a ton of articles and occasionally a little social bookmarking. It was definitely grunt work, but worked for me.
I was also pushing rebills when they were in their prime and there were tons of keywords that were surprisingly easy to dominate, so not sure the same results could be achieved now.
But, just like anything, it took a lot of testing to figure it out. Check out what the top authors for each category are doing and see if you can find any trends. Test different categories, titles, your signatures, etc. When you get creative, there are many not-so-obvious categories to publish diet articles where it's easier to sell the benefits of weight loss and diet pills.
There also seemed to be ways to optimize the structure your articles to get the most clicks in your sig. I remember the shorter articles seemed to do better because your signature would still be above the fold. But then they moved their AdSense ads around, pushing the content further down and fucked that all up. Check into that.
You can write articles to get listed in SERPs, but with the right title there's traffic to be had from existing vistors on the site too. Shocking titles that appealed to a broad audience worked well for once the article published and sat on the front page. I'm not sure what it's like now, but they used to only review/publish articles M-F, 9-5. I had a good idea as to when to submit articles so they would get approved at the end of the day. That way they would sit on the front page from about 5pm until 9am the next day, or the whole weekend, and get a lot of free traffic.
Also take advantage of the backlinks you're building. Once you find whatever works for you, start building a blog. Make your 1st link in your article point back to your money landing page, and the second link to your latest blog post. That way you're at least helping your blog get indexed in Google too.
I got really lucky with timing since the rebills we all know were pretty new, before they started receiving negative media attention, and epcs were high. But if your new and don't have the cash, I still think writing articles is a good way to get started while you build some bankroll, test out offers, learn to build LPs, and trying to figure this industry out.
Prior to pushing rebills I was trying to sell CB products with frustrating results. I think for every 10 articles I published, I'd sell a $30 ebook... which the customer would return a day later and commissions removed. I'm sure there's something in CB that would do well, but I'd maybe try some edu or debt lead gens with the higher payouts. You might have better luck with something that doesn't require buying a $49 pdf.
Article marketing helped me get started and grow. At my peek I was getting a couple thousand visitors/day from EZA and was listed as the #1 site under "audience also visits" for their Quantcast profile. So these aren't exactly typical results, but there is (or at least was) traffic to be had from article marketing. I'm still getting a fraction of that traffic from those articles a couple years later.
This was without any blackhat techniques and little self-promotion. Just writing and publishing a ton of articles and occasionally a little social bookmarking. It was definitely grunt work, but worked for me.
I was also pushing rebills when they were in their prime and there were tons of keywords that were surprisingly easy to dominate, so not sure the same results could be achieved now.
But, just like anything, it took a lot of testing to figure it out. Check out what the top authors for each category are doing and see if you can find any trends. Test different categories, titles, your signatures, etc. When you get creative, there are many not-so-obvious categories to publish diet articles where it's easier to sell the benefits of weight loss and diet pills.
There also seemed to be ways to optimize the structure your articles to get the most clicks in your sig. I remember the shorter articles seemed to do better because your signature would still be above the fold. But then they moved their AdSense ads around, pushing the content further down and fucked that all up. Check into that.
You can write articles to get listed in SERPs, but with the right title there's traffic to be had from existing vistors on the site too. Shocking titles that appealed to a broad audience worked well for once the article published and sat on the front page. I'm not sure what it's like now, but they used to only review/publish articles M-F, 9-5. I had a good idea as to when to submit articles so they would get approved at the end of the day. That way they would sit on the front page from about 5pm until 9am the next day, or the whole weekend, and get a lot of free traffic.
Also take advantage of the backlinks you're building. Once you find whatever works for you, start building a blog. Make your 1st link in your article point back to your money landing page, and the second link to your latest blog post. That way you're at least helping your blog get indexed in Google too.
I got really lucky with timing since the rebills we all know were pretty new, before they started receiving negative media attention, and epcs were high. But if your new and don't have the cash, I still think writing articles is a good way to get started while you build some bankroll, test out offers, learn to build LPs, and trying to figure this industry out.
Prior to pushing rebills I was trying to sell CB products with frustrating results. I think for every 10 articles I published, I'd sell a $30 ebook... which the customer would return a day later and commissions removed. I'm sure there's something in CB that would do well, but I'd maybe try some edu or debt lead gens with the higher payouts. You might have better luck with something that doesn't require buying a $49 pdf.
I see what it is! I'm just trying send my landing page some traffic using targeted keywords. Since its SEO, im using low competition keywords. I have a article base account were i use it for backlinks on articles that i want to rank well in google.
I also got a RSS bot that submits my RSS feed to 20 directories. This is something ive been trying to do to fund my other marketing endeavors.
Im reading alot on face book advertising, media buys, plenty of fish and ppv and cant wait to start testing these source for traffic.
I will keep testing and try to get it right as i know its been done before.
I also got a RSS bot that submits my RSS feed to 20 directories. This is something ive been trying to do to fund my other marketing endeavors.
Im reading alot on face book advertising, media buys, plenty of fish and ppv and cant wait to start testing these source for traffic.
I will keep testing and try to get it right as i know its been done before.
